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Art 7. 96.
Beauty 96.
Blasphemy 21.
Brevets & Missions 5. 8. 11. 18. 22. 88. 105. 116. 130. 142. 207. 257.
Celestial Administration 12. 19. 60. 69. 79. 91. 92. 137. 138. 165. 198. 209.
Change 41. 45.
Children 37. 63. 196.
Circumspection 212.
Communion 1. 62. 178. 199. 200. 201. 206.
Comportment 40. 44. 97. 129. 134. 142. 241. 244. 249. 251.
Divine Instruction 23. 25. 35. 78. 95. 97. 122. 140. 194.
Dogma 25. 91. 163.
Etheric Vacuum 66.
Evil & Ignorance 5. 11. 23. 36. 47. 89. 97. 98. 144. 159. 215. 222. 236. 237. 238. 249.
Experience 8. 9. 27. 86. 152. 186. 193. 253.
Faith 78. 210. 211.
Fear 27. 31. 111. 241.
Force : Physical 128, 169. Cosmic 151. Moral 80.
Giving 70.
Growth 148.
Humility 155.
Impatience 226.
Justice 231.
Knowledge & Wisdom 37. 86. 122. 163. 189. 232. 256.
Leadership 81. 133. 215.
Light 25. 30. 109.
Love 43. 46. 50. 57. 58. 147. 148. 217. 218.
Matter 109. 152.
Mediums 75. 76.
Numerology 85.
Omens, Symbols & Miracles 35. 55. 73. 74. 96. 126. 146. 168. 195. 203.
Pact, Plan & Program 14. 17. 78. 142. 178. 180. 215. 233. 257.
Parables: Figs 104, Five Sons 156, Gardener 163, Mustard Seed 156, Ravens 160, Roses 101, Small Mishiefs 175, Two Bounties 182.
Pattern 149.
Patience 9. 22. 84.
Patriotism 15.
Peace 230. 234. 246.
Personal Choice 14. 16. 29. 93. 153. 157. 168. 246. 253.
Prayer 32. 131. 241.
Promise 10. 16. 24. 28. 42. 117. 166. 192. 205. 248.
Prophets & Prophecy 65. 66. 67. 83. 172.
Reincarnation 6. 12. 25. 31. 72. 76. 81. 152.
Rewards, Recompense & Money 39. 40. 82. 87. 143. 144. 201. 247. 250.
Sacrifice 34.
Self Command 93. 147.
Science & Inovation 14. 166.
Second Coming 25. 26. 29. 36. 72. 81. 106. 114. 120. 146. 181. 219.
Service 2. 33. 69. 107. 114. 156. 177.
Space 65.
Spirit 20.
Suffering 13. 176.
Thought 57. 66. 148.
Time 41. 45.
Tolerence 27.
Tranquility 38.
Vibration 67.
Victory 223.
War 18. 47. 230.
Others 3. 4. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 56. 59. 61. 64. 68. 71. 77. 90. 92. 94. 99. 100. 102. 103. 108. 110. 112. 113. 115. 118. 119. 121. 123. 124. 125. 127. 132. 135. 136. 139. 141. 145. 150. 154. 158. 161. 162. 164. 167. 170. 171. 172. 173. 174. 179. 183. 184. 185. 187. 188. 190. 191. 197. 198. 202. 204. 208. 209. 213. 214. 216. 220. 221. 224. 225. 227. 228. 229. 235. 239. 240. 242. 243. 245. 252. 254. 255.

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Chapter 14:

Force Cometh Not of Battlements

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1. HAVE I NOT been with you through the days of your journeyings? know that I am with you till the body ceaseth pulsing, then times and again, as the flesh is transfigured.

2. I say the time hath come for speech of goodly import: I have read your hearts and the thoughts of your hearts: the days bring revealings, the nights receive wisdom.

3. I have been with you in the days, my voice hath sought you out, my vision hath counseled you; now cometh my reason that redeemed you from questionings:

4. Once was a golden age when our fathers lived richly, behold they lived foolishly and disaster overwhelmed them.

5. Shall they not have revealed to them that they were those fathers and received not the blessings except to defile them?

6. The heathen are my children: they are men in form and body but their souls are as children; lo, they need force to coop their iniquities.

