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 18:
The Miracle
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1. KNOW, my beloved, that men have joined themselves together
fearing one another: they have made images of self-protection
and bowed down and worshipped them: they have uttered their
laws that have come out of might: they have submitted to
those laws: they have said unto their neighbors and the
stranger within their gates, Treat ye with us on terms we
impose or lo, we shall rend you, we shall cast you to the
judgment, it shall not be well with you; our captains shall
destroy you.
2. I say unto you, The things that men do are abomination in
my sight: they make mock of right and principles eternal: they
expect me to be one with them in destroying their enemies:
they rise up in the morning and go forth to their labors;
lo, their labor defileth them, they are unclean in their
traffickings;
3. They do cry, Master, help us, for without thine aid we
weaken: yet do they rise up relying on their strength only: their
prayers are but whistlings unto their tremors: they eat a great
dish but its bulk hath no nourishment.
4. But know ye that men will not long be able to keep their
pace of building unto Mammon; that which cometh out of evil
lureth them to transcend themselves in lifting up destructions;
they vaunt vicious armaments; they mock creative instinct with
piles of stark corpses.
5. Man maketh abomination, I say, glorifying that which hath
suffering in its core; he cometh to his fellows and crieth out
joyously, Lo, we have new engines that are potent for
destruction; lo, we make that which seemeth evil, yet do we
make it that good follow after; so say they, believing it.
6. Know that they believe rightly when they minister unto the
afflicted, making protection for the weak, giving succor to the
helpless, bringing balm to those who suffer; thus display they
their godhood.
7. Know that they believe not rightly when they minister
unto vanity, making protection for their offices, giving succor
to their coffers, bringing balm to the terrified who foresee their
powers shortened.
8. We have a mission, my beloved; I have told you of that
mission; I have spoken of its parts; I have told you of the
miracle;
9. I say unto you, It cometh to you personally, it cometh to the
world, it goeth forth to men and some receive it gratefully, it
goeth forth to the children of men and they marvel not that it
was timely.
10. Some shall say, A wonder happened: came the Son of
Light in radiance shining: lo, did the Light make remark to our
fathers: came he in a cloud, moving! came he in Spirit and men
did see Spirit! great was their tumult! . . .
11. Came he with gesture, warning the nations: came he with
indignation, saying, Obey me, ye peoples, or destruction
cometh, yea by your making shall ye eat putrefactions. . . .
12. Came he saying, This is my commandment, obey your
own visionings, give heed to the wise ones who come
preaching of my substance, treat with the circumspect who
entreat you to tranquillities! . . .
13. Came he declaring, Lo, I give warning, that which hath
been built upon the substances of errors shall confront a vast
toppling, that which hath been raised to mark an evil royalty
shall plunge with a crashing; its debris shall appall you!
14. Ye shall be creators without a creation, ye shall work and
know no payments, ye shall be as spiders spinning webs of clay
breaking of their weight ere the morning sun riseth!
15. Thus declared he to our fathers, and they laughed him to
scorn: they went out and made mock of it: they made
tumults: they made vaunting.
16. Verily did they make abominations of interpretations so
that nations were confounded; the poor in heart lamented;
the sons of men rose up and cried, There are none to bring
us honor!
17. They made jestings and laughings at principles eternal,
they made terror of the heathen; these things came to pass and
our fathers took no warnings.
18. So say the children that are to come, beloved.
19. I say unto you, In that day shall men arise and be divided
even as in this one; they shall say, It happened not, superstition
caused it, error wrought it, that which our fathers beheld was
a fancy. . . .
20. Great things saw they of other means and tenors: did they
not err about them also? why believe we the miraculous when
the miraculous happeneth not of hourly occurrence?
why happen not such miracles today? do we not deserve them?
why happen not great scenes that we too may witness?
21. They shall say, these children, Behold that our fathers
were obscure of description, they perceived of their errors, they
proclaimed of the blasphemies,
22. Was it not said that false Christs would arise? how know
we such miracle came of His essence?
23. We do that which seemeth wise, we consult our own
intellects; we say, We believe according to the seasons: are our
visionings imperfect? we perform of the sanities.
24. These things say the children of men, I tell you; they do
scoff in their ignorance, they cast up a great chaff and it blindeth
their eyesight.
25. We come to them in that day also, making miracles; we
have done it before; that is our essence whereof we exist.
26. We have come to earth ministering when men reached the
storm years wherein inspiration failed them; we have come to
man ennobling him when forces of vast whoredoms obstructed
his developments.
27. Worlds were in the borning, times were in the ripening
when kings had dreams of empire, cycles were at hand when
men had schemes of seizings.
