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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"FINDING GOD IN CHRIST"
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, 1st February, 1925
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"O Divine Father of Love, Thy little children
assembled here tonight thank Thee for all Thy good
gifts, for Thy care, for Thy watchfulness, Thy unceasing
patience. Help us, we pray Thee, to emerge out of our
lesser self into the self of the Spirit, which understands
something of truth, of holiness, and of love. Grant
that we may be able to yield ourselves up to the Spirit;
to forget the world and its harassing details, to forget
sorrow, and to forget those pleasures which sometimes
attract so much to lay aside that physical self
in the effort, the determination to contact with that
which is Divine.
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"Father, although we seem to ask so much, yet
we are but obeying Thy direction, we are but seeking
to respond to thy injunction to know ourself
that self which Thou hast entrusted to each one, that
self which ever and ever again Thou seekest to free,
to unfold, even as the bud unfolds to the sun which
shines above it.
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"Saviour Christ, look down upon us with eyes that
see beneath the surface the longings that are there,
the wish to rise, the endeavour to reach out into infinity
to reach out and touch Love itself.
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"Father, we feel Thy blessing is indeed upon us.
Give us the grace to take of that gift, and may it
strengthen and encourage us on our journey the
journey which we are determined to finish gloriously.
With gratitude we raise our hearts and minds. Take
from each one that which they have to offer, and grant
that the power to give may grow, for Christs
sake. Amen.
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"My children, we meet in the silence of the Spirit.
And I want you to so attune your hearts and minds that
your undivided attention may be given to God
to banish thoughts that are not entirely of Him
for if you will endeavour to do this to the best of
your ability, then I can promise, with so much happiness,
that indeed you shall contact with Holiness itself.
Offer then your hearts and minds to the One to Whom
they belong.
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"Tonight the opportunity has been provided to
discuss with you one or two of those points which cause
difficulties in the physical mind points, moreover,
which are used directly by the shadows to, as it were,
cast a slight shade between the spirit within and the
Great Spirit to Whom we owe our being.
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"Children, there are many ways of finding God,
as you have been told. There are many ways of following
His teaching; and it is not necessary for me to emphasise
the fact that he who wishes to do or to think aright
shall find, that when the physical body is laid aside,
that indeed he worshipped God with a clean heart.
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"Yet it has saddened you as well as those
countless millions in the Spirit to find, sometimes,
that the full light of revelation, as it were, shines
not directly on the person concerned, but at a slight
angle.
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"It is difficult for me to express in words my
meaning, but think you of what you call 'astigmatism',
as it relates to physical sight. You know that, in
the eye so built, the light without fails to shine
on a given point within: and, therefore, while the
owner is able to see much the beauties of nature,
the glories of the sun, the moon and the stars
yet he knows, and you know, that although "sight"
is there, as sight it is imperfect.
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"Children, there are some still cabined in the
physical body who are in a similar position in regard
to spiritual sight and understanding. The revelation
- that magnetic beauty which shines upon all without
distinction - that light from the All-Light is hampered
by the fact that the physical minds of some are not
quite in focus with it; and although many powers are
theirs, yet the full splendour of illumination just
misses them by that tiny fraction which differentiates
between true vision perfect vision and
that which is one stage less.
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"Tonight, I am going to give you a plain statement
in regard to the 'Immaculate Conception', as some name
it and the birth of He Whom you name Christ.
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"In the first place I send your minds back to
a very early evening when we talked over together the
character of Mary, the mother of Our Lord. I told you
then that she had been prepared for this sacred use,
that much experience, in the spiritual sense, was her
own before she entered on her earthly journey.
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"Now, dear children, I am not here tonight to
argue or to try to tear down any theories or doctrines
or beliefs held by others; I am here to make a clear
and definite statement of facts as they were and are
and will be for evermore.
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"Mary was not protected from evil except by her
own purity of heart, gained and fought for through
those long periods of time which are beyond you imagination.
It was because of that preparation that she was chosen.
And, as I have told you before, the whole reason and
purpose of that earthly experience undertaken by our
Father, God, was that man should never be in a position
to say: 'God cannot understand!'
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"In regard to the conception (of the Christ-Child),
the purity of the girl and the part she played throughout:
I state definitely that she was of God, in the sense
that she had tried to follow the teaching laid down
by Him to get nearer in spirit to the Great
Spirit. And although that I allow that her physical
mind may have appeared limited indeed, you and I know
that, independently of the physical mind and its powers,
the soul within, unrestricted, can soar and can contact
with God.
