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* Elyon (Jonathan TR): Friends, to you I extend my greetings. I am Elyon. I relish these opportunities to commingle in mind and heart, to ponder the meanings derived from conversation, and to realize new insight that graces one another by your sharing and openness.

It is inherent in personality makeup to desire to receive guidance and support from one another. This allows individuals extra energies to pursue the unknown, to experience a greater sphere of functioning that is otherwise unattainable in isolation. Teamwork provides such an arena wherein talents are overlaid one with another's to develop a progression of spiritual growth. The mass of the accumulation of the contributions of personalities creates a momentum that will draw one along who is struggling, who has doubts, who may feel inadequate to the task of ascension. It infuses energy into each within this mass, keeping forward movement when all of one's ongoing activities tend to distract from reaching ever higher.

It is inherent in personality makeup to desire to receive guidance and support from one another. This allows individuals extra energies to pursue the unknown, to experience a greater sphere of functioning that is otherwise unattainable in isolation. Teamwork provides such an arena wherein talents are overlaid one with another's to develop a progression of spiritual growth. The mass of the accumulation of the contributions of personalities creates a momentum that will draw one along who is struggling, who has doubts, who may feel inadequate to the task of ascension. It infuses energy into each within this mass, keeping forward movement when all of one's ongoing activities tend to distract from reaching ever higher.

As an ascending mortal as yourselves, I have always functioned with personalities within my range of contactability. Now at my level of ascent I am afforded the opportunity to make contact beyond my ranges of sensibility. I too have some degree of what you might call blindness to our association as you feel toward myself. I cannot describe the energy differential. You will have to undergo the ascent before you comprehend that distinction. It does not distance us in love; it does not weaken the truth we experience, but it does alter describe- ability. It does hinder the ease of relate-ability. There is a way out of the difficulty in the differential of ascending beings to inter-associate on different levels of universe standing, and that is, I must say, stillness, for it is through this experience that each one of you directly contacts the source in each one of us. Then, even with the handicaps of time and space, we sense our brotherhood and through that association understand each other soulfully, even if we cannot comprehend each other mentally.

As an ascending mortal as yourselves, I have always functioned with personalities within my range of contactability. Now at my level of ascent I am afforded the opportunity to make contact beyond my ranges of sensibility. I too have some degree of what you might call blindness to our association as you feel toward myself. I cannot describe the energy differential. You will have to undergo the ascent before you comprehend that distinction. It does not distance us in love; it does not weaken the truth we experience, but it does alter describe- ability. It does hinder the ease of relate-ability. There is a way out of the difficulty in the differential of ascending beings to inter-associate on different levels of universe standing, and that is, I must say, stillness, for it is through this experience that each one of you directly contacts the source in each one of us. Then, even with the handicaps of time and space, we sense our brotherhood and through that association understand each other soulfully, even if we cannot comprehend each other mentally.

Again I thank you for your receptivity to my words. Mark: We suffer in this realm from a planetary lack of authority. We generally don't accept authority to guide us as a people. We desire to confer this authority onto personalities like yourselves on the other side of the veil to facilitate our understanding. We become more spiritized by our relationship with you, and we are destined to understand your lessons. Perhaps authority will shift to us if we have sufficiently grown spiritually. Last week the question came up of where leadership comes from. At what point do we as students become authorities or leaders in this teaching program?

Again I thank you for your receptivity to my words.  

Mark: We suffer in this realm from a planetary lack of authority. We generally don't accept authority to guide us as a people. We desire to confer this authority onto personalities like yourselves on the other side of the veil to facilitate our understanding. We become more spiritized by our relationship with you, and we are destined to understand your lessons. Perhaps authority will shift to us if we have sufficiently grown spiritually. Last week the question came up of where leadership comes from. At what point do we as students become authorities or leaders in this teaching program?

* Elyon: I will firstly remind you of a prior lesson on authority wherein it was given to you that that word also contains your word "author", and it creates the perspective true authority is the creative initialization of an individual toward a particular program or activity or goal. I will use the example of a school playground.

