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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"CHILDREN"
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 in the earlier part of the twentieth
century
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"GOOD evening, my children. You will have noticed that
tonight, for the first time, I dispensed with the few
words of prayer which you say together. I did this
for one reason only: I found it advisable to release
my child from the physical body at the earliest possible
moment. You know, dear children, that at times the
prison-house of the flesh seems almost more than you
can bear; but I have told you that God never allows
the breaking-point to be reached. In some way or other
the tide of adverse conditions is turned, and, in the
pause, the mind is able to gather together its resources
- to meet the enemy not only with courage but with
the ammunition necessary to drive it back.
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"Well, dear children, when anyone has given themselves
up to this sacred work for God it is the easiest thing
to release them from the physical world; and by allowing
the Spirit to rest in this manner it quickly regains
its poise and continues its way re-charged direct from
God.
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"I give this little explanation because, otherwise,
you might think that the words of dedication - with
which you start our little conversation - lest you
might think that these words were not acceptable to
the Father.
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"Well, dear children, the time has been rather
taken away from us tonight, as it would seem to you
(9 p.m.)
so I will not dwell unduly on these opening remarks,
but would assure you - for I know how much compassion,
real compassion there was in your minds - I would assure
you that my child is now quite happy and content; and
- I am bound to confess it - the chief reason of her
happiness and contentment is that she has got rid of
that 'incubus' of the body, as some of you regard the
temple of the soul. Ah! my little ones, you will never
know until you stand with us and look earthwards -
you will never know what the same troublesome physical
body, what those irksome conditions in the physical
world, the irritations, the strain, the selfishness
of others - or what appears as lack of consideration
of some towards their fellow-beings - not until you
stand with us and look over that plane which you call
'the Earth' will you understand and appreciate all
that the physical experience has done for you.
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"Well, dear children, never think because I point
out these things to you that I do not understand, that
I cannot enter fully into all your lives - what they
hold and what has been cast away. Never forget that
we are as one; yet only can that at-one-ment be possible
because Christ has given you into my care, and Christ's
Love has made the link between us. His strength, His
power holds them intact, and His mighty understanding
foresees everything that might seek to break them in
twain.
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"Christ, the Gentle Saviour is in your lives,
in your hearts in a way you little understand. Yet,
as time goes on, those grosser layers of physical and
material thought shall be cast aside, shall be removed
one by one and, as the refining process takes place,
so the realisation shall come that the love within
for the Tender Shepherd is stronger, greater, more
lasting than anything else, and has been from the beginning.
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"And now, my little ones, there are several things
which we will think about together; and tonight I am
going to lessen the personal messages in rather a drastic
manner, because I am anxious and ever more anxious
to teach you and to expand the borders of the spiritual
mind, so that indeed the physical shall be ousted out
never to return again.
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"There has been a little said already in regard
to the work which the children undertake for the Father,
and this evening I rather want to underline the children's
side: I mean those who have been with you just a little
while and then, e'er the bud had opened, the flower
was gathered into the Gardens of the Spirit, there
to bloom under the Sun of Holiness, there to bring
sweetness and renewal of faith to those who have lived
the allotted span.
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"Children, you will recall my remarks in regard
to those who have cultivated their physical minds to
the fullest extent. These have contributed more or
less valuable and useful information to the world of
their day, and also to the generations which are coming
along. Yet, dear children, I told you also that physical
thinking and spiritual thinking were not connected,
in the majority of cases. I put it that way because
I want you to understand clearly that the man who trains
and schools and feeds the physical mind to the best
of his ability and opportunity, that if he were so
minded he could carry the mind of the Spirit along
with him, point by point. But it occurs very often
that the physical mind and its powers - its vitality
- is sufficient; indeed it is all-satisfying to the
possessor and he is quite content to, as he might put
it: 'let Heaven look after itself.'
