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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">North Idaho Teaching
Mission Group</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">Topics: Search for
Truth - Mind and Soul</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">Teachers: Elyon</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">December 1, 2002</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Elyon
(Jonathan TR):  Greetings to you, this is
Elyon.  Again I come to you as a brother to share, to
fellowship under Michael’s loving care, to rejoice in
our discoveries of the Supreme qualities of universe
life.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    You
at this point have some consciousness of the
extent of the universe, not simply its physical
breadth, but the depth of personal experience that may
be acquired while traversing this universe.  Let us
speak about the search for truth for a while.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    To
some seeking truth is an exercise of discerning
what is true from what is false.  The endeavor is a
discipline of separating one from the other as you
would separate curds from whey, juice from pulp,
discarding what does not conform to the goal of the
search and retaining that which applies.  This
undertaking is a method of discernment useful to the
intellect of the human mind.  Sorting and sifting is a
function of mind that enjoys categorical
understanding.  It is a process that you will continue
to use over the course of many lifetimes ascending
many worlds.  Each episode of discernment, while
contributing  to the organization of your mind; and
each episode, while contributing to additional mind
capacity, also contributes significantly to soul
enlargement.  This enlargement of soul is another
level of truth discernment.  I do not seek to downplay
the value of truth discernment to the mind, for it is
quite important in your search for cosmic
understanding.  I wish, however, to focus upon the
soul level, for it is a little less tangible to you at
this time.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    I
mention separating curds from whey.  To the
discerning mind these distinctions are clear based on
qualities of manifestation of the two products derived
from the same source, in this case, milk.  When the
mind clearly discerns these distinctions it quickly
can apply these distinct products to uses beneficial
to the mind.  The soul does not discern the truth
qualities as does the mind.  The mind will contact,
observe, analyze, verify, accept, and reject truth
elements.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    The
soul -- perhaps at a risk of crude comparison
-- rather feels, experiences, a living quality at each
phase of the discernment process.  It will in a sense
appreciate milk as milk, curds as curds, and whey as
whey.  It will appreciate the process of separation as
well as the process of homogenization.  It overviews
all of the elements.  The mind will discern use and
nonuse; the soul accepts both usefulness and non-
usefulness as an integrated oneness.  So, the mind
seeks for truth resulting in meaning.  The soul finds
truth that results in value.  The greater the ability
of the mind, the keener it is to sort truth from the
erroneous.  The greater the development of the soul,
the larger its encompassment of all things real.  In
time and space reality must contain the unreal, for
this is the duality that energies life, that
stimulates the mind and inspires the soul.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    The
mature mind will not fight the assertions of
error by another but will discern the level of
understanding and patiently pursue an opportunity for
the offering of elimination and correction.  A mature
soul likewise discerns the context wherein an
erroneous assumption lies.  A soul which has grown for
a significant period of time perceives the
appropriateness of an erroneous assumption based upon
the growth level of the personality pursuing truth.
While the mind may wish to correct error, the soul
embraces the one in error knowing through its own
experience that this other individual will grow and
shed what was useful for experience that is of greater
use.  The context will shift.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Sometimes
a personality becomes confused when not
discerning the difference between mind and soul.  One
may be perplexed or embarrassed over earlier
conceptual beliefs that are no longer possessed as
truthful.  But his soul does not discard these now
outdated understandings; it incorporates them into the
field of wisdom, that broadened viewpoint.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Michael
while on this world admonished his
apostles to speak to the soul and spirit of man, not
to challenge the beliefs, to confront error -- for
this is the innate ability of mind to do so -- rather
to approach in the awareness of the presence of soul,
to react to another as a father would to his child or
a mother would to her child, understanding their age
or maturity or growth, not condescendingly, rather
supportively.  The wise parent has undergone the same
growth.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    I
come to you as one who has been through training
worlds, extensive undertakings in the enlargement of
soul and of the sharpening of personality.  I address
you as a friend, not as a superior.  As minds I could
present to you many factors that would place you as
far lesser than me, but as a soul I embrace you as
one, a brother and a sister.  Your level of spiritual
unfoldment is as important today as any other
developmental level prior to or subsequent to this
hour.  There is no better position to be in than your
present state of soul unfoldment.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Discernment
of truth to the mind is the taking
things apart for understanding.  Discernment of truth
to the soul is the ability to interconnect, to
synthesize and enlarge the context.  Both are
extremely valuable in your ascension.  Each one
provides the Indwelling Spirit the opportunity to
reveal new truth.  To use another example, for you to
make bread you often take whole ingredients, break
them down to smaller forms, extract what you want,
discard the rest, reassemble it.  This is the function
of mind.  The soul sees and experiences bread from the
gathering of the wheat to the slicing of the loaf.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Even
the enemies of Jesus loved him because he
approached his relationships applying his soul
experience as well as his mental discernment.  All of
you who have read of his trial before his execution
have felt angst over the unfoldment of events, perhaps
wished that Jesus could have out-argued his accusers
and proved his point.  And this he could have done
expertly with his mind.  No.  Instead he stood before
his fellows loving them, recognizing the Father’s
indwelling presence in each of them, grasping fully
their current levels of spiritual growth.  It did not
matter to him to demonstrate his superiority in
spiritual unfoldment.  It mattered to him that his
children who were his accusers had an opportunity to
receive divine benevolence, acceptance, and love.
