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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 244:

We But Do the Master's Bidding

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1. VERILY I come unto you, beseeching you that ye do no untoward thing inflaming the adversary without a cause.

2. I say it is meet that ye preserve a decorum, but I say unto you more: I say it behooveth you not to act unseemly, that the good perish not, that the innocent suffer not, that those who are without price are denied not their rewards.

3. I say it behooveth you to act circumspectly, yet I sanction not cowardice; I say ye have a goodly prospect; defile it not with indecorums, give no license to perjury, make not false vauntings, recall at all times that a goodly host goeth with you whose watchword is Probity.

4. Presently there come unto you those who say: Lo, go ye with us, for we battle against the adversary even as yourselves.

5. I speak of them justly. I say that they battle not with you against the adversary; they but advance their plans that the adversary weakeneth and they step into his place, verily defiling you. Of such I would caution you.

6. I say, make no false vauntings for or against them. Let your speech be concise. Say unto them, We but do the Master's bidding, we seek not glory unto ourselves, we write and we speak having no iniquity in our hearts toward any race of men, at all times adjuring ourselves that they are as they are because of their ignorance of that which maintaineth when the battle is ended.

7. Go ye unto the world and address it. Say, We come as legions of light and silver, attending ourselves to causes that are goodly; we would save the wicked even from themselves if they would but have us. But they would have us not, and so we go our way, speaking against the times and the evils of the hour which distress the righteous on every hand.

8. We bethink ourselves ennobled; mayhap we stumble in our pathways but we tolerate not the iniquitous man, we give no sustenance unto lecheries, we defile not ourselves with the hucksterings of Mammon; we go and we come; and our raiment is not tarnished with that which defileth.

9. I say unto you, Be just, but in your justice recall the suffering that cometh from ignorance. Be wise in your administrations but give no blemish unto yourselves in that ye didst perceive an evil and turned aside from it.

10. I, your Wiser Counselor, give unto you the Doctrine.

11. I say it pleaseth me that there are those who do battle in my name; they come and go rigorously; they turn not aside from evil but meet it and subdue it.

12. Of such come those on whose heads a blessing resteth, of such are they who are crowned with a diadem that hath true righteousness for jewels upon it.

13. I say those come unto you who do make a mockery of that which ye do. Harken not unto them for they are of ignorance. They wallow in their precepts, having blindness for eyesight.

14. It cometh unto me that there are those who defile you, who do cast you down, who do write false teachings concerning your activities, who do give you a name that is tarnished in the nation.

15. Mind them not, beloved. Give them no countenance. Presently they are footsore, verily they are weary. They have not a place whereon to lay their heads.

16. Bind up their wounds when they have grown footsore; give them of your satchels when they have come to hunger;

17. But see ye unto it that ye deal justly with them. Ask them not, Are ye famished? Say unto them, What deserve ye of food when ye have transgressed and brought your hunger upon yourselves? . . .

18. Behold we have food and we give it unto you, but we ask you in soberness, Is it not meet that we let you hunger? wherein are we backward in doing just compensation unto those who know suffering because of their own waywardness?

19. We say it is blessed that men should know hunger when it bringeth them to wisdom;

20. And yet we do share our purses with you, not that ye do hunger, for there are many hungering, but we give you of our substance in that ye are brethren like unto ourselves in flesh, and in our strength of combat we take pity upon your nakedness and would not turn from you, that ye may be clothed.

21. There is justice in that; there is love of the eternal.

22. Give not for Love that hath its vaunting of the spirit over penury, but give in fellow-compassion that there were those who fell before a weakness, yea even before a blindness when they would not see the light of blessed truth.

23. For what doth it profit a man if he give unto those who hunger, being hungry himself, or give sight unto those who are blind if he hath not the Vision?

24. I say that man is strong who giveth of his substance because he hath a strength and would not strike the one who is weaker; who giveth of his alms in that he could give or as easily turn away.

25. It cometh unto me that there are many men in high places given to a lechery. Ye do combat them. I say it is blessed to show your strength and abide in it ever;

26. But let your strength be as the strength of the adversary that hath his cohorts behind him, who giveth or rebuketh in that he hath strength and conserveth it, yea useth it wisely.

27. For the enemy giveth in weakness when his weakness guideth him; but he who is strong hath a double honor in that he giveth when choice is not denied him, whether to give or to let perish by the wayside.

28. Be strong, be noble, be noble in your strength, have a strength and pursue it, let your dictates be at all times the dictates of strength, beautifully administered in that ye perceive the cause of such ministering. . . .

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