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"Well, dear children, when such as these pass
out of the physical body they have to leave that same
physical mind behind, in the sense that memory only
is taken with them. Mark this clearly: I have told
you that during the sleep state and times of meditation
you pass out of the physical plane into one or other
of the spiritual realms, and I said it was 'memory'
which allowed you, sometimes, to bring back a faint
impression of what you had been witnessing. Now dear
children, when you are in the spiritual body you are
again dependent upon memory in precisely the same way
in regard to events on Earth - for physical facts,
for those things which are
not
connected with the mind of the Spirit.
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"But affection, compassion and tender recollection
of the kindnesses of others - all those
gifts
which have been acquired and used while undergoing
the physical experience - these are carried over with you...But let me go back. It was necessary to give that
little explanation, otherwise you might become confused.
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"When these highly trained mental characters leave
their bodies and the physical side of their minds behind
they feel strangely lost - lost and bewildered - just
the same as if you awoke without preparation and found
yourselves in a Chinese village. I use that illustration
because there are no words which can express the sense
of bewilderment and, in some cases, childish apprehension
with which the highly trained mentally, but not spiritually,
meet their new conditions.
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"Well, dear children, such as these - unless they
have kept a definite place in their heart and mind
for those attributes associated with God - these are
very difficult to help. You cannot spend the greater
portion of your physical life teaching others, laying
down the law, producing facts and statements which
you affirm cannot be denied - you cannot suddenly throw
over this attitude of mind - and so it is that although
they are confused by their new conditions, yet they
resent any little explanation which others would make
in order to help them...
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"But after a little while, after the bruised feeling
resulting from the dim consciousness of being betrayed
- or, as some would say 'let down' by the physical
mind - after that bruised, sore feeling has passed
then they are more approachable; but still great tact
is required, and here it is that the children are invaluable.
The little ones just dance into their lives. Their
youth, their innocence, their purity catches the attention
of these world-worn, somewhat hardened travellers,
and it would delight you to see how, from the most
trivial little thing, a friendship springs up. First
of all it is an attraction by the eye: the children
are very sweet to look upon, and the colours which
are the emanations of purity and simplicity are exquisite
indeed. Later on, when the trust between them has been
cemented, then it is that the children commence to
teach them something about the wonders of the Love
of God.
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"I want you to try and visualise this: A child
when she has found a treasure is always anxious to
show it to others - to disclose the little secret spot
which she thinks she has chanced upon in her play.
Now I want you to understand that the children over
here are children; they are not precocious, not the
'old heads on young shoulders' which perhaps are rather
in evidence in the world today. That is entirely 'physical'
and, for the most part, on the destructive side. No!
the little ones here are children, children in every
sense that you could think of, with this exception:
Very soon after they are gathered into the Realms of
Light the harmony and the love and the beauty - well,
that overrides any little naughtiness or wilfulness
that may remain; also the force of example has its
influence in a way which those on Earth cannot understand.
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"So, dear children, I want you to realise that
when the little ones take under their care those who
have excluded the things of God from their physical
lives, they teach them as a child would - by showing
them their little treasures, by a simple description
of something they have seen, which, because of their
childish frankness, convinces the older one that it
must be true.
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"And so it is that the children work for God,
work in their own way, I mean. And love, of course,
plays an enormous part, for when the older ones begin
to see and begin to try and understand something of
the gigantic plan in the Father's Mind, then they are
overwhelmed with humiliation and self-reproach. At
these times no one could help them except a little
child. They, as children, would see that something
is wrong, so their little arms go round the sufferer's
neck, and in that sweetest of all links the real man
is able to emerge and to grow stronger.
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"Children, there are many, many aspects of this
particular work, yet I am bound to stop at this stage
because tonight I want to emphasise particularly that
what was said in prophecy regarding Our Lord - 'A little
child shall lead them' - applies to the Spirit of every
child who has taken on physical existence. Yes, a little
child shall lead them out of the winding paths of physical
thought, out of all those thickets of deduction, out
of the twilight into the Light, when those so bound
by the capabilities of the mind of the body will realise
that those capabilities, which they prized so much,
were gifts direct from God, only they had put them
to a use which was never in the Father's Mind.
