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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"MATERIAL WARFARE AND WHAT IT REVEALS"
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 Clacton-on-Sea
on Sunday, 18th September, 1949
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"Saviour Christ, into Thy hands I commend the spirit
of this Thy child.
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"MY CHILDREN, glad indeed am I to come amongst you
and to pass on the message from the Spirit spheres
to those who will listen. Now here we have a point
upon which much hangs. You must remember that free
will is never interfered with, and those who come back
from God's Bright Land are commissioned to give you
the truth. But you can refuse the truth. And this is
why there is so much sorrow upon the earth plane, for
always remember, my children, that Christ uses many
instruments, not all mediums as you recognise mediumship,
and yet all mediums as we recognise mediumship. But
as you look out upon the earth to-day you find that
there are only the few sufficiently prepared in mind
and in character to seek for truth and to put it into
practice.
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"So to-day I am commissioned to speak to you upon
MATERIAL WARFARE AND WHAT IT REVEALS.
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"I know that the thoughts of the majority have
gone back to that day of days (Battle of Britain),
when it seemed to all that annihilation was actually
in sight. And yet you found that there was one sufficiently
sensitive to receive the inspiration from the Spirit
side of Life, and he decided that the battle must be
fought in this little Island itself. Grave were the
obstacles, many to oppose, but his will prevailed.
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"And then what happened? The chosen few, the ones
who had gained sufficient experience to undertake most
dangerous work, they were delegated to do what they
could to save their land. I know that some of you do
remember those lads, do pause to think upon the gigantic
sacrifices made by what appeared to be a handful of
valiant souls.
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"In the deepest anxiety those in authority watched
how the day would go, hardly one dared to hope that
victory would come following on the footsteps of failure.
But as the day wore on, amazement and gratitude were
shown on either side; a miracle of Grace had taken
place in these same modern times, and the few, because
they were willing to sacrifice their all, prevailed
over the many.
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"Children, those boys of yours did not stop to
consider results; they had a task to do, and they did
it with a determination that every ounce of energy
and skill should be given out by them; and, as you
know, many perished so far as the physical vehicle
was concerned. But what an awakening they had, what
congratulations greeted them from their forebears.
And they saw the angelic messengers who had inspired
them, who had built up a wall of power around them
so that weariness and fear were defied. The battle
was won, not only against material forces, but far
more in a spiritual sense, for although they knew it
not while the flesh held them, soon they saw the legion
sent forth to destroy that which they endeavoured to
save.
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"Now what emerges from that never-forgotten scene
of youth grappling with the giants of wickedness, of
evil? Some people, as I say, remember, but many forget.
When you look about the world to-day and you see materialism
that has gone wild, liberty abused, the craving for
the lower pleasures of the physical mind, the thoughtful
ones wonder what the heroes in the Better Land are
thinking of it all. They are learning much, they are
seeing for themselves that when things are going comparatively
well with any country, the opportunity is given for
the unseen enemies to creep close and to do their dreadful
work; but they see, also, that amongst the rank and
file there are those still inspired by a sense of duty,
still with the instinct to sacrifice, still with a
love that can defy the adversities of physical life,
so they do not despair, they know that these are as
the ears of good wheat, and the tares have not the
power to completely annihilate them; indeed, the good
wheat lives on long after the tares are destroyed for
what they represent.
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"And when I speak of destruction you can understand
that it is essential that those who fall into temptation,
who are swayed by self, have to go through the furnace
of suffering before the aura can be cleansed, before
the body in which they take their way in another land
can become purified of the grossness and the dross
of physical life.
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"I want to speak to you to-day upon an all important
subject, and that is THE POWER OF GRATITUDE. What do
we mean by gratitude? Does God expect you to be grateful
for all that He has done for you, and do the guides
and helpers look for gratitude? You know that sometimes
they look in vain. But does the lack of gratitude or
the faithlessness of those upon the earth plane, stem
their efforts? Is God's Love less because so many of
His children ignore His very existence? Your hearts
answer: No! God is the Father of mankind, and although
His children want Him not, His love is over them, and
forgiveness finds no place where love abounds.
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"But there is another aspect, and that is what
the instinct of gratitude can do for you in the body,
the kind of protection it builds up around you, and
what it has prepared for you when this short stage
is over. My children, as you know, there are many people
in the body who benefit from the efforts of others;
there are the parents who have denied themselves to
give their children a better chance than they had themselves.
There are many workers who untiringly over the years
have toiled early and late, and perhaps through their
sacrifice have built up something of a material fortune
to leave to their offspring.
