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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
An Extract from An address by the celestial messenger
'Zodiac' (the unnamed scribe of the Bible and a teacher
in the Temple of Jerusalem at the time of Christ),
entitled:
"LOVE - HUMAN AND DIVINE"
"...We pass along the earth way. The child in its early
years seeks for this and longs for that – the
bright toys which attract the eye, that which satisfies
the hunger of the body; and those who are older in
experience they give to the child that which gives
content. But the child must grow up; the trivial things
must be put away; the first lessons bring their tears
but, in time, they are learned. Self-discipline in
its many forms does its work for God; and lo, the man
and the woman, according to the release within, take
the hard road, the Christ road, the road of denying
the body, the road which means the curbing of the desire
to rest, to have the many comforts of life, the blossoms
of the earth.
"The man and the woman who bear the sign of the
cross upon their brow, they ask not ease, they ask
not to keep aught except that which means healing and
nourishment for others; and as they go on, helping
one and taking help from another in times of difficulty
or doubt, so little ones, could you see, all around
them built up in their vibrations are beauties and
treasures, glories inconceivable to the physical mind.
They surrender the lesser to take the greater; the
powers of the physical body are exchanged for the gifts
of the Spirit, and the love which is human – oh,
so human – slowly but surely merges into the past,
and in the present and in the future, exquisite in
its fineness, in its holiness and its purity, is love
in the God-sense, charged with the life that can never
die, something which must grow more beautiful, more
powerful as time goes on, something which emerges out
of a reflection of the God-love into resemblance of
the love of God itself.
"But, again, I take you back. These things so
delight the heart and mind; we long to arise, we long
to scale the heights – but are we willing to endure
the weariness of the journey? Some, little ones, have
endured much for Christ’s sake; some, little ones,
are prepared to endure much more for the sake of the
God within. But I tell you that if there are others
who hesitate at this same point, if there are those
who think they can do God’s work and still hold
that which delights the mind of the body, then to such
as these I say: ‘Take care, beware; the enemy
is around and it will strike!’ The tools of the
Most High, the instruments of the Master, they take
the humble way, they hold not to themselves aught beyond
necessities for the body. And in the measure that the
children of the Most High hold the lesser, so the greater
must evade their grasp; for this is the law of God.
"Oh, I entreat you to go back over the history
of the past, to the prophets, the teachers, the saints
and the martyrs. Is it not plain? The children of the
earth limit their powers by their desire for the things
of the world which must pass away; the children of
the earth are hindering their spiritual progress and
the progress of humanity as well – for each one
is linked to all – by that which they are unwilling
to give up. My little ones, let the destroyer pass
you by; let those of the world who seek to hold the
world and grasp the gifts of God, let them commune
within, for I say that in this day or in another the
truth must be faced; and in that day of self-revelation
and self-realisation anguish must be theirs. They comforted
the body of the flesh and they consulted the body of
the mind; thus comfort for the Spirit has escaped them
and the content of the creative mind, with all its
mighty powers, is absent and the powers themselves
are quenched.
"So I bring you back to my subject – Love,
Human and Divine – and I say to you that I am
not calling you to that which you cannot reach, but
I am calling you to that which is already within. Open
the door – the door of the lesser self –
and let the Christ shed on those around the radiance
of the love which is love and which can never pass
away!
"Little ones, as I speak, I am held by much, for
I feel that some comprehend in part, and others scarce
comprehend at all. But I say that you shall learn and
you shall be free; but the only way is the way of effort,
the way of self-denial, the way of putting aside everything
upon the earth plane that holds and hinders.
"We are out on a great, grand work for God; the
power has been given – it has been won by suffering
and it shall be retained by the willingness to endure;
and your part is to give strength and encouragement
to those who are called to grapple with the problems
of their time, your part is to urge on and on and on,
to keep the eyes of the pioneer upon the star which
is the coming of the Christ within and without humanity
as a whole, the coming of the Christ! And in the measure
that lesser love holds you – and I speak to many,
I speak to the crowd that have gathered in, I speak
to all the children that shall read my words –
in the measure that the lesser love holds them and
they say unto themselves: ‘This I will do, not
that’; and in the measure that they say to those
who would rise to the highest: ‘Consider well,
pause, you know not what the future has in store,'’
in that measure, my little ones, such as these are
traitors to their trust."
The Zodiac
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