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 229:
For This Am I Shepherd
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1. THE WAYS in which the enemy maketh mischief are
perplexing unto you; he skulketh in shadow, he singeth on the
highroad, he maketh a loud noise and beseecheth that all men
hear it; he is subtle, he is coy; his right hand knoweth not what
his left hand performeth; he upbraideth the humble; he
deceiveth the Elect.
2. Are not these things known unto those who have wisdom?
was it given them for pranking?
3. I tell you I watch closely the cohorts of the thieving ones,
I know their malefactions, I discern their transgressions.
4. Yet do I say unto myself: Such errors are of moment, they
enlighten the circumspect, they give arm to the valorous, they
open the still, small way to those who would flee them.
5. I tell you again as I have told you before: I am Patience
Incarnate. But I let not harm descend upon those who delve
nobly that the Kingdom may come in.
6. Be of good cheer, my beloved; the woes are of moment,
yet wherein have they harmed you? hath the pestilence not
stalked close to you and yet hath it felled you? I say,
Deliverance is at hand!
7. Behold ye have ministers who minister unto you; they have
served you with protection; they have cast their blankets over
you.
8. Hath scandal afflicted you? hath the sharp tongue annoyed
you? hath the lecherous word assailed you? hath the multitude
rebuked you in that tumult was your pedagogue?
9. I have seen the fell act, I have heard the foul word, yet
I have not suffered the viper of infamy to wound your heels
fatally.
10. I have watched the happenings, I have frowned my
displeasures, I have come and gone among the sainted ones
and said: Take joy as a mantle, for verily it fitteth you; take
Hope as your staff, for verily it goadeth you.
11. Do ye slumber? . . . sleep peacefully! Do ye prank? . . .
do it gracefully! Have ye a humor to be about the Father's
business? . . . trust not the helper found in the highroad but
seek out the brother who is one with you in spirit, who hath
shown the bright mettle, whose cheek hath not blanched
when the arrow flashed close to it.
12. I tell you that we be three in spirit, . . . .the flesh maketh
weakness but the heart maketh music.
13. There is more than a village against you, beloved. There
are nations to be won ere the Golden Time cometh in.
14. Have I not protected you in a little day, beloved? . . . think
ye I desert you when the nations move in earthquake?
15. Be of better courage! The soldier hath his fortune.
16. Many soldiers make mighty cohorts, many cohorts make
an army; yet hath the army only the heart of him who fighteth
singly. Recall that I have said it.
17. Behold it hath come to me that the world hath tried you;
is it not meet that it should rend you also? how come ye of
strength unless there be anvils for your hammers, that your
blows shall ring lustily?
18. Heed mine admonitions.
19. I say unto your graciousness, Ye are ministering Spirits;
blessed be your succors; blessed be your counsels unto those
who hunger after them.
20. Do ye rest in earthly nights? hath the Father not sent the
darkness for a balsam? . . . the morrow, I tell you, bringeth
strength to endure.
21. When I asked strength of my Father, did He not send it?
did I not receive it? was it not abundant? whenever did He
fail me?
22. When ye asked strength of me, did I not send it also?
didst ye not receive it? was it not plenteous? have I passed
you in bestowing it?
23. Have a calmer assurance. I am Strength, I am Shield,
I am Weapon, I am Amulet; I shall encompass your weakness
with my beauty.
24. Fear openeth the heart; in stalketh cowardice. Doubt
rendeth the window; in flieth panic. I tell you that ye do have no
defense against tumult when fear bringeth cowardice into the
mansion of your Spirit. Open not your hearts to doubtings. I say
they defile you, they give you a tallow.
25. Doth fear make you craven? . . . there is naught to do but
wait. The anchor of righteousness falleth deep in depths of
doubtings, it secureth the craft so that storms do not wreck it,
even those storms of Mammon's wiles against you.
26. Be advised, my beloved! . . . I have said that I am with you.
27. There are moments and episodes when harm indeed
approacheth; there are mad times and seasons when menace
is imminent.
28. I am fully aware! For this am I shepherd. For this am
I captain of the craft of your destinies.
29. I do know mine own and the struggles of their souls;
I do know the wolves by name and whereof they would rend
you. I rebuke the mad tempest and it whimpereth at mine
excellence.
30. Abide ye in me and fear not that I shall fail you!
31. There are needless alarms, when the Mind becometh
bedlam; my voice in your hearts is as rain on many oceans,
yea, the sweet shower that troubleth not the billows;
32. And yet I remind you. . . the billows are but many showers
fallen in abundance, fallen in rejoicing that the clouds do their
function.
33. There is naught that can harm you! . . . see me in the
tempests and behold it giveth succor.
34. I say unto each of you. . . there is too much business of a
vast importance for harm of petty nature to inflict its spiteful
mischief on you. . . .
35. We are brethren for a purpose; there are worlds in the
making; I say lives untold shall exist and perish on them;
36. We go upward through the cycles, we do mount world on
world, behold the day cometh when we reach the Father's
mansion.
37. We are brethren, I say, for the Program Eternal.
38. There are glories undefined; there are joys that are not
numbered; there are pleasures and delights; there are
privileges and dignities.
39. Hear ye my speech: My love worketh on you and ever ye
come unto them; my heart is a balsam, it ennobleth to all
dignities;
40. Suffer mine image to be ever in your thoughts; keep ever
constant your regard for my Spirit.
41. I will rescue your timidities from their watery graves of
heresies, if ye but keep steadfast your ideals of my constancy.
42. Millions toil against us. Millions more toil for us. We seek
only victories which Love hath opened unto us; those who toil
against us seek their victories by a wastage, their hate hath a
looseness, it breaketh, it scattereth.
43. Hate ever destroyeth, Love buildeth up; hate maketh the
heart and the bowels to sicken, Love lifteth the trumpet and the
Mind singeth anthems.
44. Hate belongeth to mortal coil; Love is the gold on the robe
of the Infinite.
45. Behold, ideals sweeten you. . . . . Whence come they, my
beloved? . . . are they come of a worldiness husbanded by lust?
. . . think ye they seize you of whim or of fancy?
46. I tell you the Divine Idealism cometh from the Father. Rest
in it, and on it, yea verily rest under it, and let it seek out the
chambers of your loveliness, let it fill them to surfeit, let them
hold it as an incense.
47. Verily if ye do think the things that ye wouldst be, so shall
the miracle work, and ye become them.
48. Fear not error that is goodly; fear only error that maketh for
destruction; fear only error that draweth from the Father, that
maketh Him beastly, that casteth Him down as a man that
would spit.
49. Know that the error which approacheth from the Father
cometh out of parenthood that the child should be noble.
Can such truly be error?
50. The Father hath need of you, beloved, even as of old!
I have need of you, beloved, even as of old! The world hath
need of us, beloved, even as of old!
51. Think ye the Father sendeth Evil to rend you? . . . behold
what cometh unto you is sent of His purpose. Rejoice and be
exceeding glad, for great is your strength to cause mountains
to tremble, yea in those days when His purpose hath been
served in you.
52. Lift up your hearts to see me in the stars. Lift up your faces
to see me in the sun. Lift up your eyes to see me in your
brother. I say, crush me not in the flower by the wayside,
53. For I am the Mystery that maketh Nature wondrous. . . .
54. Again I say unto all of you, Cast your nets even as ye didst
cast them at my bidding in the Long Ago. . . . I tell you they shall
rise loaded to breaking with fishes not of earth! . . .
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