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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"THE GREATER WORLD OF SPIRIT"
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 on 19th May, 1928
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"MY children, if I say to you that this night
is a solemn occasion I do not wish you to confuse that
word with sadness or with that which promises sorrow
in time to come. Yet I must say that this night is
indeed a solemn occasion, for around you there are
those who took the hard road and have come back to
tell you of the joy of the journey and the peace and
the brightness which is now their own. These you call
the bright ones, the messengers of the Christ, and
they have gathered in their thousands to reassure and
to recharge you for that which lies in front.
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"Children, if I came in this way and I said that
the path was free from obstacles, then indeed I should
be falsifying my Master and the way He took Himself.
I say to you that if you would follow in his steps
then you must be prepared to give up, to sacrifice
the little in order to gain the greater, you must stand
calm amidst the criticism of the world and the sneers
of the blind and foolish, in order to gain a little
farther on the blessing of the One who loves you best.
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"Yea, I prophesy and the Master controls my words;
I say that this little earth is reaching that stage
when all the courage that is within us must be called
forth, for there will be countless thousands as frightened
sheep, and the false shepherds no longer will attempt
to lead but their terror will be the greatest of all.
I say that in the little time to come man will be tested
as never before. Those who have stretched out and clasped
the Hand of Christ, these, though sorrow may be around,
will be calm and confident; they will stand with their
eyes on Love and look beyond their little day into
the glory of to-morrow.
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"So then to each one a personal message must come.
Those who are strong in spirit will deliberately take
the hard way; those who are less strong will take the
hard way one day and the easier the next, and anguish
awaits them over their lost opportunities.
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"Yes, little children, I bid you each one to search
your hearts and minds, for loyalty is called for in
a way you cannot grasp - unity within and without.
Oh, forget not that in the measure you fail in complete
loyalty to your brother, your sister, in that degree
you are disloyal to the God within. These things bring
consequences which are beyond your comprehension now,
but come they must. And when that which I have prophesised
is upon this little world, in that day, as it were,
men and women will be stripped of pretence and others
will see them as they are; not God's judgement but
that brought upon the individual by himself.
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"Now, my children, having given forth that which
I was directed to pass on and having drawn in your
thoughts in great or little measure, I would speak
to you as to the Greater World of Spirit. I want you,
each one, to consider that which you are. You are men,
you are women, and you know the history concerning
your little earth life. There are some who think they
know the history of the stage before the physical and
the stage before that; but I have told you it is almost
impossible to portray truth as it is in the limited
language of this little world. I seek for illustration
and symbol, I build up in your mind something in the
nature of a picture; but I warn you that these are
but fragments of the great and glorious truth of man's
life, man's past, man's great, grand future under God.
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"Yet I would reassure you, for in the degree that
you seek to fasten your mind to things spiritual so
a transformation is taking place. You are less 'man,'
less 'woman'; more angel, nearer to that which your
Father and Mother God created in the far, far past.
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"So, then, remember ever that knowledge to us
is as the dust of the earth to be swept away by the
passing breeze, if that knowledge is concerned alone
with the things of the earth. In the measure that you
try to understand Christ, in the measure that over
the lives of others you cast the beautiful mantle of
love, so the real self within is that much freer; and
when the body is cast from you, to your delight and
inexpressible thankfulness you will see that that which
you wear
(the next 'body')
is less dense, less holding; that it has greater powers,
and a fuller light to cast upon others.
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"But now I wish to turn your attention to that
in which you function at this stage. There are those
who look out upon the beauties of Nature, and in the
budding trees and the unfolding flowers, see God -
not only the mighty Creator but the exquisite Mind
of Love. There are many as they watch the coming of
new life into tree and shrub who are conscious of their
littleness, their unworthiness to have so much beauty
given into their possession by their Father.
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"Well, my children, what are you witnessing? Those
of your day and other days whose minds are concentrated
upon the so-called facts of this little world, they
say: 'You are watching Nature's laws'; and they will
take you through a labyrinth of reasoning yet, for
the most part, the Great Constructor is left out. They
say: 'By study and concentration we have solved many
of the laws which govern the coming of Spring'; but
when they are free humiliation will hold them for they
were content with so little. The 'life,' that which
governs all things and peoples - the manifestation
of the Holy Spirit at work - that is ignored by them,
for their minds are in bondage. They seek to explain
by physical means and physical facts the great spiritual
truths held in a tiny daisy, in a blade of grass...
