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 246:
Peace Cometh of the Vigorous Purpose
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1. HAVE I not told you that there ariseth presently a host to do
battle? . . . why shrink ye from the conflict? . . . whence cometh
this languor that raiseth up the cowardly? . . . think ye that
righteousness wieldeth its own weapon? . . . would not the Evil
One whisper unto you, Abide in your tents for there is no battle?
. . . would it not be clever for the hosts of conflict to make their
bargains with you that ye abide awhile in idleness that their
victories know your absence?
2. I tell you it is an evil day and an evil hour that proclaim the
tocsin unto you, Be ye at peace, for there is no conflict.
3. Behold the evil hosts rush in, and the righteous man is
slain; he hath harkened to a lechery, he hath listened to a
mischief.
4. I tell you it hath come unto me that there are those who
say: The ranks of the Godly are led by the Dark Ones, we are
bidden to a contest that summoneth up our ransom, we are
bidden unto strife that calleth forth a valor.
5. How then come these things, if the world be at peace and
the Prince of Peace lead us? . . .
6. I tell you, beloved, foul wits have found them out.
7. Behold the world is evil and the hour hath its pestilence.
The strong have a summoning. Whereby should they be strong
if strength were not required of them?
8. Behold it befalleth the weak to be guided of the mischief
that the times have no issue that Thought cannot cure.
What is that to me? Would I not have been remiss in my
guardianship if Thought could cure the times and I give it not
my vigor?
9. I say I have given thought unto the times, but sons of little
mischiefs revile me in my prescience.
10. I have called forth my stalwarts from many lives; I have
said unto them rigorously, These are the issues, see that ye
bemoan them; these are the lesions, see that ye do heal them;
these are the transgressions, go forth and overcome them.
11. I tell you that wits are given unto you, beloved, that by
taking thought unto the attacker in his tent, ye may be the
victors and the attackers be the vanquished.
12. I have no patience with those who say, All is of peace, let
us therefore do our slumbers.
13. Behold all is of war, all is foul pestilence. I am come that
the war may be riven in the land, I am here that the pestilence
may be struck from men's spirits.
14. Can I do these things alone? If such were the anchor
of my spirit in endeavor, would I not have done them? . . . .
15. I tell you I have ordered my cohorts to the contest, I have
upheld my commanders, I have given them their places.
16. Life hath been given them to wage their battles fiercely,
to contest with the cohorts of those who work evil, to give
the hard lie to those who say that peace cometh out of fell
augury.
17. Peace cometh out of the vigorous purpose wielded by the
mighty heart; it cometh out of the stalwart achievement
receiving its mission from its witnessing of venalities; it calleth
forth the strong to use their strength astutely; it summoneth
the courage to rout the black battalions.
18. Peace is an achievement! . . . it cometh not otherwise than
by seeing to its bastions and setting guard in vigilance, . . .
it cometh of those who look and perceive that the world
hath affliction; they raise a mighty arm and wield a mighty
scepter.
19. Unto these do I address myself. Harken to my speech,
beloved of all ages, who have followed in my footsteps where
the march of feet was bitter!
20. It hath come unto me that ye do labor long and that
kindness is a stranger out of those whom ye wouldst ransom;
ye do toil consummately and yet know a great famine; ye do
raise a mighty shout of battle and are met by the cohorts who
distinguish not themselves by any forbearance, nay not by
longsuffering, for it existeth not in them. . . .
21. They only seek Peace that it draineth not their vigor;
they perspire in an idleness, bethinking the victory and calling
it a triumph.
22. Have I not asked of the ancients, What manner of man
among you by taking thought can add one cubit to his stature?
23. Is not peace a stature? . . . doth man not aspire to it? . . . .
would he not grow, that his size enter into it?
24. I tell you that Thought hath its place, receiving the
inspiration from the Father that the earth-race do its works;
thereby is it ennobled and all its legions with it.
25. But is the raging lion bound by thinking him a carcass?
ask of the lion that he deport himself with gentleness, . . .
behold he may absent himself from your pathway but doth he
cease to be the lion? . . . will he not slay as the weak stand
before him?
