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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"GOD'S HUMBLER CREATIONS"
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 Sheerness
on Sunday, 23rd April, 1933.
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"SAVIOUR CHRIST, into Thy hands I commend the
spirit of this Thy child...
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"MY CHILDREN, once again we are met together in this
sweet way, and I know that there are some gathered
in who would extend a welcome to this servant of the
Christ. Those who are free from physical restrictions
have a greater capacity for loving than you can guess;
and when we stretch out to contact with those on earth
and find that some of them respond to our presence,
joy fills our hearts. We know that this is the Will
of God, for did not the Master say: Little children,
love one another?
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"When the earth life is o'er, the restrictions
which exist upon the earth plane between soul and soul
will be cast away, and men and women, as spirits, will
work together for the coming of the Kingdom, and by
that unity of purpose, by the blending of divine power,
it shall be shown that God's Will is done, and because
it is God's Will, the pattern and the plan are worked
in.
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"But to-night, my children, I want to touch on
another aspect of love, and I think that ere we part
you will find that it is all gathered into that same
sweet phrase: Little children, love one another, for
in the Heart and Mind of God all life is one, and each
individual is dependent upon, borrowing from, or helping
another.
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"It has been ordained that I speak on that which
I name GOD'S HUMBLER CREATIONS. I want you to think
of your responsibilities towards those other forms
of life which seem to you as something lesser than
that represented by humanity, something only for man's
use; but you know full well that there are some who
abuse their powers. In the Holy Book it is written
that God created all life and that He gave unto man
dominion over other creations. And it seems to some
that this has brought about a state of affairs where
much injustice can take place; and it is true. There
are men and women in every clime who realise not that
all life is one, and so it is that not only in this
enlightened country of your own, but throughout the
world, now and again the hearts and minds of thoughtful
people are wrung over the cruelty which is given out
to God's Humbler Creations.
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"I would speak just for a moment upon those little
creatures you name the domestic animals who bring so
much joy into the life of others. There are some here,
and there are many who are inclined to put their cat
or dog before all else. They are so concerned about
the comfort of the little thing in their care that
it seems to others that they are making a big mistake.
I want to say at the outset that any love given to
animals is good, so long as that love is controlled
by the thought of the animal's welfare and the animal's
progression. Have you not seen and have you not heard
that there are those who turn from a little child in
distress, yet for their dog they find not only compassion
but an adoration which is dangerous unto themselves
and to the creature upon whom it is bestowed.
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"So to-night I would pass a little away from the
usual teaching and instruct you on your attitude towards
God's humbler creations. I want you to remember that
the animal in your care has also had life in another
world before it took on that body which is so loved
by you. Just as you yourselves were spirit over the
long, long past and had many bodies, so the life within
the animal represents something of God, the animals
have passed through many stages, many evolutionary
processes, until to-day you get animals of utility
and also of ornament.
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"Is there not a parallel in your own lives? You
know that there are men and women who work, who contribute
to the knowledge of the world, who pour themselves
out in service to others. Then there are the parasites,
those who borrow the strength of others, those who
demand from the ones in their surroundings that service,
that complete obedience which is working into their
own bodies and in their own minds a disastrous result.
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"So I want you to remember that animals, whatever
type they may be, present a great spiritual fact. They
to-day represent something which to you appears attractive
or dangerous, something which you love or something
from which you shrink. And again I say: so it is with
man.
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"There are animals who have been used by man and
have contributed much in suffering and in power - I
speak of the horse. Many people have said: 'It is a
matter of joy to me that horses no longer suffer as
they did, that they are replaced by machinery.' That
is another spiritual fact. The horse, as represented
in this plane of being, was used and in many cases
abused by man. So, as it were, the orbit of the horse's
stage drew to a close. Something arose that would take
its place. Yet you say unto me: 'Horses have still
their use and they are required.' Yes, they are required
and they will be given unto man so long as man remembers
to use them as God intends.
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"But there is a law which comes back on man in
a way which is a revelation in itself. If man has an
animal under his charge and he ill-treats it, soon
the value that it represents is no more. The horse
or the cow, or whatever animal it may be, dwindles
in value and at last its carcass is all that remains.
Punishment from a material point of view falls upon
man, and rightly so.
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"So to-night I plead for those Humbler Creations
of God, and I say that there is not one man or one
woman who inflicts useless cruelty on those in their
charge who will not have to pay heavily for that which
they have done.
