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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"THE GREAT SURRENDER"
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 children, I come into your presence to speak to
you on that which touches your lives so closely that
you scarce can grasp it, but around you is a World
of Spirit. Around you there are those conditions, those
peoples who at this same time are hidden from your
consciousness.
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"Little ones, come with me in thought while I
seek to pass on the message of the Christ. Oh listen
and learn! I could not speak in this way were it not
for the power of the Holy Spirit. There are those who
come into earth conditions who seek to use an instrument
and do so in part; yet what emanates from the instrument
is that which is hindering to the progress of man,
and I say unto you in regard to such as these - both
the instrument which is used and the one who seeks
to use it - that they are piling up for themselves
suffering in time to come, for the gift is Holy, and
because it is Holy should be treated with the greatest
reverence and respect.
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"If messages are sent and are poured forth from
an instrument which reflect not the God-mind, the Christ-attitude,
then I say unto you that the instrument and the one
who used it, ah, better for them that they had not
entered the physical existence at all. So then I draw
in your thoughts and I lift them up above the earth,
above material things, aye, even above those you love
so well, and I place them as an offering - a little
offering - to the One Who gives so much.
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"To-night, dear children, commanded by the Master
- the One Whom it was my privilege to walk with and
Who blessed me when I too lived my life upon the earth
plane - following the direction of the Christ I speak
to you on that which I name the Great Surrender.
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"Your minds, perchance, go back to those in the
little yesterday who gave their lives for their brothers,
those who were called the soldiers of the king. Ah,
many such as these were not only soldiers of an earthly
king, but they were the warriors of the King of kings,
and they have entered into conditions of brightness
and peace undreamed of by you at this stage. It was
indeed the great surrender, but think along these lines,
for I say unto you that the time must come when men
and women will be called upon to forsake their toys,
aye, and even to give up the tools of the mind, those
tools which stand between them and the Christ-work.
The time will come when the individual - those with
a measure of sight, with a measure of understanding
- will be called upon to give up, to make the great
surrender.
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"Oh, how easy it is to talk of sacrifice when
sacrifice is afar off! How easy it is for those in
security to send out others to fight and to withstand
the anguish of the physical garment! How easy it is
for those comfortably placed to say to the toilers,
to those who have not the necessities of life: 'Be
of good cheer, to-morrow will bring better things!'
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"Little children, there are always those who preach
and those who act, always those who think and those
who try to set into being the noble thoughts that possess
their minds. I say unto you that if the Master in walking
the earth plane had done naught but think great thoughts,
even great love-thoughts, then He could not have been
called the Saviour of the world. Nay, little ones,
when you pass out of things seeming into reality, you
will be astounded to find that that which you called
work and effort represented but a fragment, but a shadow
of the work and the effort which abounds in those realms
which are truly Spirit.
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"Yes, I must prepare you and I must warn you.
I say that coming upon this little earth plane troubles,
in numerous forms, must be met and overcome, and I
tell you that the time is now for the preparation to
be hastened, to be put in a way hitherto undreamed
of by yourselves. The only way to prepare, the only
way to build up a foundation which will enable you
to say and mean when trouble strikes the earth plane:
'I am secure,' is by training yourselves at this same
stage to make the great surrender.
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"Oh, I know how your thoughts go out to those
you love so well. I know, as I speak, that the little
children who, as it seemed, were torn out of their
mothers' arms, that the little children have come back
in their hundreds to bring you their gifts this night.
For there are those here who have known sorrow and
grief in many forms and anxiety of the mind, and so
the little children bring you their gifts, they bring
the sweet flowers of forgetfulness and they lay them
before you.
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"You may say unto me: 'They are not my children',
but I say unto you: We are all one great family under
our Father and Mother God. The little ones do His work
in His way, and thus they pass in and out amongst you
this night, and they will leave behind sweetness and
peace, simplicity and that love which one day man must
make his own.
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"And now I come to yourselves, to the great surrender.
