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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: Virtues Fostering
Growth, Aaron Visits,
Kindgdoms of Men</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">Teachers: Elyon, Aaron,
Sharmon</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">December 15, 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.  It brings me joy to witness your discussion of
our last meeting, and as your nursery poem goes, while
the young girl sat and ate her curds and whey the
spider comes beside her, and this is what he had to
say.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Today
I wish to follow the lesson by adding the
virtues of patience, tolerance, temperance, and
forbearance, for these are immensely valuable in
fostering growth and in discerning truth.  When you
prepare your food item yogurt, you first heat the
milk, and you must not underheat it or boil it for it
to be successful.  Likewise is this your approach to
uncovering what remains mysterious, that which you do
not know and seek illumination.  Combing through
Jonathan’s earthly experiences I extract two
illustrations of the value of temperance and patience.
When you wish to extract a stubborn screw, it does not
serve well to spin your screwdriver so rapidly that
you strip the head.  Steady forceful but slow, intent
pressure and twisting will cause it to break free, and
then you can increase velocity.  Also driving a nail,
delicate taps would take far too long and through some
materials not accomplish a thing.  But with
forcefulness you can drive it; too much force you bend
it over.  While the force progressed the action, when
you reach near the end you pause, pick up a nailset,
and gently tap it home.  These mundane functions and
processes also apply to your spiritual pursuits and
your accumulation of wisdom and grasp of truth.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    I
observe your discussions of health and healing,
the spiritual as well as material methods.  It is in
your discussion that you demonstrate your intention to
acquire the best method, the proper perspective, for
reaching your goal.  Skill does not develop merely by
undergoing an action once, but rather undergoing that
action repeatedly and, still more significantly,
undergoing that action and taking note of,
remembering, and applying our observations from each
action.  One who has skill has patience.  Patience is
not the result of the attainment of skill; it is the
contributor to the attainment of skill.  One who does
something well acquired traits and techniques before
mastery which allowed mastery.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Jesus
would minister to a hungry soul what they
needed, no more and no less.  While this is a skill
worthy of acquirement by everyone, there is a
significant contributing factor to aid you.  Not only
are you able to better treat your fellows in times of
trouble or ailment by including in your actions
patience, forbearance, and appropriate timing, there
is the additional vitality of living spirit.  Jesus,
knowing of this presence, could rest confidently that
the extent to which he approached and ministered to
another’s need was all that needed to occur, for that
vital spirit presence that continually monitors each
one of you and each one of his followers applies
further ministry, further healing.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Human
beings will weigh the merit of their tasks,
of their intentions, based upon the finished result.
Something is not accomplished until all points of the
process have been undertaken.  But you who are
demanding of yourselves greater spirit attunement are
realizing that you are one of the many steps in a
process to a desired result, that the service you
provide another may seem to be a simple, mundane human
action of kindness to another.  However, from the
perspective of your angelic attendants, they view the
intricacies of the interworkings of many events in
individuals’ lives that compound to create what may
take years to come to fruition: the realization of a
significant spiritual truth or alignment.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    So,
to return to culinary examples, as you mature,
as you progress down your path of growth, you know to
keep your oven shut when things are baking, to not
poke at the rising dough when it needs to rest, that
these apparent inactions are as contributory to the
desired end as aggressive actions.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Aaron: 
Greetings to you, this is Aaron.  I step
in here with Elyon to acknowledge you all, to relish
all the times we have spent together, to assure you of
my continued interest in this group.  It is enjoyable
reminiscing over the many years we have spent together
in this undertaking.  You are able to assess the
benefits that have come to you through this faith
adventure, and you have also experienced episodes
wherein you have been able to bestow upon another the
necessary ingredient in their struggles such that they
may be a little better relieved or a little better
prepared to face their struggles.  I wish that I could
print out a report for you of what the melchizedeks
have to say, for they are able to grasp within a
universe context the significance of your
advancements.  Though ten years have transpired since
our initial contacts, and it may seem that you have
made adjustments and realizations, you have undertaken
service projects, outreach ministries, and that they
may not amount to much on a page of credentials, if
you could but see the applications not only for the
remainder of your lives here but the adventures and
enterprises you will engage in in the mansion world
experiences, you would then realize what great wealth
you have acquired.  As Elyon said, even this faith
grasp must be coupled with your ability to wait out
the time that transpires before your talents are in
need.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Years
ago I mentioned to you that a good gardener
does not pull up a seedling to see how well it’s
growing.  So, while you may not be able to view the
extent of the reach of your roots into spiritual
matter, the melchizedeks are fully aware, and they are
able to assess nutrients you may need.  They then
notify us, and we apply ourselves to giving you those
nutrients.  I am capable of making some assessments
myself.  But like you I am an ascending mortal
creature, and like you I do not hale from the
headquarters of Nebadon.  I am heading toward
Salvington as you are.  We who come from the
periphery, while we gain a perspective through the
accumulation of experience, have not the same
