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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"THE MYSTERY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT"
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 Surbiton, on
Sunday, 11th July, 1937
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"SAVIOUR CHRIST, into Thy hands I commend the
spirit of this Thy child.
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"MY CHILDREN, once again we gather together, and
those who companion you, freed from the flesh, they
long for such meetings when those who are drawn in
wish to worship God and not to minister to their own
desires.
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"I want you all to take comfort in this thought.
There are many to enter the House of God, yet it seems
at times that although they ask for bread, they are
given but a stone, and they go heavy-hearted away,
wondering whether God has remembered them, if it is
true that there is so much grace around. Yet if their
eyes could be opened, quite apart from the one who
gives out the teaching, they would see to their joy
a mighty host gathered in to do that which is not done
by those who name themselves disciples of the Master.
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"So this night, remembering this, should we not
thank God because He has allowed us to meet together,
and because the consciousness is with us all that it
is possible to break down the barriers between the
two worlds, to link up in thought with the great wide
World of Spirit? And to-night, my children, instructed
by the One Who loves you best, it has been ordained
that I speak upon THE MYSTERY 0F THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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"It may appear to those who listen that this subject
is far too vast to be dealt with by any mind or by
any tongue, and I answer such as these that they are
right; but is it not the Father's Will that His little
ones in the body and free from the body should have
given unto them, fragment by fragment, the Truth that
is of Him? So to-night, children, we will think for
a while upon the mystery of the Holy Spirit, knowing
that as we grow in grace, so God will reveal unto us
in greater part that which only He can give.
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"But I want you to come with me in thought just
for a moment or two and to consider Nature in her many
guises, to go deeper than the sweet flowers, the wide-spreading
trees and the great oceans, and to ask yourselves:
'What is it that controls the laws that govern these
various forms of creation?' You answer at once: 'It
must be Spirit Power!'
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"But you may say: 'This takes me nowhere towards
understanding the
mystery
of that great power by which God expresses Himself
to those on earth.' Then we think of that which is
so closely allied to Spirit Power that they are as
one - the materialisation of Divine Thought, the great
Mind of God functioning on such a wide orbit that the
human mind reels under the effort to try to fathom
the power of that Mind.
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"You know, my children, that you in little part
have the power to materialise those thoughts of yours
when due preparation has been put in. It is an elementary
law of life.
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"The young man and the young woman desire a career;
they set themselves to study the theory of that which
appertains to the creation of that career which means
so much unto them; and I want you to think of the young
musician or the young painter, and at once you see
the tremendous effort which is torn out of such as
these in trying to materialise their thoughts concerning
beauty or melody, or the combination of them both.
You know how much disappointment follows the path of
the artist or the one who wants to give out something
worth while to the world. And I want you to take comfort
to yourselves and, moreover, to pass on comfort to
those you know who are trying to extricate these gifts
from the shell in which they dwell.
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"Think, you, my children, what underlies the materialisation
of thought. Naturally, inspiration is one representation
of Spirit Power, it is like a flicker from the great
Sun of Illumination which shines from the Heart of
God; and I want you at this stage to bear in mind that
true inspiration, to be brought to birth safely and
well, must have the foundation of love. It is no use
to think that the power released by ambition is sufficient,
it is no use to think that the mind alone can bring
into being those precious things which have life for
evermore. True it is that they play their part, but,
my little ones, without love, love for that which is
being done, then so little is achieved, so poor is
the result.
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"So as we think of the materialisation of thought,
we are able to approach just a step nearer to the Throne.
We see materializations of God's Mind on every side;
we think of the human body, with its network of veins
and nerves and those many powers which even now escape
the mind of the scientist, and as we think, we marvel
not only at the original talent displayed, but also
at the amount of love which must have been behind the
thought of bringing into being something so complicated
and yet so simple, being governed by Divine Laws, from
which has sprung every other law as well.
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"My children, I am here to struggle with your
minds, for although I may seem to speak on abstract
things, they are vitally important to you, they concern
you in a way you cannot grasp until you are free, free
from your preconceived ideas, free from the bondage
of traditional thought, free from self.
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"Then we will think of another aspect. Many, many
thoughts are materialised, and the looker-on can see
at once whence the inspiration. To-day, it is true,
as many exclaim, that music and art seem to have fallen
from their high estate. There is something blatant
and crude, something so much of another condition that
the wise ones are forced to believe that astral elements
and astral influences have been at work; and this is
true.
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"You cannot say that this sphere is here and that
sphere is there, and for this reason I have advised
that it is not wise to divide states of being into
numbers and classes; it creates a sense of separation
which immediately evokes a wrong conception. There
may be many grades in each 'sphere'.
