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 119:
Haggle Not Over Tenets of Spirit
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1. HAVE I not said that the way to understanding is made of many barriers? is it not true that the pathways unto righteousness have small comfort in them? is it not true that the ways of reaching mastery have the technique as of angels?
2. My beloved, hear my voice: these are the things I would tell you this hour; these are the matters I would treat with my reason. . . .
3. There are those who come saying, Let us be wise, even with your wisdom; share with us your trophies from the hunt for the eternal.
4. They do not deal in guile; they do not make mock of that which ye would teach them; they long in their hearts for the golden fruits of vision.
5. I tell you to bear with them, ten thousand times ten thousand.
6. Which one among you, having cause for error in his precepts, hath not cried aloud for the white lamp of knowledge, that it might illumine his depths of intelligence?
7. Which one among you hath not had the humor to ask of the Father the way to understanding? is it not meet that such should be answered?
8. What greater gift cometh than the knowledge of my presence? I answer your quandaries; I tell you of mysteries; my beloved, harken unto me.
9. What brighter light shineth than the lamp of perfect radiance? what vaster ways open than the paths of beneficence? what sterner height reareth than that summit toward the Godhead?
10. Of these I would tell you; of these I make verses.
11. Consider the ways of the eagle a-flying: hath he not wisdom? hath he not balance? when doth he fall, though tempests beat against him? always and again he rideth swift gales.
12. Beloved, I say unto you, be ye likewise skillful, even in flight, even with your wings.
13. Take thought unto your mastery achieved by your talents; do ye not ride as the eagle the gale?
14. That which cometh, cometh! that which will be, will be! Harken unto my voice, hear ye my reasonings! . . .
15. I bid that ye lie down in beds of sweet spices, yet I tell you ye know not where or when those beds greet you;
16. I bid that ye drink waters that are not of defilement, I bid that ye eat viands that are not of lean nourishment, but whence cometh the feasting ye know not with knowledge.
17. Hear ye my versings: When cometh the tempter with revilements or amusements, remember my presence and bid him hasten from you; yea bid him be gone in the name of the Father, else doth he cherish a doom for his psyche, else doth he make of his sight a vast darkness.
18. Whence come these thoughts that ask, Would I not serve better if I were more prosperous?
19. How ask ye of yourselves the extent of the service? how ask ye of yourselves the enduring of the tenure? how make ye yourselves to know the depth of the sacrifice?
20. I say that I have shown you the paths to which I call you; I say that I have traveled those paths with my body; I say that I have made greater things come to pass than any ye have chosen; behold I have manifested greater endurance than any ye have witnessed.
21. Happy is the man who hath made the true sacrifice, even of his time, even of his talents; he shall know joy not known to the ancients, he shall know pleasures not met upon the highroad.
22. Whenever was it said that the anointed have no ease? yea they have ease not known in Zion.
23. Greatly have I taught you; vomit your wearyings of circumstance within you, trim your beards neatly in that others behold them.
24. Let us reason together: Of old it was said that man ascendeth unto mastery; of old it was vaunted that he attaineth unto vigilance, even of salvation.
25. What cometh he doing, this vaunter of past years, but making defilements against his inner spirit? what cometh he attempting, unless it be tumult in place of understanding?
26. I say unto you, Peace! I bid that ye go forth and speak of his defilements; I bid that ye rise up and take note of his expressions.
27. Haggle not, my beloved, over tenets of spirit; grasp firm hold on love and manifest through error.
28. Wherefore shall a man sell his coat to buy himself a cloak? is he not foolish for thus reasoning with himself?
29. Would any among you sell of your birthright to buy yourself a heritage less than your patrimony?
30. What of the foolish who do those things now?
31. My beloved, I adjure you, give heed unto your talents; make an errand of your reasonings, compel your undertanding into treasures to surfeit;
32. Thus walk ye with a surety, and an angel company visiteth you.
33. Behold ye have come a long way over a hard road, and yet I say unto you, The lamp of hope goeth not out. . .
34. There are those who do tend it; there are those who do trim it; behold they abide awhile in a great darkness that the lamp which they tend goeth not out in darkness.
35. Is it not meet that ye do reward their sacrifice?
36. Think on these things. I say it shall be with you one day as it now is with them; ye shall tend a great light that the wayward know its beacon.
37. I have come unto you in versings, I have spoken to you in psalms, I have lifted up my tocsin, I have lit the Great Light;
38. Give heed unto my discourses, that the lamp of hope may blaze with a radiance that is new. . . .
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