2004-09-23. Be Beacons of Light To Those Who Explore
Lightline #31
Topic: Be Beacons of Light To Those Who Explore
Group: Lightline TeaM
Teacher: Machiventa
TR: Mark Rogers
Opening
Prayer: Divine parents, we cherish this opportunity to get closer to you in this manner. We welcome you into our hearts and into our lives and into this circle that we form, into this circuit that we embrace now. We ask that you come closer to us as we come closer to you. We recognize that you send your emissaries of light to be with us and guide us and we would welcome at this time to hear their words and offer you our sincerest thanks that this happens in this manner, in this fashion, through our faith even now. Thank you.
Machiventa: Greetings to this assembled classroom. This is your supervisor Machiventa. I welcome this opportunity to embrace this circuit with you at this time and whenever you are willing to make this connection with us, for as we have stated before, in the final analysis it is you that make this connection real. It is your gesture of faith towards us that allows this circuit to exist.
Therefore do I honor each of you who arrives at this platform with willing and open hearts to hear what words of comfort and instruction you may hear and take to heart. I have had the pleasure of addressing a great many students eager to learn of the spiritual ways and I now address a crowd which is equal to any I have had the honor and privilege of working with before.
Lesson
Indeed you step forward bravely and sincerely and embrace my words and the words of others with an open heart and a spiritually receptive capacity. It is a great pleasure to provide words of guidance and comfort to those who are eager to hear such teachings, and as we proceed together in this classroom, we become friendly with each other to the point of greater acceptance and deeper understanding.
I recognize that although this process has been going on for quite some time for some of you, it still remains somewhat mysterious and causes some apprehension for those who lay their faith on the line, as it were, but you have each one proven to yourselves the reality of that which we undertake and the lasting effects of the lessons that we grapple with need help to strengthen these faith muscles and the next time you are called to act it becomes easier.
This is the pattern that we have to work with, the slow and sure building of your comfort zones around entering the spiritual arena. As you grow more comfortable and are able to enter further each time into this spiritual arena, you will at times gaze back over your shoulder and perceive the distance you have traveled to be where you are now. As well you will gaze around at your fellows and realize that there is some distance between you who have exercised your faith muscles and become strong, and those who have not yet had the courage to pull back the veil and enter into the spiritual arena.
It is not as though they do not desire to explore this unknown realm, but rather they are entirely unfamiliar with the door that must be located and their actions that must be taken in order to bring them to the door, then through the door. This is where each of us can help. Those of us who are familiar with the ways of spirit and the comfort and peace that this spiritual presence brings, are empowered to act as beacons of light to those who would explore these uncharted realms.
It befalls to those who know, to instruct those who desire to know. Thus I am here now with you. Thus you may act as guides to those who desire to know what you know. To have a certainty of spirit that you now enjoy. In order to be effective ministers of this spiritual realm it is necessary to take on the very traits and characteristics of that you would reflect. Therefore it is required of those hardy spiritual soldiers that they become the manifestation of that which they desire to reflect to others.
It is not adequate to simply know of spiritual presence, to speak about spiritual truths, or to instruct others in the superficial principles of spirit, rather must you become these principles, and in so doing you will the more completely manifest these very principals to those around you who desire to find them. It is not necessary that you to withdraw from all human and material activities in order to accomplish this, no, rather you overlay the spiritual principles that you have come to know onto your everyday life affairs and bring spiritual content into every act that the human engages in.
Your Master, our Master Michael, was indeed a Master at manifesting the very principles he spoke of and it was rightly declared of him that he taught as much by doing as by preaching the gospel, I submit even more. It can be discussed and talked and preached about, but in the final analysis, actions speak so much louder than words that attention must be paid to our actions as we proceed through this life.
One common complaint that the masses of people have about supposedly religious individuals in this realm, is that they speak on Sundays a good game and talk lofty ideals, and then depart from these lofty principals and ideals in their actions throughout the week and with others. May we all pray that we do not succumb to such easy temptation as to depart from that which we hold as a spiritual ideal, when we are required to act in an entirely physical capacity.
It is our challenge, it is our opportunity to bring into every human act that we are involved in, an element of spirit, an overtone of grace that we may portray higher ideals and supreme values, even as we are required to earn our sustenance or be in service to another.
The events of this world are rapidly changing, and as this occurs so arise the opportunities for growth and spiritual injection into the balance. Be keenly aware and alert as opportunities arise in your lives, in your circumstances, for you to be the voice of spirit, the presence of love in your life circumstances. It is unimportant, the words you may use. It is the posture that you maintain that will be of impact in this scenario. Therefore should we all who are blessed with such in depth awareness of spirit, its purpose and function and attitude, that we bring these characteristics all the way down into the material realm even into the day to day affairs of our lives as we live them.
There is no reason to wait for a better time or opportunity. It is up to us to act. There is a saying in your theatrical world…” there are no small parts…only small actors”. Likewise is your scenario even now…there are no small opportunities…only individuals too small to accept them, therefore seek these opportunities that will be presented to you in the course of your everyday life. When you perceive that one arises before you, seize the moment. Turn the tables and inject spirit content into your casual affairs. You will be surprised at the results.