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"There are indeed influences, beyond your imagination
to grasp, impinging and intermingling with every state
and stage of life, and because the gift of free-will
has not been regarded by man as something sacred, it
has been possible for disembodied souls from other
conditions to come back and by their persuasion to
lead the soul of man through dark and dreadful scenes.
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"And then upon the canvas or upon the instrument
the effect is shown. It is the materialisation of a
thought culled from the blinded spheres.
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"So, my children, I come back to you, and I want
to show you for your souls' comfort how indeed, by
taking the path laid down by Christ, the sacrificial
path, you can employ that mystery of the Holy Spirit;
and when you are free it will be made plain to you
the law which so unconsciously you exercised, and indeed
demonstrated for others to see.
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"Now I ask you to think on these same lines: There
are those who love the House of God, and they show
it by the toil they give unto it, by the prayers, by
the effort, by the desire to spread the Truth. There
are others who claim that the Temple of the Most High
is also precious unto them, but what do they do? You
know, dear children, that there are many who are inclined
to leave the toil to another, to leave the striving
in Higher Hands. And so you get here and there, up
and down the countryside, failure and success, the
ebb and the flow of the tide of Spirit Power, and many
there are to question why this should be so, for God
has said:
Ask and ye shall receive.
But they forget that it is no use asking half-heartedly,
it is no use to beseech God to do this or that unless
they provide the instrument through which the mystery
of the Holy Spirit can be demonstrated for their comfort
and the comfort of the Divine Mind.
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"I want you to think seriously upon this great
subject, which I am able to outline only to-night.
It is so vast, it is so charged with meaning, but it
is not mine to come back and treat you like children;
I am bidden to give the law that governs life and being,
and if you have the patience to study the law - that
law shown so wonderfully in the life of Christ - then,
my children, you shall find no secret too difficult
to be explored, no knot too tangled for you to unravel
as the days go on.
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"Thoughts are materialised in regard to Spirit
Return and Spirit Communion (spirit communication). You know that there are many to desecrate this holy
gift and to make it a by-word amongst the critics.
Their thoughts are upon themselves, they desire that
material things shall be given unto them, and because
of their failing and their falling, there are others
to fail and to fall in turn; and it takes a long time
to retrieve when such things are deliberately done.
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"So I come closer still to your hearth and home,
to the very soul that burns within you, and I ask you,
my children, as to the materialisation of your own
thoughts. You cannot hide these things from others.
Be brave and face the truth yourselves! Your thoughts
- are they upon holy things, are they concerned with
that higher side of life, do you instinctively wish
to help your neighbour, or do you endorse the teaching,
and then indulge in extravagances which can be avoided
by a little willingness to go without?
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"Oh, I speak to many, for there are thousands
gathered in. I want each one to realise that if they
have materialised such thoughts in the past or in the
present, they can, through the Grace of God, dematerialise
those thoughts by the sacrificial spirit, by willingness
to go back on their tracks and make good that which
they have done.
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"Some there are who call by desire their loved
ones who have passed out of the physical, and they
use something which indeed is holy to demonstrate the
power that is housed within the human frame. You call
these things 'manifestations of power', perchance,
but, brethren, that power
(called by some 'ectoplasm'), drawn from within you, is as something dark and horrible
laid over the pure sweet power of Spirit
so that 'materializations'
('physical mediumship') may take place.
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"I have urged in the past, and I urge again and
again that when you sit together, man shall not want his loved ones in a 'material' form
but shall desire that 'etherialization' which is their
right and true state.
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"I say unto you, my children, that if there had
been a sufficient number of pure souls sitting together
with an absolutely devoted spirit, with their thoughts
not upon their own desires but upon the healing of
the soul-wounds of others, long ere this those 'etherializations' could have been seen by human
eyes, and much of the doubt which assails humanity to-day
would never have been born.
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"God is so good! Your beloved, free from the flesh
in their garments of varying light, they come back
to you, seeking to materialise their thoughts through
your minds; but so oft those in the body are thinking
of and wanting other things.
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"There is naught that you can name that is not
a materialisation of thought, and when you think of
the beauty that is possible even in this state of limitation,
cannot your imagination soar, and can you not in little
part visualise that setting into being of lovelier
thoughts when the bondage of the earthly mind has been
cast away?
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"Oh, I want you to dig deep down into this same
subject, for the mystery of the Holy Spirit can be
revealed in little part as you strive. The good healer,
the kind mother! - if you analysed you would find much
similarity in the vibrations of these two emotions.
There is the mother trying to safeguard her child;
there is the true doctor giving all his energy to lift
the menace of disease from the one who lies so helpless
before him. Here you have in little part the mystery
of the Holy Spirit.
