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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"THE HIDDEN BEAUTY IN LIFE"
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 at Hastings Christian Spiritualist
Church on Sunday, June 6th, 1943
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"Brothers and sisters, surely the Grace of God draws
us together, and when we look back over the past and
see the road that has been traversed - all the protection
given, all the guidance which has been forthcoming
- our hearts are full of thankfulness to the Father
because, although oft we may have hesitated or held
back, the power came to drive us on.
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"Today, beloved, although you see so much in the way
of disaster, ugliness revealed, the harmony of outline
broken, yet I have come with a message not only of
good news, but one which should lift your hearts and
minds above the mundane round, above the thoughts of
war, and show you how the miracle of Grace is being
worked out day by day, hour by hour. Thus I have been
directed to speak to you upon The Hidden Beauty in Life.
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"Some of you feel that beauty has been overgrown by
the weeds of hatred, by all that is cast out upon the
atmosphere through the children of God spurning the
Way, cleaving to false idols, worshipping before the
gods of authority and of personal ambition. While we
admit there is much from which we shrink, because God
rules and God is beauty Itself, there is naught that
can happen upon this material plane that has the power
to quench the beauty, the hidden beauty that is in
life.
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"We think of Nature, Nature in her many moods, Nature
in her many phases. We have the tiny seeds from which
loveliness springs. The roots - which in time shall
allow the wide-spreading trees to sooth our eyes and
comfort our minds - are beneath the ground hidden from
the sight of man.
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"We also see other guises of beauty: beauty that is
sought by man, not to raise his thoughts, but rather
to add to his possession that which he covets the most.
And the earth releases from the mines and secret places
the precious stones and those things which have driven
man insane - the gold that has roused the very worst
passions in the heart and mind, and thus has hindered
the progress of the ones concerned for many a span,
even when the earth life has been fulfilled.
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"Yes, but we can turn from the ugly side, and we think
of those precious metals and of the fuel which man
must use to keep life within the body; and we realise
that hidden beauty is typified by this material plane.
There is always this great thought - that without man's
co-operation, without the toil and the effort, without
the tearing out of man his spiritual qualities by effort
and by endurance, those great gifts which have so benefited
the world could never have become available to humanity
as a whole.
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"I want you to consider, just for a moment or two,
that which you name the 'psychic atmosphere' deep down
in a mine, perchance miles from the surface. There
you find in the darkness or semi-darkness a number
of human souls; they are not beautiful to look upon.
It may seem to some that they verge very close to the
animal stage, for they are covered with grime, some
are crippled by their toil, they have lost their youth
and the beauty associated with youth - in order to
delve into the earth so that millions of people may
have the means to carry on their daily lives; so that
there may be provided those things of utility without
which life would be precarious. Always remember, beloved,
that material strength is but a symbol of spiritual
strength. There are always the good builders, and the
methods of building change as time goes on, as consciousness
expands, as intelligence grows. So today man is more
on his guard to see that when he builds he builds firmly,
he uses that which can resist the assaults of material
force, which can safeguard the human life which will
dwell within.
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"Is there not a parable in this, an indication of the
great truth that before we can be as awakened beings,
certain processes of change, of discipline, must be
endured? First, as it were, we have to enter the dark
tunnel of experience; we lose that which perhaps we
prize the most - our youth, our beauty, our vitality,
our capacity to please others - for the tunnel is long
and the toil is arduous. Sometimes there seems no light
at all, and the Divine within man becomes almost imprisoned
by that which he must go through. And yet, beloved,
you find, as in those mines, that when some great disaster
takes place, the spirit within was not imprisoned,
it only seemed to be so; in an instant of time the
doors of the prison-house are wide open, and the beauty
within the soul of man finds expression - in forgetting
self, in serving his brethren!
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"I wonder what you would say if - with your spiritual
eyes - you could witness what goes on in the dark caverns
of the earth when disaster overtakes the toilers. They
are trapped, it seems to them; the great rocks fall
upon them, the noise is terrifying, their way of escape
is blocked by the things of the earth. But in reality,
from a spiritual point of view, no fog rising from
material causes can blot out the shining light of the
Christ released within man, and although there may
be those who cannot find an outlet in a physical sense,
again and again you find that the Divine within them
is free to demonstrate itself and to cast a glory upon
all those who in time to come will toil in turn in
those dark conditions.
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"I outline the lives of many who, metaphorically, through
the troubles which assail them, have gone through the
same experiences as the miner - one who dies that others
may live! And I want you to consider this point, for
in these days of trial and strain and danger, surely
God has offered to you individually and to man as a
whole, a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate the beauty,
the hidden beauty within human life?
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"Nature has many lessons to teach us, but always remember
this: that without man, without his toil, his application,
his intelligence, Nature would run riot and prove a
menace to life as a whole. It needs man's planning
to keep back the wide seas, it needs man's toil to
cut down the trees to allow the sunshine to stream
in. And forget not that in time long past, this planet
of yours was but a jungle, and only certain forms of
life were possible. So I draw the parallel: if you
allow any adverse force to dominate, then the jungle
state will be enacted once again. Power and authority,
high intelligence and culture, have their part; but
there is the strength of the physical, and there is
the greater strength of the spiritual life of man.
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"Man is being prepared, here and now, for a finer state
of being, for life and work and achievement in higher
vibrations of Spirit where a sensitiveness, unknown
to those upon the earth plane, is taken as part of
the gift of Life, and recognised as for God's special
purpose.
