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.
199.
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 247:
Labor Goeth Not Unrewarded
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1. I BRING you a promise, I make you a singing, I say he who
is faithful unto the evening of his labor commandeth a
recompense that the morning called a folly.
2. Not all who say, It is time that I were paid, for have I not
labored? are met with accounting by the lord of the harvest;
3. Not everyone who saith, I have worked and known labor
but the chamberlain avoideth me, arriveth at that door where
the chamberlain awaiteth him; behold there are many doors
and many chamberlains. Only he who hath hired hath a
memory of his stalwarts.
4. The wise servant saith, Behold I have labored, behold
I have harvested, behold I have gathered into barns and the
lord of the harvest hath gained wealth from mine efforts.
5. Now therefore if I preserve my peace, it cometh unto my
lord that I have been dutiful; verily he performeth all things
justly for thereby is he the husbandman; he will reward me not
for mine hours but for that which I brought him that his wealth
may be greater.
6. I say it befalleth such servant that his wits shall have a
bounty that they have not envisioned; his lord showeth his
pleasure not in accountings but in bestowals of affection that
are sired of his righteousness.
7. I say unto you, beloved, not all who labor are worthy of a
recompense if mayhap they labor leanly, thinking only of
their gainings; it cometh unto the wise in heart to say, mayhap
he who hath employed me hath discernment of my fervor and
rendereth me a reckoning that is greater than our bargaining;
mayhap I have pleased him in that I have labored because the
harvest beckoned.
8. Doth not any harvest suffer if there be none to reap it?. . . .
is not the pain of the harvest, the pain of the husbandman?. . . .
is there pleasure in suffering, even of a harvest, even of its
husbandman?
9. Only the foolish man saith, The bargain hath been kept
and I wait for my farthings. For in that day and in that hour
mayhap the husbandman is stricken at the pain of his harvest
and cannot keep his reckonings.
10. The wise man knoweth a goodly time and a gladsome
moment; he abideth by the richness of those who have called
him; he knoweth that labor goeth not unrewarded, for if the
husbandman pay not in coinage, lo, he payeth in a famine for
that which was not harvested.
11. The wise man keepeth his peace in his reckonings; he
seeth the increase and knoweth that he wrought it; he awaiteth
the bounty of the lord of the harvest; he hath only to say, I was
one of those who labored, yet I did it justly, for the sake of
the harvest.
12. Lo, the harvest riseth up and rebuketh the husbandman in
another season, if such a laborer be not rewarded.
13. A goodly recompense falleth on that man, his cot in the
even is aglow with satisfactions, behold all things that fall
beneath his hand rejoice with him richly; poverty escheweth
him.
14. The unwise servant hath ever a quarrel with his lord
he saith, I have toiled for a pittance and a pittance is rewarded
me, I have gone out and come in at the pleasure of my lord and
now he repayeth according to my slothfulness.
15. Behold the unwise servant is always unwise, for he
fareth forth expecting that which he receiveth and receiveth
no more;
16. The wise servant looketh not unto his coffers but to the
sufferings of the harvest; behold his coffers are filled to overflowing
and the harvest rejoiceth, in that it is gathered.
17. I say unto you that the wise servant hath made a
promise not unto his lord but unto himself, and kept it; he
hath cherished that which is his lord's, and his lord hath
rewarded him.
18. How know ye the nature of your payments, my beloved,
verily of your recompense, unless ye be worthy. . . . .unless ye
be faithful unto the harvest of which ye yourselves are
sheaves?
19. Ye do toil for a Wise Husbandman, who counteth the
hearts and not the hands in the fields wherein all labor; ye do
look and see a mighty harvest and ye say, It is meet that we
gather it, else doth it perish and that were an evil.
20. Lo, ye do labor with a song and gather it, and he who hath
brought in one kernel in Love, bindeth a sheaf for himself and
his kin when that which is garnered is stored against famine.
21. I tell you that it cometh unto me, who am Lord of that
harvest, which of the laborers work for pence and which for love
because a harvest waiteth in pain to be gathered.
22. I say that inasmuch as ye do gather that harvest because
it is a harvest, ye do know the Husbandman’s joy that the
harvest is gathered and the lean years rend him not.
23. Would we who love the harvest fail to give bounty to those
who do save it? . . . have we sown in a folly that when the stalk
ripeneth we gather it into barns without pence for the reapers?
24. Hear ye my words and know ye your recompense. Is the
harvest of no value that we abandon it to cheatings?
25. What mattereth it if there be farthings and portions not of
mention in the bargainings? . . . the true lord giveth unto those
who have labored with a conscience, in that they labored and
he was the husbandman.
26. These are my preachments given to your insight; I tell you
there are laborers who know not why they labor; but they sense
the harvest's ripeness, they are one with me in husbandry, they
perceive the full fields and would bless them with reapings.
Do they bless the fields, beloved?
27. I say they bless themselves; they know the sweet union of
oneness with the Husbandman. His joy is their joy. They have
bounty together.
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