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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"MAN'S AURIC POWERS AND THEIR RESPONSIBILITY"
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 the Zodiac
Circle on 10th February, 1945
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"SAVIOUR CHRIST, into Thy hands I commend the
spirit of this Thy child...
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..."MY CHILDREN, we are gathered together once again
for work, because before anyone can teach they have
much to learn, and only when they have tested the teaching
and have perceived that it stands the assaults of the
enemies in the body and free from the body, can they
place upon themselves the garments of an instructor.
So if at times it seems unto you that the experiences
of daily life are harsher than circumstances should
dictate, remember the real self within struggling for
self-expression and, as little children, hold out your
hand when, although you may see it not, it shall touch
the Hand of Christ, and fear shall be no more.
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"But to-day I have been sent into your presence
to speak upon MAN'S AURIC POWERS AND THEIR RESPONSIBILITY.
You have been taught in little part regarding that
wonderful envelope in which the physical, as well as
the spiritual self, has its life and being. You know
that the health of the aura is not only important to
the health of the body, but it is essential for the
happiness of the Divine within. And there are many
who during the earthly experience change the aura in
its hues and character again and again.
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"There are those dominated by the mind of the
body who take a very winding path before they reach
the gates of Truth, and no one can save them from that
winding path; they brush aside the experience of others,
they claim the liberty to carve their own way. Yet
all the time, beloved, they are being led by unseen
enemies who hope that by following the winding path,
even as in a maze, they may never find the gates of
release. But all who struggle on with an honest purpose,
seeking to educate the mind of the body and to loosen
its chains, find the golden gates of revelation, and
what is more important, these are not closed against
them.
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"If as you think over your own experiences and
the different kinds of religion which have appealed
to the physical mind, you can sincerely say 'I desired
the truth', then to-day you have your answer. In spite
of all that might beset your path, the guidance held,
the way led to the straight and narrow path, where
the things that appertain to the material and the bondage
side of the mental, could be cast away into the thicket
on either side.
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"And if you had eyes to 'see' you would perceive
the changing states of the aura from the immature stage,
when it is limited in colour as well as in strength,
and then the gradual emerging, as it were, from its
imprisonment into real beauty, at times however, to
be drawn back by circumstances, by a companion, by
something read, when there was a shrinking of power.
And those who have been educated as to the aura may
have made no comment, but they were sensitive to the
change which had taken place, and sometimes, dear children,
friendships are ruined by these changes.
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"Human nature is inclined to be impatient; many
argue: 'I have done my best for this one and that,
but evidently they prefer their own way and I must
let them go!' Oft this occurs because of the many other
lives impinging upon the activities of the one concerned;
they cannot wait for the sluggard, the hill lies before
them, the cries are so urgent from those who would
be guided aright that they must press on, hoping that
someone else may be there to give a helping hand in
time of need so that the one who has fallen back may
still make some progress.
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"Yes, all those who are doing the Master's work
have these experiences, and they bring their heartaches
and their wonderings. They forget that no thought of
theirs to save, no effort put forth to readjust the
unruly mind of the unwary, is ever wasted, that there
are many who are obliged to learn their lessons in
their own way, and no one is able to implant in their
minds those rudiments of truth which would save them
much pain, many cares and suffering as well. So I ask
you in thinking of yourselves, and your theories in
the yesterday of time, to realise that those mental
changes had their purpose if they were used as stepping
stones to better things, and during those stages the
changes in the aura were very marked.
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"Now, my children, you associate certain colours
with certain attributes, but you must remember that
your eyes are holden in great or little part, and
colour
to us means something far deeper than you can grasp
until the flesh is cast asunder, When you speak of
colour you are only referring to those which you recognise
with the mind of the body - the blues and the golds
and the faint and deeper pinks of love. Yes, and the
reds which sometimes lead on to those murky colours
which you associate with the passion of the body and
the passion of the mind. You try to expand your understanding
in this respect and this is wise, because when you
are free from physical limitations you will have to
learn the meaning of a thousand vibrations of light,
because light, as expressed in this manner, has a language
of its own; it is speaking to you or trying to speak
to you, and you will be able to respond when you have
been sufficiently trained.
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"For instance, if you passed out of the flesh
at this same stage and you saw certain hues in the
World of Spirit, your interpretation of them would
be as incomplete as a child's interpretation of a picture
book; you would only have objective sight you would
not understand the tremendous amount of variation in
colour, and, what is so important, that each variation
is speaking to you and passing on a Divine meaning.
I know it is not easy for the physical mind to grasp
these great truths, but it is my part to come back
and do my best, using the crude words of your own language
to convey something of the wide ramifications of that
which you regard as the aura and the auric rays which
emanate from it.