7. But force cometh not of battlements, beloved; there is force of armament making deadly destruction, causing murders, making the innocent to suffer; there is force of moral stricture which maketh man to see that he drowneth in the vortex of vast public opinion.

8. Force hath power of arm yet power of brain as well: power of arm may injure or help, power of brain can never injure, always it helpeth.

9. Men have means and ways of controlling the unruly, those who walk not uprightly before the nations; they have means and ways of setting boundaries, denying goods, making no intercourse with those who transgress; lo, such odium assaulteth and taketh many turrets.

10. Nations rise and fall by that which is Opinion: he who hath not clean hands sitteth not among the righteous. Is it not true of nations?

11. Lo, they embark on goodly missions with one another for selfish profits and mutual protection; can they not embark on goodly missions for protection of all nations?

12. I say unto you, the time cometh, beloved, when men shall sit together and exclaim, Behold the world is Satan's, men control not their passions nor can they control them!

13. I tell you they speak falsely: I tell you they speak as those having knowledge only as of fools.

14. I tell you that men are not passionate, they are not warlike, except as others make them; men are one species, they are one before the Father, they are equal in meriting the blessings of science; let them partake of such, raising one another, covering the Pit wherein all would die darkly.

15. Selfishness hath said, Men are passionate, lacking cause; selfishness hath willed it so, eschewing that profit that lieth in rectitude.

16. I say to you, beloved, men are self-willed, strong of impulse, bitter of hatred, that each of them may profit one above the other; they come and go joyously, taking such profit; lo, their brethren suffer, they find joy in such suffering.

17. I say rebuke them by taking from their seizure that which they have seized; I say unto my servants, Invent ye no more; lo, the cause is not worthy, only destructions come of your wisdoms; give not of your pearls lest the swine eat and choke themselves.

18. Know ye not of olden time it was said, A man shall have two kine, one shall help him plow, the other shall gore him? Lo, that hath been science and invention.

19. Science helpeth man to plow, invention goreth him; science giveth him increase, invention bringeth cataclysm; lo, we tell man this and if he heed us, great shall be his progress, but if he heed us not, woe unto him whose abominations stalk him.

20. He shall be scattered: mankind shall miss him: he shall go out and not return: no tears shall mark it.

21. I say unto you, beloved, the time arriveth when we tell men these things; we say them plainly, spreading no confusions, making clear speech, using words that are arrows.

22. We give the opportunity to know whereof we speak: if men come not into the sheepfold of rectitude, they shall in nowise know the sheepfold's protection.

23. I say to you, beloved, that man shall be ennobled, I say he shall be favored, I say he will be favored more if he taketh the cross of righteousness upon him.

24. But if he taketh it not, the Goodly Company leaveth him; it returneth the commission, it departeth for the Father, man shall know the riotings that come of his debasements.

25. I do not come to you making confusions: man hath ever his chance to ride in wisdom's chariot or follow as it pleaseth him; I speak to you now of the race as a creation.

26. Lo, we save those who merit our succor: they return not to earth where wickedness dwelleth; lo, wickedness destroyeth itself, knowledge unblessed maketh the species to exterminate; I tell you, beloved, this is the Plan of those who call men to forsake their evil ways and dwell unto the Father.

27. We call on men to come up out of darkness and live in light forever; lo, they decide, each man for himself, but come no more servants offering favors of science or fruits of invention.

28. I say, Men shall see me, they shall know that I am, that the earth is mine employment, that I know my servants each one by his name, that I know the righteous, that all those who cry to me shall in nowise go unheard.

29. In that day I awaken each man's decision; lo, each decideth and liveth thereafter according to his vomit, according to his fragrance.

30. I trust you with this knowledge. I give it for a purpose.

31. Ye have made your goodly journeyings: ye have joined the brethren and the sisters who are my husbandmen and handmaidens: great are ye all in your potency for good.

32. Men come with proposings that seem to you boisterous, they come with offerings of charms and deployments, they rend you with lecheries, they uphold you with riches: always will it be so.

33. We use them as we may for the glory of the Father.

34. I go before you day unto day pointing the pathway to heraldry's achievement; we meet again when the new day cometh; we are that day and the world's dark awaiteth us.

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