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 27:
Tolerance Hath Its Place
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1. MEN ARE as children in regard to one another, they behold no
hurt unless they be injured, they flee from small fears, the times
roar and upset them: they go to and fro crying, We are lost
without a shepherd; there is none to adjure us.
2. They seek leadership of wolves and expect to be
protected; they ask help of their deceivers and exclaim at their
mockery.
3. Wherefore do they cry with a loud lamentation, Behold we
have no protection, we keep vigilance among us, there are
none to encompass us and keep the tempest from us!
4. They have fear in their hearts, they delay at the omens,
doing only those things that are seemly for deliverance; they do
serve two ends, their own and the adversary's, they do set two
masters over themselves, their conceits and their terrors; they
say, We may have other masters but we know them not, so how
can we follow them?
5. Tell them to be circumspect, to call upon the Father:
behold they hear me not, they make a great tumult and drown
out my voice.
6. I say, Consult me and I guide you; they say, Daily do we
consult with thee, Master, but therefrom deriveth no profit that
we witness; lo, benefits engulf them, they refuse to behold
them.
7. They worship idols of desiring, they think that their initiative
hath done marvels with contraptions; they recognize me not in
any phase of living, that I am the cause of inventive
benefactions.
8. They come to me timidly, not knowing what to ask for,
thinking my gifts will ennoble them above worldly fortunes
provided by themselves; they say, Master, we adore thee, yet
art thou as a myth, thou seekest no practicalities of intercourse
with us, thou rearest up walls of famine of the spirit asking
us to dread thee; thou hast designs upon our hearts
but give our heads no counsel; thou makest mock of our
helplessness and yet we would serve thee if we but knew
the manner.
9. I say, Children, be hushed! Wouldst ye make me the evil
one? I create no confusion, I design no false witness to
abominate in mischiefs, I work only for your good, I seek those
things that profit you;
10. I give you good thoughts and ye reject them in that ye
reject me who giveth them.
11. Men have a humor to abominate in thought; they seek from
thought no profit, they only seek conflict; they speak from the
mouth and not from the heart; they say, Lo, we are wise in our
own understanding, when only are they fluent of speech or of
concept.
12. They make mouthings of ether, they give and take with
circumspection that which hath no value of eternity, they call
their myths wisdom.
13. I tell you man hath a higher calling than that which cometh
from his mouth to the detriment of his neighbor or the
impoverishment of his intellect.
14. Know that I have told you that men are twofold in the
exercise of spirit: they seek that which is eternal, they
seek that which is practical; eternal things have value because
they are eternal, practical things have value in that they suffice
for the needs of the moment.
15. Time hath not changed eternal things; time hath wrought
grievously with things that are practical.
16. Men have the stronger leaning toward that which is
practical in that practical things are perceived by the senses:
eternal things are perceived by the mind.
17. Eternal things are concrete of concept but abstract of
development; practical things are abstract of concept when left
to the senses but concrete of evolution.
18. Concrete things have value in eternal time and thought;
abstract things are abstract in that matter considereth them to
be concrete; concrete things are things of eternal profit; abstract
things have no profit, not being eternal of concept.
19. Perceive ye the difference from what men call concrete.
20. Men want that which is denied them: they seek the
prohibited: they want light on life's mysteries; verily they want
light on that they call abstruse, thinking it redeemeth them.
21. They know a curiosity, ever they would penetrate that
which is hidden, verily it amuseth them, they have pleasure in
discovering, they make a deep venture and entertainment
cometh, they make speech among themselves, proud of their
courage that experience hath borne them through caverns of
attemptings; they say, We are gods, exploring new worlds.
22. I tell you they are children playing with new toys, they seize
upon the brightly colored; when its interests ceaseth, lo, do they
discard it.
23. They say they are concerned with practical things: I tell
you it is only for the novelty in them; they see changing forms
and are amused; they probe among profundities of intellect and
lo, they are not amused. They behold pitfalls for their
intellects.
