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 25:
A Man Cometh to the Nations
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1. A MAN COMETH to the nations, verily cometh one who would
save them from their vauntings; cometh one who loveth them,
he stretcheth out his hands, the bright mornings know him.
2. I say, ye know that man.
3. He stretcheth out his hands and peace floodeth from them:
he lifteth up his arms and healing leapeth out of them.
4. Greater than trumpets is his paean of peace! He saith to
his embassies, Go and bestow it. Lo, peace cometh, in that they
bestow it.
5. I adjure you, beloved: be about your business. Utterings
are couriers for him who rideth presently.
6. Start that which appeareth seemly in circumstance that
men may perceive I am watching the nations, that the godlike
are my counselors, that I go out and come in abiding in my
patience till the bright omen summon me.
7. I tell you I manifest; publish it discreetly: make it known
where I show you.
8. Change altereth your traffickings, ye do go on far
journeyings, ye do proclaim to the pure in heart that the Father
hath a choice between those who are wayward and those who
seek wisdoms.
9. I say unto all of you, Be prepared in your hearts, be rich
in your desirings, know a bright surfeit of the things that
ennoble you.
10. Do ye murmur amongst yourselves saying, We have need
of him who loveth us? . . . I tell you, beloved, my need of you
is greater! . . .
11. Ye have heard it said that I am the way, the truth, and
the light: harken to my counselings! I explain these wonders
to you. . . . .
12. Too long hath man quarreled over petty points of doctrine;
too long hath he said, Lo, the fathers taught us this, or, The
fathers counseled that, or, The fathers have shown us the way
and we follow it, or, Lo, we have examined and made doctrine
our shibboleth, whence cometh Change that it ordereth our
reliance?
13. I tell you, beloved, men are blind and ignorant: they come
unto me crying, Save us, we beseech thee!
14. I smile at them in pity; they have not understanding, they
say things they know not, they decree things to pass that mine
heart doth not sanction, they tell the world my will and behold it
is their wantings.
15. I say unto you, beloved, my will is as the heart of a child
that is guileless, it doth not beg issues with savants who
make boastings.
16. I tell you it is an abomination unto me that men seek me for
counselings having hardness in their intellects.
17. They say unto me, Master, art thou not God?
18. I say unto you, Nay, I am not God, I am Son of God who
hath a mission: had I no mission then wouldst ye not have
known of me.
19. They say unto me, Master, save us lest we perish!
20. I say, Lo, ye perish not, your conceits find you out, ye are
lean with many huskings, a rich dish is offered you and ye prank
with barren maxims; how say ye, We perish, when ye push my
food from you?
21. Lo, I love them for their weakness, but their weakness is a
foolishness, it deserveth no reckonings, they perceive the pure
meat but make squabblings at the cutlery; is this maturity,
beloved?
22. What man among you having weakness in the belly
danceth with a sentence that its words are turned neatly?
23. Beloved, I tell you, Doctrine is absurd.
24. The nations of humankind starve for less doctrine; they
come to me asking for that which deceiveth them; they come to
me opportuning me, Give us of Doctrine that thy will is our
shibboleth!
25. I say unto them, My will is in your hearts, heed it and be
righteous.
26. Yet repent they leanly for these sinnings of their spirits;
they have conceits of intellect and cry in their profundities that
I have deceived them.
27. Wherein have I deceived them? I make mock of no law.
I fulfilled the law. I bade them give it their obedience.
28. But law changeth, beloved; man's law hath no
permanence; it cometh to pass that one generation maketh a
law, another arriveth only to mock it; one generation saith, This
is the law! another declareth, We say it is tyranny, behold we
abolish it.
29. Worldly laws have a transience; my will, received of the
Father, is eternal; it saith to man, There is but one precept, that
ye love one another, do good to them who hate you, be of
persevering spirit, persevere after righteousness, take the yoke
of patience on you, know the Great Secret that man is divine.
30. Change cometh to man: he seeketh the eternal; laws give
him no viands; he seeketh the Father and my utterings reveal
Him; herein, beloved, do I teach you heavy truth.
31. Man is divine spirit seeking the divinity he hath shed upon
the highroad, he seeketh the ennoblement that awaiteth on his
strivings, he goeth up and not down, he findeth his losings on
those heights he hath not traveled;
32. I do aid him in those seekings, I interpret the method that
bringeth him to tablelands where his losings would ambush him;
I gave my life in flesh that men might know the truth of that
which gave them wonderings; I said, Look and see, these are
mine ennoblements, do ye not hold them also?