26. I tell you that the battle is not that the lion should cease to
be the lion or become as the ewe lamb, but that the world be
cleansed of lions that they prey not on the hapless.
27. How know ye the battle or its fortunes until both be won?
. . . . .how perceive ye the scepter until ye do wield it?
28. The strong in conduct are as the ravens, I tell you,
coming upon humanity in its famishing, dropping manna
upon it.
29. Ye are as the chosen who do good unto their enemies, yet
suffer not such enemies to make a mock of brotherhood.
30. Rest in me, beloved. Know my affliction but partake of my
joy. Behold I came on Mammon and gave him his contest.
I sent him his challenge, I reviled his imaginings that he by his
lecheries should acclaim himself great.
31. Always was it said that he who cometh unto his long home
findeth joy in the coming; always was it proclaimed that he who
cometh into a goodly reward knoweth his blessing in that he
hath received it.
32. I tell you there flocketh to the banner of the righteous
a Goodly Company, mighty in its numbers; it looketh upon the
works of evil and perceiveth that they are lustful.
33. It saith amongst itself: We toil not, neither do we spin; we
wager not, yet are we rewarded with a gaining; we do a mighty
conflict as soldiers of the Chosen, but the rankings of the
adversary understand it not.
34. Lo, we are protected when the evil day cometh, lo, we are
lifted when the transcendent effort raiseth us; we approach a
goodly vine and fig tree and it provideth us with shade, yet have
we found it in that we marched unto it.
35. We raise a massed song and are met with sweet anthems;
we lift up a clarion and are answered by a tocsin; we march and
we preach, and verily an audience showeth itself that hath not
been gathered by the utterings of Mammon.
36. I say, Preach and show yourselves, ye cohorts of the
righteous! . . . Arise and acclaim yourselves, ye sons of
benefaction! . . . .
37. I say it shall come to you, seven times seven, that a
blithesome mantle falleth upon your shoulders; ye shall be
saved when the slovenly stumble; ye shall be rewarded when
the lecherous famish.
38. Is it not enough that up through long ages the righteous
have disclosed themselves? is it not potent that up through
time's corridors have blundered the feet that have tripped on
error's staircase? . . . . and have ye not raised them? . . . .
have ye not brought ennoblement unto those who were
beggared?
39. I say, be cast upward, ye daughters of radiance! I say, be
omnipotent, ye sons of my bosom!
40. There ariseth a goodly host that rebuketh the scornful,
there lifteth a mighty tocsin that ringeth through the ages:
41. The Son of Man is born anew in each lowly heart when it
proclaimeth the doctrine of Love Triumphant.
42. The Mother of the Manger lifteth her face and knoweth her
errand when the Star of the Circumspect shineth not on new
evils but rebuketh Mammon's lecheries as they clamor for
expressings.
43. Verily I come among you presently, but have I ever been
far from you? . . . I do tread among you with the Morrow that
cometh, but have I ever been walking elsewhere?
44. Keep ye my mission amongst those who suffer, lift the
afflicted though they know not in their ignorance the causes
of their afflictions;
45. For such things are noble, such things are of good report,
such things manifest the divinity in man and give him an amulet
to walk among robbers.
46. I perceive there are those among you beholden unto the
armies of the wayward; ye do walk among thieves and
beg of them sustenance; ever and anon do ye cry unto the
mighty: Deliver us from evil men who take away our
birthrights!
47. Ye are mighty men of mighty mettle, but ye qualify
yourselves not for contest when ye say, It is meet for us to
be contrite in action for otherwise the enemy pursueth us to
tramplings.
48. I say unto such, “The enemy pursueth you not", except as
ye will it!
49. Arise and overcome him though your strength hath
forsaken you; for in the last days it shall come upon you that
your true strength was hidden, yea it was secreted in the
essence of your godhood, yet it shone as a beacon when your
danger called it, and made it a force to vanquish the maddened.
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