This is not a commandment. This is a gift, an opportunity laid before your feet. If you do not accept this opportunity, then it will pass and others will be made available to you. It will take you practice just as it has taken you practice to get to this point to hear my words even now, but you will try again. You will maintain your posture of spirit awareness. You will portray the values you have come to know in the spirit realm and these will transcend your earthly affairs and transform your life patterns into ones of beauty and grace.
It is at once extremely simple and at the same time very far off. You are the ones who bridge the gap. You decide how far you reach, what is the extent of your grasp. Do you pull into you that which you are familiar with and have come to know and make it a part of you, indeed you become a part of it? This is your opportunity. If not now, when? If not this age, perhaps another, but for you, everything is contained here and now.
We will continue to provide you with all the assistance and support that we can from our side of the curtain, but you are the one upon which the light shines and whose face they see in your realm, whose voice they hear, therefore is it your privilege to speak the truths you have come to know, plainly and simply and sincerely and let them have the impact on others that they will but to bolster your courage, but fear not that interjecting spirit is somehow inappropriate.
I tell you the time is now when spirit needs to be present and you are the ones who are in a position to make this so. I may speak to you, and this is a privilege and pleasure I enjoy, but I may not speak to all those who come in contact with you in your daily lives, that is left to you. It is part of this grand experiment that we are involved in and each one of you has chosen to become players in this environment and it is upon your shoulders that this experiment rests.
I have given numerous pep talks like this to various groups throughout your history and I am pleased to give it to you this day that you may be enthused and energized to be about this business of the Father, to be active soldiers on the field, active players on the stage. It is a pleasure I hold dear to be involved with you in this time, and I look forward to the grand accomplishments I foresee us making as we fulfill the desire of Michael whose plan we implement. In its very implementation we cannot fail if we proceed with our hearts so oriented as to be willing to do his will.
I thank you all for the parts you play individually and collectively as a group. I applaud this circuit that you form and offer my commitment to work with you through it and any other way we may devise to make this contact. That is the extent of my comments tonight and would entertain suggestions or questions should there be any.
Dialogue
Q: These 3,000 or so lessons on the teaching mission archives…are they similar to the teachings you imparted to the students at your school in Salem and how do they differ?
Machiventa: The universal principles that I refer to remain the same universe principles throughout what may appear to you to be a long duration of time but in fact is a short episode of history and these universal principles have been a part of the teaching of spiritual students since first students were able to formulate the questions. What does change in the curriculum or program that is introduced to a given set of students in a given time is largely dictated by the capacity of those students, therefore some materials are very similar and some are quite different as different individuals or groups would be more susceptible to understanding certain truths than others, even perhaps eager to understand some truths over others.
There are cultural barriers that we face. There are barriers of race and religious stereotypes that we grapple with and to address how your lessons may differ from the lessons of others, we attempt to personalize the lessons given to the audience that is in reception of these lessons, that is to say, speak in terms that the audience would readily recognize and accept. As you know in your historical text, there were many erroneous ideas even of the one God which I portrayed when I walked on your world.
It was a great feat of understanding to simply gather the many varied beliefs under one umbrella of one single deity entity, that the Father, and in those times, that was a monumental accomplishment. I had to be satisfied with the limited scope of that accomplishment when I was on the earth. As you can imagine, it seemed to fall short of the many expanded concepts and universal principles that were available, but the people in that time were unable and did not have the capacity to appreciate any more than we were able to portray at that time which was indeed very limited.
Then when our beloved Creator manifested his walk on the earth, he was able to go several steps deeper and further than was I when I was there and now you come into existence having the luxury of building your concept frame on the foundation that I built first, then Michael, then your Urantia book text, and now you have the benefit of a great scaffolding that has been built for you. Now from your vantage point, you look out and wonder why do not more individuals understand the things that you understand. Why don’t more people know what you know.
But I submit to you that we have built a foundation and a platform upon which you stand and observe that around you and it is to your credit that you stand atop these works that we have provided but mistake not that there are a great many varied levels of understanding, tolerance, and approach among all your brothers and sisters and to some they are not even so far removed as to understand that there is but one God. Does this answer your question?
Q: Thank you for being so comprehensive in your elaboration.
Q: Thank you for your motivational talk. Given these times we humans get more curious about what would happen next and I understand you might not tell us what is happening but can you give us any new information on the Magisterial mission.
Machiventa: My friend, the Magisterial mission is in the making. As it were, history has not been written about what is about to happen. I cannot say with any certainty that any specific direction or plan or action is impending, but I can say with absolute certainty that with the injection of this Magisterial mission, the potential for great change is upon us and my attempt to motivate you spiritual souls to action speaks to the fact that this mission as part of its component, has an element of co-creation within it. It has been so ordained that the fruition of this mission will come about through activation of all available spiritual components, that is the activation all the way down the chain of command to become partners and work hand in hand, co-creating this next phase of our reality.
