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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"OUR DIVINE INHERITANCE"
(An Address messenger 'Zodiac', (the unnamed scribe
of the Bible and a teacher in the Temple of Jerusalem
at the time of Christ), celestial messenger of Christ)
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"My little children, I want to focus your minds
a little more on reality. I want you to put away the
theories of man, those opinions passed on to you by
your forebears, and to consider with me for a while
something which indeed you must learn when the physical
body is no more, something which must be made your
own before you, as witnesses of the truth, can return
to those held by spiritual ignorance, and lead them
out of the wood of misunderstanding on to be road of
high endeavour.
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"So this night, treating you as those who are
grown, as those who have put aside childish things,
I would speak on that which I name 'Our Divine Inheritance',
and I want you all to give out of yourselves; for indeed,
in order that the harmony may be complete amongst you,
amongst those who came with you, and amongst the multitude
who gather in to learn - in order that the harmony
may be complete, each and every one must contribute
from himself. So then, let God's work come first, and
desire, in whatever form it may appear, be banished,
for in time to come you shall go back upon this night
and rejoice that you were used to further the Holy
plan.
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"Our Divine Inheritance! I have taught you that
in the beginning of life as concerns the individual,
each one was perfect even as God is perfect, being
in truth a fragment of the great and mighty One. That
is the beginning and, again I say, that is the end.
Our Divine inheritance is perfection in miniature,
even as God is perfect in the great and mighty whole.
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"In the little yesterday I spoke of building from
small beginnings the power to create, and I underlined
that the power to create - housed in the individual
- is governed in turn by the will to create. Now mark
you this: Free-will cannot be interfered with, as you
know full well, and there are countless thousands upon
the earth plane who are creating not strength, not
holiness, not love - they are sending out on the vibrations
weakness, antagonism to God, and a host of other things
which wreak their damage upon the Divine within themselves
and others.
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"Ah yes, you know it well. You pass amongst those
with the gifts of the mind, and you see at a glance
that in many cases the man who calls himself a painter,
a writer or a musician has not held his gift above
the earth. Nay, the gift itself is covered either in
whole or in part with the mire of the earth; and even
as he creates the progress of others is hindered in
a way you cannot grasp.
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"Think of those with the gifts of the Spirit.
Some claim that they possess clear vision. How clear
is that vision? How many use their sacred gifts in
order to pander to the lesser minds of those who seek
their aid? How few there are who use these gifts which
should be expressive of the Christ within, to lead
others back into the light of understanding, away from
the knowledge of the earth into the wisdom which lasts
for ever!
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"The man who pens the word; the woman who soils
herself by sending out on the vibrations that which
indeed marks the minds of the young with disease; the
one who possesses the holy gift of creating melody
and uses it but to arouse the baser passions of those
blind and unused to reality; the one who takes the
clay and makes a god of the physical body - all these
in time must face things as they are, and then to their
horror they will see not only the marks of the beast
upon themselves, but how through that which they did,
that which they had the will to create, they have set
the mark of the beast upon countless of the unwary.
The responsibility in regard to this is too gigantic
for you to understand at this stage.
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"Little ones, from this point I fasten your mind
upon that which you call 'heredity' - the inherited
characteristics passed on from your forebears - the
excuse that some seize upon in order to explain the
weakness that is within. Oh my children, I condemn
not and I understand in greater measure than you can
grasp. I say it is true that countless thousands who
enter the physical tabernacle find the pathway of the
earth beset by traps through the folly and the blindness
and the bondage of those who went before. Aye, the
garment into which the spirit steps has been, as you
say, ruined for the holder by the selfishness of the
ones who bore or the ones who provided the physical
garment for the parents.
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"These things are truth. Men ponder upon what
they call the sins of this little world, and when one
here and one there exhibits characteristics savouring
of the animal or lower than the animal, so, in their
blindness they say it is a hark-back, it is something
inherited from that time when man was as the ape.
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"Man's inheritance is Divine, and man's future
is perfection. Forget not that "inheritance"
in its true sense can apply to the past and to the
future, and man's inheritance is perfection!
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"Little children, you will in time to come work
amongst the bonded and the enslaved. While pity holds
you as to the weakness of those who went before, and
as your heart is wrung by that which is produced, born
and bred, as you say, in the bone of the one you wish
to help - oh, hold this thought, that to such as these
opportunity in a way inconceivable to the mind of man
is held out, in this wise.
