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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">North idaho Teaching Mission
Group</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">Topics: P</span></font><font
face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">ositive Spiritual Perspective, Spiritual Preparedness,
Spirit
Infusion</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">Teachers: Elyon, Machiventa,
Lantarnek</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">February 9, 2003</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Elyon (Jonathan
TR):  Greetings to you, my friends.  This is Elyon.
You are my fellow shipmates.  As your captain I would speak today on
thoughts, as it has been part of your discussion.  Perhaps more correctly
I would say it is more about attitude in general than thinking specific
thoughts.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    The
captain of a vessel must of necessity ever be on the lookout for
obstructions, objects below the surface, which may be hazardous to the
smooth sailing of that ship.  Any good captain will avoid these danger
points.  However it is not the goal of the captain to spend every waking
moment looking for the dangers and avoiding them.  Rather it is the goal
of the captain to locate the shipping channels, the deep waters, and to
make headway within them.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    So it
is with your thoughts.  Treat them not as would a sentry
guarding a gate, ever watching for the bad ones and screening them out.
Instead be more like a collector, one whose mind’s eye is focused towards
a specific goal.  The goal in this case is positive spiritual perspective.
A collector will note the uncollectible only in passing and forget it,
strictly seeking that which is desired.  A guard may prevent the entry of
the unwanted; a collector seeks the possession of the wanted.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    As you
leverage the power of your mind with the aim of greater
spiritualizing influence on your entire being, you will find the best
progress as you take your mind into the deep shipping channels where there
is good speed and safety, to mark the points of hazard but keeping ever
clear your journey’s goal.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Thoughts
may be likened to paper airplanes, and your attitude may be
likened to the currents of air.  If you have established an attitude
spiritually stable, personally motivated toward truth, beauty, and
goodness, you have created currents in your mind-state on which your
thoughts may sail and do so favorably both for self and for others.  A
vessel too heavy to fly will not leave the ground, and it will become
increasingly easy for you to leave your bad thoughts grounded, for your
attitude will be such that these heavier thoughts will not take to flight.
I anticipate some would ask, yes, however, as much as I do seek to have a
good attitude, these bad thoughts come my way.  To which I answer, your
responsibility not only is to have strong attitudinal currents upon which
your thoughts may sail but to also spend your energy constructing good
craft with which you may sail upon these attitudinal currents.  As I
return to the idea of the captain who does avoid the rocks, he is not
looking for the rocks; he is looking for the open channel.  Do not look
for your heavy planes that won’t fly.  Construct the lighter craft that
can go aloft.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    I will
add one more comparison to this idea of attitude and thoughts
and your work with your thoughts.  When you are hungry -- let us designate
hunger as your attitude -- at that time your thoughts may cross many
methods, means, whereby you may alleviate that hunger. Recipes, foodstuffs
all come to mind.  Your attitude of hunger has fostered the generation of
thoughts.  These thoughts appear good and worthwhile.  Let us suppose you
have finished your meal.  Your attitude has changed; you are no longer
hungry.  You can think the very same thoughts you thought before the meal,
but now the recipe appears too filling; the food does not draw you.  What
happened to these thoughts?  They are the same.  I think you know the
answer, it is in your attitude.  Therefore it is not so important to
wrestle with and screen, evaluate, and judge the worth of every thought.
