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 253:
Walk With a Sure Stride
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1. AND NOW, my beloved, I address you as persons. I say,
Be obscure in your thoughts and addresses, go and come
craftily, making no marches that leave sand-tracks behind them
that Mammon may follow you and rend you before the time;
walk with sure stride, but blanch not at torments inflicted by the
thorns protruding from the hedgerows.
2. Make no errors of judgment concerning those who step
forth to guide you; give no thought to penuries; seek ye each
day's bread from the ovens of circumstance.
3. Open your hearts to a purer truth than that which hath
manifested unto the present; give a fairer promise unto
yourselves of that which shall dawn in the bright rays of
Morning.
4. Say with a persistent cry, It cometh unto me that works are
potent to be done, but what of that? . . . is it not of record that
the call to service cometh, and in that it cometh I will find myself
ready and willing to be utilized? . . .
5. Is it not enough for a full day's journey and a full day's
mission, that many may be called but scarcely one chosen until
he hath had the crown of Bright Thorns crushed upon his brow,
bound there by circumstance seeking to thwart him in the
endeavorings of his life?
6. Beloved, we have talked thus many times. Each time have
I said unto you that it behooveth you to be circumspect in
utterance, to utter no falsehoods, to make no crosses on your
neighbor's doorstones, marking those therein for slaughter
before a transient enemy; to give no hostages unto doctrines
that take from man his birthright of divinity.
7. In no uncertain blasphemies doth man defile his neighbor
when he saith: It is meet that ye atone for that which is
imminent, for the judgment is heavy that ye are of those
causing it.
8. I say that it behooveth no man to try his neighbor, nor yet
to sentence him for any misconduct, except it be injustice
settled with a score that hath righteousness for motive.
9. I say it is blasphemy to declare that man hath knowledge
of all things potent, therefore let him do the wise and eschew
the evil.
10. Man hath not all things known unto him, else were he lifted
out of his mortality; life is the knowing, and many go far in it.
11. Man perisheth sadly in his own conceits when he decrieth
his neighbor as having understanding yet pursuing it
not. How knoweth man that his neighbor hath understanding,
for if his neighbor had understanding, would he not act upon it
and escape the hour's evils?
12. Man hath a lechery within himself, a ringing falsehood to
declaim, a mettle to try in the fires of experiencing, a cosmic law
to violate that the penalty broaden him, a massive penury to
endure, a plot to consummate, a wasted form to heal, a boil to
suckle, a perishment to inflict upon his neighbor's culture, all the
things that betray the intellect and bedaub the true doctrine with
evil forebodings and wicked consummations.
13. He hath a lechery to propose upon himself, a timely scar to
heal; verily he hath a witchery to perform upon his Inner
Conscience.
14. And yet he seeth it not until mayhap it is disclosed unto
him by those events which try the consummate parts of himself
and lead the intellect into a brawling.
15. We are closer to one another than that, in understanding,
that we should allow such torments to be and make no
gesturing to save him from his folly's acts nor yet his soul's
acclaimings.
16. These things are banal unless it dawn upon us that in the
act of every soul's abasement cometh the light of
understanding, rendering him an instrument of the Immortal
Cosmos, working out a welcoming back to maturity of
intellect from which he hath fallen, but in the falling,
benefited himself.
17. We are not called to pursue great riches, to exact high
emoluments, to tell the race, This way follow us and riches
come upon you.
18. It is not our destiny to make mankind see a mountain of
pleasure that is forfeit if his footsteps follow not the Pathway.
19. We are called into an exceeding high mountain ourselves,
to witness the cavalcade of humankind climbing a steep, and
coming toward us, in that we have proposed a studied
benefaction and proceeded to deliver it as the oak is delivered
out of the acorn.
20. Hear my Words, follow in my footsteps, know the
joy of accomplishment unto the eternal. Thus will it be well
with you in the days that are upon you when men's
throats cry loudly but there are none to hear them but robbers
drawn from their hiding-places by the heartbreak in the
outcry.
21. Let us hail together the Goodly Company and march upon
a height; let us take a lowly lamp and light a far horizon.
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