This is the manifestation of a mature soul and one who
does not fight for truth but lives as truth.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    I
wish now to receive your input.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Kirk: 
The beginnings of Light and Life would be
for more individuals on the planet to accept all
individuals for where they are and what they are
doing.  The wrongs and pathways against going back to
the Father would fall away because you are accepting
them for who they are, not for what they are doing.
Help me with some words here.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Elyon: 
You are perceiving correctly.  Let’s take
an example of a young child.  The child needs shoes.
Today, given the state of affairs on your world, the
confusion involved, one would mistakenly say, “This
adult-sized shoe is the shoe you must wear when you
are like me, a mature adult.  You must therefore begin
wearing them now.”  Quickly you discern that this is
not the truth.  This child must be fitted with a
sequence of sizes until it has grown to the point
where it can wear that adult shoe.  In the stages
prior to Light and Life you go to war over which shoe
is the appropriate shoe to wear.  In Light and Life,
as you have said, you discern the infant, the toddler,
the child, the adolescent, and the adult and accept
the appropriateness of each level.  This is easy to
see in this example.  Applying it to your politics,
your social structures, your industry and economies,
your religions, is far more difficult to do.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    It
has been revealed to you that Light and Life
entails one language, one religion.  It is not that
you are standardized to one tongue, one orthodoxy.
You are one in your acceptance of your differences,
one in your understanding of your origins, united in
the commonality of the divine overcare, your source
and origin.  You may speak with differing sounds, but
you communicate.  And this is the one language you
must reach for there to be Light and Life.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Harold: 
When you were speaking about the
difference between mind and soul I imagined workers
building, working on a scaffolding.  Each worker was
like mind on its particular level of the scaffolding,
whereas soul is more like the production manager who
can see what previous scaffolding you have been on,
also what scaffolding you will progress to as you
build higher.  Also he has access to the blueprints of
what the final building will look like.  Is that
somewhat accurate?</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Elyon: 
Well said, my friend, for this production
manager even sees the roof of the building before it
exists.  The mind in the discernment of truth may not
find a tangible, discernible quality and therefore
dismiss it as untrue.  The soul, however, as you have
exemplified, tends to look to the end as well as
throughout the process and can verify truth yet un-
manifest.  I applaud you for your example.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Harold:  
There’s a danger in accepting everyone
for where they are in that there would be no challenge
to help them progress.  If someone is seen doing
something wrong or that doesn’t make sense even in
their own definition, isn’t it our responsibility
either by example or otherwise to explain that they
need to change what they are doing?</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Elyon: 
Yes, this is quite true.  This is why the
universe is designed as an educational system, each
one teaching to the level from which they have just
emerged.  Because of this process those in need of
correction, realignment, or adjustment to higher
levels are better receptive to one so near in
experience.  The one so near in experience offering a
revelation of a higher way is more understanding of
that particular orientation that is being corrected.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Much
that drives the mortal creature that is so
important and all consuming in your life today I have
long lost sensitivity to, for it has been far too long
since I have been in mortal form.  So, your fellows
are far more capable of uplifting you to the next
level than I can be.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    I
am glad that you pointed out that acceptance
does not imply complacency or condoning of behavior
that is disruptive to spiritual harmony.  With this
understanding and the application of compassion you
then become led to minister rather than condemn, to
display an alternate and perhaps progressing position
for another.  To turn this around, each one of you is
likewise at a stage of error, and someone will come
your way to offer advancement.  Discern with your soul
the acceptance of the Father of where you are now, the
grace of His offering through a fellow of that which
