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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"THE LIFE'S WORK OF THE AURA"
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 Bromley, Kent,
on Sunday, 21st July, 1946.
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"Saviour Christ, into Thy hands I commend the spirit
of this Thy child…
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"MY CHILDREN, in these times of much reasoning, when
the mind of man seems to be stimulated by the events
which have passed and the problems of to-day, it is
wise to meet together and to consider how each individual
is drawn into the great Scheme of Life. And it is with
real joy that I come into your presence because I know
that there are those gathered in who are interested
not merely in themselves, but in their part in helping
to release humanity from the bondage which has fettered
it to the past.
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"It is an important point to remember - that tradition,
that old habits and rules, have their place, but also
they can be something in the nature of a chain to certain
minds and certain temperaments, who are so held by
the views of their forebears that they cannot individualize
their own thoughts. I think if you asked the majority
a certain question and received the answer and then
said: 'Why is it that you hold those views?' you would
find a confusion of thought. Many would say: 'Well,
that is, the general opinion.' Others perhaps would
say: 'That was the attitude my father and my mother
held, and I was brought up to think that way!' And
in regard to religion this is very understandable.
But the point we have to realize is that religion cannot
be separated from Life as a whole or from human thought,
because through the evolution of the soul there is
drawn in, in many guises, some not easily perceived,
that element of religion which will be recognized as
such when this short stage is over.
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"So, my children, I want to speak to you to-day upon
THE LIFE'S WORK OF THE AURA. You are all interested
in the subject of the aura, but the majority regard
it from a purely personal point of view; they like
to question: 'What does my aura look like? How can
I improve it? Why is it that some people have a far
finer aura than others?' All reasonable questions and
prompted by interest in the subject. But tonight I
want to go a little further than that, to draw your
thoughts to something which relates to you and yet
concerns Life as a whole, because you must remember
that not only individuals, not only the flowers and
the animals, and the many other forms which you recognize
as 'life', not only have all these their own auric
rays, but also those inanimate things which you take
as a matter of course. For instance, your books, your
furniture, even your garden paths. They all have very
positive auric rays which, in turn, have their influence
upon the sensitive make-up of human beings, of children
before the mind is mature, and also upon the animals
and the Little People.
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"You see, we are getting rather far away from the purely
personal element, and yet it is infinitely more personal
to you than to know the exact colours of your own aura,
for all Life is one, and it is impossible to separate
legitimately the different parts and portions of Life.
We know that the scientists, the thinkers and those
who have made a study of books, are always trying to
dissect Life, and they are able to do this to a certain
measure, but later on they will find that that was
the physical aspect alone, and we to-day are dealing
with spiritual Truth.
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"So in the first place let us consider the auric rays
of certain branches of education. We are not only thinking
of the schools or the colleges, we are thinking of
the great school of Life; and you, my children, are
examples, according to the views which you hold, of
the influence of the auric rays not only from people
but from things.
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"As you know, the reading that you favoured when you
were young had a certain repercussion upon your views.
There were men and women who were brought up in religious
households and taught instinctively to love the Lord
Jesus Christ, and then as they grew older they were
attracted to certain scientific books put together
by those with great minds, not only of your own nationality
but of other nationalities; and those books, by the
very merit of their cleverness, had a deep influence
upon the mind which was not really set into the true
mould of spiritual understanding, and great damage
was done.
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"There were many who supplanted faith not only by doubt
but even by ridicule; they were no longer satisfied
with the records in the sacred Book, they discredited
the miracles, they even discredited the life and teaching
of the Holy Master! And they thought it was 'progression';
they said that they had emerged out of the simplicities
of youth and taken upon themselves the maturity of
an age which had made a study of the mental processes
of man.
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"It was a great pity that those so easily swayed by
the furniture of words could not follow the 'career'
of these great thinkers. And I would admit at once
that they had extreme ability, they were able to present
human facts in so attractive a guise that they deceived
even those who were regarded as experts. So it was
that such as these were led to supplant humanity and
the sympathies of physical life for that which they
named science, or to control those attributes by scientific
knowledge. But as I said, they were not able to follow
the career of the afterlife of those clever people
who, without realizing it, had come under the auric
vibrations of disembodied souls who had lost their
way.