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"Why is it that one, a stranger, should feel such
deep devotion over another? The doctor may exclaim:
'It is my task!' but we know that emotion alone cannot
bring about a satisfactory cure. There must be love,
the desire to help, the compassion, the longing to
restore. Is not this man demonstrating a fragment of
the mystery of the Holy Spirit which he possesses?
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"Oh, I want you to probe again and again and to
try to teach others, for as we pass up and down through
the busy streets, out on the hillsides, back into the
tiny villages, to the freed soul on every side is a
materialisation of the thought of man, co-operating
with God.
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"Even the little children are doing their part,
for a little one cannot stroke an animal with love
without bringing unto that creature something of protection;
the child who lifts his foot, fearing to crush the
little insect, is demonstrating, in miniature, the
Father-Heart of God, and the mystery of the Holy Spirit
cabined in his heart.
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"Children, those who know, hold a responsibility which, if not rightly shouldered,
will indeed appal them when the body is no more and
they are face to face with reality and the record of
the past.
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"And I want you, in thinking of your beloved ones
who have gone on ahead, to try to visualise the kind
of thoughts that they have now. Perchance you do not
think that those who loved you in little part while
on earth now love you in so much greater part; those
who were sensitive - and how great is the divergence
between the sensitiveness of men and women who you
know - those who were sensitive in the flesh are now
able to vibrate so much more to their brethren in the
body. Think then of their thoughts, of their desires,
of their high ambitions. Would they be content now
to take the second best? Nay, they have seen, so far
as they can bear it the very best, and they strive
and they strive to bring into being those thoughts
that shall be more in harmony with the Divine Mind,
and thus they come back to you.
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"You may say unto me: 'But all are not like this,
some spirits seem to want the things they wanted on
earth, to be interested in food and drink and the joys
of physical life!' True, but where are these souls?
Are they not chained to the valley of desire? Are they
not surrounded by materializations of their own thoughts,
are they not centred in the astral planes? If they
are like that, then their need of you is doubly great,
their need of your holy manifestations of thought far
surpasses your imagination to grasp. Therefore,
how
do you think?
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"There are some who query why it is that some
people have the power to bring into being those ameliorations
for the poor which are essential for the mitigation
of suffering. There are instruments who cry out: 'I
should like to do that, and yet it does not come my
way!' Oh, my children, these things take much power,
they are indeed an opening out of one of the mysteries
of the Holy Spirit.
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"If you probed deep enough, you would find that
that which has come into being was cradled over the
years in the heart and mind of the one who at last
thanked God for the fruition. The price has been paid
in suffering, in going without, in turning the eyes
from the material things, even from innocent joys,
because there was the influence that the full surrender
must be made, not knowing for what purpose or that
it was for the furtherance of the Plan.
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"Therefore, what is your spirit's desire? Is your
treasure in Heaven, or is it some possession chained
to the earth because it is of the earth? Think of those
who passed hence in the long ago. What they did they
knew not, but God knew, and God safeguarded.
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"What is the difference between man to-day and
the saints of old, those of whom you think with gratitude
and with something like awe? It is only, dear children,
that their materializations of thought were on a higher
level, there was less self within them. Faulty they
might have been, immature the instruments they represented;
but God is their Father, and just as you would take
the concentrated effort of your tiny child, which produces
so little, and finish what it began, so the Lord God
of all, looking into the heart of striving, struggling
man - with all his limitations, with temptation piled
around, with misunderstanding and doubt charging the
atmosphere - He sees not the puny result, but He finishes
what His child began.
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"Lovely are the dwelling-places of God, the peace
which passeth all understanding charges the vibrations,
and there in little part, again the mystery of the
Holy Spirit is revealed. Why are these spheres lovely,
why is there so much power around? These gifts represent
the harvest of the humble-hearted men and women doing
their duty, seeking to be brave, holding up the lantern
of faith to others - even though their own might be
flickering in the strong wind of adversity - toiling
on, waiting for the night to pass. Lovely are the dwelling-places
of God sweetened by His children! And I say to the
women that they cannot tend the home faithfully without
contributing to the dwelling-places of God.
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"The materialisation of that thought is upon the
earth plane, it is true, but that thought has its spiritual
duplicate, that thought has its etherialization, and
after being blessed by God, is ready to find its place
in the Better Land.
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"Great is the Mind of God, marvellous are His
thoughts, but once again I bring you back to this fact:
without love, life in the God-sense could not be. Therefore,
love your work, seek to tear out of your minds distaste
over the uncongenial task, strive to bring your souls
into harmony with the things that are.
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"You may have thought your life would lie on rosier
lines; the shadowy trees of trouble have shut out the
sunshine of earthly joy, perchance, but remember where
the violets grow and their sweetness and their power.
You are in training for something great.
