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 43:
Love
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1. AND NOW, my beloved, I bid you to an excellence.
2. I give you my wisdom: I come and make speech unto you
that ye may have treasure, yea even that treasure that the world
supplieth not: I fill up your coffers with a sweet understanding,
I open my radiance and flood it upon you.
3. Canst ye not wait a little time until the seasons have
sojourned, till the dawning hath moment, till that which is great
and wise shall make you a patrimony and say, Come and
take it?
4. Ever and anon the sons of men show beasthood: they
arise in their combats, they pluck the eagle's feathers and
bemoan that he is earthbound, they say unto men's souls,
Ye do have no inheritance, behold ye are of bastardy.
5. I say unto you, The torn soul seeketh that heart which is
noble; it aspireth unto excellence as love doth enfold it.
6. Love giveth an increase, it softeneth the iron, it reacheth
out and lifteth up, it standeth an excellence as an idol in the
household, it worshipeth that idol; there are none to rue it.
7. Ye have heard it said unto you that Love suffereth long,
that verily is it kind: I say love is translucent, it bespeaketh the
countenance that its brow hath sought a wisdom, it showeth
that wisdom, it maketh light the heart, it lifteth that heart,
it giveth it an increase.
8. Love hath a radiance, love hath a softness, love hath a
witchery, it hath a magic happening;
9. Love hath a thousand forms of ennoblement but only one
of conduct, it ceaseth not to cajole, it maketh no tumults that
order may enter.
10. Behold ye have heard it said that Love is a passion, that it
giveth unto romance the budding of its ecstasy, that it riseth up
and casteth out that which hath a madness, that it treadeth
softly, that its pathways are desirable.
11. Verily, my beloved, it is all of these and more; Love hath a
small aspect but a mighty vigor; it hath a small broom yet it
cleaneth mighty households; it giveth a small pence, lo, it
receiveth a mighty increase.
12. Anger hath her purposes; she giveth the stroke and the
soul hath its lesion; the temper disdaineth that which is noble; it
smiteth and felleth; its phrases have sharpness.
13. Behold the soiled spirit hath loosened its bondage, it hath
leaped in a darkness, it hath known a black freedom.
14. Is it meet that birds who give song should do soaring
at midnight?
15. Consider my words: be wise in your eschewments.
16. Anger leapeth, spirit breatheth, the muscles have an
augury, there is littleness in concept, the ways of the spirit are
made a malfeasance.
17. Love uttereth, Love proclaimeth, Love chideth not, Love
hath a benediction, it saith to the loved one, Thou art of mine
essence, thy forehead hath fairness, thou art burdened with a
tumult, behold I would share it with thee.
18. Love fetcheth out the tear, it giveth not the sobbing; Love
lifteth the spirit, it ennobleth the visioning, it giveth a fair
recompense when the torn heart hath its weighting, it enfoldeth
in a luxury, it bestoweth not a torment.
19. Have I not told you to love one another? what thoughtest
ye I meant? shouldst ye say, These are our increments, that we
join in a brandishing of the tools whereof we work
ennoblements? shouldst ye ask yourselves, Is it not meet that
we speak softly lest those in the household take note of our
desirings? is it Love alone to say, We do give a surfeit of our
amours that mawkishness may clot us, that we open our hearts
to the doves of sweet wishings? . . .
20. Beloved, be circumspect.
21. The ways of Love are proud, they have a strong armor,
they have a noble purpose, they give not a lechery to childish
traffickings of spirit, they employ circumstance, they level a
barrier.
22. Love hath a soundness that exalteth the reasonings,
it betokeneth an enterprise, it calleth to a princedom.
23. Love stalketh not amid the ungodly that its excellence be
sounded: behold it stalketh amid the circumspect, that they
should see its alchemies. When have I ever told you otherwise?
24. The fawning spirit crieth, Love is an enticement,
it summoneth to pleasurings, it giveth the pulse the vigor
that embraceth, it stouteneth the heart that modesties be
vanquished.
25. I tell you, Love is none of these, and all; Love is the
enticement that openeth the valley where romance lurketh
subtly, yet Love hath a venom for that which is folly; it giveth a
strong countenance, I say it pursueth with a leisure, yet ever
it pursueth;
26. It seeketh no trespass on the privileges of honor:
it withholdeth the epithet: it only hurleth roses that their
fragrances burst from them.
27. Hear my words and do them; transcend those wisdoms
uttered to your follies; greet Love as a diadem, behold it as a
garland, give it your increase that mountains of madness may
quake before its sanities.
28. Thus have I taught you. The still heart listeneth. The quiet
woodland uttereth her resonance. The sweet brook sparkleth.
The beatitudes of splendor pause not in their utterings.
29. All these things, I tell you, are for eyes that behold them,
for ears that do hear them, for hearts that do accept them, for
lives that do enfold them.
30. Be ye as fair lilies growing in a wood of thistles, whose
fragrances confound the mad dwellers in circumstance. . .
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