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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"PHYSICIANS HERE AND IN THE SPIRIT WORLD"
An address given 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 Farnham,
Surrey, on Sunday, 3rd December, 1950.
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"SAVIOUR CHRIST, into Thy hands I commend the
spirit of this Thy child...
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..."MY CHILDREN, as I take my way up and down
the countryside I am allowed to see much. Those who
gather into these Services bring with them their own
conditions, their guides and helpers, and many loved
ones from the Spirit World; and I want you to realise
that this is a Holy Communion! You may call it the
Communion of Saints, and I remind you that the time
must come when every one will become a saint. That
may seem in the far future to you, and indeed man as
a whole has been held back by human inclination; but
the time does come when the dross of self at last withers
away and the Spirit within mankind is shown in something
of its beauty and its power.
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"But always, my children, we have to be very practical;
it is useless to talk of that which you may regard
as Utopia, and yet not to indicate the pathway to be
trod which eventually will bring about this happy state
of being.
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"So to-night I am instructed to speak to you upon
PHYSICIANS HERE AND IN THE SPIRIT WORLD. Now you are
all familiar with the subject of doctors; and some
to-day who have given many years to study the science
of medicine are feeling in degree that things have
gone wrong. When they gave up their lives to this career
conditions were very different. Had they known what
the future had in store they might have hesitated,
because much was extracted from them both in the way
of effort and of material treasure. I want to sympathise
with the doctors for there are many earnest souls,
desiring to do their best, finding that they are up
against conditions beyond their control.
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"But we must honour also those whose concept was
to benefit the rank and file, to make it possible that
men and women in all walks of life should have medical
attention and should be put in the position that a
restoration to health might be possible.
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"But you always find, my children, that even with
the best theories, there are things which quickly go
awry, and very often it is because there is over-organisation.
The ones who in the beginning had that high ideal,
definitely had no idea that the vast machinery carrying
it out might in due course act as a stranglehold upon
the ideal they had in mind.
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"We must always be fair in our judgements in regard
to those who strike out for something which they hope
will benefit humanity; and if those in authority were
willing to listen to the advice of some who are more
experienced, then many of the difficulties and obstacles
and the bitterness could be removed.
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"But there are many doctors upon the earth plane,
because they are qualified to heal, who want to help;
they are not interested only in material gain, and
these are the ones who are in training to become physicians
in Spirit Life, and before them stretches a career
which no earthly words can describe. And if there are
some who are feeling somewhat sore about the trend
of events, I want them to develop the long vision,
to realise that even disappointment and frustration
and, what to some may seem as actual betrayal, that
all these things, if rightly handled, can be used as
grist for their spiritual mill in time to come.
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"But we must think of the work of the physicians
on a much wider scale than that presented by the doctors
upon the earth plane. For instance, there are many
complaints which are not cured through that brought
into being by medical science. No doubt the researchers
have done their utmost, they have worked hard to find
a solution for this or for that, they have used every
means in their power to apply the drugs which are available
to bring about the desired result. But, as you know,
so often it seems that failure follows and goes on
to its dreadful end. So other means and other methods
must be found.
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"But, first of all, shall we consider the nature
of the complaints? There are the complaints of the
physical body and of the physical mind, and those deeper
complaints associated with the soul-body which, through
adverse experiences, has been damaged, and perhaps
cannot be rightly repaired until this stage of existence
has run its course.
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"How do these things happen? Well, you must remember
that some people are far more sensitive than others
and therefore they are more prone to be affected by
the material conditions on this plane. What would ride
over one or be dismissed with a laugh, may go very
deeply with another one, especially through the childhood
years. And if those wounds are not delicately handled
and the balm of love placed upon them, they fester
in a very real way. You will be surprised when you
pass over and are allowed to review the events of the
past, to see how some blows upon the soul, made perhaps
in childhood and forgotten by you and certainly forgotten
by the one who struck, how there is still a mark of
the injury upon the next body that is worn.
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"So, dear children, here we come to a wider aspect
altogether in regard to healing. There are healers
who are acknowledged to be healers; there are those
healers who carry on their remedial work as it were
outside the curtain of legal practice; and there are
many others who, through their faith in God and belief
in the teachings in the Holy Book, have become spiritual
healers. All these people are contributing so far as
they are able to the amelioration of pain, of physical
disability and of mental trouble.
