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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"AURAS"
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 the
Zodiac Circle on Sunday, 4th January, I925.
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"BELOVED Saviour, in joy and in perfect unity
we gather together and we ask Thee to so vouchsafe
Thy Presence unto us that we may indeed be filled with
the Holy Spirit - with that holiness of heart and mind
which allows us to penetrate into the courtyards of
the Most High.
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"Father of all, we are anxious to be used. We
ask Thee to use us in the way Thou thinkest best, that
we may forget the calls of the physical, these being
lost in the tender Voice of the Spirit. Grant that
we may listen and hear - hear with that mind which
is a Divine gift from Thee, hear with that inner spiritualised
self - and hearing, may not only answer but may place
ourselves unreservedly under Thy direction.
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"O God, we realise more and more that we are getting
near to the centre of sacredness, when the need is
greater than ever for purity of heart and mind. Grant
that we may believe that wishing for purity it will
be made our own. Prepare us, attune us to Thee, and
give us courage and understanding - courage to go forward,
and understanding to see something of the Great Plan
on which Thou art working - when no force of evil will
ever again have the power to hold us back.
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"Into Thy Hands we commend our Spirit, and resting
on Thee we are confident that all will be well, and
not only that, but that we may be well used in Thine
honour and glory. Amen.
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"My children, tonight we have passed one more
of those imperceptible stages, and have started on
a fresh portion of our work. I want to throw out thoughts
of sympathy, of love and of understanding, so that
the good gifts of God, which are here in such generosity
tonight, may contact with your own, and yours, being
gathered into that mighty Fount, can be used by God
so that His Will may be done.
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"My children, this is a very happy evening indeed.
I am speaking of the joy of the Spirit - of those things
which lie far beyond the borders of the earth plane,
which indeed are of the bright realms themselves. Therefore,
in heart and mind rejoice, for I say unto you, that
in the inner self, the Kingdom of God is at hand.
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"Yes, we go on, gathering up sometimes, it seems
to you, but little grist for our mill. But those in
the Spirit have been adding and adding, and I tell
you for your comfort that the resources are not only
enough, but are there in abundance. Out of the fragments
of effort, out of the half-thoughts of holiness God
has gathered the good grain, and by the miracle of
His Love has turned that which you value lightly into
power that will be used again and again.
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"And now, my children, as usual, we will talk
over a few things; and to-night, in the beginning,
I would speak to you of that which you describe by
the word 'AURA'. There have been many upon earth, gifted
with spiritual sight, who have been able to see in
those around them some outward manifestation of the
soul which is within. It is an interesting subject,
and much speculation has been forthcoming in regard
to it; also much criticism too. And very often such
descriptions have been dismissed as imagination - the
distorted imagination of the person concerned.
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"Well, all those who have lived in the material
world have found, over and over again, that that which
is beyond the knowledge of certain persons is generally
dismissed by them as non-existent - quite a common
habit amongst the children of the earth throughout
the ages. But you and I have learnt a little in regard
to those spiritual laws which govern our life and being
- I am speaking of the greater self within - we have
learnt a little in regard to the wonderful Mind of
God and His loving thoughts for the children He has
created.
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"In the first place, I will run over old ground
in order to build up in your minds some faint conception
- I can do no more - of what really is fact and truth.
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"To the majority of people the physical and the
material exist only - in other words, the body and
its clothing; and they form their judgements entirely
on these outward indications of what lies within. And
sometimes they are an indication of the character of
a person - I mean that you cannot think of God without,
unconsciously, even to yourself, the physical body
becoming spiritualised; you cannot wish to be pure
and holy without that wish expressing itself both in
your clothing and in the house in which you live. These
things may be of a subtle nature but they exist in
a definite form.
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"But to-night I want to take you much farther
on than that. We will take for granted the physical
body and the clothing in which it stands, and get on
to what is a little beyond the range of the ordinary
physical eyes and physical mind - I speak of that in
which you are enclosed. It has been discovered by certain
students, on a purely scientific basis, that the human
form has certain emanations - by which I mean that
surrounding the body is that which can be seen and
can be noted in detail - and yet those thinkers are,
for the most part, quite unconscious of the significance
of these 'radiations' which are around you all.
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"In order to describe its shape and purpose -
from a physical standpoint - I draw your attention
to the parallel between it and the protective covering
of an infant before birth; but right on through the
many stages of spiritual evolution, there is that which
is around you - protecting, guarding, warning and attracting.
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"Here I must draw your attention to the word 'warning'.
