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 93:
Each Man's Life Is His Brevet
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1. THE WORLD is a wilderness; there are those who would beguile you into dark pathways; hear ye my wisdom as to those who come instructing you.
2. Fears, doubts, and distrusts are preludes to victories; those who come unto you in hides of sheep may be wolves who would destroy you.
3. I say unto you: Be calm, take thought to actualities.
4. Mayhap it becometh you to reprove those who would address you, saying unto you that they are Masters.
5. If so be it they deal sharply with you, I say they are imposters.
6. There is naught in that which ye utter that offendeth those of the Host when ye are honest;
7. Offense cometh from dishonesty, to self and to us.
8. Treat with yourselves and with those who come unto you drastically, but make not this error, that ye do believe false friends to be true friends in that they come as Voices.
9. My beloved, I adjure you as with a great commandment: Those who love you work you no harm, though your tempers be as devils.
10. I command you to receive only those who bring you goodly gifts, turning deaf ears to betrayers of spirit.
11. Classify those who do so address you; let this be your method:
12. There are those who tell you of things in circumstance; I say, trust them not!
13. Hear them, I tell you, but make this allowance, that if they speak rightfully, they will tell you truthfully; if they speak wrongly, they will tell you of error.
14. Concern yourselves with this: Ye have missions that cannot go awry so long as ye endeavor to be in your appointed places as the work demandeth; further than that pay no attention unless it be that those loving you volunteer their services to aid you in the work.
15. Treat not with those who come unto you bringing you messages of suggestion as to method in circumstance; treat not with those who tell you that This be right, and, That be wrong.
16. Lo, ye do know the right for yourselves.
17. I tell you there are those among you who have made errors in this, that ye have allowed yourselves to hear voices of those who would help without reason behind it.
18. Eschew them, beloved; keep them in mind as sorcerers of a kind who make magic for their entertainment; be kind to them in mien but bid them begone from your lives and affairs.
19. I tell you there is no lamentation at true honesty of purpose, yea even of speech, only a rejoicing that ye do make your gestures of growth and self-reliance.
20. Make them oftener and make them stronger and lo, all things come to you, for ye do motivate forces the better enabled to work for their fulfillment.
21. Rely upon yourselves, but trust that true friends will never hinder nor betray.
22. Self-reliance is spirit-law of finest quality;
23. Self-assertion is the means for proving character.
24. Counsel is often necessary but it may not come with words: action and feelings may be its expression.
25. Let this be paramount in your principles: Take that which seemeth goodly; reject that which seemeth strange or unworthy; make up your minds that all things arrive in dueness of time; they have purpose in that time, verily they have no purpose if they come not.
26. I speak with authority when I say, I also have known perplexity at men's behavior. . . .
27. There are those who come unto you saying, Lo, it pleaseth you to instruct this man with wisdom, and that one with authority; ye do give a commandment and the servant doth it;
28. Mayhap he doth it wrongly; mayhap he performeth falsely and betrayeth the brethren; is it of moment that ye shouldst know, before the time, those who perform basely and those who do a right thing excellently?
29. I say it is not of moment; I say still further, he who prieth into his brother's karma, seeking to know whether he will perform basely or do his errand well, executeth a decree that hath its force in circumstance.
30. Man hath his propensity to evil: lo, it is ever with him; the false friend enticeth him; the enemy hovereth over him whispering voices of adulation in his ears;
31. Man seeth his perplexity and knoweth it not for that which it is; he saith to himself, This thing I do because it is my nature when I so perform it, or,
32. I will do this thing because I am instructed, not knowing the instruction that it beareth a mischief.
33. I tell you that it is of error to believe that all men's behavior is known in advance: if it were so, could the world have its purpose?
34. I say there are those who perceive a goodly deed and do it, having no mind to be altruistic; mayhap they discharge an obligation to a friend, mayhap it cometh unto them that by so doing they advance a fell design;
35. Others who are excellent descend unto a respite in goodly works; their tongues tear at their roots to give accountings unto lechery;
36. Can we blame them for that?
37. I say that man himself knoweth not the order of his being, whether he will respond unto the good, whether he will succumb to the evil that teaseth him.
38. Behold the world-scene delivereth him his lesson; thereby is he a part of it, thus doth he come into it, for such was he created.
39. The world offereth him a stumbling-block or a stepping-stone: he taketh the one and escheweth the other; mayhap he knoweth not himself of a moment's warning of the step which he taketh.
40. Thus is the earth a creation of moment, that these happenings occur, that mankind hath its choosings.
41. Now therefore come those who say, If thou wert wise, verily wouldst thou know the performance in advance of him who doth rightly and choose him; and him who doth not with wisdom, bearing rancor, wouldst thou go and lose by the enemy's wayside.
42. All of it is mischief, uttered by those who know not the standards by which these things are judged.
43. Verily they have a presentiment to know the unknowable; they follow the footsteps of those who say unto them, Enroll beneath our banners for we are infallible.
44. I tell you none is infallible: all have sinned: all have committed errors in judgment: no man knoweth how his neighbor will deport himself when the neighbor is witnessed falsely in the light of his behavings.
