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 233:
I Am Man as He Shall Be
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1. THUS have I spoken, and my speech knoweth increase; night
unto night it increaseth in stature; day unto day are the brethren
aware of it.
2. I have sung in many schools, I have taught by many
waters; I have said unto this race, Come up and be noble.
3. Verily it heareth me through the tongues of my servants.
4. What man among you, breeding sheep, would bethink to
sire a ram? is it not true that the lamb hath its gamboling
ere the full sheep come to pattern? is speech not more than
sheep?
5. I say that it shall come unto the world, that it shall hear
my voice; it shall uphold my hands; it shall make me a rejoicing
that I have paused in many valleys to point out many hilltops
and not been denied that mine invitings were not honored.
6. Let us be joyous that it is so, for sorrow weareth a jadeful
countenance and after the sickness cometh the deliverance,
after the contest cometh the garland, after the jousting cometh
the balsam.
7. Wouldst ye perceive me in my treatment of the world?
I tell you, go unto the pure in heart and hear their rejoicings that
my person hath its substance; go ye unto those that mourn and
perceive the manners whereof they be comforted, go ye into the
high house and look out the broad gate, and perceive the
throng that its heart-hopes are of excellence.
8. I am of these, and of such is mine errand.
9. Are there those who bethink them of my coming with
trumpets? shall the heralds flash wittily? shall there be a vast
sound and the crash of much vintage flowing as the fountain
from the rock? shall there be a deliverance of the captive from
his irons?
10. How long, O man, willst ye mock my spirit with the panoply
of follies?
11. I tell you that I come in the still procession, the quiet
embassy, the tiny lantern that is carried carefully by the babe
lest the fire spill out and endanger the household. . . .
12. I am the night's star and the morning's breath, I am the
music's silvered note that lingereth on the eardrums when the
chord hath been forgotten, I am the Little Price that buyeth
excellence,
13. I am the soldier's bivouac and the laborer's harrow,
I am the earth's increase and the morrow's energy, I am the
sweet light at evening when the lily hath her folding.
14. Receive ye my presence, all ye who are worldly! Rise up
and rejoice with me! . . . . . for behold I say unto you that
I am Man as he shall be. . . . .
15. I am the Good Neighbor and the princely portion, I am
the strong castle's beauty and the laborer's bread at his
own fireside.
16. Should not all good things enter into the life of man?
would he thread a needle at the blare of trumpets? would he
inter his dead with the tumbling of mountebanks? . . . how then
think the scornful that I must usher in my presence as though
I were charlatan come to enrich myself by selling last year's
huskings, or the evil counselor covering the nakedness of his
rejoicings at his brother's penury with the suds from many
waters?
17. Is happiness not natural? is it not man's birthright? must
it be sequestered and exhibited in a case?
18. Should man not know Justice, that when he contendeth
with his neighbor too zealously, the judge should not rebuke
him for his brawl upon the highroad?
19. I tell you in my kingship I am all of these and more. . . .
20. I am the sweet spirit of man's content with man, that the
earth may be resplendent and man may say, Never was
such a time of blessing as we do live in now!
21. These things are mine accolade, received of my Father,
. . . must we blow a blast at these, or utter a fragment of
magical nonsense? . . . .should my coming not be beautiful,
in that it is quiet?
22. I say unto you, I am He whom ye love; I come in a bright
robe of promise that all those things unto which your hearts
have aspired shall be added unto you; I am your alpha and
omega of men's hopes yet to be.
23. Hath the earth its pestilence? have we not a proud
ointment that perplexeth its injury? do we not gather golden
ears of corn that the harvest may be manifest? how say ye,
There is no corn, when the greatest harvest of all lieth heavy
on the stalk?
24. Thus arise ye, my beloved! enter upon my coming with
excellence! Once it hath pleased me in that ye didst strew
branches of the palm, singing your hosannas, He cometh!
He cometh!
25. I say there shall be palm branches bestrewn in the Spirit
. . . .the dawn shall know mine entry. . . .the whole earth shall
mark it.
26. Walk ye in your uprightness before many kings, beloved,
that in the last high hour it shall mark you to sit gracefully with
the King of Kings and see the sapphires on his fingers. . . .
yea, jewels of tenderness as trinkets for the lowly!
27. Thus do I depart you, leaving you my Spirit. . . . . .
Presently ye shall see the cohorts coming in, even those
armies whose swords have been as lilies!
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