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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH

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THE ZODIAC MESSAGES

Life after the earth life is affected by being in a body of flesh in this world. Christ gives the purest universal teaching for the soul to be more spiritual when in Spirit: to love and give to others.

"THE LORD'S PRAYER"

Most of an Address given by Zodiac at the Zodiac Circle, 15 Nightingale Square, SW12, on Sunday 9th March, 1924


  1. "Raise your minds from the thoughts that seek to grieve, for I would have you know that even as the body can be triumphed over, so too can the enemies of the mind be grappled with and despatched. Try during these sacred hours of communion to come a little closer in touch with joy of the heart.

  2. "Perhaps this seems like folly but you can do it. There are also many in the Spirit World who are anxious to link with you that bright and glorious thing called joy. Perhaps joy to you means something different to us in the Spirit Realms. Unconsciously on earth it is associated with material possessions and the company of kindred minds. In fact, it can be expressed in modern term as: 'having a good time'.

  3. "But this is a very inadequate expression of a great and wonderful gift. Certainly, to us, joy includes the companionship of kindred souls. But that which represents so much to you, if it were offered to us would be regarded in the nature of a white elephant - something cumbersome and in the way, something to be discarded at the first opportunity.

  4. "When you see with the eyes of the spirit, those things to which I have referred seem painfully crude, ugly and uninteresting. In the Realm of Spirit, the gifts in our possession are the same as those you possess in your sleep state. They are so superlatively refined that in investigating their intricate wonders, the mind is held and fascinated but as yet incapable of grasping one tithe of what they represent.

  5. "I would like to take you through the simple sentences of the Lord's Prayer that contain the greatest wisdom imaginable. Like all things precious, that wisdom has to be sought for by the minds of those who wish to love God.

  6. "The words, as said today, are not the same as those spoken by the Christ. As is the case with all translations, the meaning of a word is changed here and there. Although the meaning of the whole is not lost, yet the inflections of the meaning of certain words lose in value by the process.

  7. "Unfortunately, in the first line - to the mind of man - comes a sense of distance from the words: '…which art in heaven'. In teaching the spiritually untrained, it is essential to attract the mind away from the self to those high reaches into which self can find no place. This is a simple explanation of a very telling fact. The Christ said: 'Our Father which art in heaven' in order to separate the mind of His hearers from the world and its main distractions, and to fix them on a Supreme Being.

  8. " - 'Hallowed be Thy Name' - is a mark of direct deference from the child to the Father who loves him. It brings into being the sacredness not only of His greatness but also of the tie that links them together. 'Our Father - Hallowed be Thy Name' shows love and adoration, yet the 'Our Father' makes it impossible to separate the child from His Creator.

  9. "To the majority it seems that evil reigns alone and that God in despair has turned aside. But that is quite wrong. 'Thy kingdom come - Thy Will be done on earth as it is in heaven' means that those who are faithful shall see the first sign of God's rule upon the earth and of His Will being carried out, stronger and more dominant than any obstacle to this great privilege that for so many years has been held in trust for man. Those who wish to love and serve the Master shall indeed see His Will being done upon the earth as it is in Heaven.

  10. "Accustomed as you are to think along lines of management and contrivance you take this sentence literally, which is not entirely incorrect. The daily bread to which our Saviour referred was the food of the Spirit, which gives all power, all peace, all reassurance, whatever the day may bring, and whatever strain upon the body that contains that which belongs to God. By praying for this spiritual manna you are calling down upon yourself those most precious gifts of Holy Spirit. In so doing you are providing for the day in a material sense because the children of God are not forsaken. His Hand provides that which is necessary and those that love the Master never go empty handed. They have the necessities of life. It is the broken faith that lets the evil in and that is the tragedy of it all.

