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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"CLAIRAUDIENCE AND SPIRIT VOICES"
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 Ramsgate
on Sunday, 20th April, 1947
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"My children, once again I come into your presence
in this same way, but there are many here who know
that my thoughts are with them constantly, that I am
co-operating with their guides and helpers, and together
we are planning work for God. And those who feel at
times as if the difficulties are too great for them,
for them comes a special message of cheer - they are
but being tested, really it is a sign of promotion,
and as they do their best to put self on one side and
to meet the test, so they are nearer to achievement.
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"Always consider your measure of power now and
hereafter, as well as in the far past; and I would
bring to your physical minds that you are of great
importance to God, you are part of the mighty scheme,
and if you fail to respond there may be many others
to suffer and much regret for you when this short stage
is over.
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"So today I am instructed to speak on Clairaudience
and Spirit Voices. The word 'clairaudience' is familiar
to some, but it conveys very little to others; and
many associate it with a gift which is dangerous, or
in which they find no interest. But if they would face
facts and take up the Holy Book, they would find that
from the earliest records there was a demonstration
of clairaudience in that which you name the Garden
of Eden.
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"In those times, because there had been no barriers
raised between man and his Creator, it was taken as
a matter of course that the voices of spirits, or even
of God, should be heard under certain conditions: that
is to say, when it was necessary; and also that the
presence of the Creator would be granted after the
toil of the day.
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" - 'God walked in the Garden at eventide!' In
that phrase alone there is indication of a great truth.
If any man toils with a will during the earthly day
he is entitled as a right to walk in a spiritual garden
with his Lord, to partake of those greater beauties,
to be in companionship with those who understand what
real love is like and, therefore, who possess great
knowledge. Again, it is a simile of a life well spent
in accomplishing duties for others, ensuring that as
the eventide of physical life comes round, God walks
in man's garden - the garden of his heart, the garden
of his aura; and the time comes when the individual
is lifted out of limitation to find himself beneath
the glory of his Lord.
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"But we have to consider clairaudience in some
of its phases. You are all clairaudient although many
do not realise it. It seems to you that unless you
can hear a voice outside the province of the physical
body, you do not possess the gift. Also it is true
that many people possess this gift in a very wide measure.
why is this? It does not seem quite fair to those who
long to be clairaudient in order to be used as messengers
to pass on comfort and guidance to those who are sore
beset. The faculty of clairaudience can easily be understood
because it is a faculty: it is just the same as any
other talent.
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"Many of you seem to be clever at this or that;
some of you wish that your cleverness could have run
in a different direction from the way it is expressed.
Often the musician would have liked to have been a
painter, or vice-versa. Some who have a good mentality
for, shall we say, figures, would rather have had literary
talents; and many a literary man has been hampered
because the things of practical life have escaped him.
It is common in daily life not to value what the individual
possesses; so often the thought comes: 'I wish it had
been something else'.
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"You may ask: 'Is this wrong?' No, it is not wrong
unless you allow those ideas to dominate you; in fact
it is an expression of your wider nature and your wider
life. In your real self you can do those things which
you so envy in others, there are no barriers at all.
When sleep claims you at night and your spirit goes
into its own environment, well, the non-musician can
play beautiful music, simply because the love of music
is there; and this applies to everything else as well.
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"So in regard to clairaudience you must regard
it merely as a talent that in this stage is able to
express itself. Thus we come to the question of vibration.
You may say: 'Why is it that some are able to tune
into melody and some to beauty in other forms?' It
is all a question, my children, of the vibrations in
your make-up. You are body, soul and Spirit, and for
each stage of progression there are certain experiences
undertaken by the real self; and, as you can imagine,
to make those experiences possible you must be keyed
to a certain vibration.
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"If you have to undertake a very practical life,
then the vibrations most released in you will be of
a practical kind, because man always needs help. Now
this is a very important point. There are so many people
who think they are naturally clever, that they have
more ability than the majority, that they are someone
therefore to be very much admired if they cannot be
emulated. But if they could understand the law of vibration
they would find that without their unseen helpers they
could not get very far, even though they might have
a higher intelligence that the rest.
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"You all have the idea of the possibility of what
you name a 'brain-wave' - something that seems to seize
you when you are thinking of something else, something
that comes as an inspiration for good or, perchance,
for evil, something outside yourself which suddenly
has found a place in the physical consciousness and
seems to demand expression.
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"Well, my children, if you carry that thought
a little further you will get an idea how it is that
some people are able to do some things better than
others. There are those in Spirit keyed to the same
vibration as certain individuals in the body. I care
not what it may be - it may be even the mother in the
home who is trying to make little garments out of very
poor material, or trying to provide something attractive
out of those material goods which seem so scarce at
this same time (post-war England). Sometimes she may get, as she would say, a sudden
brain-wave, and she is able to do much better than
she anticipated. Well, around such a one there are
those in Spirit who are doing their very utmost through
the law of vibration, to impinge upon the physical
consciousness that form of help.