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"It seems curious to us why the 'miracle' of the
conception should provide such a stumbling-block in
the mind of man. That the Creator of all of
those marvellous details of nature, of the heavenly
worlds and constellations, of the secrets of so-called
science - it seems curiously strange to us that the
One Who brought into being not only your little world,
but those vaster, greater worlds and spheres and states
beyond: that He Who thought out the construction of
the physical body in which our lord was carried
that this simple miracle, if you like to call it thus,
should be considered beyond His power or imagination.
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"My children, this is a very serious subject.
It is a jewel which has been given to mankind: that
priceless gift of God, as man, going through the same
experiences as you and me, knowing and feeling just
as the least of His little ones; Divinity taking on
so simply, so wonderfully simply, those experiences
with us on earth that this should be discredited,
that this should be ruled out of court as something
which strains the powers of reasoning to breaking point,
is hard to understand.
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"It is not easy to find suitable words with which
to treat this subject. It is difficult for me to adequately
express even a tithe of what this gift means
I mean the coming of our Lord as an infant, in a home
which was not congenial from many points of view, in
an environment which meant a stern hold on the physical
mind and physical will not favoured by circumstances
in any sense: that Child bearing all, overcoming everything;
always with one thought in view the revelation
to man of Love Divine. Not of power, not of greatness
- in the sense that the physical mind accepts it -
but to reveal Love Divine, unlimited in understanding,
in compassion and hope.
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"And then there is another point which I would
bring in here. Some of you think, or have thought,
that humanity as a whole is not ready yet for the further
gift of Truth which is even now being unfolded to you (in these Messages); but dear children, I ask you to go back on the life
of our Lord. In looking at things dispassionately,
comparing the times then with the times now, you would
be forced to say that the coming of the Messiah was
even less opportune than the presenting of this further
explanation of Truth today. I remind you that when
Christ said, "I and the Father are one" they
stoned Him. Yet you have only to look round and you
will see that although those of His own generation
and kind stoned Him for expressing Truth, little by
little, slowly yes, slowly indeed that
statement became an accepted fact by countless thousands,
and it stands today.
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"Today, there may be some who, as it were, find
there minds fixed not on the Light itself but on the
reflection of the Light; yet for your comfort I tell
you all, that, in the years to come, these same earnest
seekers shall come back to the children of the earth
and announce with joy that they have found the Truth
indeed
the Truth as expressed in Christ our Saviour, God
- Father, Son and Holy Spirit; One yet Three: Three
but One.
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"There are those who cannot wait for the full
revelation to come, I mean in this sense: I have told
you before that the unfoldment of spiritual consciousness
must, of necessity, be a slow process. I have told
you that, in Gods good time, the petals of the
flower will be unravelled and the beauty will be complete.
But the conditions of the physical world do not tend
to promote swift growth in this direction, and some
there are who cannot wait for the consciousness within
to come the mind is so active, so full of vitality
that it has got to answer every question now
and thats where the mistake comes in.
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"There are many experienced ones on this side
who never attempt to express a final opinion on any
subject which has come under their attention, even
though they may be gifted with spiritual sight. They
speak with due reserve, as you may have noticed again
and again with your loved ones. Within them is the
warning that finality can never be reached, and the
only One Who understands the beginning and the end
is God, the Creator of us all.
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"You see my point: that when it concerns great
truths, or what you sometimes name as 'great mysteries'
it is wiser to be silent wiser in this sense:
not because the God of Love is injured or damaged by
an open expression of these half-denials, but because,
when fuller understanding comes, the one concerned,
who was so anxious to get to the heart of things, will
suffer in proportion.
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When you hear the God in Christ denied, do not feel
indignant for His sake, but send out your compassion
to those who are held back held back, remember,
only by the construction of the physical mind, only
by that tiny lack of focus send out your prayers
to them because, loving God so much, they will suffer
when they come here and it will take all our love,
and more, to heal the wound.
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You see, dear children, that we punish ourselves. There
is not one thought which fails to come up to the highest
which does not, even in your daily life, bound back
and strike you eer it passes beyond your memory.
This is a spiritual law Love itself when you
understand the principle underlying it. Only by the
working out of that which is "error" against
the Divinity within; only by that process which you
call "cause and effect" can the soaring soul
step into radiance when it is free from its physical
bondage.
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"Let that thought sink in and know that because
compunction comes for this or for that, when you realise
you have failed your better self that this is
Gods most loving way, so that the multitude of
definite formations which, unconsciously, you have
built by thought, that these may not have to be grappled
with when your earthly sojourn is ended.