24. They say, Our fathers taught us certain things: they are
eternal things of old, they have profitable aspects as each
generation discovereth them and applieth them to use, but they
are not things of interest when we have once rehearsed them;
we seek that which is novel; novel is discovery; we seek for
unborn generations that which may profit them in that it is not
known to us at present.
25. Verily they lie: they want only pleasing in finding out, rarely
that knowledge that enricheth the spirit.
26. I tell you, beloved, that men shall be confounded as they
seek to progress without knowledge of spiritual verities that
come from realities concrete in eternal time.
27. Men gain no objectives when they explore for sake of
novelty: they gain when they explore to seize on spiritual truth,
and the culture which cometh from knowing that destiny
planned for them by the Father.
28. Ye have heard it said that men are tolerant when they are
filled with the Father's spirit; I say to you, Verily tolerance hath
its place, yet men may be filled with the Father's spirit, not
having tolerance.
29. Doth it seem to you strange? Harken to my wisdom; ye
have tolerance of a sort when ye give unto a beggar, ye have
tolerance of a sort when ye make sally with one who walketh
uprightly yet maketh errors in his judgments, ye have tolerance
of a sort when ye give unto him who asketh of you in that he
wanteth and even so needeth;
30. But tolerance hath its merits and demerits: it is man’s
insurance against his own conceits; he maketh himself to walk
godlike, who saith, I tolerate because I love, and I love because
I tolerate.
31. Mayhap the beggar meriteth not compassion: would it be
godlike to indulge him to his hurt?
32. Mayhap the friend pursueth a righteousness, yet tolerance
of his judgments bestoweth on him no profits.
33. Mayhap he who asketh of you, asketh of an artifice: your
tolerance destroyeth the godhood within him, it gaineth him a
usury, it maketh him a pestilence.
34. Are not such intolerances godlike in their essence?
35. Ye have heard it said of old that man shall do whatsoever
seemeth to him profitable in the light of his experience; I say
it is false! . . .
36. Do that which is wise in the light of God's law: always this
is tolerance.
37. Nothing in ethics is greater than this; behold it is ethics.
38. Tolerate that which cometh to you out of humankind,
knowing that all concerned have need of it; hold tolerance in
abeyance till the spirit be served and the heart be ennobled.
39. Once I gave you instruction in that which ye call Charity;
I said, it suffereth long, behold it is kind: but behold Tolerance
suffereth seventy times seven and is kind throughout; yet do
I repeat, there is tolerance and Tolerance.
40. There is tolerance of evil and injustice and mercy thwarted:
there is tolerance that bringeth profit in human relationships,
that maketh men know patience.
41. Tolerance is one thing: toleration is another.
42. A man cometh to you who hath money in his purse; he
saith, I give the pence to you if ye do me a service; you ask
of him the service and he saith, The pence have a condition,
that ye know not the service; that is absurd and ye say it
rightly;
43. And yet he saith, I insist upon it: he maketh you to anger:
ye deem that his wits are of mental unsoundness; ye say,
Begone, ye worker of iniquities, behold ye entrap me in legions
of mischiefs.
44. Cometh another to you who saith: I pay ye the pence if ye
do me the service: ye do ask him the nature of the service and it
seemeth goodly to you; ye perform such service and seek your
compensation;
45. Lo, it is denied you: he who hath promised, delivereth not.
46. I tell you, beloved, requite yourself on neither.
47. Know that ye have need of tolerance no matter what
cometh: he who maketh the absurd proposal hath as great a
need of tolerance as he who maketh you to know loss of effort,
being unpaid for services rendered.
48. I say that tolerance is the shibboleth of man's duties to his
fellows; the Father hath decreed that we bear with one another,
being perfect of origin but come to know darkness that light
might ennoble us.
49. Tolerance maketh allowance for the darkness that
deceiveth: tolerance is the Beauty of the Eternal, shining in
men's relationships.
50. It is beauteous to be tolerant, for lo, the Father cometh
unto him who is tolerant; God cometh unto him who seeketh
tolerance for others, having justice in his heart.
51. Mark my words well: the Father's law is paramount:
tolerance ennobleth by judgments correctly rendered.
52. Do that which is just and the justice is the tolerance.
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