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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"CHRIST THE JUDGED"
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 the
Zodiac Circle on Sunday, 15th March, 1925
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"Thou, dear Lord, hearest our prayers. Thou answerest
the petitions the petitions of Thy Children, both on
the earth plane and in those many spheres which are
numbered among Thine own; therefore, tonight we meet
together in thankfulness, in the wish to learn and
the wish to serve. Send down upon us Thy power, O Saviour
Christ; grant that Thy little children may enter into
the peace which is of Thee.
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"Father, guide us, steady us, remould us so that
we indeed express something of Thy thought. Take away
the earth impressions, block out the noise of the bust
world and bid us enter into holiness; and in holiness
to learn something of Thy wonderful purpose, of the
plan which even now Thy children, unconsciously, are
working upon.
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"O God, we ask these things in simple faith and
trust. We come to Thee as children in understanding
and development; and we know that ever, as Thou extended
Thy most compassionate love to the little ones who
gathered to Thy knee, so we also shall find in Thee
tonight, and always, just that for which the heart
cries out - the satisfaction of those longings which
the mind cannot express, those inspirations and aspirations
which concern the Spirit alone.
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"Father we thank Thee. Teach us how to be grateful,
teach us how to pass on the good tidings to others,
for Christ's sake. Amen.
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"Good evening, my children, and I am going to say at
once that I am very glad to see that others have listened
to the Voice of the Spirit, and have come, instinctively,
to that which teaches them a little more of the Mind
of God, of God's wonderful thoughts towards His little
ones cabined within the physical body.
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"Oh, never think that because you wander here
awhile - outside, it seems to you, the range of things
celestial - never think that more than that infinitesimal
part of you remains outside. You cannot think one thought
of unselfishness, one thought of self-discipline, one
thought of God without immediately entering into that
which is of the Spirit
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"Never think that the Father waits for the physical
experience to lapse before giving you of His gifts.
Remember that He said: "Come unto Me", and
in coming the gifts are vouchsafed.
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"Oh, my little children, if I could portray but
once something of the tender Heart of God, you would
indeed feel that the material things of the life which
you now live are as naught; you would feel that being
in touch with Him you could let all else go by.
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"Some of you have thought a little on my words.
I told you that when Christ came into my physical life,
what the world had to give, or what it had to take
away, was as nothing - nothing to me, And why was this?
Simply, dear children, that, as I tried to explain
to you before, my real self - all that felt and thought
- was free, free from the tempestuous conditions in
which I was placed, free to commune direct - the Spirit
within with the Parent Spirit - not above, not beyond
my physical reach - but companioning me, by my side,
accessible at any moment - mine, mine to call upon
for strength, for endurance, for all that sweet peace
in which my soul was bathed.
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"And that is the position of man today, but he
heeds it not. Again and again you have it laid down
in your scriptures - plainly and with no reason for
twisting its meaning - you have it laid down that God
is amongst you, with you all, in you, and you of Him.
Oh, my children, tonight I ask you once more to stand
free - free from these entangling thoughts, free to
grow, free to be and free to act.
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"This is the future, this is what lies before
you in a way impossible for you to grasp now; the life
of service, which is of joy, which is of peace - that
life which knows no ending, which can defy physical
death, for it shall come to you and you shall know
it not. This is the future, and it goes on for all
eternity, because you are linked to Christ - Christ,
Who never rests, Who never grows weary of helping,
strengthening, calling His children on and on.
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"On earth valuable time is wasted; on all sides
you see your fellow beings pursuing that which is but
an echo of the real. But when this brief experience
is over, then they will have to go back on their tracks,
and, with sorrow and with suffering, rebuild, re-create,
remould as the Spirit within directs.
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"Yes, there is much that lies in front, but tonight,
for a few minutes, I want you to think of Christ. On
other evenings we have taken various subjects which
have raised queries in the physical minds of one or
the other; and, as time goes on, I intend to deal with
all these questions, with all those debatable points,
in order to clear a space - to clear the vibrations
so that the mind of the Spirit can be free. It is impossible
for you to understand the things which are of God while
these teasing queries remain unanswered; but, mark
you, I do this for one purpose only - to prepare, to
attune your minds so that the Greater Wisdom may find
a lodgement within.
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"Tonight, then, we will take the highest and the
best and the sweetest - we will think of Christ. Christ,
not only in those days of old, living amongst men,
teaching, helping, healing, but Christ, the same Christ
Who was from the beginning, and will be unto the end.
For, as I have told you before, the Lord Jehovah was
and is the same gentle Shepherd Who was slain by man.
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"But think you, my children, of this: Christ said,
"For judgement I am come, that they which see
not might see"(John 9:39), and I want you to consider this statement in its
true aspect. You have it on record that the Saviour
also said "that He came not to judge the world
but to save it" (John 12:47), and that stands for all time.
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"Christ, God, the King of Kings came into our
midst with a simplicity, with a love past all understanding
- came not to judge others but to be judged by us.
