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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"THE HOLY ORDER OF PARENTHOOD"
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), at Liverpool,
on Sunday, 11th June, 1950
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"SAVIOUR CHRIST, into Thy hands I commend the spirit
of this Thy child...
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"MY CHILDREN, you who have gathered here have made
your choice. The blue skies and the sunshine may have
called you, but there was a greater call still of Spirit;
and I want you to realise that because you have denied
the body and turned to those things that should come
first, you have reaped a blessing, and the power shall
be shown around you in time to come.
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"It is wise for us to go hither and thither and
to stir up feelings of gratitude in those in the body,
for many do not understand the great privilege which
has come to them by their knowledge of Spirit Communion.
Some, alas, who do know this truth are not seeking
the way of peace but rather that the mind of the body
should be entertained, but very often they go away
disappointed because the experiment has not been a
success.
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"Back in the past it was necessary for various
kinds of material phenomena to take place. The people
knew so little and they had to be given something to
arrest their attention. But you will find that as the
years go on, the attraction of physical and material
phenomena will die down still more and the mediums
will be keyed to a higher vibration.
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"I have said before that the power entailed to
bring about those things which attract the physical
eye and mind, that the same power could be raised so
that the ones concerned could become healers.
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"You must remember that it is all one power; but
there are many expressions of the power, and it depends
upon the individual the kind of expression that power
has through them, and free-will cannot be interfered
with. But we who are free from the flesh thank God
that there are so many who are turning to spiritual
things, who have weighed in the balance the value of
those which are material, and they are disillusioned
over them; and, so having made their decision, they
lay them aside to follow the path laid down by God.
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"But to-day, my children, I have been directed
to speak to you upon THE HOLY ORDER OF PARENTHOOD.
Now this is another expression of Divine power, of
those gifts which should be released in each and everyone.
There may be some here who would say to me: 'I am not
a parent; therefore I am left out.' But I answer that
the Holy Order of Parenthood is upon each and everyone;
and, moreover, it stretches beyond the human throughout
Nature, for you must remember that all Life is sacred
to God. Man in the body may despise this, or he may
think that that is given entirely for his own benefit;
but that is not Divine Law.
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"Some may ask: 'Are you referring to the pests,
to the reptiles, and to those forms of life which are
a torture to man?' And I answer: Yes! But you must
remember that every form of life when created by God
was perfect. If there are those terrible guises which
are not only a plague to man, but a plague to Nature
too, then you must blame the conditions set up by humanity
upon the earth plane. From the Mind of God Perfection
only can come; and every form of life in due course
must return to that guise of perfection in its own
degree, as ordained by the Creator.
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"But this subject of PARENTHOOD is a very wide
one, and I want you to think perhaps more of parenthood
in other states than upon the earth plane. You see
to-day examples of good parenthood, of careless parenthood,
and of cruel parenthood. Some of you are deeply shocked
by what is going on, by the falling of the moral code,
by the callousness and the selfishness shown by some
parents towards their offspring.
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"But all this is common talk, and I want to lift
your minds to parenthood in the Spirit World; and you
must learn about it sooner or later, for you are a
parent of so many things beyond human life. You are
a parent to Nature, to the Little People, yes, to the
gnomes and fairies; you are a 'parent' also to wayward
souls, to those who perhaps have imprisoned themselves
in the dark planes. You must remember, too, that you
are a parent to your gifts and talents; and what you
see of the Arts in this same stage is but one guise,
one mould, of something which will be shown to you
in a finer form in a more etherialized state, or in
a more bonded form in those planes which have been
ruled by self.
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"So let us think for a moment or two about the
wonderful gift which is all your own wherever you may
be, for whatever your development you have within you
that finest gift of all - the capacity to become a
parent.
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"Now in regard to your own homes, as you know,
character is shown in a home. There may be two people
living side by side in identical houses, but how different
is the aspect of those two homes. In other words, a
home represents an experiment with human nature.
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"It is not a question of the furniture, or of
material means; it is a question of personality. There
are those who may have a very humble home and very
little means to spend upon it; but when you enter,
you are pleased with its appearance. You feel that
something of the higher self of the inhabitants has
been expressed there; and that is true. You may go
into a large mansion, but it brings no comfort at all;
it might be a warehouse or an exhibition. There is
love
missing.
