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 86:
Why Ye Are Sent Unto Men
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1. MY DEAR ones, hear me further: I come unto you teaching you as members of a brotherhood having love in your hearts for one another and for the world.
2. Mankind hath no knowledge of divine processes; divine processes are withheld from interpretation where the need justifieth the end to be achieved.
3. Mankind hath knowledge of this, that Cause produceth Effect, but knowledge of Effect is always perspective;
4. Thus perspective is an attainment of vision beyond earthly concept, requiring powers beyond earthly ken to encompass in human visionings.
5. But I tell you this, this hour: days succeed days, nights add to nights, events seem to happen without basis in meanings;
6. Yet all, all is known; all, all is perceived; all, all is understood verily by those who have errands in understandings.
7. These things come not by chance, but by meritings of cosmic classifications which I have just declared unto you.
8. Men have come and gone doing things of substance; their errands have pursued them and known discharge;
9. Gorgeous indeed will be the reapings when that which hath been performed is manifest.
10. A group cometh unto it; it saith, We serve thus and so, lo, each doth his part and the harvest is garnered.
11. What reaper saith, Lo, I have reaped the field? Each hath wielded his sickle, many have loaded into barns. . . .
12. The time cometh swiftly when each device of circumstance shineth forth as an action great of performance.
13. All things are known to those who watch over you; great is their knowledge, great is their achievement, lo, do they work as I instruct.
14. Make no voice against those who halt at noonday, for verily do the reapers of afternoon work afar in the fields because those of the morning have done their labors.
15. Great numbers surround you, great works await performance, day unto day shall achievement be manifest, circumstance shall speak with a loud, loud voice, children shall speak that their elders may know wisdom, angels shall visit those who make them welcome;
16. Behold the hour is at hand when humankind seeth itself at a crossroads; a page is turned, a new page lieth white beneath the hand of the writer;
17. All is as it should be. What then of the writings on that page?
18. Let gold flow in the ink, that the writings be of value.
19. An old adage hath declared unto you that knowledge is power; I say knowledge is more. . . knowledge is wisdom yet to be attained.
20. Wisdom hath in it the beseechings of age; it reckoneth with a man what he shall perform having goodly aim in view to himself in worldly circumstance.
21. Knowledge is the child of wisdom, wisdom is parent by knowing that which hath been perceived throughout millennia of experiencings. I say it to you for a purpose. . .
22. There is a form of knowledge, however, that cometh not from experiencings but from instruction by those who have experienced, not so potent of sensation as that of experience but richer in concept in that it maketh the mind to hunger, and in such hungering the mind reacheth out, clutching at the imponderable.
23. All this is well, my dearly beloved. The hour is at hand for such knowledge to be given unto man. Behold I have chosen you for the giving of such knowledge.
24. Behold ye are sent unto men in this generation that they may gird their loins and be wise, taking thought to their stature in cosmic intelligence lest they dash their feet and stumble grievously.
25. Such interpretation cometh of information of those who know the Decalogue; without it would men act rashly and the knowledge be subverted even as it hath been subverted in ages that are past.
26. Lest they subvert such knowledge there are given spiritual formulae by which it shall be used, not to humankind generally but to agents of the Prince of the House of Love, who saith unto the nations:
27. Under my banner enroll ye, that ye may enjoy the blessings of my larder; further, these blessings come not by chance but work out a pattern determined long ago.
28. This pattern is twofold: it speaketh unto man on the one hand and saith, Knowledge is given you, transport it unto yourselves decorously, profit by it, use it beneficently, else it be taken from you again as it hath been taken before;
29. The second part of the pattern hath it that man shall have revealed unto him a vision of his heritage, that earthly things may show him the nature of his spirit.
30. All earthly things in essence are diagrammatical of those beyond earth, though men perceive it not; all things have pattern in earth, or rather, earth casteth their pattern in grosser form for things that are eternal of propensity.
31. Harken to my voice, beloved: I teach you more:
32. Out of the east come vasty secrets: great conclaves of elders sit together, having loving designs on earth to men and women moving in earth.
33. These conclaves of elders sit on earth and descry it for that which it containeth; verily do they see the treasure house of experience to be revealed that now is covered.
34. Great, great is the wealth so buried, so great that the mind of man conceiveth no idea as to its scope; civilizations once born and perished shall arise from out the ruins of time; they shall manifest anew in substance;
35. Great waters shall recede and bare their secrets, not by catastrophe so much as by mechanisms; verily the work hath but begun.
36. When men shall see that which cometh they shall say, Fools have we been in our vain conceits, better are we treated than we deserve, let us profit and be glad that it is so.
37. Can one among these elders say, I am greater than the rest? what claims hath he to greatness when all is of experience?
38. I speak a parable unto you, making plain my meaning:
39. A man had sons, many in number; great were they in knowledge of their father, obeying his precepts, employing themselves that he be honored by having them as sons;
40. Lo, one of the sons developed a conceit: he said, I am greater in my father's eyes than ye, my brethren. Have I not performed more faithfully? Am I not more worthy, therefore, of his love and honoring?
41. His brethren were wroth, saying: Lo, he raiseth himself above us, but what profit cometh unto him? doth our father love him more than we who speak no such folly? doth he give him more because of his pride? verily our father loveth us all, which maketh us brethren.
42. Behold, my beloved, the father in his wisdom saith to himself, It is fear of losing my love which maketh my son to raise himself by such vaporings over his brethren;
43. Verily do I love him more in that such declaimings come from his heart: did he not love me, verily no fear would manifest so, making him to remark upon the state of his affections; verily hath he my love but verily hath he my solicitude in addition, that he is concerned of thought upon his status.
44. Therefore I say unto you, though conceit be insufferable yet it hath merit in this, when prompted honestly: it raiseth him who hath it to be aware that he hath knowledge of imperilment, therefore he becometh to the father more dearly held.
45. I speak unto you another parable of simpler mold. . . .
46. A bird hath plumage beautiful of pattern and beauteous of color. What feather doth it possess that can be dispensed with, without the pattern being altered or the beauty marred?
47. All things taken together comprise the eternal, even our solicitude one for another. . . .
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