Maturity
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Building your foundation
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive January 11, 2000. Teacher Elyon, Malvantra T/R Mark, Jonathan |
Elyon: You are each engaged in such magnificent foundation construction that you should not be in any way discouraged that you are not given to see your spiritual structure in its completion at this time, but rather apply yourselves diligently to the painstaking work at hand of the details of your solid, secure
foundation.
The rest of your spiritual structure will rely on the work you do at this time, and the attention and effort you apply will make for a secure beginning in this process. It does not serve the overall purpose to hurry through or to take any form of shortcut in the assembly of your foundations, as then they should prove weak and inadequate to the task of supporting your spiritual structure.
Likewise, it is always a driving factor to keep in your mind, as you perceive it, the grandness of the completed structure even if you are not able to visualize the details, as they will become apparent. Nevertheless, you may be exhilarated and driven by the inspiring picture you possess of your structure in its
completed phases. This vision of future greatness is what exacts from you the detailed discipline of insuring the mortar in your foundation be properly applied and the techniques you use be adequately, if not strictly, adhered to.
Maturity is the ability to recognize this sequence of events and the necessary passage of time that work together to complete this vision each of you may have of your spiritual future. Splendid is the design; magnificent is the structure that each of you is carefully constructing and patiently enduring. While it may seem at times as though you are mired in the very details of construction, it is quite necessary to the overall process.
You may at times separate yourself from your own project and look around to see another's project under construction and find it within your heart to offer yourself in service and perhaps help other individuals mix a batch of mortar or tote some stones or simply provide moral supports as they tirelessly build their foundations. As they work on their structures and you work on yours, you may come to realize that you are both engaged in the same process toward the same goal and realize that you are working hand-in-hand, side-by-side but each responsible for your own progress. This is the building of the brotherhood of man, and together this process moves forward as each and every one struggles to place one ideal upon another, one dream upon another, one lofty goal on top of the next, one service opportunity against another. In this way your walls become strong; your foundation becomes complete and ready to bear the weight of your
entire spiritual career.
As with any project you undertake, there may be spells when you separate yourself for a time. This only adds greater appreciation for the project and can renew your motivation and increase your technique so that when you return to your project you are a more skilled laborer with a greater devotion to your project.
As you might assume, this project will not reach its completion until you have reached yours. Therefore, you will understand that it is a continual process and that aspects of your spiritual house may need to be continually remodeled as your appreciation for the divine increases, that you may no longer be satisfied by
certain aspects of your spiritual house once you have gained more wisdom and insight into the overall process. It is not ever considered a mistake to move forward and build a room onto your spiritual house, even if at a later time you decide to change it entirely. These are all steps forward; these are all growth
opportunities. Your spiritual house may, in fact, be redesigned and remodeled numerous times before you are content with its appearance. Nevertheless, every effort made in the construction of your spiritual sphere adds to your overall experience.
Malvantra: Let me follow this presentation today by adding that the Father is the heavenly architect who follows His own established building codes, those structural parameters for sound spiritual development. They are not arbitrary or meant to restrict you in any way in the development of your spiritual structure.
He has sent to you His on-site foreman, His Thought Adjuster, with a floorplan for your best unfoldment. As Elyon pointed out, you are free as the owner of this floorplan to make changes that will enhance beauty and augment truth as long as they do not threaten the safety standards the Father has placed for all ascending creatures, yourself included.
We all are undertaking a unified project, though each of us is diligently placing our energies toward a specific task. Trust and faith are had in the recognition that the heavenly architect has considered all potential laws and all sound construction techniques before any one of us has ever begun our endeavors.