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 226:
Impatience at Delay
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1. THEY have a sorry aspect in that they augur well for Mammon.
But in such auguring, remember ye this:
2. It hath been my portion over many lives to become the
cause of men's misgivings; it hath come to me that I should
waver in my strong intent to let a worldly race perceive the
errors of its antics.
3. It hath come to me that many men in many places would
cast me forth and say: It is an imposter who cometh unto us! we
will not have Him at any price unless he altereth the aspects of
our tenure.
4. Is it meet, beloved, that I should say: So be it, brethren! my
apparel changeth in that ye have caprice?
5. Beloved, hear me: Consider the ways of those who till the
soil. Are they not mindful of their seed? Do they watch their
harvest, that lilies may grow from turnips?
6. Can the Son of Man be other than that which is rendered
by his own high estate?
7. Be not deceived. The Father hath ordered that the harvest
shall be gathered of the seed that is sown.
8. It hath come to me that many men in high places have
taken counsel amongst themselves, biding their times to bring
in vast whoredoms.
9. I say that it is displeasing unto me that such should be the
harvest of their revilings at circumstance, and yet I tell you there
is graciousness in it.
10. Except that they make a mock of eternity, and do the
bidding of that mockery, they prevail not at leisure to render
themselves amenable to changes of munificence, whereof they
are the victims.
11. Let us not defile ourselves with wishings that the impure
may be pure, when those who have a penury of spirit beseech
not the God who made them for the wisdom unto mastery, verily
unto themselves.
12. Rather should we say: It hath come to us that many men in
high places make an unpleasant bed and lie in its cradle,
that they may know the essence of true bed-making, and
spread a softer couch unto their spirits when rich wisdom
cometh unto them.
13. Ye are possessed of a great lesion unto yourselves that
Evil seemeth to give trumpet to its pestilence, that many men
are vain and filled with dire forebodings, giving no alms to
kingliness of spirit, wishing all things well while verily their armor
rusteth in the cells which they have slept in, through nights
of evil tidings.
14. I say unto you, be ye wise, beloved, verily with that wisdom
which was given to the ancients; be sagacious in a trust which
hath within itself its treasure.
15. Say ye amongst yourselves: We hear a good report of that
which cometh presently; we bear a high regard for that which
altereth openly, seeking to apprise the sons of God of that
which permitteth escape from their bondage.
16. Beloved, hear mine utterance! My countenance hath
gravity, my heart is torn with mercy toward your gropings
after wisdom.
17. It hath been said of some among you, even as it was said
of me, that ye have disturbed the Man of the Ages, slumbering
in his beasthood; it hath been proclaimed of us that we
do obeisance unto culture and permit not the culprit to share
with us the rewards from many blessings.
18. That were foul within its falsehood.
19. I tell you that we wrestle with many demons, we cast out
unclean spirits from the souls of many miscreants; we come
and go zealously, charging the sons of men to have a care as
to whom they invite to their houses of Spirit.
20. Let it not be said of us that we did practice a grievous
impatience in that which maketh the race to shine as a garment
about the bosom of the Infinite;
21. Rather let it be told of us that we did take counsel with
ourselves, saying from the marks upon our foreheads, which
should be fit to know the sweet counsel at the board of the
wise ones.
22. Beloved, beloved! . . . nothing endureth that holdeth
not within itself rich blessings for futurity! . . . .naught
proclaimeth a blasphemy but that which perceiveth the
passing moment and crieth, It is here, it is gone, and we are
gone with it!
23. Have I not told you that it behooveth you to have a
rectitude in patience? have I not prevailed upon you to accept
with caution the promptings of impromptitude?
24. Have I not cautioned you that all is not striving? that all is
not actioning? that much remaineth to be done which putteth
approval's stamp on perseverance, that goeth not out to dispute
with destroyers?
25. And yet I tell you it pleaseth me that those come unto you
who say: The hour is the Lord's! . . . .we serve Him in it!
