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SUBJECT:<B> L</B>IGHTLINE TELECONFRENCE 10-19-06<BR>
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TEACHER: ELYON...LANTARNEK<BR>
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T/R: RICK GILES<BR>
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Elyon: Greetings to you all, this is Elyon. I enjoy this soulful fellowship <BR>
to have the opportunity to speak with you while you are at such different <BR>
locations. while in mind and in physical coordinates, each personality feels <BR>
or recognizes distance. We know in our soul that we converge at Paradise and <BR>
that through the passing of time, though we appear at times separated by <BR>
distance, by way of growth we are drawing ever closer together. <BR>
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The power which drives growth is your faith and that faith derives its <BR>
energy from your willingness to perceive your experiences in the broad <BR>
context of your whole being not merely your family life or your hobbies, not <BR>
merely your physical material status or your education or your social <BR>
position but also your cosmic placement, your universe significance. The <BR>
combination of these ingredients organized by your faith gives you power and <BR>
that energy causes your growth.<BR>
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But faith has a partner and that is grace. Your faith is your push, grace is <BR>
the pull, the power whereby God draws you into His arms up to that <BR>
consciousness of the Divine into worship. Every voluntary effort in faith is <BR>
supplemented and supported by a complementary extension of grace, hand <BR>
meeting hand in the upliftment of the soul. Faith can move mountains because <BR>
grace is the partner, the human becomes powerful because [it] is at One. <BR>
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When you bow in humility before the Almighty your faith stands up as in <BR>
these [vows] and beholds the light of divine grace and in that inward <BR>
communion you receive the dual power and find that when you stand in faith <BR>
to the challenges of your existence you are graciously accompanied by He who <BR>
rules and upholds all. Many mortals face the confrontation of a growing <BR>
faith, an incomplete faith, one which grapples with incompleteness of <BR>
consciousness of awareness, of insecurity because of a lack of certainties <BR>
derived from experience, but your faith is filled by grace.<BR>
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Picture webbing, say one of your burlap fabrics. Every crisscross of thread <BR>
is a path of experience that your faith has undertaken. The holes in between <BR>
is where uncertainty is encountered. The grace is the filling medium, the <BR>
mud if you will, which coats the faith and makes you whole and multiplies <BR>
your strength into bonding. Ever and always go to God whether you feel <BR>
worthy or not, whether you feel connected or in need of reconciliation, for <BR>
your deficiencies are remedied by the outpouring of the mercy and love of <BR>
God.<BR>
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I give thanks when I pause and reflect upon the majestic and stupendous <BR>
display of universe reality. From nothing came all things because of the <BR>
will of God. A being so capable, unfathomable to me in my own creative <BR>
expression, all the while intensely personal and focused on each of His <BR>
children. I sit in awe at the expansiveness of this awareness of one who can <BR>
rule a whole universe and can reside in your own heart. Faith and grace, <BR>
hand in hand. You can always trust where you fall short. He will take <BR>
[you]up and you can always be certain that when He calls you forth and you <BR>
are unsure, He will give the strength and the abilities ahead of your <BR>
required effort.<BR>
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Some teach, let go and let God, others teach the importance of self <BR>
expression, that your creativity is what God seeks that you do. I say it is <BR>
a partnership not to be divided one away from the other, but both held in <BR>
oneness in embrace [with] your Creator. Jesus speaking to the human ego <BR>
cautioned that in service, not to let the right know what the left hand does <BR>
because the human mind can become overly absorbed in rewarding itself <BR>
towards acts. But in your divine center, you the left hand and God the right <BR>
hand work together to bring about ministry and here is where you count on <BR>
the presence of spirit and your own being.<BR>
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In the acceptance of your human frailty you are elevated to perfection and <BR>
divinity. It is the paradox of the last becoming first. I have expressed my <BR>
thoughts. I wish to receive from you your comments, questions and feedback. <BR>
Thank you.<BR>
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Q: Elyon thank you for your words and I was particularly impressed by your <BR>
analogy of burlap and webbing and our faith and the grace of the mud filling <BR>