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"Search your minds and you will find that very
often those children who have benefited by the sufferings
of their forebears have very little gratitude in their
make-up at all. They take their easier life, their
material possessions, their pleasant homes as something
which represents their rights. But what right have
they to take so much and to give so little?
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"I ask you also to consider within yourselves
the reformers, the men who put down slavery, the missionaries
who went through dreadful adversities and perhaps met
with a horrible physical death in order to bring Light
into dark conditions?
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"Only the few remember what they have done. Their
lives may be expounded as part of history, but are
the children taught to give out thoughts of gratitude
to those who have paved the way, so that the little
ones of today could have so many privileges and opportunities,
so much spiritual light if only they did not prefer
the darkness of the selfishness which now abounds.
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"I speak to you because you are among the enlightened,
because I know that there are so many who give love
and gratitude to their unseen friends, who thank God
for all that they have done for them, thank God that
they have opened their eyes to something of Truth.
And I want you to know that because this instinct of
gratitude is fostered and allowed to grow, you are
doing something for yourselves which will fill you
with delight when you are free from the limitations
of the flesh and are able to regard things as they
are in conditions of Reality.
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"Power is built up by gratitude; loss of power
certainly comes to the ungrateful. And yet to-day the
cry so often is - 'What have I to be grateful for?
I did not ask to be born! Certainly those who brought
me into physical life should do and should give.'
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"The ignorance of such as these is profound! Each
one owes a debt of gratitude to the great Father of
us all. They were created in the far, far past in the
image of the Divine, but they had no personal experience,
and they have passed through countless worlds to gain
that great gift of experience, and countless conditions
or spheres await them when the physical body has done
its part.
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"I want you to think upon this great subject.
You have a wonderful land, you have people in it who
have a measure of understanding, you have those who
are willing to sacrifice so that their idealism may
become part of the physical life of their dear homeland;
you have men and women in humble walks of life struggling
to do their duty, to bear their burdens bravely, to
silence the word of complaint over the ills of the
body.
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"Are you, as a soul, paying tribute to those who
are spiritualising their own Empire, to those who are
making it possible in time to come that certain aspects
of spiritual revelation may be seen and may be heard
by the masses? Are you grateful enough because you
have been brought into contact with the denizens of
the Spirit World?
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"Many exclaim with a love that fills their being
- 'This man or that woman brought me into this Truth;
I owe them more than words could ever express.' How
true that is, and how that attitude of mind will help
them when they pass into the Better Land. It was a
protection while the physical binds, but it was also
building up power for that greater work for which they
were being prepared while the flesh held them fast.
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"I want you to pass on this truth to all concerned.
Man was meant to be a grateful thing, grateful to his
parents because they worked hard to educate him, grateful
to those who opened so many of the hospitals and orphanages,
grateful to those who founded churches, chapels and
temples in which the worship of God takes place.
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"Oh, remember, my children, that when you pass
into that greater Life you will be able to do so much
more for those who remember you with gratitude. Those
who are ungrateful have, as it were, shut the gate
between you, and not all your love can open that gate
until they are sufficiently awakened to their duty
to open it themselves by the love and the gratitude
they give at so late a date for what you tried to do
for them.
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"So we think of the heroes and heroines, so we
think of the young who counted not the cost, who responded
to the call of duty, so we thank God for the ones who
were inspired to send forth those lads to save their
land, for they not only saved their country, but they
safeguarded their own souls and they saved their spiritual
home, and it is beautiful for evermore. For there is
nothing that has the power so to beautify any condition
as sacrifice and all it entails while the physical
body holds man so fast.
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"I want you to emphasise this point in your teaching,
but not necessarily to tell the people that they must
be grateful only to the speakers and the mediums. The
religion of every country should be that all living
therein should render grateful thanks to those of the
far, far past.
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"Oft I speak of primitive man, because I know
that you to-day are enjoying your liberty, are able
to show a measure of intelligence, have acquired something
of craftsmanship because of primitive man, who, forced
by necessity to keep life within the flesh, found the
crudest implements to bring some measure of help, and
some measure of protection against the wild beasts
and reptiles of that time. Many perished in a far more
terrible way than the human mind could now conjure
up; but they contributed their tiny portion to evolution,
and when they came into another world, they found that
they had gained immeasurably through the misery which
had held them in the past.
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"All this is as a wonderful lesson to those upon
the earth plane to-day. Does it not kill pride, is
it not as a devastating force to destroy vanity? Men
and women who think that they are cleverer than the
average, should go back in thought and in gratitude
to primitive man, to their forebears, and to those
parents who gave up so much that their children should
have greater advantages than were possible for themselves.