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"My children, I would take you with me in thought
for a few minutes and touch once more upon the history
of that which you name Nature in this little world.
I have told you that when the flowers and the trees
were thought out by God they represented a perfection
of which the most 'perfect' flower to you is but a
travesty. I say that the loveliest scene, the most
beautiful thing that earth can produce is to us as
a travesty of the real, of that created by the Perfect
Mind.
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"Now think you and let your thoughts soar far
beyond this little earth. 'Nature' in the Spirit planes
in degree expresses something of the God-Mind, but
no more. We know as we see the flowers around us, as
we hear the glorious music which they throw out upon
the vibrations, we know even as we marvel that the
flower beneath our gaze is there to prepare us by easy
stages for that which God created and set into being
to companion man through numerous stages of involution
and evolution. For forget not that the flowers and
the trees are the lesser children of the Most High;
and if I use the word 'lesser,' it is but to convey
that they were created to educate, to teach man, and
to draw him into freedom when he will allow. Tools
of God! Each flower as well as each insect is under
the care of its Creator, and one day man will face
this gigantic responsibility, for into man's hand was
given the flowers, the animals, the insects and the
birds of the air; but how that trust has been betrayed.
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"Yet, my children, I would not speak upon sad
lines but on the lines of hope itself, for can you
not see that a measure of freedom has been won, otherwise
there would be none to listen as to man's responsibility
towards Nature in its greater, wider sense. For oh!
forget it not, the 'Nature' of this little world is
an expression of the bondage and freedom of man. The
bondage is in that form of Nature which strikes and
wounds and damages; the freedom, when in looking out
upon the hills and the great wide sea, something within
cries out: 'O God, wash me clean!' The Greater World
for those few seconds has been opened to the soaring
soul.
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"Ah, I fain would take your thoughts away from
the daily round, and yet it is the daily round that
opens to us all the scheme of God's almighty plan.
For think you as to this: The days follow on in that
which represents to some a monotony of work. You function
in a garment which binds and fetters: you are conscious
that if you were free you would not only dream of great
things but do great things. What has happened? Prisoner
you may be but God rules the prison. He holds the key,
and if the will is there the prison-house of flesh
can be ignored and you can function in the great world
of Spirit which is all around.
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"Out of the limitation of the earthly mind so
man makes grades and divisions, but that is not the
law of God. The Christ has said that where His children
roam there He follows. Perfection can penetrate the
densest conditions built up by the wayward desire of
those who are bound. Division - that is man's law;
the law of God is that around the individual in any
stage, on any planet, in any world, the highest can
fight and overcome the so-called lowest, that the Holy
Spirit can be, and is, shown even in those conditions
which you name vile. For where His creation is, there
is God.
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"O limit not your scope nor seek to limit the
scope of any other. There are those you name the bright
ones; what think you? How was their brightness bought,
how is their brightness retained? Only by going amongst
those who have no light at all. Where is the division?
God's laws triumphs over the wreckage of man.
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"So when I speak of the Greater World think not
I am referring to any other separated from this, for
as I am speaking that which is of the Christ is here
amongst us; and the Master blesses us and sends us
out as pilgrims to do His work, to show in this little
world that not only is faith a glorious thing, but
that faith is justified by results.
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"So I speak to each one and I say that when your
thoughts go out in compassion to a wounded animal,
to an ailing child, you are demonstrating the Greater
World which is the inheritance of the children of God.
And if those children turn from their Maker and want
Him not, still they are His children and He is their
Father and Mother God. When you go out amongst those
prisoners in every sense, who are chained to desire
in many forms, and they for one second raise their
eyes in gratitude or recognition to you, at that second
they are functioning in the world of Spirit which their
God has built up around them and will never take away.
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"These are the truths that have to be forced upon
the doubting mind of humanity to-day. So to those spiritually
blind, to those who have fettered themselves, speak
not to them of their 'sins' but of the freedom that
lies close at hand. Say to them: Brother, sister, within
is God. Cannot you see what you are missing, how you
are shutting off from yourself the beauty, peace and
the joy of the great world of Spirit which is yours
by right, given by God at creation to remain for ever
and for ever . . .