To most people attraction and detraction - or repulsion
- is explained solely on physical grounds. In your
daily life there are those for whom you are conscious
of a feeling of sympathy, or of antagonism. Well, dear
children, it is not necessary for me to tell you -
you who have already learnt the rudiments of this subject
- why this is so; but I would emphasise the fact that,
as yet, you know only the outer covering of the great
and important truth which lies buried underneath.
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"But let me get back to my description. Picture
to yourself this: That everyone with whom you come
into contact, everyone in this great vast world - as
it appears to you - is enclosed in the vibrations which
express their true personality. And those who have
spiritual sight find it quite simple to see at a glance
the stage of development which the soul has attained.
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"My children, there are some of you who have a
very keen appreciation of the beautiful, and to you
I would speak. I would tell you that could you once
see the loveliness which surrounds a soaring soul,
beauty of feature or of form would appear valueless
in comparison. Those who wish to love God indeed are,
as it were, swathed in a variety of exquisite colours;
and, as they go on their way through life, that beauty
is reflected on others; and so it is that some seem
to gather unto themselves much, much love. I am speaking
of love and not of physical attraction - keep that
point clear in your mind.
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"Those who have taken the steep side of the hill
are, as you can imagine, in a more favourable position
in regard to displaying such beauty, and I want you
to understand that as the soul gains its freedom -
that is, as the soul gains domination over the physical
mind - so it is able to expand those emanations with
which it is gifted. The young soul - the soul who as
yet is asleep, or only half-awake - with these, dear
children, you find that the light surrounding them
is close on the physical body itself; it is an indication
of that which is precious within but nothing more.
Then, as the emancipation comes, so it is reflected
in that beautiful encasement in which the children
of earth live on the material plane.
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"My children, it is a little difficult to attempt
to describe that which is of the Spirit in physical
language, but I am trying to build up in your minds
some faint conception of the loveliness which surrounds
the soul which knows God as its Father.
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"And then we come to this: I said that this emanation
was a protection, and so it is. Remembering that others
move and have their being likewise surrounded, you
can understand that when a collision occurs between
the vibrations of two souls who are unequally developed
a sense of shock is felt; and that is what you call
'physical' repulsion. It is not physical at all, it
is that which is of God guarding the sacred Self within.
And when those who are attuned to evil rather than
to good come into your presence, contacting with your
emanations, so the warning is sent right through the
physical mind to the soul itself - a warning to take
care, to be on your guard because an enemy draweth
nigh.
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"And so it is not hard for you to understand what
a wonderful thing it is when two persons who both wish
to give out of their best come together in companionship
of any kind. Not only are the vibrations of each one
in sympathy but, more than that, in coming together
they recharge each other, and that is how the joy comes.
The power of each one is doubled because the unity
is complete.
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"You see, dear children, you have not to think
very far afield to realise what a wonderful privilege
is offered to you all, and how sad it is that the children
of the earth don't make more of a struggle to gain
and to hold that which has no price. I tell you to-night
that there are those upon earth who are so spiritually
awake that from two to three feet in breadth all around
them is the brightness - the reflection of the beauty
that is within. And these, dear children, quite apart
from the words they speak or the deeds they do - although
these are bound up in it - but quite apart from this,
as they go through life they are spreading holiness
and truth.
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"When the body is laid aside and the children
of the earth come Home you can imagine their delight,
their intense interest, to look at those who remain
in the flesh and to see the reflection of the real
Self within. Because although it is in a limited degree
only - those vibrations which you contribute to yourself
are as near in appearance to the spiritual body as
possible while the physical remains.
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"My children, there is that word of warning to
which I must revert. The vibrations which you call
the 'aura' are highly magnetic; for the want of a better
word I will call them 'electrical vibrations', which
possess a power which is not understood by anyone upon
this physical plane. Yes, they have this power, and
it can be used or misused by the one concerned; and,
in regard to others, can be used or abused as the mood
takes them. You see, dear children, that we have to
take into account that there are some men and women
who, after reaching a certain stage of spiritual emancipation,
fall from their heights to the ground beneath; and
those who have never tried at all are the first to
cast a sneer at their failure.
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"But I want you to understand this, and to take
to heart the responsibility which is attached to the
vibrations which express your real self. I said, dear
children, that those who have sought to scale the steeper
side are very attractive to others; and I would add
that those others need not necessarily have reached
the same spiritual advancement to feel the attraction.
In fact, in many instances you find a good man or a
good woman rouses in one who is weaker - or who is
under the influence of an adverse force - rouses in
these that tug of attraction to which they yield without
any struggle at all.