Oh children, those who answered to the call of duty,
they have reaped what they have sown. Some went because
the greater self within demanded the sacrifice; others
went because authority commanded and would not be withstood.
Yet I say unto you regarding those forced into the
fight that in the measure that they did that which
saved another, that which healed another, in the measure
that they sought to bear the burdens of the weaker
and the frailer, oh, they have reaped a harvest, a
harvest second to none; for the mighty Mind of Love
takes even the reluctance, when the reluctance is forced
down, and creates something which shall never pass
away.
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"They are here as well, many whom you would call
strangers, but the word 'stranger' is unknown to us.
We are brothers and sisters, some a little older, perchance,
some a little younger; but the age or youth is marked
only by the experience undertaken, by the suffering
endured.
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"So then, think a while as to the great surrender,
for indeed you must build truly, you must build firmly,
for great things are coming to pass. In your daily
life, in the little things as well as those which seem
so important, oh, think to yourselves: Here am I, a
traveller on the long road which leads home to God;
shall I remain a traveller or shall I become a pilgrim?
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"And mark you this: In time, either on this plane
or in one of those conditions beyond the earth, each
one must emerge out of the traveller stage and become
a pilgrim; and the pilgrim, with the staff of faith,
with the Cross upon the brow, little by little - oh,
these things cannot be unduly hastened - little by
little trains himself to make the great surrender.
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"I come back to your daily life, to its trials,
its irritations, and all that which at times causes
the heart to ache. Within you here are two who function
upon different planes, who are keyed to different conditions.
There is the Divine within you and there is the lesser
man or the lesser woman. Now, which of these two shall
dominate your lives? Choose, make the great decision;
oh, seek the full surrender!
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"As you awaken sadness perchance seizes the physical
mind, you remember the uncongenial task, the conditions
which seem so out of harmony with that which you love;
yes, as you awaken so these thoughts come creeping
back, and many there are who dread the coming day.
To such as these I speak, for the mere fact that life
presents a problem is indication that the traveller
desires to become a pilgrim, and that those who love
the Master seek to gather close. I say unto them: As
physical consciousness returns, raise the heart and
mind to the One Who loves you best. Say not within
yourselves: 'I wish this day were passed.' Say rather:
'Father, use me according to Thy Holy Will!'
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"Little things, perhaps, but only by observing
the little things can the time come when the great
surrender is made. You cannot grow in an hour. Nay,
over the long past so the Divine within you has fought
and struggled for its freedom; aye, a past unknown
to you, my little ones, for long before this earth
plane came into use for God's purpose you, as spirits,
functioned in other conditions, other planets, if you
will, but names are nothing to us.
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"Over the long past, so thousands of lives you
have had; yet one life only upon the earth plane in
a physical garment. Yes, in the past, before the physical
garment was ready for you, so as spirits you walked
with others imprisoned in the physical, and you learned
with them some of their lessons, and that is why you
are here to-night. In a measure you are trained; in
a measure you understand; in a measure you have illumination.
But think not that that understanding and illumination
must pause here or there. God holds out to His children
revelation in a form so gigantic that the physical
mind cannot grasp it, but there are some who shall
witness great and glorious things ere the body is cast
aside; some, but only those who endeavour to make the
great surrender.
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"So, my children, bear in mind this great and
wonderful thought: The Master - the Source of Wisdom
- has opened the gate and bids you enter in; but the
only way to cross the threshold of things seeming and
to pass into reality is the way which the Master trod
Himself. Aye, little by little, relinquishing the physical
will. Oh, think not that God would have you as puppets,
as echoes of that which He has laid down. Nay, the
gift of free-will will never be taken from you, but
as you seek to give into the safe-keeping of God your
physical will, so a miracle takes place. Self-will
gives way to something glorious, something charged
with power. In handing the lesser will into the safe-keeping
of the One Who loves you best, so as a result - coming
back to you in strength a thousandfold - is the free
working of the Divine will, part of the equipment housed
within.