  11. "You are exhorted - for your own sakes - to tear out of your hearts and minds the bitter fangs of unforgiveness. As much is expected of the child as is forthcoming from the Father. If you pray with sincerity to be able to forgive those who have injured you, then on making the crossing through the veil you shall see indeed that the hurt that seemed to remain was by imagination.

  12. " - 'Forgive us our trespasses' - again and again we have to make this petition to the Father. It should not be necessary for me to tell you that His loving Heart never would or could shut us out. Over and over again these spiritual battles go on in the heart and mind of man. The higher side cries out to be free from the lesser and yet that lesser at times appears to be the stronger, and anguish follows as a natural result.

  13. "In spite of the clamour of the physical mind, God hears the cry of the Spirit within and never ceases to help and encourage it to get free. Do not he disheartened by these battles. They seem so terribly destructive to you, as if in a few short hours they had the power to pull out the bricks of the foundation of your faith so that the whole would topple to the ground. This is the trial of those who wish to do better. To those who do not wish to do better, the tragedy does not seem so intense. Do try and read between the lines and strive more earnestly to gather in some faint conception of the love and compassion of your Father.

  14. "God came down to earth as the Christ as man, to lead His children out of temptation into the safety and protection of holiness. It is at this time when the help of your loving Father is needed the most and given unstintingly. Strength for the spirit is readily available, courage to go forward - even in great depths of despair - and the love and the light of a loving Father surrounds each one of His children watching over them as they traverse this dangerous ground.

  15. "Here you have the revelation of the Christ as the Saviour of the world. Christ has indeed delivered us from evil. He is going to prove to suffering humanity that evil has to give before the power of God.

  16. "The word kingdom suggests Ruler. God does indeed rule over all, even in rebellious hearts His rule is wonderfully strong. Again and again His love gets through separating the spirit from the wilful mind, surprising even its owner by feelings and aspirations for which he has no explanation. This has happened within the frailest and the vilest, even those who have deliberately turned from good to evil. Now and again the love of God breaks through and in the compassion shown to an animal, or one sunk in greater misery than themselves, so the spirit within is demonstrated for all to see - all who wish to find God in everything and everywhere. 'For this is the kingdom, the power and the glory'. Think of these words because they seek to convey the joys of eternity, the perfect unity between man and his Creator in those bright days that shall come, for it is ordained. It will be just as day pushes aside the night, the sun in the heavens, by its very strength and brightness shall banish all thought of what has been because in the present is the power and the glory that is of God.

  17. "God's kingdom is for ever. There is no end to His creation, worlds known and unknown, seen and unseen, plane upon plane of consciousness, universe within universe and continuous creation going on and on for ever. Continuous, never ending love. So may it be.

  18. "Words are not of so much importance as you might think. When you say this prayer, or any other. we over here do not receive the actual words as they are repeated. You understand it as the spirit and intent behind the words, and to a degree you are right. Behind the motive of your prayer lies the past experience of the soul that counts enormously.

  19. "When you pray, the spirit within - which perhaps has had a terrible uphill fight - is seeking to express itself; while you are only conscious of a tired mind, a sense of distance from the Christ, and a feeling of separatism from the veneration and holiness that you think should be the setting of prayer.

  20. "Remember this, that which the spirit has taken on lies behind the prayer that is uttered. You shall find hereafter that because you wished to pray aright, the prayer was right in the sight of God. Because you wished to contact with holiness, holiness was able to draw near, and because you wished to pray from your heart, that prayer counts not only from the heart but far, far deeper than that - from the great well of Spirit that is so deep that the echo is not received by the mind of the body and much grieving is caused by the consequence.

  21. "God understands everything and everyone. Prayer to Him is not a matter of words but of the wish to rise, and the longing to be free, and the effort that is put into the struggle to achieve this great and glorious end.

  22. "Hold on to that which is highest. Wish to be, as God would have you to be. Pray for strength. In God's Name strength will be given you and you shall be free indeed. Hold on to the staff of faith that never fails to support - if only the grip is there.


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