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 61:
The Crux of Life
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1. WHAT HAVE I said that hath not been said? What have
I attempted that hath not been attempted? Ask yourselves these
questions, and do them when answered.
2. My beloved, I talk with you about yourselves as artists.
3. There are those among you possessed of rare powers of
sympathetic composition that is pleasing to an audience: for
them is my speech; I say, Let me instruct you, not as a critic but
as one who supplieth that which is needed.
4. We have work to do together of interpretative tenor; risk no
opportunity of rejoicing in it by making errors of judgment in
material or transfer.
5. Remember that life hath no use for weaklings, spiritual or
physical; it is not unto the weaklings that the things of life
accrue but to the strong, for proper reason:
6. The strong have spirit manifesting in action to their good;
the weaklings have no spirit and cannot manifest.
7. Know that the strong have ever their contact with eternity;
they make compact with me and with the Host to go to
earth on earthly missions; I say that they go willingly, they are
not driven for the sake of experiencings.
8. They volunteer in the world of the Spirit; they enter flesh or
substance ever with the desire to serve; they serve and come
back, verily many times; I say that they have no need for
repeating incarnations.
9. Hence their strength, beloved; mayhap they have a
mission that goeth oft awry; they are strong in the wrong way
and create havoc among earthly men who slumber in their
flesh.
10. They may have no means of knowing of their error until
they return to those from whom they went, but strength is theirs:
it dwelleth ever in them.
11. Strong persons who come to earth are most often artists
with the tools which they use; they have a message for the
multitude; they deliver it circumspectly or importantly at times;
they deliver it loosely or ineffectively at others.
12. What mattereth it? I say they have a bearing on eternal
truth, no matter how they function.
13. Artists are God's handicraftsmen: I say forget it not.
14. Forgive them many indiscretions of body, soul and spirit,
even as I forgave the publicans and sinners, in my flesh.
15. They have a mission that is delicate; oft do they perceive it
sparingly of effort; they have no need of sympathy as sympathy
is known but always pardon for their indiscretions.
16. They find out life through many channels; I tell you, ye
yourselves have found out life through many channels; life is
teacher and educator as well as pupil; life instructeth as well as
learneth; it receiveth and it giveth.
17. Ye have your missions in life to lead: some have their
missions in life to write, since writing is leading of highest order;
but I say unto you, except ye do write with rare intelligence, the
greatest among you can in no wise lead.
18. By intelligence, I mean not wisdom of man; I mean wisdom
of Spirit.
19. This cometh from me.
20. Blessings on the strong who have rightly volunteered,
interpreting those missions.
21. Hear me say it: except as ye do interpret rightly, ye cannot
have wisdom or strength of any nature.
22. Wisdom of Spirit is wisdom of experience, manifesting in
Love, making men and women to realize that God is, in that
Thought is.
23. Harken, my beloved: Thought is, God is, Love is, Wisdom
is: this is the logic.
24. Now harken further: Ye cannot be wise without coming to
know that the crux of life is immortality; Death hath no place in
life.
25. Death is retrograde, negative, indecency of Spirit,
acumen overcome, wisdom in reverse; whether it be death
of body, or substance in Matter, or a form of spiritual
death, Death is abomination; behold I say that Death is
darkness; it is slowing the speed of the universe of Matter until
annihilation cometh.
26. Mark this well: to die is negation, nothing more; death
cannot come if there is no negation.
27. Existence is.
28. Death is not.
29. When ye do die physically ye cease to manifest in flesh;
but ye die not spiritually: ye do live as never have ye lived in
flesh!
30. Ye do see and hear that which is not given unto flesh to
see and to hear, having no organs of flesh to perceive it;
ye do see and hear spiritually.
31. Therefore death of body is always desirable, but death of
spirit is deplorable, having as its essence the annihilation of
function, not nihility of units as of flesh.
32. Function is sacred in that it is Love in motion.
33. When ye do love, ye do function; when ye do function;
I say that ye do love. Verily the lesson seemeth simple;
I say unto you, it is profound.
34. Artists function in love of highest quality for reasons that
are two: I say they love greatly, hence do they create greatly;
I say they create greatly and there cometh to them a spirit of
resistance to death or nihility; they charm away Death, degree
on degree.
