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 175:
Parable of Small Mischiefs
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1. I AM saddened in my spirit that the world hath this lechery; I am grave in my manner that the tumult groweth hourly.
2. Yet have I come unto the sons of men and said, Get ye up, ye laggards, and behold they have not heard me.
3. Whence cometh the Promise? whence cometh the Song? whence cometh the increase for the rising generations?
4. I have heard the sad lament that the earth's minions gore you! Have I not seen the nimbus that marketh night's turning?
5. My beloved, be cheered.
6. I tell you again that a goodly time lieth in wait for you, when the race shall be run, when he who now vaunteth himself shall be exiled from communion with those who are righteous.
7. I say that ye do stand close, close to a time when the spirits of mighty men of old arise and minister unto you; ye see them not for that which they are, ye behold them not for that which they resemble; ye see them as ministers ministering in flesh, beholden to their brethren, one in the spirit of the age now upon you.
8. I say it shall become known that they are who they are; by their acts ye shall know them, and their wonders among you.
9. Think ye that those who so come to you are sent of themselves? of their own ministrations, beguiling your favor?
10. I tell you that he who ministereth unto himself, ministereth unto the evil, for he knoweth not the profits of fellowship, he perceiveth not that he is a foundling, begot of the universe which disowneth his spirit.
11. Belittle not yourselves, I tell you, with reasonings based on circumstance. Vaunt not any man who lordeth it over you, in that he lordeth it; Have no traffic with those who say, Are we not large in the fellowship of mortals? partake of our increase lest it go ill with thee.
12. I say unto you, there are times and seasons for rendering unto God the things that are God's. I tell you ye do heed not the whirlwind if ye give your reasonings to the pure calls of conscience.
13. Men come unto you who say, We be cast from the Father, we abide not in light, our paths are of darkness, we rejoice in iniquity for thus do we defeat the God that hath cursed us.
14. I tell you a new light shineth on them presently. They look to the world and perceive it hath radiance. They cry, It is absurd! whence cometh its brightness? are we not lords and have we decreed it?
15. I tell you, beloved, they go down in confusion for they see not the causes, they perceive not the Father who sendeth light unto them, they deny that He reigneth, they make mock of His giving, and behave as unclean ones.
16. I tell you, better they had dwelt in Sodom and Gomorrah with destruction behind them, than to pollute the great presence of Him who sustaineth you.
17. I speak in a parable, see that ye heed it. . . .
18. A certain man did purge his house of enemies. He buttressed it mightily that its strength would be great when the storms broke upon it.
19. He knew of its strength and rejoiced in its safety, he called those of kin to make merry with him, that his house had its strength and its larders knew fatness.
20. Behold he did sup, and give of his viands to those who dined with him; he asked of the strength of the walls that contained them.
21. Yet verily as they ate, the winds swept his acres. His house bended not. Robbers sought shelter but found not an entrance.
22. Lo, came a day when the mice of his barns did look toward his house and perceive that it held plenty; they looked to his feastings and said among themselves,
23. Is it not better that we should abide in that house than in barns of lean nourishment?
24. So they came to that house and put teeth to its rafters; they sought entrance in legions, each one as an auger, making a burrow of that which was doughty.
25. Thereat evil winds blew and the robbers returned. The force of their rage was expended in hatred;
26. But that house trembled not till small mischiefs engulfed it, and its walls held no strength because rodents had gnawed them.
27. I tell you, great was the destruction of that house. One who was proud had vaunted his safety and perceived not the vermin that made it a mockery.
28. Verily it is so in these last days, beloved, even in your land whose banners are mighty. He who declareth that his house hath a strength, perceiveth its cracks that have been caused by small mischiefs.
29. The sight of his eye hath been blinded by plenty while those who would conquer him gnawed at his bounty.
30. I give you this in warning: Ye dwell in a house that is not made with hands. Take thought to its rafters, give eye to its balance, take counsel among yourselves that no evil word destroy you, that the beggaries of circumstance fatten not on you, that you come not to that house in hours of evil omen and discover it fallen from the bickerings of mischief directed at your fellowships;
31. For I am as one who hath wandered in a land of evil omen; I perceive a light shining from lintels of splendor;
32. If I go into that house and find ye there feasting, is it not meet that I should knock and be bidden to your table?
33. How then perceive I the security shining from your lintels if I find that ye feast within a garret of malfeasance where the rodents of self-interest have turned a strong fortress into a haystack?
34. Is it not meet that ye heed mine arrival? have I not told you that presently I come and knock on the doors of your hearts for admittance? how then find I that admittance desirable if the vermin of transgression hath undermined your stamina?
35. I tell you that a thousand mischiefs do gnaw at you daily, thieving the strength of your fortress of fellowship, but if ye give thought to the walls of the Spirit, no evil teeth come to mock of their endurance. . . .
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