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 114:
Joy Cometh out of Service
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1. EXCEPT ye make music unto me, ye cannot render harmony!
2. I am he who saith, Let there be harmony! I am he who crieth, Let there be delight!
3. Lo, a voice speaketh and all things are made humble! I am he who speaketh, and all things know my voice.
4. Strange are the ways of eternal benefaction; strange and steep are the paths unto the radiance;
5. Strange are the ways by which the souls of men are led to make music to him who cometh creating, even the Spirit in the costume of holiness.
6. Hear me, beloved! I speak to you in silence, I speak to you in song; I say, There are mountains to be vanquished; there are races to be run, there are chasms to be crossed, there are cliffs to be surmounted;
7. All things are achieved by those who harken to the intelligence of Spirit. . . .
8. Whilst I have spoken, ye have been spending: whilst I have talked, a banquet have ye held unto your subtler senses; whilst I have endured, ye have been sleeping;
9. Ever was it thus.
10. The things that are yours, I keep them for you until ye have supped, until ye have awakened.
11. Have we not known adversity with cheerfulness? what doth it profit us if we greet not the Tempter with a smile? what maketh the profit but the Spirit Courageous that hath substance in endurance?
12. I say unto you, beloved, I too have endured; I too have suffered; I too have known quandary.
13. We are brethren in the Spirit, sisters in the Mercy; we make evil men to know the goodness of thanksgiving and selfish souls to find the path to holiness through pain.
14. Think not that I heed not when great is your distress.
15. There are those who say, Who is god but Caesar? who is our prince but he who compelleth us to do to him a reverence?
16. I tell you, beloved, they know not the prince,
17. For the prince cometh saying, Abide ye in me that I may protect you; I bear you no malice, I do you no wrong, I seek only to serve that ye may be great.
18. My beloved, it is important that these things should be known to you: Except ye do make obeisance to him who is least among you, ye shall in no wise know the kingdom of protection.
19. There come unto you those who say, Let us be glad that the prince is a weakling, else would he slay us for our disobedience.
20. We say unto them, Let no thought of disobedience enter, for verily the disobedience hath error in it, being lack of loyalty unto yourselves.
21. The king requireth no obedience, being king in his spirit; only the foolish ones follow in the train of him who saith, Bow down and do me reverence!
22. I say unto men: Rise up and do honor unto yourselves, who are gems of light in a diadem of immortality!
23. When men shall say unto us, There is no God but Caesar, tell them that Caesar hath his troubles privily, whether he is great.
24. But think ye, beloved, that those who serve in greatness fear for their preeminence? Verily, verily, ye know how to answer it.
25. When evil days befall you, have ye not memories of times gone before when all things worked together for your honor and respect?
26. How say ye unto one another, We fall on evil days?
27. Are ye not children in shortness of memory?
28. Out of the mouths of the forsaken cometh the cry of hope: Lo, He hath not forsaken us, though all else hath turned against us!
29. Cherish them, beloved, who do cry unto the Father, May this misery pass from us! give heed to those who cry, Let us perish from this tumult!
30. Succor the afflicted, do good unto those who rend you, open your storehouses and give unto those who cry, Our bellies are empty, we implore you for food, food for our spirits as well as our bodies, food for our hearts as well as our stomachs!
31. Perish the thought that joy cometh out of gladness: joy cometh out of service, each one for the other.
32. Harken to my words lest the evil days befall you!
33. Let there always and forever be compact between us; behold this is the compact:
34. Farther and farther into the haze of memory journey the souls to whom we owe debts; we pay those debts in circumstance to those who follow after, giving of our riches, ennobling with our talents.
35. When the lean days shall come, we remember our brethren who would fain suffer with us; in concord do we eat, each nourisheth the other.
36. Peace, my beloved! Make music unto Caesar as he may require it, being empty and vain-headed; make anthems unto those who do good among the lowly; make vaster, sweeter music unto those who come and go, serving one another,
37. For they are the princes and lords of the household, even the mansions waiting to receive you.
38. Thus say I this hour.
39. Ye do have a goodly mission amongst the peoples of the earth-place; find in it solace, for therein is benefaction.
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