35. When those among you who have missions to write do go
about your labors of writing, be circumspect of technique in this,
that no character ever be allowed to delineate me who hath not
suffered.
36. When ye do choose words to delineate me, ask
yourselves: Do they, or do they not, abide by the standards set
by the fathers of literature for purposes of inflection in
technique?
37. By such I mean, do they accord with certain principles of
adjustment that have basis in fact? . . .
38. I speak of those who have an office to fill in that which is
written, not of those who do supply a trimming and an order,
principles verily, but not principalities of concept.
39. Now let us decide what are principalities of concept.
40. When ye do have a man who standeth for a strong
emotion, ye do have principality of concept; strong emotions are
ever motivated by strong perceptions.
41. Conversely, I tell you, strong perceptions are perceptions
made acute by hostile acts of others; when they are not hostile,
they do make no impression.
42. Hostile acts may be any obstruction that veileth the great
desire, or fear, manifesting through and in substance.
43. I tell you, ye cannot have hostility without some sort of
desire.
44. Desire is hostility inverted.
45. I say unto you further, be careful of your speech and
selection of types; give no thought to a man's forebears, or
history, or denouement of ancestry; I say these are not
important, having no bearing on that which is character.
46. Serfs have come from palaces and princes from swine
pens; swineherds have risen to glory and glorious chiefs of
battle have come from inklings of thought manifesting in
barmaids.
47. I speak as one having authority of experience with earth;
know that I too saw, and felt, and heard as a man.
48. Teach those unto whom your writings come that that which
hath been their past is their own affair utterly; instruct them that
environment essayeth no accounting; say that each man hath
chosen his own destiny before entering into life and each
woman hath made known her own travail to herself before
suffering man's passion.
49. Men have full knowledge of their careers in advance:
how then can they put blame on environment or heredity?
50. Make this known with great speech abroad in the land.
51. Know that men have chosen their own pathways, always
realizing their need of experience in that which they do set
themselves for suffering; yea even those who have an idiocy
have greater need of experience than those born sound.
52. Suffer them not to trouble you; their trial is great but their
need is greater; pity them for their spiritual need, waste ye no
tears on physical handicaps.
53. Your wits make wonderings about malformations: ye ask if
Spirit doth enter them of purpose?
54. Verily it is so, not too strongly can I say it. Conditions exist
and must be borne: thereat cometh conception: thereat cometh
Spirit cognizance: thereat cometh concept in reality: thereat
cometh license to experience.
55. Your wits make wonderings about spirit ectoplasms, the
life germ coming into the fetus; I say that it cometh in at any
time while the womb hath its burden.
56. Some enter not until earthly birth be ready, some do enter
at the instant of birth when the body is formed and fully
functioning, some enter weeks after wonders of conception
when the ovule showeth life, some go in at the instant of
conception.
57. Sex cometh by the Host watching over the ovule, saying
which shall go in, the soul of a man or the soul of a woman,
according to the body which hangeth in the womb.
58. Verily come twin souls, joined in life for the earthly
purpose, two so tied unto each other by affection or habit that
they entered into the mother as one, not wishing to be
separated by the mortal birth experience.
59. Hear me on Art.
60. Art is ever an expression of joy; artists are joyous in their
essence though they do suffer pain of a sort in their
compositions even as a mother travaileth for her child.
61. I say unto you, except ye be born of that which is Spirit,
ye cannot enter into the life that is eternal: I mean that doubly
strong for artists.
62. The Spirit maketh free for composition; Spirit ennobleth for
great works in concept; the Spirit rusheth into that which is
noble, making it to shine as a light unto men in a darkness.
63. There are those among you who have gifts for discerning
traits of character that are vital yet peculiar, or peculiar through
vitality: they do make men and women droll, which ever
entertaineth.
64. Continue so to do; I say it is excellent, for thereby is Spirit
called to notice Spirit; but have a care to make the droll
ones human in their concepts of one another; thereby are
they tender; thus in its perceiving doth Spirit meet
ennoblement.
