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.
200.
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 216:
Glories Arise From Hopes Deferred
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1. EVERY man hath his birthright; it cometh unto him as his
knowledge of his purpose for being in mortality; I say it is his
treasure; I say it is his heritage; it goeth not from him though
seas rise up and smite him; it deserteth him not though
mountains cast him from them.
2. Have ye not this treasure? Whenever was it otherwise?
Behold your performance, that it giveth you identity!
3. Render a goodly accounting unto the Father for the labor
that seeketh your hands for its doing, for thus shall it be with
you that He who seeth the way of the heart bestoweth on the
soul its chore of endurance.
4. Are there those among you whose muscles have a
throbbing to be about their business? is the muscle the
conqueror? hath the biceps the brevet?
5. I say go not forth among the cohorts until it be evident unto
you that the times have their fullness for positive acting.
6. Trust not unto your senses, neither unto your reasonings,
if they call you toward those ramparts that offer you no
frownings that mean your swift assailments.
7. Seek ye out no brethren who do not say unto you: We
perceive that if sobeit ye do come and move among us, we can
uphold your hands the better for service.
8. Make no untoward move toward contest that giveth not its
promise of garlands hanging eagerly, verily, beloved, for them
to fall and crown you.
9. Give fortune not its hostages by polling the slothful if they
are pleased to be of service.
10. Open your hearts to those who come grimly, who reach
you, by much running, who pant in your anterooms, whose
biceps have their itchings.
11. I say unto you now, as I have said before, that presently
times come upon this people when those storms which now
blow shall be as a zephyr to the tempest which wracketh
them; the rich shall go down, the mighty rise up; those with
the Sign upon their foreheads shall smile in cool wisdom;
they shall walk with a calmness and the tempest quail before
them.
12. I say it is a Sign, verily a promise, that goodly wits ennoble
you; minions seek you out; they give your hands courage;
13. But cease not in endeavor to give them their leadership,
cease not in perceiving that they seek it in hunger, attend to
their beguilings of your interest in their behalf.
14. Hold fast unto that which hath stateliness in it, whose truth
hath a radiance, whose righteousness is lodestone drawing all
men to its magnet.
15. Keep a steady eye and arm for the spending of nerve,
verily of sinew, which the hot hour devoureth that draweth nigh
unto you.
16. Give a firm forecast of that which approacheth, but say it
with vigor that your heritage show plumage.
17. Take a mighty aim at evil, draw a sturdy bow, speed a true
arrow; aim straight, let your archery have its sureness; mock not
the adversary with vauntings of your archery, but deal his body
arrows with a skill which fainteth not.
18. But not yet, beloved. Sufficient unto the day is the contest
of its strugglings.
19. Prepare! Be prepared! Give a goodly countenance to
sorrow, verily as it beseecheth you, but make not the error of
discovering yourselves without flaming weapons in a strange
land full of blackness.
20. Take your inheritance of manifest leadership. Give it an
exercise. Give it a pulse. Look well unto its sinew.
21. I say the times draw on swiftly wherefore ye were prepared
over many months of discourse; quail not before them, arise in
a sturdiness, execute your ministerings, say with a valor:
22. We were told of this torment, we have delved in its
essence, we know of its launchings and who hath loosed
it on us;
23. Wherefore we pale not, our knees hold no quakings,
our consciences have sureness, we behold the fell hour as a
scene for great actings.
24. Doth man have a panic at what he seeth clearly? doth the
death-shout give palsy if the sun flood upon it?
25. Not so, my beloved. Man taketh his terror from dreads that
are nameless. The spirits unseen are not fearsome in morning.
26. Truly the race shall see your good works and glorify Him
who sent you among it.
27. Concerning things personal, this do I say unto you:
28. Make ye no pretense of offering yourselves for service
among the twenty when the four score do harken for your words
of direction;
29. Be not profligate of counsel, as a general directeth his
army from his tent; he seeth not the battle, as I have said often;
he fireth not his weapons, I have told you that also; he giveth no
card to impatient endurance;
30. For in that he behaveth after the manner of a genera!,
so was he commissioned that he might serve excellently; in that
he hath first commanded his own spirit, thus saith he to one,
That shall be done, go thou and perform it, and unto another,
Stand at thy stirrup until I bid thee ride!
31. Verily it is important that commandings be of moment that
have lasting glories in them; but how shall glories profit from a
race run in a sewer?. . . .
32. Glories arise from mighty hopes deferred until the heart
sickeneth, from mighty aims subverted until the bowels weaken;
that the stressed mind may function and the intellect know
victory.
33. Give, I repeat, no hostages to fortune, but give a deed of
valor its recompense in valor, that those in the byways, verily in
the furrows, may know their inspiration.
34. Perceive your tasks and do them, but again I say unto you,
mark upon it that the true general goeth not out of his tent until
the battle calleth him, . . . in that it floweth poorly for his
fortunes, or he would see in person wherein his plans have
failed him.
35. Take your strong oaths to do mighty deeds, but see that ye
perform in secret that which hath its secret essence.
36. I bid that ye arise and do contest in my name; I bid that ye
win garlands of men's tears and heart-hopes.
37. And yet ever do I caution you that the enemy pursueth,
he knoweth of your leaguings, he scouteth your cohorts and
numbereth your banners.
38. I say, let him do it. I say that he doth it in that he
feareth you.
39. Take thought. Take heart. Take courage. Know your
stamina to endure;
40. Manifest no sorrow at sight of those who suffer in that their
suffering is their right and out of it strength cometh;
41. Be true unto the teachings whereof ye have been taught.
42. Rest in an assurance that a mighty host prepareth the
way for the true tactician and that the battle goeth gloriously
all over my world!
43. Know that I say I am content, if my servants but keep their
vows to perform. . . .
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