Topical Index
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 16:
I Say Ye Have a Birthright
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1. OUT OF THE heart the mind speaketh sorceries, out of the
mind the heart speaketh majesties; out of the tumults of
forgotten things ariseth an anthem that strengtheneth the
contrite.
2. I have talked and ye have listened: I have sharpened the
pen of my desirings and inscribed on your spirits fond urges to
perfections.
3. I say ye have a birthright, that the times and seasons
augur well, that man's long home is but a little way ahead of
him, that I give you not contentment that hath lechery as its core
but I bring you a basket overflowing with provisionings that feed
you to a soul's-ease and preserve you in tranquillities.
4. Do we witness the fallen, stretched in their stupors? have
the auguries no balm to make wise the humble? do not the
majesties of things eternal draw yet a little closer as the
radiance cometh in?
5. Ye perceive ye are famished: I say unto you, It doth you no
good to turn your steps into unhallowed pathways; the God
whom we serve hath a balsam celestial to apply to the feet of
those wearied with journeyings.
6. Persevere, my beloved! The times and the seasons augur
well indeed; presently, I tell you, the glory cometh in.
7. What of the raiment of those who sit upon the heights?
hath it ever lacked whiteness? have ever the auguries
condoned a malfeasance? is it not true that in a flood of many
waters many know cleansing? do some meet disaster? how
know ye it is tragedy?
8. Doth not the Father, who doth all things well, give ear to
the tumult and take note of its boundaries?
9. I tell you, my beloved, it were an abomination unto the
Father to say, I perceive thou art negligent, in that I have lost, in
that I have suffered.
10. How know ye, ye have suffered?
11. Think ye that suffering be retchings of the belly? is there
not a grander chord struck within the alchemies of tumults that
declareth a benison delivered to the needy?
12. Ye have come and gone on many waters: your boats and
your captains have borne you with vigor: each time that ye have
voyaged, your chart hath been provided you.
13. Listen to the increment wrought of many voyagings; are ye
not mannerly in that ye have known them?
14. Let not the voice of destiny provoke you to a drowning: all
that hath occurred is for your good, beloved.
15. The times and the seasons rattle and shake, there is
clashing in the mornings, the noon-heat hath vengeance, man
contendeth in the evenings: he thinketh hurt pursueth him.
16. Of old I have said to the sons of men, Be contrite, be
mannerly, know the feathers on your ensign, that ye have not
been born to tremors but to wings, that as ye persevere in
righteousness so a provisioning cometh to you.
17. Lo, man hath been wroth and exceeded his birthright; he
hath given and taken poorly: he hath struggled and been
deceitful: he hath waged his own wars of conquest and augured
poorly when the minions went against him; he blameth not
himself; he escheweth it as Providence.
18. Peace, my beloved!
19. An evil night holdeth but the slumbers of distraction:
if the day hath been vicious, can the night be a balsam?
20. Man contendeth, he striveth, he taketh profit from his
neighbor, he deserveth no increase, he fatteneth on huskings;
he cometh unto me and saith: Master, we are torn by desires
unto ennoblements.
21. I say as I spake unto the rich youth of old: And wouldst you
have slumber that mocketh not the intellect? give unto him
whose goods you have pilfered, return unto him this madness
you have borrowed, take from the storehouses of splendor that
which you need for your food and your raiment, all else eschew
in the name of contriteness;
22. Then shall peace come to you, then shall you dream and
walk by still waters, then shall your household be a balsam in
itself: but now it is sackage and revelry by lamplight.
23. I say, man hath it in himself to end his confusions: why will
he not see it? he needeth no beggar to ride in on horseback. . .
he needeth the still, small voice to persuade him from his
gainings, to lead him by a silver brook and show him hiding
violets.
24. Hear my words and do them! The star flower passeth in
the grass, the seed of the peacock containeth its screaming, the
moon creameth deserts that lie beneath her light, all Nature
hath a witchery that pursueth a schedule;
25. I tell you that soon, soon, man discerneth that his
schemings are at fault, that his sacrilege is beastly: thereat he
turneth and there is no more weeping. . . .
26. Hear ye my Speaking: I sustain you till it happeneth!
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