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 238:
Have I Not Told You of the Beast?
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1. HAVE I told you these things to narrate pleasant stories? . . . .
my beloved, be wise! . . .
2. It is no evil thing which befalleth the nations. It is no evil
word that proclaimeth the Judgment.
3. The Beast cometh up like the Great Man of Old; verily it
strideth high in fair heavens; thunderings and quakings come
from its vauntings.
4. Is it of record that ye shouldst know palsy? is it of transcript
that its hot breath should scorch you?
5. Arise and be wise! . . . know your own tempter. . . perceive
your own shadows tilting at archaic things which lean the
castings of those shadows forward!
6. I have said in my wisdom, These things shall strike the
nations; these woes shall be inflicted on those in mortality; they
shall come and they shall go; they shall mock at the righteous
and tear the Beast's vitals that it bendeth in destruction.
7. Thereat shall men say: Once was a Beast and it came unto
our fathers, but we, the children, being wiser than the fathers,
let its memory live among us that we give it no life nor its
rantings afflict us.
8. No longer do we suffer it that the Beast should rise among
us; we will make of it a byword amongst those who walk
uprightly; we will harken to no whoredoms that bespeak us unto
wickedness.
9. Verily will we abide by the precepts of the fathers and keep
the Beast from us, neither give it a sanctuary, neither let it
perform even at our feastings advanced in a merriment;
10. For it hath been a Beast of evil omen; it hath taken our
hearts' blood and defiled our fathers' thresholds; therefore we
eschew it; it cometh no more among us; it maketh its bed in the
crags of lost promisings; it seeketh a pit and reareth its young in
the abysses of grandeurs unto damnations.
11. Have I not told you of the Beast? have I not said that his
carrion proclaimeth him? have I not besought you to give him
no hospice? have I not marked on his comings and
screamings?
12. Would I do these things, beloved, if there came not a
loveliness unto the nations? wouldst ye hear me cry Peace if
there came only torment? would I trick my beloved?
13. Behold lesser ones have tricked you, . . . lesser ones have
given you no surcease in the surfeit of their auguries.
14. There are those who have counseled you, It is not
meet indeed that the Beast should dwell amongst us; therefore
if we recognize him not, mayhap he goeth and troubleth us
no longer.
15. I say unto you, beloved, the Beast cometh and the Beast
goeth, and thousands go with him who follow his banners and
partake of his tumults.
16. It is meet that we know the Mark of the Beast, that we
do him no reverence, that we perceive his shortcomings,
yea verily his witcheries, that we see him in his nakedness,
that we know him for his whoredoms and laugh not with his
laughters.
17. The Beast cometh and the Beast goeth, I tell you, and
great is his coming and greater his going.
18. But there dwelleth an exceeding little host who perceive
his black ending; they do pledge him no obeisance; they commit
him no fawnings;
19. They do dwell in a little place apart, not as those hiding
from the wrath of his countenance, but as those with a book to
read in that visage.
20. Behold they say, The pages do tell us excellent
forewarnings, we do read the message of the pages and withal
we gain wisdom when the book no longer spreadeth for our
eyesight.
21. Give ye no countenance unto the Beast; neither say, It is
meet that we preserve ourselves by worshiping the Beast for in
that he is strong mayhap he will slay us.
22. I tell you the Beast is not strong; he endureth for a little,
little time and then he falleth, stumbling; his flesh is as
parchment on which deeds are written but performed with
words only.
23. He rageth. He vaunteth. He crieth: Where are those who
do me homage? where are they who bow before me? whence
go they who pay me tribute?
24. I say, Pay no tribute. Vaunt not the Beast by cowering at
his talons. Make ye no feastings unto his greatness. Blow ye
no trumpets, for I tell you his greatness is that of evil omen.
It cometh and it goeth and the augury is lost in the aftermath
of evils.
25. These things I say unto you.
26. I preach you no infamies, I tell you no falsehoods, I say:
Worship at the altars of no false gods, neither at the statue
of the Beast, but render your obeisance unto the Father,
who knoweth the pure in heart, who respecteth the weak, who
cherisheth the orphaned, who giveth to the Beast his little
little day of vaunting that the stout heart knoweth courage. . . . .
27. The Beast stalketh and the hour groweth black. Presently
cometh a night on the nations. Men cry in terror, There are
none to guide us!
28. Know that they speak falsely, having no light themselves
in that darkness.
29. Is it not meet that ye fetch them a lamp, lighting the feet of
those who know panic?
30. These are my beseechments uttered to your stamina.
I say that inasmuch as ye have need of the Beast to overcome
your quakings at his emptiness, thus is he permitted that
ye shouldst examine him;
31. But see to it that ye do it cleverly, beholding the true
essence of the Beast, and not in bravado tempting his talons.
I tell you that the Beast knoweth who hath his courage and who
his rash stalkings.
32. He fleeth the courageous but the rash ones he claweth.
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