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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"A CONTINUING CITY"
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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"MY little children, this evening once more I come
into your presence with a message from the Master and
I ask you to ponder within, to call out the greater
self and once more to re-dedicate yourselves to this
mission, to this great task of unfolding truth, as
truth is, to the children upon the earth plane who
have been led away by false shepherds, by those who
have deceived themselves and have sought to deceive
others.
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"I say to you, instructed by the Master, that
you are called upon in His name to spread the truth
as you know the truth to be, to listen not to one here,
one there who challenges your authority, who would
say to you: 'The evidence you have is incomplete,'
but to treat such as these as the enemies of the Spirit
they represent. For lo, in time past as the prophets
arose, as the teachers sought to instruct the people,
so there were those wise in their own conceit, who
went to the teacher and the preacher and challenged
the message he had to deliver.
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"Think you like this. Is it possible that those
of old had no doubts, that they did not ask themselves:
'Am I not taking upon myself more than God intends?'
These thoughts, dear children, are the essential tests.
If there were full consciousness, then the vast majority
would come forth out of the tent of self and spread
the good news to others. But no, they feel that within
that tent, although its walls hem them in and hold
them fast, that there they are safe. Oh foolish ones,
how quickly they forget. I say, instructed by God Himself,
that the wind of the Spirit shall blow across the plains
of physical consciousness and those same tents of self
shall be flattened to the earth, and those within must
wait for others - who have the courage - to extricate
them from their plight.
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"So, my children, I speak to you in tones imperative
for this reason and this alone: You are as the ones
whom I love so well, and I would save you from that
which lies in front if at this stage you hesitate,
if at this stage you wait for further guidance and
help from those upon the earth plane who know not God
as God is. For I say unto you that the preachers and
the teachers who will not follow the Christ in the
literal sense, they know not God as God is, otherwise
the sense of responsibility would warn them as to their
fate. I charge you solemnly to listen not to those
around who bid you take care or else suffering, or
loss, or persecution will come upon you. Many spake
thus to the Master Himself and to His followers: 'Take
care, beware, you will suffer!' but those with the
faithful hearts answered, although fear was within:
'Yet I must go on!'
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"And now, having gathered in your thoughts, I
would speak to you upon that which I name 'A Continuing
City'. Think you as to this: Go back over the history
of your little earth and there, narrated, you will
find that nations arose from small and paltry things.
They had their day, but for the most part they abused
their power, and that day was no more - they fell from
their high estate. Go back upon the history of the
so-called great men of the past. How many, when the
true facts of their inward life were revealed, remained
great in the estimation of the spiritually-minded?
Go back over the past to those who were despised, to
those who were laughed at, to those who were named
mad-men, and you will find that when the heart was
true, when the motive was sincere, these men passed
on into a city glorious, and left a record of greatness
behind.
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"Oh, think you! What of this little planet, this
speck in the great, great universe - can it be called
a continuing city? Think of the individual life of
the man or the woman who rises from humble things and
gathers or snatches the possessions of the earth. For
how long do they hold their toys? Is their hold a continuing
hold? What of those who make a god of the physical
tabernacle, who sacrifice the God within to pander
to the flesh, to preserve the health of that which
in time must pass away? Is their garment a continuing
garment? Man prides himself upon his physique, upon
his strength, upon his mental abilities; but the soul-body
- the next garment - is ignored. He builds upon sand,
and lo, the tide of retribution sweeps in and his little
house of clay or sand is no more; but the garment,
the continuing garment, is marred, and for time unthinkable
this one wanders in twilight as one deformed.
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"Little ones, again I bring you back to a right
and true valuation. Around you there are men and women
who would place their all upon the things which must
pass away, whose thoughts and desires are earthbound;
yet if they probe but one inch beneath the surface
of unreality, so they discover that this planet is
not as a continuing city, and more than that, that
the little house of flesh has life but for a short
swift stage. O foolish ones and bound. What of their
gifts, what of their intellect, what of their creative
faculties? When the heart and mind is arraigned against
the Christ, so that which they build is indeed against
the true self within, and when they pass out of these
conditions of sense, these conditions built up in a
measure out of the follies of the past, so the next
stage is worse than the last.
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"What of those who have within their power the
government of countries, what of those who have control
of the toilers, what of those who have charge of the
young? Oh, cannot you see that as the teacher is bound,
as the teacher is blind, so the bondage and blindness
are passed on to the pupil, and suffering must come.
What of the father, what of the guardian who turns
to the growing boy and bids him fix his eyes upon the
god of ambition? And the one so pliable seeks to mould
himself into that desired, but he finds that he has
fettered himself to a city which has no life beyond
to-day; and when to-day is o'er, rudderless, anchorless
he wanders in a strange and horrible land.
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"What of the mother who trains the tiny child
according to those false laws of self-preservation?