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" - 'A little child shall lead them!' - There
are countless thousands in the Realms of the Spirit
who never would have reached the Light of Holiness
had it not been for the children, had it not been for
the little thoughts, the tender fancies and the exquisite
simplicity of the infant mind which was under the direct
influence of He who blessed the little ones.
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"Yes, dear children, there is a lot which arises
out of this subject, and tonight I will just touch
upon the little ones who are everywhere in your midst
today.
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"You see, dear children, that it was the Father's
intention that not only should the children in the
Spirit impart to the older ones something of the things
of God, but that those same older ones on Earth should
learn from the examples in their midst a little of
the beauty of purity and simple faith.
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"A child's life is a great responsibility. Some
of you, I know, have exaggerated that responsibility,
until it has grown into an apprehension of ever taking
on the responsibility yourselves, but that is not right.
Yet, dear children, I admit that it is true that many
parents regard their little ones as requiring from
them far less thought than a business transaction;
indeed, in the planning and construction of a house
in which to live, a hundred-fold more thought and care
is bestowed than in contemplating that little house
of flesh in which something of God is stored.
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"We will try and get this matter a little clearer.
So many theories there have been, and are, in regard
to the upbringing of children, and as the centuries
go on you see the swing of the pendulum. One generation,
perhaps, shows signs of harshness to those so entrusted
to their care; then the next generation goes to the
other extreme, and the result is rather damaging to
God's plans for lifting the children of the Earth above
their environment.
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"Now, dear children, the reason why these mistakes
are made - and you see them constantly on either side
in rather a bewildering way - the reason is that comparatively
few parents reward their little ones in the way God
intends.
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"First of all get back to the purpose of physical
life. You know the Spirit within each one is of God
- a part of Him - which has started off on its long
journey in order to make purity and holiness its own.
You know that the Spirit chooses certain conditions
in order to bring out those higher qualities, or to
eradicate those characteristics which hold them back;
and the homes in which the little ones arrive are chosen
entirely as a background for the working in - and the
working out - of the experiences which that which is
Divine within the body intends to undergo.
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"So you see, dear children, that after all, when
a mother or a father is particularly proud of the appearance,
or the cleverness of the little one they have brought
into the world, it is taking upon themselves rather
a lot. They are, as it were, appropriating that which
belongs to another. It also shows you the fallacy of
comparing one child adversely, or favourably, with
another.
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"You have been taught by me that many of those
who come into the physical world ill-equipped bodily
- yes, and sometimes mentally as well - that these
are the strong souls, these are the ones who were inspired
to do as much as they could in the shortest time possible.
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"You see where I am trying to lead you. Real parents,
intelligent parents, in looking at the beauty, or the
health, or the ability of their little ones, first
tender thanks to God, and from that point realise their
responsibility begins.
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"The gifts are there: will they be detrimental
to the progress of the Spirit within, or will they
add a little to its store? And this explains why it
is that some mothers - especially mothers - have such
a wonderful love for the child who is deformed, for
the little one who comes into a rather sorrowful world
even more restricted by the physical than the majority.
The mother's heart, her spiritual instinct - although
she may not know it - but that spiritual instinct within
tells her that the little maimed form in her arms represents
a strong Spirit indeed, one who is allied to God, one
who, out of love for Him, throws aside all those attractive
possessions of the body and intends to fight through
without them.
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"Again I say, you see where I am leading you.
Get these things into their proper place in your mind
and think them out for yourself.
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"The gift of a child is a responsibility indeed,
but not in the way in which men and women on Earth
regard it.
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"The child mind - the tiny physical mind which
is so gradually unfolded - to what does it unfold itself?
Is it to holiness and truth, or is it to the soiled
aspects of a material world?
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"Don't you see that during those early stages
much can be done? The undeveloped physical mind, gathering
in, in the vaguest way, impressions - mostly through
the eye or through the touch - that tiny mind is like
a clear garden. And what are the seeds that you are
to sow therein?
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"Yes, I know all about those discussions which
come under the heading of 'Heredity', and I intend
to deal with that subject as opportunity occurs; but
I say that the influences, that the vibrations of thought
focussed around the unfolding baby-mind are of such
transcending importance that no words can be found
to express it.