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"Remember that there are many mental guides seeking
to find instruments to-day. We do not despise them
when we call them 'mental' guides; but if you have
spiritual knowledge you are brought face to face with
the fact that the mental make-up is a very trumpery
thing in comparison with the release of the real mind
connected with the Divinity that is within.
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"And I ask you to pause upon this thought, because
there are so many discouraged by their own mental tools,
or by the use they have been able to make of those
tools. They look with envy upon the clever ones, the
ones who seem to be regarded by others as authorities
on this and that; but I want to give them a word of
warning, because they are not able to follow the career
of such as these; they do not see with their physical
eyes that the mind of the body can become literally
a prison-house, and the door is barred to the revelation
which God intended that even in this limited state,
when the flesh holds you so fast, should be within
the reach of each and everyone.
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"Yes, those auric rays sent out by educational movements
are vital to you and to the coming generations, and
if your eyes were opened you would be able to see -
even from the books you hold - extraordinary manifestations
of the personality of others, not only of the writer,
but of the ones who influenced the thought of the writer
and, more than that, of those perchance who handled
the book. You see that even READING can represent a
danger if the heart and mind are not linked to God,
and if there is not a true comprehension of the limitations
of human thought and also a comprehension of the wide
ramifications of knowledge which are open to man as
he progresses through the Spheres.
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"So, dear children, immediately you think of the Life's
Work of the Aura you are taken not only to the mundane
things of physical life, but to the influence that
even a tree may have upon you, or the house of a friend,
or the garments that you touch and wear made by other
people, and in addition to all these there is the past
to be considered, and the future.
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"I want you to take very seriously the subject of PRE-EXISTENCE.
So many people cling to the earthly stage as if it
were all that Life had to offer; they also regard physical
birth as something of tremendous importance and physical
death as a catastrophe. It is simply because their
sense of proportion has not been trained by true knowledge.
So I ask you to try to grasp the fact of pre-existence
in many, many worlds before you were ready to inhabit
a physical body. You have died to innumerable states
to be born again into innumerable states; and when
you came into the earth world you simply died to the
stage before, to be born into this; and when the time
comes for the transition, again, it will be merely
a question of death and rebirth into another world
with a different kind of body.
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"But here we come at once to the importance of the
aura, and I want you to realize that your make-up today,
your attitude of mind, your sensitiveness to certain
things or your lack of sensitiveness is, as it were,
a map of the past. You may say: 'I have faults which
I do not like!' But I would reassure you; the moment
you realize that there are discrepancies between your
physical and your spiritual self, you are progressing.
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"The man who is in an almost hopeless position is the
one who thinks that there is very little improvement
to be made in him, judging by the average. These people
have to wander in mental loneliness for a long span
after the physical body is discarded.
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"But in regard to your aura now and your present make-up,
the mere fact that you may have a weak body, or perhaps
not so able a mind as you desire, is no indication
of failure in the past; and I would emphasize still
more that
the misfortunes which beset so many souls are not an
indication of wrong-doing in previous lives in other
worlds.
That theory is one that has tortured many a humble
striving soul, struggling along with a burden far too
heavy for the physical make-up, but borne with patience
by the strong spirit within.
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"My children, you have indication of this truth in
the lives of great people way back over history, and
I use that word 'great' in connection with character,
for that is the only presentation of greatness which
is possible to us. You have the saints and the martyrs,
you have the pioneers, those who started on great adventures
and suffered for their enthusiasm. It seemed to others
that they made unnecessary sacrifices, it seemed to
some - of their time - that they were in the nature
of a nuisance, they had got out of the beaten track,
they caused all sorts of mental disturbances, they
had aroused the people from the spiritual coma which
they were in, and the price had to be paid.
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"So although you may not regard yourselves as among
the 'great' people, you are really not in a position
to judge, because greatness is revealed on the pattern
of the aura, and very few of you have sufficient spiritual
sight to witness either your own aura or the auras
of those around you; if you had you would not be entrapped
so often as you are.
