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 101:
Parable of the Roses
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1. HAPPY is the man who maketh his home among the tents of the valiant; happy is he who doth that which is pleasing to those who dwell amid the Light.
2. Voices shall he hear when his heart is in the shadows; anthems shall he raise when no comforts come with circumstance.
3. Whosoever hath founded his life upon a principle hath done it upon a rock.
4. My beloved, hear my voice: except ye become as those who have lifted up their voices, ye shall not know radiance that shineth from above.
5. I have talked and ye have listened; I have spoken and ye have heard; I have sent you my message, ye have used it as a principle.
6. What cometh now but the glory of recompense?
7. My beloved, I charge you, not for things left undone but for precipitant desires; holy is the man who walketh not impatiently; happy is the man who can keep a tryst with Time.
8. Except ye become as children ye cannot know the thoughts of a child which hath all Time in its keeping, years that are endless.
9. What would ye of me? . . . goodly company cometh to you; goodly substance visiteth on you; goodly companionship ye have in one another; all things are added to those who do good.
10. When the mighty have fallen, who will show mercy?
11. Have ye not lingered by the wayside when there were harvests to be gathered? think ye that circumstance waiteth upon you? be brave and of fortitude.
12. There are mornings yet to come, there are noons to be endured, there are nights to be cherished; verily the cycle hath not been closed; verily the hourglass hath not been emptied.
13. I would bid you arise; walk together, my beloved, I would bid you know confidence; I would strengthen your footsteps!
14. Hear ye my message: The things of God are God's, but Caesar too hath treasures.
15. What will ye of treasures belonging to Caesar? hath not the Father opened His storehouse?
16. Lo, ye have moments when the evil one tempteth; lo, ye have moments of great exaltation when the voice that ye hear is mine in your hearts.
17. Think ye, beloved, it will ever be otherwise?
18. Will ye bridle your patience at the cost of your destinies?
19. Hear ye my words: We have come to a place where the Road goeth onward, yea in the noon-heat it reacheth into distance.
20. What see ye on that highroad, stragglers or marchers? what see ye in the distance, valleys or hilltops? why see ye a road? why not see a journey?
21. Perceive ye, my beloved, that which I teach you?
22. There cometh to you one whose breath is as perfume; sweet music he playeth on the chords of your spirits; when the heart is cast down, he ennobleth and raiseth it; when the lifted heart singeth, he addeth his music!
23. Day unto day go the high aeons forward, night unto night keep the stars to their courses, for thus are they stars, that they keep to their courses.
24. Is not a man greater than a star? are ye not greater than many stars, beloved, being sons of benefaction?
25. I pray that ye arise and know that I speak.
26. Cometh one unto you whose heart is as summer, whose voice is as silver that ringeth in morning.
27. Have ye not heard it? Why must ye prophesy? Whence come your riddles? I tell you, Father and Son have preached through generations that they come to glory whose laughter is as children's.
28. I speak in a parable, see that ye heed it: A man had a vine, it grew heavy with roses;
29. He said unto his friends, Lo, the roses are fair that grow on my vine;
30. They said unto him, Why keep them for thy pleasure? . . give them to the sick that they may be cheered.
31. He said, Be it as ye will it.
32. Lo, this man clipped his roses to give to the forsaken and beheld thereat a miracle, for where he clipped one rose, appeared there a cluster; where he cut a lone blossom there came a profusion, yea a profusion of beautiful petalings.
33. For every rose given did an increase spring forth till they overran his garden and his walls contained them not.
34. Even so, beloved, keep ye this parable.
35. When come these thoughts that say, I will be joyous when I have known increase. . . . have ye not increase more beautiful than roses? . . . have ye not heard my words of benediction?
36. What want ye of vestments embroidered in silver, or fine food that maketh the belly to sicken?
37. Grace of speech and behavior, control of impatience, graspings for sacrifice, . . . these are your increase, this your ennoblement.
38. When the lean days shall come, who will say truly, Our Lord hath forsaken us?
39. When have ye ever been forsaken, my beloved? . . . would I indeed be the One whom ye know if I did forsake you, even for a moment?
40. Have we no pact that was made in true friendship?
41. I come to you bringing you gifts of my words, pouring them into the vessels of your spirits; I come to you bringing you gifts of ennoblements, emptying them into your phials of understanding.
42. I seek my beloved, laboring in the vineyard, bringing cool water as noonday heat parcheth.
43. All, all, is forgiven to those who thirst greatly; all, all, is expected of those who have water, yea even the water of that Fountain that floweth unto endlessness.
44. Seek ye my spirit when ye are troubled; approach it with gladness; find it in delight; grace find ye in it to practice on trumpets whose anthems of beauty ennoble the workers.
45. I sing you a psalm that is accordant with beauty.
46. Praise him who cometh with viands of intelligence; praise him who bringeth us liquids of wisdoms; set a table for him who hath shown us goodly things; render it with linens, encompass it with garlands.
47. Lo, the Voice speaketh, and a world is made grateful! Lo, there come trumpets with silver in their throats, afar on the hills is heard their sweet music!
48. Let him who hath brought it be ennobled among us, let him who hath wrought it be prince in the household!
49. What need have ye of more grace, beloved? Have I not offered you service in my family? . . .
50. Abide ye and rest awhile, for your swollen feet are weary; presently come chamberlains washing the feet, the rest time is ended, into the sunshine sally my marchers!
51. Always may it be so! Ye have asked, I have given; always so consider it.
52. Horns blow! Music riseth! The hearts of the faithful burst with rejoicings!
53. Hear ye my words. I come unto all of you in due cycle of fulfillment.
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