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Coeur d'Alene Teaching Mission
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Teachers: Elyon, Malvantra, Unidentified
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Topics:
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Spiritual Transformation,
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Closeness of Michael and Mother Spirit,
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Spiritual Names
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November 15, 1998
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===Topic: ''Spiritual Names We Give''===
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===Group: [[N. Idaho TeaM]]===
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==Facilitators==
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===Teacher: [[Elyon]], [[Malvantra]]===
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===TR: [[Jonathan]]===
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==Session==
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===Opening===
 
Elyon (Jonathan TR): This is your pal Elyon. Always am I happy to be with you and share with you. I have some words concerning your involvement with this mission and the effects you have upon others.
 
Elyon (Jonathan TR): This is your pal Elyon. Always am I happy to be with you and share with you. I have some words concerning your involvement with this mission and the effects you have upon others.
 
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===Lesson===
 
You all aspire to serve the Father, seeking in various ways methods whereby you can be a minister of light. The master cautioned his apostles regarding the outward show of the glory of the kingdom, that it is not the same as the inward transformation of the individual before its Maker, that the external demonstration of the family of God on earth and in the workings of the world will become prevalent when the soul of each is transformed and oriented toward the Father. It is almost similar to making the comparison that when you step out into the sun, you can through exposure tan your skin. However, upon withdrawing and over time in shelter this color fades. It is an effect of the outside upon your surface. But the spiritual transformation we all seek may be more closely associated to the ripening of fruit where internally transformation has occurred that has permanently changed the color from its unripe state to its ripe state, and there it will remain. Further shelter from the sun does not reverse its color to its original form. You all are involved in this very process of ripening. Your colors are changing; you are taking on that permanent hue. In the spiritual kingdom we can be assured that our fruit will never rot.
 
You all aspire to serve the Father, seeking in various ways methods whereby you can be a minister of light. The master cautioned his apostles regarding the outward show of the glory of the kingdom, that it is not the same as the inward transformation of the individual before its Maker, that the external demonstration of the family of God on earth and in the workings of the world will become prevalent when the soul of each is transformed and oriented toward the Father. It is almost similar to making the comparison that when you step out into the sun, you can through exposure tan your skin. However, upon withdrawing and over time in shelter this color fades. It is an effect of the outside upon your surface. But the spiritual transformation we all seek may be more closely associated to the ripening of fruit where internally transformation has occurred that has permanently changed the color from its unripe state to its ripe state, and there it will remain. Further shelter from the sun does not reverse its color to its original form. You all are involved in this very process of ripening. Your colors are changing; you are taking on that permanent hue. In the spiritual kingdom we can be assured that our fruit will never rot.
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  With this I would address your question regarding names. (Mark had asked about the significance of "spiritual" names. Are those who don't use them missing some benefit?) Let us draw from another fruit example, the grape. You have been named by your parents at an age when you were without your Thought Adjuster; your soul had yet to begin its development and growth. Even your personality was passive in the freewill sense. Upon the activation of your will and the initialization of the growth of your soul, you have begun to transform your entire personality from a creature of biological life into a citizen of a spiritual universe. When you receive the atonement, the ordination, the fusion of the Father's Fragment into and with your own personal being, it is as the grape which has become so transformed that it is no longer a grape but a raisin. You refer to the dried fruit of the grape as a raisin, a different name. The names we give to you are transitional. They are our appellations of benevolence, our labels of endearment. You are recognized by us as going from a green grape to a red grape, but the name, though indicating the ripening, is not the same as the raisin. It points toward the inevitable reception of your morontia designation.
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With this I would address your question regarding names. (Mark had asked about the significance of "spiritual" names. Are those who don't use them missing some benefit?) Let us draw from another fruit example, the grape. You have been named by your parents at an age when you were without your Thought Adjuster; your soul had yet to begin its development and growth. Even your personality was passive in the freewill sense. Upon the activation of your will and the initialization of the growth of your soul, you have begun to transform your entire personality from a creature of biological life into a citizen of a spiritual universe. When you receive the atonement, the ordination, the fusion of the Father's Fragment into and with your own personal being, it is as the grape which has become so transformed that it is no longer a grape but a raisin. You refer to the dried fruit of the grape as a raisin, a different name. The names we give to you are transitional. They are our appellations of benevolence, our labels of endearment. You are recognized by us as going from a green grape to a red grape, but the name, though indicating the ripening, is not the same as the raisin. It points toward the inevitable reception of your morontia designation.
    
I caution you to not become overly attached or involved in a literal meaning for your name, for, as I said, these names we give come from love, from our feelings toward you. They are not the indication of mental reasoning and conclusion which a meaning to a name tends toward. You are not named after a notable figure; we have never refereed to you by name "junior" or "the third"! And we never have been taken aback by your refusal to use this term for you. For that matter, you could all have in your pockets numerous names or titles that would speak well of who you are becoming.
 
I caution you to not become overly attached or involved in a literal meaning for your name, for, as I said, these names we give come from love, from our feelings toward you. They are not the indication of mental reasoning and conclusion which a meaning to a name tends toward. You are not named after a notable figure; we have never refereed to you by name "junior" or "the third"! And we never have been taken aback by your refusal to use this term for you. For that matter, you could all have in your pockets numerous names or titles that would speak well of who you are becoming.
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I have said about all I think is necessary on this subject, but I am willing to talk with you about this if you have comments or questions on this topic.
 
I have said about all I think is necessary on this subject, but I am willing to talk with you about this if you have comments or questions on this topic.
 
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===Dialogue===
 
Ginnie: What would be one of my names, one of my terms of endearment?
 
Ginnie: What would be one of my names, one of my terms of endearment?
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Tom: I'm getting the light Bubbas.
 
Tom: I'm getting the light Bubbas.
 
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===Closing===
 
Elyon (Jonathan): This is Elyon returning, and I draw your session to a close by encouraging you this week to look toward and recognize your attitude that is implied in a spiritual name. Be not concerned over the actual word itself, but think and act in light of what is implied by any name.
 
Elyon (Jonathan): This is Elyon returning, and I draw your session to a close by encouraging you this week to look toward and recognize your attitude that is implied in a spiritual name. Be not concerned over the actual word itself, but think and act in light of what is implied by any name.
    
Michael, Jesus, Son of God, Son of Man, Master Son, these are all names of phases of his lifelong career, and they implied a significance at the time. This is what I hope you reflect upon for yourselves in the days ahead, and would thoroughly enjoy you to discuss this, the feelings and the implications you experience over these days next week. I take my leave.
 
Michael, Jesus, Son of God, Son of Man, Master Son, these are all names of phases of his lifelong career, and they implied a significance at the time. This is what I hope you reflect upon for yourselves in the days ahead, and would thoroughly enjoy you to discuss this, the feelings and the implications you experience over these days next week. I take my leave.
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