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 234:
Truce Is Not Peace
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1. WHAT wouldst ye have of me this hour? Have I not told you
that peace cometh unto you? Have I not said that all will be
saved if they but incline their hearts unto righteousness?
2. Hear ye my words this hour: I bring unto you a new
interpretation of that which man declareth as Peace. . . .
3. When have I ever told you that Peace cometh not? And
yet I say there shall be no peace until man raiseth himself to
break bread with the Host, until he escheweth evil, until he
prepareth himself a bed in that place where the righteous have
their habitation.
4. Peace, my beloved, is not a pact; it is not a condition
wherein man softeneth the blow which he dealeth unto his
brother;
5. It is not a fond utterance, nor yet the angry word arrested.
6. I tell you that peace that is of mine essence embraceth a
noble calling; it is that state of men's affairs wherein they say
unto one another: We have contested and known strife, we
have struggled and known combat;
7. Behold in that the victors have suffered with the
vanquished, the terror hath been loosened; there hath been
both weeping and wailing in the cohorts of the righteous even
as in those ranks that harken not to reasonings.
8. Peace is that prevalence of sanity wherein men say: It
behooveth us to be more orderly, one unto others, for in that we
struggle and contest, all of us are sufferers of losses;
9. We do not gain by strife, for unto him who thinketh he
gaineth, come envious neighbors saying: We perceive that
thou art victorious over thine adversary; now therefore if thou art
victorious over thine adversary presently thou shalt give cause
for anxiety unto ourselves;
10. Therefore do we also rise up and humble you, that the law
should be kept.
11. Peace is that order of sane reasonings induced among all
nations that maketh them to decide that inasmuch as they strive
and contend, thereby other strifes are bred, thereby is there no
ending to strife nor yet to contentions.
12. Therefore he who breaketh the peace beginneth an eternal
warfare that halteth not until all are slain.
13. Is it peace to say, There is a truce among the nations?
Is it peace when men declare, Presently we go forth unto our
adversaries, we vanquish them gloriously, we strike them
into dust?
14. I tell you, my beloved, a truce is not peace.
15. So long as man contendeth in his spirit, no peace existeth.
16. I say unto men, Be calm, know the sweet reasoning that
cometh from luxury of spiritual manifesting.
17. I say, Give unto thy brother thine arms of combat; I say
further, Let him break them.
18. That which giveth tranquillity of heart unto thy brother's
spirit, that thing is of peace; all else is of war, or truce in war.
19. I tell you that I come unto men, not to prevail upon them
that they should have peace in the midst of war, or their
resting-time in wits that maketh for the combat;
20. I tell you that I be come to cause those conditions to
manifest wherein man perceiveth that his greater gains are in
striving not.
21. In that he perceiveth that he hath the greater gains to
make by putting aside his striving, thereby cometh unto him
the peace that is of me, the peace that is of spirit, the peace
which endureth in that men are comforted by having it possess
them. . . . .
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