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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN"
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), through the mediumship
of Miss Winifred Moyes
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"HEAVENLY Father, we thank Thee that once again
this great privilege of communion with those who are
in the Spirit is given to us; thank Thee that always
Thou makest it possible, and that this gift comes so
often when the need is greatest; and we, thus strengthened
and steadied and renewed, can go on not only in faith
but with a firmer will to accomplish the work which
Thou hast laid upon us.
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"O Heavenly Father, give us once more healing
of the heart and mind and body; so that we can separate
ourselves from the physical world, and find no barrier
in between us and the joy which comes from Thee.
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"Father, Thy children here tonight have much to
learn - and much to forget as well - and so we ask
Thee that Thou wilt make plain those things which seem
so difficult, and blot out the remembrance of those
which cause so much distress.
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"In Thine own good time all will be made clear,
and then those dark patches on the past and in the
present will be seen in all their beauty and in their
true colours; and Thy little ones will know that at
that time they touched Holiness - so far as it is possible
for the children of the earth to contact with it -
they touched Holiness and were made free.
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"O Tender Saviour, grant that the spirit of peace
and assurance may descend upon us all, and that we
may feel its sweet influence entering into our souls
and turning that which now represents chill to warmth
and life and love. Amen.
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"BELOVED, so happy am I to come amongst you, for
I know that gathered here there are many earnest souls,
those who love the Lord Jesus, those who desire to
do His Will; and when I claim you as friends and comrades
I feel that from the hearts and minds of many there
is a swift response.
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"There are those who know that the call has come
to them - the call to do that which lies within their
power to raise humanity as a whole, to lighten the
burden of poverty, to stem the tears of the young,
to show a good example to those who seem to be straying,
and to praise God for the opportunity He has given
unto them to demonstrate the Divinity that is within.
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"My brothers and my sisters, I want you to realise
the link between you on earth and those in the Spirit
World, who in a time of long ago had their difficulties,
had their temptations, who knew what it was to strive
against the opposition in the minds of others, who
knew what it was to suffer persecution. Yet because
of these experiences so these servants of the Christ
come back with a greater love and a greater understanding
to you this day.
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"For a while I want to consider with you that
sweet phrase: 'The Brotherhood of Man', and I would
take you a little away from the general thought in
connection with that phrase. You know that all Life
is one under our Father and Mother God, that those
in other worlds - some brighter than the earth and
many which are dimmer than the physical condition -
that the beings in those worlds or spheres are your
brothers and your sisters, and you are linked to them
by the closest tie of family there could be. Yes, you
know this well; but I am here to take you a little
further into the citadel of Truth, to point out that
there lies within that glorious phrase - the Brotherhood
of Man - privileges, opportunities and deep responsibilities,
because each soul is on the long journey of progression,
and each one of you gathered here has to answer in
a time to come for that which you did, for that which
you thought, for that which you neglected to undertake
while bound by the flesh.
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"To-day in many parts of the world there is sorrow
and poverty; there is the one in power and there are
those many who are under the heel of authority. And
when you take up your daily parchments and read of
injustice, of those who are imposing their will upon
the defenceless, something burns within you, for you
know that they are sinning against the Law of God and
Christ. And you know also, or it appears to you that
it is a fact, that you can do nothing to stem the tide
of injustice which engulfs so many of your fellow-beings.
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"But here, beloved, you are wrong. You may seem
tied to this corner of the globe, but you have in miniature
the gift of omnipresence, and by will, by prayer, the
Spirit within you can gain its freedom and soar through
the spaces and contact with the ones attacked, and
give peace and a measure of healing as well.
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"Then, again, there have been men and women -
children of God - who have repudiated their great inheritance
and have passed out after leading a life which is against
that laid down by the Beloved of us all; and you know,
because you have been taught, that that brother and
that sister have passed into a darkened condition,
and their sufferings are great. Again it seems unto
you that you can do so little; you know that what a
man sows he must reap, and you wonder how long they
will be held in bondage by the follies of the past.
But I remind you that because there is Divinity within
you, you can be a missionary to those in prison. While
sleep holds you, the real self can be extricated from
the tabernacle of flesh and go to such as these.
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"Perchance they want you not, perchance there
are those in their conditions who are more welcome
than yourselves because you have come to teach and
to extricate from that which holds. But be of good
cheer; you are greater than you can understand, you
are stronger than you can grasp. God has promised that
to the earnest heart and mind shall be granted the
Spirit's desire, and because of your ministrations,
those ones in bondage shall see a little light which
shall be as the Star of Bethlehem shining in the darkness
of their spiritual night, and they shall arise and
seek the new-born child of spiritual endeavour, and
seek until that child is found.
