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 182:
Parable of Two Bounties
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1. THE PRINCELY days of endurance are upon you; the smelting fires of clean stamina sear you; the days are of trial; the nights know a passion.
2. Lo, are they not the ballastings of faith which all men receive ere Holy Spirit honors them?
3. Voices cry unto the world as from a great wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord! Make straight His pathway!
4. Behold ye receive them and ennoblement lifteth you, but not as men hear them. Ye do make interpretations according to your natures.
5. Ye have heard my pact, that goodly things come unto you. Have ye prospered in past seasons? Cannot that which was taken away be returned?
6. Hear ye a parable rendered for your solace:
7. A certain laborer toiled without ceasing; behold he was thrifty and saved many shekels;
8. Thereat did robbers take counsel among themselves, saying, We have learned of the shekels; we will go in and rend him.
9. Verily they seized him; they bound him with bonds; they came upon his silver and wrested it from him.
10. Thereat was he cast down, and his family bemoaned it. The laborer cried bitterly, That which I had salvaged because of my industry is a cancer in my memory! behold my days are numbered and I cannot save new silver; my days will not have it.
11. Would not that man have been foolish to have hanged him on a tree?
12. I tell you that in his sorrow his brother sent to him, saying: This day have I bequeathed thee all my worldly goods; I too have saved much silver and because I have no sons, I give it thee, my brother.
13. Great was the rejoicing when the servant brought it in.
14. How now, beloved! Presently came the tetrarch's sheriffs saying, The robbers have been captured; thy shekels are returned thee.
15. Thereat he who had despaired of all his earthly goods came into two bounties, his own and his brother's; he who had bemoaned it, that days were denied him in which to earn new wages, knew ease in his fortunes in that robbers had despoiled him.
16. Even so be it with you, my beloved, for the parable applieth to the times of your years.
17. Have ye a humor to gain unto an affluence? So shall it be! Whereof are ye saddened?
18. Not by words and fair concepts shall it come to you, but by maneuverings of that which is proper in circumstance. I say time is a clock that counteth out equity. Can ye not hear its tickings?
19. Do men rend their clocks asunder, that they tick at a pace?
20. I tell you there cometh naught to you that hath not been known since the beginning; heaven and earth shall pass away before life and the pact thereof shall forfeit on its measurings.
21. Ye have come to a place where the enemy presseth. Is it meet that ye shouldst treat with him, being also an enemy? Whereof hath one a power that is greater than the other?
22. Is it not true that many have cried aloud in the anguish of their sufferings? Think ye that anguish is conquered by anguish?
23. I speak yet another parable unto you---
24. One cometh unto you who maketh speech, saying, Perceive ye not that I perish for lack of substance? Behold I am cast down; I have naught to stay mine hunger! Give me of your increase that I may be fed.
25. Verily ye give him nourishment; ye impoverish your larders that he may be fat. Presently he saith:
26. Behold I was lean but now I am full; whereat I hunger more. Behold I go unto him who gave me of his largess and implore him again. His compassion is my larder; I have only to open it.
27. Seven times seven doth he come, when that which was given hath served him its purpose.
28. Think ye, beloved, such a one knoweth benefit? Think ye his profit ennobleth his spirit?
29. I tell you that I will have no part of him who saith, Lord, give because I hunger! I have largess for him who saith, Lord, give me substance that I may be worthy to stand with those serving.
30. I give unto those who vaunt not themselves, who know righteousness always, who greet goodness and pursue it.
31. I say unto the world, as I say unto you, The times have an augury; the days have a blessing; wickedness stalketh; night hath its blackness; the ways of the righteous are barred by transgression.
32.Is it not true, beloved, that those who hold out hope unto the unanointed know no trespass in eternity? is it not true that those who come making demands upon you, revile their own spirits and defile their own proudness?
33. Why seek ye the living among the dead? are those not of death who ever seek transgression, being sullen of appetite, demanding to be fed?
34. I say unto you, Feed ye my sheep in that they are my sheep; but feed not the adversary that would fatten on carrion . . . . even that carrion of reaping what it hath not sowed, or sowing what it cannot reap.
35. The patient have a problem and the righteous man a quandary, but he who hath his conscience clear in the service that he rendereth, taketh his cohorts and conquereth his kingdoms.
36. The times have an augury, I tell you again: That hath been taken which hath not been given. That which was given hath not brought its benefit.
37. Yet I say unto you, that inasmuch as he who hath taken hath not been of promise, so goeth he out and knoweth not largess; he findeth destruction that cometh of unworthiness.
38. There are those among you who seek those who are dead, that food should be given them. I say that it shall be held against them. Behold, the living suffer, and should succor not be given them?
39. Vaunt not yourselves against the adversary, but harken unto those who have need of your substance, that they may be fat and rise up and bless you. . . .
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