you can attain immediately.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    In
a world that is structured with penalty for
wrong action, it breeds in a sense of guilt, a
protection from punishment, a shrinking from facing
reality.  As your lives unfold over the mansion worlds
you will discover that there is great delight by the
morontia personalities each time one finds something
to correct in themselves.  It is joyful to discover
these elements to fix, to discover that which is
lacking and provide the substance required to become a
mature morontia being.  There is no judgment.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    While
you understand from your Urantia Papers that
there is a vast structure and order of beings, we do
not pass greater worth and lesser worth upon any one
of them.  This is the acceptance I speak of.  However,
each order of being is always willing to express the
divine qualities they manifest to others, knowing that
uplifting another is part of the universe-wide process
that is coming to them, too.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Kirk: 
Do the angels or other celestials put
others in our pathway who are either going to help us
or who we can help with their problem to evolve?</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Elyon: 
They take great delight in this
undertaking and will do what they can, acknowledging
the sanctity of freewill sovereignty.  Not to devalue
their work, it is a thrilling game for them.
Important as it is each of these humans you speak of
bringing you lessons or you to them, is of vital
importance to the growth of souls.  This is of great
value in the efforts of the angels.  If you could see
the joy the angels have as they make their efforts to
bring about these opportunities, you would see a group
of beings who are having a wonderful time.  Just as
you may undertake a game on earth such as your game of
tennis and take delight in a score and likewise laugh
at a misplaced ball, these angels do enjoy even the
failures, for every undertaking improves their skills
and reveals to them the nature of mankind.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Kirk: 
We could improve the whole process if we
had faith in the angels, faith in the process, faith
in whatever is happening in our lives; that we are
being helped.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Elyon: 
Yes, and particularly when you feel
resistance to stop yourself and say, “This is an
opportunity brought my way perhaps by the angels
themselves that I best listen and discern.”  While you
might not recognize it, you may trust the angels will
try again.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Kirk: 
Sometimes the human way is to fear that the
angels will try again!</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Elyon:
Yes, along with the feeling that if you did
not discover it the first time you have been thrown
off the team.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Harold: 
There’s personal revelation tailored to
the individual, and there’s group revelation such as
The Urantia Papers which is for the individual and for
the entire group.  Is there an organization overseeing
group revelation?  If so, have there been other
revelations that might be pointed out as helpful for
our growth?</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Elyon: 
There are numerous collectives of
celestial beings who undertake revelation processes.
It has been portrayed in The Urantia Papers those of
epochal consequence, significance.  Yet these are the
revelations intended for global impact.  But
revelation does occur with smaller focal points to
benefit a region or a population for their
intermediate upliftment, regardless of the
understanding and illumination of peoples elsewhere.
These do diminish in size down to smaller and smaller
groups.  However these encounter increased danger of a
fanatical reaction, because the base of receptivity,
the narrower it becomes, has less ability to balance
itself, to have that corrective counter balance among
its members.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Those
revelations projected on  an epochal level
unfold with adaptations from the input of many
individuals, human and celestial, as you have
witnessed with the unfolding of Christianity
subsequent to Michael’s bestowal.  While these may
alter the initial presentation, it adapts itself to
mankind.  A small group likewise adapts revelation.
If one personality ... that individual runs the risk
of being the adaptor for the others ... and herein
enters the danger of a cult,  of a charismatic leader
who will make the mistake of wavering, wandering away
from the initial input into human agendas.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    When
a revelation is intended of global
significance, much research is done on a world to
discern the best timing and location for it to unfold.