And those who had eyes to see, those who had tried
to cleanse their sin-stained hearts, they saw the Divine,
they saw that which was Tenderness personified, Tenderness
demonstrated as never it had been before. God came
into the midst of mankind for judgement - judgement
by the children which He created - saying to them,
saying to you, to the world at large: "look at
Me, examine Me, judge Me, because you belong to Me
and I belong to you!"
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"Children, the physical mind finds it impossible
to grasp such exquisite humility. The physical mind,
so glorying in its own petty powers, cannot understand
that the one with all power, the One Who created everything,
Who thought out the marvels of this and of that - those
marvels which, dear children, you know little about
and of which man, as a whole, is entirely ignorant
- the glories and the wonders which are of the Spirit;
the God Who made us all, the God Who gave us Life,
Who has endowed us with His Spirit, part of Himself,
that He came down to earth, and before His children
submitted Himself for judgement; so that they who were
blind might see; that the Voice of the Spirit should
be heard, should answer and break free.
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"Children, as you know, Love, Divine, past all
understanding, was, by the few, deemed deserving of
death. Listen and take it in! Visualise the scene yourself
- not the agony of the Cross, not the torture of the
body, but the anguish of the Spirit within, the anguish
of Love refused - the anguish of seeing His little
ones bind themselves to the forces which are of darkness.
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"Here you get the true representation of the Crucifixion,
before which the physical suffering seems as nothing.
God crucified by those He came to help, to heal, and
to save from their lesser selves. Love, understanding
Love, spurned and despised.
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"This is the real lesson of Lent, this is what
I would have you ponder over, for then you will see
that it is in the power of humanity to crucify God
again and again. True, the physical body is no more,
but, as you know full well, Christ is bound to you,
walks with you through your physical experiences, suffers
with you - indeed is anguished when you turn from Him,
not understanding the gift which is held out.
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"That is the lesson of this season of sacred memories.
Christ came for judgement, and Christ is judged by
you all during your physical life. Is He worth following?
Is He worth fighting for? Is His Love worth having?
These are the questions put to each one again and again.
The Lord God of all waits - waits with that exquisite
patience, waits for man to judge Him and to say: "This
is my God Whom I adore!"
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"Yes, dear children, the days go on, time is flying
fast; thousands pass over spiritually unawakened, totally
ignorant of the duty they owe to the Divinity within.
And then, when they have laid the body aside, they
see and they understand. Not at first, it is true.
You cannot turn your eyes from Love during the physical
journey and then, when that is over, look at the Divine.
No! the eyes are chained to the earth, the evil which
they have sought, deliberately, has closed them in;
and because they preferred the darkness, when the light
was all around, so they must wait - wait until the
stifled desire of the Spirit within gains strength
to assert itself once more.
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"You know that I have told you often that Christ's
love is around the lowest, the weakest, those who have
betrayed the Spirit most. The Father and His children
are never separated, but the child turns from the Father
and heeds Him not. Yet you must know that time so wasted
takes much effort to make up; that death, the death
of the body, changes you not at all - in this sense;
that where your desires are, there do you go. Each
goes into "his own place", and that place
is being built up, point by point, as the thoughts,
as the actions, as those worst emotions surge through
your mind. They are there to be faced, to be conquered
and to be overcome; and that which was not done when
the opportunity was offered, during the earthly experience,
then, when that time is over, he who was blind has
to learn to see. Changed, and yet not changed when
the physical body is no more.
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"Yet I have a word of infinite comfort for those
who have tried and have failed again and again. To
those I say: as you have striven, as that greater "you"
within longs to soar, to be free of the cloying thoughts
that seek to hold you back - as the desires, as the
aspirations, so you shall find, when the garment is
laid aside, that you step free into that which you
longed to be. That is the pilgrim's progress; and so,
dear children, I want you tonight, as always, to get
back, back to the Christ way of thinking.
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"First of all, in your mind, to build up a portrait
of the Beloved - yes! Of the One Who understands you
best, the One Who loves you whatever you are, whatever
you fail to be. Get before you that Image of Love,
and then call out the Spirit of God which is within
- and you can do it, by thought! You can do it in your
daily work, in the most mundane tasks which make up
your lives. All that is necessary to contact with the
Divine is just the wish - just the thought: "God
hold me, God keep me."
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"Prayer is thought, remember that. You were told
to pray, to withdraw from others and kneel in prayer.
This, as the Father knew so well, was of aid to you
in raising the mind from those multitude of physical
distractions; but with the soul who knows and who recognises
his Saviour, he can contact with the Divine on a second's
thought.
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"Remember that whatever you do Christ is by your
side, Christ is there to help you, to guide you and
to restore; and if this one thought is stored in the
mind - God, or Christ, or Master - just the one thought
- then the communion between you is complete. That
is prayer, prayer penetrating into those realms of
holiness which represent God - my Father, my Saviour,
my Beloved.
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"Children, there is one other point which I should
like to speak about tonight. It is in regard to the
quest which is in front of you all. I am not speaking
of physical conditions just now - I am speaking of
those journeys which the greater mind takes when sleep
claims you, or even during the busy day when your thoughts
travel off on their own. I want you to know wither
your steps are treading - what is the task which lies
before you in regard to the spiritualisation of that
which must be allied to the Spirit within.