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"You see, dear children, no one is independent;
you cannot say that this or that gift is mine! Most
of the gifts exercised by you in the flesh to-day are
borrowed, borrowed from those of the past, borrowed
from the great unseen. When you are inspired to do
something that is worth while, give thanks to God that
through your attitude of mind those with the greater
knowledge can pour into your consciousness a ray of
light, which has meant that many rays of light have
come to others not yet sufficiently released to respond
to inspiration themselves. And as you think thus, pride
of all kinds withers down to its roots.
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"So I would plead with the good mediums, with
the good speakers who feel a sense of self-satisfaction
over their gifts, to remember this: that when they
pass over they will stand humiliated when they see
how little was contributed by themselves from their
physical or mental consciousness, and how much came
from the freed Spirit-consciousness of those released
from the body, the missionaries of God working upon
the earth plane under the Father's Will.
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"Never forget these words for they will make all
the difference to you when the change called death
takes place. Be grateful for little things, grateful
for kind words, for a kind look, for someone who remembered
what meant so much to you, while so many forgot. Be
grateful to those who minister to you when you are
sick, and forget not to pay back in like measure if
the opportunity is your own. Be grateful to those who
have worked so hard in this Movement over the years.
Many receive naught but ingratitude; and there are
those who have sown but few seeds who would turn them
out of their temples and take charge themselves. Oh,
the folly of it all! But repentance will come when
they see what they have done, and when physical death
releases them from the limitations of the earth life,
in conditions of Reality the truth must be faced.
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"Be grateful to those who have given you a beautiful
garden. There were many to experiment, many to overcome
disappointment, many to toil early and late to make
the flowers more beautiful and to give them a greater
fragrance than they possessed. That is how weeds, as
you regard them, or the wild flowers, became cultivated
and had a stronger life, a greater beauty and a sweetness
not associated with those dear little emblems of God's
Love which grow by the wayside.
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"Yes, be grateful to the good gardeners, and when
you think thus, should you not be still more grateful
to the good gardeners of human souls, the ones who
have taken the rough soil and, in spite of the basest
ingratitude, still have sought to sow the good seeds
among the many tares seeking to choke them out.
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"Oh, my children, think of your boys, think of
your heroes and heroines, and remember that as your
gratitude goes forth to them because they did their
best under the direst circumstances, because they died
physically so that you might live, remember that your
gratitude will reach them and that will enable them
to do more!
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"It is one of the saddest sights to those who
are free from the flesh to see how soon those in the
body forget their benefactors. But when they pass over
they will have the anguish of seeing that others, materially-minded,
have forgotten what they sought to do for them and
struggled and sacrificed to bring about.
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"So on this Day of Remembrance we take another
step forward, going through the mind of the body and
seeing what is there which does not bear resemblance
to the Mind of Love, or the Christ life. Be not despairing
if it seems to you that there is so much you do not
like. God understands, and as long as you strive, as
long as you pay tribute to those who are helping you,
so I can promise that God will finish what you have
not the spiritual strength yet to bring to fruition.
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"That is comfort for each and everyone, for there
are many earnest souls who will read my words who at
times feel something of despair about themselves. So
high they want to rise, but their bodies seemed chained
to the earth; so much they want to do, but opportunity
passes them by.
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"But that is the life of the physical alone, the
life of the Spirit is going on all the time. There
is no good thought, no good action that rises up in
the physical mind and cannot be brought to pass, that
is not worked out to its fulfilment in that greater
Life which you enter each night as sleep holds the
body of flesh.
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"Oh, remember ever that the physical consciousness
is one half only of your life. When sleep holds the
body, so by the law of attraction the real self is
drawn into those conditions where it can gain something
more of self-expression.
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"And so it is that many who are sick, many who
are old, many who are very weary, go on day by day
taking up their several tasks, doing what they can,
and leave the rest to God, in Whom they have believed.
And He will never fail them!
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"So I bless you all on this bright and happy afternoon
and I say that it has been good to meet together, because
I know that there are some here who will remember the
words of the messenger. Forget me if you will, but
remember the message entrusted by the Christ to pass
on to you so that you may pass it on to others, and
so that the material conditions of the earth plane
may in time be purified and the flowers of the Spirit
find a place to grow.
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"Peace be with you all! And the blessing of the
Christ, the beloved Master, indeed has been added to
the words I have expressed. God bless you all and may
you take your way with a firm determination to express
something of the Divinity here and now. Farewell!"
©GWCSA
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