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 177:
To Serve Is Our Creation
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1. THERE is a fountainhead of Truth, whose everlasting waters carry no pollution. Some seek it vainly, some drink of it greedily, all have it poured upon them if they will but approach it.
2. I have wasted no moments in anxious longings; I have given the world my life, that I, being godly, may make it godly likewise.
3. I say that I have risen to the height of my stature, I have asked no sinecure from those who are worldly, I have troubled not myself with hungerings after circumstance.
4. I have wrought a great book, I have sung a high song, my life hath been my neighbor's.
5. Thus saith he who hath drunk of the Waters; thus saith he who hath washed in that Fountain.
6. We seek goodly deeds to do unto those who know the Radiance; we perform in earthly substance the wishes of the Most High Spirit;
7. We encounter no obstruction in vales of the worldly which we penetrate not with our good offices;
8. We arise and shine before men in the works of our Father;
9. We seek no base advantage over those who walk in darkness, but we bless them with wisdom, yea seven times seven;
10. Thus sing the circumspect, who pursue Truth and serve it.
11. My beloved, hear my voice. My transactings await you. I come with a potion that restoreth your vigor. Your voice is mine own. We address the benighted.
12. Now I speak unto you in silence. Now I speak unto you in tumult. I say the times wax wroth but go with them into service.
13. I give you your comings, I give you your commandments; I prosper your goings, I bequeath you a brevet.
14. I tell you all together: We serve, though men revile us; we hasten with our aid even though they ignore us; we counsel them continually.
15. We serve because we serve. To serve is our creation.
16.. Know ye that men have a credit in this; that they see our good works though they reason not their causes.
17. The enemy pursueth us seven times seven; he maketh us a bitterness in that we see him not.
18. The world hath an emptiness of those who are radiant; behold those of radiance are seen not of eye.
19. Mayhap they come unto you, bespeaking your missions. I say unto you, receive them, but add to your speech no qualm of hesitation that ye have been deceived when those who would manifest deliver not in substance.
20. The righteous are the righteous on any plane of being.
21. Are there those among you whose imaginings have tricked them? And wouldst ye say there is no sun, in that the sun hath not shone at midnight?
22. I say unto you all together: Be wise, be wary, deliver not evil unto yourselves saying it be goodness, but hold ye to goodness and manifest in wisdom, knowing that the Father who made His love to shine upon you will endow you with that wisdom and give it benediction.
23. Lest it be said that there are those who advise you wickedly, I tell you that the speech that is transcendent hath its hostage in the heart; lo, the speech that maketh mischief hath its hostage in the mind.
24. The Father's voice speaketh and the son's heart respondeth, sweet with vibration of that which is holy.
25. I speak unto your spirits the peace of sweet watchings!
26. I say that I have known of your misfortunes and transgressions, I have heard your ill-advisings, behold I have endured your whims' procrastinations;
27. I have tasted of your bitterness, I have felt your self-deceivings; your allotments and apportionings of knowledge have been mine. I have hungered for that substance which lingereth in the byways.
28. Could I do these things, beloved, and not know that Peace hath its circumstance also?
29. Yet tryst not with circumstance as with an idle maiden. Rejoice that your lips have the skill of the psalmist, that ye manifest in tumult that Plan that hath its dignity, that your will hath its mission when evil waxeth wroth and the times show their talons.
30. A goodly heritage hath been borne unto those who labor with thirst in the heat of the noonday.
31. The world hath its augury; the saints have played trumpets; the wicked revile not the evil man nor give unto the stalwart the means to a redemption.
32. Would ye, then, serve in a tiny vale, beloved? would ye gather little fruits? would ye make your verses petty?
33. If the times have not an augury, why prate ye of treasure for the laborer who hath labored?
34. Would ye work for little wages? "'
35. I tell you the strong man goeth forth where the rocks have a sharpness, he lieth in wait for the prey that hath cunning, he seeketh a valiance that trieth his sinew, he openeth his wallet unto increments from penuries.
36. We criticize no man for that which he desireth; we seek blessings for his judgments, that he may be wise in that which he seeketh and out of his nobility provide himself with nourishments.
37. I say unto you, beloved, Arise and lead the righteous! But not as earthly captains whose panoplies have boastings, not as worldly chieftains whose stallions give them eminence.
38. We seek better steeds than caperings of circumstance for us who would ride at the head of the whirlwind.
39. Hear ye mine utterance: Warn not your neighbor to flee from God's wrath, but teach him to know the scope of God's love;
40. Teach not the erring to revile their own sin, but bid sin be gone in the name of the Father, that a holier order may come upon earth and the world of Light manifest from which Spirit first traveled.
41. The seasons have mocked you and made sport with your learnings; Mammon hath threatened you; your teeth have gnashed at him.
42. Is this the rejoicing? Is this the fat harvest?
43. I tell you lovelier days shall dawn when the prices on your heads shall be garlands of roses.
44. There stand men to mock you and give you a contest; treat with them justly, begging no protest; pursue the even tenor of this just beseechment: The Lord God hath a resting-place for men of true knowledge; come and share it with us, partake of its refreshment.
45. Give unto him who asketh of you, and make no protest when he who asketh, smiteth you. Let the wicked have their voice that in the last days the miracle that cometh shall be to them a wonderment.
46. They have seen and perceived not. They have heard and discerned not. Beggaries smite them that come of the conscience. There is no cavern of spirit that is emptier than theirs; being bound of the adversary, their revilements are their serfdoms.
47. I say, the wages of their mischiefs shall be exceeding high. Perceivings and revilings are the order of the whirlwind, but a better day approacheth when earth's avenues have leisure.
48. Practice this in Spirit: Say, I will labor to achieve a destiny, I will ever be guided by the voice of aspiration, I will seek no godless thing nor cast forth from mine heart any loving memory of a loving deed performed by those who have served me;
49. I will cherish their favors as being mine own, transmuted for me into alchemies of blessings; I bestow on them substance as my purse doth provide and open their hearts to the beauties of equities.
50. Thus say ye, beloved, to your brethren about you: I hide an exceeding small scar from wounds of the spirit, I hide an exceeding small ache from the fraught heart's defections;
51. I translate and transcend all documents in mercies that have bothered my soul by executions lacking, and I give unto those who have wounded me the beggary of their knowledge that they stand in my debt---in that guile entered into the deft pact between us.
52. Now I tell you all together: Ye are famished for food of a spiritual savor that hath substance in nourishing, feeding the hunger for that which hath permanence.
53. I say unto you, cast ye not forth that for which ye hunger---the services of those who desist not in serving you----nor halt their strivings for you by beggaries of intellect.
54. Be ye as staffs and trees in a land that is weary, that those who travel with you may know their refreshment.
55. Persevere in well-doing, that those who come unto you may know you by your labors, performed in my radiance. . . .
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