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"Children, shall we take an illustration, because
I find that if I use this method of teaching it is
easier for you to remember? You associate the weakness
of an aura and its pale colours with sickness; and
it is true that where the body is affected there is
a definite shrinking, to the eyes of the physical make-up,
in the aura of the one concerned; but I would not have
you think that it is a spiritual shrinkage. What you
see is given for your guidance so that you may concentrate
your powers on a certain part of the body and seek
to restore the vitality, both in vibration and in colour,
of the aura of the one concerned.
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"But I take you a little further. For instance,
you must remember that the physical does not dominate
the spiritual, it is quite the reverse, and if you
are not very careful over the choice of words, the
one who is sick may go away feeling depleted both in
spirit and in mind as well as in body, by the thought
of a shrunken aura close to the organ affected.
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"So I would try to open your mind to realise that
in that which you might regard as 'space' - and we
are thinking of the contour of an aura of an undulating
kind - there is something else, which is of the Spirit,
but it is too fine to be perceived by physical sight
or even with that which you name clairvoyant sight.
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"Oh, hearken unto me, because I want you to grow
not only in grace but also in experience, when you
will find that the love within your heart and mind
is enhanced by knowledge, and knowledge in this case
verges on the great gift of wisdom, which is part of
your Divine inheritance.
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"Now, my children, in that void made by the shrinking
of the aura, there are forces at work which will make
a showing when the body is no more. They represent
- but it is not easy to describe in your language -
they represent something of the inner life of the one
concerned.
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"It is in this wise: As you know there are those
upon the earth plane who fall upon bad days, and those
bad days are shown by outward and visible signs of
poverty. You visit a little home and you are careful
not to look at the things which are in it. They are
so poor, so few, so shabby to your physical eyes, that
a sense of delicacy holds you and you try to make up
by your cordiality for your sense of what is missing
on the material side, and it is wise to act like this.
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"But what you have not perceived, perchance, is
that you are not the only visitor, that there is a
variety of life there, and if your mind could take
in a wider area than is possible now, you would see
that in place of their honourable poverty there were
many treasures, and there was a beauty that could not
be bought by anything upon this plane of matter; and
also a radiance denoting the character of the Home
to be inhabited in the by and by.
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"This is a very rough illustration of the void
or the gap or the space in the aura brought about by
its shrinking through physical disability, and it is
well to hold this thought in mind, for even if there
is not too much patience shown by the sufferer over
pain and the weariness it brings, yet it is as a cleansing
fire; it may have burnt up that aspect of the aura
which you witness, but what it has left in its place
is, as I have said before, too much of the Spirit for
you to gaze upon at this same stage.
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"Then we come to the question of colour, and this
is a fascinating subject to those in the body, whether
they have the artistic sense released or not. You find
throughout life the attraction of colour. There are
colours which make you glad, colours which seem to
express your feelings in a tangible form, and, as you
know, primitive people place high in estimation those
colours to which they vibrate, although naturally they
do not understand the law which is in operation.
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"Why is it that these children of Nature prefer
sometimes very crude colours? It is because in their
own lives there is so much which is grey. There is
the greyness of the lack of appreciation by others,
the greyness created by the barrier of colour, and
the still greater greyness brought into being by the
ignorance which holds their minds. Therefore as an
antidote they seek those somewhat harsher colours and
find not only some sort of satisfaction but even a
healing power from them.
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"It is not wise to judge, because in the degree
that we do not suffer under those same disabilities,
we are a bad judge. But by watching the lives of others,
by treading the same path as they must tread, and undergoing
the same hardships, and suffering from the same whip
which Nature wields so fiercely upon the unprotected,
we gain something of understanding, and then our lips
are sealed.
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"Those bright colours represent a contrasting
ideal. Often in the clime in which they live there
are violent contrasts of colour but few half-tones;
therefore, there is nothing to attract the mind or
to teach it as to the harmony and peace which come
from those colours which have been purified from astral
strains.
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"And here I would bring in another point. There
is colour, too, in the hells of man's own making, there
are those colourful things which arouse a thrill of
delight even in bonded ones; and sometimes harsh colours
have their own place in the missionary work which must
be undertaken to free imprisoned souls, those who know
not that by their own effort they could break their
prison doors, breathe the sweet air of God's own Land,
and find the power which shall heal their wounds and
rid the vehicle that holds the Spirit of the vile poison
that has done its dreadful work.
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"So you see, my children, that
colour
has a very important place in life and a tremendous
influence. You know what you like, and you know what
causes a sense of rebellion - you rebel because there
is something in your auric rays which cannot mix easily
with that which your eyes see, and the eyes in this
sense act as custodians of the soul.
(* This symbol is given in the 'four holy creatures'
in Rev. 4, 6-8)
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"But the real self has many eyes and many ears,
and if you could analyse the aura you would find that
it represents, in symbol, a thousand eyes and a thousand
ears,* nay, if the mind of the body could grasp it, I would
add to that number in far greater measure. Now what
is the purpose of the eyes and ears of the aura? In
the first place, my children, they are sentries on
outpost duty, and that which they accomplish cannot
be too highly commended when they have the willing
co-operation of the owner of the aura.
