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 245:
There Is a Garden That Is Fair
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1. SEEK YE pleasant words, making of moment the promises the
morrow bringeth? . . . I say it is of moment that ye do have
clean hands and a pure intent, bringing to reality the
watchwords of the present.
2. It hath come unto me that there are those who would labor,
verily without a price, saying in their hearts: Lord, Lord, Thy
work is our work and in the doing thereof we are blessed
with a richness.
3. I say they shall in nowise be without their reward. And yet
I say more. . . .
4. It cometh unto me that there are those who do labor
without a price, saying: Lord, Lord, we perceive Thy goodly
works as imminent and we would assist Thee in them, that
they may be actualized before the sons of men and bring
profit unto their lives; show us therefore how to serve that
we may publish them abroad and make them a watchword
unto the nations drowned in a pit of their own mad fashionings.
5. I say I treat nightly with those who do my labor; verily do
I come unto them with the Still Small Voice and say, Well done,
thou good and faithful servants; your attestments have come
unto me and I have watched over your labors from the
beginning; continue so to do and I will reward you, yea seven
times seven shall your wages be paid unto you.
6. For I say unto you, It is the servant who perceiveth the
labor and doth it for the labor's sake, who receiveth the thanks
of the lord of the harvest.
7. Not everyone who saith, Lord, Lord, willingly would I labor
if I but knew my errand or the price it fetcheth from Thee,
becometh acceptable unto the harvester.
8. Verily there are those who say, What else mattereth but
that the labor is the labor, that it waiteth on our hands? . . .
verily it is the gathering of the harvest that concerneth us, that
all may eat when the earth's days are lean and our children are
famished through lack of goodly nutriments.
9. I tell you it pleaseth me that there are those who labor,
even for the labor's sake. But hear ye my words and be
at peace. . . .
10. I say I love best those who make utterance: Lord, Lord,
Thou hast made Thy wishes known unto my reason: I go
forward to do them in that Thou hast made them; loving Thee,
I dedicate myself, for where a great love is, there also
is a great labor, and verily a great labor commandeth its
great reward.
11. Think ye that I am not competent to know the laborers
from the pulsings of their hearts, that they throb unto my
service? think ye that I have not judgment to perceive what
price they shall be paid for that which they perform? do I not
know mine own, whence they have come, and unto what gates
they go, seeking ultimate admittance?
12. I say, beloved, mark not on the man who standeth or
falleth according to his works, for thereby do ye delay till the
labor hath its filling and mayhap in that hour the harvest hath
been gathered.
13. I say unto you rather, mark well on the man who perceiveth
his true mission and verily doth it though worlds do league
against him, in that he hath said:
14. My Lord hath commanded that I do this thing, therefore
with His help and through His love I am invincible in that unto
which I apply my talents.
15. There is a favored spot for those who say, Let us be about
the Lord's business in that it is His business;
16. There is a garden that is fair for those who attest, The
Lord of the Harvest is a mighty reaper, we do reap with Him
going before us in the wheat, and all as a host gather the
plenty into barns.
17. Lo, it is His plenty, but are we concerned in that it is His?
hath He not said, Thus do I give unto you as your reward for the
harvesting? is it not our harvest in that we have gathered it
together? do we seek at straws and divide the gains, that one
may have one portion and another, another?
18. I adjure you in my love: see to it that ye do so labor in
this hour of blackness on the nations that all are bound in the
coming labor, yea the common reaping, saying not unto
yourselves, In this clear portion of the field am I, thus do I clean
it and attain unto a praise,
19. But saying, rather, Is it not Our Lord's field in which we
thus gather? and who is above another in this, His field, that
we should take issue as to which is fairest for the barning of
a harvest?
20. My beloved, hear me, . . . I speak in solemn mien, . . . .
I say it shall come to pass that the storm-clouds shall roll with
a mighty blackness, the lightings shall play and the thunders
shall wrack;
21. Verily shall there be those who are drenched by the
downpour, and yet I say more. . . .
22. I say there shall be those who shall stand with a trembling
in the midst of that downpour; the lightnings shall find them,
the thunders shall issue, verily against them;
23. Yet I tell you they shall stand undaunted by strange
ways and strengths; they shall perceive the lightning's flash
and know that presently the storm abateth; behold they shall
know more. . . .
24. Only those who have stood with uncovered heads shall be
saved from a felling! . . . verily those who did flee unto the barns
for shelter shall be stricken by the lightnings, and the structures
have a fire-blast that burneth red the landscapes.
25. So is it ever to those who do harvest. Not everyone who
saith, Lo, do I work and thus am I preserved from the anger
of the tempest, shall be saved;
26. I tell you those shall be saved who have taken note of
the storm but halted not in their work of the harvesting; behold
they have garnered even in the raging of the storm, and in the
portion that it raged, verily did they garner.
27. Thus the storm shall not touch them except in their
raiment, and the work of the harvest proceed even as though no
storm had come upon the wheatfield.
28. Thus say I this hour, bestowing upon the goodly workers
the blessing of the husbandman's gratitude, that there were
reapers who stood by their sickles when the crops were
threatened and the forces of Nature would send them to
a hiding.
29. My peace be upon you till the harvest is gathered and the
laborers stand about for the pence of their payment.
30. They shall be paid. . . .for thus is it Written. . . .
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