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"Then I want you in your daily lives to bear this
in mind in regard to a personal, individual Christ
and Father, that as you are able to bring Light to
others - or in failing to do this pray that the fuller
Light may be born within - as you are able to reflect
the Love of Christ to others, so, unconsciously, both
to them and to you, you are demonstrating the Divinity,
the Godhead of the Man of Sorrows, Who was acquainted
with the griefs of physical existence. That brings
me down to the whole meaning and purpose of our Father
God dwelling amongst us; that purpose of demonstrating
to those on earth that Love stopped at nothing in order
to express Itself and to bring reassurance to the little
children who wandered hither and thither in ignorance,
or in spiritual loneliness.
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"There is one other point which I cannot leave
untouched, and that is in regard to the great and holy
men who, by many, have been looked upon as God, or
as an expression of God upon earth.
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"There is not one, from the strongest to the weakest,
who has ever helped another to live more spiritually
who has not gained the direct blessing of God. And
these great teachers who, to an enormous extent, influenced
the minds and lives of their fellows these great
and holy sons of God have entered into unspeakable
conditions, have gathered unto themselves those rarest
gifts of the Spirit and are centred in Love Divine
for evermore.
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"As you know, theories and dogma and doctrines
are swept over the borders by the strong wind of purity
and holiness of thought, and in your minds you are
perfectly right to give honour where honour is due.
But there is one thing which I must emphasise tonight:
Following on my statement that it is the "life"
that counts, then I ask you to take the life of our
Lord from childhood until the physical end, and to
compare it point by point with those others
and you will find that Christ stands alone.
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"I am not speaking of His miracles, of the power
He had over the elements or over the wayward hearts
of the children of the earth I am speaking of
that simple, patient life of service, that great Heart,
that perfect charity and forgiveness, that perfection
of Love and I say to you all, dear children,
that you have your answer there. Yet in so saying I
belittle not the great and holy lives of others
the sacrifices, the stern self-discipline they
are, as I said, centred in Love Divine for ever and
for ever. But there was One Who was greater than these,
greater and simpler too.
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"Keep that simplicity definitely in your minds
because it so expresses Love in its highest form
the Love that could strip itself of everything, everything
that makes physical life bearable to a sensitive soul
and in poverty, in loneliness of mind, He trod
His earthly way, shedding those imperishable flowers
of holiness and tenderness. And when every prophet
shall be forgotten as such, He Who was stoned for expressing
Truth, He shall remain enshrined I do not say
'enthroned' but 'enshrined' in the hearts of
His children because He expresses Love unlimited
Love and Love has to be answered by us all
yea,
even by those who as yet know nothing of the meaning
of Love. But so great is that Love that it shall draw
then in and raise them up, for the patience of our
Father, God, has no beginning and no end.
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"My little ones, you will have seen once more
that I am trying to express the inexpressible, that
I am trying to describe that which baffles all description.
But I pray God that He will, through that inner consciousness
within, allow you to fasten on to something of the
great and glorious Truth I am seeking to unfold.
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"I am loath to leave you, but there are others
who are equally anxious to make their presence felt
in this way, so with deep, deep love and perfect understanding
we part for a little while part, yes, it seems
thus to you, but where my children are there gathers
Zodiac, for you are my own in Christs
Name I say you are my own. My little flock is precious
indeed to me. I not only know you all by name
those names that belong to the Spirit but your
hearts and minds are as open books and there is not
one tiny item which you could ever say that has eluded
my tender and loving attention.
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"Yes, dear children, the cords between us grow
tighter and tighter, as was promised to me by my Father,
away back in the dim and distant past. Yet in so promising
I too had to wait for the fuller revelation of what
this implied, because the Mind of Love not only gives
but gives so lavishly that we cannot take it in. And
so we leave it leave it until we have grown
a little more: but when weve grown a little more,
why, we find that the generosity of God has grown greater
still and again we leave it. And this goes on
forever.
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"And so I leave you, hoping, praying, trusting
that you may fell the Spirit of God within you; and
that you will arise and meet your obligations, your
new privileges that perfect expression of the
Divine gift meet those things with simplicity
and humility, because, dear children, humility is so
much of Christ that you cannot climb without it.
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"Meet then the future with simplicity, humility
and gratitude, and God will reveal to you, so far as
you can take it in, what it means to be a child of
His; what it means to be a partaker of the glories
on High glories and powers and love beyond description
that which the Father has prepared, only waiting
and longing for His little ones to make it their own,
and to encourage others to try and do the same.
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"The peace of God is with you. His patience and
His faith are here as well. May these gifts of the
Spirit enter your hearts and minds and fetter you to
holiness for evermore; fetter you unto the Father,
the Saviour and the Christ, Who lives but to see us
happy and free; Who is so removed from 'self' that
'self' has ceased to exist in any form there could
be the Divine merging Itself, giving out of
Itself, distributing Itself in all directions. Yes!
God experiences happiness only in the happiness of
His creation.
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"Goodnight, my children".
©GWCSA
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