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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
AN EXTRACT FROM
"THE BATTLE-FRONT OF THE SOUL"
Taken from an address given by the celestial messenger
'Zodiac', (the unnamed scribe of the Bible and a teacher
in the Temple of Jerusalem at the time of Christ),
at Hogarth Hall, Town Hall, Chiswick, on Sunday, December
31st 1944
'Life After Physical Death'
"...Now the Religion of Truth is this: that within
the heart and mind there are certain characteristics
which today have lost their great utility, and their
beauty as well. There are emotions and desires which
are not helpful to the individual or to the world at
large. What are these? They are those attributes, pure
and perfect at the beginning of time, gifted unto man
at his creation, which have become marred by the abuse
of free-will. Does this mean elimination? No, it means
transmutation, it means that those thoughts or desires
or acts which you know are not the highest or the best,
are only a tarnished form of something beautiful and
good; and your personal security rests entirely upon
the effort you are making to bring back these things
to their high aspect.
"So we think of life after physical death. What
has it to offer for man, for you, for the stranger
outside the gate? It depends entirely upon free-will.
In the degree that the discipline of life inspires
or forces a man to struggle, so that one can be certain
of personal security after physical death. In the degree
that the individual goes with the swim, clutches at
all the transient gifts that physical life has to hold,
in the degree that he debases his Divine self, he can
be certain that after physical death he is in a very
insecure position, one that will fill him with fear.
"It is all so plain and it is all in the Holy
Book, but for his own purpose man misinterprets Divine
Truth; and only the few, like voices crying in the
wilderness, try to awaken him. Slumbering man is drugged
by the false teachings of a material world.
"Therefore, beloved, my New Year's message is
one charged with hope and a mighty promise. You say
unto me: "See the state of the world today!"
Yet Rome was not built in a day, and I remind you that
even the Master found that human nature could not be
hurried where the masses were concerned. But remember
this: if those few followers of the Christ had said
unto themselves: "It is useless to try!"
where would you be today? In a position so fraught
with danger that you would be almost below the animals
of the field.
"So I speak to the workers, to those who have
the will and determination and faith, and I say unto
them: Now is the time of opportunity; today you have
to awaken those in your conditions, because it is useless
to talk of national or personal security when those
concerned, in a moment of time, may be swept hence
into another world to awaken to the fact that by the
abuse of free-will they must walk with horror until,
by suffering, their chains are struck from them..."
The Zodiac
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