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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: Being a Reporter, Being
and Author</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 23, 2003</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Elyon (Jonathan
TR):  Friends, we meet again.  I take great delight in
the discharge of all my duties.  I especially delight in the opportunity
to be present with you and experience your enthusiastic investigations
into the truths revealed throughout this Supreme universe and most
especially as you discover applications in your individual lives that both
enhance your understanding of these truths and foster your ability to
present these truths to others, which is a form of revelation to any who
stand in need of its reception.  This is Elyon.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Today
I will speak about our Creator.  It will be a short topic, for,
as is implied, to speak about the Creator would entail great lengths of
time to illuminate all elements of the divine Being.  I am sure you are as
well aware as I am that this would be exhaustive and eternal in its
undertaking, for the Almighty is beyond our grasp in entirety.  Therefore
we must by force narrow to an element or two of that which manifests from
God and in that focus attempt to assimilate truth elements that will copy
and paste into other aspects of reality as you come to perceive it.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    We who
work upon this world to bring about its upliftment are ever
gratified and encouraged as we find human souls who are not only willing
but engaging in the promotion of truth and beauty and goodness and doing
so with a profound assuredness, doing so with an attraction to those in
need.    It has been far too long a period of time wherein the “faithful”,
as we may put it, have continually relied upon others to assure them of
their relationship with God to credit them with the authority to teach
about God.  While it is a potential danger that any individual may set
aside the structures of authorization by human institutions and begin to
teach as one who is above regulation, there is now the need upon this
world for you to be confident and assured of your placement in the family
of God and your qualifications to represent this relationship to all
others.  Honest recognition of the perfection and Supremacy of the power
and the grace of a sovereign being, while instilling in the human soul the
sense of humility, also ought to develop within you a profound sense of
belonging as a child of God.  Being a family member you are endowed with
the inheritance of the divine and are sanctioned by your Creator Parent to
represent this heavenly family to those who are discovering their
spiritual ancestry. This is a delicate balance, the realization of your
minuteness before an omnipotent Creator and your full and complete
acceptance by this same God with the decree, the mandate, that you go
forth and proclaim the saving gospel message of sonship with the Father
and brotherhood with all your human kind and the angels and midwayers all
around you.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    To be
an author of a work must entail original creativity.  Otherwise
one is not an author but a reporter.  While we humbly worship the highest
universe authority, He who authored all that is, we in our upwelling of
the rush of the goodness that impulses us to serve face two potential
approaches.  One is to be a reporter and the other one to be an author.
Many trained in the seminaries, many who have undertaken the disciplines
of a monastic order, many who have gone through your educational systems,
teach the congregations, teach the flocks, as reporters.  This is good,
for the information, the truths of the kingdom of God, are dispersed and
find lodgment in hungry souls.  But there is nothing more profound to the
truth seeker than to witness authority, by that I mean one who authors
these truths.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    There
have been on your world many who could not healthfully function
in this mode and have become fanatical self-proclaimed teachers, even
regarding themselves as divine and above all others.  This is not the
authority I speak of; this is not the creative authorship I indicate, for
such imbalance is the result of the displacement of that humble worship of
the divine replaced with the elevation of self.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    You
know that you are indwelt by the divine Fragment of God.  This
resident of divinity you passionately seek to feel more intensely, to
understand more completely, and to share more accurately.  That is the
creative author that you are privileged to be, as a representative to
access as your source of information, the well from which you draw truth
that may quench the thirst of your fellows.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    There
is a plan that God has instilled within you by way of His divine
presence.  This plan begins in your discovery of God, continues in your
accumulation of truth that defines, illustrates, and clarifies God; then
develops into what I have spoken of as reporting, and finishes when you
fully embrace your belonging; your identity is merged with God.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Jesus
said, “He who would be first will be last, and he who is last
shall be first.”  Comprehending the magnificence of God does contrastively
reveal the minuscule-ness of an animal origin human with his frailties,
insecurities, and ignorance.  In the realization of your humanness, given
the presence of your Thought Adjuster, there begins the transformation of
last into first.  By first, I mean cherished by God.  He who cherishes
himself must first, before realizing the divine affection, come to the
realization of insignificance, the first becoming last.  While this
statement may appear judgmental, a condemnation of those who hold
themselves superior, it is in reality part of a full-circle cycle, for in
the humbling as last, one is prepared to rise to the truly first position
of cherished as a child of God.  This is difficult balancing act to
perform especially on Urantia.  When in doubt it is safe to assume that
you are a reporter relaying what you have observed and experienced in the
field so that another may benefit therefrom.  As you undertake your
spiritual discipline, develop your soul, hone your character, discover
deeper the qualities of your personality, you will develop that authority,
that authorship, that sense of being as one who knows God, one who is God.