in the gap because together that forms a kind of waterproofing and extended <BR>
may form a kind of disappointment proofing and our faith and the recognition <BR>
and acceptance of grace moves us forward. Thank you.<BR>
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Elyon: You are welcome and I would take the opportunity to transfer this <BR>
metaphorical image to the entire planet that all of humanity is like this <BR>
burlap web of faith and your celestial brothers and sisters are coming at <BR>
Michael's request to be that mud which fills in between what the human <BR>
lacks. The pattern applies to the planet as it does to your own personal <BR>
conditions.<BR>
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Lantarnek: Greetings to you, this is Lantarnek, one of the Melchizedek <BR>
missionaries to your world. I commend you for your diligence at pursuing an <BR>
awareness of a universe scope that your personal progress as a spiritual <BR>
being is enlarged into a cosmic awareness of a universe citizen and that <BR>
your actions as a single individual are viewed in the context of planetary <BR>
purpose and while you are aware of your limitations in human expression you <BR>
have come to the realization of the corporate power in the collectivity of <BR>
souls and in your association of the many ministering spirits and the <BR>
angelic hosts. As Elyon spoke of faith with grace, we Melchizedeks count <BR>
upon your efforts seemingly insignificant but nonetheless of great <BR>
importance in actuality because every participant is a significant <BR>
contribution to the entire effort.<BR>
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When you deepen your relationship to the divine presence you serve your <BR>
brothers and sisters and you uplift the world for the reality is not only <BR>
the hard rock, the blowing storms or those peaceful sunny afternoons, it is <BR>
also the establishment of an awareness of spirit presence in the mind <BR>
connected by way of soul to He who is overall. The more of you who become <BR>
adept at this development, this spiritual maturing, the greater will be the <BR>
ease of progress in the advancement of Urantia toward light and life.<BR>
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You may not sit on a commission, you may not be a delegate to another country <BR>
or an ambassador, you may only serve as little ones whom Christ has blessed <BR>
but every expansion of mind and soul enlarges the reality of the presence of <BR>
spirit. I encourage you to keep up this work. You are of great help to our <BR>
efforts upon Urantia.<BR>
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Q: Well Lantarnek, as I reflect on your encouragement to us as individuals <BR>
to make that connection with our divine selves, growing our souls and <BR>
affecting those around us, is the effect exponentially more when we do it <BR>
collectively in a group in close contact? What made me ponder this was <BR>
something I read today from a friend and let me digress and say my spiritual <BR>
path began in meditation and eastern philosophy and specifically <BR>
transcendental meditation and I have some friends that still stay very much <BR>
involved and he e-mailed me a message about a gathering they had within the <BR>
last month of thousands of meditators that gathered together in Fairfield, <BR>
Iowa in group meditation and they feel that they have had an effect on our <BR>
country and they referred comically that it was related in economic terms, <BR>
but that the stock market has gone up because of their collective <BR>
consciousness and lastly I think because of the consequence of people <BR>
gathering together to work together and I think it says in the Urantia book <BR>
that the effect is the number of people squared. How much more powerful is <BR>
it and important for us to try to work together as groups rather than just <BR>
as individuals?<BR>
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Lantarnek: You have indicated a very important aspect of planetary progress. <BR>
>From your studies of the papers for Urantia you have developed an <BR>
understanding of the nature and progress of the soul long perceived on your <BR>
world but often misunderstood as to the significance and you know that the <BR>
growth of the soul makes for a larger substance of your being into which the <BR>
divine spirit becomes one. You have also had revealed to you the God of time <BR>
and space, the Supreme Being. It too has been a recognized reality on your <BR>
world. You speak of your eastern religions which have understood many <BR>
aspects of the nature of the Supreme.<BR>
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This is the result of your efforts at collective consciousness. When an <BR>
individual undertakes an experience which harmonizes the physical, mental <BR>
and the spiritual elements of being there is always the result of soul <BR>
growth. When souls, many individuals harmonize one another's various elements <BR>
of being into a corporate community of effort you have Supreme growth. Light <BR>