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"Always remember this: that life and love are one, and there is no creative faculty which can be released
in the human mind or make-up that is not governed in
its strength by love.
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"For instance: you have art, music and oratory,
and all those other gifts which seem to be at the disposal
of certain favoured people. But, as I have said, these
gifts will be shown to you in a totally different guise
as you progress through the spheres. Here you are dependent
upon an instrument for music; but within you there
is music. Here you are dependent upon a certain amount
of training to release the voice from the vocal chords;
but within you there is the gift of song. And what
does that represent? Harmony, beloved, and in the Divinity
within you there is harmony; and the reason why upon
the earth plane there is so much disharmony is because
the God within mankind is not allowed to function.
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"Then let us turn to another humble illustration.
You are all parents in some form or another to Nature.
You may not have a garden but you are given flowers
or you buy flowers. Are you a good parent to those
little blooms? Are you kind to the flowers, or do you
regard them as something merely to give you a passing
pleasure and then to be forgotten? I want you to think
of those people who study the Laws of Nature in regard
to plant and flower life. It is a most arresting study.
Sometimes they have found in their experiments with
Nature they have gone a little too far; they have concentrated
upon colour and form and they produced what they desired;
but there is no fragrance left in the flower, the sweet
fragrance associated with flower-life is absent, and
they know that somewhere, somehow, a grave mistake
has been made.
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"It is the same with education. There are those to-day who have very big ideas regarding
education. They take young life and place before it
certain forms of study. Sometimes all goes well, but
sometimes certain things go wrong. In training the
mind they have, as it were, stifled the dictates of
the heart and the soul.
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"You see, my children, these experiments with
human nature relate to the body, to the mind, and to
the soul, and there are those foolish in their time
who think that they can grapple with the soul by scientific
methods. And many have crashed from a nervous point
of view because of such a training; their careers have
been ruined by over-education, by concentrating upon
the mind, without taking into account the make-up of
the child, the youth or the girl.
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"It is not everyone who is attuned to mental knowledge
as shown upon the earth plane. There are some who are
keyed to a finer vibration; they are sensitives. They respond to Nature, to the beauty of the skies,
to the loving fingers of a little child, to the kindness
in the hearts of others, to friendship, and to love
in its higher form. And sometimes these people are
not good subjects for too much mental education.
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"Those in charge of young life are as 'parents,'
but they are not necessarily wise parents; in fact
they may have stifled the real self of the one concerned
because of the uniformity of the rules laid down. Human
life is something over which you cannot lay down hard
and fast rules or this one and that; each one has to
be approached according to the stock from which they
come, their environment, their physical parents, and
the spiritual or unspiritual influence they have exercised.
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"You see, I am bringing you a little nearer to
the Holy Order of Parenthood. Again I take you back
to the Arts. There are those who take the rough clay
and, by skill and training, bring into being something
that fills your heart with delight, maybe some great
bowl
(vase)
upon which is painted that which represents what is
most beautiful in Nature, and as you stand before it,
you praise the skill of human effort.
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"Here we have another little simile. In creating
that which they hoped to bring into being, they have
not only shown skill and training, but they have given love; and without love there is no form of Art which can
reach a high standard.
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"You may contradict me on this point, but I am
speaking of Art in its true sense, not the travesties
of Art, not those many canvases which portray the basest
in human nature, not the songs which desecrate, or
the music which rouses the passions in the human make-up.
I speak of Art as God intended it to be.
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"I want you to follow the avenue of thought which
I have suggested this day, by the Will of Christ, for
when you pass Hence, if you have struggled during the
earthly life, you will find around you many little
children of your mind. Ah, you have forgotten that
idea which you had when you were young. It was not
possible to do anything about it and it has gone from
your remembrance. But that little child of your mind,
because it sprang from life and love, is still alive,
waiting for you to bring it on. And all your ideas
which had something of idealism in them, they are there
for you to stimulate their growth, to improve their
design, because when you are free from the body you
will understand so much more, and you will see far
more clearly then those little children of your mind
waiting for your parenthand.