28. Came we, beloved, to aid at such travails, to make dreams
of empire righteous, to color schemes of seizings and turn them
to vast beauties;
29. Came we saying, Lo, the Father sent us to preserve what
hath been goodly, to bring your kings visions, to help you lay up
treasures that no enemies may pillage;
30. Came we saying, That which hath been righteous hath a
greater way to go, that which hath been beauteous hath a
broader path to travel, that which hath been treasured hath a
greater wealth to profit you;
31. The way, and the path, and the treasure, are your heritage;
we bring it and bestow it; lo, spiritual cognizance blesseth
the increase.
32. I say unto you, beloved, We came making destinies of
humankind in raw, we came shaping empires, the world being
clay in our hands for the molding.
33. Thus did we manifest, thus did we endure, thus did we
raise structures against the blasphemies, thus did Mammon
hear us, and see us, and feel us, and know us.
34. The times change, beloved; men have gone far in
anointments of Spirit, but men have made idols of materialism
too, checking the growth of Spirit's performance: they sit in the
ways of the night that is eternal;
35. I tell you we come clearing it, we push the black asunder,
we cast down the unhallowed, we make clean the pathways
that lead to a holiness.
36. Know that I tell you that great events impend: children call
to children; race calleth unto race: man stretcheth out his hand
to clasp that of his brother: the nations know a banquet, there is
naught to disturb it.
37. I say we are come to make certain that it happeneth.
38. Man arriveth at a pausing wherein he casteth up his spirit:
he saith to his species, Lo, we have knowledge of that which is
the universe: we enrich ourselves from it: we go from point to
point in progress making Thought perform for us: we hold to a
vision that hath long been our instinct, that we are as gods
commanding the earth, we increase its fruits and partake of
them joyously;
39. We say to Nature. Produce! and it produceth; we come to
vines and say, Yield! and lo, they open unto us; we say to fruits
of carnage, Behold we make thee pay us, harken to our fiat.
40. The nations say, Nature yieldeth but yield we cannot till
Nature turn and pay us; men come saying, We have no choice,
we take what seemeth just unto our reasonings, we seize that
which seemeth appropriate; we do not ask, we take!
41. I tell you, beloved, there is vileness in such utterings.
42. Take the nations goods from men? Lo, I take their
substance.
43. Take they stolen fruits? Lo, their fruits are stolen.
44. Take they unjustly? Unjustly are they dealt with.
45. But take they reasonably, then reason treateth with
them in the affairs of many councils: I say unto you, beloved,
herein is the lesson:
46. Man taketh, Nature giveth! lo, in their traffickings men learn
this precept; Nature yieldeth, man seizeth; lo, is it not
foolishness to seize that which is yielded?
47. Came we not into the world to seize but to yield; behold, he
who yieldeth, seizeth: and he who seizeth, yieldeth.
48. I teach you a truth in this, my beloved. Worlds mature,
societies perform, man groweth in stature and social tranquillity,
behold man groweth to spiritual godhood; but lest he be cast
down, we rebuke him for penury in his substance of spirit; he
cometh through turmoil to learn of his stature.
49. Know that the world hath need of that which it endureth;
know that it learneth of God's wisdom slowly; know that we be
lamplighters to peaceful ennoblements.
50. We are come unto man to say, Peace within the borders of
thine own domains: trespass not upon thy neighbor's properties,
for verily the trespasser hath a trespass upon himself.
51. Those who have domains hold them of the Father; they
receive their lands and the fruits thereof for reasons that they
know not; let them have title to that which they husband; let
them take not that which they create not by the labors of their
persons.
52. Those who go afar seek for advantage not theirs to
possess; trouble cometh in consequence.
53. I say unto each nation, Thy peace is of thyself: be
circumspect in honor: be certain that it is honor for which thy
spirit striveth: there is no honor in that which is of ownership
except that it cometh by thy labor and creation.
54. I say further unto you, There are principles at stake of
which men have no knowledge, there are policies in progress
that have no explainings, great works do manifest but men's
eyes see them not.
55. Only the Father seeth the Ultimate, only the Wise Ones
know of the Attainings, only those who have conquered their
own spirits behold the vast pattern by which men are made
perfect.
56. Let the world's dead be buried by those who are dead:
verily there are no dead, but those learning wisdoms; know ye
that I say it.
57. Know that ye do have an instruction that maketh the heart
to take size by its excellence; know that as the true heart
expandeth, verily the mind hath endowment of riches.
58. Know that ye do have wisdom of that which transpireth: are
ye not part of it, born of its spirit?
59. Know that I make clear to you that which causeth you to
stumble: do ye not hasten to work my commandments?
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