The little one takes what she can and as the years
speed on, so she is fastening to herself the chains
which cut and wound; and when disease strikes her,
within there is no strength, no hope to carry her through.
No continuing city, for the city to which she belongs
is built by earthly hands, and the laws of God, working
with precision, scatter this and push aside that; and
the woman who has made a god of self and physical beauty
finds even in the city that she so loved, that one
is there - a thing of horror - and that is herself.
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"Yet, little ones, it is not mine to cast sadness
over your hearts and minds. I do but force these things
upon your physical consciousness because, alas, the
mind of the body forgets so soon; but I say to you,
because you have tried, because you desire to rise,
day by day, that through the heartaches, through the
rising above disappointments, so indeed you have contributed
to that continuing city which, as time goes on, shall
increase in beauty, shall demonstrate more power and
still more power.
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"So I come back to your mission, to the trust
imposed upon you by the God within, and I say once
more: Seek to hold the values of God and cast aside
the false values of those bound by the earth. What
is the condition, what are the circumstances of the
pilgrim on the long, long journey home to God? Oh,
the pilgrim travels light, the pilgrim remembers his
Master Christ. He says not to himself: 'I must take
this and I must have that.' No, no; the pilgrim lays
aside and gives away, and with the staff of faith,
with the sandals of effort and with the cross upon
his forehead, goes forth in response to the call of
God. He passes out of the city of desire, he leaves
the wood of mental misunderstanding and false values
and, weary, perhaps a little spent, he finds himself
upon the strait and narrow way. And then he thanks
his Father that he had the strength to leave behind
the unessentials, the useless trappings, and to travel
light. Ah, in his thoughts so truth slowly and surely
is being born, born by pangs - the only way to pass
out of one condition into another. By suffering so
a little more of truth is made his own, and though
he is in the world and bound in a measure by the laws
and restrictions of the earth, he sees it for what
it is - no continuing city; his eyes and his thoughts
and his heart are upon his Father's home.
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"Oh think you, my children, and be wise in time,
for what you build to-day, what you cleave to to-day,
that must be your portion to-morrow. So, then, take
thought for the morrow - not what you should have but
what you should be free and strong enough to do without.
Take no thought of material things for the morrow,
but travel light and trust your God. Remember that
the garment that you wear, the friends that you love
so well, the home which, perchance, causes satisfaction
to the lesser side by the adornment that is within
- all these things continue only for a span. Those
you love may have other work to do, you are divided
from them by conditions or by circumstances. Perhaps
the wind of adversity reaches you, and those things
which you prize so much - the things of the earth -
no longer can you hold them. Or again, the hand of
God is placed upon your shoulder, and the garment of
flesh withers and dies. No continuing city! But through
the grace of God, through the action and the love of
the Christ, we have a continuing city which no one
and nothing can wrest from us, but it is not built
by earthly hands. No; the home which calls the pilgrim
on is put together by that which he denies himself
day by day, by the loneliness, by the turning of those
who should be as his friends, by the cold looks, by
the criticism, by the scorn, by the persecution. Ah,
these are the bricks, as it were, of the city which
shall not pass away, built not by earthly hands but
by that torn forth from the true self within - the
suffering, the weariness, the exile.
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"So, my little ones, I come into your presence
and I say not to you: 'All is well.' Rather do I force
upon your attention that all is not well. The teachers
and the preachers are called to high and holy things.
They are called to travel light, for only those who
travel light have sufficient strength to scale the
heights, and only those who scale the heights can have
the gift of revelation. For this the earth waits to-day
- revelation as to God as God is, revelation as to
the conditions that are around the individual, the
opportunities, the traps, the enemies and the helpers.
Oh think you, children, is it not worth a little sacrifice
in the city that continues not, to have sweet liberty
when you reach that city - the celestial city - which
shall not pass away? Is it not worth the scorn, the
opposition of those who deceive themselves that all
is well, that God intends them to have and to hold
that which has no life beyond this little stage?
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"Ah, my children, I must warn and warn again.
There are those using this sacred gift
(NB: Spirit Communion)
- the power of the Holy Spirit - to deceive. If you
ask me: 'How can I discriminate!', then I say that
if those come to you who name themselves the messengers
of God (NB: whether mediums or souls speaking through mediums), and say that all is well, and point not to the hard
road, the steep road, the way that the Master took
Himself and called to His children to follow after,
then those who use this holy gift are desecrating holiness
itself; and God is not mocked.
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"I impress upon each one that you are disciples,
and disciples follow the Master. There is no other
way, no other course than that taken, followed, and
held by Christ; and in the degree that you can separate
yourselves from the false and cleave to the true, so,
my children, when this earth - with its half-beauties,
half-light and little wisdom - is left behind, you
shall find yourselves amongst true beauty, real wisdom
and the light which shines from God. Therefore the
path is clear in front. In the measure that you hesitate
over expediency, over misgivings, over reluctance;
in the measure that the child I use allows the shrinking
to keep her from the task entrusted to her by Christ
Himself, so anguish must assail her when the earth-life
is no more.