It is not a mandate from on high which dictate that things will be thus and such and therefore they will be. This is a mandate in which ideals and principles and values will be present and will become manifested through the reaching out into all the fingers, as it were, of the spiritually competent. These fingers of which we all are, are empowered from on high in this co-creative activation of spirit principles. Therefore, does it require of each of us that we manifest this presence, that we become a finger in this “hand of Michael” on this world.
It is not that we are mandated to be about a given task, it is that we are empowered with the opportunity to create a world in which spirit may reign. This is our privilege in these times, to be this spark, to be this voice, to be this hand, that we become willing partners in this grand unfoldment and provide that which is required to make what is an ideal into reality, make what is a principle into a way of life. In that sense, we each one are powerful creators. We have the potential in us and through us to be activated by spirit, to be charged by values, and to make real in the material world, that which we now only think of as an ideal or as a spiritual reality.
In this way does the responsibility fall all the way down to us, to you, that we may accept this charge, that we may have the courage to speak the words, to take the action, to be the bridge that allows spirit to flow out to the largest realms, out even to our world. There is a great spiritual pressure, a great spiritual charge on the other side of the curtain. It is as the big black cloud that gathers before the lightning storm. There is great energy and activity involved in this spiritual cloud. We now need to be individual grounding rods that this lightning may strike and may pass onto our earth, onto our world, a new and greater reality.
That is what I will say about this Magisterial mission. Do not look without for great and grandiose things to occur, rather look each one to themselves to be the grounding rod for this great and grand thing to touch, to be a part of, to energize. That is the role we play at this time. It is not given us to know the role of the Magisterial Son himself or his assistants, except that we are his assistants. We must assume that posture. We must maintain that role as this time is upon us. Is this helpful?
Q: Indeed, thank you so much.
Q: Is this Michael’s idea Machiventa or is it coming from upstairs?
Machiventa: This plan that we are undergoing, is in fact Michael’s mandate, if you will, in that as his mandate, this carries with it a certain guarantee of success. It is with the blessing and approval of the Father, certainly, but it is an act of creation once again from our Creator, which empowers us to become co-creators, which in turn empowers all of his children and his planet of bestowal. This that we are engaged in, very much is pleasing in the sight of Michael, that we are doing this course is greatly approved of by all the forces on high and therefore do we have vast amounts of resources allocated to our efforts.
If you only knew. I can encourage you and offer words of comfort, but if you only were aware of the great clouds that gather on the horizon and are ready to have a discharge of spirit onto this realm, you would realize that we are statically charged and simply awaiting the right moment.
Q: It would be wonderful I’ll tell you, because with the war going on and the conditions of this planet and the spiritual darkness that surrounds it in so many places, it would be such a welcome sight. I love the idea of being a lightning rod, just to keep grounded , just to feel the jolt, of that kind of spiritual power and energy, it is very exciting.
Machiventa: I will also offer you these words, that, as you have expressed, there are large storm clouds brewing in your realm as well. There is great darkness that must be dispelled upon this world, and that there will arise many things which seem to be incongruous with these statements of spiritual profession that I have just made, but I will remind you, that when you observe these matters of materialism gone awry, you must retreat to the realm of spirit wherein you and we all are unassailable. When you become overwhelmed with all that is going on without, you must retreat and recharge into the realm within wherein you may contact the greater spiritual realities and the higher spiritual values.
This will provide you the strength that you need to endure through what you must witness as things material may seem to fall apart. Michael said “to the true believer, what does it matter if all earthly things fail.” He was referring to the security and certainty of spirit and it is very true that once you are entirely secure and certain in your spiritual realm, you are not nearly so traumatized or impacted by events material. Do what you can while you are in the material form you are in. Be of the highest service to Michael that you can be in the capacity that you are now.
Be the steadfast lightning rod into your world. If that is the measure of your capacity and your abilities, be the best one there is. Leave the big picture up to the Magisterial Son and Michael. They will handle the big picture. It is for us to be concerned with our everyday affairs and the impact that we may have in this life while knowing of the higher values in the next.
Q: I sure do love you Machiventa.
Machiventa: My love to you as well, my dear one.
[ed. note. There was a personal question and answer which is omitted…however a follow-up comment of general interest is included]
Machiventa: . …I will also throw one more bit for you to savor and that is likewise does all of humanity have a dormant spiritual gene which the energy of spirit now pervading this planet may actualize in this life, in this time, so that when one looks around and wonders what will cause great, great, changes to be about on this world, I say to you, this is the largest single factor, this dormant gene that all of Michael’s children have, to hear his voice as the Shepherd and respond. This gene will be activated when the spiritual pressure to this world reaches a significant level, therefore making this leap of spiritual faith an inevitable reality on this world.
Closing
I will at this time let this T/R go and will look forward to our next encounter. Wherever and whenever the conditions are favorable you can count on my presence in observance or in capacity as instructor, either way it is always a pleasure to me. Thank you all for attending today and hearing my words. Farewell.
