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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">North Idaho Teaching Mission
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">Topics: Partnership with God</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">Teachers: Elyon</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">February 2, 2003</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Elyon (Jonathan
TR):  Greetings, friends, this is Elyon.  Today I am
going to emphasize once again the importance of the partnership you each
have in relation to God.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    The
presence of the divine within you can be difficult to discern due
to the extent of the range of the human condition.  Naturally each of you
is quite aware of your physicality and your mentality, for these are
readily recognizable since they occupy most of your awareness of life.
Each of you, however, has initiated and is continuing to foster your
spirituality.  To the personality that is unable willingly to assert the
reality of the spiritual aspect of the human construction, life appears to
emerge from the dust and return thereto, to become recognizable based upon
the mechanics and interrelations of many potentials and conditions, to
become discreet, and then upon the cessation of life to dissipate into an
unrecognizable form and simply another’s memory.  This is a bodily
orientation to life.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Upon
this world, and rightly so, life is highly valued.  It is valued
because of its temporality.  To one who does not hold a spiritual frame of
reference life is fragile and must be preserved for as long as can be
given the short interval of time in which life takes place in each
individual.  To those infused with a spiritual paradigm life is also
valuable, for it indicates an internal reality and personality out of
which these transient forms appear and into which the budding life form
will transform.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    The
presence of the divine to the human mind is virtually invisible to
all senses.  This presence is pure, absolutely holy, perfect, and
powerful.  If you were to stand at the base of a mile high tower you would
be hard pressed to describe the details at the top of the tower, for the
distance is far too great for you to perceive.  If you were to grab hold
of that tower you are as much connected to the very top as you are to the
base, given the continuity of the construction and your relationship with
it.  This divine presence is connected to you, integrated into your
makeup.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Upon
you has likewise been bestowed several spirit ministers stemming
from this same God through its threefold ministry as gifts of Son and
Spirit which you know as the Spirit of Truth and Holy Spirit.  These
surrounding influences bear upon the mind, even act upon the body, to
heighten your sensitivity of this virtually indiscernible presence of the
Father.  Why, it may be asked, is such a gift of divine splendor so
difficult of discernment?  Why does the Spirit of Truth elevate the mind
and the emotions of a human creature so easily?  I will not give you these
answers, for the answer lies in the unfoldment of your personality and the
development of your soul.  If you were given full awareness of this spark
of the divine within you, that would prevent the great adventure that lies
before you.  The wisdom of the Creator is reflected in this relationship,
for your wisdom will be deeper if it is acquired through experience rather
than bequeathed as a gift.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    So,
a great trading of places is occurring within the sphere of your
being.  At first what is tangible is your mortal vehicle, your flesh and
bones frame; what is recognizable is your mind at work; what appears
indiscernible is the spirit presence.  As you expand and unfold in your
spiritual career a trading of places is occurring.  What is absolutely
real, wholly divine, not only the reflection and manifestation of God but
God Himself becomes your pivotal and anchored position for all else.  Your
vehicle for terrestrial mobility dies on this level and is transformed
throughout the levels following, becoming ever more indiscernible to ones
who are now at your level.  All that can be bestowed upon you by the
presence of the divine within is given as this trading of places proceeds.
You however are not dissipating in form or importance as you bring into
conscious reality God presence, for you as well have brought a gift to
God.  This gift is the orientation of all of your being, every element and
aspect which may be summarized as a will determined to discover the
divine, as a faith powerful enough to propel you into the presence of the
divine.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Upon
the completion of your pre-fusion training you will be eternally
bonded to this divine presence.  Initially your experience will be one of
a profound and continual unavoidable sense of God.  Up until then you will
repeatedly experience flashes of divine consciousness and lapses into
human short-sightedness.  As the ages unfold following your fusion
experience this bonding will seem to become itself invisible, for you and
divine presence will increasingly homogenize to the point that the duality
of human and divine will cease to be.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Religions
upon your world have gone to great efforts to guide the
human soul into the recognition of this divine within.  Many techniques
you have developed which aid the human creature in cultivating the sense
of the presence of God.  There is a key element to this partnership that
we speak of today, and that is the gap between you and this presence.
