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 38:
Tranquillity
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1. MY BELOYED, be tranquil: I have come to you in beauty:
I have made my light to shine: I have sung a sweet concord:
I have given you my presence: unto the pure in heart have
I come, that they might view my countenance: I have laid a fair
hand upon a high promise.
2. These things have I done that the graces might sit upon
you, that fair things might shine from you, that ye might go
out and come in thinking of heavenly thoughts, uttering in
beatitudes, giving voice to your tremors that they might
depart you.
3. Now come I in more solemn note, making Love to shine
upon you.
4. I have said unto you, Be tranquil: but what meaneth
tranquillity? think ye it meaneth that the wits shall know quiet,
that the heart boweth down, that the voice hath no utterance?
I say unto you, He who is tranquil is none of these and all of
them.
5. Tranquillity hath that power to say unto a man, Thou art
princely in thine own right, thou art given unto kingdoms, behold
they are thy birthright, thou art lord of a harvest and the reapers
are thy husbandmen.
6. Tranquillity giveth a man the essence of himself: it maketh
him to see his soul as in a mirror: it showeth him his diadem: it
lifteth him up and beareth him along: he seeth the world as one
who hath wings:
7. He hath a high patronage, his wits are his attestment that a
glory sitteth on him, he knoweth the beauty of that which is
eternal, he maketh a sweet speech, there are majesties
cloaking him.
8. I have told you of tranquillity, I say it is a weapon that
smiteth a foe, behold it is a shield: it enableth you to prophesy:
it giveth you a richness of mature understanding.
9. The things of God are God's but man too hath a treasure;
he taketh it up and layeth it down; behold it is his errand to
know his own majesty.
10. God hath said unto man, Be tranquil, know a great peace,
bestow a benediction, still a great tumult; man hath said
unto God, My destiny pursueth me, it giveth me no respite,
I am riven as by a tempest, the whole world upbraideth
me.
11. The Father knoweth tumult in that man is not tranquil.
12. The Father saith unto man, Seek thine own spirit, look at it
nakedly, perceive that thou art lacking in little virtues only, thou
hast not a grievance against that which is eternal,
thou art maddened by thy terrors, calmness sitteth not on you.
13. Wouldst thou be as the flower that is bent by the gale?
behold thou art made to quake at little terrors that the smallness
of thy virtues may be as a precept unto thee.
14. Man forgetteth himself, his divinity mocketh him, he
thinketh of his predicament, his radiance escheweth him; fain
would he mount to the heights of his attainments knowing no
error in loftier pathways; he forgetteth his proudness, that he is
of Spirit.
15. I tell you, my beloved, the proudness that sitteth upon a
man, in that all things bow before him, is that wreath of
tranquillity that transcendeth all diadems.
16. Tranquillity is that property that maketh a man to say:
I am of my heavenly Father, out of Spirit Manifest; I do pick my
body up, behold I lay it down, I pick it up and lay it down times
without number; what mattereth it?
17. I am of those who are sent; I know a sweet peace that
bridleth my vanities; I perceive mine own essence, that I am
eternal.
18. Doth the body desert me? . . . and whereof is the body? . .
have I not fashioned it that my spirit knoweth a weapon for
striking at circumstance? . . . . . . have I no other armors
than nerves and perceptions? . . . . . I give and take richly of
that which is mine errand, but ever do I manifest in regencies
of mercies.
19. Tranquillity knoweth more: it saith unto itself, The world
hath a turmoil, but is that of import? is it not true that many
tumults have visited the world, that the nations have known
them, that hunger hath stalked, that the Reaper hath felled
the poor and the lordly? . . . should I ask respite from that which
is my destiny? . . .
20. I have come to show mercy, I have come to practice
augury, I am here without baseness, I know mine own
princehood; if I see that these tumults move men toward the
Godhead, wherein would I destroy them?
21. Tranquillity saith unto itself, I am Understanding, I am fat
Knowledge, I perceive the morning sun, that it riseth in an
opulence, I discern the high noontime, that its heat giveth
luxury, I behold the day dying and its beauty doth rend me:
these are mine attestments, that the Lord God giveth bounty,
that His satraps wait upon me, that all my days are omens of
the richness that awaiteth me;
22. Wherein should I be palsied? what madness seizeth on me
that I say, I will be braggart?
23. Tranquillity is balance, I say it is discernment that the
universe hath measure, that the planets have their orbits, that
life hath its increase, that no good thing accrueth unto man
unless he first hath earned it.
24. I say unto you, beloved, it is celestial to be tranquil.
25. Tranquillity is the Father's conscience saying within itself,
Behold I have created all things well, I have given man a
destiny, I have promised him wonders, I have opened his eyes,
I have lifted up his countenance.
26. Arise and know tranquillity!
27. Behold the sea's beat and the evening star's flash, are they
not tranquil? the oven openeth her heat and the loaf cometh
forth, the nostrils know an incense, . . . hath not the Father
provided the bread in that the oven hath beat her heat
upon it? . . . .doth either know tremor that the baking hath been
savory?
28. Perceive ye the universe and see that it is measured: the
wren's song is pure, the babe's tear is silver: the summer wind
is vagrant, art hath her resonance: there is singing on the sea's
shore that the ships have found their havens;
29. Thus are mine attestments, that I will be tranquil.
30. Beloved, hear my speech:
31. My heart hath a richness that ye are in your flesh, that the
Plan goeth onward, that man findeth his destiny, verily, through
suffering: that all things good conspire together: that even the
evil man knoweth his hour of reckoning when he saith to
himself, I perceive that I have erred:
32. Erring is wickedness; wickedness is erring; behold the time
cometh when erring hath its surfeit, the heart knoweth its own
heaviness, its weight bringeth pausing; it saith to itself:
33. What is this burden I have taken on my shoulders? hath it
wished itself upon me? whereof do I hear it? behold I have
been as a youth inviting folly, I have taken lean nourishment
whilst others have fed richly.
34. Thereat doth he turn and lay down his load, his flesh
knoweth lightness, he leapeth in a radiance.
35. All have erred, beloved: all have known rejoicing in that
erring hath its profit: erring hath brought man to see that his
knowledge hath a tocsin to call him out of penury, to enliven him
with luxuries, to place a crown upon him, to spread a mantle
'round him, to raise him up an altar with an eye to see its
beauties.
36. Tarry ye in the world, my beloved: bring it a richness:
bestow on it tranquility.
37. These are my sayings that I have uttered with my lips, my
heart hath conjured them; I give them to you for mastery.
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