They will follow naturally as you adjust and upgrade and spiritualize your
attitude.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    I have
finished my comments.  I am with you, and I am in the company
of other teachers.  Thank you.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Machiventa
(Mark):  I greet you as well.  This is Machiventa.  I want
to bring you my thanks for gleaning my words from other sources.  They
were addressed to a different crowd, but I was well aware they were
available to many others including yourselves.  It is impressive for you
to pick them out and see them as worthy of spending time on in your
discussions, as they were meant for you as well.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    There
has been a renewed restlessness among the troops for the next
command to charge.  It is indeed an honor to see the troops so willing to
assemble and awaiting to be given the command to move forward.  This
picture of the assembled troops is warming to the heart of any leader, yet
I am struck with the humor in such an image from my perspective.  Where
you may see yourselves as poised, trained, and prepared for any upcoming
challenge, I see you as in the trenches, foxholes, and employing every
means at your disposal, engaged thoroughly in this excursion.  It is a
natural human tendency to think in terms of large events, momentous
occurrences, to rally and challenge the forces in order for you to feel as
though you have been enlisted and are engaged in the process when in fact
the training and the exercises you have been undergoing for some number of
years now have also been a part of this struggle for you.  Therefore I see
you more as gaining experience in battle rather than as waiting for the
signal to charge.  True, that you may always consider loftier goals,
higher ideals of accomplishment, and these are what drive you forward to
take the next step and knock on the next door.  Meanwhile do not
shortchange yourself that you are not involved in all that is transpiring
around you.  While you are preparing for your next great mission you are
becoming soiled with the experience of your maneuvers so as to provide you
with a broader framework and a more familiar comfort zone in the arena of
engagement with spirit.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    You
can give a foot soldier a handbook and expect that, even though he
may become entirely familiar with the material, the actual battlefield
conditions vary greatly, and the operation will be in need of
restructuring as conditions materialize.  This re-appropriation is what
your base of experience is providing you the framework to do.  You are
gaining the experience only available to you outside of the text and the
manual and in the field.  It is this field experience which makes for good
leaders, that they may draw on the circumstances and become flexible and
adaptive to accommodate the conditions present in the field at the time.
A manual might make suggestions or hint at possibilities, but in the field
one must make these judgments, assess the situation, and make
accommodations to their mission plan so as to accommodate this new
reality.  Therefore is there no standard and set patterns to be practiced
and adhered to under all conditions.  You each one are beginning to fully
grasp this in your lives, that what might work for one will not work for
another.  What might work at one time will not work at another time.  What
is acceptable to some will be unacceptable to others.  What is right here
might clearly be wrong there.  Therefore must you become seasoned at
making these determinations based upon your past experiences, your
successes, and your apparent failures, ever the more valuable as they
point out more clearly to you what aspects to work on.  These sum totals
of events in your lives represent your accumulated wisdom of a game plan
to participate in this spirit arena.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    On the
field of spirit the rules are in constant flux.  One must be
ready to meet their partners in this field where they are, to engage with
them at any given level yet never lose sight of the ultimate mission
before us all, to elevate the interactions on this field to their highest
possible spiritual element.  Many a circumstance, a name, a face, a
situation will change, but the mission before us to raise each other up to
the highest spiritual plane remains the same.  The game plan varies widely
according to the field we find ourselves on, the weather conditions, the
modes, the stance of each of the individuals involved.  Perhaps you might
even begin to see yourselves as engaged, not awaiting in the bunkers the
command to be given you.  Each day that passes is a new arena, a new field
to walk upon and assess the climate, the conditions, the possibilities,
the situation so that you may the better achieve the end goal of
spiritualizing the outcome and the workings of what goes on on the field.
In this way as spiritual warriors you never lose even if you see
yourselves as having fallen short of reaching some ultimate desire or
goal.  Nevertheless, if you have raised even by some small increment the
amount of spirit infused onto the field, then you have succeeded.  It is
by small degrees of success that the battle is won.  Always if you remain
focused on the ultimate goal of infusing spirit into the equation and onto
the field then you have succeeded in your mission.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    You
must show some faith and trust that the entire situation is being
monitored by those with greater perspective than yourselves and not burden
yourselves with the entire outcome, rather focusing on your personal
spheres of influence and interaction and, having infused them with spirit,
you have indeed succeeded.  Be willing to accept that as your role to
play.  If an opportunity arises for your sphere to grow to encompass more
than a single individual or a small group, then your game plan must change
to accommodate this, but your mission plan must not.  Either way one role
is no more valuable than the other; all are necessary in this forward
struggle.  I look down and see seasoned warriors in this struggle of
bringing spirit to a darkened sphere, and I look forward to engaging with
you on these fields.  We will take the next step as it is before us, be it
small or be it large.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Thank
you for showing interest in my words and the words and messages
of the teachers.  This is my purpose, our purpose, to you.  It is greatly
rewarding that you are not only receptive to these messages but are
infused with the spirit energy intended to be contained in these messages.