This is the miracle of life, for with yet little reflection you would
rightly conclude that God is everywhere present.  So, you are in the
presence of God now.  It is the development of the awareness of this
presence that requires the gap.  For you this distance creates the
tensions which give birth to the awareness of the divine.  For the divine
presence this gap creates the opportunity for God to not be present at the
other side of the gulf.  While God may be everywhere present, as long as a
personality does not discern that presence, a gap exists and the divine is
absent.  So in rush Michael and Mother Spirit to bestow upon you the
Spirit of Truth and the Holy Spirit that you may be empowered to discern.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    When
you hold in your hand a seed it is able to be held because it has
size.  As you break down the components of this seed to discern the
structures integrated therein it is soon noted that much that gives seeds
size is merely food for a temporary period of time.  What is the germ, the
truly valuable element, is quite small in relation to the whole.  When the
seed sprouts soon this life seeks nourishment beyond itself; into the
ground with its roots, and into the air with its leaves.  This is much
like what is occurring within you now.  Your body and your mind are seed
food for the sprouting of your soul and the attainment of the Father.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    You
have expressed frustration over the practice of stillness.  I
attempt today to soothe this frustration by illustrating how difficult of
discernment this divine presence is; yet this presence is real and here
within each of you.  Cultivating the art of silence will at times bring
you direct discernment, profound experience.  Other times it will be much
like standing at the base of the tower and merely touching it  knowing
what is at the top and knowing that you are connected by the structure
intervening.  And this is the meditation of faith.  A partnership with
expertise and harmony is one wherein the two partners can function in
relation to one another even without communication, without prodding or
instruction.  To undertake quiet time is to develop your end of the
partnership, your ability to function without instruction, even without
communication.  Yes, do long for a conscious experience of the presence of
the Father.  However, ever hold in your faith that eventual day in your
future career when you will be unmistakably eternally fused and ever
conscious of the presence of God.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Today
you also develop the ability as a child of God to be a spiritual
creature in your own right as a human.  Love of the divine stimulates
attraction toward the divine.  So it is with Father.  He loves you and
therefore indwells you.  Cherish these short years of apparent distance,
for this is the time wherein you establish your personality presence.  You
will be assisted by spirit in many ways on many levels.  The indwelling
presence will not fill out the forms for you, will not attend your classes
for you, and will not even receive your diploma for you.  This is your
privilege.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    So,
I finish today by saying, do most energetically seek the presence
of God each moment of your life and likewise cherish an equally important
presence, your human personality.  It is the plan of the Father that you
be who you are.  You are assisted by Him; you will not be replaced by Him.
One day you will be eternally fused with Him.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    I remain
in your presence.  I have finished my discourse.  Thank you.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Mark: 
I’ve been thinking about the various forms of spirit assistance
available to us.  You help us because we have accepted your assistance.
Are the visitors to our world who are on a more physical plane also a part
of this process of facilitation?  I feel they aren’t just sightseers or
planetary observers but may very well be part of the administration of
which we are a part.  Could you comment please?</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Elyon: 
Yes, I will within the constraints of my mission mandate.  As
you are released as a planet from the conditions of quarantine among the
rebellious worlds, many normal functions such as interplanetary
communication will be reinstated, and even now the work is underway to
establish these ties.  Because of this world’s isolation and the
subsequent absence of a truly holistic spiritual teaching, that which is
physical has been separated from that which is spiritual.  Often the world
is seen as a place to remove oneself from and the divine as a place to go
to.  In a normal arrangement of planetary events this is not the case.
Visitors from other worlds and entities from higher dimensions are as much
a part of the totality of the planetary experience of any creature.