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"So it is with clairaudience. There is something
in the make-up of the individual which can act as a
contact to a voice that not necessarily comes from
another sphere, but from an entity who is free from
the body.
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"I want you to consider this very carefully, because,
as I have said before, although you may not realise
it, you are all clairaudient in certain ways. You may
not hear an objective voice, as you regard it, but
all the time there is something impinging upon your
consciousness of a constructive kind or, may be, of
a destructive kind, and it depends upon you whether
you respond.
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"I would take you back to that sweet story of
old, to the little child, Samuel, which, perhaps, was
an outstanding case of spiritual clairaudience. He
was still so untrained but his heart and mind were
pure; also, he was under spiritual tuition and, in
those rarefied conditions, proved to be a wonderful
subject for experiment by the holy ones who were seeking
to safeguard the child.
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"As you know he heard a voice. Although the voice
was clear, it seemed to him it must be imagination.
He went to the one so full of wisdom who was his guardian,
and again was sent back to sleep, but still the voice
awakened him. On the third occasion he was taught to
say: 'Speak, Lord, for Thy servant heareth!'
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"Now this incident is only drawn in to illustrate
what is going on every day among ordinary people, among
the rank and file, as you would name them, people who
are beset on either side with difficulties, whose minds
are full of anxiety, who feel no security at all and
yet, as physical consciousness returns after the sleep
state their whole attitude of mind is this: 'Speak,
Lord, for Thy servant heareth!' They extricate themselves
from the desire to rest, they gather together their
tattered garments of courage, and take up the cares
of another day, knowing full well that it must be charged
with difficulties too.
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"They may say unto you: 'There is no escape!'
Yet there is always some form of escape for human nature,
and that is why it is there are thousands of people
who, without showing any conscience at all, are shelving
their burdens upon another, they are responding to
clairaudience, to the voice of the tempter which urges
them first and foremost to look after themselves, urges
them to put aside all sentimentality in regard to duty
and a sense of obligation; and, as you know, and you
can prove it in your own surroundings, countless people
are responding to this form of clairaudience with the
direst results to the sufferers, to those who are their
victims.
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"I want to comfort those who have had to face
great anxiety in the past, and at the present time
cannot see that there is much chance of things improving.
Perhaps some of them are growing old, their value in
the labour market is going down. They push off the
thought of the unpleasant tomorrow; but I would ask
them instead to exercise their gift of clairaudience
in the way that God intended - for their comfort and
their guidance.
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"Let them as they awaken, instead of mentally
taking up their heavy burdens, say instead: 'Speak,
Lord, for Thy servant heareth!' And as they commend
themselves into the Father's care they will find, by
practice, that something of peace will fall upon them
and, more than that, the difficulties which seemed
so heavy, will be somewhat lightened. They are looking
at life from a different angle, not from the material
aspect alone; they see amidst the troubles of their
life, as it were, one small window through which the
sunshine of Divine Love has been able to cast a tiny
ray, and that ray represents their faith in an understanding
Father.
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"And I would remind all who have great troubles
that you, in Spirit, being far stronger than the physical
mind can grasp, have taken upon yourself those burdens.
I know how hard they can be, especially when they go
day by day, or month by month, and even year by year.
You see others who are so free, and it does not appear
that they have done anything to deserve their freedom
from these tests and strains.
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"But you, my children, who have to meet these
burdens, you are in training for something quite different
from those others who have not yet even the desire
to start their training for the next stage of being.
You feel the weariness of the body, you are held up
by this disability or that, and it seems so unfair
when with all your heart and mind you desire to do
God's work. There are others to share your views, and
reason seems to be against the fact that anything so
impeding can bring benefit in any way.
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"But wait, little ones, let your hearts and minds
be raised - 'Speak Lord for Thy servant heareth!' What
is Our Lord saying to such as these? The answer comes:
My strength is sufficient for you! We are co-operating,
combining - you in your Sphere and I in Mine - to bring
about something for the benefit of humanity! The words
may seem crude, but I put them in that form so that
you may adapt them and seek to make them your own.
Oh, let it be then that those beautiful words chronicled
in the Bible fall upon your listening ear - My strength
is sufficient for you. My grace will pull you through.
My love will remake you!
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"You see, my children, when you look back over
spiritual history you are brought up against definite
instances of the effect of spiritual clairaudience.
The great reformers, the great teachers, the saints
and martyrs, the heroes and heroines in the field of
battle or in the restricted areas of their own homes,
all these illustrate how marvellously the children
of God were listening to the Voice of their Father,
and more than that, responding!
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"But there are many spirit voices, many forms
of clairaudience which take the guise of temptation,
and in your own desires you can find full explanation
as to the spirits who are influencing you and to whom
you have given the keys of your heart and mind.