Thank you for hearing my words and know that they will sink into the
hearts of those who are ready for them.  We will have much more discussion
on many more things as time goes on.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Kirk: 
There’s been a new energy source discovered on this planet by
an inventor and given to Steven Greer and his organization to be tested
and disseminated on this planet.  Is this the energy source The Urantia
Book alludes to as having not yet been discovered? {after a long pause}
Is this too terrestrial a question?</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Elyon (Jonathan): 
This is Elyon returning.  It is important that we
teachers also adhere to the mandates of the Urantia Papers revelation and
not over revealing what mankind will soon discover.  I would support your
investigation, for you are perceiving properly the emergence of new
technology.  This source of energy is still beyond the conceptual
framework of the scientists.  What is uncovering for you now in the
investigation of technology as a manifestation of the energy applied, and
this will lead to enlarging the human scientific understanding, which will
reveal the energy and its source, which is creating the phenomenon that is
detectable.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    I hope
this has helped.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Kirk: 
Yes, thanks.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Lantarnek: 
This is Lantarnek.  Greetings.  I wish to follow my
melchizedek commander with a followup comment, as he has encouraged each
of you to infuse spirit into your lives in every way and has acknowledged
your preparedness, not only your own understanding of willingness, but
your teachers’ perspective of your preparedness.  You may ask, ”How may I
infuse spirit when I do not feel spirit fused or do not feel the spirit
inflowing that I may let the spirit flow out?”</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Elyon
spoke of the collector, and this is the individual who is
seeking to be infilled with spirit.  Machiventa asks you to be a
contributor, one who infuses spirit into your activities.  To be filled
with spirit, I ask, where within yourself does spirit go?  Beneath your
skin?  Into your muscle tissues?  Within the hollows of your bones?
Resident in your organs?  Penetrating your brain?  Is this spirit in the
mind?  My friends, you are all filled with spirit, for did not Michael say
that when he left this world he would pour out his spirit upon all?</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    The
spirit is like a reservoir deep within your personality.  Your
mind and your body are downstream from this reservoir.  Your will opens
the gates, and the spirit flows into the rest of your being.  This rest of
your being is a little more external than is your personality which is
very near to spirit presence.  To be filled with the spirit is an act of
your own willingness, for God has already given.  You collect spirit; you
contribute spirit, and you coordinate both as you live your life.  Each
teacher before me today has encouraged you to strengthen your faith in
your certain present abilities to accept the grace of spirit bestowal as a
completed act already.  Having been given what you have asked for, freely
give it to all you meet.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    I am
done, thank you.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Mark: 
I don’t know who this is but I am getting...</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   unidentified: 
As a final note, an attempt to soften the tone, that
Machiventa has spoken of warriors and fields and commanders and missions
and struggles and that if we are able to shift the attitude, one can see
these fields as fields of play and fields of anticipation, even joy and
accomplishment and grandeur, that we need not have an attitude or an
approach of hardship but rather one of privilege to walk upon these fields
to bring with us the joy that the engagement provides.  To spread this joy
as part of our spirit infusement in itself is raising the entire
interaction to a higher spiritual plane.  While this task is full of
struggle, at times it is also a source of great joy and satisfaction and
elevation, and that we should never lose sight of these objectives as well
in our mission statement.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Thank
you.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Jonathan: 
I imagine this battlefield like a paintball game where the
paint balls are spirit.  When you are hit you get spirit on you.  However,
that falls apart since in a paintball game when you are hit you are out.
Perhaps it’s more like the game of tag where when you are touched you are
“it”, spirit is with you.</span></font></div>
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