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 212:
Circumspection
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1. BEHOLD it hath come unto me that there are those who say,
Let us take our ease in Zion, let us rest peaceably within
ourselves and give no thought to the tempest that bloweth, let
us be as a casting-place for the nets of the circumspect; thus
shall it be well with us when the evil wind breaketh, thus shall
the gods of righteousness be pleased with us that we have kept
the covenant with that which caused no rancor.
2. I have spoken to you of Faith, but what have I said
of Destiny?
3. My beloved! My beloved!
4. The evil man saith, There is peace in the accolade struck
by the wicked one; but the righteous know a Promise that lifteth
up the valiant.
5. Whenever was it told you that Peace had a conquerage to
make straight the crooked, that righteous nobility beat no
tocsins unto valor?
6. I say that it is a wicked thing to give obeisance unto the
proud if in the giving the cheek hath a blanching, if in the
footstep the knee hath its bending.
7. Whereof were ye created if not to be circumspect? but is
circumspection lechery? Have ye no honors due to the Infinite?
8. Circumspection saith unto a man, Whereof is thy destiny?
see that thou fulfillest it! take thou no orders from Mammon who
corrupteth thee but lift up thy countenance that the Father may
anoint thee!
9. Whereof would have come the martyrs, beloved, if they
said in their testing, Pray let us be circumspect?
10. I tell you that true nobility of soul saith unto a man, Thy
destiny hath marked thee! get thee up and about thy kingly
business! take error as the watchword but see it hath no
mastery to rend thee!
11. For what marketh out the proud but that which proclaimeth,
We are sons of benefaction, let us therefore commit no
abominations that removeth from us the openings to vast
resource?
12. I tell you they shall have them removed, they shall have
them set hence, they shall come up and find them closed,
they shall knock upon their panels and an emptiness shall
greet them.
13. Circumspection is that quality which giveth a man his
choosings in destiny, whether he shall follow those who are
proud, whether he rise up and give mock unto the scornful.
14. Ye have heard it said that man shall come unto a castingplace
within the oceans of the Infinite; he shall let down his nets
and find them filled with fishes.
15. Think ye, beloved, he casteth in an empty place by his own
blindness? that the increment is meted him in that he hath
brazenness? I tell you it is folly.
16. Man cometh into increment in that he electeth it, in that he
greeteth it with wisdom, by wisdoms manifest; he knoweth it not
otherwise.
17. How then cometh he upon such understanding unless
it be said of him that he did choose a high pathway and
make it his desiring, walking ever nobly in arcs of heavenly
radiance?
18. Behold the little man hath said, Circumspection is
keenness of spirit to perceive the unhallowed and render it
homage ere it rend me.
19. He giveth circumspection to be the mantle of his
cowardice.
20. Circumspection asketh: What is right for me to do, and
how may I do it that infinite hosts of unhallowed ones may
prosper?
21. For is it seemly to be circumspect in that the little deed
hath valor to protect you but that the larger vista hath its fury to
fell you with its lightnings?
22. Hath not circumspection its balancings in equity?
23. The evil man escheweth circumspection in that he saith:
I am mine own augury, behold I am circumstance, I order
and it is so, and in that I order it, I see that my pleasure is rich
with its feastings.
24. The righteous man saith, Verily art thou braggart, for in that
circumspection bringeth thee such feastings, lo, it doth happen
that thy soul is required of thee; where, therefore, is thy talent
to make mock of the Infinite?
25. Circumspection hath an essence which saith: Let us be
proud in the pride of rejoicing that it cometh to us clearly that
which is prescient for us to accomplish, let us rejoice that the
evil one escheweth us for that we have seen him in the dazzle
of his stalkings yet kept our footsteps clean of that which is his
pasturage.
26. I would not have you think that circumspection cometh
to you wantonly, that it bridleth your angers at that which
doth mischiefs.
27. I say it is ennoblement clearly perceived in a truculence to
circumstance; it is knowing with rejoicing that which scattereth
longest favors.
28. Arise ye, my brethren, and be glad that it is so! There is no
comeliness in cowardice, neither in trembling the knee before
the strong.
29. There is majesty in valiance, verily in the clear head and
the pure heart, that seeketh the ways of benefaction always,
that giveth no hostages unto a lechery, that preserveth its faith
with beatitudes to splendor.
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