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"Many people are taken in by a pleasant manner, by
a seeming generosity of mind; many, to their cost,
see their young ones being called away from the path
of duty by that fatal law of physical attraction. If
the eyes of the young could be opened and if they could
see the conditions around that one as they gain a sway
over them, they would be horrified, and their one wish
would be to get as far away as possible from such an
enemy masquerading as a friend.
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"So when I say that there may be people gathered in
this night and many who will read my words, who in
time to come may be counted amongst the saints and
martyrs, you need not reject this as illogical or lacking
in commonsense. You yourselves may be amongst them,
and I turn to those who have had hard lives, difficult
problems to solve, heavy responsibilities and, perchance
a body which has not had that vitality which would
have made things so much easier for them. Many seem
only to flounder along the way. When they were young
they had high hopes, and ambition like a glorious flag
drew them up the steep hill of labour; but circumstances
proved too much for them. And now to-day, in looking
at their present conditions, they feel that if they
are not actually failures, well, they have failed themselves
in many respects. But again I say, they are not in
a position to judge.
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"I want each one to realize this fundamental truth
- that quite unconsciously, hour by hour, penetrating
through the tabernacle of the flesh, from your real
self there are important auric rays pouring out upon
the conditions and upon all those who are in those
conditions. Some of you might think that a magician's
wand had been at work if you could see what happens
when real sympathy springs up from the heart and mind
one towards another, or a practical expression of compassion.
Service
is rendered by all sorts of people in all sorts of
ways as a matter of course; in fact, it
should be regarded as the law of life
because it is the law of progression. But the one concerned
- the tired mother, the weary worker who stops to give
a word of cheer, the one who sympathizes over a material
loss or with the absence of one who is loved, how often
does it occur to them that from them beauty in an indescribable
form in human language is pouring forth, streaming
out on either side like a fountain of Everlasting Life?
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"And you cannot kill auric rays; they can be impinged
upon, they can be imprisoned, even as the wild flowers
have been imprisoned by buildings. Many stand with
amazement as they look upon the wreckage of that put
together by man, and see the miraculous way in which
for hundreds of years life in the tiny seeds has been
imprisoned in the earth beneath. I want you to consider
this parable, because it is of infinite importance
to the whole scheme of things in this world and in
all the spheres. You cannot kill Life! Man, by the
exercise of free-will and through force of circumstances,
can so imprison it that it appears as dead; but once
the encumbrances are removed, because there is life
in the seed, beauty springs forth for the education
of man.
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"Perhaps I have taken some of you far away from the
everyday round of physical life, and yet if you consider
my words you will find that everything I say relates
to mundane life, to the little tasks you do, to the
uncongenial toil, to the cleansing of the house, to
the repairing of the garments, the going through the
store of food with anxiety, for the hungry little ones
who soon will be running in and you must satisfy them.
Yes, it comes back to the personal, and I want you
as you take your homeward way not to despise little
things. You see, you do not understand the power of
the auric rays. You look at a flower and think how
beautiful it is, and a moment later your attention
is distracted by something else; but that impression
of your thought is left upon its aura and, more than
that, the mere fact that your sensitiveness has responded
to the beauty of the flower has brought to your aura
a finer kind of beauty, fragmentary though it may be.
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"Then in regard to your thoughts; sometimes, when in
a brown study, your eyes suddenly meet the eyes of
a stranger passing by; almost unconsciously you register
that there is illness there or something wrong with
the mind or the soul. Yes, there are thousands of people
who send out a thought of sympathy, to be forgotten
a moment later by them. But the passer-by has caught
that auric ray, and you cannot say as to the measure
of the life and strength of that ray which has reached
him from you. The act was seemingly unconscious by
the mind of the body, but conscious by the mind of
the spirit.
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"It is a vast subject, and tonight I can but touch
upon it in outline, I am here to give you just these
few thoughts which I hope will sufficiently rouse you
so that you may find some interest in following the
avenue entered just a step or two. You are meant to
educate yourselves, you have within you the gift of
God - Divinity - and in Divinity there is all-knowledge,
all-wisdom, all-power as well as all-beauty, for that
fragment of God is perfect, even though It may be but
a fragment; and man's part and portion through the
various stages of Life in the many worlds through which
he has been and in the countless worlds through which
he will progress, is to gain room for the expression
of the fragment of the Divinity gifted unto him by
God the Father at creation. You who are gardeners have
found that your plants need light and air and room.