Elyon: I will firstly remind you of a prior lesson on authority wherein it was given to you that that word also contains your word "author", and it creates the perspective true authority is the creative initialization of an individual toward a particular program or activity or goal. I will use the example of a school playground.

Imagine myself as the playground monitor and you all as the many upon the playground seeking activities to undertake. I come along to you and suggest the various games you may play together in teams. I point out various playground apparatus that you may engage yourself with in order to act out these games. Yet who must undertake the execution of these activities? It is not myself, the playground monitor. It is each of you who develop your teams, who establish your sets of rules. It is as you have said, the authority lies with each of you to initiate and to undertake those endeavors which will result in uplifting this world. As you continue to develop your projects, to pursue your dreams, you can return to teachers like myself, the playground monitors, for arbitration, for clarification on how to engage yourselves. Myself and my teaching associates are not the children on the playground; we are the monitors. While we may undertake preparatory activities such as mowing the field, preparing the apparatus, sweeping the tarmac, we are not the ones who play the games -- and I speak of games positively.

Imagine myself as the playground monitor and you all as the many upon the playground seeking activities to undertake. I come along to you and suggest the various games you may play together in teams. I point out various playground apparatus that you may engage yourself with in order to act out these games. Yet who must undertake the execution of these activities? It is not myself, the playground monitor. It is each of you who develop your teams, who establish your sets of rules. It is as you have said, the authority lies with each of you to initiate and to undertake those endeavors which will result in uplifting this world. As you continue to develop your projects, to pursue your dreams, you can return to teachers like myself, the playground monitors, for arbitration, for clarification on how to engage yourselves. Myself and my teaching associates are not the children on the playground; we are the monitors. While we may undertake preparatory activities such as mowing the field, preparing the apparatus, sweeping the tarmac, we are not the ones who play the games -- and I speak of games positively.

I hope this has contributed to your observation. Mark: Indeed. As kids fall to arguing over whose game to play, so we must live this life arguing. Perhaps the bright spot is that individuals are allowed to express. If this expression is spiritualized like Michael's expression then it has a drawing force, a spiritual authority, to be a positive influence on the raucous playground of life.

I hope this has contributed to your observation. Mark: Indeed. As kids fall to arguing over whose game to play, so we must live this life arguing. Perhaps the bright spot is that individuals are allowed to express. If this expression is spiritualized like Michael's expression then it has a drawing force, a spiritual authority, to be a positive influence on the raucous playground of life.

* Elyon: Yes. To further develop this playground metaphor, as you have indicated, while many on the playground argue over how the games are to be played, sight is lost of all that went into creating the playground to begin with, of all that goes into maintenance, the administration and function, all the support. This is where your high planetary administrators and system administrators come in. It is hoped that as this world develops that the overall perspective will adjust to realize this background support. Then the fighting over how the games ought to be played will diminish as each one realizes that contribution positively to the engagement in these activities brings to fruition all the established functions, all the preexisting conditions, for an empty playground is useless, but a full playground in harmony is the flowering of Light and Life.

Elyon: Yes. To further develop this playground metaphor, as you have indicated, while many on the playground argue over how the games are to be played, sight is lost of all that went into creating the playground to begin with, of all that goes into maintenance, the administration and function, all the support. This is where your high planetary administrators and system administrators come in. It is hoped that as this world develops that the overall perspective will adjust to realize this background support. Then the fighting over how the games ought to be played will diminish as each one realizes that contribution positively to the engagement in these activities brings to fruition all the established functions, all the preexisting conditions, for an empty playground is useless, but a full playground in harmony is the flowering of Light and Life.

Tom: In our text it says that between two individuals leadership is provided. Is that genetic endowment or a cultivated sensitivity to spiritual value that provides this leadership disparity?

Tom: In our text it says that between two individuals leadership is provided. Is that genetic endowment or a cultivated sensitivity to spiritual value that provides this leadership disparity?

* Elyon: Leadership will emerge given a differential between individuals. It is a maturity function both in mental knowledge and experience and spiritual awareness and experience. Genetic leadership is not, strictly speaking, leadership or rather function based on ability. True leaders inspire followers to become as the leader. A misguided leader suppresses to maintain followers. In the realm of physical functioning such a constraint, while seeming to be leadership, is merely a functional control.