These revelation of such scope have specific agendas
or curricula to present.  Modifications are made to
adapt to the world, but the world does not dictate
what it will teach, only how it will be taught.  There
are great commissions involved on each world assessing
the timing and location of these undertakings.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    When
it comes to personal revelation there is only
one single great entity involved, and that is the
Divine Presence dwelling within you.  It needs no
counsel; it needs no committee, for the Presence of
God knows fully what the individual needs to have
bestowed upon them for greater insight and for
spiritual unfoldment.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Since
these revelatory commissions are not of the
caliber of God they must undertake studies, do tests,
and run trials in order to discern the when and the
where of a revelation.  There have been times when
these trials have failed or needed to be halted, for
they were unfolding in a detrimental manner.  These
commissions will wait, will undertake these smaller
group revelations you speak of, to greater prepare the
world for the larger presentation.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Harold: 
I wonder if the LDS represented one of
those preparatory steps or trials of revelation.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Elyon: 
Yes.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Harold: 
There was some revelation somewhere in
the core that got lost or superseded by others.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Elyon: 
It was one element in the testing phase
for an epochal revelation.  It is among numerous
similar endeavors of that time and before.  Each one
of these tests, while benefiting from the reception of
celestial input, was not necessarily intended to be
the point of epochal presentation.  They were what you
might call dry runs.  But any dry run is compensated
with truth and light.  You are never taken advantage
of; always will you be given some reward for being
part of the process of bringing a greater revelation
of God to the world.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Harold: 
Always the personal presentation is
involved, right?</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Elyon: 
Yes.  Personal revelation never ends.  The
periodicity of such revelation is up to the discerning
ear of the human personality.  However, when this
interworking interfaces with an epochal undertaking
therein enters uncertainty as to reaction by that
individual in relation to the broader project.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Harold: 
Could you explain that a little more?</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Elyon: 
Let us return to the example of a child
needing shoes.  As revelators attempt to locate time
and place for revelation, they must test to see if a
receptive individual or individuals are capable of
processing, managing, a revelation.  Personal
revelation is the efforts of the Divine Indweller to
help you grow out of your current pair of shoes to get
you ready to put on a larger size.  Epochal revelation
attempts to provide a rack of shoe sizes so that many
people may fit.  So, one receiving such contact may
mistake the variability of shoe sizes for their own
particular size, confuse the two, and disrupt the
process.  A religion may begin that says all size five
shoes are the right shoes.  This is where a personal
revelation can interrupt or halt an epochal
undertaking.</span></font></div>
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know from our studies that several sites were
selected for the Garden of Eden, and several families
were chosen to be the family wherein Jesus would be
raised.  These unselected options were not condemned.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Do
you wish more clarification?</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Harold: 
I think you hit it.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Tom: 
When I read that truth itself is a
revelation it brings to mind both personal and epochal
revelation.  Truth is like jewels, treasures, spread
everywhere.  A person’s willingness is required to
follow that truth and something to maintain your
equilibrium in pursuit of that like stillness. That
would apply to personal truth or even to The Urantia
Book as an epochal revelation.  You still must open it
and embrace it.  Is that what we are talking about?</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Elyon: 
Yes, you have encapsulated my lesson of
today.  Well done.  One may look at milk and see milk,
to look at curds and see curds, and likewise for whey,
but one also sees the others while observing the one.
This all-embracing quality is that string of truth you
speak of.  It is the experiencing of this
interrelatedness that is also truth, the living
undertaking.  Revelation in an outward form is truly
only a presentation.  It becomes revelation when it
awakens the soul.  That will happen all over over the
course of time  in many individuals.  Therefore is the
term applied “epochal”, not that it happened once to
mark an epoch, but that it is presented once and
continually is being revealed throughout an epoch.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Harold: 
Thank you, Elyon.  That was very
enlightening.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Elyon: 
You are welcome.  I will withdraw.
However, I wish to make one last comment.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    You
have spoken of stillness, and while I was
present during your discussions, you discussed
baptism.  I would like to emphasize that stillness is
a baptism.  Submerging yourself in the presence of
God, bringing about a marked point of transformation
between an earlier moment to a moment that follows, to
become infused with spirit, to let the water of life
pour upon you, this exercise allows you to begin anew,
to rededicate, to gather strength to try again.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Take
care.</span></font></div>
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