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 172:
Heed No False Prophets
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1. ETERNAL vintages have a manner of reddening the mind's perceptions and behavings.
2. Language hunteth a discord; faith staketh a monument; Precept endureth a tumult, practice engageth an adversary and maketh him to renounce his arms.
3. Whenever was it said with truth that I did cast out devils as prince of the devils? Did I not make music of a sort, that the ears of mankind might attune to its melody?
4. Beloved, hear me: sacraments of virtue become as a garment to hang on the limbs of him who runneth swiftly, making no pausings, accosting no power that enableth him to weaken.
5. Hierarchies in circumstance plead for no muses to alter their thinking; they come and they go at the behest of fortune.
6. Happy is he who hath said unto himself: I have labored, I have supped, I have made a sweet peace for the sinews of my body, now will I recline and relaxation come to me.
7. He hath his compensations for the toils of the march, the gratings of pride, the bewilderments of Nature, the transfixions and deployments of those who stand suffering before the lintels of poverty.
8. He shall say unto himself: I have broken no command- ment; I have entered no joustings that had in them rebuke for the sloth of my endeavor.
9. He shall open his garments and retire upon his couch. Evening shall find him ensconced in his repose.
10. Is he not as they who do bring in the Kingdom?
11. I tell you that there come unto some of you those who make mischiefs in the freedom of ether; they open doors to your understanding and bid harpies fly in; they long to commune with you and read you defilements, consciously to halt you or cause you to err.
12. What shall be said for those who thus abominate? are they not creatures of misapplication, even of those talents that compose their inheritance?
13. Livelihood hath wisdom to cloak its own nakedness when the heart is the arbiter of things to be done.
14. I adjure you, beloved, heed no false prophets. Take your stand upon hills and declaim ye as prophets. Even as righteousness enhanceth the doer, so shall the awkward be reborn into grace.
15. Twice three hath an equation; ye do know it in numbers and thereat are ye wise in the law of mathematics. Ever was it said that the wary were mischievous; they think to their numbers and behold they have surfeit; they rely on mathematics.
16. They say, Are we not greater than these who affright us, why therefore should we not surround them and direct them as our falconries?
17. Let them be as children shaking twigs at the moon.
18. Ye have your commissions, ye perceive the bright highroad. Doth the traveler who marketh well his errand need the fell stranger to tell him of his business?
19. Dare to be valiant!
20. Is it not true that no road ever was constructed that did not have its beginning and its ending?
21. Wherein therefore think ye that if ye do travel straight upon the highroad, ye shall not reach its ending?
22. Dare to lift your faces! Dare to move onward!
23. Doth wonderment assail you? I tell you, conjuring the impossible maketh it to proffer you the joys of understanding.
24. We travel with garments to cover the afflicted; we journey not as loiterers, but as seers and doers. The wayside malefactor plagueth us not: I say that we renounce him; our ears do not hear him.
25. We journey toward a city set upon a hill. Concord and harmony, these be the passwords that open unto a garden where a goodly company gathereth.
26. Have I not said that ye shall be ennobled? have I not promised that ye shall be delivered?
27. Striding into circumstance increaseth your wisdom; shutting out tumult confuseth the uncircumspect.
28. I open the door unto vistas of beauty; I shut it anon on the efforts of defilements.
29. Day unto day have I gone the way before you; night unto night have I made the path clearer; strengthen your hearts and reach the City; dwell therein as wise men in the walls that shall surround you.
30. What mischiefs make we, in that we come serving?
31. Behold, beloved, we open the gates, we prepare the deep chambers that those who come in fatigued from their journeys shall embrace all the comforts our love hath provided.
32. Is it not fairer that ye should know joy after the travel-pain of effort than that ease should beguile us with the journey unfinished?
33. My beloved, be warned! The enemy pursueth, he maketh you a tumult, he discloseth treasures unto you; he saith, Turn aside; shall the bright city perish that ye reach it not swiftly?
34. We take a fair glance and refuse to be mocked, knowing our treasure lieth deep in our wisdom. . . .
35. Consider your days, each one an improvement. Consider your nights, each one an enchantment. They are pearls on a wire that are strung for your pleasure; they are notes in a chord that maketh a harmony.
36. Looking down, and not up, rebuketh the vision made to be exalted by exploring high places; looking backward, not forward, rebuketh the effort of the journey to the moment.
37. Lo, we have a goodly task; let us hang it with garlands. Lo, we have a goodly mission; let it be as a garment proclaiming our kingship even to the multitude that mocketh at our hastenings.
38. Is the task not mine also? Do I not make the journey?
39. I tell you that I go from star to star receiving no ennoblement; I come unto my loved ones and find in them my majesty.
40. I preach sermons unto you, and they fall on your ears as accolades of splendor; I say to you preachments of wisdom to surfeit, and ye know whose they are and rejoice as a sunrise proclaiming new morning.
41. Hath the day not its mettle? Was it given you for gaming?
42. The night hath a charm to baffle the intellect; the stars in their courses make mock of man's reason; the earth hath a mastery to keep to its orbit and do no trangression.
43. The night and the stars, and the earth and the morning. . . these are the symbols of that which is Promised! . . .
44. My beloved, I adjure you, make no false speakings, attain no false manners, heed no false wisdoms. Harken unto Him who cometh to you singing. By the words of His mouth shall ye know of His radiance. . . .
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