viewpoint as one who is born a master teacher as are
the melchizedeks.  Therefore we rely heavily upon
their counsel and advice and direction.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Sharmon: 
This is Sharmon.  I also am in
attendance today and give you a hearty hello.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    We
of the midwayers are sensitive to your worries
regarding the affairs in the kingdoms of men.  know
(note?) to your concerns and ours equally disturbed by
the unrest, by the confrontations, and by the attempts
to escalate confrontations, conflict.  Mankind and we
midwayers share a tendency that we may not necessarily
brag about, and that is to be a bit overzealous for
cause, to become so motivated to the degree that we
will decrease the breadth of our vision.  The
midwayers present during the fall of the planetary
headquarters succumbed to this tendency, and your
history is peppered with such engagements wherein one
is viewed as enemy or foe, not necessarily because you
are in conflict in ideology, but because your zeal has
narrowed your vision.  So if there were any advice I
could send to all mankind today it would be to assess
the breadth of your viewpoint, to grasp more fully and
holistically the intricacies and your relationships.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Where
the midwayers of centuries back followed the
strong dictates of powerful personalities and also
fell into rebellion, I ask you this day to assess with
the Spirit of Truth bestowed upon you the merit of
declarations that are broadcast about your world and
to yourselves likewise take your stance through
stillness and contemplation, through application of
your experiences, and let be known your feelings.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Today
we midwayers are a united bunch because a
few within our midst were vocal enough to point out
the errors and to do so with kindness and compassion
to win the souls of the others back to a path of light
and truth.  It was not done overnight.  It was not
done easily, and it was not done without numerous
arguments.  We cherish this planet.  It is ours.  We
extend great hope for mankind to wisely choose its
future.  We overlay that hope with a profound trust in
the universe administrators who manage so many worlds,
varied in their advancements, each one with its own
difficulties and successes.  With this wide range of
engagements we know that they are capable of helping
Urantia realize the significant values that will cause
advancement toward Light and Life.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Aaron
says I should open this up to questions, so
I will.  You may address whoever you seek to receive a
response from.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Tom: 
Several years back you theorized that our
present form of government stood in some jeopardy.
Has there been any correction to your perception of
that?  Is it still in a potential slide?</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Sharmon: 
I still stand by my comments, but I
would add that I do not apply that view cynically.  I
perceive it as one who would note a blemish on  a
mirror and would seek to clean the blemish to restore
the reflectivity.  That causes me to repeat my earlier
comment that you think for yourselves and make your
thoughts be known, for we are not going to step in and
demand alterations to the processes of your governing
bodies to correct, to restore.  It is up to you.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Tom: 
Thank you, that’s encouraging.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Harold: 
With your experience of planetary
government you would have a clear perception of the
swing of the pendulum.  Has materialism reached its
zenith and is about to turn the other direction?  If
so, is it more critical for us to be applying direct
pressure to the screw or more of a hammer blow?</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Sharmon: 
Your world, which is our world, is
approaching the zenith of materialism.  It has not
reached the summit at this point.  Although I have
never left this world and only receive reports of how
other worlds progress, I am of the understanding that
there is a great deal more in the capabilities of
mankind for the development of material things in the
advancement of your technologies.  Let me clarify that
by stating that materialism is a value system; it is
not simply the advancement of technologies and the
development of material objects for your use.  So
enters my hope for the culmination of this era because
I witness throughout the world a shifting in values.
Though you may not have advanced technologically to
the apex of what is potential, you are beginning to
reevaluate the philosophical foundation of these
pursuits.  With this adjustment you will refine the
appropriateness of these material advancements.
Materialism philosophically will begin to change
before the external manifestations reach the fruition
of their beneficial contributions to mankind alongside
the detriments of the overmuch development of things
of transient value at the expense of the resource
wealth of future generations.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    You
speak in your history of the Dark Ages.  They
weren’t all that dark.  The sun rose and set with the
same brilliance as this day.  The darkness had more to
do with the shifting of general consciousness away
from advancement.  It did not so much retreat into the
ages past but simply sat idle.  Today, while there is
much that is the cause of strife and terror on you
world, there is not the darkness of idleness.  All
over societies are astir evaluating and considering
global actions being undertaken economically,
industrially, politically, and environmentally.  This
is that light that precedes the change from a
materialistic bent to a spiritual lifestyle or
orientation.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    There
are religions upon this world who value the
removal of material possessions in order to better
detect the lasting worth of spirit values.  This is a
worthy undertaking and an initial stage of spiritual
growth, for you cannot hear the birds sing if you are
always talking.  To quiet down, to simplify, increases
the sensitivity of the awareness of the song all about
you.  However, Light and Life includes a certain
degree of prosperity on a material level, not a
prosperity of riches and wealth, but one of
technologies that aid mankind in many fields, that
frees the human being to better acquire those
spiritual character traits.  The shift is beginning.