Sometimes over the years a tree has been the obstacle,
but once its part has been played it is removed, and
you notice with joy increasing forms of life, either
in the vegetation or in the flowers you cherish.
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"This Law relates still more vitally to the Divine
Spark within you. If your eyes could bear to gaze upon
it, it would seem to you not only as the brightest
star, but as the brightest sun, and from that fragment
millions of rays are trying to find their way through
the dense material casket of the flesh, yes, and through
the soul-body as well, because with many the soul-body
does represent a great barrier to the expression of
the real self within, for it is untutored, untrained,
undisciplined by the exercise of man's free-will.
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"So I want you, if you will, to focus upon the thought
of the Spark of Divinity within you radiating a greater
number of rays than the earth mind can grasp, and all
those rays have their separate service to perform.
It may seem baffling to you, but when you pass out
of this stage of limitation and enter even the next
stage of Being, the majority of things there will seem
to you utterly bewildering. You will be in Fairyland,
in a Land where miracles are wrought every moment.
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"So it is wise to strain your imagination now, to get
it into something of training by exercising it. And
remember that you are a son or a daughter of the Most
High, and your present state represents a state of
extreme limitation, yet a state whereby the release
of Spirit consciousness - and this can be done only
through observing the law of service - by the release
of Spirit consciousness you can not only seek revelation
but attain it.
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"My children, my time has sped, but I want to come
amongst you, for I see the auric rays of all of you
here. Your lives are as open books to me, and I say
this in all humility, because Spirit sight is a gift
from the Father, it is not something which we can claim
by ourselves, it is something so essentially associated
with our Divinity that indeed humility holds our being
as we think of the wonder of God and His amazing generosity
to His own creation.
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"And forget not this: man is only one form of Life,
and it is not for anyone to say that this form of life
is more important than that form of life. Each form
of Life has its own place in the great scheme of things
set into being by God the Father, and they are all
manifestations of His thoughts, although not in their
present guise, for there has been the exercise of free-will,
and the evolutionary stages have brought in their train
that which is a distortion of the Holy Plan.
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"My children here understand me and they are giving
out love and sympathy as I pass among them, and no
harm shall attend the medium for the cloak of protection
is folded around her. And I want you to understand
that the things which are possible for one are possible
for every one gathered here and for all those who will
read my words.
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"I ask you to consider over everything in Life - over
your going out and your coming in, over the tasks you
do which you like to do and those from which you shrink
- how the auric rays are springing forth from the Real
Self within, and then by the exercise of spiritual
free-will to ensure that each day shows you one portion
nearer to the Divine Image in which you were created,
that each task that is undertaken, humble though it
may be, is another step in the right direction.
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"And when you are free from the body you will not mind
all the differences of education, all the social distinctions,
all those dissimilarities of mental and physical make-up;
these things will seem to you so trivial in comparison
with the one fundamental fact - the development of
character, the use you make of your one talent and
the use that, perchance, your friend made of his dozen
talents. For remember that the scales of justice never
waver. The man who loses from a material or a physical
point of view in this stage surely must gain Hereafter.
The one who snatches, sending down the weights of the
earth in his own favour, finds to his horror that the
things of the earth perish with the earth, and that
which he might have had to bring him the Bread of Life,
is missing in the great Life to come.
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"So I bless you with the desire to exercise your thinking
minds, not to go with the swim or to argue: 'Does it
matter?' but to realize that the things of the earth
are of the greatest importance in relation to the things
of God, and that man's free-will can hinder God's plan
or bring about its speedy fruition.
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"I bless you all in the Name of All-Wisdom, and I pray
the Father that there may be many gathered in who will
pursue the path and, having learned themselves, will
pass on of their knowledge and save their fellow men
the weariness of suffering when this short life is
ended for them.
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"Peace and again peace, and the blessing of the Most
High rests upon us! This night there are those gathered
in who will meet in the realms of Spirit, not only
their own guides and helpers, but the teachers from
the higher spheres.
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"Farewell, my little ones, we shall meet again!"
©GWCSA
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