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"And, my children, when others speak to you as
to heaven and earth and hell, keep clear in your mind
that those states are separated by man alone. In that
which indeed expresses a 'hell' beyond your mind to
conjure up, there is God, Perfection, and His laws
work on with a precision which no one can upset. The
individual seeks the lowest and cleaves to the lowest,
and retribution comes in the form that he fastens the
lowest to himself. But God is not mocked, and out of
the pangs, out of the hideous conditions, out of the
darkness and horror, so by suffering man brings himself
back to that which is one degree higher than the lowest;
and after inconceivable effort and struggle by those
you name the bright ones, using many tools, the one
who sought the lowest at last desires to seek the highest,
and God's will once more is done.
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"I pass on these fragments of truth for you to
ponder upon. I say not to you: Believe this or that.
It is not my part to do more than tell you that which
is the truth possible to impart in physical language.
But I entreat you out of the love within to revise
the theories of man, the so-called physical facts;
to remember ever that the only science which is science
in the real sense is that which comes from God, and
which the Christ laid out in simple form for man's
guidance. The Master said: 'Blessed are they that suffer!'
In that, dear children, you have the key to the promise
of Life . . . Blessed are they who are willing to suffer,
for only by suffering can the strength come to redeem
that which in our blindness and ignorance we have cast
away; and only can we redeem our own inheritance by
giving to others, by trying to raise them, to give
them a wider vision, a higher hope, a truer love.
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"Cannot you see how the Perfect Mind of God conceived
that which will restore to each and every one - in
spite of folly, in spite of wilfulness - that which
will restore to man the inheritance bestowed upon him
by his Father.
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"The Greater World is all around! A thousand times
the greater self is manifested, and oft unrecognised
by others: but the all-seeing God takes, as it were,
the ears of corn that you have dropped; the little
thoughts of kindness, the little struggles against
depression; the little prayers for those who are sick;
and when you are free, lo! in a granary of your own
the harvest shall await you. For God is Love, and power
in the God-sense expresses love and love alone.
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"So, my children, ere I leave you, again I say
this is a solemn occasion. As it were, one more page
of the record of your life is being turned. What will
the new page hold? Many pages chronicle effort, determination
and the will to serve; but I say that the call is greater
than ever to-day, the need more pressing. Are you prepared
for the next span in front? I repeat that in the measure
that you are disloyal to those who want your help,
in the measure that you are disloyal to those who seek
to help with you, in that measure you not only deny
your Creator but the God within is anguished, and the
chains hereafter will be hard to cast aside.
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"I hold out to you this: The hard road, the steep
road, the road that Love took Himself. But O remember
that many who have taken that road before, they not
only are willing but they consider it an honour to
re-tread the path again with you.
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"So then, my brothers and sisters, rejoice and
rejoice again. Thank God for the measure of freedom
which is yours. As an army hold together, ready for
the advancing enemy; and if a destroyer seek to strike
one, then, again I say, help that one; for the time
will come when the destroyers may strike you, and in
the measure that you failed your comrade so, perchance,
your comrade will fail you.
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"We are children of the one God, linked together
by a history, a past impossible for you to grasp. Over
time unthinkable you have worked and struggled together,
aye, and have been wayward together; but now the time
has come to be strong in the strength of Christ; and
with His protection fear should have no place . . .
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"Children, how can I portray to you the beauty
of these conditions? Love with its thousand hues and
rays is over you all; faith with its magnetic powers
is seeking to cast from you the chains that still bind.
O stretch out and take of God's good gift!
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"Remember ever that in the measure of your love,
in the measure of your hope, and in the measure of
your trust in God, so indeed you are not only functioning
in the Greater World that is all around, but you are
making it possible for those content with their own
grey and loveless state to have a vision of something
beyond the boundaries that hold. This is God's work.
The Master as He walked among us shed upon us His beautiful
thoughts and as we listened, although we knew it not,
we saw beyond the earth plane into those planes where
harmony reigned supreme. He left us so far as the physical
body was concerned, and the destroyers struck again
and again. But lo! we raised our minds and, by will,
through remembrance, we contacted with the harmony
of the Christ.
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"This is for you. When others oppose you, when
the criticisers throw their darts upon you, have no
fear. Just extricate yourself from the little world
around and realise that by the provision of God, you
can function in the world of Spirit where love and
harmony hold all spaces. You are of God - that which
is of the Great One, the Creator of Life - that is
your own. This is your inheritance; the realms of harmony
are your true home and you are invited in by the One
who loves you best, the Saviour of us all.
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"So I bless you with not only the will to go on,
but with renewed determination, with still greater
dedication; and the power of the Holy Spirit through
you shall be manifested to those around. Farewell!"
©GWCSA
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