65. Do ye have a droll one who perceiveth the wickedness in
others? I say that although he be one of strong spiritual
conceptions yet is he wicked in his own heart else he would not
emphasize the wicked traits in others.
66. He who maketh the great wind to blow about the wicked
traits in others secreteth his own gale of that iniquity which Iieth
hidden in his breast.
67. By wickedness I mean error, for error is always
wickedness and wickedness naught else.
68. Let him be one of strong spiritual perceivings without
wickedness and behold he becometh a mentor above
the crowd.
69. Error existeth somewhere in the makeup of the evercriticizing
ones, keeping them small of impact on their fellows.
70. There are those who have no error in their hearts yet do
they lack strong spiritual perceptions; they too are great
teachers but of an inverse order.
71. Verily have men and women come who have risen to vast
heights; yea in a night and a day have they done it; then they
have gone, they have sunk in nonentity.
72. I say, Make no decidings that the Host hath deserted them;
the Host deserteth no one, being desirous of making progress,
being Progress itself.
73. The Host cometh unto men and women; it manifesteth in a
light, but those to whom it cometh turn from that light; they fear
a great blindness, their perception hath a hesitancy.
74. Thus do they fall and sink into oblivion.
75. He who falleth not hath ever his knowledge of values that
are eternal; what mattereth his breeding in ranks that are
earthly?
76. Hear me say it: There is no such thing as earthly breeding.
77. Men carry their characters into their lives, although like
seeketh like and the world thereby thinketh that breeding
cometh from the parents.
78. Again I speak of Art; again I speak of writings:
79. Let your tales be cleaned of errors that I in my person am a
myth, that under the law I cannot manifest; I say they are
absurdities.
80. And now I tell you of another mystery: Behold there are
those in life who marry not, neither give in marriage; behold
there are those who do make their marriage yet it lasteth not,
it hath no endurance.
81. Mayhap it is of truth that these are not mortal although
mortal bodies proclaim them to men; how know ye that
because a man or a woman hath mortal body like unto
mankind everywhere, that such person is mortal as others are
mortal?
82. I say that ye do err; ye do make a false reckoning.
83. He who manifesteth greatly unto the Host, even in his art,
even in his writings may not be mortal; keep this in your
memories.
84. Angels of an order exist in the flesh; they are not as worldly
men, they seek not for themselves, they seek only for beauty
that man may be ennobled.
85. I tell you that emissaries of Light cannot marry physically
with the daughters of men and sustain such marriages with
them!
86. I tell you that marriage is not joining of mortal bodies in
wedlock, it is spiritual union of similar vibrations, far above the
wonder that earthly men call sex.
87. Sons and daughters of Light manifest with an infinitely
higher vibratory rate, making it of moment that they be
circumspect of contacts; therefore they unite circumspectly, and
garrulity of concept regarding one another is not permitted;
verily there are those who have need of great instruction; now
they do seek it from garrulity of concept all about them; I say
they shall have it, from those who spread radiance in that they
spread it.
88. There are those among you who have a gift for taking
words and transcribing them in action intelligible to the
multitude; I say it is blessed; they do have a gift for taking my
words and transcribing them for the edification of their superiors
as well as their inferiors whom they know not of; I say it is
blessed likewise.
89. I speak of those superior in precepts, not in functions of
their characters.
90. I say unto those so talented: Be choice in your selection of
material to be presented, describe scenes and events having
their bearings on immortality, choose men and women for
presentation who have problems of the heart and not of the
soul, for verily the soul knoweth itself but the heart findeth the
way for the soul to experience.
91. Perceive ye not that it is required of you that ye shouldst
learn of the highest spiritual truths in order to prepare
yourselves for your missions unto men?
92. I say that I spare no knowledge from your earthly
understanding; verily do I tell to you facts of life that savants will
inherit one day down the ages.
93. Ye do know them from mine instruction.
94. Men accept them not as yet, being blind in the conceits of
their knowledge and their ignorance; but except ye be chosen
for such knowledge ye cannot understand it without I give
you aid.
95. I tell you those of Art have great works to perform; the
world is made noble in that they exist.
96. Now I tell them all together: Strengthen yourselves in
stamina to inherit!
97. Behold the inheritors come into their kingdom. . . .
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