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Teachers: Elyon, Aaron, Lester

 

 

 

 

 

 

* Elyon (Mark TR): I greet you. This is your guide and your companion Elyon. I refer to myself as your guide in this discussion this morning to make reference to the journey you have embarked upon.

Having decided to traverse this unknown distance before you, you have been engaged for some time now in provisioning yourself with the stocks and supplies you deem you will need for this everlasting journey before you. You have been checking your stores and supplies of the essentials you feel you need before you can feel as though you have pushed your craft off and are under your own power. You have tallied your stores of faith. You have added to your accumulation of courage. You have reevaluated your checklist and determined that priorities have shifted after learning more about the journey before you and gone back to make new checklists of essentials that are deemed important to have with you on this journey. This is the period we have been engaged in of stock piling your lesson plans, your maps and itineraries as you understand them at any given point, later to be reexamined and reevaluated for their worthiness to be with you on this journey. Many conditions that you saw as obstacles or signs of preparedness have been overcome, have been negotiated thoughtfully so as to no longer be impediments to you. The storehouse of wisdom, patience, and courage has been well added to so as to provide you the necessary sustenance along your journey.

Having decided to traverse this unknown distance before you, you have been engaged for some time now in provisioning yourself with the stocks and supplies you deem you will need for this everlasting journey before you. You have been checking your stores and supplies of the essentials you feel you need before you can feel as though you have pushed your craft off and are under your own power. You have tallied your stores of faith. You have added to your accumulation of courage. You have reevaluated your checklist and determined that priorities have shifted after learning more about the journey before you and gone back to make new checklists of essentials that are deemed important to have with you on this journey. This is the period we have been engaged in of stock piling your lesson plans, your maps and itineraries as you understand them at any given point, later to be reexamined and reevaluated for their worthiness to be with you on this journey. Many conditions that you saw as obstacles or signs of preparedness have been overcome, have been negotiated thoughtfully so as to no longer be impediments to you. The storehouse of wisdom, patience, and courage has been well added to so as to provide you the necessary sustenance along your journey.

I thank you for hearing my words today and remain in attendance. There are others who would activate this opportunity to speak with you.

I thank you for hearing my words today and remain in attendance. There are others who would activate this opportunity to speak with you.

* Aaron (Jonathan): Hello, this is Aaron. It is good to be with you again in person. Though the separation of sensibility keeps us from direct perception, I am as present here as you each are in this room. I am going to speak about liberation, or perhaps freedom of the soul.

Aaron (Jonathan): Hello, this is Aaron. It is good to be with you again in person. Though the separation of sensibility keeps us from direct perception, I am as present here as you each are in this room. I am going to speak about liberation, or perhaps freedom of the soul.

Naturally the word “liberation” implies that there is some confinement from which you seek release. So the word is not truly adequate to describe the unfoldment of soul, for your soul is not now nor has been imprisoned. Elyon spoke of crafting your vessel and making the effort to set your ship afloat upon the seas. When you exercised your ability to choose truth over error another miracle of great beauty occurred in the universe, and that was the initiation and unfolding of the growth of your soul. This effort on your part created the opportunity for the Divine Spirit to indwell you and establish the condition wherein you as a human being could rise above the mere functions of physical life.

Naturally the word “liberation” implies that there is some confinement from which you seek release. So the word is not truly adequate to describe the unfoldment of soul, for your soul is not now nor has been imprisoned. Elyon spoke of crafting your vessel and making the effort to set your ship afloat upon the seas. When you exercised your ability to choose truth over error another miracle of great beauty occurred in the universe, and that was the initiation and unfolding of the growth of your soul. This effort on your part created the opportunity for the Divine Spirit to indwell you and establish the condition wherein you as a human being could rise above the mere functions of physical life.

I too remain with you. Thank you for receiving me today.

I too remain with you. Thank you for receiving me today.

* Lester: Greetings to you, this is Lester. How are you today? I have an observation:

Lester: Greetings to you, this is Lester. How are you today? I have an observation:

As one who stands often on the sidelines and watches your masterful instructors guide you and encourage you each week, I must say, as they have often expressed their humility by stating that they help you as you choose your direction, that this is the case. Let us use the idea that they are as a detective. A detective has a course of action that is being pursued to uncover truth, to find and capture a desired end. You all are like the hound dogs, for your energy, your vigorous tug at the leashes of friendship that are between you and your instructors, is what drives the whole pack forward. Your anxious scouting, your enthusiastic push forward, propels your teachers forward in their plans and in their purposes. While it may seem that you are merely the mutts, it is not the case, for as any who has owned a pet knows, it is a loving relationship. You are truly the driving force; you are the ones who uncover the trail, find the scent. I am happy to be part of your pursuit.

As one who stands often on the sidelines and watches your masterful instructors guide you and encourage you each week, I must say, as they have often expressed their humility by stating that they help you as you choose your direction, that this is the case. Let us use the idea that they are as a detective. A detective has a course of action that is being pursued to uncover truth, to find and capture a desired end. You all are like the hound dogs, for your energy, your vigorous tug at the leashes of friendship that are between you and your instructors, is what drives the whole pack forward. Your anxious scouting, your enthusiastic push forward, propels your teachers forward in their plans and in their purposes. While it may seem that you are merely the mutts, it is not the case, for as any who has owned a pet knows, it is a loving relationship. You are truly the driving force; you are the ones who uncover the trail, find the scent. I am happy to be part of your pursuit.

Mark: Thank you, teachers, for training us to identify the scents of spirit, that we may pursue them with vigor and intensity. Without this patient counseling we might overlook these scents. I am grateful.