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"So great is man, yet so limited it seems to him
is his life; but the Brotherhood Law holds good. You
cannot be separated from anyone in any sphere if the
spirit of sacrifice and service once has been made
your own.
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"Now I pass on to a broader issue and I want to
speak just for a moment or two upon the plight of many
to-day, upon the economic conditions, the cause and
the effect. You know that in a time that has passed,
because of the ambition which held the few, there were
many who suffered, there were many who died to this
world; but I remind you that God is not mocked. They
died to the battlefield or to that trench of misery
and of pain, and they awakened to find a fuller life
and something that held out hope to them.
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"But those who were responsible for that terrible
war, their passing was not so sweet as that of the
broken soldier upon the field of blood. Such as these,
by the selfishness and ambition which held their minds,
passed out of a seemingly pleasant state into a condition
that baffled their minds, into something which caused
fear to their hearts. They had to face Reality at last;
they were taken back over the record of the past and
they saw that long stream of agony that followed the
trail of war; they looked into the little homes where
love abounded and they saw the aching hearts, the misery
caused to the fatherless; they saw the wives broken
down by the unfair burden imposed upon them; and as
they looked upon the record, they were terror-stricken
over that in which they had taken part. The Brotherhood
of Man had been disregarded by them and the reaping
was bitter indeed.
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"What can you do? Here I bring in that great subject
of the survival of personality after death. Yes, there
are many who think this fact is a glorious truth; but
I want to show you that although it has its glorious
aspect, it has its terrible aspect as well. What of
the selfish ones, what of the worldly-minded, what
of those who care not whether their brethren fall into
spiritual bondage because there is nothing of the material
to hold them fast to the Cross of Jesus Christ? Why
do I say 'naught of the material to hold them fast
to the Cross of Jesus Christ'? Because the guides and
helpers at times must work through the material to
impress upon those in a body of flesh that God is love.
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"What think you of the Father's feelings as He
sends His watchers to influence the minds of His children
on earth towards compassion and charity, and yet He
sees that again and again they harden their hearts,
they want what they have for themselves? How many an
angel of Light has suffered because of the attitude
of mind of those who are encased in material thought,
and because of this those so hard beset seek for mercy
here and there and find no response. The Cross of Jesus
Christ seems to be clouded over and from the misunderstanding
within they upbraid their Creator, they want to curse
God and die.
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"Yet we are here with the light of the Spirit
shining upon us, we are here not only to teach others
but to learn ourselves; and as we think on the survival
of personality, we grow suddenly grave. If it be true
that all those who pass into another life will be the
same, will they still ignore their duty to their neighbour,
will they still be greedy, will they still desire to
pander to the baser desires within? The survival of
personality is a grave and terrible thought to express
to those who turn from the law of Christ.
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"We do not want to be with those who are so obsessed
by self, so we think while the body holds; we want
to be with those we love, who have a kind and sweet
and generous nature. This instinct is natural; but,
beloved, it is scarcely spiritual, as you can grasp.
The Brotherhood of Man ordains that we should desire
otherwise; that if we have won a little of spiritual
grace for ourselves, then if we would retain that spiritual
grace, we must do our best to serve our neighbour,
otherwise we are more bound to self than we were in
a time before.
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"So, as we think on spiritual lines, we see the
mercy of Divine Laws - that the humble-hearted who
did their duty and were loved by those around, will
be still more loveable by the survival of personality
in the next stage to come.
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"Then we remember those from whom we shrank -
the bullies, the ones who loved power, the ones who
could stand unmoved over the sufferings of others,
and we shudder. Will the personality of such as these
survive as well? Yes! But that is where you come in;
that is where the pioneers and those with the disciple-spirit
are needed so greatly to do God's work. You are free
in a measure yourselves. When the time comes for you
to pass into the Light, maybe the spirit within you
will decide that you go back to the one who did you
so much injury in the past, and give love for hate,
give service for treachery. When the body is cast aside
and we look into the eyes of Jesus Christ, all our
personal feelings of hurt fall from us - it seems such
a little burden we carried for love of Him, and we
look around for heavier burdens to take up as symbol
and sign that we do love the One Who loves us best.
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"How plain it is; and how sweet it must be for
those who lived a limited life when in the body, yet
who wanted to do so much; how sweet it must be when
such as these pass into the realms of Light to find
that quite unconsciously to themselves they were doing
a wonderful work for God. They were compassionate to
their brother-man, they ministered to their sisters
not only in the dark planes, but by the missionary
spirit released within, the real self during the sleep
state was able to defy time and space; and perchance
in some far corner of the world they were able to stem
the tears or to heal the pain of some poor child who
had never heard of a God of Love, who did not know
that life went on for evermore and that compensation
in full would be granted unto her because of what she
had suffered while the body held.