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"Well, you know that the shadows are determined
to block the progress of the more heroic ones, and
it happens sometimes that by the sheer power and beauty
of their vibrations their downfall comes. Of course,
they were off their guard at the time; it would have
been impossible if close communion with Christ were
there.
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"This is a difficult subject, and I am hard put
to make it clear. But I do want you to try and grasp
that good men and good women - those who have struggled
to free themselves from that which would hold them
down - that these are not to be condemned if such a
failure should come. Compassion of an unutterable kind
is their right, and what was not made good on the material
plane shall be readjusted and strengthened when the
body is laid aside.
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"My children, it is not a contradiction to say
that those who are the most highly evolved spiritually
are very often beset by the greatest temptations there
are.
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"This is only according to fact, as illustrated
in the life of our Lord - for on those with a lofty
purpose the evil concentrates its energies in order
to pull down that which has been built up with so much
strain and effort. But, as you know, Christ knew no
weakness at all, yet He knew fierce temptation - temptation
unparalleled by any other soul that has ever been created.
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"And then I pass on to this: The mere fact, dear
children, that these vibrations are so interwoven around
you carries also with it what would appear to you a
disadvantage in regard to 'sensitiveness' - and that
sensitiveness gives some slight indication of the sensitiveness
which is experienced by all when the physical body
is laid aside. You have heard that when the tabernacle
of the flesh is discarded nerves, as nerves, exist
no more - but you must differentiate between nerves
and sensitiveness. One is of the physical and the other
is entirely of that spiritual nature which expresses
your real selves.
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"In regard to this subject, I want to draw your
attention to a little point, and that is in regard
to this same 'sensitiveness' - which you will find
will increase as the days go on. I want you to realise
that it is as well to protect it as much as possible
- to look ahead, as it were, and to be on your guard
against that which would cause it damage. It may seem
strange to you to speak of sensitiveness in this way,
but it is really that outer expression of the soul-body
which is within; and it is not wise in such cases to
do certain things.
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"For instance, one should not be wakened unexpectedly
from sleep. It is dangerous from a physical standpoint,
because during the sleep-state still more so is that
emanation apparent.
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"If you could see with the eyes of the Spirit
it would look like this: The physical body seems strangely
shrunken, in fact it is more an indication than anything
else, and around the sleeper are waves upon waves of
light. The body is, as it were, enclosed in a cone
of the finest woven strands of silk - I must use these
material illustrations - but each thread is so definite,
so perfectly formed, that though they appear as of
gossamer quality yet they are strong and vibrant with
feeling.
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"Well, dear children, it is not difficult for
you to understand that it is like plunging your hand
through that which is not of the earth at all and touching
a tiny bud inside. It is not only touching in fact,
but when you call unexpectedly that is the effect it
has upon the person concerned, and that is how it looks
to us. The very voice, the calling back, breaks a million,
million of those most wonderful lines of light in which
the sleeper is enclosed.
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"You see how difficult it is for me to portray
spiritual facts in physical language? I must ask your
great indulgence to-night but I have done my best with
the tools at my disposal.
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"In a lesser degree, as you had demonstrated just
now, it is not wise to touch suddenly any highly sensitive
person, more especially those who are dedicated to
this work. There, in quite a definite way, you get
the same thing demonstrated, but in a slightly lesser
degree - unless the one concerned is what you call
actually 'under control' when, as you know, they must
not be touched at all.
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"In regard to those 'sensitives' special treatment
should be meted out to them and they should be doubly
on their guard against any concussion between their
vibrations and those of others in an unexpected way.
I refer to the so-called 'chance collisions' which
occur so often in daily life. My children, those who
are out to destroy are vigilant indeed, and when it
is in their power they seek to injure; and in every
case much work has to be done by us in order to protect
and to make good afterwards.
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"You see, you get the two sides, and you cannot
have the one without the other. When those who are
attuned to God come into contact with others like-minded,
all the joy and the gladness is there; in fact, it
expresses the highest form of happiness which the earth
can know. On the other hand, you have the element of
danger and certainty of discomfort when you are brought
into contact with those who are keyed to lower vibrations
than yourself. But God protects ever and ever again,
as you were told by one who has seen God's love, and
who has dedicated himself to the demonstration of that
love unto others.
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"My children, as you go on - as you evolve spiritually
- you will find that this sensitiveness will increase.
And I want you to take it, not as an added burden,
but rather as an outward and visible sign that you
are shedding the material and that the spiritual is
claiming you more and more.
