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 126:
Verily, Men Shall Have a Sign
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1. COSMIC understandings have their basis in probity; where there is beauty, there is divinity.
2. The chords of the heart are as strings of a viol; touching maketh music when rightly maneuvered; touching maketh discord when the fingers are clumsy.
3. My beloved, hear my voice: except ye be open to sanctionings of beauty, ye cannot have the wisdom that abideth with you always.
4. Harken and learn! Feet are the means of transporting you about, hands are the means of giving you expression, eyes are the organs for perceiving infinity, brain is the garment of physical thought.
5. These are the means whereby ye know life, and all these together are parts of a whole.
6. What doth it profit you if there be sanctionings of beauty outside of that whole and ye know not their meanings, lacking organs to perceive them? . . .
7. Consider the lilac growing on a bush, perfuming the air with unspeakable sweetness; whence cometh such sweetness? Ye say that it is scent.
8. I say, the lilac hath a power to send forth her sweetness, but only is it sweetness in that ye discern it, only is it sweetness in that ye receive it, only is it sweetness in that ye value it.
9. Ye have senses of an order for perceiving and knowing, yea even of valuing; is it not meet that there are vast enhancements not known to men because of their lack of equipments to receive them?
10. What profit cometh to anyone from the Father's flowers, if he have not nose to smell a trillion scents upon the evening air?
11. Why do men say, These things only are pertinent, in that we have senses to perceive their characters?
12. Lo, they do not perceive their characters; they perceive only those enactments which do impinge upon discernment, but these are not characters, only enactments.
13. My beloved, I adjure you: the facets of eternity have a trillion glittering surfaces; ye perceive only five, for such are your discernments.
14. Greater things than any which eye hath seen in physical body await the seeing of eye not of flesh!
15. I bid you arise and know that I speak. . . .
16. Holy is the man who hath cast his couch in a desert place, yet seeth only beauty in that which is ensconced there; holier is the man who walketh through a garden and perceiveth in its forms only that which showeth him the limitations of his sensings.
17. Creature on creature, cell-life on cell-life, these build themselves to glory;
18. What can be said for the spirit of man that walketh in darkness, yet casteth a light?
19.Upper reaches of infinity proclaim immortality in that they are peopled with denizens of holy ones who have come to know this lesson: that out of the intricate cometh the simple, out of emblazonment cometh the pure.
20. Mock not at him who saith, The world is conjecture! verily to Sense, it is conjecture.
21. A million facets on a gem do not proclaim the nature of the gem.
22. Happier than mortal is he who is mortal, yet hath gained the broader vision of that which is the infinite. I speak unto you this hour as having understanding; I talk unto you presently as those worthy of ennoblement.
23. Beloved, hear me speak: denizens of other worlds await the great commandment: Do ye unto others as ye would have done unto you; denizens of infinite spaces perceive the great truth: God is eternal, yet a part of themselves.
24. Perceive ye not that in the morning cometh the sun? perceive ye not at noonday that it dependeth overhead? perceive ye not at even that it reclineth in the west?
25. If the sun hath motion unto your eyes, thus to proceed, is it not the greater truth that that which is seen is not always so?
26. Heavenly star twinkleth; men say, It shineth brightly!
27. Do they perceive that which they behold?
28. How come men saying, A sign for our eyes! A couplet for our ears!
29. I tell you, sign upon sign is manifest, verse upon verse is spoken, yet men see them not, neither do men hear them.
30. Can ye perceive a star in the noon-heat? what of the sun, when midnight hath its mission to bring unto earth its mantle of silence? what would men of signs that are greater than these?
31. Suns rise, suns set; stars twinkle, stars wane; yet cometh man saying unto his neighbor, Give me a sign or I do not believe.
32. Verily he shall have a sign, verily, verily, at cost of great tumults.
33. Argue not, my beloved, with those lacking sense; have no mischiefs with those who are dull of acceptance; create no bond of sympathy with those who have said, Let us, by our intelligence, make mock of the divine.
34. The fathers and the sons are wroth, and the children are cast out; lo, do the fathers cleave unto their homes, and the children wander forth beholding no sunlight.
35. These are the things that Mammon proclaimeth, saying unto the sons of men, This is so, and, That is so, in that sense of perception doth prove it.
36. From the mouth of the babe cometh droolings of water; in essence as pure as the spring in its welling; carefully the mother wipeth the mouth, thinking the infant leameth to spew vomitings.
37. Can a babe undefiled spew that which is unclean? Is it not true, beloved, that naught is unclean which cometh in matter when Nature doth manifest?
38. These things are potent: man hath no knowledge of uncleanness in matter when Nature is pure, having essence in divinity; only as man receiveth and taketh unto himself, doth Nature subvert in man's estimation.
39. They are gods of a kind who say unto themselves, Naught is of uncleanness except our own perceptions.
40. There come and go in life men who befoul themselves with slobberings; they are not as children whose saliva is pure; they have vomited excretions composed of strange doctrines; they have lived with strange beasts and wrought whoredoms with fancies.
41. How come such as these to say, God is not just, or, Nature is not clean, or, Life hath impurities, or Heaven is a stink?
42. I tell you, my beloved, they do make their own fetidities; they do eat their own vomit, believing it nourishment.
43. All which happens wrongly, happens for a purpose; all which happens rightly, accomplishes that purpose.
44. We go from world to world, seeking new transfusions of life unto life, contact unto contact. What are our imprisonments but judgments of our merits? What are our ennoblements but the girths of our discernments?
45. Happy is the man who hath rendered obeisance unto the larger intelligence; it maketh him to sing, it returneth as music.
46. I am not he who came to manifest unto those who walk in darkness, so much as to manifest unto those who tread toward brilliance, even that brilliance which floodeth those mansions that receive us at the evening.
47. Happy is the man who cometh out of darkness walking in that light; there are friends to receive him of whom he hath no knowledge; they listen for his footsteps and go forward to meet him, bearing the candles that are taken from the lamp, even that brilliance that brighteneth the household.
48. I speak unto you in parable, I speak unto you in song, I say we have a mission that reposeth in our hearts; this is the mission:
49. Out of darkness cometh slumber, out of sunrise cometh morn; lo, the darkness hath its essence, lo, the sunrise hath its purpose; darkness melteth into sunrise, great is the wisdom when the day doth manifest.
50. Thereat would ye rejoice, having wealth of understanding. 51 Bassoon on bassoon hath raised up a tumult; the viols of the righteous would render sweet harmony; the gods of the music have convulsions of laughter, for ecstasy is theirs that the music hath substance.
52. Sweet singer, sing on! be clever in thy singing!
53. Sweet singer, sing on! be clever in thy learning! . .
54. Thereat art thou ennobled, that thy music hath meaning, even that meaning outplaying shrill trumpets. . . .
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