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"Oh think! Is it not worth while to strive still
a little harder, to pray still more fervently, to ask
to be used still more frequently so that the Master's
work of saving souls and of lifting the fallen may
go on apace? Yes! And there are those here who shall
indeed redouble their efforts, there are those here
who shall be inspired by the Holy Spirit and they shall
demonstrate to those around that the Brotherhood of
Man is not a mere empty phrase, it is a living reality,
it is something that represents the most precious gift
that any life could hold.
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"And then when that personality of yours, freed
from any dross that still remains, is able to express
itself in that next stage of beauty and light and peace
and healing in which you may find yourselves, it will
seem unto you that your personality, although sweet
to those around, can yet be sweeter; that the light
that you have won by your efforts in the past can be
enhanced; for lo, there are the angelic ones who draw
close to you and when you see their light and spiritual
beauty, your own seem suddenly to have become dim.
Yet you know, because God is your Father, that you
must in time be even as bright as they are, and hope
springs up within your breast as you pray to God and
joyfully seek for work to do. There is nothing too
small, nothing too humble, nothing so repulsive that
you do not welcome, for you have seen something of
the working out of the law that governs the Brotherhood
of Man, and you are ready to make the full surrender
for the sake of Jesus Christ and the bringing of His
Kingdom into all spheres.
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"The time will come, through the tribulations
upon the earth plane, when the chains of materialism
shall be struck from man, when his selfishness shall
be seen by him as selfishness; and in that time those
who have will want to give and not to hold; and those
who are without will have their chance to win the right
to the little to which they are entitled and which
God means shall be their own.
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"But you cannot bring about great things in a
second of time. Every hill has been built up by minute
particles. Those who love to climb the hills and to
feel upon them the sweet breezes, they do not always
stop to think of the building of the hill, of the particles
that comprise the hill, of the life that is going on
within the hill - God's creation in another form. But
when you think on these big truths, consciousness comes
to you that at least you can contribute your fragment;
and if that idea should spread, if humanity as a whole
should awaken to its responsibility to contribute the
particles within its power, then we should have a mighty
mountain, up which all humanity could climb and feel
the power of the Holy Spirit streaming upon it.
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"Poverty brings out oft that which is good; but,
again, poverty caused by the selfishness of others
has a way of depressing and casting down. But you and
I, beloved, we know what lies in front, we know that
there is no one who has fallen so far from Light and
Love who will not be redeemed by Love in time to come.
So we make our contributions of love, of prayer and
of effort, and as we go through that which we name
our possessions, we see that God has been generous
to us. We may not have that which we hoped to possess,
but we have something that is better than anything
we could desire for ourselves: we have within us the
Holy Spirit, we have that which is the Christ waiting
for Its release. Power, grace, manifold gifts are within
the individual soul, and with these tools, these mighty
possessions, we can build for God and build in such
a way that we never have to destroy that which we have
set into being.
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"So, my brothers and sisters, ere I take my leave,
I want, as it were, to weave all your lives together
into one sweet tapestry of effort, and I would that
each thread should represent the colour ordained by
God. There are the golden lines and the silver, there
are the blues and those deep purples which denote the
effort given out, and when the threads are weaved together,
you can be sure, because of the effort put in, that
that tapestry shall be used as a carpet over which
spiritual beggars shall pass, even as over a bridge,
into the realms of Light.
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"Peace comes to the struggler, hope to the one
with faith, joy to the servant of Christ. These great
gifts, beloved, can be your own. Therefore, as I take
my leave, I would send over each and every one the
Grace of God and the sunshine of the Holy Spirit -
healing, if God wills, for the body; healing for certain
for the soul if you desire it. By the healing of the
soul in time the body can be ignored, and the next
body that you will don shall be strong and charged
with vitality because the Father has looked upon it
and has given that which belongs to Himself.
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"Beloved, be up and doing! Have no fear over that
which may threaten this little planet, remembering
ever that if you are linked to Christ, naught can harm,
naught can disturb. By the Brotherhood of Man you can
rise superior to everything that life can hold, for
forget not that you are brother to the angels as well
as to those who seem to have lost every vestige of
their Divinity. Linked to God we pursue the upward
way, linked to the Master Who suffered so much we can
rise above the sufferings of the earth, linked to the
Holy Spirit we can demonstrate that Spirit is stronger
than anything of the earth or of any other sphere;
and when the trinity of gifts is expressed in God-like
language, then we realise what it means to be one family
under our Father and Mother God.
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"I bless the workers, I bless those who desire
to do so much, and I remind them once again as to the
survival of personality after physical death. How glorious
it will be when your true personality is revealed in
the spheres of Light, to feel and to know that with
the tools at hand you did your best.
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"Farewell! In God's good time indeed we shall
meet again. God continues that which He has begun so
faithfully and as an expression of His Love for us
all. Farewell!"
©GWCSA
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