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"Man is himself a fragment of the mystery of the
Most High; he uses, even as he raises his arms, that
power, not thanking God, not even knowing whence the
power comes. So it is with all forms of life in all
conditions and all worlds.
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"Each world is a materialisation of the thoughts
of God's children; and the time will come when no longer
can it be said that man's thoughts are not as God's
thoughts, for, through the Holy Spirit, the fragment
will at last bear likeness unto the Whole.
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"And now, my little ones, I come amongst you,
exercising once again the power of the Holy Spirit,
drawing out from you, if God wills and you desire,
that wonderful power (Spirit power) which the Father
has gifted unto all His creations in every state or
plane there could be.
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"Behold, I show you a mystery, a mystery which
lies only just beyond your power to make your own,
the mystery of life within you! And when you think
of that holy life, so there comes unto you the thought
as to the generosity of God, as to His patience, as
to His understanding - the Greatest One of all has
given a fragment of Himself to you to safeguard and
to nourish.
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"And then, again, the thought comes as to the
materialisation of those things which you set into
being - those impulses, those vibrations, those varied
influences that are sent out upon the conditions of
the earth; and surely, my children, as you think thus,
there comes to you the desire to do better still, to
be more faithful over little things, to be more unselfish;
not only to accept the theory of Christ's teaching,
but to be determined to put it into practice in those
small ways which represent ears of corn to gladden
your eyes when the earth stage is o'er for you.
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"I would plead with you for your beloved ones
in the Great Beyond! I send out the challenge again
and again to man, as a potential angel, to hasten his
steps, to prepare himself for the greater office that
waits for him, when he is fit to do God's work.
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"There is a wonderful peace in the thought as
to the great equality of Divine Law, in remembering
that the Holy Spirit is not given in greater part to
one here or to one there; it is only that the custodian
has been sterner with himself and a greater release
of that Divinity is apparent to those around.
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"Oh, I ask you to be ambitious in the God-sense,
I entreat you to speed up the activity of the soul
so that God's Will on earth may be done, so that those
materializations of thought, which are sent out from
you
moment by moment
may be good in the sight of God; and they are always
good in His sight when those thoughts are for the helping
of mankind.
(St. Matt. 5, 16)
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"Little children of the Light, how much of your
light shines out upon those around? There are so many
trying, as it were, to serve God and mammon, but no
man can serve two masters and have peace within. Yet
I look again, and I see with such great joy that there
are those who are filled with dissatisfaction over
themselves because they seem to do so little, and yet
they strive on, hope on, and pray on, and to such as
these comes the good news that God will finish what
they have begun.
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"And the time comes when they, free from the garment
of flesh, will step into the Light, and then they will
see, to their unutterable joy, that all God's promises
have been kept, the 'mystery' has been explained in
little part, all unconsciously they were setting into
being those great laws of the Holy Spirit for the betterment
of this world and the next, and they are blessed, as
to-night many here are blessed, blessed because they
desired to do their part, blessed because they will
not admit failure, although at times it seems to some
that failure lies close at hand.
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"Oh! how blessed man can be, and the blessing
so won has life for evermore, and the blessing sends
out, as it were, the clarion call to others to strive
in turn so that by the accumulation of Divine Blessings
the power of the Holy Spirit can be manifested in greater
measure upon the earth plane, and thus prepare souls
for their great inheritance, for their holy calling,
for their kingship with the King of kings, the One
who indeed should hold our hearts and minds.
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"It is hard to leave you, my little ones, for
there are many points and questions that could so easily
be thrashed out as we are met together but my work
to-night is done. Your work has indeed commenced in
this sense: that that which you have made your own
you must put into practice and pass on to others.
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"Deceive not yourselves, neither let others deceive
you or those who are ignorant souls. Great manifestations
of the power of the Holy Spirit could indeed take place
upon the earth plane, if only the conditions were here!
But by that which man shall achieve, by the sacrifice
and effort, by the laying aside of earthly desire and
the longing for those transient possessions which are
as toys - so the time comes when the shell cracks and
the pure soul within, free from its encumbrance, can
manifest as the Father has ordained.
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"This materialisation of the power of the Holy
Spirit is for wider things than the earthly mind can
grasp, but they shall be revealed unto you as you pursue
the path.
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"I bless the workers here, and I say that in the
degree that they give out of their real being, so the
power indeed shall come, so there shall be a cleansing
of the conditions, so God shall show His Hand. And
after the toil the peace of the night shall come, and
the night shall lead on to the dawn of better things
- God's power in action through the efforts of His
children upon the earth plane!
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"I bless you all as I take my leave. Forget not
the unseen who have gathered in and will learn of you
as you take your daily way. Farewell, but in God's
good time many of us will meet again. Farewell!"
©GWCSA
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