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 213:
Man Is Master Over His Alchemy
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1. I HAVE given you my song, I have spun you my witchery,
I have said, Seven times seven times do I come unto you when
that which is foul hath been cast from the land; now I go about
my business bringing blessings to the world, lifting men up,
bestowing increase on them.
2. Do they perceive it? Pray what is that to me?
3. Ninety and nine are the days of the Spirit wherein it
worketh as a yeast in humanity; the hundredth is mine own, that
I come and take my diadem.
4. The world hath a humor to be appeased of conscience;
it rebuketh its destiny, it seeketh the bright way and the smooth
road that fears shall know no auguries, that pleasant valleys
shall beguile its footsteps, that man shall be fed with provender
from alchemies.
5. Is such of benefaction?
6. Behold the world groaneth and increase cometh out, verily
that increase which showeth man his choosings, which be of
profit and giveth him a mastery, which be of traffic with cohorts
of subversions.
7. Is it not meet that man should know these choosings?
if he is indolent should not valor trounce him? if he hath a
fester in his spirit to give man's wiles obeisance, is it not of
equity that he should quaff their poison?
8. There are those among you who come unto me and say:
My portion is too bitter, I am plagued by mine adversary in that
he doth rend me!
9. I say unto such, And art thou bound in irons that thou
canst not eschew him? verily thy conscience preserveth its
silence, verily thy cowardice presumeth a tumult;
10. Thus is it rendered, that the tumult come upon thee.
11. Thou art in thy world, beloved, to make it as thou wilIest it:
thy cause is thy buckler; thy mercy is thy touchstone.
12. Come not unto me decrying: The evil man hath seized us!
or The evil day hath found us out and we are at its mercy!
13. I say the evil day is thine own, in that thou art sluggard to
arise and take thy majesties.
14. Should I not have patience with the stalwart? but what of
mice of men who nibble in little corners and presently cry, The
house falleth on us! Should I not mock them with that which is
of wisdom?
15. Beloved, be enlightened!
16. No evil day cometh on mankind which it hath not invited;
no evil hour descendeth on the world but that which it hath
cherished.
17. God hath sent man no locust swarms to plague; the Father
hath said unto man, Look unto thine acres that the pest-hordes
give them cleavage; thou art thine own husbandman, the world
is thy garden to make free of insects.
18. Wouldst thou have a fair rose to blossom on a vine?
how then hast thou tended it, that its blossom hath its
loveliness?
19. We come unto the world telling it in majesty, Arise and take
thy heritage, make your sodden paths clean! but the world
hath its petulance. It saith, Preserve me, for I am indolent in
my desirings and that which would ennoble me costeth me
much effort!
20. I say, Go to, thou foolish world! live on thine own vomits!
But presently I show myself unto you saying, Be like mine
ennoblement, come up and see mine household, perform like
mine own cordons who seek out mercies militantly; thus shall
it come to thee that thou hast thine own torment secreted in
thy vitals.
21. For I am not come unto the world to be its stable-boy or
housemaid; I am set with my diadem that all men should see
me, and perceiving my cleanness desire to become like me.
22. There is valor in example; there is lechery in filthiness that
others may be clean.
23. Have we come to wash the world and set it on a shelf?
I say we have come to pour it urns of water that it should
cleanse itself!
24. Hast thou a plague, my brother, that verily tormenteth the
sweetness of thy bowels? I say thou art sluggard else thou
wouldst cast it from thee.
25. Hast thou erred in thy reasonings, that such should be thy
portion? I tell you I summon the kingly to accounting that
they rise up in their royalty and decree their kingdoms'
sweetness.
26. Verily have I said it.
27. Man hath taken his liberties with doctrine; he hath looked
unto his pleasures and made them cast him dice; he hath said
unto his valors, The luxuries of attainments are beyond thee,
therefore I leave thee to one who is perfect.
28. How then cometh majesty to one who is majesty? how
then cometh sweetness to the flower holding honey?
29. I tell you the doctrine hath been shot through with
vileness; the dirt hath received it that man should know
complacence.
30. Can I condone it in that man hath desired it?
31. I say that the error prompteth a blasphemy, verily a
blasphemy against man's holy spirit.
32. For man is his master over his alchemy; man is his warden
over his indolence; man hath a charge to keep and a vessel to
preserve against a breaking.
33. He goeth out and he cometh in verily as it pleaseth him; he
keepeth his own household; there is none to restrain him:
34. How then saith he, Master, be my char-man? Verily am
I servant unto his perplexities, but my kingship is deafened to
cries of his slothfulness.
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