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 90:
Why Is Absorbed in Whither
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1. YE DO put a query to me, Whence cometh the creative consciousness to manifest itself to itself? . . . . . .in this wise I answer it:
2. It hath been known to you of old that man is pregnant with worryings over that which he perceiveth;
3. Worryings are of an order, and not to be despised, yet worryings call up visions also whose essence is faulty to the thing perceived.
4. When man asketh, Why do I exist? whence cometh all this which I perceive? what is it, and why is it? he maketh himself an error of a sort.
5. Lo, that which is perceived is not the thing he asketh to have discerned to him; I say he is confounded by mis- interpretations; so I answer your query thus:
6. Humankind is not the thing which ye perceive; it hath the essence of the thing besought by logical explanation, but the essence hath an error in it, grievously confounding.
7. Take this to heart: When men know themselves, they will find themselves without a Why.
8. The Why is mortal. There is no Why, speaking in essences that are divine. The Why itself is only evidence of mortality. Speaking cosmically, no Why entereth in.
9. If ye do ask of me the Why of mortality, I say that ye have been told; if ye do ask of me the Why of divinity, I say that it perisheth of its own connotation.
10. Why is mortality speaking mortally: seek to speak without mortality and Why is absorbed in Whither.
11. Why is Whither.
12. But again observe this: When ye do leave your mortal bodies and climb into an Idea, ye do perceive that the Why is but a manifestation of resentment that the body should even be necessary, and disclaim the idea.
13. I teach you this advisedly, knowing its import on your conscious lives.
14. Only when a man reacheth that state wherein the Idea is apparent unto him, doth he receive the Why as a mere postulation of his own conceit as mortal flesh.
15. I say unto you there is no Why, and being mortal and therefore resentful, ye say that I speak falsely or utter an absurdity. But I say also that there is neither Time nor Space except in mortality.
16. Perceive ye not my metaphor? . . .
17. Time, Space, Mortality, Why, all are essences of an Idea made conscious; out of these come miracles. . . to those of limited understanding.
18. Why is a pure Time postulation, in that it demandeth a beginning; without a beginning there can be no Why.
19. Lest I burden you with misunderstandings, this do I add for you to consider:
20. The universe which ye do know in flesh is a projection of Space, if ye will so have it. Now think to yourselves, Why is Space? Can there be any answer? . . . . . .
21. Space itself being an idea only as it impingeth on your consciousness, so Why is an idea only when it meeteth conscious reception.
22. Harbor no resentment that ye do not perceive it. Keep counsel with yourselves as mortals.
23. That is to say, confine mortal interpretations to mortal essences; confine ideas to idea-essences.
24. The Why of matter is one thing, the Why of earth is another, the Why of life is a third, the Why of intelligence is a fourth; do ye not perceive that there is not one Why?
25. The Why of an idea is the idea itself; ye encompass not the idea without admitting its nonexistence in true existence;
26. Do I speak in a paradox? I say that the truth is paradox, since it manifesteth by and in paradox; without paradox, how canst ye perceive it?
27. I tell you that a grain of mustard seed hath knowledge of itself: it saith, Why am I a grain of mustard seed? . . .
28. The grain is grain; to start with such, is the Idea;
29. Let it grow into a mighty tree and therein is employment of the Idea in substance, and the Why entereth in of entirety unto itself, separate and distinct from the seed as an Idea.
30. Thought entereth into the universe as Thought, but without Why until it manifesteth as the mustard seed manifesteth as the tree;
31. The tree saith in turn, Why am I a tree? As a tree, what mattereth it? there is no Why that it is a tree except that it is useful as shelter or as fuel; these do give it the Why of itself.
32. So goeth it: the Why of itself is without essence, though it may have identity.
33. Think well on these things, teasing as they do your physical limitations.
34. I say that the Why of your mortality is, therefore, your manifesting unto one another for the profit of yourselves as manifest ideas without a Why to your inherent essence except as ye are and have a mission unto yourselves.
35. Ye do have this in common with myself: that I too would know the Why of the Idea. . . .
36. Man cometh unto the Godhead and saith, Why am I myself? The Godhead saith unto man, What mattereth it? is it not enough that ye are essence of the divine in that it occurreth unto you to perceive your quandary? . . .
37. If so be it the quandary occurreth to you, thereby do ye demonstrate that mortality hath itself a usefulness unto that which is divine, making itself to recognize its divinity by inquiring of the Why.
38. Mortality questioning is naught but the Godhead inquiring of itself as to that which it possesseth; it seeketh to know its usefulness unto itself that it may be wise in all that it encompasseth.
39. The universe is but Divine Thought expressing itself in Form, that it may be intelligible unto that which is Divine Consciousness, that the Life Principle in each manifestation may recognize the Divine Consciousness of which it is a part.
40. Now do I proceed with you deeper into mysteries. . . .
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