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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 160:

Parable of the Ravens

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1. MY BELOYED, I adjure you, give heed unto these things. .

2. A certain husbandman went forth to sow. His lusty arm swung and scattered his seed; lo, there came ravens circling above him, partaking of the substance meant for the soil.

3. Was it meet for that husbandman to halt in his labors and do murder among the ravens?

4. I tell you, he turned not his head but finished his furrow and the ravens who ate did gorge themselves fatly. Presently descended a sickness upon them; their agony was great; they sought other pastures where that which was rendered them did them no mischief.

5. Should that husbandman have turned from his labors in his furrow, knowing that his seed was not for the ravens, that even as they ate they did mischief to themselves?

6. My beloved, I adjure you, think on these things.

7. Even as ye sow the ravens revile you, but turn not from your furrows wherein I have set you; presently the ravens bespew a great illness, for the seed that ye sow is not for their bellies; they know a great suffering in that they have plundered.

8. For the light of the world is a city on a hill; it receiveth its travelers who knock for its shelter; it riseth up and ruleth them; it showeth them mercy; it giveth them protection.

9. What shall be said for those who deign not to enter, who seek not its protection, who rest on their arms where the fallen night findeth them?

10. Are they not foolish, beholding the city wherein is protection, yet dwell among robbers, believing them strengthless to do them a mischief?

11. I say that ye are husbandmen sowing a seed; I say that ye be travelers beholding a city; give heed unto my words else an evil befall you; give heed unto my counsel lest ye find yourselves confounded.

12. I bespeak my beloved who till a vast vineyard; I say unto them, Take heart! for those who offend you are made bilious by their thievings; those who would destroy you are given to a torment;

13. For a torment hath a grievance in that it is darkness, yea even that darkness where destruction abideth.

14. Perceive ye, beloved, that which I would teach you? . . .the fowler hath a snare for the bird that is earthly, but the bird that hath pinions falleth not into traps. . . .

15. Inasmuch as ye have a knowledge of that which happeneth, so have ye pinions; inasmuch as ye have light, give 16 For ye have been favored beyond your brethren; inasmuch as ye have heard these words of my wisdom, ye have gained to a treasure that enricheth you eternally.

17. Hear ye my words; know that I address you; open the coffers of that wisdom and pour your treasure outward.

18. For there are those who sit in penury who have no cause to suffer, there are those who sit in woe who have made them no defilements, there are those whose hearts are pure who make their beds in a befoulment, there are those without guile who are stalked by a beast.

19. My beloved, I adjure you, . . . I have spoken my love, I have uttered my promise, I have said there are ninety and nine rendered unto your care and left unto your service.

20. Behold I say there are ten thousand times ten thousand who know not a shepherd, who wander in darkness.

21. Hath it not been said of old that he whose heart is pure ascendeth into a kingdom?

22. I say unto you, the kingdoms awaiting you are beyond your accounting if ye have love for those who falter, if ye behold them as children of light who have turned unto darkness, if ye illumine that darkness and reclaim them from its peril.

23. For what merit have you if there cometh one unto you of goodly visage and ye take him in? is it not meet that those of guile have the greater need of your hospitality?

24. Is it not meet that ye do receive them, that beholding the order of your households, they take thought to their errors and strive to do service unto those who have honored them?

25. What merit have you, I say again, if ye behold a beggar lying by the wayside and ask of his alms, whether he hath plenty or whether he hungereth? is he not a sot? doth he not beg? why perceive ye his beggary and ask, Is he a beggar?

26. In that he asketh alms of you, or crieth his beggaries, so is he beggarly in that which is his spirit, so is he besotted in that which is wholesome.

27. I tell you, ye have no cause to ask the world, doth it hunger? doth it suffer? ye have evidence of sense.

28. The world hath a lechery, the world hath a woe, the world hath a confusion that driveth it mad.

29. It saith unto itself, Whereof come these abominations of man's spirit that make the poor to keep a great fasting? whereof come these offices that make love to wither and know a vast famine?

30. It ranteth with itself, it perceiveth a pestilence, it knoweth not the goodly days that have in them a feasting, that know a great harvest yet to be reaped; it openeth its heart to receive a calamity.

31. Where will ye be in that day, my beloved? Will your scythes have a sharpness? Will your sickles know rust? Will ye gather in, to know the goodly portion of the laborer who hath labored?

32. Or will ye know sorrow and a great lamentation that ye didst perceive that which lay unto your hand for the harvest but gave it no scythe and administered no sickle?

33. When have ye asked of me, that I have not given freely? Is it not meet that ye, being followers of me, do gird yourselves up and go forth unto that harvest, being reapers in goodly deeds each man unto his neighbor, being gleaners of heavenly precepts enriching all ages and feeding all hungers?

34. I tell you that ye have a mission in this, that inasmuch as I came into the world to sow a great seed, so came ye into the world to mow a great harvest, to reap a great increase.

35. Inasmuch as I came into the world to show men their heritage, so came ye into the world in my footsteps to see that they reach it, to see that they grasp it.

36. No greater service doth man render unto his neighbor than restoring a birthright unto him who hath lost it.

37. Again I adjure you, think well on these things. . . .

38. Ye are inheritors of a promise, toilers for a kingdom; in that ye have performed unto the least of these who lie in travail, so are ye partakers of the wealth of the progeny born unto the increase.

39. In that ye have offered a farthing of wisdom to him who hath an ignorance, so are ye possessors of that wealth which ennobleth him.

40. I give you my peace in the labors of your intellects. . . .

41. Arise and perceive that a goodly seed is sown. But only the pure can gather the harvest, only the mettlesome eat of the wisdom! . . .

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