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"And remember this: That when both stand free
in the Spirit - the father and the daughter, the mother
and the son; not in those terms of relationship, but
as spirit and spirit - then those who had the training
of the younger physical life will, in many cases, recoil
with horror to find how they were used by the evil
to harass and hinder and retard those in their care.
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"You see again, dear children, where I am leading
your thoughts. No one in your world, nor in those many
planes beyond are free from this responsibility. Whether
a child was committed to their charge during the physical
stages, it matters not. Here or in the Beyond each
spirit has to go through the same experience, the same
training in regard to helping the younger ones to grow
into maturity. And I say there is no anguish compared
to this: when a mother or a father sees the effect
of their thoughts, their interests, their lives upon
the tiny mind opening to the world in which it has
chosen to learn its lessons.
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"When you look at it in this way harshness towards
a child, or that deceptive 'spoiling' - each falls
into its place; or, rather, both are submerged by the
truth, the truth as to the real position between parent
and child.
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"I want you, as much as you can, to put others
on their guard; to try and induce them to regard their
little ones in this way: as souls which, unconsciously
to their physical minds, are struggling and striving
to make the Divine within their own possession. To
point out to the older ones that this Earth's experience
is even as a training school. You know how it is in
school life: that if you do your best to learn your
lessons quickly - why, not only is life easier and
you escape many punishments for evasion, but also,
by application, you pass on from stage to stage, eventually
emerging into that freedom when school days are no
more, and, perhaps, you begin to teach others in your
turn.
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"That is how physical life should be regarded
by the parents, by those who have been entrusted with
the privilege of helping another soul on its upward
climb. Therefore, my dear children, you will see at
once that by influencing the little one towards the
gifts of the Spirit - and it can be done from the earliest
stages, by ever and again showing to the little flower-mind
how much beauty there is in the Father-Mind, and by
instilling in it a love for growing things, using nature
as an illustration - imperceptible though it may be
to you, yet you are providing for the opening out of
that physical mind the environment which is the highest
and the best.
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"Yes, when you come here you will see how malleable
is the mind of a little child. I do not say its 'will'
because - well, the majority have come up rather abruptly
against the baby-will, and they consider it a question
that has yet to be solved. But don't you see that in
influencing the thoughts, unconsciously to the little
one, you are bending the will God-wards, drawing it
from the attraction of the Earth side and physical
things; and, later on, that will, strong as it may
be - well, then it is strong for good, and that is
what it was given for.
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"In regard to the subject of the children's part
in the Great Plan of Creation, you will find, all of
you, that the importance given to the young is, on
the one hand, exaggerated, and in an unwise way as
well. Yet, on the other hand, God's side is, for the
most part, overlooked. It hasn't been sought for, it
hasn't even been thought about amongst the many other
things of daily life.
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"To the mothers and the fathers who so love their
little ones I give a special word: I say that when
they see things in God's way they will find it hard
to forgive themselves if, on looking back, they see
they delighted only in the love and companionship of
their children and did not give to God in return; and
you know that the only way we can give to God is by
helping others to get a little nearer to Him. It is
the only thing that we can do for the Father; and if
you would remind me of 'love', then I answer at once
that, over here, love is translated into 'service',
and so you have the thing complete.
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"Then, dear children, there is another subject
which I should like to refer to tonight, and that is
in regard to daring much for Christ.
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"I have in my mind at this moment the little story
of Peter - Peter who left the safety of the boat and
tried to reach his Master.
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"Well, dear children, the mind of man, to a certain
extent, has misinterpreted that little incident. So
often it is told as a warning against lack of faith,
and you are reminded that Christ Himself said to Peter:
'O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?'
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"Now I have been commissioned to unveil, in the
little time at my disposal - to unveil to you something
of the love of God, something in regard to His attitude
towards the children that He has created; therefore,
my little ones, when this passage comes up I want you
to interpret it thus:
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"As you know, there were others in the boat with
Peter; but when Peter saw Our Lord walking on the waters,
within his heart and mind unconsciously to the lesser
self - there arose that great spiritual ambition to
go to Him, and, disregarding the physical conditions
and the obvious danger which lay between him and his
heart's desire, he threw himself out of the boat.
