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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 190:

Only One Radiance

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1. I HAVE come unto your spirits, bespeaking my Peace. I say that it shall be shown you that though ye labor ever in the coils of mortal substance, yet is your sojourn decreed for your good.

2. I am he who showeth you that sojourn, who saith unto you, Come unto me, all ye who are weary, or heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.

3. Verily do I show you that your rest is merited by that which ye endure, that by your endurance are ye lifted into Spirit.

4. Seven times seven are the numbers of your venturings, yea even into substance, that mortality may mark you; believe that I come unto you in each, manifesting goodly evidence that the cries of your hearts are as bread on many waters.

5. Behold I go before you preparing the ways whereby the sons of men gather about them the vestments of righteousness and sit at meat with those of wisdom;

6. Behold I prepare a feasting-place for those who know hunger that they may eat eternally the viands of explainings.

7. Ever are those among you who have poverty of intellect, who rise not up to dispute with the scornful but seek them a hiding-place when the drums of wrath have promptings, verily when the sons of men who are evil take unto themselves the pestilence that slayeth its thousands.

8. Have I not told you that the day and hour cometh when the pestilence is stilled, when that which was vile is turned into radiance, when that which maketh the brother to mourn is put in his mouth as an anthem of mercy?

9. Think ye that I bear false witness when I say that those sit amongst you now who make scoffings at pure doctrine, who revile the transgressor without knowing his transgression, who seek to do good by performing a lechery?

10. Hear ye my words and make a new covenant unto the Father. Behold I tell you a new heaven and a new earth come upon you as a thief who walketh stealthily;

11. Behold I say unto you that a new morning dawneth when those who have the sign of vigilance upon their foreheads arise and give praise that they know the new bounty, even that gift of performing in wisdom.

12. Ye have fear in your hearts that the Comforter hath missed you, that no redemption cometh unto those who watch faithfully, that goodness escheweth you, that the faithful know penury, that there cometh no surcease in that which is tumult.

13. Ye do perceive falsely, my beloved, . . . for that which is radiant casteth ever a shadow, that which is brilliant giveth scorch to the eyesight;

14. That which hath everlasting promise giveth a transgression in that mountains of error are mountains of evil but the sea receiveth both that the land may know fatness.

15. Ye have learned from olden time that the fathers had a vigilance for that which was seemly; verily did they take into their intellects that which encouraged them to dwell on their omnipotence, to magnify their wisdom, to give voice to their praises sung unto themselves.

16. I say unto you, beloved, there come unto you those who sing not of themselves, who have ever the eye that is watchful for your welfare, who mock not that radiance that casteth a shadow.

17. Verily do they come unto you and sing: Let us be happy, let us be glad, for do we not see that man hath a destiny? do we not know that the times have an augury?

18. Arise and be glad, even as they, beloved. Arise and have joy, in that they see rightly. For even as ye are little barks upon great waters, so do those waters cradle you tenderly, so do those tempests shower your voyage with safeties.

19. Ye come and ye go at the behest of tempests, ye make progress through your errors, ye rise to new heights from the chasms of your doubtings, ye receive a new crown by the torments of your sailings.

20. I come saying unto you: I have known my sheep, I have heard them in confusions, I have watched them at their gambols, I have kept them in a darkness.

21. Behold I have taken them into mine arms when the thorns of the brush would have turned their steps from me; verily have I approached and seen them leap from me, not knowing the voice that would call them to safety.

22. Is it not meet that these things should be known to you? that those who have doubtings should abide in my bosom? that those who would hide from me should meet their destruction?

23. Are ye not greater than many sheep, beloved, being Sons of Benefaction?

24. Are ye not promised celestial diadems if your brows have known thorns from those who mock radiance?

25. It hath come unto your ears that men would spread a pestilence among you. I say again, there is no pestilence, but only the Father who seeketh to ennoble you by pointing out error in the guise of false prophets, who seeketh to guide you by turning treachery from you, who seeketh to embrace you by giving you discernments.

26. Hear me as I say it: there shall come unto you ten thousand times ten thousand crowns but only one glory that cometh out of Knowing. Behold there shall come unto you ten thousand times ten thousand glories, but only one Radiance that maketh a leadership.

27. Receive mine instruction. Know that even as the heavens are high above the earth, thus spacious is the love of those who come ministering, so is the depth of their compassion in service, so is the fullness and wealth of their devotion.

28. Abide ye in me, and I in you, till the moment arriveth when that which is taught you hath a bond with your utterance.

29. Then shall ye know what was told from the Beginning. Ten thousand shall fall and one falling shall be lifted; one shall be raised and in rising, lift ten thousand.

30. There is evil in circumstance to him who is uncircumspect, but to him who seeketh celestial treasure, the future is a coffer that displayeth many rubies.

31. My sheep follow the true shepherd and harken unto his counsels; they drink of cool waters and wolves assail them not;

32. They know a true voice and engage in no mischiefs whose ends have not ennoblement; they come and go in green pastures as I lead them;

33. Behold they are as anointed ones who see a great tumult that spreadeth in a valley, but their pasturelands are lofty, they go not down the steeps to partake of wrong forage.

34. Hear ye my voice! Ye are my sheep who eat a goodly forage. Ye are mine anointed who keep a great compact.

35. So ever be it.

36. When the cares of the world would perplex you, say not, He who should lead us hath departed far from us. Say rather, He who hath led us hath entered a compact; the wayward are lost but the holy ones profit.

37. Thus do I bless you. Ever my staff hath its rod for your footsteps. . . .

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