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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 48:

These Things Do, Beloved

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1. MY BELOYED, I adjure you; think on these things.

2. A goodly recompense hath come to you: I have told you of the vision, I have lifted you up.

3. When men shall revile you and persecute you, have a thought to their error, give them your grace, make them a promise, show them no defilement.

4. Behold it is the last days that ye do travel well: have the prophets not sung it?

5. These are my commitments: that ye keep the faith, that ye pause not in well-doing, that ye lift up the fair countenance, that ye give the world a blessing.

6. The lion and the lamb have a common benediction: the lamb runneth now, the lion pursueth, they are ever at enmity, the lion devoureth the lamb, there are none to restrain him.

7. Is it not meet that such things should be if behold the children of tomorrow have a memory in their hearts of that which was unrighteous, of that which defiled them, of that which did them errors, of that which caused confusions?

8. The world now pursueth the weak and forsaken, it devoureth their substance, it beholdeth its triumph, it saith to itself, It is good and profitable unto men that they should know their scourgings.

9. I say it is beastly, I say it is defilement.

10. I say it is more. . . I say that the beast in man shall be stilled, his ungodliness shall perish, it shall have its grave in a watery place, the earth shall know purgings, the floors of the world shall behold a clean sweeping.

11. And yet I would not tell you of calamities, beloved: behold they reckon well who do say, Such to their portion as do merit the sweeping, such to the destruction as give it unto others.

12. I sing you a song redundant with splendors:

13. I say ye shall prophesy, ye shall give alms to the needy, ye shall do goodly works, men shall engrave you on the tablets of those works, they shall make you an offering, they shall fetch you a garland.

14. This shall be your portioning, that ye shall go out and come in fearing no man, that ye shall make your bed in victories, that the wise man shall know you, that his daughters shall comfort you, that a fair trade shall profit you, that ye shall have a winning not marked by tumults.

15. Behold I have preserved you, I have caught you in a silence, I have sojourned amongst you, I have sent unto you mine increase;

16. I am he whom ye serve, none stand beside me in your hearts, I am mine own preceptor, I cast mine own auguries.

17. Think well on these things.

18. The Goodly Company is a still small band, it giveth not a bickering unto the Host, it maketh no eschewments in quantities of laborings, it giveth a fair pulse-beat, it raiseth up the fallen, it riseth up and liveth beauteously, its heritage is increase always unto surfeit.

19. Ye are my band, I have raised you for a purpose;

20. But that purpose showeth not till the Word hath fulfillment.

21. I have sojourned amongst you many days, I tell you, when ye knew not my presence; ye have said, Behold a beggar passeth; ye have said, There is one who knocketh, let us have none of him and he presently departeth.

22. And yet I have come in to you, I have walked in your presence; I have not asked mine alms of you, I have not forced your doorstones.

23. Behold I walk amongst you many times again, verily times and again, and ye do say, Whereof cometh the loveliness to surfeit? whereof is this fragrance? are we not visited by those who speak logic? do we not manifest with grace on our ensigns?

24. Beloved, beloved, have a care to your manners.

25. Raise up the righteous arm, give the stalwart soul reckonings, debase not yourselves before the conqueror and his judgments, be sweet, be purposeful, let not your luxuries be of spirit.

26. When the judgments are rendered for and against you, say not, It is pleasure or tumult that openeth her mantle: say, It is victory calling up her cohorts.

27. Times and seasons, and seasons again, thus have I come and dwelt among you.

28. I tell you that I come as a fair wind upon a pleasant afternoon, I come as the bramble that holdeth the thrush, I come as the sweet spice that scenteth the small place, I come as the true lodestone that draweth the nations, that rendereth them a bivouac.

29. And yet I come as more.

30. I come as the scribe who hath upon his tablets the names of the forsaken, the judgments for those who embraced a small error and took it to be great, those who were famished and knew not their eatings: my tablets have the password that these shall be embraced in the clasp of old fellowship.

31. For lo, we are known to one another, the forsaken and I.

32. I do make my eternal bed in a lowly place that the sobbings of the men of little errors should meet their just assuagements.

33. I do sup with the lowly that their bannock should nourish me.

34. I give a large quart and drink a small pint, that they who do quaff the rich juice of Knowledge should know a true sacrament, that the Lord of Glory rideth in an exceeding small chariot, that He giveth not a belching of that which is His humor.

35. Nay, nay, my beloved, He giveth the fond jostling, He layeth His hand on the arm of His opponent and saith, Let peace be between us, behold there is no quarrel that was not of thine ignorance; see, we adjust it, we sit down in a fellowship.

36. These things do, beloved. The hour draweth late, there are ridings unto equities that give the night enrichments.

37. Tarry ye in the place of the world until I do greet you with the mantle of my ministerings.

38. Speech hath divided us, behold speech hath welded us: make a fair porridge of all your discernments, eat of them to banquetings; I say it shall be well with you.

39. Presently I join you, that the feasting be complete.

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