(Eph. 6, 12)
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"Here we come to a dividing line, and it explains
why it is that a vast nation who claim a culture which
they think no other country possesses, why it is that
such as these have descended to the very depths of
infamy, as it appears to you, and rightly so, for many
seem devoid of all human feeling. It is because the
eyes and the ears of the aura, by the will of the one
concerned, have been polluted; they are no longer the
custodians of their soul, they are the treacherous
enemies who steal, who surely have obtained control
over the ones concerned during this stage of matter.
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"Now I want you to try to visualise, terrible
as it may be, the aspect of such an aura, and how void
it is of strength as you regard strength, and certainly
of beauty. But to us it has its strength, and although
you like to associate strength with something which
is good, we have also to consider the strength or the
force of those enemies who have done their best to
crush civilisation and all it means. Yes, when you
are free from the flesh, and have been tutored and
trained and tested again and again, you will have the
will to gaze upon such auras, but it will take all
your endurance to bear that which you witness.
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"Sometimes you have been shown illustrations of
dreadful diseases and you close the book, it is too
awful to contemplate; and you know that such can take
place only by the abuse of freewill. Well, my children,
I must ask you to exercise your imagination and to
believe me when I say that such illustrations are but
a pale representation of the condition of the aura
of those who have so defiled their own Divinity. But
hideous, repulsive as these auras may be, the healers
rest not, but work on, supported by their love of Christ,
knowing that as they strive and sacrifice, the wounds
at last will give place to health, and health will
restore the eyes and the ears of the aura, when once
again they can act as custodians of the life within.
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"It is a vast subject and when I ask you to hold
in your minds a multitude of variations of every hue,
you can imagine I am merely using an illustration so
that your minds may become accustomed to the wonderful
'language' which appertains in true Spirit spheres,
and how the individual, after enduring much and giving
of his very best, becomes able to interpret those multitudes
of vibrations of light and many other things as well
beyond your consciousness at this same stage.
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"Thus he gains in little measure
dominion
over other forms of life,
not
domination, my children, remember this! The whole trouble
with the world lies in the difference between those
two words. Man was given dominion over all other forms
of life by the great Creator, but it was
domination
that he sought and fought to make his own.
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"Again and again I must return to this vast subject
because
everything you can learn during the physical stage
will be not only an asset in the life to come but will
save you much time, as you regard time, before you
can take up your spiritual equipment and go forth to
do and dare amongst the wayward children of God who
have lost their way.
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"And now I will leave you for a span. Those who
come into this circle of power are messengers from
other conditions; some found the light of truth by
one method, some by another, many travelled a long
way or were persuaded by others to carve out a path
of their own; but these are the experiences of physical
life, and I repeat that only in the measure that the
traveller ceases to desire to find the truth is the
truth withheld from him.
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"There are many ways to God, many more than you
can grasp, but the processes to be met with upon the
journey are always the same - the cleansing by pain
and disappointment, the testing of the purpose, the
assailing of love to see if it is strong enough to
be called 'love'; and then the greatest test of all:
voices calling from the Unknown in the hope that some
time, some where, the individual will have forgotten
himself sufficiently not only to listen and to hear,
but to respond.
(After others had spoken Zodiac returned and gave a
personal message to each of the 18 sitters)
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"And now, dear children, God's work this day has
been done. Those who are absent in body but present
in Spirit, by their sacrifice have gained that power
which shall stand them in good stead. Remember ever
man's auric powers, and how changes can come, and how
growth or lack of growth is expressed in human life;
and remember also, my children, that in your own hands
it lies - yours is the choice to be all glorious to
gaze upon, or to represent a withered flower upon whom
the frost has fallen.
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"Let it be that however great the effort in the
yesterday of time, to-day and to-morrow there shall
be enhanced determination, there shall be a further
cleansing of the heart and mind, there shall be a strengthening
of the purpose, for the auric rays that stream from
you have an influence beyond human words to express.
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"Literally as lighthouses you are there to save
others from the rocks of destruction, and if your light
is dim many souls may be drawn into the very vortex
of danger itself! So with a glad heart, in your name
I render thanks to the great Creator of all good things,
and I say that not only has it been good to meet together
this day, but the good shall be shown in the lives
of others, for you are missionaries every one.
(Zodiac closes the Circle with prayer)
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"We thank Thee, Father of all Life, the One Who
guides and ever protects, and we ask Thee to tighten
the rein so that we may not wander, but ever see the
rope that shall hold us when it seems that we might
fall. Oh, open our eyes so that we may catch between
the hills of time the golden rays of our Eternal Home,
and thus, with grateful hearts, forgetting the troubles
of to-day, hasten on our journey home to Thee.
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"We rededicate our lives to Thy most holy service.
May we be true, may we be faithful until the strength
comes when fear and misgiving are no more. In the name
of these children I petition unto Thee, knowing that
ere I asked Thou wert listening and giving once again.
Amen.
©GWCSA
GIFT
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