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"Think you of some great rushing river which has
broken down the boundaries which shut it off from the
pleasant plain. There are those who are affrighted;
destruction is imminent; nothing can save unless that
which is a miracle takes place. Again we come to the
will to create. The brave souls, the workers, forgetting
physical fatigue, forgetting self, these with speed
gather those things of the earth which are essential,
and seek to build a barrier to keep back the rushing
flood. Sometimes they fail, because the enemy forces
are too strong through the carelessness of those who
should have held themselves responsible; but again,
sometimes, out of that which they have given up themselves
for the sake of others, something strong is built up
and the waters are kept back.
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"Now hold this thought in mind, for this is a
simile of those passed on characteristics - the follies,
the weaknesses and that which you name the vices. Oh,
little children, give out the truth! You, each one,
can do miracles in the name of Christ; and those in
our surroundings who are bound can work greater miracles
still, for indeed the forces against them are stronger
than your own.
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"Think you as to the inherited characteristics
within the individual. Within the one who has the will
to create there is the power to stop that weakness
so that it does not pass beyond himself. Now how can
this the done? Have I not told you that elimination
is not God's law? At this stage man is as a shadow
of his real self, even as the beauty of the earth is
but a shadow of the beauty that lasts for ever. Whatever
weakness may be in the mind or in the body - apart
from that which is of a purely physical character -
every weakness or frailty can be recreated by yourself
into something which bears resemblance to a gift from
God.
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"Each characteristic within the heart and mind
of man is an inverted gift, is a desecration, is a
distortion of something which in its first beauty was
like unto God. Aye, even that which you name man's
weakness or the desire to forget trouble through drug
or drink; all these things, my children, are a perversion
of something which was holy, something which was pure.
The appetites of the physical body, even as regards
the greed of the little child for that which is harmful
to be physical garb, all this is but a perversion of
the craving for spiritual satisfaction, for the right
to create as God intended. Each failing, each weakness
is but the perversion of something which once reflected
the Divine inheritance of man.
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"Oh, I speak, perchance, in tones that are stern,
but I look out on this little world today and I see
those who are deceived; and, more than that, I see
the deceivers. They go to one here, one there; they
argue in plausible tones: 'It is right and meet that
we should have this, that we should do that. God is
not a God of misery but a God of joy'. And so the careless
ones, the heedless ones, listening to the voice of
the enemy, take that which they call the joys of the
earth and build up the misery of the Spirit. And, alas,
the wreckage does not stop with them. Even if they
bear not children into physical life, their thoughts,
their weaknesses have been sent out on the vibrations;
and the children of others - not over-strong in the
things that are of God, with the Divine within still
in bondage - they are swept away from the light.
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"When the culprits, when those responsible pass
into self-revelation, horror seizes them. They have
not only to root out the seeds from their own minds,
but by anguish, by inconceivable effort they have to
till the minds of others, for through them the unwary
fell further away from their Divine inheritance.
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"Cannot you understand how God has blessed you?
Cannot you grasp what lies behind that which you recognise
as weakness or strength in yourselves? You say: 'My
father, my grandfather was like this, was like that,
and I have inherited that same characteristic'. If
it is a good one thank your forebears, for they, not
knowing, have acted as a friend and as a saviour to
yourselves. But if those inherited characteristics
concern weakness or self-betrayal, oh then, my children,
think of the rushing stream, and again thank God that
by the will to create you can build a barrier, and
that characteristic in time shall be blotted out of
what you name your family. But damage done over the
long past cannot be stopped at once or by one. Even
as with the rushing stream, the time comes when the
barrier built is not sufficient and others must build
again.
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"But do you not see the mercy of God, how the
sins of the fathers can be stemmed by those who love
and seek to keep His commandments? How the individual,
by the effort put forth, can act as a healer for others,
a restorer to those who have lost, a retriever to those
who cast from them not realising the worth of their
glorious gifts?
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"So, my children, I underline again and again
your Divine inheritance. You may say to me: 'I try,
yet I fail!', but I answer: Try again, pray, and above
all, work; and the time shall come - because God is
God - when you shall fail no more, when the post shall
have been hammered in so strongly that you can hold
to its support and the rushing tide is powerless to
tear you from it. Little ones, in this way is a country
saved, is a world redeemed; and this applies not only
to the earth plane but to countless worlds as yet unknown
by you; only in this wise can states and conditions
revert to something of the beauty they once represented.
And this thought I wish you to hold in your minds:
Each condition where those you name the bonded are
held - the dark planes, the twilight planes - all these
once reflected the beauty of the mind of God.
