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.
200.
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 210:
What Is Faith?
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1. THIS HOUR I address you of the efficacy of faith, the substance
of things hoped for but not seen.
2. What is faith, beloved? I ask you as those who have known
a sore trial.
3. Is it not true that there are those who make a great
disturbance in that they have faith and would have men to
know it? that humor seizeth on them that thus are they
vaunters of their hopes and despairs, even their auguries
uttered unto Mammon?
4. I tell you of their faith. Harken ye, and hear me!
5. Behold a man cometh unto you who declareth himself. He
saith, I have faith to believe that a certain event will mature of
the future.
6. What meaneth he, beloved?
7. I tell you that he hath a certainty within himself that the
winds of chance will blow him much good; he hath a
presentiment within himself that he is destined for great honors;
mayhap he thinketh that he raiseth himself in the esteem of
his fellows and they pay him great homage.
8. He saith to himself, I greatly desire that this event come to
pass; I greatly desire that fortune shall favor me.
9. I am bought and sold daily in body or spirit and I long for
release from such unhappy bondage;
10. I wish that I may better myself as I am bettered by event.
11. What doth that man? I say that he maketh himself an altar
and worshipeth thereat, calling it faith that he wisheth for
release; he maketh an altar of hope unto his passions or his
fears and embraceth release in that it ennobleth him.
12. I tell you that such is not of faith truly; behold, my beloved,
he loveth himself, he abideth within himself, he raiseth himself
by love for himself.
13. And now I tell you of faith which is pure.
14. The faith which we have is not for love of self; we desire no
rewards that enrich us in person.
15. We have another faith, that the world goeth on to a goodly
essence.
16. The faith which we manifest is love indeed, but it waiteth
long and behold it is kind; it waiteth for beauties of character
to show themselves in men, that they rise above their
circumstances and make an anthem unto the Father.
17. Still are these faiths but little faiths if they include our own
desires only.
18. What then is faith if it embraceth not ourselves?
19. I give unto you this answer: The faith which reacheth out
and upward is the positive assurance that man knoweth
benefit through the action of his character in mastery over
circumstance.
20. It is the opening which penury showeth to make great
esteem of those sacrifices and those virtues which beggar
none, that only make paupers of those who have no light to
guide them and resent that light doth find them out at all.
21. Behold it is the desire of the human heart for a thirst that is
unquenchable for that which knowledge slaketh, that those
drinking are ennobled and the world lifted up toward radiance.
22. Faith is not believing in a thing, nor in a person, nor yet in
a doctrine;
23. There must be a reason for the faith.
24. Hear me tell you of reasons whereof Faith must be born:
25. Faith cometh of the Father, that in man there is an urge
to go higher in the scale of spiritual evolution and plant his
feet firmer on the mountaintops of victory, verily victory over
self.
26. It is the unexpressed desire within the human heart to so
make the life entwine about the Tree of Love that the branches
sustain it, that it addeth to the shade for travelers scorched
and weary from much sunshine.
27. Faith is the call of the heart away from that which is fleeting
and base; it is the urge of the soul toward victory over mental
torment, yea even over doubtings that what is perceived cometh
not from myself.
28. My beloved, I instruct you: There is faith which upraiseth,
there is faith which maketh humble, there is faith which maketh
pure, there is faith which defileth if its essence be not simple.
29. Ye do say that ye have faith. But is it courage to endure?
30. Ye do say that ye have faith. But is it strength to retain your
sweetness under sacrifice?
31. Ye do voice your faith in me. But is it strong in its purpose
to follow in my footsteps?
32. There are heights to be conquered, there are races to be
run, there are thirsts to be quenched, there are apples of
discord to be plucked from the orchards of the nations.
33. I tell you that he who hath faith that all things work together
for good is a husbandman who burneth the tares of his spirit;
verily he burneth the scaffoldings of his errors on a pyre
exceeding great.
34. I tell you a fable to soothe your weary spirits, I sing
you a song to rest your feet from marchings, I speak unto you in
silence and say:
35. Let your faith be as apples of wisdom hanging upon the
beauteous bough of Courage,
36. For it feedeth the humble with the juices of great
nourishment; it delighteth the eye with the provision of great
splendor; verily it pleaseth in that it hath soundness, that the
carcass of no worm giveth it defilement. . . .
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