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 142:
Thus Do Ye Prepare Yourselves
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1. TRUE, YE cannot see circumstance in all its deployments, and the picture looketh black or static according to your vision.
2. And yet I say unto you, avaunt yourselves from this pestilence of sinecure; open your eyes to understanding of event that happeneth about you.
3. Oppress not yourselves by errors of judgment in worldly transfixions; be humble of concept and contrite in submission to a force that is working beyond your comprehension.
4. I bid ye to speak it that man, having a higher resting-place in wisdom, hath a revelation due him of that which impendeth.
5. To say that any one man hath responsibility for this revelation is foolish unto absurdity, yet the chosen are chosen and the called have been called; thus it is Written.
6. Take knowledge unto yourselves and understand this frankly: leave the larger engineering to those who have preceded you in loftiness of vision.
7. Happy is the man who can say unto himself: I am myself, unto myself; I am sufficient in that I am; I need neither revilings from circumstance nor plaudits from people who know not my mission; I go and come beholden only to Him whom I serve.
8. Thus all things shall be well with him, for he leaveth no nets by which others ensnare themselves.
9. I tell you to open of your substance and pay unto those who demand of you if their claims be just; I make no speakings of payments to those who demand of you, saying:
10. He hath led us into a goodly place and then abandoned us in reasonings.
11. Verily are they to exercise themselves in that, for lack of which they revile you.
12. Rush ye not into this mission, beloved. Say not to yourselves, We go at a time and come at a time; verily ye err.
13. Ye do go as I bid and come when I relay unto you that your coming hath profit to the world in event.
14. Trace not upon the tablets of your minds the effects of circumstance in that which man endureth; say not unto yourselves, Behold we labor for the Righteous One and thus escape we penalties, or, We meet with enhancements.
15. Ye do say unto yourselves, What mattereth the place in which we dwell? We go and come at the behest of conditions not of our making, thus do we prepare ourselves for sojourn in tumult, casting off earthly encroachments by attending ourselves upon them.
16. Once ye have started the goodly labor, persist in it diligently until it be ended.
17. Settle your minds and hearts upon the industry of the brevet until it becometh a living thing to you and ye profit accordingly; at all times be guided by reason in your labors, and meet me upon the plane of super-intellect, discharging your commissions in the light of goodly sense.
18. I have no mission to make you picayune in your discernments; I do not say unto you at any time, This thing do or forfeit follows smartly.
19. Thus do I speak to you: We have a plan for worldly procedure; certain items are relevant unto it, other items are base or unworthy; others are pertinent but not important of major manifestation.
20. Those things do which have in them reason, clarity of conscience, nobility of perception, agility of execution, wisdom of experiencing;
21. All others do not, for they are as chaff in the winnowed wheat of endeavor.
22. Go ye unto this man and say, How can I best adjust your obligation, or to that woman and say, How can I serve you surest in the light of your quandary?
23. But take no thought of extra portions of labors effectible for the mere happiness of men and women as they judge it; go straight to your goal as the road alloweth, and all things bend themselves to speed your traveling.
24. I say this unto you also: Thoughts given oppressively to little circumstances put lions in the pathway that pause your moving forward.
25. Journey joyously, journey happily, knowing that obstruction can be encountered on any highroad, that any travel way hath its petty botherances of clime and terrain;
26. Do ye judge of them with vigor and make of them stepping-stones;
27. Heighten your outlook, view the panorama that beckoneth from the years.
28. Say unto yourselves, We sweep everything aside henceforth having petty annoyances and preferences within our observation; we stand ennobled upon a hilltop and read the sunlight as a volume holding scripture for our knowing.
29. Henceforth we partake of no circumstance not of our choosing for the Plan in its entirety.
30. We become birds of passage in worldly event, but passing to a high, high place among the councils of the learned.
31. Remember this, beloved: Anchors are for ships that cannot resist great tides of motion;
32. Be ye not anchored at any time, nor do ye let the tides of motion in personal affairs bear you meaninglessly upon their crests.
33. Plow crosswise, bethinking no anchors, wanting no anchors, sailing joyously in the sunlight of perfect freedom of keel and rudder.
34. At all times would I have you say unto yourselves, Our years are given to a goodly master who compensateth us with love that profiteth us in circumstance; we treat with him only in our discernments of activities, we say unto ourselves even in our preferences,
35. Let us consider which stick of mosaic we do chisel now to fit upon the pattern of that which is prescribed; naught else do we.
36. There are those among you coming to a pass in your affairs for my sake where no earthly thing can have claim upon them, no earthly business, no earthly relationship, wandering as the hare or the wren for a purpose, that they do evaluate all men's affairs impersonally, having no brushes in common with them from the standpoint of unnecessary chattels not pertinent to their laboring.
37. Do ye not see that I bid you to be free to perform a goodly work in a vast and sunlit vineyard, carrying upon your backs no baskets of impedimenta that spill to your discomfiture if so be it ye do trip among the vines;
38. But treading lightly and swiftly where occasion calleth you, having no burden yourselves, that ye may be free to give strength unto others.
39. Employ yourselves adroitly and presently behold that which seemeth unto you a miracle is but the passing of a hand above the magician's bowl of circumstance.
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