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 236:
Those of Mischievous Reasonings
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1. IT COMETH unto me that there are those who would afflict you
with mischievous reasonings; they would hasten an augury
beyond your controlling; they would say, Behold we too have
doctrines coming from the Hidden Ones; now then, see that ye
do manifest, for in that ye manifest not, so is it attested that
yours is foul utterance.
2. I say, trust them not. They are as wolves in sheep's
clothing, they are prowlers by night with designs upon your
treasures; they are those who abominate in makings of evil.
3. Behold they stalk stealthily, waiting upon the highroad to
deflect you in your journeyings; that come and go cunningly
making vauntings to themselves.
4. Or they raise a great cry in councils of state, saying,
We are the anointed; to us is it given to have jurisdiction on
the nations.
5. Behold they go further; they cry in their pride, This one wiIl
we treat with, that one wiIl we order to be dispatched unto that
bourne from which no traveler returneth, for we are lords of
earth; we decree and it happeneth.
6. I say, all of it is evil and cometh to destruction.
7. I teIl you that there are others lying in wait for you, that
they may fawn upon you. They offer you soft answers to turn
away your tempers. They grovel and they spit.
8. Forthwith they do bear a witness against you falsely, giving
thought unto mental whoredoms, coming and going in evil
encausements, seeking ever to extinguish that light whereby
ye are guided.
9. Let it be known amongst you that such evil stalketh, that it
punisheth Truth, that it courteth desolation.
10. There is a time ahead when men shall rally in cohorts of
endeavor. They shall exult among themselves, One cometh
unto us to lead us to a wholesomeness!
11. They shall gather, each man about his fireside, saying,
This is inviolate unto me and my offspring.
12. In that day shall come a tumult. Men shall be wroth that
such lechery hath tenure. They shall step to a line and march to
a column. They shall shout, Lead us unto the Beast, that we
may destroy him.
13. My beloved, be circumspect! Treat not with the adversary
on any terms whatever. Deal not in guiles. Persist not in
treacheries.
14. Stalk cunningly among yourselves but treat with no
whoremongers in virtues of nations, neither witness their guiles
that ye ape them in manners.
15. Arise and be valiant! Throw off the transgressor and the
yoke of his threatenings. But be artfully advised that victory hath
its conquests no less renowned than carnage.
16. In the Book of Books mine eyes have seen it written that
this tumult should tarry, it must dwell upon the nations, verily,
my beloved, it must reach unto the hearthstone.
17. Verily must it have its goings in, and its comings out;
it must wrench the souls of men with torment, that those who
are righteous may see it and say: Whereof do we fear it?
whereof do we cower?
18. Verily they shall say, Have we not minions more powerful
than Caesar's? . . . have we not cohorts whose victories are
prophecies?
19. In that day shall come a vomit. Verily the nations shall
spew out their vanities. They shall trap the befouled in their
snares of wrongdoings. They shall make of the unwary a
snareway to perdition.
20. I tell you there shall arise great and goodly men who shall
look upon the tumult with faces that blanch not; they shall say,
It is our battle, for this were we honored: to give joust to the
combatant who marcheth with the Dark Ones.
21. Thus is it Written: a time of woe shall come upon this
nation but out of that woe shall come a great healing;
22. Verily that healing shall be as the soft voice of mercy
imploring a world to know peace from the Infinite.
23. It happeneth! It happeneth! But the righteous have a
treasure, I say they have an amulet, verily a talisman goeth ever
with them. They do not march out to dispute with the scornful.
They do not flock in to have traffickings with vices.
24. These march and they perish. But the righteous perish not.
They go forth and know contest, yet contest hath its accolade;
it bestoweth kingdoms on them, it setteth them up and raiseth
them to lordships.
25. I would not tell you of these warnings unless your welfare
was dear unto my heart. I would not make you wise, unless
your wisdom was intended for the watchful.
26. Let us tarry together. Let us feast as at a banquet where
goodly foods are treasured, where the wine of foreknowledge
hath a bead that is valiant.
27. Let us make goodly music unto those who have their
weariness in pursuing their rectitude; let us lift up our arms and
make an inviting to those who come seeking the leaders of
the Kingdom.
28. Whenever was it Written that those who joust for
righteousness should meet with unhorsings? I tell you that man
unto man hath foreknown his defilement, servant unto servant
hath bathed in the Waters.
29. Unto those who have made a great purging of their armors
hath come a great strength to lift up the anointed.
30. Such matters must be, such things come to pass. I say
it behooveth every man to take up his armor and lay it not
down till the wine of the contest hath mounted to his
intellect.
31. I say a host cometh that dwelleth not on ramparts which
the enemy hath plotted, but rather it dwelleth on mountains of
splendors whose summits have thrilled to the kiss of the
sunrise, whose heights are ennoblements, whose lofty positions
are as battlements of Spirit, lifting those who dwell therein to
see the whole conflict and know whereof it cometh.
32. Dwell ye in me, and I in you, until that day dawneth when
the enemy fleeth, until his banners know panic and the dust of
his routing hath hazed wide horizons.
33. It is a goodly contest, provoked from the beginnings of all
time upon this planet. It is an excellent joust, I tell you. It hath
heaven's essence in it.
34. For the spirits of the Dark Ones must know their own
madness, they must meet their own spear-thrusts, and eat their
own carrion.
35. Even so, my beloved, the spirits of those ennobled must
arise unto their conquests and deliver of their mercies to those
whose faith hath saved them.
36. Do ye say among yourselves, Behold the earth groaneth?
I tell you that it suffereth as a woman in childbed, that a radiant
age be born, doing good unto the parent.
37. Hear me further of this excellence. . . .
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