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"At the same time I say that the men and women
who lavish unwise affection on their pets, they too
are shirking their responsibilities. For that which
is a joy to you has a future life, a life in the great
wide World of Spirit and, alas and alas, there are
pets who pass out who have little to show on the gain
side. They have been victimised by the affection of
those who should have known better they have not been
trained, they have not been taught, their intelligence
has not been released, they have been allowed to make
their body their all in all, and the soul within the
animal has been starved. How many men and women are
there who consider their responsibility, their great
part in helping on the evolution of those who are less
advanced than themselves.
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"I would not sadden, but make a plea for the Humbler
Creations of God. After the earth stage is o'er for
them, they too awaken in another world and sometimes
they bear less beauty than they did when on earth.
The natural tendencies of the animals were not curbed
by those who had them in their care, and thus over
a span they must suffer, and their masters and mistresses
must suffer too.
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"It is the same with a little child. There are
the good parents and there are the unwise parents.
The good parent knows that the child must learn to
harness her will. The good parent knows that the earth
life is a training stage, and the time will come when
the soul within the body of the child will pass out
into another condition. Woe unto the parents if that
condition is less free than the earth state; and in
many cases this is so.
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"But, to-night, I want you to lay aside the thought
of your own lot in detail, and rather to think of the
lot of the lesser creations of God - lesser to man's
mind alone, for in the Heart of Love each creature
of His has its own place, is of equal value, and indeed
contributes to the Divine Plan. This is a fact which
has been overlooked throughout the long ages.
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"I would instruct that animals upon the earth-plane
- if they are of utility to man and if man treats them
as well as possible, knowing that he is a son of God
and a custodian of the life within his charge - by
going through this stage, and even by the sacrifice
of their own body, of their own physical life, if that
sacrifice is brought about without cruelty, then those
animals pass into a state that is freer and brighter
far, and something more of the Divine Plan has been
worked in.
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"There are those here who would ask me: 'Is it
right that we should eat of the carcasses of animals?'
I answer: During a certain span of the earth-plane
this works in a part of the evolutionary processes;
but I say also that as the stages of life progress
higher and higher, it will be found unnecessary to
have the coarser forms of food, and in time to come
there shall be souls who will be able to live on the
elements in the air; but that is not yet. It is not
hard to grasp this if you remember that when the physical
body is laid aside and you don a body of finer fabric,
the need for eating and drinking is no more.
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"So I say to you who are aspiring souls that you
can, by training yourselves in this same time, make
it easy and natural to use your finer bodies, in which
there is so much more of Spirit. Thus the way of perfection
upon the earth-plane is to take of that food which
bodily strength demands, yet to give not too much thought
to what a man eats and what a man drinks, but rather
as you take that which is before you, to know that
God will bless.
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"Then I would speak unto you regarding the flowers
and the trees, as well as the insects and the fish
which swim in deep and shallow waters. What think you,
brothers, how these affect you? What think you, sisters,
if you allow a flower to lay untended because of the
carelessness within your mind? Something beautiful
has faded too rapidly for God's love, something - which
contains that which is of Himself - has suffered; something,
which was brought into the earth conditions to go through
another evolutionary stage, has been martyred because
the custodians of the life forgot.
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"So simple it all is, so beautifully plain. All
life is one! You know not what the tree contributes
to your well-being, you know not what is the mission
of the flower. You see that which charms the eye and
the sweet fragrance that passes through the body. But
that is only outward; much is hidden from your understanding.
When the body is cast aside you shall come back and,
by God's grace, if you have been a true custodian of
these various forms of life, then you shall penetrate
the world of the flower, the world of the tree; you
shall be able to understand that which represents the
mind of the animal and even the insects as they hurry
away from your tread.
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"A little nearer we get to understanding something
of the Divine Plan. As you take your way, remember
that you are not individuals alone, you are dependent
on others and they are dependent upon you, unseen as
well as seen.
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"And hold this thought in mind: that the earth
stage is but one short span of experience; the soul
has lived before, not in this world but in many other
spheres hidden from your consciousness.
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"For you were created in the Divine Image, and
through those testing stages whereby you gained personal
experience, you have come to this stage of spiritual
consciousness, of free-will. To-day you know right
and wrong, you know that it is against the law of Love
to inflict pain in any form upon another; you know
also that although you have power over the Humbler
Creations, that power is severely limited in comparison
with that great gift of dominion over all life bestowed
by God on man.