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"Oh think not that anything could be created by
Love that failed the highest. That which you name Nature
is but a symbol of the glories of the Spirit. As upon
the earth plane the once pleasant country is turned
by man into a slum, as indeed in other conditions -
by the bondage of the individual, by selfishness, by
the will to create against the Lord God of all - so
those conditions, once pure and free and glorious to
behold, by slow stages fell from their high estate,
and now indeed darkness holds all spaces.
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"Is it not true that the inheritance of man upon
the earth plane lies in the free-will of man? One builds,
another destroys; again, another takes the wreckage
and seeks to build; and still once again God's laws
control man's laws. The one who wrecked the life of
another passes out into his own place when the wreckage
is all around; and the one whose life was wrecked -
by the suffering entailed, by the anguish of the physical
garment, by the tumult within and without from the
enemies of the Spirit - he passes out into his own
place, and wreckage is no more. God's laws governing
man's laws. And those in the planes you name the dark
or twilight, they, in time, through the suffering that
these conditions contain, shall pass out of darkness
into the dawn, and the dawn shall lead on into the
full day, and the full day into the glory of the love
of God, into the light which perishes not, into the
joy and the peace which is beyond the power of the
erring to destroy.
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"So, my children, holding the thought in mind
of your Divine inheritance - perfect holiness - think
of those gifts which at this time you possess, aye,
of the power to create and the responsibility as to
the will to create. Oh, that that which you build bear
resemblance to sweetness and holiness, bear resemblance
to that which is allied to God.
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"The long past as a record is open before my eyes
as I speak, the long past as concerns you, my little
ones. Why are you here this night? Because in the long
past a compact was made that the time should come when
you, pushing aside the things of the earth, should
be linked together for God's most Holy work. So then,
take care as to this compact, break it not; for these
things are, as you would say, engineered by God. They
are part of the plan. You are instruments, every one.
See that what you weave in is good in the sight of
the Father. Let not the thoughts of the earth, or the
persuasions of others, or the calls of self, make barriers
between you, for this link has been made possible only
by the power of the Holy Spirit, and in time you must
stand before reality and go back on all that which
has taken place.
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"The One Who begat you - the Lord God Almighty
- forget not your responsibility to Him, for because
you are of Himself, weakness and sadness, doubts and
misgivings, these, each one, are registered in the
Father's heart, and the time will come when, in miniature,
you will be like unto Christ - aye, in miniature -
and Christ is God.
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"So it is that each and every one has to learn
that which is the trinity of progress - the highest
in man, the highest in woman, and to cleave to the
purity of the little child; and forget not that parenthood
in the Spirit sense is essential for Development. In
miniature you must be as the Father and Mother God
and gather around you child-souls - the little ones
in understanding - and lead them out of foolishness
into strength; ah yes, seek to teach them as to their
Divine inheritance so that in time they too, in miniature,
may be as God Himself. For this God begat us, and this
is our Divine inheritance.
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"So, my children, face your responsibilities.
Go through that which is your mental and spiritual
equipment, and if there is a weakness there, say: 'It
shall not pass beyond me; I will fight and I will struggle
until I have overcome!' Oh, cannot you see that in
this desire you are following the Christ example, the
example of the One, the only One Who fought His temptations
as they came and fought until He had won.
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"Oh, little children, we are out on a great and
glorious mission. The wayfarers cry to one here and
one there: 'Rest in the pleasant shade'; but the pilgrim
answers: 'No, I must go on, the pleasantness of the
Spirit Realms awaits me!' Again the voice of the world
cries: 'Foolish one, youth is slipping away, age will
come and poverty will be your lot; seek to take of
the things which I have in plenty'; but the pilgrim
answers: 'No, no! My treasure is in heaven and thither
my footsteps must hasten on!' Again, one with the half-light,
with the half-understanding cries out: 'This is some
huge mistake, the path of duty is enough for you; if
you seek to scale the heights, punishment will follow
fast upon your pride; be warned in time!' But the pilgrim,
with his eyes upon the stars of achievement, replies:
'Had there been others to take the steep hillside,
in this day war and poverty and misery would be unknown.
I will take the steep hillside!'
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"Thus the pilgrim demonstrates his inheritance
and so he is drawing back to him the gifts of God.
By suffering, by effort, by going on, he is showing
that he is fit to hold and to use the gifts which are
Divine. So then, my children, lay this upon your heart,
and for ever answer: 'Lead Thou me on! Whither Thou
goest, O Christ, there I seek to follow' - and the
power shall come.
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"I bless you, my children, with lofty aspiration
and with consciousness of your Divine inheritance.
The Master blesses us all as I speak, and the Master's
words are these: 'Courage, little ones, courage - the
great strength is by your side!'
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"Farewell."
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