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 165:
Man Cleanseth Himself
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1. BEHOLD man saith, What is this truth whereof we know our heritage? whence came we to this earth, that we should know life's portent?
2. Know ye, beloved, that in the beginning man had no image by physical body. Intellect was. Men were created spirit by Spirit.
3. Know ye that intellect sought flesh for a purpose. Spirit as spirit hath no identity; only after long experience on planes of matter doth spirit feel its essence.
4. Thus cometh identity: through trial and through error, through life as mortal being, for mortal meaneth always the absolute in flesh; it meaneth not always bodies of matter.
5. Know ye therefore that man as a spirit sought mortal experience; ever sought he pain, ever sought he pleasure, always through his senses that he might gain to knowledge of that which he encompassed.
6. I tell you, man was to rule as god over systems of planets not yet created; he would be as the Father. Having knowledge of flesh, thus would he harken unto cries of flesh on planets one day to be within his control.
7. Man was divine from the beginning, a thought-force of the Father, knowing good and evil, creating no material thing without a loving purpose.
8. Yet did man embrace his opportunity to make himself god of earth-creation without gaining to experience; thus did he fill the earth with his thought-forms.
9. What think ye is the meaning of the Fable of Sodom? Having monsters by his making, he did have of them whoredoms; he did bring upon his species an appalling catastrophe.
10. Thus correcteth he a wrong through his fleshly visitations, that by overcoming the weaknesses and desires of his flesh, he cleanseth himself of that which defiled him.
11. Thus hath he known earth-life, aeon unto aeon, form unto form, body unto body.
12. Know that since time was, man hath been created; verily he hath had existence in the mind of Holy Spirit. So, too, hath all else.
13. Man had no beginning, and man shall have no ending, except that he desireth it.
14. Aeon unto aeon hath man made his destiny, he hath had his earth-state shown him, verily he hath ennobled or defiled it.
15. Know that he hath made unto himself spiritual abomination, even as in the days before Sodom and Gomorrah he did abominate in flesh.
16. Cometh a time in the journey of man returning to perfection in the Godhead, when he saith unto himself: Behold the Father maketh us to suffer!
17. He knoweth not that he maketh himself to suffer for later use of spirit. Being blind of concept, he looketh upon nature and saith: Behold I see visions, behold I feel miracles, behold I, the least powerful of all created things, see that which hath more meaning than I can interpret.
18. Where upon he cometh unto his neighbor and contendeth: Lo, we are as grass of the field; lo, we are as sheep among wolves; lo, we have no resting-place that giveth us security; now therefore let us blame God in our weakness, saying unto God:
19. Father of Creation art Thou truly, yet dost Thou not make us any armor of safety from the beast that prowleth; yet dost Thou not make for us, or for our children, wings of flight from our enemies; verily Thou couldst have done these things; therefore in that Thou didst do them not, verily Thou art transgressor against us.
20. So saith man unto his neighbor; so setteth up man a fort against his fellows in faith, and rebuketh the Godhead; so telleth he his misery unto unborn generations and thinketh no further.
21. Thus is born Doctrine.
22. Doctrine saith: Behold, did our fathers not tell us these things? wherefore then do we alter our notions? are not the fathers wiser than the children?
23. They forget, my beloved, that experience maketh wisdom. They forget that the fathers have had the shorter lives. Verily the children outlive the parents, verily the doctrine of the children is fecund with the fruits of a wider observation.
24. Verily they do cling unto custom and say: Behold, the fathers told us, therefore we do it.
25. I say unto you, beloved, the fathers have not told them. The fathers saw, and spake; the children treasured the speakings of the fathers and out of the speakings cried, This is pure wisdom.
26. Verily the speakings were meandering observings; wherefore, my beloved, do the children think them gold?
27. Man hath made a promise in his spirit to seek wisdom; verily he longeth for the power of creation. Knowing ever of his godhood, he doth strive in manufactures; thus pleaseth he himself as he groweth in stature, coming ever nearer unto long-lost perfection.
28. But with matter he doth it, and not by spirit, cleverly;
29. I say the time cometh when he standeth erect. Behold that hour breaketh when he saith unto himself: Have we machines? of what use are they unto us? have we not ether? have we not knowledge? then have we not power? what would we create? let us make as we desire, possessing all the factors.
30. I tell you that in that hour man shall have regained his lost divinity and we who have taught him shall be as freers of slaves.
31. It is our joy that we are makers of gods for worlds that in turn shall rise and fall and be of blind concepts; into eternal space, aeon upon aeon, and into eternal distance, light-year upon light-year, verily shall we manifest.
32. Know that even I, your wiser Elder Brother, have no knowledge of the heights to which we rise!
33. Man hath made progress into the infinite; he hath challenged us and we have smiled; he hath been of good and bad report and we continue to indulge him; he hath made graven images and worshiped them and we perceive him as the child who worshipeth the parent.
34. Man hath an itching after eternal thought, and maketh the tool which enableth him to protect himself against the adversary, whereupon he saith:
35. Behold this God whom we have blamed for not creating us with armor, is not of consequence; we do arm ourselves, we make our own armament; what need have we of Him, now having our protection from those who run us down?
36. Thus reasoneth man stronger with each new generation, verily with each invention, not knowing himself as part of the Father, Holy Spirit Incarnate, which maketh such invention.
37. Man riseth ever higher. Lo, he needeth himself as part of the Father; lo, he needeth the Father, for by Him he riseth.
38. Know ye, my beloved, that man hath secretly a knowledge of his power, he knoweth his identity. He heareth that he is god, yet foregoing God's attributes, he swayeth to and fro in his imaginings and tieth his tongue at his own limitations.
39. He seeketh out God in his closet and saith: Father- Creator, give unto me the power that I may manifest correctly; he seeketh out God in assembly and saith: Give us power, O Jehovah, to slay whom we hate!
40. Verily all masses are given to this thing. They fear one another alone in the closet, and coming together in masses, they hate.
41. I say unto you, beloved, they shall know the reverse; they shall pray when foregathered: Father, let us manifest correctly unto Thy glory. Then shall each man pray in his closet: Father, be merciful unto me in my weakness!
42. Man hath made unto himself an image of hope which he worshipeth; he saith in his heart: Lo, we have knowledge which pointeth us upward; whence came such knowledge? came it from ourselves? verily we would know it.
43. Therefore doth it come from other planes of spirit. Such planes are not of us, therefore are favors extended unto us. Mayhap we merit such favors further; mayhap favors we know not of lie in wait to embrace us. Let us therefore prove worthy that they do not eschew us.
44. I tell you, beloved, faith hath wrought miracles from just such reasonings. Verily therein the Divine Father manifesteth. Verily Thought Incarnate, the Holy Spirit, thus ennobleth Its recipient.
45. Such is the truth for which mortal man gropeth. I have said it with my lips. I say, go and practice it. . . .
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