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"So I turn to you and to all those who will read my
words, and I ask one and all to consider carefully
where they stand in regard to their spiritual progression
at this stage. There are those who seek honour and
there are those who have honour thrust upon them. There
are those who seek danger and there are those who have
danger thrust upon them! But you know, without my underlining
this great important fact, that all the things which
come to man are second in importance to the way man
greets them and, if need be, overcomes them.
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"We are verging on the era of revelation, and there
are those who - by cleaving to the road of duty, by
harnessing the reluctant will to the unwanted task
- who are near to the thinning of the veil; and once
their eyes are truly opened to the things which matter,
the darkness of the long tunnel which they have traversed
will seem to them a trivial price to have paid.
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"What does 'revelation' represent to the majority?
Some visualise it as seeing the Heavens open and hosts
of angelic ones, with Christ in their midst, coming
to rule upon the earth plane. There are others who
visualise with longing the breaking down of the barriers
between the world of unreality and the World that is
real, and seeing their loved ones, watching them as
they work, exchanging smiles - the one who travels
on the high road and you, who still must walk upon
the lower road, just for a little while.
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"There are others conjuring up that which is their
heart's desire, who see this world released from the
selfishness which binds, from false ambition, from
the bondage of material thinking; and because it is
their heart's desire they not only dream sweet dreams,
but hour by hour they seek to put into action something
that may add one grain to the effort required to rebuild
the earth into a beautiful city, where God's love can
be demonstrated on either side, where you look into
the eyes of your fellow beings and you see there: not
envy or hatred or misunderstanding, but perfect sympathy,
a common object; both servers of the Master, linked
to Him for evermore.
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"Can you not see, beloved, that the one thing which
bars revelation is the imprisonment of the hidden beauty
of man's soul? The beauty is there, provided by a generous
Creator - the good gifts of sight and hearing, which
lead on to revelation. But so many upon this mundane plane mistake the sight of
the psychic for the revelation of the pilgrim on his
way home to God. They can be co-partners; or they can represent the
very opposite gifts, when time must pass before the
seers awaken and look for the Cross.
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"I speak to you, for I know that there are many here
longing to do their best, those who have toiled in
the past, those who have desired to leave this world
a better place because they have lived within it; and
I bring great comfort to such as these, whatever their
position in life, however limited their opportunities
may seem to be, and the comforting words which I pass
on from the Master Christ are these: 'Soon the gates
will swing wide open, soon the darkness will disappear,
soon the light of revelation shall indeed make all
things clear.'
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"Oh, beloved, is your way dark, are your hearts aching
over those you love so well? Have faith! Do not, by
your thoughts, stem them upon the road of duty and
sacrifice, the road which perchance must end in the
full surrender. The spirit within such as these has
gained self-revelation, there is only one way for them
- to fight on until evil things are crushed, until
the jungle is cleared, until the serpents are sent
back to their hiding places and the wild beasts to
their lairs; clear the jungle so that the sunshine
may stream in and the ground may be made ready by the
older children of God for the little children to be
born in the time that is yet to come, for the flowers
to spring up and for the streams to flow and to give
life unto them.
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"Yes, indeed, I remind you that this world of yours,
with all its menaces, demonstrates again and again
that in spite of man being weak in strength when considered
individually, when massed he is strong - strong in
experience, strong enough to control, strong enough
to plan so that the earth plane can be used to the
fullest in the fulfilment of the Divine Plan.
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"To man - the son of God - God gave dominion over all
other forms of life, and the only reason why man lost
that gift was lack of humility, lack of gratitude,
which means lack of understanding. But today, by sacrifice,
by suffering, by the finding of the courage within,
thousands and thousands are paying the price, and you
see both the young and the old facing the challenge
of fear unafraid; by that which they have been through,
the hidden beauty within at last has gained release.
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"Beloved, I know that there are so many here longing
to do the right thing, longing perchance to do bigger
things than ever have come their way before, and I
ask you to consider my words, to remember that within
you here and now there is Divinity and all that hidden
beauty associated with the Christ, gifted unto you
by God. In the Christ is typified all the good gifts,
and so the Father, understanding the bondage of the
human heart and mind, gave unto man - in human form
- illustration of the hidden beauty within the children
of the earth plane, and there is no one who has ever
thought of Christ who can say with justification: 'I
did not know about this hidden beauty within myself!'
For Christ demonstrated and underlined again and again,
that what He did, so should come the opportunity for
man to do as well!
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"Therefore, I bless you with courage and with faith,
I bless you with the firm determination that at all
costs, in times of danger you - by your prayers, by
your attitude of mind - you will allow the prison doors
to be opened and the beauty within you to gain full
impression; and what this will mean to you in the Life
to come no words of mine can ever express. Thousands
have passed over the little bridge of 'death' into
life, and have seen with great amazement that everything
they have ever hoped for, everything they have ever
prayed for but never thought they could accomplish,
has been brought into being by their puny efforts which
were blessed by God and finished by the great Creator.
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"So I bless you, bless you with a sense of responsibility
to release the hidden beauty within. Peace be with
you all, beloved! When sleep holds you this night indeed
we shall meet again. I bless the workers and I consecrate
them still more to God's work on earth; the time will
come when they shall see the sun rising and rejoice!
Farewell, peace go with you."
©GWCSA
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