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"But the time will come when those who are gathered
here will pass out into the Light, and then according
to the way they have fulfilled their stewardship upon
the earth-plane, so will be their power over the animals
in their own spheres. The lion and the lamb shall be
as one (Isa. 11, 6-9; 65, 25). The wild birds of the
air shall come as you raise your hand, and even the
reptiles shall be silenced as your footsteps pass them
by. All life is one, and the great tool which man so
oft overlooks, is the tool of love, that marvellous
power which is encaverned in love for others.
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"So we come back to the teaching of the Christ:
Little children, love one another! Little children,
love My humbler creations, protect them, guide them,
teach them how to grow! Oft have I said that the good
gardener is blessed beyond his knowledge, and so is
the man who tills the soil to produce food for the
nation. Many are his disappointments and so oft it
seems unto him that what he tries to do is destroyed
under his hand. But he is a saviour of the soil, he
is bringing out the resources of Mother Earth, he is
helping the life in the soil so that in the stage to
come that which is represented to you by Nature may
be seen in a greater, grander, finer form.
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"Is it not clear? Therefore your path lies straight
before you. As you take your way, whether through the
busy town, out in the sweet countryside, or by the
water as the wild waves are dashing up, oh pray for
the life in the sea, pray for the birds in the air,
pray for the flowers; and all the while seek to harness,
train and develop the resources they possess.
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"The man and the woman who pass out of the earth-plane
with nothing to show in service to God's Humbler Creations,
have much to learn and much time must elapse before
the lessons have been made their own.
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"So to-night, my children, I come to bless you
and I come to release still more those latent powers
within. For you are of God and because the Holy Spirit
is enshrined within, you have creative forces which
you have never thought of and certainly have never
exercised while the physical body has been bound.
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"Within your power it lies to make the next stage
for God's humbler creations a sweeter stage. There
is much responsibility attached to those who have animals
that pass out and have less intelligence than they
had when in your home. So true are these facts and
so terrible a responsibility imposed upon each one.
As you go home think over my words regarding the little
animal who comes to greet you. Train it, guide it,
safeguard it, let it not represent a body alone but
a soul, for there is something of the Holy Spirit enshrined
within which has life for evermore.
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"Think as to this: The countless planes and worlds
outside this little earth of yours are peopled with
life, and the animals, the birds, the flowers in finer
or in coarser form, they too live on.
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"I ask you to ponder upon my words when I have
passed from you in this same way. Keep a sane outlook,
realise that even the animals who are used to replenish
the body of man for a stage - mark you this, only for
a stage - if the 'life' is taken without the cruelty
which is imposed so freely, and if while they were
still on earth they were tended and cared for and loved,
so in the next stage for them there is something better,
something brighter. They have served their neighbour,
and their neighbour is man.
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"Thus it is with all living things. Many ignorant
of the laws of God exclaim: 'How terrible that one
animal should feed and live on another!' But this is
only for a stage, a stage that represents the falling
away from the great law of God and the result of what
has been worked in over the far past.
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"But the time will come when animal or insect
will no more feed upon one another; the time will come
for man as well when out of the atmosphere sufficient
nourishment will be procured, the day will dawn when
man will be freed from inflicting sorrow and pain upon
another.
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"Oh I bless you with wider vision, with a greater
compassion, with a deeper knowledge, and with a more
prayerful attitude towards all Life, and I say that
in the degree you seek to put into practice those divine
laws - which in bare outline I have given you this
night - in the degree that you observe those laws it
shall be joy for you in the life to come. But in the
degree that you ignore them, so each pang inflicted
upon the Humbler Creations of God must be worked out
in the future. The laws of God are held intact. What
a man sows that he shall surely reap.
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"Healing power for each and every one! Indeed
the Holy Spirit has been granted unto us this night,
for we have got a little away from ourselves and we
have thought of the other creations of God, equally
loved, equally cared for, equally provided for; and
the blessing is thus enhanced.
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"Peace be unto you all, my children. The great
law of compensation shall be worked out in every individual
life. If the flower is neglected, if the animal suffers,
God makes up for the lack that is in man; and although
the pangs must be endured because of the selfishness
of another, when that stage of suffering is passed,
the peace and the joy and the progress are enhanced.
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"I bless the workers and I say unto them that
so long as the sacred Cross of Jesus Christ is ever
before their eyes they shall succeed, aye, they shall
be blessed for the many souls they have been instrumental
in bringing into the Light.
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"Peace and blessing! To-night not only are there
many disembodied souls gathered in, but there are thousands
and thousands of animals of all kinds here, and they
shall be blessed because they suffered in the past.
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"Peace be with you all, dear children, and in
God's good time we shall meet again."
©GWCSA
GIFT
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