45. Let those who would say unto you, Ye are false princes of intellect in that ye do permit wolves in sheep's clothing to masquerade amongst you and perform your traffickings, remember that I myself had choosings and selected once wrongly:
46. Was I not betrayed most cruelly by one in whom my confidence was greatest?
47. I tell you such things are the orderings of merits.
48. The good man seeth the goodly deed and giveth it substance in his manners; tomorrow he saith unto himself, I was weak in my eschewments, or I have not lived up to the lights of mine intellect, therefore will I perform adversely to witness that which happeneth, that thereafter I may profit in concretions of wisdom.
49. The evil man may say, Today I have borrowed and not made my recompense, this hour have I sought deceitfully and perceived myself injured by that which I enacted; therefore will I alter my conduct and give a penny for a farthing and a pound for a groat.
50. Are those about either, employing them, able to decree that which is of moment in the moment's caprice?
51. I tell you the Father himself knoweth not how each soul will deport itself till the instant hath its issue and the merit is decided. . . .
52. He who saith therefore, I will respect him who hath a great prophecy in his eschewments, is bespoken of the evil one in that he agreeth with the adversary that all men should do rightly but there are those who fall by the wayside knowing their weaknesses in moments of torment.
53. Say rather unto yourselves, There are those amongst us seeking a deportment which magnifieth greatness; mayhap it cometh upon them that they can be great for a single hour; mayhap they succumb to an evil issue having desire for goodness but lacking in discernments;
54. We will give every hostage to good intent but wait with a calmness till each issue is decided as each soul seeth it; mayhap that soul surpriseth itself: mayhap it confuseth itself with its renderings.
55. These things are privy to those who decide them, knowing themselves and the ways of their reaction.
56. No man can say with surety, My brother will do so-and-so; it is his pleasure to perform as his spirit hath its impulse.
57. I tell you, my beloved, that the greater the deed which is performed in earth's karma, the vaster will be the pressure on those who come assisting, turning them aside, subverting their discernments.
58. Have I not known the vagaries of those who once said unto me: Lord, Lord, choose us, for verily we love Thee?
59. They did follow me whilst my miracles were splendorful: verily did they walk afar off when the enemies I triumphed over sought to rend my body.
60. Thus ever hath it been with those who came performing missions of the Spirit.
61. Walk not in the ungodly way, nor in the ways of those who always seek prophecy that evil may decide them which pathway to choose, to meet it or avoid it;
62. Walk rather in the pathways of those who say: Our missions are before us, to every man is given a high way and a low; those who travel with us on the road that is high, behold they work and sup with us, but those who travel otherwise, preferring the low road, these we bid adieu and lose them to our fellowship.
63. The choice is theirs, beloved: having made it, they have chosen.
64. I would not have you ignorant that there are thieves and robbers lying in wait to confound your footsteps; I would not say unto you, The way is pleasant and all upon the highroad are chosen for their stamina; nay, nay, beloved.
65. I tell you great issues partake of great crises; I say that great crises have within themselves the power to make good men out of thieves and angels out of vagabonds;
66. Pursuant to the crisis are the souls of men found out.
67. No man knoweth what he will do, nor how he will perform, in a given experience, until the experience openeth to him and he who saith otherwise unto you is your enemy or a child in understanding.
68. The great and the wise of the earth have long since determined that man goeth up or walketh downward according to the dictates of the karma he hath merited;
69. Each man hath his choice, whether he goeth up, or whether he walketh downward; behold the order of the moment is a going or a coming.
70. He who would have no false friends, on any plane, is he who doth naught, who essayeth not, who giveth not, who rendereth not, who giveth no hostages to fortune in this, that he hath offered his brother a chance to perform and redeem his karma in works that are excellent.
71. Life and works are paramount in this, that he who would achieve must summon men unto him, the good and the bad, the perverted, the misshapen.
72. Unto each one he giveth his brevet and there are those who do that which is given them, and those who do it not, having hidden desires to aspire to the leadership and hoping to confound the one who hath ordered them.
73. Man knoweth not the soul of his neighbor; he knoweth not his neighbor's pulse, nor the happiness inspiring him.
74. Behold those who are excellent will lead the rest; those who are ungodly will manufacture mischiefs; they will confound the earth and leave woes in it broadcast;
75. But I say unto you, It is each man's privilege so to do; his life is his brevet; it is his ageless deciding whether he will serve or whether he will bury his talents in his napkin and secrete his pleasures as life would decide him.
76. Thus I speak unto you, adjuring you to wisdom.
77. The world hath its surfeit of those who would say: Use me that I may inherit the kingdom.
78. I tell you the kingdom cometh unto those who say: Have I performed so excellently that I cannot be ignored in the counting of the valued ones? am I my own taskmaster, in that I have looked to my urgings and sought only the upright in my treatment of the brethren?
79. These things take unto yourselves and consider them astutely.
80. I have talked and ye have listened; I have given you the benefit of my counsel; ye have heard me as a loved one whose voice hath its errand of profit to the conscience.
81. Continue so to do. I say the world hath need of you and that which ye do manifest.
82. Presently come the Wise Ones counting the sheep of humanity, which of them have strayed, which have followed the footsteps of the Shepherd.
83. It is not our mission to lock in the sheepflocks and keep the sheep from wolves by the bars of our raising; I say it is wiser to train the sheep to excellence, that they discern the shepherd's reasonings and value his prescribings, where he shall water them, and where they shall be fed.
84. Further I say not. Now I go from you. I tell you in parting, Be calm, be prepared, be vigilant, be healthy of mental effort, for these things encompass the labor that is bestowed upon the stalwart. . . .
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