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"Is it not a wonderful thought, and does it not
open for you a vast area of effort and of opportunity
and of grace, and will you not feel grateful to God
because He has made all these things possible? Why
did He do so? Because you are His child! Why have you
the gift of parenthood within you? Because you are
part of the Great Parent, and all that is in God, in
miniature, is in us.
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"So you see, dear children, you have not only
to think of Nature in her physical guise, you have
to think of Nature in her wider scope - all that unseen
life about which you know so little, far beyond the
fairies and the gnomes; those many forms of life which
are trying to act as parents to the life within the
seas, to the life that is too fine to be seen in the
atmosphere; yes, not only to the trees and the flowers,
not only to the wild beasts and the tame domestic pets,
for the scheme, according to the Divine Plan, is universal
parenthood.
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"But the point is this: what are you doing now
to release that wonderful gift within you? You may
say to me: 'I do not think I have any gifts!' And I
answer: you are not the one to judge. You are a child
of God, a son or daughter of the King of kings, how
then can you claim that you have do gifts?
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"You see, children, what a wonderful vista opens
before you and how you can become second to none in
your endeavours, in spite of your conditions, in spite
of your lack of opportunity, in spite of not knowing
very much about the subject.
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"What is the way? It is that simple way of service, trying to keep your mind up when things apparently
are going wrong; looking with a kindly eye upon others;
endeavouring to keep back the word of criticism.
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"But you are not meant to endorse what is wrong,
and sometimes it is wise to find the courage to tell
the truth to the one who is making grave mistakes through
vanity or self-will, through claiming to be a law unto
himself. You must remember that when Our Lord saw those
who were hypocrites, He felt it was His bounden duty
to warn them that the unseen enemies had been seeking
to fasten their claws upon them and drag them down
into a misery that was profound. But in regard to criticism,
it has to be wise criticism. You have to bring in the
parent-spirit, not the scolding, thrashing spirit,
but the spirit of the one who is willing to sacrifice
personal feelings to raise the consciousness of the
erring soul. You may not be thanked for it, just the
reverse, but never mind! When you are both free in
the Spirit World that one will come to you, filled
with shame, saying: 'What a fool I was; but I thank
you for trying to open my eyes!'
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"Children, you see how much you can do? As you
pass out through the growing fields, try to link up
with the tiny expressions of life which are there;
they have their guides and helpers just the same as
you have. They are struggling to express themselves,
but because this mundane plane is held back in its
evolution, they can only show a little expression of
their real self.
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"I wish I could open your eyes and show you what
a little harebell looks like when freed from the bondage
of this physical plane, what the simple daisy is able
to give out to human nature, and to do in the way of
'bringing on' little children. Have you not seen the
children mourn over the destruction of the daisies,
and does that not express the parenthood in the child,
the desire to protect sweet life? But you know that
that which has to be destroyed upon earth has a future,
a very much better future than could be held out to
it upon this mundane plane.
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"So I ask you to think not only of Art, not only
of those things which you would like to create, to
bring into being, but to realise that all those things
which are a distortion of beauty and power, they must
be brought up to standard sooner or later. There is
nothing wrong with anything in earthly life; it is
only the wrong way it is used; there is nothing evil
in God's wide design of things; but all Nature groaneth
together because man has lost dominion over himself.
Man was given dominion over all forms of life, and
when he can control himself and show something of his
angelhood that gift will be restored unto him.
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"Have I helped any of you here? You with your
churches and circles, you may say to me: 'It is disappointment
all along the line!' I know that perhaps from a material
point of view it is, but by striving to help others
to understand something of truth, are you not acting
as a parent to those souls? Yes, you are struggling
now, in spite of gigantic difficulties, to release
the Divine instincts within them, and God is blessing
your efforts. Never mind when others betray you, never
mind if those materially-minded do not support your
Services as they should. They are the losers. But always
remember that thousands of unseen souls are drawn into
gatherings such as this to listen and to learn, and
to start anew, knowing that God's Law is always 'another
chance'; and as they seek to do what they can, the
power comes to do more and still more.
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"Now, I would come among you in spite of the weakness
of the instrument, because it is the Will of the Father
that we seek to battle against the physical, allowing
the Spirit to be in command, but I ask that no one
should touch the instrument while the power is around
her, for that would be unsafe for you.