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"Oh, little ones, my words sound urgent and perchance
a little stern, but I am fighting for you. I have been
sent into your presence to pass on warning; yet underlying
the warning is a great and glorious hope. I have been
sent to you to entreat you to prepare, to walk warily,
to overlook your equipment and to seek to make the
full surrender. For the time is coming when those governed
by their physical minds, chained to the conditions
of the earth plane, when such as these will be as straying
sheep, without one to draw them back into the safety
of faith and trust in God.
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"In that time, so the few - alas, it must be only
a few, for only a few will listen to that which God
has sent - only the few will be able to stand free
from the turmoil, the tumult of the earth, and look
up and see the Master and gain assurance direct from
Him.
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"So I come back to the boys and the men who have
passed on a little span, the ones who left so much
sorrow and desolation behind. Little ones, through
that endured they purchased something of courage, the
great courage which comes with illumination, and they
speak to you to-night, ah, through your hearts if not
through your minds, and their message is: Prepare,
prepare, for great things are coming to pass!
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"Yet as I speak so laughter reaches my ears and
lightens the heaviness of earth conditions. The boys
and the men who gave up their little all in the name
of duty, such as these among themselves are laughing,
throwing out upon the vibrations something of their
brightness, something of their joy. Oh, cannot you
see that when the little earth life is over it must
be either joy or sadness, laughter or tears? Aye, in
the measure that those in the physical body hold back,
in that measure so the laughter is quenched, and the
anguish is great.
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"Children, the gifts of the mind are precious
only in the degree that they are used for God's work;
the gifts of the hand are precious but if the hands
are used to deal destruction to others for the sake
of the material gain which comes, ah, better that that
man, that woman were without the hands which were used
by the destructive forces.
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"Sweet it is to look upon the beauties of nature,
sweet it is to raise the eyes to the heavens, to the
blue and the sunshine, to catch the note of the free
song of the bird; ah, all these things are precious
to us when we walk the earth plane. Compassion for
the blind, oh, compassion for those who are lame! But
I say unto you that the eyes of the physical body which
look out upon their handiwork and see that which is
a travesty of God's love, that which is a denial of
the purity and holiness which is man's rightful inheritance,
ah, better that that man, that woman were blind.
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"Again I say, sweet it is to feel the breeze upon
the face and form; sweet it is as the hills are climbed
to feel the warm blood coursing through the veins;
but if the footsteps take a man or woman away from
God, better that that man or woman were lame, crippled
from birth; for what is sown in carelessness must be
reaped in time to come.
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"Cannot you see that when God says to His children
'make the full surrender,' when the great Father and
Mother God entreats us to obey His most merciful laws,
that these things in themselves are a manifestation
of unlimited love? The Master calls: 'Follow Me,' and
those bound by the earth say: 'No, the road is too
hard; I would have my comforts. I would have my ease.'
But when the call comes to you and to me: 'Follow,
follow!' so the Christ is holding out to us powers
and gifts, a joy and a peace which the human mind at
this stage cannot grasp.
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"Oh, try and make this truth your own. In the
measure that man seeks to follow in the footsteps of
the Master, in that measure so the power comes; and
miracles shall be worked, for this is the promise of
the Most High. The Master as He passed among the crowd
healed, restored, recreated only by the power built
up around and within through the great surrender, the
surrender of His will to the Godhead from which He
had separated Himself for a span.
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"Aye, little ones, Christ is God! Because His
children should never be in the position to say that
God could not understand the trials, the temptations,
the sorrows and the pains of physical life, so the
Great One of all separated Himself from His Godhead
and came as man to save man from his folly and weakness;
and when the Master turned to that which He named His
Father, oh, it was to that Godhead from which He had
separated Himself so that He could traverse the earth
as man then and to-day traverses the earth. So it was
that the Christ went through weariness, despair and
innumerable temptations, yet through the great surrender,
through the elimination of self, through the release
of the Divine within, so the power came to raise the
hearts and minds of countless thousands not only in
earth conditions, but in many far more bound; aye,
and in those a little further on so far as evolution
is concerned.
