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 157:
Man Cometh to His Accounting
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1. THE EVIL DAYS have a surfeit in this: that they shall come upon man unannounced; yea without warning shall they spring upon him.
2. He shall go forth to his labor as the sunshine inviteth him; behold the noon-clouds shall darken; there is tempest in the vista; he shall run for his roof and the storm shall engulf him.
3. But with the pure in heart I say it is not so. The signs and the seasons shall endow them with blessings; they shall see the fell portents and treat calmly disaster.
4. Man cometh to his accounting; each man saith unto himself, Wherein have I been negligent? am I beholden for this storm which hath descended on me? have I made it by my essence? have befouled wits invited it?
5. Behold in that day is he wise, and the storm passeth from him.
6. I tell you that the storm which cometh upon humankind hath been decreed from the beginning; man hath been evil in his wits; he hath sought to slay his brother.
7. Not all have slain by instruments of torture. Behold there be murderers who wear smiling faces; they attend upon vast alchemies; they say, This is good for humankind, when what they mean is, Verily it prospereth us in our private purses; lo, we do this thing that humankind may profit, for in that our purses be fat unto richness, so shower the blessings on those who do neighbor us.
8. I say they are leeches; they fasten on humanity and drain its veins of goodness.
9. The righteous are the stalwart; there is no murder in them; they give their strength valiantly that the weakest know succor;
10. They give no thought to the viands of their pantries; they do not seek riches to ennoble their ministerings.
11. I tell you that they minister each as his hand findeth labors to employ it and according to his talent is his ministry rendered unto him. Behold I have said it.
12. There are those who will tell you that the Father hath his minions, that the earth is a resting-place upon the bosom of the infinite, that all who think rightly have their names upon the roster, that man hath his foulness and that there is no end to it.
13. Is the Father mindful of a little increase? doth He take His delight in skimming off the righteous as the milker skimmeth cream? doth He sit in His heaven that His glory may be manifest?
14. I say that the world is the Father Incarnate! Ye are sons of His flesh! On your heads be the blessing! He cometh and goeth, not in strident pronouncings, but in the still, small voice that beseecheth you in grandeurs.
15. Is the world a foul pestilence? and have ye not made it? and if ye have made it, and none else, is it meet that ye do upbraid the Father for that which ye have worked?
16. I say that among you are sons of darkness; they do no good thing; they perform their sleek alchemies.
17. They come and go among the nations saying, Give us of your substance, for are we not mighty? do we not take it?
18. What then of those who do labor in a mighty silence that the kingdom may come in? I tell you they shall in no wise be without their reward.
19. Of old ye have heard it said that the wicked shall be cast down. Verily have ye heard it.
20. But shall Caesar come and do it unto you? shall a conqueror decree it that men may turn privily unto their eschewments?
21. I tell you that the drone hath exhibited better manners.
22. The world is your abiding-place. I say unto you, Bestir yourselves, see that ye make it beauteous for me, decree yourselves labors, arrest the evil man and make his sons pariah among you that your peace may come in to you and your hearthstones know their brightness!
23. What mattereth it unto the Father that the world hath its foulness? doth He not dwell among you by your own preferments?
24. I say unto you that there are worlds upon worlds within the body of the Father; He seeketh not His own in order to destroy it, He saith unto that which is His essence:
25. Make it orderly for Me, and in that it is orderly ye do know Me for My presence dwelling among you, verily within you, for such is My passion that these things are goodly.
26. Doth the wren build her nest where the fowler's gun disturbeth it? is it needful that the Father should dwell in a squalor? whenever invited ye earth's sots into your drawing rooms?
27. I say that ye are given this world as your heritage. It is your household. Keep it.
28. Go ye forth into its market places and say, For this are we beholden, that no lechery proclaimeth here; we are wardens to the Infinite; we perform a bright household.
29. Get ye up, ye tricksters, and commit no more vomit; deliver us clean linens that the guest within our gates likewise hath his gladness; behold it is an abomination unto us that ye sit here in your leprosies; who hath decreed that we must regale you?
30. So be it, my beloved.
31. The little man pipeth and waileth his beseechment; he saith in his littleness, This world is my torment.
32. I say mightily unto him, And how comest thou by such torment of thine own election? dost thou then prefer to be tormented? what is it to me, that thou hast such eschewment?
33. Verily if it is of thine own enlightenment that thou shouldst dwell in tumult, beseech me not for thy deliverance for such is of thy power.
34. Wherein is it of moment to me, that I should be deliverer unto those who will not walk out of that which tormenteth them? or will not take vision when they have eyes to witness the avenues unto freedom?
35. Whenever was it said of me that I should come saving those who had no heart for it?
36. I say unto the wise of earth, Arise! Get ye up! Behold, if ye are blinded then I give your eyes power to penetrate earth's darkness; but if your eyes offend you not, then step into the radiance.
37. I am come over many years to say unto man: Thy deliverance is thine own! I am thy guide, verily thy shepherd, but if the sheep will not follow where I lead them, having wisdom of my pasturings, then go I unto the willing ones who mock me not with follies.
38. My doctrine is valiant. Whenever was it otherwise?
39. Too long hath it been said among men, There is one to save us.
40. Verily it is so. But saving hath this quality, that it giveth the wise man wisdom where to lay his head that the wolves come not on him nor the robbers find him out.
41. This is a mighty calling, beloved.
42. We go from age to age, saying unto the wise, Behold thine own salvation! that the earth is thine abiding-place, but keep it sweet and holy.
43. When have I ever told you that man should make his bed with beasts, or give unto the evil man his avenues of perdition?
44. Verily have I said unto the world, Come, ye righteous, out of it. But would I have them leave it to its folly? Behold I tell them, Make its follies clean.
45. Give goodly measure unto those who would conspire to rend you but say not unto them, Your rending hath its sweetness; behold we suffer it in that we are sluggards.
46. I say ye are not sluggards; ye have a charge to keep, that the wicked see your valiance and mend their ways, lest your indignation bestoweth on them your chastisement in a conquering.
47. Are ye slaves unto the vile ones? Shall the ark of the covenant be transported by knaves?
48. Is there holiness in silence when the voice would make clean the pathways unto excellence?
49. Think not that I chide you. I would bid you to that excellence. . . .
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