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.
|
Chapter 123:
The Choice Is Man's
<< Previous | Home | Next >>
1. BEHOLD I have come to you in the whisperings of conscience; I have stood upon your doorstone and sought to gain entrance;
2. I have been many things unto many men; I have been their good genius; I have been their fond utterance;
3. I have gathered together with the righteous men of earth; I have stood up as their shepherd; I have brought them their increase.
4. Is it meet that they should mock me? should they not do me honor? whence cometh this voice that crieth, The righteous are shepherdless; the times know befoulment?
5. I say, The times know not befoulment; the times know adjustment. The righteous man seeth his own righteousness, that it is righteous; the evil man seeth that his works are evil, that they do turn on him and rend him.
6. Would we who are righteous in our thoughts have evil to triumph in that it knoweth not itself for its own penury?
7. Of old did the prophets say that man cometh to his accounting, that the evil man hath his pathway to choose, seeing it is evil.
8. I tell you that the righteous man must look upon iniquity and perceive that it is foul; he must make his own choice; he must say unto himself, These things have I perceived, that there is error in them; therefore will I eschew the error and cleave unto the good that my soul may prosper.
9. Man thinketh not unto himself, It is well that I should do this thing, when his ways all lie in pleasant places, when there is neither drought nor tempest, when the winds of chance bear him no havoc.
10. Man thinketh unto himself, These are my choices whether I should do good unto myself and evil unto my neighbor or whether I seek the paths of righteousness that both may prosper, when the tempests howl and the forests rage, when there is neither surcease of battle nor end to the madness of his quandaries.
11. Hath not the Father provided these eschewments? hath not the Father decreed that the choice should be man's, of his free-will, whether he serve Satan, or cling to nobler precepts?
12. Think ye there is no power within the Father's arm to end this mad embrace of Mammon? what think ye the Father's power is?
13. I say, twice forty maketh eighty, and twice fifty maketh a hundred, and yet millions of such numbers would not encompass the Father's Host to perform the battle that good may triumph.
14. And yet I tell you the choice is man's; man's battle against his own beastliness doth the wonders that presently are manifest.
15. Is the punishment harsh? I say it is not punishment, it is self-revilement that he hath wandered far in iniquity, and now his sins have found him out.
16. If a man doth an evil deed and his conscience pursueth him unto torment, how say ye that the punishment is harsh? would ye ask that the Father take away conscience?
17. Man hath blundered grievously and his times have found him out; he hath come unto his own accounting, and we who would help him if he would but let us, view him from afar off and say,
18. He hath set his own traps and fallen into them; he hath dug his own pits and their depths have seized him; how then go we to succor him with compassion for his imprisonments, when he hath made them of himself, bethinking to entrap the feet of others?
19. Verily, verily, we are beholden to succor him, but not for his imprisonments in his own traps, in his own pitfalls.
20. It behooveth us rather to show him his waywardness, to point out his errors, to say, In that ye have set traps for the feet of your brethren, ye have learned the traps' seizure of your own feet, and therefore ye suffer it.
21. My beloved, be wise: Not all mankind falleth into the traps of Mammon's setting; the race is not perished; verily there are those who do good deeds unto surfeit.
22. They are the anointed; for them there is augury that the harsh times are imminent, that many men fall in battle array, but that the pestilence and tumult are not for the firesides of those who have said,
23. We perceive the evil man's choice and rue it, we give no hostages to Mammon, we do the clean deed that good may triumph. . . . .
<< Previous | Home | Next >>
|