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 143:
Concerning Lean Days
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1. VERILY it hath been said among you, When the lean days shall come, how shall our Lord deliver us? hath manna been reserved for us? shall we travel with the goat upon far mountainsides? what shall be our portion when the enemy sitteth on us?
2. Beloved, I instruct you in these things also.
3. I say unto you that a time cometh when man eateth not, neither cheweth, lest he crush his teeth upon spikes that gore him. The earth hath a vomit for the sons of men. They have raised a great havoc and the four winds mock them.
4. In that day I shall say unto mine own, Perceive ye the great treasure that I have reserved unto mine own; I have watered them as lilies, I have kneaded them as loaves.
5. Behold men shall run to and fro crying, This is our treasure, that we have wrested coins from the perishing, we have taken of them ransom, verily of the blood of those whom we have vanquished.
6. Is there merit in such, my dearly beloved?
7. Have I not opened the door of a house for you? Have I not sent you friends who were mindful of your welfare? is it meet that ye eschew me in that ye deceive yourselves concerning the treasure?
8. The evil man saith: Treasure is ever golden, it always hath its glistening, it inviteth the circumspect, it partaketh not of folly.
9. I tell the evil man that he knoweth not of the devious ways by which the righteous are raised above man's tumult; I say that I shall put bread in the mouths of those who least expect it, I shall give them raisins if they have no dates, I shall give them butter if they know not honey.
10. Behold it encompasseth each man's life to know his own treasure by his own election, verily to command it in that he hath chosen it.
11. Ye do say amongst yourselves that your woes are visited on you that ye may have testings, that your strength may be known to you;
12. I say unto you that there are those amongst you whose woes are sent as a testing indeed, but in that they have ordered them, they have called them up of their spiritual treasure, they have said unto themselves,
13. These things in life are of profit to our spirits, we will go in and know them, we will come out and judge them, yea we will take them into our essence.
14. These are the circumspect, their lives find them out and award them full measures of the grain that is Experience; they go and come mightily in future dispensations in that they have found the highroad to spiritual accomplishment and their feet ring loud upon it, their strivings and stridings keep pace with the aeons and the witcheries of mastership.
15. What shall we say then of those who come mourning, saying in their bitterness, I have taken of the cup of life and found its taste sour, I have lifted up a loaf and its wheat is as ashes, verily the world hath cast me out and I perish in my weakness.
16. I tell you, beloved, I will have no part of him who saith, It is not for any purpose.
17. All things have their purpose. There is joy in each dawning that the day bringeth sunlight. The earth hath her orbit, she hourly pursueth it.
18. These are they who have come into life with a halting and a trembling. Hath the evil man beaten them? they cringe from the lashing. Hath the selfish man ravaged them? they say it with sighings that such was his privilege.
19. My beloved, be wise. There are those who have come into the times of torment to learn of their own malfeasance of indignation that they should be strong where now they are weak, that they should be righteous where now they are timid.
20. Doth the evil man wrest from him who is strong? doth the selfish man take from him who is sturdy?
21. Behold the whole earth divideth and the evil ones say, Give us of your increase in that we demand it, hand over to our care your birthrights of treasure or lo, we send sheriffs to lay warrants upon them.
22. Is it of evil to say, Not so! our increase is our own in that we have labored, our treasure is our children's in that we have gathered it?
23. I tell you that it is equally evil to contribute to a whoredom in that the unrighteous of the world declare unto the righteous, We are your masters, therefore we take.
24. Whenever did the Father set them up as masters of the righteous?
25. I say unto you that if so be it the righteous man accedeth to the loss, thereby hath he earned it and the law is not for him.
26. The righteous man is he who standeth nobly and declareth, These things are mine own, in that I have labored and procured them, I have come by them justly, I have found them in my furrow; wherefore do I protect them, and if the evil man encountereth injury whilst I do it, that is his injury and the shed blood is his own.
27. The world, I tell you, approacheth the accounting; the trickster hath cheated, the whore hath made her bed;
28. All, all are guilty in that they do suffer it.
29. Is it meet that we should halt that accounting being rendered, that we say unto the lecherous, The price shall not be paid?
30. I say to men, Pay it.
31. The evil man hath his balance to be adjusted, his trade must be struck off, his vaults must be opened; he must return unto the widow that which he hath wrested, and unto the widow's child the last farthing of his treasure.
32. Behold it is not his treasure, it never was his treasure, only that the weak have suffered him to wrest it. . . .
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