Elyon: Leadership will emerge given a differential between individuals. It is a maturity function both in mental knowledge and experience and spiritual awareness and experience. Genetic leadership is not, strictly speaking, leadership or rather function based on ability. True leaders inspire followers to become as the leader. A misguided leader suppresses to maintain followers. In the realm of physical functioning such a constraint, while seeming to be leadership, is merely a functional control.

Leadership spiritually has time and place and will shift depending on differential.

Leadership spiritually has time and place and will shift depending on differential.

Mark: Thank you. We appreciate the role you play, providing that verification you spoke of.

Mark: Thank you. We appreciate the role you play, providing that verification you spoke of.

* Elyon: You are welcome. I will leave with one more small metaphor.

Elyon: You are welcome. I will leave with one more small metaphor.

You have developed a media storage device, your tapes, and you speak of the beginning of your tapes as "the leader". Yet you fully know that that leader is not to be recorded on, that what is important follows the leader, is subsequent to leadership. Therefore, as you function as leaders remember what is important, what transpires following leadership, is the true activity. I may be your leader, but you are the content of the tape. You make the sound. You are what is sought after to be experienced by others. Thank you.

You have developed a media storage device, your tapes, and you speak of the beginning of your tapes as "the leader". Yet you fully know that that leader is not to be recorded on, that what is important follows the leader, is subsequent to leadership. Therefore, as you function as leaders remember what is important, what transpires following leadership, is the true activity. I may be your leader, but you are the content of the tape. You make the sound. You are what is sought after to be experienced by others. Thank you.

Evelyn: I want to comment on your lesson on pressure and organizing importance, being sensitive that others are doing that, organizing the pressures in their lives. One way to do that is by just listening to someone sharing their issues. In the course of their making statements they often discover for themselves what is more important. When they relate to someone else, they have an opportunity to sort out the importance levels.

Evelyn: I want to comment on your lesson on pressure and organizing importance, being sensitive that others are doing that, organizing the pressures in their lives. One way to do that is by just listening to someone sharing their issues. In the course of their making statements they often discover for themselves what is more important. When they relate to someone else, they have an opportunity to sort out the importance levels.

* Elyon: This is extremely true, for the presence of the divine Monitor within is so close to the personality that, as that personality expresses, the divine Presence is the first to respond and to offer insight to aid in realization long before that expression through word reaches the ears of a fellow. If you simply sit receptively you grant the opportunity for the divine Monitor to move within the inner places of the one who is seeking to organize importance. Thank you for your comment.

Elyon: This is extremely true, for the presence of the divine Monitor within is so close to the personality that, as that personality expresses, the divine Presence is the first to respond and to offer insight to aid in realization long before that expression through word reaches the ears of a fellow. If you simply sit receptively you grant the opportunity for the divine Monitor to move within the inner places of the one who is seeking to organize importance. Thank you for your comment.

Tom: Your illustration of a leader on a tape, was that similar to our discussion about principle before personality?

Tom: Your illustration of a leader on a tape, was that similar to our discussion about principle before personality?

* Elyon: I would amend that metaphor to accommodate your question by stating that it is the type of tape you use that is principle. It is what you do with the tape that is personality. All principles create the format wherein personalities make the music.

Elyon: I would amend that metaphor to accommodate your question by stating that it is the type of tape you use that is principle. It is what you do with the tape that is personality. All principles create the format wherein personalities make the music.

I hope this answers your question.

I hope this answers your question.

Tom: Yes, thank you. Personality is still number one, right?

Tom: Yes, thank you. Personality is still number one, right?

* Elyon: Personality develops uniqueness. Principle is given equally to all as would be a box of blank tapes, constrained by parameters that define the principle. Each of you make each tape unique in the manner in which you play out the principles through your personalities. The two go hand in hand.

Elyon: Personality develops uniqueness. Principle is given equally to all as would be a box of blank tapes, constrained by parameters that define the principle. Each of you make each tape unique in the manner in which you play out the principles through your personalities. The two go hand in hand.

I withdraw, thank you.