The effects of a materialistic mindset are exposing
themselves such that you are better able to evaluate
the merit of the orientation.  As the orientation
shifts the material progress will follow appropriate
paths.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    (I
am) unable to predict the course of mankind.
It is possible that your entire world structure may be
disrupted if you don’t make the progress necessary to
infuse spiritual orientation into your material
matters.  This will not be done by celestial agencies.
It will be the result of the folly of mankind.  But
the administrations in place upon this world will do
everything possible to illuminate the spiritual
significance of any dark times and to bring to the
surface those individuals who are pivotal in
presenting the long view of the future and potential
of Urantia.  While such an event may never occur, for
I do hold great hope that mankind is progressing well,
it may fall to some of you even in this room to step
forward to be noticed and to call others to take note
of what is worthy and valuable for the future progress
of the planet.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Kirk: 
You must be aware of the technologies
available on the planet today that are secret from the
public.  We have technologies that could save the
planet for the benefit of everyone.  Is that the
balance you are trying to say here?  Will those secret
technologies come out, or will they stay hidden to
benefit the few?  I hear you say not to get on the
bandwagon because it may hurt others’ progress.  Then
I hear you say if you get on, then enlighten people of
what we have on the planet today.  Could you clarify
that?</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Sharmon: 
Yes, I will.  You said it well, but I
will add to your perspective.  The context you speak
of is the context of value, that a technology is
neither right nor wrong, simply a process of physical
functions.  It is the application and more importantly
the choosing of application that brings the right or
the wrong to the technology.  You know that a forest
fire is a frightening experience, for it is a power
beyond one single individual’s ability to control and
requires the rallying of many people to counter-force
a fire’s energy.  Yet long ago you discovered how to
harness fire to make it useful to a tribe.  Today you
have altered that fire you harnessed into numerous
energy applications.  These have radically transformed
the activities of humankind.  I encourage you to
acclaim the worth of beneficial technologies, and I
would not discourage you from standing up against the
evil applications of technologies.  But I would ask
you to transcend both undertakings by educating all
you have a chance to with the perspective of planetary
advancement, of the pattern of progress that overlays
each critical juncture in the unfoldment of the
development of your technologies, for this is what the
world lacks today, that overview.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Today
the human races speak of progress in terms
of accumulation of wealth and of objects, of the
discovery of things.  These are merely parts of the
progress that makes up the whole of what is to be
Light and Life.  By bandstanding the overview you
create a context for many others to make choices
regarding the merit of the technology, whether it
ought to be or not, or how it’s to be applied and how
it ought not to be.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Harold: 
You’re saying to get on the bandwagon but
be choosy which wagon you get on?</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Sharmon: 
Yes.  I speak as a united midwayer, for
this was our decision to get on the bandwagon for
Michael, to stand up against the Lucifer Rebellion.
The undertaking of Lucifer and Caligastia was
attractive  in the early stages of the campaign, for
it signaled advancement; it gratified many with the
tangible results immediately.  Yet throughout the
process we were unable to discern the damages being
wrought upon the structure that was ordained by
Michael.  When it became apparent to a few that
mistakes were being made, it required those few to
stand up and be heard.  It was this bold action that
began the turn around for the corps of midwayers.  It
signaled to the higher universe intelligences that
Urantia indeed was going to survive this campaign of
Lucifer.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">    I
will draw close to this meeting today for Elyon
and Aaron.  As I look about me I see the presence of
many wonderful personal teachers who enjoy ministering
to you.  By closing I would say that the patience that
Elyon speaks of, temperance, forbearance, does not
equate to complacency.  You must always be keenly
aware of the significance of each event that crosses
your life and the greater events that cross the path
of mankind, to discern, to choose and to act in light
of the greatest truth you can grasp and the goodness
you can manifest.  Do so with confidence trusting that
the Divine Spirit bestowed upon you will always adjust
your intentions to refine them.  Even if you discerned
wrongly you have given the potential for the
adjustment to occur and for you to change course.  If
you have chosen rightly you have the forces of the
universe behind you to empower your efforts, to
sustain you in conflict, to assure you.</span></font></div>
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another time, good bye.</span></font></div>
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