and life is Supreme growth as a result of all the many souls growth. Yes you <BR>
will find greater power and effectiveness as you unite in purpose and focus <BR>
with spirit for the good of the world. Thank you for your question. [Thank <BR>
you.]<BR>
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Elyon: I Elyon am making myself known again. I will prod you for further <BR>
comments before I dismiss class. It is always the will of our Divine Parents <BR>
to fill your need to benefit you and to create well being and as you ask you <BR>
will receive.<BR>
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Q: What fills my daytime ponderings is this cosmic perspective that <BR>
Lantarnek is speaking of, that while we are serving our brothers and sisters <BR>
on a daily basis, I would like to know that my individual efforts are <BR>
exponentially joined even to those I don't know about, that I can't see or I <BR>
can't come in contact with. Do I have to know the people or be around people <BR>
of like mind, because I'm not, in order to affect the Supreme? I feel out in <BR>
left field most of the time.<BR>
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Elyon: To the human awareness, those afar appear to have little or no <BR>
bearing upon each other but this reality of supremacy makes it such that <BR>
your effort is exponentialized even in concert with another in another <BR>
superuniverse, not merely across the county or the planet or your local <BR>
system. The hub of this connection is the Supreme and the breadth and <BR>
influence of the Supreme is across the grand universe. The unseen friends <BR>
are always near you and it is with the spiritual eye that you see them and <BR>
are encouraged by them even when about you in the realm of the material you <BR>
perceive yourself to stand alone. This takes great faith. A faith as strong <BR>
as Michael's when He spent His last hours in great loneliness at His [depth] <BR>
while His apostles, His only friends were absent, He knew of and communed <BR>
with the mighty hosts of His universe. This you may do also and you will <BR>
know that your efforts are magnified by the assistance of your cosmic <BR>
brothers and sisters.<BR>
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Q: Thank you so much for that reminder of our brother Michael's loneliness and <BR>
at the same time communion. That certainly makes our efforts seem united. <BR>
I'll start waving to you guys during the day. <BR>
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Q: Along those same lines as I ponder my own choices, I have a choice to <BR>
either spend time pursuing my own spiritual growth in study, reflections of <BR>
that study, in stillness practice and in this wonderful way through the <BR>
spiritual eye of seeing the unseen friends and through faith working even <BR>
more with them and collectively trying to improve our planet. Obviously that <BR>
cannot help but produce good fruits but the question is if there is a choice <BR>
to do it in concert with others say a study group [or alone], but if you <BR>
have to choose one or the other is there a better way?<BR>
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Elyon: The better way is the way that is of the greatest need at that moment <BR>
and I direct you back to Michael's life on your world. The time when He <BR>
would cross an entire lake only to be alone and the times when He would march <BR>
right into the center of a city to be surrounded by the throng. It depends <BR>
on the need of the moment, the need of your fellows or your own need. But I <BR>
also direct your focus to that dual purpose of personal growth and planetary <BR>
advancement. You grow of your own by way of your will and your receptivity <BR>
to the divine guidance but the planet grows by way of your inner <BR>
connectivity with one another, your sharing, your service ministry.<BR>
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You may advance independently and progress personally spiritually and become <BR>
more prepared to function as an ambassador of spirit on Urantia, but until <BR>
you are active in, among and with your fellows, this ability will be merely <BR>
potential. I therefore ask you to be discerning to know when the hour has <BR>
come, to know when you must go to the hills to be with your Father and when <BR>
you must ride into town on the back of a donkey.<BR>
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Q: I will prepare myself and begin to look for donkeys. Thank you my <BR>
Father/brother of great wisdom. <BR>
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Elyon: I express my gratitude for your attention. I honor your sincere <BR>
hearts and I respect the diligence of your minds in the pursuit of truth. <BR>
It is the reality of the goodness of your soul that expresses the beauty of <BR>
God through you and I will let us depart with one final thought, to look to <BR>
the resident Lord, to He within who knows you and is you. It is only your <BR>
giving and becoming that completes the union. In this state all things are <BR>
possible. Thank you, farewell.<BR>
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