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 232:
The Lamp of True Wisdom
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1. HAVE I not told you that it was said of me in the beginning that
I came bringing not peace but a sword? What think ye was
meant?
2. Was it not said of me that I did bring dissension, that I did
cause principalities and powers to arise and smite those rulers
who ruled not with impunity?
3. I say that it shall come again that men shall say: Behold he
soweth a foul seed amongst us; behold he turneth a man
against his own household; behold he goeth in and cometh out
and whereon he hath trod there spreadeth a pestilence.
4. For it is the way of men that they should turn against those
who would do them most good; they rise up and make mighty
strikings against those armors that are held for their defense.
5. I say that it shall be again, even as it hath been in times
that are gone, that there shall be strikings and groanings. Men
shall cry, The Prince of Peace hath caused it, in that He hath
tricked us!
6. What mattereth it, beloved? . . . We have sought to do
good, we have sought to turn no man against his own
household; behold his household hath turned against him;
it hath said in the turning: Evil hath caused it; there is no Prince
of Peace, else He would not suffer it.
7. Wherein should I suffer it, or suffer it not, my beloved,
if those who heard not wisdom hungered not in their hearts for
mercy, neither heard they blasphemies without a shrinking
that I should have caused them?
8. I tell you that fairer days dawn for humankind, but ere they
dawn it cometh to man that he goeth in and cometh out as he
clearly perceiveth the Lamp of True Wisdom guiding his
footsteps.
9. That Lamp is lit. Verily there is One who holdeth it aloft.
10. But man hath a humor to test of his principles and see if
they befoul him. He goeth in and cometh out not adroitly, but
walking as one clumsily; perchance he trippeth, then doth he
exclaim in anger, And would I have tripped had there been
those to guide me?
11. I tell you that it is an abomination unto me, beloved, that
there are those who, perceiving wisdom, embrace it not. It is an
unkindness unto my mission, in this lowly place of worldly effort
to bring a lost race back to glory, that there are those who
would treat of the scornful as though they had great wisdom.
12. Hear ye and be wise!
13. Know that it hath come to me that there are those who do
make a great bag of their troubles and lay it on the shoulders of
relatives and neighbors; they say unto them, Carry it and if ye
drop it not, then shall ye be consoled with riches of heavenly
price.
14. I say that the time cometh shortly when all riches
become a pestilence. Man shall say unto his neighbor, What
possessest thou? cast it from thee lest it offend thee with
incrimination.
15. Is it just that there should be those who possess great
substance and those who hunger for that substance. . . whilst
there are others toiling that the substance should be kept from
those who have it not?
16. What of the preacher who declareth: It is just and good that
there should be those who have great possessions that they
may be lantern-bearers on roads to wealth for those who cannot
see for want of light?
17. What of the laborer who laboreth for the safety of that
which is held unlawfully, writing, pleading, besieging that
agencies of offices maintain to protect in safety that which is
now held selfishly and for a goodly ease in substance?
18. I say, beloved, that this shall be changed. Man shall walk
uprightly; he shall suffer not his neighbor to eat from fat barns
while those do stand by whose bellies are empty.
19. It shall be a lechery, verily an abomination, for those to
labor with pen and instrument saying, See, we protect you in
your gains and in that we protect you, we demand of you
stipend.
20. Away with it, beloved! Let those who possess, retain as it
pleaseth them, and as they may, in substance;
21. Let those who are enhungered, take and eat with a goodly
relish, saying: For this have we toiled, that our bellies should
be fed.
22. Think not that I have come preaching resistance against
authority. I say authority is godlike, in that it teacheth man to
eschew evil in his political relationships, doing those things
which profit him in masses;
23. But authority encompasseth not turnings and twistings on
the roads to achievings, that those who are weak should be
made the weaker, that those who are strong should be made
the stronger.
24. I say there are those among you whom it behooveth to
know their own destinies, to take a goodly helping of the rich
fruit of Knowledge, to pass it plentifully among the brethren,
but to say as they do pass it,
25. It is known unto us of old that ye will fill yourselves with
husks; eat therefore, and know true wisdom; revile not
yourselves with false promisings of increase, but take every
man as it pleaseth him, after the promptings of his talents.
26. Then shall he be fed; then shall he know increase; then
shall the laborer return unto the furrow; then shall the vintner
return unto the vineyard.
27. I tell you, it cometh! . . . Man returneth unto his pasture of
endeavor filled with new knowledge; that he is the licenser unto
himself, having goodly respect for authority in that he is
Authority, and yet vaunteth it not.
28. Wouldst ye have increase that knoweth not defeat? . . .
Give ye then license unto him who is of good repute to tell of his
findings unto the Infinite, casting no stone at the follies of his
fellows but always enduring. . . . . that ways may be found
for transmitting his intelligence into an unction.
29. Always persevering, always going forward, worshiping no
golden calf, but always the heifer that giveth abundance from
her udders when cometh those seasons when they are marked
by Providence for filling.
30. It is a calamitous day that awaiteth mankind if he filleth not
his ears with his witnessings to falsehoods, yea to false
prophecies, to ultimate harvest of that which is manifesting.
31. Look about you, ye lords of wastage, and perceive that
it is so.
32. Take ye your staffs and tread onward into knowledge;
know ye that what doth proceed from the mouth of Infinite
Happenings findeth a speech that uttereth as the Godhead.
33. For verily it is written that ye do cast all stones down to find
those masonries that endure unto eternity, marked with the
tablets bespeaking celestial benefactions. . . .
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