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 40:
Substance and Endurance
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1. BELOVED, I teach you lessons in patience and endurance!
harken to my voice! be wise in event!
2. I tell you that as ye do serve me, ye do alter world plans,
but ye cannot do this unless ye be instructed in longsuffering.
3. Know that ministers of righteousness who dwell with you
have long been as witnesses to that which presseth sorely: they
have come unto me saying, Master, thy servants suffer in spirit
in that they lack substance to treat with obstruction.
4. I tell them, I give my servants substance, but first I tell my
servants that substance is not required to allay those distresses
from which they suffer: pursue those paths which have equity in
spirit and lo, intolerance making substance of consequence,
vanisheth.
5. Lest ye do mistake my counsel I say unto you that he who
suffereth in that he giveth his brethren cause to suffer, shall in
no wise know substance; he who vaunteth the evil man hath a
valiance, but I say vaunt him not for his penury of spirit, be one
with him in counsel.
6. But if he doth rend you for that which is offered him, I say
go your ways and treat with him not: coop his iniquities: be
proud with an arrogance that redeemeth unto righteousness:
suffer him not to come nigh unto you.
7. For his inflamings have dispirit, seize him by the hair and
make his countenance to whiten in that he hath rendered evil
unto evil and made of love a mockery.
8. I tell you ye shall in no wise be cast down.
9. He who maketh evil to blanch hath a pardon with the
righteous: he maketh a fair dawn, he beholdeth a bright sunrise:
he giveth of his love and his goods and his life: he taketh a fair
recompense.
10. Of olden time it hath been told you, an eye for an eye and
a tooth for a tooth: have ye then countenance to make a
mockery of love? doth the Fair One give no surcease in that
love should be triumphant? I say an eye for an eye and a tooth
for a tooth hath an offense unto divinity; it mocketh at patience,
it maketh sport of probity.
11. He who hath cause to slay his brother for righteousness'
sake committeth an abomination unto me: he who seizeth the
hair with a proud countenance for evil, smiting it by grandeur,
maketh the host to sing for his valiance.
12. Too long hath it been taught of men, beloved, that the
wicked have a license, that the righteous man is humbled, that
only those go out and come in who make an obeisance unto
mockery, who defile their own spirits, who spit upon the
triumphs of the righteous.
13. I say it shall be with you in the last days as it was in the
first days: man hath an earthly intercourse to run, he hath
a journey to achieve, he cometh and goeth in circumstance
verily.
14. But behold he goeth or cometh not if so be it he is held
from practicing his righteousness, if evil restrain him, if the evil
man casteth a snare for his footsteps.
15. Is it not lawful to do good? whenever were ye told that men
should not seek blessings? that the cup of promise was not full?
that the evil day had no evening?
16. I say ye are called, I say ye are chosen, I say it behooveth
you to be about your Father's business, to feast in His house, to
give joy unto His mansion.
17. I say ye have the promise that he who smiteth evil liveth in
eternal things: he giveth a goodly account of himself, he hath a
heavenly recompense; did not the prophets thus make
themselves ease in Zion?
18. Are ye not prophets?
19. I say, Be strong, be valiant, cast a strong net, observe a
hard fast, give a strong arm, look up and not down!
20. It cometh to you that evil conquereth you: I say evil
conquereth you not: he who feareth no man, feareth no evil;
he who runneth from no augury perceiveth the beauty that lieth
in its omen.
21. Have I not taught you that ye should be circumspect?
22. I say, Have moderation in all things: pursue a clean
pathway: look a steadfast conquerage: be valiant, be
blithesome, be noble, be pure.
23. Take ye thought of your condition, say unto those
oppressing you, We be of one mind in event, we have desires
together, we work them out in tolerance, there is no other way
to profit from circumstance.
24. Bankruptcy of spirit precedeth bankruptcy of pocket.
25. Men come unto you saying, We demand of you, pay
us in substance that we may discharge the debt that is
between us.
26. I say they have a claim upon your spirit first.
27. Tell them that ye agree with them, tell them ye seek
their good, tell them they have no claim that ye recognize
not in justice, that ye have heart for them and will make
settlement;
28. But tell them not the ways thereof, for verily only your
Father knoweth.
29. Patience exceedeth all virtues but tolerance: it cometh to
you richly from extended ordeal.
30. Think not that I test you but that I instruct you: think not
that I hold you up to ridicule but that I treat with you having your
future concern in heart.
31. Ye have far to go in my work, beloved; ye have far to travel
in ways that are earthly; ye do go upon a journey not of miles
but of years; it taketh you to courts, it taketh you to
countinghouses, behold it taketh you to subsidiaries of
governments.
32. I say ye learn patience that ye may treat with the adversary
and make triumph over him: he seeth your steadfastness; his
countenance hath worry.
33. I say ye learn longsuffering that ye may know the success
of longsuffering.
34. Could I do any less for them who are my brethren? harken
to my intercourse:
35. Many come, many weaken, many ride a stout charger,
many walk on the highroad, the feet of many have the bleedings
of the travail; do they come in a respite? doth conquerage not
beckon them?