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"It is a little difficult to put into words, but
I have to tell you that a "trinity" lies
before each one in regard to the expansion and the
development of your own individuality. In order to
be used by God after the physical body has been relinquished,
in order to do that pioneer work - that work which
allies you to the peace and the joy which is of Him
- in each man and in each woman there has to be a trinity
of development.
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"It is as this: in the days to come, when you
will see with the eyes of the Spirit, there, contained
in you, must be the perfect man, the perfect woman
and the perfect child.
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"Now this statement may seem a little confusing,
but wait and I will explain. You see, dear children,
in the God-Mind there is completion; and yet, endowed
with a physical body, of necessity your characteristics
are those associated with the masculine or the feminine,
as the case may be.
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At once, you see that, to a certain extent, during
the physical experience you can only develop along
the line of the characteristics which you possess;
but, and this must strike home to all, there are certain
characteristics which, more or less, are reserved for
the man or for the woman; and, of course, with the
child there are those gifts of the Spirit which are
lost or submerged as the years go on.
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"Some there are who have noticed with disgust
that woman is inclined to show tendencies which are
rather masculine than feminine; and, again, the accusation
is brought against man that he, in some respects, is
losing that manliness which marked him off from the
woman.
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"Let not these things distress you. True it is that human nature mistakes the guiding path, and takes the wrong road which brings pain in the
end. Yet I would tell you this: that if man would choose
to emulate those
higher qualities of tenderness, of sacrifice and devotional
love
which the woman possesses, he would find that he was
growing nearer to the God-ideal. And if woman, instead
of aping those characteristics which so often indicate
the lesser side of man - if woman would focus her attention
on his strength and stability, his courage and the executive
power to act in times of need, so she too would grow nearer to the Divine within.
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"You see, dear children, where I am leading you.
This is the meaning - the purpose of God's plan in
linking men and women together; but how humanity as
a whole has marred that plan! Yes, each should draw
strength from the other; that is the ideal. And although
certain qualities may be associated with a feminine
or a masculine body, yet, through companionship, each
may catch the
reflected light
from the other; when, seeing its beauty, they long
to make it their own..
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"And then we come to the child. My little ones,
after you have traversed far, after you have experienced
much, then it will dawn upon you that there is only
one thing which can give the finishing touch to that
which has been brought together by much labour, by
much discipline of self -
the purity, the faith and the trust
of a little child. That lies before each one. Though
their minds may be saturated with the material things
of the physical world, that is their quest, and what
has to be, and will be accomplished, although aeons
and aeons of time may elapse before it is done.
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"Think you of this: there are some things which
go too deep to be put into words. As you know, I saw
Christ - I was with Him, I listened to Him, and I loved
Him as I never knew it was possible to love before.
And then, when my body was laid aside, I entered into
those sweetnesses, those inexpressible joys which are
part of the vibrations which He pours out upon us all.
The power and the glories and the wonders - I mention
them not, because once you have seen something of the
Love of God, then you have got the highest and the
best.
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"Think over my words, and let the Spirit within
guide you and teach you and lead you on. God will help
you. He will never cease in His efforts to break down
those last defences of the physical mind; and once
these are laid low, so you too will enter into that
peace which passeth all bounds. And so I leave you.
(After others had spoken Zodiac returned and continued.)
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"Well, my children, we must not strain things
too much. We have had a long and useful evening and
I want you, as you go your separate ways, to remember
that it is the Spirit which called you together, and
that it is the Spirit that ever and ever again bids
you put your ideals one point higher up.
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"That is what man so often forgets. In talking
to himself and others against this principle, he says:
"Ideals are not practical in a practical world!"
But I say that when the physical life is ended, the
children of the earth will see that the most practical
thing in their lives was their idealism; for that stands
while the things of the earth pass away.
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"Children, there are many on the earth side who
have sought to gather to themselves much that is desirable,
much that delights the heart and the mind and the eye,
but when you stand free in the Spirit you will realise
that these possessions were as dross indeed. "Not
as the world giveth, give I unto you" (John 14:27), but those priceless gifts - the knowledge and the
understanding of the Mind of God.
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"Remember, "render unto Caesar the things
which be Caesar's", to the world the work of the
world; and unto God the thoughts, the dedication, the
sanctities of your heart and mind. For only by this
process, by following the narrow steep path up the
mountain-side can the vision glorious be your own.
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"These are my closing words - used once before
tonight: "to the prepared mind the vision comes;
to the disciplined heart the love which is of God."
There you have the thing complete - unity with the
Spirit within, that Spirit linking itself, forged to
the Divine Father-Spirit, Whose love is everywhere
in your lives, whatever state or sphere or condition
you may be in; that all-pervading love, that holiness,
that sweetness, that inexpressible peace - linked to
the Father as sons and daughters, linked to the Most
High. That is the gift, that is the free-offering made
to you and to all. Than arise in heart and mind and
take that which is your own!
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"God bless you all. May His peace rest over you,
banishing misgivings and misunderstandings. May the
consciousness of something of His wonderful love penetrate
into your physical minds, turning all the world into
sunshine and brightness and joy. Amen.
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"Goodnight, my children."
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