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 179:
The Comforter Is My Being
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1. THERE IS a mystery that causeth men to say: How cometh it that he who was among us is amongst us no longer? how say ye then, Behold he is here! can he who is departed be present in his essence?
2. I say that it is so. Doth not the evil spirit enrage all the world? doth man not smite his brother? is there surcease in well-doing? Ye do know my speech is proper.
3. How then cometh the evil one unto the world and causeth it to suffer and ye say, It is present, yet ye say of the goodly one, Lo, he hath departed?
4. Do not men do good works and is there not compassion? have men not suffered gloriously that glory should ennoble them? do they do this of evil? hath not my spirit prospered?
5. Yet a greater commandment I give unto you: Think ye not of the things that are to be; think ye rather of the moment's richness wherein it is ordered that the righteous cease from tumult.
6. Give of yourselves that giving may endow you; manifest pleasures that pleasures may accrue to you.
7. Behold I have gone from earth in my person; I come in the presence of those who would serve me, who glorify earth and keep my commandments.
8. I endow them with that which is greatest in my essence; I say unto them, Manifest ye like me; speak my fond speech, do good as I have told you; the Comforter is my being, descended among you.
9. Have I not power to dwell in my person yet speak through the being of him who hath radiance? What giveth the radiance but that part which is like me?
10. How say ye, Verily, Our Lord hath departed from amongst us, when ye turn in your ministerings and do good unto the lowly?
11. Can I not send myself to partake of your goodness, to share it and increase it? How think ye that I am born of Holy Spirit, yet my body hath its place and my spirit is its prisoner?
12. I tell you that I am come to do good deeds to the lowly, I raise them up with patience, I plant their footsteps surely; thereupon I do say to them: I have given you my presence, go ye hence and practice it.
13. That which is given is part of myself. I have added to my stature by giving of its increase.
14. I come unto the lowly and presently they see me. They say, He was here! What mean they, that He was here? I tell you I arrived and they caught it in their visionings; they beheld no departure because there was no leaving.
15. Whenever hath mortal spirit beheld me take departure?
16. Can that which abideth have other place to journey?
17. When I am come unto a man, I remain with him always; if mayhap he reject me, he rejecteth his ennoblement.
18. For the spirit of a man is the Idea of his Conscience; it compriseth his manners, it holdeth his compound; it is not his body in that such is quickened.
19. Verily the beast hath quickened sense of body; yet is a beast a man?
20. Man's spirit is that which dwelleth as his compound, though the body receiveth it and giveth it its instrument. Presently it goeth and men say, He hath perished.
21. I tell you, my beloved, they perceive not spirit manifest.
22. Spirit is spirit. It is the essence of self-knowledge. It knoweth itself and that which tormenteth it. It cometh unto mortal flesh and saith, See that ye admit me.
23. I have knowledge of ether, now I take it into Form.
24. Is the spirit less of Spirit in that it betaketh it to Form? Is it not greater, that it seeketh such ennobling, confined in flesh to give tongue to its godhood? Is godhood an antic? I say it hath endurance, it arriveth at a stature, it cometh and goeth in and out of Form, it seeth its profit as vileness hath injured it.
25. Is a man a statue? is his corpse made of stone? hath the image-maker wrought it? can it know not any increase?
26. I tell you that the spirit of a man is the influence that he sheddeth; it is that which hath taken its presence from the Godhead and quickened itself in Form to know its own majesty.
27. Verily it happeneth unto each that is created.
28. How then say ye, that a spirit can enter into Form and become the thing called Man, and that never afterward there entereth more spirit, even my presence which is Form of the Father?
29. Can Spirit enter once and thereafter know palsy?
30. I tell you that Spirit entereth man continually, adding unto his stature; behold I give each spirit its increase.
31. I travel out to those who have entered my service, I dissolve into their essence, I give them my consciousness, I bathe them in my radiance.
32. Thereat do men say, Behold these are the Christlike! We perceive their vibrations! They bring us ennoblement!
33. Which one among you, being a father, departeth mortality and leaveth his children to fall into pits? Hath each father not his essence? yet doth he not cast vigilance over those whom he hath sired?
34. Love commandeth his spirit to watch over his offspring, to put words in their mouths which preserve them from follies.
35. Ever and anon he standeth at their shoulders, he entereth their hearts, he saith, Be circumspect! he guideth them to manners, he increaseth their stature.
36. Do the offspring always know that the parent hovereth over them? Not so, my beloved.
37. And if a father, being mortal, preserveth his offspring, how much more would I preserve those who are mine emissaries?
38. I say that I come unto those who have chosen me. I send them a pattern of that which is my personage. I make them as myself. I endow them with goodness. Their spirit presenteth me.
39. Whereof is it said of a man that the Christ is incarnate in him, that the Christ is reborn in one who cometh radiantly. I say, I am reborn hourly in those who make my music.
40. I preserve mine own majesty yet I share it with my cohorts. In that they are like unto me, their spirits take my pattern; I am in them and they are in me; behold we are one flesh, whereat the world exclaimeth saying, How can this thing be possible?
41. I say it is conversion that reacheth unto the spirit; it is the martyr's sacrifice; it is the seer's privilege; it happeneth unto those who take up my discipleship.
42. And yet do I repair into mine own being, I have my integrity, I preserve my own balance, I discern mine own watchfulness over myself.
43. As Spirit permeateth flesh, and men say, A child is born! so permeateth my Spirit the soul born of radiance that cometh on it suddenly.
44. Hath not my spirit talent to encompass many such? Say ye that I must confine myself to one instrument of personage? I say that is a sacrilege, I say it is a torment. For many behold my spirit descending and cry, Are these not false Christs who thus come to plague us?
45. My beloved, know the mystery. I come unto one who saileth far seas, behold I come as well to her with the broom in the cot of the lowly. I come unto the speaker who fiIleth many rostrums. I come unto the king and bid him know compassion. Think ye all marvels are the adversary's traffickings? How cometh it that men do say, Only the evil one performeth in wonders?
46. Be ye as adults, secure in maturity. . . .
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