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"I find, on going back on my words, that I have
left several loose threads, and that is against my
custom. But with a subject of this kind - with which
you are only barely acquainted - it is difficult to
proceed without taking you out of your depth. Yet believe
me that as the time goes on I shall come back to that
which still remains hazy, and make all clear; and in
the making clear you will see something of the marvels
of God's protecting care, and how each one, from the
weakest to the strongest, is held 'involved' in that
which is of God. And that all that is left to them
to accomplish is, by their thoughts, their efforts
and their endeavours, to increase the beauty - to enlarge
that which expresses Spirit. And in so doing not only
to add joy and peace to the soul within, but to shed
on all beauty and grace as well.
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"And now I leave you. There are messages to-night
which have their work to do, and this being so I ask
for your complete and undivided attention and help.
(After others had spoken Zodiac returned and continued.)
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"Well, dear children, it has been rather a curious
evening in some ways, I expect you think; but we have
worked in those special threads of the pattern which
God has ordained, and so we can all say that once more
it has been a 'good evening' in His sight, as well
as so far as we are concerned.
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"My last words to you to-night are these: That
it lies within your power to do much - some perhaps
more than others - to influence the lives of those
around you. This power to influence, as you will understand,
brings its responsibility; but I know that each one
longs with all their heart to do as God intends them,
to follow His leading and to be entirely under His
guidance. Therefore I can say to you all: 'Have confidence
in yourselves.' That power of influence, which has
been built up through these years of steady training,
is there for a purpose - a Divine purpose - and the
mere fact that you wish to do the right thing ensures
that the right thing will be done.
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"I want you all, without exception, each one who
reads these records, to take the words I speak as applicable
to themselves; to put this question and to answer it
frankly and freely: 'What is the influence that I have
upon others? Do I bring out the best, or do I bring
out the second best?'
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"In this world or in the world of the Spirit that
query has to be answered; and yet in telling you this
I would add the most glorious fact which goes side
by side with it: I say that there is not one who has
ever influenced another for good that has not brought
unto themselves beauty and power and the blessing of
God. Of all things, in your world or in ours, there
is nothing so great as the freeing of a soul, even
if it be but from one bond of the earth. It is direct
Christ work. It is of all things the most noble, the
most precious and the most constructive - to be used
to set free another who is finding the obtaining of
release hard and difficult to accomplish.
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"Despise not little things, my children. Each
one of you, in a way you little understand, is influencing
others to rise, to struggle and to have faith; and
yet I said that the influencing of one brings you the
direct blessing of God. So you see that these little
things, which seem so unimportant to you, are building
that which is close to your heart's desire, and that
which, when the body is laid aside, will bring you
into conditions which you would never imagine could
ever be your own.
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"I leave with you to-night a feeling of assurance
and of joyful anticipation in regard to the future.
I leave with you a determination to carry on this work
to the best of your ability and, moreover, I leave
behind a sense of responsibility to the greater self
within - that Self, remember, that belongs to God,
which lives but to do His Will, which is centred in
His love, which knows only joy and harmony and peace
and renewal - renewal and renewal again of the power
to do, the wish to be, and the understanding that can
lift and save and restart others on their upward path.
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"A note of triumph goes out - triumph over self.
The triumph of that which is pure, and that which is
noble within; which separates itself from the physical
and the material, as they relate to the things of the
earth, and gathering wings of inspiration soars on
and on through the unlimited spheres to the Throne
of God (Rev. 2I. 2-3), which you regard as the highest
point of all. The Throne of God, dear children, which,
if you could see things as they are, has been brought
down and built up in your midst to-night, for where
the children of God are, there is God; and when heart
and mind are focused on the Saviour, the Saviour waits
not for the spirit to come to Him, but is at the side
of each one. The moment the thought or wish to contact
with the Divine is there, the Divine is with you -
closer than breath, as I said before.
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"Now, dear children, I leave you, but remember
this: That trivial as it may seem to you, the discomforts
occasioned by the cold in the physical world during
this time when we meet together - these discomforts
are not overlooked by the Mind of Love. I'll say no
more - you have not taken it into account but these
things are gathered up as precious jewels, as a gift
to the Most High, and I am bidden to bring it in to-night
to show you, for your soul's comfort, how the Father
regards His little children. I bless you with peace,
with love and with unity. I bless you with that knowledge
of the things of the Spirit which, in God's Name, I
say is to be made your own, and which in time to come
will turn the barrenness of earth into a garden of
beauty indeed - the beauty of the Spirit which fades
not and is never quenched. Goodnight, my children."
©GWCSA
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