33. We have preached in many ages showing men of those
ennoblements, we have toiled in many vineyards where the
fruits were men's destinies; we do toil in many more, raising up
fruits for the children of the aeons;
34. Such is our privilege, our honors sit upon us;
35. But we speak no petty fiats: Behold thou shalt trim
thy beard to a length, on this day shalt thou wear thy
vestments of silver, thou shalt go and come mincingly, with
steps of a number;
36. Such things are of earth; my truth is eternal.
37. Man cometh to a change, I say, greater than he hath
known: he crieth, Master, save me!
38. I say, Save thyself, thou foolish one! did I not show the
way? must I travel it again for thy stupid entertainment?
verily the ages have borne witness that I did what I did, ages
still to come will bear anew that witness! have a heed to thy
stupidity! thou art given to a humor!
39. Know that men are needing us, beloved; know that they
come seeking us; we heed their heart's cry and make speech
instructing them;
40. But know that they are insistent that doctrine be given
them, long being prisoners of servile understanding;
41. They say, We must have method in our learnings, we must
talk to the masses in measured precepts lest our speech be as
theirs and they render us no homage.
42. I say they talk vauntings.
43. When men ask us for instructings in heavenly matters, thus
do we tell them: heaven hath no secrets that earth cannot
witness: I say earth is heaven, behold heaven is the earth.
44. There is no celestial dwelling place beyond your
understanding.
45. Behold Light is heaven: heaven knoweth itself in Light.
46. And yet Light hath its species: light cometh brightly and
men say, Lo, the day! They see the sun and cry, Lo, we rejoice
in its radiance for thereby do we live, light eternal preserveth
us!
47. I say they are foolish; Light is the universe and the
forms whereof it cometh, light is Thinking Incarnate and the
shapes whereof ye know it, light is ether manifesting and the
substances it buildeth.
48. Have ye heads for wisdom? do your senses reason
thickly?
49. Until ye see mysteries beyond earthly sensings, I say ye
are blind men: hear me when I tell you that your senses see not
light, behold they see light's forms, . . . that which light
witnesseth.
50. Heaven is come to you in light: truly it hath principles that
no mortal brain knoweth: it maketh the mortal universe to live: it
maketh man to function: it raiseth up herbage: it endureth in
ether of which it is essence: ether and light are brethren in
substance.
51. I say unto you, The universe is Light manifesting, through
Thought, by Love, unto Eternal Time.
52. I tell you the Father hath made us to know ourselves by
that which cometh within our experiencings;
53. Men are observant: they say, The sun shineth, the wind
bloweth, matter decayeth, the flesh hardeneth, verily are these
evidences of Holy Spirit manifesting, these are attestments of
great truths but man hath no knowledge of the reasons why
they manifest.
54. He cometh unto books and behold they tell him not: he
cometh unto teachers and they present no answer that salveth
the intellect: he cometh unto me and asketh, Why are these
things so?
55. I say unto him, That ye may know of experience that verily
ye live!
56. Ye have an argument ever with yourselves, If a man die,
shall he live again? . . . I say Death is an illusion: ye live and die
seemingly: ye live unto eternity yet do ye die that ye may have
knowledge of that which is of spirit: ye come into flesh again
bearing such knowledge: ye make use of your knowings: ye
come into flesh restarting a cycle: behold ye perceive that
experience profiteth you; it goeth not away from you.
57. Why find ye fault with Matter? doth it not serve you? do ye
not make it profitable unto Spirit that Matter serveth you?
58. Lo, matter is Light, as I have told you; light cometh in
grades and matter hath species; ye have substance in energy;
is it not true that light is the power by which spirit is carried
into flesh?
59. I say it is the vehicle wherein God becometh man and Man
becometh God.
60. Light's essence is divine: all powers thereof make
the universe ye worship, even that God who bestoweth
the universe; dark light and bright light, I say they are
the same;
61. They command the eternal values. God rideth in and on
them. I say unto you, Be wise.
62. Light was the secret of my miracles; it hateth the darkness
because light is construction; darkness destroyeth: it reareth up
not anything.
63. Darkness is Thought Incarnate gone negative in that no
creating light existeth or functioneth.
64. Be wise, beloved, beyond your generation; when ye do
make speech of light ye do utter of the universe performing
from embryo in egg to eternal sun flaming.
65. I am of Light: behold, I am the Way, the Truth, and the
Light.
66. Man maketh speech, behold his days are numbered; he
looketh to the world, he looketh to the heavens, he seeth the
constellations, he marveleth at their beauty, he hath a humor
within himself to transcend their brilliance in the jewelings from
his intellect.
67. Would he be wise? I say unto him, Observe the stone that
resideth in the pathway: it giveth off no radiance but that which
is its essence.
68. How know ye, in your blindness, that it giveth off no
radiance? I say all things have a radiance, even that spirit of
divine understanding that addresseth itself to tumult.
69. Hear my words and know my wisdom: I am he who
performeth unto the eternal, who saith to the eternal, Let the
Radiance manifest! . . .
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