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"For instance, are you inclined to be arbitrary
or determined to force your will upon another, irrespective
of the fact that your will may not be an entirely wise
one? Or are you arbitrary in order to try to wrench
things straight for a sufferer; are you grappling with
unseen enemy forces, going to battle with them, wrestling
until by your faith and your effort and your prayers,
you prevail? And is your will so strong for God and
His work that you find the courage within you to stand
up even against your friends, when you feel that the
guidance has come to act, to do and to dare?
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"I always urge those who will listen to read the
lives of the saints and martyrs because they illustrate
so beautifully that on those the Lord loveth the severest
stripes are directed. Some argue: "Why should
God strike the ones who love Him best?" And the
answer is so simple: the Farther is the Father, He
is the creator of all good things, from Him can come
nothing that should hurt; but through the exercise
of man's own free-will over the generations there is
much that has gone amiss; and those who are strong
in Spirit, instructed by the Divine within themselves,
seize all the burdens they can find and plod along,
oft falling by the way, jeered at by those whose burdens
are light. Broken hearted, they struggle to their feet
again and seize that which weighs them down. Their
will burns bright and faith is replenished by prayer,
and although there may come set-back after set-back,
the day arrives when they have conquered their little
world.
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"But the only way, beloved, you can conquer anything
and become a victor, is by seeing the battle through
to the very end. The body may fail, the sight may fail,
the hearing may be gone so far as the physical is concerned;
but within you is your real self saying: 'Speak, Lord,
for Thy servant heareth!' and the answer comes back
again: 'My Grace is sufficient for you'.
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"As you look out in the world today you find illustration
on either side of the effect of clairaudience. Those
with the power, those who want the power, are obeying
the voices of the unseen, many who are terrible to
behold, many coming masquerading as a friend. But you
must be on your guard. Take not from another that which
seems so fair, analyse what is given forth, seek until
you come across the golden strands of truth; and if
in seeking you find they are not there, thank God that
you have not been deceived, that you, the real self,
instructed before it was too late.
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"All these things are for your learning, but I
want to say to those who have great hearts - and there
are so many who desire to do so much and yet the opportunity
seems delayed or to pass them by - that all their holy
desires are putting in the right foundation. God is
not mocked; the time shall come when they shall look
back over a long and tiresome road and see that the
journey was justified up to the hilt. By the test and
strain, by the withstanding, by the frustration, by
the failing of the physical, something has been brought
to birth.
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"Only in that wise could the love hold firm to
do God's work; and although the patience may have worn
very thin it was never allowed to break, for God held
together the golden strands. And lo! those golden strands
have turned into a bridge, and the breach is no more;
and over the bridge come the holy ones to minister
and uphold, and over the bridge from the earth side
come the sick and sorrowful and those who have lost
touch with God. As they step upon the bridge something
is released within and they, too, listen, listen as
Samuel, for the Voice of God which tells them to have
faith and to climb on!
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"Oh, my children, I want to gather around you
the garments of truth entrusted unto me by the Master
to pass onto you. Did I not suffer myself in the past?
Did it not seem to us that things had gone wrong, that
the obstacles were too many, that the Divine purpose
too far away? And yet in spite of it all something
strong prevailed within us (disciples), something bid us not to fail, and physical life seemed
so little a gift to make when it meant that once again
we should be with the Beloved of our hearts.
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"And it shall be the same with you. Gone the remembrance
of the struggle and strain, the unkindness of others,
and all the thwarting. Yet all these things have brought
strength, they have brought knowledge and that wonderful
gift of experience; and because you have been through
them and because you have trained your will, seeking
to blend it with the Divine Will, the power is your
own, and never more shall you go hungry, and never
more shall you ask and it seems that your prayers are
unanswered.
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"The test has been met in blindness and sometimes
in lack of faith, but God understands your physical
make-up, and He knows that you would do better if you
could. He knows that you would be purer, that you would
have a longer vision. You may have been bound by material
things; and yet in spirit of it, instinct, Divine instinct,
kept you on the path of duty, and in the degree that
you wish to do the Father's Will, it will keep you
there until journey's end.
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"And now, my children, I come amongst you to bless
you, and I want all those who are gathered in to realise
that I comprehend their lives - so many the tests!
And I understand, too, how their friends feel about
those tests. They have prayed but the answer seems
to have been delayed; they have hoped, but their hopes
have not brought any fruition. Yes, the friends have
been tested a well. That is practice for them for their
own time, for always remember this: those who have
easy lives, those who seek to escape all the troubles
of physical life, they are in the baby stages, they
have much to learn, perchance, but they are not ready
to learn at this same stage, they are too immature
to be trusted with anything of importance.
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"Therefore, as you analyse your lot and you see
there is so much to contend with, allow inspiration
to illumine your whole being, say to yourselves: "I
am on the right path, I am in training". And as
your will hardens and as your heart releases still
more love, so, beloved, you will find that those around
you will respond in greater measure to your influence,
and that influence shall grow, and such as those shall
become clairaudient in the right way, and they in turn
shall teach others as to the sweetness of listening
to the Voice of their Lord! Farewell."
©GWCSA
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