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 98:
All Is of Self-Election
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1. I TELL you it hath come to me that there are those among you who bow in a travail, saying: Let us take counsel amongst ourselves, how we may flee this wrath that is imminent.
2. I say they are shirkers; they know not the Highroad;
3. They flee from a wrath that ever pursueth them;
4. Whereto shall they flee that the wicked are not rampant? Is there a mountaintop fashioned to receive them?
5. I say unto you, the pure in heart render no accountings to the makers of earth's mischiefs; they stand with the valiant and perform a vast combat.
6. I tell you it hath come to me that there are those among you waiting to receive the accolades of splendor.
7. They would say unto me when I come, Lord, we have kept the faith; we have raised no hand to give lechery a braking; we have hied ourselves to the small silent place; we have taken up no cudgels to manifest for excellence!
8. I shall say unto them, And what need have I of you? wherein was it of merit that ye fled from the Highroad and left it to the brethren to make it safe from robbers?
9. Behold all the world is a great den of robbers; all mountain roads are fouled; there is sadness in the offing.
10. Ye have gone and have come at the behest of lechery, in that ye didst offer no valiant stave to halt the groanings of the hapless.
11. What need have I of you, who gave the saints no surcease, who offered no scrip that the watchwords might have splendor, yea in a publishing that the victory cometh presently?
12. I say I have marked those who have made their grace a cowardice; I have given up mine hope that they speak as those righteous;
13. They befoul the Lord's nest with proclaimings at violence, yet do they seek peace with the pipings of linnets.
14. Away with them, I tell you!
15. Grace hath its moment, pride hath its monument; the great of the earth have stood strong for vigor in treating with the dark ones when the earth was a pestilence because of their rompings.
16. I say it is not grace that ye stand aside while the valiant do a heroism; I say that ye are called to do battle for ennoblement; a price is fixed on you; I have paid with my blood that the heroes have their sustenance.
17. What manner of man among you, seeing wolves in his sheepflock, would say unto himself, I am beholden by my precepts to let them slay wantonly?
18. Were wolves sent among the sheep to try the shepherd's patience? I say they are sent that the shepherd know his office, that the dark ones be cast out, that the sheepfold be as sanctuary for those unprotected by that which Nature gave them.
19. Hear ye my words, I speak with understanding.
20. I abide not in that grace which saith, We are beholden unto the Father for our manna, and yet do no good thing that the manna fall upon them.
21. The way of this world is the track of the provident; man hath his errand unto himself; he riseth or falleth by that which he proclaimeth.
22. If he proclaimeth violence, violence cometh unto him; if he proclaim that which is righteous, righteousness bestoweth itself unto surfeit.
23. All, all is of election.
24. Think ye that manna descendeth on those who have put forth no effort to hold out their aprons?
25. I say that as man wills it, his destiny cometh unto him.
26. There is action, and action; there is that which besetteth and that which harboreth no resentment that the light is extinguished, that the soul of humanity gropeth for radiance.
27. I tell you that man maketh no progress when he saith to himself: The night is upon us, let us light all lamps for behold the robbers visit us.
28. I say to such miscreants, The night is upon you, but whence came it, I ask you? . . . was it for hiding? . . was it for skulking in the radiance of safeties?
29. Nay, nay, beloved; the grace of the Father cloaketh no cowards, bidding them be righteous by fleeing malfeasance.
30. I caution you to courage, to manifest weaponhood, to take up the righteous bonnet and cloak your heads with fearlessness.
31. The enemy pursueth you in that ye run from him; the coward taketh flight when the courageous man marketh him.
32. There is a Light, and a Way. . . .
33. I have cautioned you to peace in that it is your essence; I have mentioned no peace that giveth insult unto probity.
34. The way of the righteous man is courageous; the track of the fearful soul is an ignominy; choose ye this hour whom ye shall follow, him who hath a righteous purpose emblazoned on his forearm, or him who saith, Peace, the righteous are beholden to fight our battles for us!
35. Was I ever a coward? . . . have I not led you through many dispensations?
36. I give mine own their increase, but I give not an increase to those who clasp at silence while the valiant fight the conflict.
37. They say unto me, What mattereth it? . . . we have kept to the letter of the law in that we made no violence.
38. I say unto them, When have I ever told you that ye shouldst hide in caves upon the mountain as the valleys fill with tumult? . . . is it not of valiance that ye shouldst bear your armor if the profit cometh to you when the conflict hath its turning?
39. I am Lord of the Mighty; I praise not the blanched cheek; behold I mint no coinage to pay those of no courage who take the grace and let the miscreant persist in his sacrilege that they may escape the toil of the combat.
40. Such are of evil; the enemy smileth on them.
41. The enemy saith unto himself, Behold these are wanton, they are poor in their stamina, they give no courage to the valiant, they go and come mincingly lest their footsteps raise a havoc and their hidings be discovered.
42. Let us upon them and make them our own, for behold by their numbers shall they increase our prestige!
43. I say it is perverse to eternity's purpose that these have their moment and discourage the circumspect.
44. Rise up, ye mighty, and do the Lord's work! . . . the enemy surroundeth you, he giveth you a trumpeting!
45. Were these things predicted that men should be wheatstalks? . . . I tell you the fertile courage hath made highroads unto splendor.
46. The Father delighteth in him who saith, I perceive the times are evil; I will gird up my loins and make havoc for my precepts, behold they are righteous, no shame lurketh in me that I have embraced them.
47. So be it, beloved! . . . courage is your watchword! . . . stamina is your shibboleth! . . . action is your tocsin!
48. I say I lead the cohorts of the righteous ones as with a proud tread; they rejoice within my bosom, for the evil hour falleth and the sun of day setteth; the robbers venture forth and the wolves take up their howlings.
49. These are the hours when the Son of Man watcheth, to select those of courage for that which ensueth. . . .
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