You may ask, “How would I know that I have attained such a state?”  I
would respond by saying that by way of the illustration of Jesus in
service not to let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.  If
you are uncertain, be a reporter.  When an incident arises where you are
author, when you have authority, this will unfold in spite of yourself,
naturally, as naturally as you are a child of God.  Any strain, any
attempt to manipulate, is a fall into a wrong understanding of authority.
This is the safety mechanism.  The more that you become, the greater is
your revelation, and the less you will perceive that you are manifesting
in this manner.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    We have
undertaken many lessons all of which are designed to transfer
you from a reporter to an author, each lesson given with the hope that you
will shift your identity from the temporal and imperfect to the divine
Fragment within you that is eternal and perfect.  We have surrounded these
lessons with many safeguards that are designed to eliminate erroneous
assumptions, those hasty conclusions which give you the wrong
interpretation of your personal power, of your spiritual importance.  My
survey of our efforts indicates to me that this is going well, for we have
witnessed very few fanatical deviations within this Teaching Mission.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    I will
summarize by saying that the time has come for each one to
finalize their transformation of view from one adopted into the family of
God to one who is truly a native child.  While you saw yourself as
separate from God, the adopting arms of the Father were always open.
Every adopted child is loved as one of natural origin in the divine
family.  All are natural children.  The separation is in the nature of
those reared upon a world wherein this teaching of the spiritual family
and your belonging has been absent.  Only on worlds like Urantia do you
grapple with the sense of having to find God.  On all other worlds of
natural unfoldment God is given, and the accurate understanding and
outliving of this divine presence is the challenge of life.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    As I
said, to speak about the Creator I could go on for great lengths
of time, so I will draw close here.  I would be more than delighted for
you to interject your thoughts into this meeting.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Kirk: 
The paradox I see is that, when you verbalize God, concepts, to
a brother or sister you feel godly.  When you feel godly you fall in love
with yourself.  If you don’t have self-love you don’t have the energy to
say what you feel.  If you don’t feel important, that you don’t know it,
then you don’t feel it’s godly.  On the other hand, if you feel like you
know it, then you feel better than the other person.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Elyon: 
You have very well expressed the dilemma that is woven into
our lesson today, and it has been illustrated by Jesus in many of his
parables.  I call to mind another phrase of his, that of taking the beam
out of your own eye before you take the splinter out of another, for if
you carry the beam of false assurance or false insecurity you cannot
remove the speck from another’s eye.  But when you have discovered your
divine birthright sanely, you then are best equipped to take that speck
from another’s eye.  In a twist of phrase I would say that by your
discovery you are beaming and therefore can see best how to bring
illumination to another.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    If I
may add one more point, the potential peril of the sense of
superiority from spiritual knowledge can be placed in check by remembering
the delight within your own being as you came into the discovery of a new
truth or your orientation to an existing truth, the satisfaction and  joy
it brought you.  Orienting yourself back to that sensation or experience
places you on an even level with that being you wish to minister to and
prevents the sense of superiority that would be in danger of talking down
rather than sharing with another.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    This
that you speak of, the paradox, will remain a challenge forever.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    I am
aware that each one of you assesses my personality traits.  You
do so understanding that the transmitter/receivers through whom I present
myself have colored my personality manifestation.  Yet given these avenues
of expression you do discover elements of my character and define them.  I
do not rank among you in the same way as does Lester.  With some of the
teachers you find a chumminess and others you regard in a relationship of
teacher and pupil.  I say this to confirm that even I must grapple with
this same paradox.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Kirk: 
We’ll never have that assuredness; it’s just moment to moment,
person to person.  Everyday is different.  So we’ll never have that
assurance that we are going out and doing God’s will and do it?  It’s just
day-to-day is what you do.  We look for the day we can go out and preach,
but that day we are being self-assured and maybe self-elevating and
egotistic.    I guess you just wait for the moment, live for the day.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Elyon: 
You recall the story in your Urantia text when the imprisoned
John the Baptist uttered a statement and, as he finished, he realized he