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"But I remind you that the misgivings, the reluctance
and hesitation, all that is part of the road. Few escape,
but out of the pangs, out of the resistance against
these subtle enemies so the battle is won; and forget
not that no battle is fought and won for yourself alone.
Were that possible, although it seems a contradiction,
I say it would be a failure. No; we fight for others.
Temptation assails us; we hope to be strong but perchance
we are only half-strong and half-weak; but if the desire
is maintained to be fully strong, so God will send
His power, and the strength shall come. Again, through
the coming of the strength, so another who found it
possible only to be strong in one degree alone, gains
the strength in turn to be half-strong and only half-weak;
and in time spiritual ambition is aroused, and he says
within himself: 'Oh, make me strong', and the strength
comes down from God. This goes on with humanity in
all planes, all conditions; and thus the individual
passes out of the city that continues not and finds
himself in one not built by earthly hands or by earthly
desires; a city built by suffering, built by striving,
built by the desire to do a little better, to be a
little nobler and to think on those lines laid down
by Christ.
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"So, my children, lay upon your heart and mind
that you have been called, that your life at this stage
is for some set purpose. It is a glorious opportunity,
but you build not for that which is to remain upon
the earth. Out of earthly things, out of that which
is your actual environment to-day, you create your
spiritual condition for to-morrow, and so the things
of the world are regarded in their true perspective;
they are there for God's purpose, but nought in them
has the power to hold. Your eyes, your thoughts are
upon the City that is of God, and there you shall find
the consummation of your spiritual desires, if as a
pilgrim you continue your way.
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"Out of things seeming, into something of reality;
out of reality into true wisdom; and when centred in
true wisdom, then finding yourselves an emblem of love.
And so in that home prepared by the God within, you
take up your gifts, take up your powers and, above
all, your mighty possession of true love, and you do
the Master's work in the Master's way; you seek for
the lost and you rest not until they are found. Out
of the city of self, out of the city of desire for
the things that pass away, you lead them by your love
across the threshold of temptation, placing their feet
upon the narrow way; and then with joy seek for another
and another until the last one is found. Ponder within,
for the words which come from me through the instrument
I use, and the thoughts expressed, are according to
the will of the Christ.
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"I speak to you as matured souls, and I wish you
to depart with a sense of the seriousness and the responsibility
of the mission which you have undertaken, in Spirit.
I would not tell you that because you have responded,
so around you only the bright ones can gather close;
but I tell you, because it is God's truth, that you
represent a light to those wandering in darkness, and
it is your part and privilege and honour to hold up
the torch so that the wanderers may pass out of danger
into a measure of safety. Oh, around each one indeed
are the bright ones, the ones with the strength, but
they seek to use you as their instruments, to take
their strength and their brightness to those who have
it not.
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"Ah, little ones, can you not see that beyond
to-day yesterday shall be forgotten, and to-morrow
is fair beyond all words to portray. Out of the prison
house of self into the Summerland with its many temptations,
and then on, up the steep hill, ever drawing to you
the glories of the Spirit, the music of the realms
of bliss, the courage of the Christ, the peace of the
Holy Spirit; yes, out of the city of make-believe into
the home of God which even now awaits you.
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"Yet the only way to emerge out of the Summerland
of temptation, the only way to climb the hill of attainment
is by seeking for others and warning them; defying
your own little world and claiming the Spirit-world
which is around humanity, unseen, unthought of, for
the most part. Again, by passing among the ignorant
and the spiritually blind and warning them as to their
companions, as to their allegiance, as to their love
of the things which pass away.
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"So, my children, again I say ponder on the words
of Christ. Push aside the views and the theories of
the earthbound. In the sacred record you have that
which shall take you to the heights, and those who
love their God are not content with the second best.
Those who love the Christ - ah, one smile from Love
not only compensates but wipes out the memory of the
past - one smile from Christ.
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"So then, my little ones, in faith believe that
the Master is casting the radiance of His smile over
you all. Therefore, fear has no root, sorrow no life;
joy only finds place in the heart and mind. You are
of Him; He has gifted to you that which is of Himself.
Then praise God from Whom all blessings flow, and in
reverence claim your gifts, and, above all, the right
to be with Christ.
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"And so I bless you and I send you on, in the
Name of God. I point to the Cross of protection. There,
above the earth, the next stage and the next and the
next, shines the Cross - joy, pure joy! And as you
climb so its radiance, so its beauty, shall become
more apparent, and you shall taste of the bliss of
sacrifice for Christ's sake.
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"I bless you with courage in the Name of God our
Father and Mother. Farewell!"
©GWCSA
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