Efforts are being made to establish these conditions.  I do not say
“reestablish”, for the functions of the spirit administration on this
world fell apart before the initial establishment was set as far as the
human creatures on the world are concerned.  You have not lost the “good
old days”; only now is planet Urantia coming into these good days.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    There
will be some education required, and you are among many who are
qualified to present this truth that those from other worlds are not
hostile, that they will contribute beneficially to the progress of this
planet, and that you too as citizens of this world will have the same
beneficial impact upon them.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    The
Correcting Time, while very important to the affairs of Urantia,
spans over each of the quarantined worlds from the rebellion.  Teachers
like myself are assigned elsewhere and are functioning even today as I do
now with you.  Due to the constraints of quarantine and the process for
its lifting, you will only receive contact from those cleared to approach
this world.  This is due, if I may use the analogy, to the concern for the
patient in the hospital ward that no other contaminations be presented.
This is carefully monitored.  On worlds advanced in progressive
civilization far greater allowance is made for intercommunication and for
the mistakes that may occur in this cross-planetary cultural experience.
This is due to the maturity of the civilizations involved.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    I hope
I have been helpful.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Mark: 
I’ve been thinking about seeing from our power points and
knowing how to approach situations from fear or curiosity.  These visitors
are non-threatening, but I know fear grips many when they think of them.
If these visitors need ambassadors to help in the fulfillment of Michael’s
mission, then I am willing to help out.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Elyon: 
Your offer is noted and your name is on page one of the list
of volunteers.  It is important that we have those of such dedication and
sincerity.  Not many upon your world have even developed a true belief in
a populated universe.  There is faint belief, supposition, and
imagination, but that conviction of a deep faith still lacks upon this
world.  It will require those as yourself to promote this.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Mark: 
The list must be short if I am on page one.  I accept that they
would not be here if it were not part of the divine plan you spoke of.
Thank you.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Evelyn: 
This is off-topic, but I read in the UB how versatile
melchizedeks are, the only comparably versatile characters being Life
Carriers.  What can you tell us about Life Carriers so that we could
appreciate this versatility? Melchizedeks materializing as humans for
example we find awe inspiring, stepping in in emergencies, and so on.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Elyon: 
I am not allowed to embellish on the information given in the
Urantia Papers.  I can however arrange the presentation for new insights,
for it was deemed appropriate to restrict the information given to that
which is presented.  You have been notified that there is a special
relationship between the melchizedeks and Life Carriers as noted in the
Papers.  I will address the versatility element.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Melchizedeks
are remarkable beings.  I have only experience within
this local universe, and I must say that our melchizedeks are fantastic
beings.  They are in charge of universe education.  That means that they
teach creatures across a broad spectrum of manifestation.  The
melchizedeks are in charge of this Teaching Mission, but that is only one
small branch of their educational program.  They are able not only to
stand as Machiventa did face to face with someone like Abraham, but they
also can approach an angel or any other creature in this realm of Nebadon
and meet them at their level of education opportunity.  That is their
versatility, their adaptability, their form-changing ability.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Life
Carriers, their versatility is in their ability to manifest life
forms.  Just as the powers that the melchizedeks have and the nature of
their being is given by their creator/father Michael, so the powers of the
Life Carriers are equally given by this creator/father.  The Life Carriers
are remarkable in their ability to generate variation in life and to
instill within these variable life forms qualities of adaptability.
regeneration, and the ability to survive.  In some regards, both the Life
Carriers and the melchizedeks, if we may use a visual, may be likened in
this regard: Picture Michael in your mind’s eye.  Circle to the left and
down with a string of Melchizedeks.  Circle from the right and down the
Life Carriers; one granted by Michael to generate multitudinous
manifestations of life forms, the other granted by Michael with the
ability to educate and uplift any form that is manifested.  These are two
of the great arms of the Michael project of developing Nebadon into a
universe of Light and Life.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    I hope
this has provided you with something to ponder.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Evelyn: 
What a team!</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Elyon: 
And this is why you have in your papers reference to
melchizedek Life Carriers.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Evelyn: 
It gives a sense of what a tiny fraction of the tower we are
aware of.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Elyon: 
Many beings are expert at many things.  Some beings only do
one thing well.  Others perform amazing feats with great versatility.
Your task is simple: to love the Father and to love your fellows.  By
following this simple injunction there is no limit to the potentials of
universe assignment and the heights to which you may grow as a creature of
God.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    I will
draw this meeting to a close if that is your desire.  Farewell.</span></font></div>
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