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"Christ - God - came as man, limited as you are,
limited as I was in time long past; and those in a
physical body, in the measure that they make the great
surrender, can do as Christ, for God has promised.
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"Between us and unlimited power lies that which
appear as obstacles too great, too formidable to be
surmounted. Those obstacles have been built by self,
yet through the gracious provision of the One Who loves
us best, because we built so we can destroy, we can
clear the path, and from the hands shall come the healing
power of Christ. And there shall be those who shall
bless our name, who shall exclaim to others: 'Now I
know there is a God of Love for through one of His
servants I have received my sight!' But forget not
that restoring sight to the physical eyes is as nothing
in comparison to removing the blindness of the mind.
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"So then while I speak to you in this same way,
oh make the link firmer with those who love you well,
who are laughing and throwing out on the vibrations
that which is as a chain of joy, each link representing
something overcome, something relinquished. As a mighty
chain so the sweetness of their joy is thrown out over
all; they call to you to arise, to respond, to put
aside sorrow, to put aside sad memories, and to be
as happy warriors, soldiers of the King of kings, pilgrims
willing to take the hard path, pilgrims showing the
way, aye, beating out the way so that others, weaker,
will have direction, and by the strength created shall
arise out of that which holds and take the hill which
leads to God.
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"Oh, little ones, there are those among you who
can respond and those who, in a measure, cannot respond.
Cast not my words aside for I say again that great
things are coming to pass. Those who are weak to-day
will be weaker still; those who seek to be strong shall
find to their amazement that a courage, a response
and an initiative akin to spiritual equipment shall
be their own.
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"So then let the past be past, let the present
be constructive in the Christ sense; build for the
future and ere you leave this temple - and a temple
to-night indeed it has become. a temple where those
of old have gathered in and where the bright ones,
the wise ones gather close to give of their strength
- in this temple make the great decision - the full
surrender. The full surrender which is the surrender
of the lesser so that you may take and hold the greater;
the surrender of the foolishness of physical life,
of its toys and trumpery possessions, and the taking
of the gifts of the Spirit, of the powers which God
meant should be your own.
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"Thus I pass from you, yet if I left without underlining
that you are well known to me so I should leave upon
your minds a false impression. Little children, I know
your weaknesses and I know your strengths, and I say
unto you - because I have that wisdom, that vision
bestowed by God - that the weakness can be torn out
and strength only hold your heart and mind. I know
your inclinations and I know your holy aspirations
and I say unto you, through the grace of God, that
one day, one time you must be perfect even as your
Father in heaven is perfect, for you are a fragment
of His Holy Self.
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"So then gather together your resources, and of
all that which lies outside your spiritual equipment
oh, make the full surrender; and the gifts and the
powers, the peace and the joy, all this shall be as
a hedge of protection, a protection not for yourselves
alone but to pass on to others.
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"So I bless you, and I entreat that on this night,
on this day when power is granted in so great a volume
to release the bonded minds of the children of the
earth, that on this day you will seize that which is
your right, that which is your great and grand inheritance,
and give that which is yourself unto the safe keeping
of the One Who loves you best. I bless you with the
will to give up; I bless you with the valiant heart
and the understanding mind; in the name of Christ,
our Saviour, I bless you with the pilgrims' spirit.
In days to come there shall be some who shall look
back upon this quiet hour and thank their God that,
out of the release of the Divine within, they sought
to make the great surrender. I bless you with understanding
in the name of our Father and Mother God.
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"Master, grant that the messengers Thou hast sent
may be able to gather close to these Thy little ones
and give them of sight, aye, of that revelation which
Thou hast promised. Oh, teach us how to give ourselves
into Thy most tender care. Father, we thank Thee. Grant
that in time to come we may be better instruments,
brighter lights, that we may manifest something nearer
to Thy great Love.
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"Little children, that which is as a cloud of
rosy light is upon you all - the peace which is holiness,
the glow which is effort, effort for Christ our God.
The cloud is upon you all, and the Holy Spirit this
night has been vouchsafed for the work that lies in
front. Farewell."
©GWCSA
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