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 124:
Goodly Thinking Is Not Enough
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1. BEHOLD, my beloved, it hath come to me that there are those who say, Let us take unto ourselves noble thoughts and a pure intent, that the enemy waste us not, that fire doth not visit us, that the cohorts of Mammon pass us by in the highroad, that we dwell upon a tableland while pestilence and pillage stalk the valleys.
2. Hear ye my words; I speak of them, beloved:
3. I say unto such, as I have said oft before, Is it that thy thoughts are pure, my brother, that thou sayest unto thyself, The tumult is not for me and my board?
4. Or is it that thy intellect knoweth a sluggishness, that thy heart hath a faintness to strike blows for righteousness, knowing the two-edged weapon is keen?
5. Thou hast persisted in thy folly; thou hast seen the evil man take usury from his brother and uttered no protest; thou hast come and gone in the market places before the trouble, and thought no good thoughts to cleanse it of its foulness.
6. But behold now an evil day hath come upon thee and a tumult waxeth; the gods of mighty thunders ride in chariots; the weak of earth hunger, and the infants perish;
7. Thereat thou dost hasten into thy closet and shut its doors, thou dost barricade thyself in a closed place, thee and thy loved ones, and turn a blanched cheek to the God of Wrath saying,
8. Constructive thoughts will save us, O divine one! I am pure in mine intent, therefore let Thy tempest pass me by!
9. I say unto such, Thou foolish one! . . . hath the forward thought a power within itself to move mountains, if the mountains have no place to be transported?
10. Why givest thou thyself such thought concerning thine own righteousness in this mad hour? hath the God of the Humble no right to be heard, that He should utter no call to your own conscience to right a wrong, to make the crooked straight, whilst thou dost think thy blissful vagaries?
11. Is it thinking righteously to reason, There is no hunger! even as thy brother calleth to thee from the chasm to cast him food?
12. Behold the evil man saith, Do naught, only think, and all will be well with thee. . . . . . . . O my brethren, perceive the Tempter! . . .
13. How think ye at all concerning men's trespasses, and perceive not that mighty strokes are wanted to cleanse a foul shambles, to end a mad slaughter, to make the crooked straight, to pursue a bright highroad from which robbers have been banished?
14. What is thinking, that it is given you and ye do not perceive the folly and the wickedness, that ye should hie yourselves into your sanctuaries of spirit and sit upon soft cushions of hope while the whole world groaneth?
15. I have asked you of old which one among you by taking thought canst add one cubit to his stature; yet is it not true that the supple muscle propelled by thought can give the body its noble increase?
16. Whereof were such miracles provided by the Father if not for the doing by those who have wisdom, who know Nature's processes that they do not work in guile?
17. I tell you the thought directeth the muscle, the muscle performeth, and goodly works have being; whenever was it otherwise?
18. The thought hath power to move mountains indeed, but mountains are Things; they are not men's spirits.
19. Which one of you by taking thought can say, Neighbor, be perfect!
20. Verily each of you can use the thought and bend the muscle, plucking the pebble that is the mountain in miniature from the highroad of men's hopes.
21. But not one among you can raise a bright serpent, and command the spirits of men that they should be wise, or lift the Sword of Thought and say, By its keenness do I make all men marvelous!
22. I beseech you, beloved, think on these things.
23. To think righteously is to say, This thing I should do that my brother may profit; behold I am given the casting of a choice; I can turn to the valley, I can scale the steep height; my will is mine own.
24. I can employ it righteously that righteousness may come of mine endeavor; I can go the fell way and pursue mine own selfishness, calling it righteousness that I take no activity unto myself that hath alteration in it; thought is for choice that I may know in truth the pathway which I take, and where it leadeth me at its ending!
25. Behold ten thousand times ten thousand angels wish men well, yet hath not all the thinking of the heavenly cohorts been able to save one soul from its own folly.
26. There are those who preach peace when peace meaneth the sword; there are those who preach tumult when it meaneth a preservation of the species.
27. Which of these is most righteous in the sight of the Father: the peace that is folly, that permitteth iniquity, or the tumult that bringeth in a goodly blessing, that watereth the earth, that banisheth its robbers, that maketh the highroad a place of safety for those who have no arms to defend them?………
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