26. Beloved, beloved! Harken to my speech! . . . .It needeth
your strong right arm to bind your impatience as the
husbandman bindeth the wheat in its shock. It partaketh of
godliness to say unto yourselves, One cometh unto us who
directeth the battle won upon a plane of silence and entereth in
through a door made of roses.
27. I say unto you again, Persevere, know rectitude, make
a goodly fight, treat harshly with the enemy if he disrupteth you
in goodly works but bear him no malice in that he is your
enemy.
28. Treat him as the adder which hath its nature and causation
unto itself; being an adder, it stingeth the foot. Is that cause for
saying: We do hate the adder in that God hath sent it to be
torment to our hikings?
29. Say ye rather: It is the way of Nature's God that the adder
cometh to know its own essence, wherefore we coop it as we
can, that its stinging doth not fell us.
30. Think ye not, beloved, that there may be those among
you who are as adders to others who have gained to great
nobilities? wouldst ye have yourselves destroyed, wouldst
ye have yourselves hated, in that there are higher forms
that have gained unto a progress? Hear my words and
be sagacious.
31. All things have their natures that such may know their
natures. Understanding maketh harmony among all that are
God's creatures.
32. What of those who say, Let us kill the adder in that he
persisteth in his nuisance unto us, let us be rid of him in that he
is sent amongst us to destroy us when we note him not.
33. I tell you it pleaseth the Father to decree the adder, but
the wise husbandman knoweth its form and its nature, he
steppeth aside when it coileth in his pathway, he goeth with a
stick and maketh the adder to flee through the grass,
34. But withal he hateth not the serpent in that it hath chosen
its form of a serpent; all things walk on earth that a purpose
may be served;
35. If they walk not adroitly concerning one another, is it their
affair? . . . . . or God’s?
36. We have an eagerness to be about our Father's business;
verily it offendeth us that circumstance ariseth making us to wait
in partaking of His harvest.
37. I say the harvest cometh when all of the workers have
gained unto their places in the fields!
38. Can men throw windrows when their forks are at the
barns? can women bear children when the times of their
delivery are not yet come upon them?
39. Why come I to tell you of heavenly things when men have
no desire to know them? . . . I say I give you many teachings
of small import, that ye mayest know a greater counseling
when Earth and Sea and Air divide, and unknown furies turn the
minds of men to frenzy.
40. Verily, verily, the enemy pursueth, he giveth you no lapse
from worry that he shall yet trap you in his strategies and
hucksterings. Is it meet that ye fear him?
41. I say that it is nobler for you to adjure him: Thus far and no
farther! Thus swift and no swifter!
42. But in your addressings give him no countenance with fear
writ large upon it; give him rather the disturbance of knowing
that wherever ye do journey, there followeth truth that is
bitter to his palate.
43. And now, I depart you. . . . I say that I come upon another
hour and pray with you to dwell upon a plane of light where all
things have a radiance, that where ye see a radiance, there
comfort hath its homestead.
44. For it is not adroit that many men should come unto me
and cry, Master, what of the times wherein ye dwell, that we
may elude their teasings?
45. Rather is it noble that they should seek me out and say:
Master, show us whereof we may be useful to produce Thy
kingdom in the hearts of many erring ones who know their
consternations.
46. Have we not fought a goodly fight in years and days that
are to men as vanished sorrows? is it not of truth that we must
twang a goodly chord upon the winds of many waters ere
man heareth music that enticeth him from penury?
47. I say unto you, Be calm!
48. Bear the tempter no malice. Treat ye not with him as a
destroyer but rather as a culture in the sweet wine of reason,
that maketh its ferment so that tongues of many intellects may
taste and know its excellence.
49. Hear ye my words. Perceive ye their wisdom. Hasten not
to well-doing if so be it the hastening maketh a falling. Be ye
marked as those agile, who have achievement in their wits
whenever they would use them.
50. Is it not Written that we should indite great versings upon
the scrolls of many waters?
51. What wouldst ye of me that I have not given?
52. Let me rest beside you as One who would share your
beds of spirit, though I walk through vaster mansions of
eternity's service upon my Father's business.
53. Peace be upon you till we come again to discourse! . . .
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