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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 202:

We Are Architects Together

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1. NEVER HATH it been said unto you that I address you, beloved, in ways that are soft; I speak from my presence yet I utter you valors.

2. The evil man hath told you: There is rigor in mortality, there is righteousness in tumult;

3. Behold he who taketh the bow shall fly by the chariot; he who sitteth at the harpsichord shall perform a sweet melody.

4. And yet I say unto you, unless ye be pursued by valors, ye shall in nowise be seized by the strong hands of majesty.

5. Except ye pursue your valors as a business, ye shall not greet tumult as making strong the spirit.

6. Whenever hath it been told unto you truly that the earth is a resting-place for those who sleep peacefully? or that it is a fair avenue for those who run lightly and scatter petals joyously?

7. I say that the earth is a sweet benediction to those who have given their lives to the sacrifice; it is concord of harmony for those who walk nobly but who turn not aside for the rigors of pestilence.

8. The earth is a garden that is waiting to be tilled; behold it is a highroad that is begging for its pavement.

9. It giveth the sweet sleep only in that the labor is performed, it receiveth the fair blossom that the tread may be soft for the feet that are injured yet press on toward victory.

10. Ye have come along a mighty highroad, ye who walk nobly! Behold, in that ye have journeyed, ye have made that highroad beautiful!

11. Continue so to make it, but say not unto one another, We are architects of pavements! Say rather among yourselves, We have seen the fell pit and have covered it with bridgings, we have run to the horizons and made their exits, entrances;

12. We have discussed the universe amongst ourselves and found it sweet with spicings, yet have we perceived its spicings not for our nostrils but for our benedictions, that we have poured sweet ointments upon the heads of the uncircumspect.

13. Behold he who layeth a pavement is excellent indeed, but he who blazeth a path through a wilderness holdeth up a beacon that goeth not out.

14. I have come unto you smiling, I have come unto you singing, I have hummed in my throat, I have given my countenance unto pleasant lines of humor;

15. I have brought you my person effulgent with mine auguries; I have said, Get ye up in peace about that which engageth you; presently ye shall see that the Father's works are in the earth made manifest! 16. Behold I have done more. I have come as a man who hath known a man's potion, who hath drunk a man's nightshade, who hath tried a man's forbearance and sought comfort for his griefs in the chantings of sweet versings when the harrows of heaven would prepare him as the soil to receive the seed of mysteries!

17. And to what end, beloved?

18. Is it not true that I have given my life unto these attestments, unto these auguries, unto these valors, unto these witcheries of spirit that ennoble the intellect, that ye might be as I and become my true brethren in stature as in reckonings?

19. How say ye among yourselves, or how saith the world in the curdle of its littleness, There is One who reigneth over us? Wherein should I reign? What pleasures should it give me? Am I little in my grandeur that I eat of admiration? Nay, nay, beloved. . . .

20. We are architects together, compounding the worlds. I am as you. Ye are as I. And both together have the height of the Father.

21. Thus declare the wise ones who are given to no alchemies.

22. Perceive ye not the truth of it? See ye not the love of it? Discern ye not the bliss of it? Must I quaff a tiny cup in that your bellies are too small for wisdoms?

23. Have ye not valors equal unto mine? Must I throw a little stone that ye may run a little race?

24. The bliss and the height, and the depth and the misery, these are but fragments of the architecture by which we build the worlds unto glory, yea even that glory that transfixeth the Infinite and pulleth it down so that all may partake of it.

25. These are our missions, prescribed in a grandeur.

26. I would not have you dwell in little tents, beloved. I would set you by a mighty stream and let your ears hear the rush of its waters. I would give you a mountain to be the valet of your chambers, that it might attend you with voicings that are vigorous.

27. I would say unto you constantly, Arise with the wren and go out with the lark, but soar with the eagle and be one with the storm.

28. Be neither little in greatness nor great in littleness, but perceive that the Father hath set a bowstring unto your hand, that the arrow hath its message and it flieth as ye will it;

29. Perceive that the race is to the strong indeed, but that ye are the strong, whereof ye do your runnings.

30. Get a grandeur of countenance. Stoop not to tinkling follies. Open the casements of your spirits and perceive that the waters of all dews are fresh, that they are bright in the sunlight, yet are they the mists of last night's longings, they are of the rain that was sad within the darkness of your doubtings.

31. These things I purvey unto you as a merchant in majesties.

32. I say that I come in unto mine own, that they may be like me, that I have their strong countenance.

33. I am the spirit of that which says unto the strong. Be strong! and unto the weak, Get thee up and make thy biceps wondrous that men shall behold them in the poise of their restraints.

34. I come not to instruct you as one who standeth his feet upon thunderings, for thereat is dread, and vanities in forcings;

35. I come to sit at meat with you as one who dippeth his hands in the dish, who saith unto you, Are not these things sweet and reasonable unto men, that all should embrace them that their souls may know freedom?

36. Is it not of maturer stature to sit at meat than to besport upon a cloud that hath destruction in its vomitings?

37. Such are mine eschewments, that ye shouldst partake of them. . . .

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