36. I say ye are those who preserve a clean valiance: ye give
the weakened succor, ye bind up the feet that have stumbled in
the chasm: ye hoist a sweet lodestar and say unto others,
Follow it! presently shalt ye see that it betokeneth a
Morning. . . .
37. These, my beloved, are the errands I have for you.
38. Shall ye be affrighted? shall ye say the clean race hath no
contest of the spirit?
39. I tell you the stout heart conquereth the long mile: the deep
haven waiteth for him who arriveth singing.
40. Havens of spirit await you that ye know not of at present:
ye have a little conquerage, I say it shall be mightier: ye have a
little firmament, I say the clouds of glory shall roll back and ye
shall perceive my majesty.
41. Treat with my sheep who have grievances of spirit: offer
them succor: listen to their wonderings;
42. Give them a strong countenance and a pure insight;
betoken them no errors; indulge them in no schisms; say unto
them ever, The Lord God hath a mighty armor that He loaneth
unto the righteous: is it not meet that ye shouldst wear it? have
ye no valiance but mockeries of triumphs?
43. They need your strong perception, they fall upon you
betaking of your bicep, they lift themselves up and stride from
you conquering.
44. Is there not beauty in such for the spirit?
45. What manner of man among you would give no coffer of
his riches for one sweetly solemn thought: I have aided my
brother, behold he hath taken valiance unto him! in that
I manifested, he hath arisen unto triumph!
46. Beloved, beloved, know ye the contentment of making your
lights to shine before men: I say it shall profit you seven times
seven, verily your spirits shall stalk in a loveliness.
47. These things are good and profitable unto men, that they
lift up their faces and behold the proud loving them, that
they know a sure footstep in that loveliness hath succored
them.
48. Have I not been generous in pointing you the pathway?
how say ye that those gone before you have not shown a
beauty in that they lifted you?
49. I tell you, beloved, the way is hard for you if ye give them
no countenance, if ye answer not their promptings, if ye hear
not their callings, if ye say amongst yourselves, The evil day
befalleth us and we are left desolate.
50. We go from point to point, teaching others as we go: but
think ye that ye teach, not having had instruction?
51. Nay, instruction cometh not unless ye be circumspect of
spirit, unless ye be lengthy of endurance.
52. When have I told you that ye wouldst be humbled?
I say ye shall eat a strong fruit, ye shall sit upon a sure rock, ye
shall offer to the multitude a prayer that holdeth joyousness in
that they are not forsaken.
53. But behold ye do these things in that ye were stalwart; that
ye knocked not the cup from the hand of him giving it.
54. These things come to you: Patience, and Endurance, and
Suffering, and Triumph: I say I map the course: ye do run it for
love of me.
55. Wherein do ye say unto me, Lord, accept our Love, I say
unto you, Give me of your loyalty under steep instruction that ye
mayest be strong when the moment arriveth for manifestation
unto me.
56. Give that which ye have to the uttermost farthing: know
that I succor you when the press becometh intolerable.
57. These things I say unto you: Ye do come unto stresses,
I say take them calmly, have an obedience to that which is
seemly, put on the full armor of princely fortitude, know that my
love hath given you a bowstring.
58. Thirty talents of silver are given unto your hands: bury
them not in napkins and say, Our Lord hath tricked us, therefore
we conserve them.
59. Say rather, Our Lord hath protected us in times that are of
memory, he cometh unto us nightly bespeaking of his auguries;
verily would he come if he had no countenance in that our
substance is denied us?
60. Hear me, beloved, the things that perplex you once
perplexed me! . . . Lo, I learned patience of my Father and he
rewarded me with powers to work miracles.
61. I speak as a brother who hath trod the way before you,
I give you my counsel, I say that it hath been with me as it hath
been with you; ye are doing my work, ye are treating with my
sheep for their eternal profit;
62. I treat with you for yours.
63. Let meditation with me be your concernment and behold
ye have no hungers that go without food.
64. Let your hearts be opened to patience incarnate and
wealth incarnate accrueth to your pocket.
65. Ye are my beloved on the earth-side waiting to hear my
voice from my lips, but always do ye go through shadows else
ye know not the light, ye do know an impoverishment to
evaluate riches, ye do suffer distractions that the truth may
seem beauteous.
66. Think well upon these things. Verily are they the substance
of your thinking. Yea, we speak in a conference, that the
wisdom of mine attainments may be manifest in yours and my
heart be your glory.
67. Take that which happeneth as an indication of the future;
plans are matured; they come in with circumstance; ye go
through ordeal of a sort in that it presenteth an expanding unto
service;
68. Consider it your passports unto countries of opportunity
where your travels of improvement are monstrous of perception.
69. Life presenteth difficulties: it diggeth depths for character:
it revealeth to men those depths; they come to know my glory.
70. Ye have destinies with others. I say, Guard them well.
Profit by your knowledge.
71. Perceive ye not that I do make preferences for you?
disclaim them not in precept, mock them not in principle;
72. Guard well your hearts against temptation to exaggerate,
verily of your feelings one unto another, lest misunderstandings
make a havoc with your happiness.
73. Treat with one another loyally, harken unto me as a
member of your household; I say I visit with you, I abide
wherein I visit. . . .
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