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 224:
A Pure Heart Is Not Enough
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1. WHEN went ye out to hunt a competence and found that
the Father's doors to plenty had been shut against your
entrance?
2. Of old it was said unto you in truth, The earth is the Lord's
and the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein.
3. Which one among you wouldst do an evil unto that which
is his own?
4. Doth not the Father wait on man to bless him? how
therefore saith man, I endure under sufferance?
5. I tell you, beloved, no truth is mocked.
6. Let it be said among you, even each unto himself: In
this have I been wayward, in this have I been neglectful: That
I have sojourned unto myself, I have taken a clean coat, I have
gone afar, I have harkened unto sirens, I have tarried by sweet
waysides, I have made my slumber among many harlots,
7. Yet I have not forsaken the truth that ennobleth me, verily,
verily, in that it hath power to ennoble me; I have done my
trespass in forbidden places and was not rebuked when
I thirsted for clean waters.
8. Man cometh back to the Father at his leisure, but in that he
cometh, the Father rejoiceth. . . .
9. I say that it shall come to pass that the righteous man shall
have a vomit of that which is tempestuous; he shall
make his bed and another shall lie in it; he shall pause by the
wayside in a wearying journey and another shall attack him, in
that he is righteous.
10. But doth the matter end there? can righteousness not
manifest? can it not be triumphant as well as long evil?
11. I say it shall come to pass that many righteous men shall
meet together; they shall consider the Beast, how they will
destroy him; they shall drink of a fountain that beareth no
pollution; they come unto a goodly house and a kindly host
shall welcome them.
12. Put up your arms, ye nations! hear the voice of One who
proclaimeth a competence unto the pure in heart!
13. Of old it was tendered to your thought that he who had a
pure heart bore no odium to that which is eternity. But is a
pure heart enough?
14. I tell you that he who adjourneth unto a waste place and
there considereth the transgressor, transgresseth against
himself; he weareth no colors in the fray for righteousness;
mayhap he courteth no resentment from his brethren but he
weareth no colors that redound to his vigor in the lists for selfimprovement.
15. He cometh and goeth unto himself; he maketh a far vision
of presumptuous impossibilities and liveth there in dreams
aspiring to no awakening.
16. He resumeth a fair treasure in imagined ways of living
and seeth not the asp that awaiteth to destroy him.
17. Do the pure in heart flee into mountains of silence?
what do the mountains care for their purity?
18. Do the pure in heart flee into deserts of wisdoms? what
merit hath their purity if only deserts know it?
19. I tell you that it were an abomination unto me that there
are those who lift men's pulses not one beat higher than when
they first did come into flesh; they inflict no chastisements on
those who make earth's miseries; they offer no solace unto
those who are unfortunate; they come and go at pleasure that
is strictly of their whim.
20. Yet they say unto their neighbors, Because we are pure,
we withdraw from the world; because the world is evil, behold
we will have none of it.
21. And what maketh it evil? is it evil of itself? have I not told
you that the righteous man createth his own fireside? that he
who is holy createth a temple to that holiness, whether he be
here or whether he be there?
22. Is it purity of heart to think thoughts of indolence? or seek
righteous deeds and do them?
23. Whenever was it said unto those who seek the waste
places, that they were pure in heart? whence cometh such
counsel?
24. Behold in the heat of noonday do they call: We have no
shelter for ourselves, we have no radiance in the night, we are
sheep without a shepherd.
25. Doth purity of heart make of them such paupers?
26. Are the pure in heart concerned with shelters, except that
others have them not? do they want for a radiance when they
have God's lamp in them? are they not shepherds in
themselves for those whose lives are wanton?
27. It displeaseth me, beloved, that there are those who say.
Let us sojourn a while in pleasantness, lest we make offerings
unto ourselves of grievous calamities; let us raise unto
ourselves a goodly altar, that we may burn incense to a likely
shrine of hopes that are aggressive, observing not the waywardness
of earthy men, they being vile and down beneath
our purity.
28. I say it displeaseth me, beloved, that there are those who
make a pestilence unto their own desires, rendering unto
Caesar that which he demandeth of them in advance of his
demanding, lifting their vestments carefully from the pool of
thought that hath a roilment in it. . . .
29. It houndeth them unto eternity that ever were their
bellies fat; it rebuketh them unto everlasting time that they
seek their own recompense in that which hath its competence
in hastened blessings.
30. They have a desire to be closed of the bother, whereof do
they say, Behold us, pure in heart.
31. They are pure in their own longings after that which giveth
them surcease from a mischief!
32. Shall such purity win them garlands?
33. And who is there to bestow such garlands? where exist
they? what labors do they do? what lands do they live in?
34. I say that I know them not. My world doth not contain them.
35. Verily, my beloved, think on these things.
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