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"Now, dear children, think with me awhile. From
the world's point of view, from the so-called practical
point of view, Peter's act would have been considered
not only foolhardy, but lacking in even the elementary
principles of commonsense.
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"Between the boat and The Master there were the
waves and the dangers they represented; and yet Christ,
standing there, seemed, by His love, to urge Peter
to try. And so it is that, now and again, there are
men and women in the world who rise above physical
thinking, above all those thoughts of caution - those
destructive thoughts of caution - and they defy that
which is of the Earth and, from the strength which
is within, gain, anyhow, sufficient courage to attempt
the seemingly impossible.
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"Children, from an outside point of view this
is a fairly adequate illustration of the position in
regard to this Truth. You have the arguments of the
logical mind: 'If you attempt to cross the waters of
the river of death, then you are asking for trouble,
and, probably, will meet with utter destruction'. Yet
Christ, the Light of the World, stands on those 'dangerous'
waters and, by His love, beckons you to His side.
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"And then, dear children, I come to this: I ask
all those who read these records to try and interpret
The Master's reply to Peter's effort in the way in
which it was said and meant.
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"I take you back to the little child - the little
child which the mother is trying to induce to walk
alone. The little one, urged by the love and the desire
in the mother's heart and voice, attempts what is soon
proved to be impossible. And what does the mother do?
After the first faltering steps, e'er the child falls,
the mother has clasped it in her arms, and she says,
as a mother should: 'Oh! why were you afraid? Mother
is here and she would not let you fall!'
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"You see, dear children, what I am trying to impress
upon your minds: That those words of Our Lord were
never intended to imply reproach - they represented
Love, exquisite, tender, understanding Love.
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"Think then of it in this way: Peter, with a courage
greater than the others could find, Peter throws himself
into the water; and then, being in a physical body,
bound by the restrictions of physical thinking, he
feels that he is on the point of sinking. But Christ
catches him e'er he goes down, and with an out-pouring
of love for the one who tried to show his love for
Him, He says: 'O thou of little faith, wherefore didst
thou doubt?'
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"It is the Mother-heart of God stretching out
and gathering in the child who is not yet strong enough
or experienced enough to walk alone.
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"Yes, dear children, these thoughts of ours go
very deep, not only in a physical way but in that far
better way which belongs only and solely to the mind
of the Spirit. Think you of these things, and when
there are those who would say to you, in regard to
this work: 'Isn't it a dangerous undertaking?' then
answer them with faith: 'Christ is there to hold me
lest I fall; and because He has passed through physical
death and proclaimed that life is everlasting, so I
too will do my best to meet Him where He bids me come.'
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"Never go back on the thought that Peter failed.
Peter's 'failure' was a success that the others could
not rise to. You see my point: Here and there there
are those who will attempt; and these, called by that
which is Love itself, shall, in God's good time, see
for themselves that even though they seemed to sink,
yet e'er the waters closed over them the Master had
them fast, and with gentle - yes, and playful tenderness
He says to them, to you and to Peter: 'O thou of little
faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?'
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"You see that you have got to look at things in
God's way if you are to make any progress towards the
Higher Life. You have got to readjust these statements
in your Sacred Records, and to regard them by the Light
which shines from His Love. Over and over again, what
man has interpreted as censure was but as the loving
assurance which a mother - a devoted mother - would
give to her little child whom she is watching, guarding,
tending and trying to teach the rudiments of physical
life, so that the limbs, the mind and the Spirit may
grow as God intends.
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"The true Mother reflects more nearly the Mind
of God than anything else in the physical or spiritual
worlds - the true, unselfish, far-seeing, spiritualised
Mother, spiritualised by her love, is very close to
the ideal - that ideal which interprets to us something
of the heart and mind of God.
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"And now, my children, I will leave you. There
is one who would speak to you tonight; and then, as
the evening is slipping by, I think we must draw this
time of sweet Communion to a close - but that is as
the Father wills".
©GWCSA
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