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 222:
The Dark Forces
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1. BEHOLD it hath come unto me that there are those who would
distress you; they would work you an evil; they would seize on
your thoughts and proclaim them as lecheries; I say that I have
heard them, I have visited at their banquets, I have watched
them in their skulkings, I know their hearts' quakings.
2. What mattereth it, beloved?
3. I say that there is a nobler way to overcome their
mockings, there is a sweeter stairway to rise above their
tumults.
4. For they joke in a terror, they feast in a panic, their own
words rise up from them and write upon their walls, Mene,
mene, tekel, upharsin! . . . Thou art weighed in great balances,
behold thou art found wanting!
5. Pay to these persons no attention, I tell you; know
them for identities, that they are who they are; but have no
traffic with them, make them no advances having in them a
rapport.
6. I say, be about your custom. Behold, make earth beautiful.
Undo ye its wrongings, writing the blackguard high in his folly.
But persevere not against him who would say to you, It is
meet that I come unto you, that my whoredoms may be known
to me.
7. Behold such as these, that they know their own
whoredoms, for if they knew them not, wherein would they
approach you?
8. Let them look to their whoredoms, lest their chambers tell
their secrets.
9. Rather, it behooveth those who have the Sign upon
their foreheads to know their own Lord, to do Him their
obeisance, to know that He goeth in and cometh out amongst
them mightily, to cast no false stone at him who serveth
wickedly.
10. We have our own business. Behold, we do it straitly.
11. We are not here to grapple with those who would have
none of us; we are sent unto those who grasp eagerly our
succor, who chew piteously their viands which we have
rendered unto them.
12. We are servers, not wrestlers; we are ministers, not
athletes.
13. It hath come unto me, beloved, that the world holdeth
those who would slay you for your utterance; they would cloak
their own lecheries with the mantle of your banishments;
14. Yea, they would cast you from exceeding high
pinnacles; they would vomit upon you; they would say, Behold
these are they who incite men to rebellion as we do hold a
leadership.
15. I say it is blasphemy that such should be noted;
16. Yea, even it behooveth me to reprove you that ye take no
stock in that which is promised. Thus it is written, that the
unrighteous shall perish by the sword of their follies, that he
who is righteous shall arise in his increase, he shall be as a
fountain that hath its fair volume, no famine shall visit him, his
vintage shall ennoble him and not make him drunken.
17. I command you, faint not in great contest, beloved, for
thus Armageddon cometh,
18. But make sure in your contestings that he who is
unrighteous hath no claims upon you.
19. If so be it ye do visit him who would offend you, say ye
thus unto him: Thus it was foretold since ever was a nation, that
a black cloud shall come and in it its lightnings, the bolts of it
shall strike and its havoc shall be mighty;
20. But after the storm shall come a tranquillity, after the havoc
shall usher in a Mystery.
21. What wouldst ye of evil? shall evil not eschew you? doth
like not greet to like? hath the steel not its lodestone?
22. Verily I tell you, in that hour man shall eschew all
evil, saying: Thus did it happen unto our fathers, its visit is our
knowledge whereof we are wise, we are the ransomed in that
they did know of it.
23. My beloved, hear my Speakings. This is the attestment
unto those pursuing folly.
24. It shall happen that those who come shall say: Bow down
and do us reverence, sit at our doorstones and be as our
waiting-men, sharpen our weapons and be as our cutlers,
behold not one stone standeth upon another until we
release you.
25. In that day, beloved, there shall be a great feast. . . . ,
and yet a great famine; the mighty shall eat and the weak shall
have hunger; they shall cry, give us bread for behold our
children perish!
26. The mighty shall shake with the laughter of the evil one;
a woe shall fill the land in that heaven hath not administered
its recompense unto those who walk in arrogance.
27. I say, be not deceived. O my people, be not mocked.
Register no horrors aimed at your circumstance. Be ye meek,
be ye contrite. Subdue a great wrath! Fulfill a great destiny!