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"Yes, by faith as we go up and down the countryside,
we tread the physical path. It is a symbol of seeking
to overcome the obstacles erected between the earth
plane and the World of Spirit. And you who strive to
overcome the weakness of the flesh, who refuse to be
daunted in your spiritual endeavours when at times
you feel ill, cannot you see that you are doing much
to sweeten the conditions of the earth plane? And what
is more, you are literally building up strength from
which those who are weaker still can draw: and that,
again, is a little illustration of the parent-spirit.
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"It is good to meet together. The links have been
made in the past and we come again to strengthen them,
and I would that you could see what I am seeing. As
it were, certain conditions of bonded life have been
opened, and not only are all the seats filled but the
whole atmosphere as well. We are encompassed by a vast
host of witnesses. To what do they witness? To the
folly of their own past, or to the struggle they put
up against adversity, when they become witnesses to
the Divine Light. And if we have a little Light, we
allow others to borrow from that Light, and in so doing
our Light becomes stronger still. That is another law
of God.
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"If you love wisely and well, the capacity to
love increases as the days go by. Some may say: 'My
love has been spurned, my friends have failed me! What
of my lot?' Does not that make a stronger link with
the Master? You have taken on those experiences because
you want to learn, and the only way to learn is to
take up the cup of sorrow and find the strength to
drink it to the dregs, and in the dregs there is power.
And when there comes to the individual the courage
and determination to drink of the cup, so comes the
release of those many gifts which have been in bondage
over the past. Such as these are demonstrations of
free men and free women in training for those higher
forms of work, not only in the next stage but in many
stages to come, when limitations are no more, when
the individual can feel not only the link by love and
mercy with the Father, but something of the release
of the same qualities within them as in the Godhead,
only we are the fragment and He is the glorious Whole.
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"So I bless you all, bless you with the spirit
of thankfulness that God has made possible so much,
that you in your lives now, bound or limited by circumstance,
that you are free agents; and because of the Divinity
that is within you, you can be stronger than your circumstances,
master of your own fate.
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"I pray to God that in this short time of holy
communion there may be many comforted, reassured, recharged
with power, strength and determination, and with a
persistent attitude of mind that from now onwards it
shall be Christ's work, and the raising up of humanity
in the degree that is possible upon the earth plane.
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"Indeed I bless the healers and those who minister
to the old and to the sick. I bless the mothers, and
the mothers can be blessed in a mighty measure over
the mundane tasks, for curbing the sense of irritation
that so much has to be done again and again when they
want to do big things, perchance for God. They are
doing bigger things than they understand. So I bless
the fathers and mothers, and the little children; and
to all those who have tried so hard in their own way
to understand truth, I say: pursue the path, widen
your imagination, let not the thoughts of this material
plane hold you any longer. They have held you too long
in the past. Be an independent unit, develop your personality,
remind yourselves for ever that you are a child of
God and that there is that spark of Divinity within
you, your own, to be developed. And you shall grow,
yes, as with the beauty of the flowers, and not only
become finer in form and in pattern, but the sweet
fragrance of the Spirit shall pour from you, and others
will thank God because you passed their way.
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"I bless the workers here, all those who have
come so far, and all those who mean to do their work
in spite of the many sacrifices entailed. Be not discouraged,
you are workers in the Vineyard, and the Hand of God
is over all that you seek to do and over all those
you would bring into this spiritual work.
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"We thank the Father that once again the power
has been given; and under the rays of the radiant Christ
surely we pledge ourselves anew for His work while
the earthly daytime is our own.
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"And remember that I work with you upon the earth
plane, I know your difficulties, your sorrows and your
pains; and thus it is my honour to include myself in
the daytime of this world. Presently you shall pass
into the sunshine of Everlasting Day, when gratitude
will well from your heart and mind that you listened
to the guides and helpers, that you extricated yourselves
from mundane thoughts and material desires, that you
took the spiritual hill and climbed it in spite of
pain and discouragement. Then you will find that you
are well on your journey, and that angels walk with
you until the lessons have been learnt.
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"Peace be with you all, but when sleep holds the
body this night many of us will meet again, and you
shall see for yourselves something of the wonder of
the Royal Order of Parenthood held out by God to each
and everyone. Farewell!"
©GWCSA
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