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 163:
Each Generation Hath a Wisdom
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1. VERILY ye do that which is part of a plan, though ye know not whence cometh the plan’s consummation.
2. Know ye, my beloved, that men have tried me sorely: they have made me a grief: they have caused me disappointment.
3. They have reared idols unto themselves when I have granted favors; they have said in their pride, Do favors come unto us? they are made of ourselves.
4. Men have helped themselves to the fruits of knowledge which I have planted in the garden of the Father; they have taken and eaten.
5. They have said, Lo, we are wise: what need have we for anyone to save us? do we not save ourselves by this knowledge that is come unto us?
6. I tell you that they make mock of the celestial origin of that which hath come unto them;
7. Yet I rebuke them not; I say in my wisdom: Behold I have joy that ye think yourselves wise, but remember in your wisdom the One from whom it cometh.
8. Lo, this is my sadness, that they remember me not; they seize my knowledge with a greed, rejecting the Giver from whom such knowledge cometh.
9. Man hath a mission unto himself, verily he hath it in this generation; it is like unto one who goeth unto a far country and asketh the inhabitants thereof: Why do ye this, or, Why do ye that?
10. The people thereof make answer saying: Our forefathers taught us; verily we follow such instruction as coming from those who were wiser than we.
11. The traveler saith: How know ye that your forebears were wiser than yourselves?
12. The people answer: Lo, did they not travel the worldly way before us and learn by trial and error that which is our wisdom?
13. The traveler saith: I perceive it not. Ye do have the understandings of perspective upon the wisdom of your fathers; ye have reaped what they have sowed; ye have witnessed their errors and been mindful of their profits. Wherein do ye say that ye are less wise than they?
14. The inhabitants cry: Lo, this man hath a devil of disrespect for those who were our fathers; behold we destroy him, for he maketh of them jest.
15. I tell you, beloved, there are those in your own day who sit in high places thinking only of the fathers. They are serfs unto a custom. They adventure not in spirit.
16. When ye meet with such, scorn them. Behold them as cowards who are lacking in foresight. Discern them as slaves who do want for acumen.
17. For they proceed in grooves of complacency with self; they walk in a fear that their times hold disturbance; they serve only themselves in their plight at a tumult.
18. Behold they seek to awe you with their knowledge of the wisdom of the fathers though their knowledge is a legend and their wisdom a conceit.
19. I tell you that the fathers had not such wisdom as they claim.
20. Verily the ancients had the wisdom of their ages; they saw the world only through the fencings around their learnings.
21. Is it not of truth that the world groweth greater in knowledge as the generations have their moments? I say, each generation seeketh its own wisdom, it lieth in wait for the facts of the eternal, it springeth from its hiding-place and seizeth strongly upon them.
22. New facts confront men as each age hath its progress. They say unto each soul, Arise! stretch forth thine hand! take that which is offered thee for the advancement of thy children!
23. I say, seek not advancements by ever looking backward; behold those who look backward do stumble into pits.
24. Each generation that cometh toward the Light hath a wisdom compiled of all other wisdoms; therefore be circumspect with those who say, The fathers taught us so, therefore we do likewise.
25. The fathers taught men to be humble in their spirits, to walk before God in ways that are of goodness.
26. The things of the fathers were as one who hath a garden; nobly he tilleth his garden in the morning, when the sun hath a brilliance and all nature smileth; but behold the noon-heat cometh and the gardener seeketh shade;
27. Resting and looking upon his work he saith: Lo, goodly labor is of the morning in that nature smileth.
28. I tell you that man is foolish, beloved. Lo, the afternoon cometh, with time for much tilling ere the evening sun sinketh.
29. Is that tilling not most fertile which holdeth all knowledge of that which was plowed in the freshness of morning?
30. Seek ye wisdom? Then take it.
31. That which cometh of the present compriseth a knowledge of all gone before.
32. I say unto you, beloved, the time is well spent in plowing the garden of earth or of Spirit, but plow it with that knowledge which hath come of experience of all gardeners who have plowed.
33. Man hath a perversity to say: Behold, I am weak, for I live in the present. I say that he is strong, for hath he not coffers of wisdom filled to overflowing by those who have toiled in the day's heat before him?
34. Beloved, be wise. Give ye thought to the present, for in that ye have courage for the present, so see ye the future in the splendors of its heritage.
35. Vaunt not yourselves with vain longings after that which the ocean of time hath encompassed.
36. As ye do progress, so is progress meted unto you; as ye seek wisdom, so doth wisdom overtake you.
37. Hear ye my speech. I preach it unto those who have grown in understanding.
38. Consider yourselves from the standpoint of eternity, that ye lift up your heads and know a great wisdom.
39. In that ye have said: Elder Brother, instruct us that we may be wise, so have ye reported yourselves unto the Host as being of profit in the plights now upon you.
40. I say the watchman asketh naught of the night which hath passed except that it steel him in his courage for the morrow. . .
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