28. Walk proudly among the nations and say ye unto them:
Thus ever was it, that man in his littleness should know penury
and groan whilst Mammon should wax fat;
29. But it cometh to our wisdom that the Son of Man arriveth
and dark cities shall open their gates at His bidding; He shall
enter and sit at meat, and those who reviled Him shall perform
as His servants;
30. Bedecked in gross jewels they shall offer Him the platter,
but behold He shall honor them in that they serve Him;
He shall sit as lord and bid all draw nigh unto Him;
31. For they know not the price that sitteth upon them, that
they should deliver it; they mark not the comings and goings of
Mammon, being his husbandman, verily his maidens, each of
them and severally eager to do his bidding.
32. I say, Mammon is themselves and behold they see it not.
33. Give unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and withhold
not from him who saith, Perceive that I am Caesar; see that
ye give!
34. But say concerning Caesar: I perceive that ye are earthly,
that ye do an earthly bidding! know ye not that there is One who
is mightier than Caesar? . . . relax your hold upon us that we
may do Him reverence!
35. Beloved, a clanging ringeth loud in the land, there shall be
tumult that breaketh in the night, ever in the highways shall
haranguings be by day, many shall fall in the pride of their
stalkings, verily there shall be a beseechment from the
housetops that ruffianry be quelled, that peace be of force.
36. Again I ask, What mattereth it?
37. Have ye not seen the Sign in the heavens?
38. Burnish your armor! Be about your Father's business!
39. Have ye not heard it said that cohorts of righteousness
shall descend from the summits with healing in their wings?
who then, think ye, cometh? shall angels fly down to wing
among carrion? . . .
40. Is it not the Father's promise that as a man abideth in
himself for righteousness, he shall meet redemption and know
his high abiding-place?
41. I tell you be alert! Make ye no promises unto yourselves;
make ye all promisings unto the Father that ye do abide in such
righteousness even to the end, doing no evil deed that
good may be its incense, doing every goodly deed that out of
the lips of wrongful utterings may speak a vast beatitude;
42. That man may be cast in a land that is fat, that heaven
shall know of a tumult subsided, that your arms may be folded
away with your garlands, that your warfare may cease and the
earth be a pasture filled with sweet scents and watered by
brooklets.
43. Is it not written in the Books of the Saints that a mighty
host shall arise in the Last Great Day and do battle for the
Lord? think ye that host hath its urgings for bloodshed? or think
ye that roses hide thorns in caprice in that it amuseth them to
give sting unto the fingers?
44. Not so, I tell you. Perform not upon your own comings and
goings, but await a great signal, then rush into battle;
45. Strike not vainly, pursue ye no foe in that he hath
weakness, strike ye down no enemy in that he fainteth in
his valiance.
46. Be proud. Be just. Be contrite. Know the strong
perseverance. Win the struggle cleanly. Open the floodgates of
your wrath on those who strike from ambush, who skulk whilst
others triumph, who know that their pathways have direction
through guile.
47. When have I told you not to be valiant?
48. When have I ordered you to flee the grim contest?
49. When hath it come unto you that I have said, Put forth no
efforts that the land may be pure?
50. If this were so, who then fighteth Armageddon? who then
holdeth up the battle for the Lord? hath it not been Written that
such a battle cometh? and doth evil fight with evil that earth
should know such conflict?
51. I tell you the Just are arrayed in their cohorts, they have
armor that is beauteous, their ranks lift the bursting that cometh
in the throat;
52. They are drawn up for the Lord, they meet Evil on its
footing, they declare, See thy falling! thus are they the Bright
Ones.
53. Behold this is the law, behold these are the prophets.
But transcend not the law, yea, violate not the prophets,
by advancing out of season, making errors of moment where
knowledge bringeth victories.
54. I am your Commander.
55. I give you the ensign.
56. I bestow on you the countersign.
57. Would I be such commander if mine armies were but
fantasies?
58. I, your Lord, bespeak you. Hasten on your errands, but
behold, in such hastenings, give ye succor to the fallen, lift up
the foe who perisheth from hungers in that his rations have
been huskings for his belly, do good unto those who smite you
in that ignorance is their broadsword.
59. But give ye no quarter unto him who saith, I am evil and
know that I am evil; I spit upon your Prince in that he
approacheth me with forgiveness in his ministerings!
60. I say unto you, beloved, I will have no part of him, I will
give him no succor, I have known the Man of Old and I consign
him to his pestilence.
61. Thus, beloved, is it Written.
62. Abide ye in me, and I in you, till the better days be come,
for so also this is Written.
63. Let the days of the Writing make no mock of your
patience. . . .
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