had made prophesy.  You will be sensitive to your assurance usually
following an episode, for the human mind is not quite swift enough to keep
up with time, or, I should more accurately say, to rise above time and
perceive its spectrum.  So, as the event arrives, transpires, and unwinds
you will have undergone the enactment of the will of God only to realize
it in hindsight.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    So,
it raises in importance the many admonitions I give, and others
who tend to your meetings, the practice of stillness, the review of your
lessons, your efforts at service ministry; for each one of these
undertakings are preparatory to an event wherein you are in ministry
fulfilling the will of God and not aggrandizing yourself as one who is
enlightened for another to be benefited therefrom.  To be assured requires
preparation, and that is a self-focus.  To feel assured following an
episode as you speak of also is a self-focused reflection.  But during the
event forget the self, allow the divine Resident to expand within you and
radiate from you.  Let not your left hand know what your right hand is
doing, and you will fulfill the will of God.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    I might
give illustration.  You stand on a high diving board.  You
look down at the water.  The surface of the water is this service event
that you are approaching.  You see it coming.  You are aware that you must
dive.  Your eyes are open.  You jump.  You hit the water.  Your eyes are
closed.  After you have entered fully you open your eyes again and see
where you have gone, but at the instant of your service your eyes were
closed.  This is self-forgetfulness, not that you completely erase your
being from the stage of the universe, but in that instant of time you have
shut down your focus on self and plunged into the experience.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    I hope
this helps.  </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Kirk: 
You’ve got to take the plunge.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Elyon: 
You’ve got to jump.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Kirk: 
Thanks, Elyon.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Evelyn: 
You were talking about two things, reporting and authoring,
so I was looking for a third.  Take fact, meaning, and value.  Reporting
is sharing facts.  An author shares meaning, so the third would involve
value.  I don’t have a word to sum it up yet, but I see the moment you are
sharing having that divine content right there present.  It’s not the
sharing of something from the past; it’s what is happening right then.
The plunging with your eyes closed.  The exchange is the value.  Jesus
shared facts, meaning, but for many just being in his presence was so
uplifting.  He’s an example of that third corner of the triangle.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Elyon: 
I enjoy your insight.  I would, in searching for a word to
complete the triangle, offer perhaps -- though yet I am unsatisfied with
the selection -- that word being experience.  I have cautioned -- or
should I say discussed? -- two sides of authorship, the self-proclaimed
human author authority and the divinely bestowed Author within you.  It is
when the human allows the divine Author to reveal that the human
experiences that connection of self with God.  This experience is what
another truly resonates to.  You have perhaps experienced many times,
whether reporting or authoring, a revealed truth that the information does
not necessarily take hold, but another’s experience of encountering that
revelation holds, sticks, lodges.  You likewise have that same experience
as it applies to your growth.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    I hope
this has supplemented your efforts to find a three-fold balance
in this discussion.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Tom: 
Your mention of closed eyes brought to mind that in a musical
performance often one closes one’s eyes to be more focused on the
material. Whether you are the author of the material or just the reporter,
the transfer of information is best served if you employ the tools of: you
are not better, and you are not necessarily right.  You aren’t trying to
be the greatest ever; you’re just trying to fill the moment.  That’s
rewarding; you feel part of the flow as reporter or author.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">*   Elyon: 
Indeed, whether the song is yours or written by another, that
experience you speak of is what fills the tune with magic.  This
connection is the vital transferring link in the transfer of any
information or, as you have illustrated, making a musical performance be
infused with a living energy and not merely the repetition of sound in
relationship.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:12pt">    I am
always blessed by contact with you.  Though I reckon time by
another system of counting than you do, from your perspective I can
honestly say it makes my week.  I will close this session.  I love you all
dearly, and I observe fondly your weekly activities.  I am not omniscient.
At times I am away, but I see your angels.   As you would relate to it, it
would be as if I see them physically, and this I do, but I also see your
angels in the sense that I visit with them.  It is in their retelling of
the episodes you live that I come to know you even better even while I may
be assigned to other tasks and out of this location.  Farewell.</span></font></div>
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