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 102:
Who Singeth of Sweetness?
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1. DEARLY beloved: There hath come a high note to you, played across the aeons: there hath come a great tocsin making music for millions: behold the augurers of circumstance have gathered in a chorus, they have given man a password, they have filled his ears with singing.
2. Behold ten thousand times ten thousand have assembled on a mountain, they have caroled to the sunrise: yet the valleys hold their darkness, there is slumber in men's eardrums.
3. The great of the worlds have made to men their carolings, the beauteous in spirit have composed for men their anthems;
4. Yet ever hath it happened that men have heard no music: they have raised their own discord to shut out higher harmonies.
5. I tell you the proud have talked in many thickets: I tell you the uncircumspect have bathed in sullied waters: I tell you the carrion from the bones of many men hath made a stench on grieving landscapes;
6. Should we sing of these, beloved?
7. Should not anthems be sung rather, of those who sought ennoblement?
8. Hear ye my music, for I sing to you of truthhood, hear ye my harmony for I make of it a sunrise. . . .
9. The time cometh shortly when men shall greet probity: they shall say unto themselves, Why bear we with such mockeries seeing that they rend us?
10. The time shall come in when men expect it least that the Great shall rise beauteously, they shall cast off their weapons, they shall stand forth as messengers unto the Morning.
11. There shall be a great tumult and men shall partake of it: there shall be a great peace and men shall encompass it.
12. I tell you that it is not lechery always that maketh man to mourn; I say that his spirit faileth him, he lacketh the wisdom to give vision to his hungerings.
13. He buildeth himself an exceeding fine mansion and proceedeth then to daub it with the dung of dubious portents;
14. Verily he buildeth himself a house that scaleth many heavens, yet he goeth not up into chambers of radiance, he climbeth not out upon roofs of far prophecies;
15. Ever doth he say unto himself, I have builded mine house and its stout walls defend me, but even their stoutness belieth mine auguries.
16. Rather will I dig myself a ditch, and in it shall I hide myself; I shall go into the darkness lest the sun of knowledge burn me.
17. Whence cometh this rancor to shrink from the sunlight? I tell you that man hath his carrion-patch, he hath his beds of treaties made foul with his hatreds, he hath had his coffers emptied and verily they plague him, he hath his days of dark report that ever mock his longings.
18. These things humor him: that he should eat his rancor and conquer tastes of bitterness, that the carrion-patch of carnage find him eager to stalk in it.
19. These things we ask him: And is it not of mercy that thou shouldst show more cleverness? is it not of sweet report that thou shouldst pluck the thorn that giveth others anguish? is it not thy mission unto thyself as god to treat with all who come to thee, that life may lose its bivouac and ramparts weigh with roses?
20. Whereof doth mankind struggle that struggling ever raiseth him?
21. I tell you that struggle hath this potential: that it causeth the bicep to make a proud rippling of lightning, it breaketh the lock on the strong-box of courage and taketh out weapons that are scarlet in sunlight;
22. But should struggle have no surcease? must alarm be a vice that hath naught to appease it? should not the languor of earth's nobler things steal like a wine through all arteries of attemptings?
23. There is Balance to be greeted, there is Poise to be enacted, there is essence of all harvestings to give sense to many sowings.
24. Too long have men said amongst themselves, Behold our marrow hurteth us, behold we have tempers that should ever flash their burnishings, behold we are allotted an arena for our energies and if we contest not, then leagues of torments stalk us.
25. I say unto men: It is glorious to struggle when struggle hath its warrant, it is noble to persevere, it is sweet to conquer vileness when the conquering maketh beauty;
26. Behold I tell you that purer than all of these is the trait beyond fortitude: that man should see his god-state and saunter proudly in it, that man should know his god-craft and pursue it as a triumph.
27. Be not men of little manners! be not beasts of little gnashings!
28. See that for which thou strugglest as a vestment for a sacrament.
29. Lift up your heads, O ye gates of great fortitude, and allow to pass under you those who have won a great fight in their manners!
30. Give music, O ye harps of omnipotent excellence, for those who have watched through these nights for Great Dawnings!
31. All is not lechery. All is not baseness. Tears are for joy as well as bleak sorrowing.
32 So greet we this Sunrise, and in it, its majesties.
33. Those who have fought the good fight have fought not for the fighting: verily have they battled that their peace might be a bouquet;
34. Those who have toiled and come through a loathsomeness, have labored that a cleanliness walk as a goddess.
35. Have eschewments in overcoming: take delight in measuring treasures.
36. The world hath its foulness that sweetness may be known to you, the fight hath its savagery that orchards may sigh pleasantly.
37. Who therefore singeth proudest of the sweetness of the Blessings? I tell you it is he who hath done most to reach them, I say it is those who have strewn them while commanding them.
38. So I sing of a victory that hath no sorrow in it! I sweeten earth's conflicts with my glimpsings of men's destinies!
39. Contest and be strong but see ye to the end of it; persevere and be stalwart but know that conflict is a gain to an accolade.
40. Arise! get ye up! give obeisance unto stamina! for the arms of your progeny are waiting with their garlands;
41. Verily shall they place those garlands upon the brows of those who gave challenge unto tumult, but only that Valor might enshackle all Eternities!
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