Mark: Thank you, teachers, for training us to identify the scents of spirit, that we may pursue them with vigor and intensity. Without this patient counseling we might overlook these scents. I am grateful.

* Elyon (Jonathan): Greetings, this is Elyon again. I would open the floor to questions if you have any, and I would like to add to this imagery of Lester.

Elyon (Jonathan): Greetings, this is Elyon again. I would open the floor to questions if you have any, and I would like to add to this imagery of Lester.

You each have been given a glimpse of the goal through the reading of your Urantia text. Now you are so anxious to dive right into living and establishing the perfection decreed by Father on Paradise that it is very difficult to hold you in check that we may discern the clues upon the way. I know that at times you are frustrated when you feel you do not make the progress as you wish you could. However, I must say from my perspective you are moving along quite rapidly. There are other planets whereon the human beings are far less desirous of pursuing the perspectives and attaining the levels of personality that you seek. I will continue evermore to encourage you to do so.

You each have been given a glimpse of the goal through the reading of your Urantia text. Now you are so anxious to dive right into living and establishing the perfection decreed by Father on Paradise that it is very difficult to hold you in check that we may discern the clues upon the way. I know that at times you are frustrated when you feel you do not make the progress as you wish you could. However, I must say from my perspective you are moving along quite rapidly. There are other planets whereon the human beings are far less desirous of pursuing the perspectives and attaining the levels of personality that you seek. I will continue evermore to encourage you to do so.

Do you have comments or questions?

Do you have comments or questions?

 

Barbara: You are on the road ahead of us and floating beside us to help. You mentioned hazards ahead. What can you tell us of them?

Barbara: You are on the road ahead of us and floating beside us to help. You mentioned hazards ahead. What can you tell us of them?

Barbara: Why would you bring up devils and demons?

Barbara: Why would you bring up devils and demons?

* Elyon: As an illustration of an external force historically viewed as more powerful than oneself and able to thwart your efforts.

Elyon: As an illustration of an external force historically viewed as more powerful than oneself and able to thwart your efforts.

Harold: Your analogies all have an element of limitation. Boats, leashes, the sides of the river. Is the limitation necessary to progress and will eventually be eliminated? Or is it something we will continue to control, or learn to control?

Harold: Your analogies all have an element of limitation. Boats, leashes, the sides of the river. Is the limitation necessary to progress and will eventually be eliminated? Or is it something we will continue to control, or learn to control?

* Elyon: These are conditions that are defined by your order of being; you are ascending children of God and therefore have channels wherein you rise to Paradise. It is true though that these are not confinements that are inflexible. As you paint upon a canvas your creativity is unlimited. What you do within the framework of that canvas has no limitation other than the size of that blank board. To draw beyond the boundaries into space would not serve to reveal the image within your mind. You are however capable of developing larger canvases. This is also part of your ascending experience. At every stage of your ascent, however, you have a canvas that is only so large within which you may create. I hope this serves to show the value of limitations and your ability to break free as you grow.

Elyon: These are conditions that are defined by your order of being; you are ascending children of God and therefore have channels wherein you rise to Paradise. It is true though that these are not confinements that are inflexible. As you paint upon a canvas your creativity is unlimited. What you do within the framework of that canvas has no limitation other than the size of that blank board. To draw beyond the boundaries into space would not serve to reveal the image within your mind. You are however capable of developing larger canvases. This is also part of your ascending experience. At every stage of your ascent, however, you have a canvas that is only so large within which you may create. I hope this serves to show the value of limitations and your ability to break free as you grow.

Harold: My experience is that limitations are what initiate creativity.

Harold: My experience is that limitations are what initiate creativity.

* Elyon: I agree. “Limitations” may be renamed “definitions”. Without definition there are no discreet demarcations between items. A paintbrush is not the paint, is not the canvas. Each one, limited on its own, drawn together unleashes creativity.

Elyon: I agree. “Limitations” may be renamed “definitions”. Without definition there are no discreet demarcations between items. A paintbrush is not the paint, is not the canvas. Each one, limited on its own, drawn together unleashes creativity.

Aaron spoke of fettered freedom. Unfettered freedom would not stimulate that creativity. It would be just as if all the dogs in the pack were off their leashes and ran every which way.

Aaron spoke of fettered freedom. Unfettered freedom would not stimulate that creativity. It would be just as if all the dogs in the pack were off their leashes and ran every which way.

Harold: The rapids are where the water is moving most quickly. Conflict is what propels us more quickly down the river.

Harold: The rapids are where the water is moving most quickly. Conflict is what propels us more quickly down the river.

* Elyon: You are quite perceptive. This is true. While it is apparently a struggle to encounter conflict as it is to negotiate a rapid, it is in the end far more thrilling than long stretches of quiet water where you must still make the effort but make the effort unaided, unassisted, by the conditions around you. Those are times to rest. But to journey forward you must apply yourself even more rigorously than during the times when the rapids appear to be tossing you about.

Elyon: You are quite perceptive. This is true. While it is apparently a struggle to encounter conflict as it is to negotiate a rapid, it is in the end far more thrilling than long stretches of quiet water where you must still make the effort but make the effort unaided, unassisted, by the conditions around you. Those are times to rest. But to journey forward you must apply yourself even more rigorously than during the times when the rapids appear to be tossing you about.

 

As I have expressed many times, I love you all, I cherish our friendship, and I too put you in your prayer circle for your advancement, for your happiness. I will now take my leave.

As I have expressed many times, I love you all, I cherish our friendship, and I too put you in your prayer circle for your advancement, for your happiness. I will now take my leave.