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 158:
Increase Cometh of Besettings
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1. HAPPY IS the man who maketh no pitfalls for the feet of his brother; holy is the man without error In his pathway; he shall be as a servant who bringeth a treasure. He rendereth an accounting of that entrusted to him.
2. When have ye been taught that the wicked have profit, except in that circumstance which delivereth no pleasure?
3. I tell you that there is no greater error than this: that man should say, I will seek holiness by fleeing that struggle which performeth unto godliness.
4. True mountains of ease are reared in the Absolute, even that Canaan where milk and honey floweth, but the pathway to those mountains is beset by many lions.
5. Is it unholy to coop the beasts that survive from many perishings?
6. My beloved, be warned; the pestilence stalketh; the wine turneth sour; the bees make no honey; the skies have a darkness.
7. Whenever was it said that man cometh earthward to return without his increase?
8. I say that the increase cometh of besettings; man knoweth his contest, that he defileth his stature by submittings to iniquities.
9. Behold we are called to give nourishment to stamina; we rise up as mighty men; we have noble companionship; we have wine in our beakers; the lay of the minstrel is rich with our rejoicings.
10. Taken together, our increase produceth, even the increase that cometh of our pleasure.
11. We have heard the call to valiance; we answer it with action; a clean world awaiteth us; behold it is our own in that we have made it.
12. The hills shall hold their wine and the mountains their honey; its waters shall breathe incense; song shall ring upon the uplands.
13. Rejoice with the proud who take pride in rejoicing! Endure with the humble who make music of endurance! Keep faith with the scornful who scorn to spread error.
14. These are our ennoblements: we feed those who hunger; we eat with those who perish; we break bread with those who suffer; we love with those who mingle with the multitudes of lost ones.
15. We take sustenance of charity from those who make rejoicings on the highroads of endeavor; these are the beloved who do pattern after me.
16. My beloved, I adjure you: traffic not with the righteous if their righteousness hold lethargy; break no bread with wisdom which commandeth you to silence;
17. Mix ye no elixirs of friendship with those who do banquet in sweet halls of recollection, who live in past wonderings at the ease with which life treated them, whose hearts give constant thought to their heritage squandered;
18. But open your gates to the hosts of the defeated, when they come unto you in guilt to receive a goodly blessing.
19. Have we not hungered? have we not wished that the fountains should open, that our thirst might be slaked from the toils of the highroad?
20. What of our inheritance perceived by starvation?
21. I tell you that action calleth; that heavenly roll calls receive no misery;
22. The flares in those valleys are lightings of prophets who sing in a radiance drawn from their aspirings.
23. The anointed are our brethren; goodly voices sing our praises; goodly visions greet our eyesight.
24. When we have sung, the answer returneth; when we have supped, the bread hath been blessed; when we have hungered, the food hath been supplied us; when we have staggered, Thy strength hath sustained us.
25. We have fought a goodly contest.
26. Let the heartless know their misery; let the helpless greet their shepherd!
27. Out of the mouths of homely singers riseth the song that maketh a tumult! lest ye heed it, beloved, mark the essence of your missions.
28. Whatever was the meaning of the irons on the conscript? when did people suffer that their sufferings worked them injury?
29. Lest the prophet singeth wrongly, let your visions be your armor; let your concord be your trumpet playing strongly on the eardrums.
30. What meaning hath heavenly radiance if the eye be full of torment? what profit hath earthly tumult if the righteous work no harmony?
31. Hear ye my words! I address you in prophecy. Action calleth, mind pursueth, heart decideth, mastery guideth, these be one and all in one;
32. Radiance shineth, morning cometh, night recedeth, out of darkness cometh sunshine, man awakeneth, spirit quickeneth, thus are they who work a mastery.
33. Hear ye my statement! Ancient form on ancient form breedeth a surfeit unto ignorance; lingering species work a penance; thus they linger, thus they perish.
34. Revile not the inopportune, speed not the unrequited; answerings of moment come not as a challenge, but speak to the heart as soft furls of incense, yea as sweet smoke delighting the nostrils.
35. The mighty have a woe that their Lord is not with them; yea, the lordly have an error that they sit not in judgment wreaking strength upon the strong.
36. What profit have these in the days of lean rejoicings? what revilements are their portions when their errors find them out?
37. Perceive ye, my beloved, that my words have a wisdom? See that ye heed it, for the heeding is that wisdom!
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