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"True, today there have sprung up those who seem
to think they are specialists in regard to the real
self within. They have advocated certain principles,
which, with some people may be effective; but with
others the psychologists have failed and, more than
that, they have damaged the soul-body of the one concerned.
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"So let us use all our commonsense and see what
can be done to bring about a better state of being.
Now, beloved, there are many who might say: 'I should
love to be a healer, but I have not the power!' They
are not really in a position to make that remark because
they do not understand their own make-up, and, also
they are focusing entirely upon those who are regarded
as spiritual healers working in the churches, in the
circles, or in their own homes.
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"I want to assure you that there is not one individual
linked to God who cannot be a practising healer; and
their power can reach far beyond their own country,
or clime, and indeed far beyond the physical world.
Now how is this brought about? Well, in a very simple
way! You are not required to go through intricate examinations
or to spend a lot of money on your mental education;
but what is essential is this - the extension of the
character which you now possess. And that extension
can take place, again, by very simple methods and means.
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"You must remember that you are one of a very
large family, although your individuality will not
be interfered with. In a physical sense you have your
own personality, as you call it; but apart from that,
the individual side has to be, as it were, merged into
the
family spirit.
And I want you to consider how far you have managed
to expand your consciousness to take in something of
the real importance of the family spirit.
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"You may say: 'I am devoted to my own!' Yes, but
you must remember that those you call your own during
the physical stage may not necessarily represent your
own after the transition. Many families are gathered
together for the purpose of gaining experience. Therefore
you find very different characteristics in one family,
and sometimes a certain amount of clashing of auras.
One is keyed to a certain vibration and another perhaps
to the opposite, and it is the cause of disharmony
or unhappiness in the home.
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"But, my children, the mixing of different personalities
is of the very greatest importance in regard to the
expansion of your understanding, to the expansion of
the family spirit. If you lived with those who were
in perfect harmony with you, you would find you would
not progress because there would be nothing to fight
against, nor the calling upon of self-control or patience,
or for the desire to understand the human nature of
another.
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"So you see in regard to the family spirit, at
once you draw in the vast subject of the part of the
PHYSICIAN. Nowadays you feel greatly in sympathy with
a certain type, and perhaps very much out of sympathy
with another type; but what is it that creates that
sense of sympathy? Sometimes merely the same sense
of humour, sometimes the same appreciation of the beauty
of Nature, sometimes the same hobby, sometimes you
are linked together with those who are quite different
from yourself by your wish to serve Christ and to further
His work upon the earth plane.
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"We are getting a little nearer to the truth.
In whatever position of life you may find yourself,
whatever your environment, you can here and now learn
the rudiments of becoming a physician, a physician
who will have his or her own place in the World of
Spirit when this short span of experience is finished
for you.
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"It does open out a wonderful vista of opportunity
and of happiness, and you who possess what others regard
as a 'sensing' instinct, you are on the road towards
the attainment of your career. There are others who
perhaps are not so sympathetic as they might be, but
surely this is a matter of inexperience? It is not
that they are unsympathetic over the sorrows of others,
but they do not understand them because they never
happened to themselves.
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"For instance: if you never had a severe attack
of toothache, how could you imagine the kind of pain
registered by a suffering child? All these things are
on the lines of commonsense, but so often people forget.
They would say perhaps they seem so matter of fact
that they are hardly worth consideration; but they
are, and they form part of the pattern of Life. If
you can look upon a little sufferer and feel that a
great deal of fuss is being made about something which
is a trivial hurt, then, my children, when the time
comes and you are attacked in the same way, your view-point
changes immediately. But it is too late, as you can
understand, to undo the damage which has been done
to the child, who is terrified over perhaps her first
experience of pain. She feels she is in the clutch
of something which should be taken away from her by
her elders. That, again, is a natural instinct.
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"As you turn to the doctors for relief so the
child turns to the mother, whom she thinks will surely
be able to relieve her of this terrifying experience.
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"Think on these things, my children, and allow
your minds to amplify the outline which I have given,
for to-day more than ever the healing touch is needed,
and it will be needed in a greater measure still. What
an opportunity is lost by countless souls who have
never released their healing touch, for there is Divinity
within each one of you, and in 'Divinity' is Love,
and all those marvellous qualities associated with
that predominant and perfect expression of Life.
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"So when you think of events to-day - and some
of you are conscious that things are going wrong -
you must follow that thought by arguing with your own
minds how there can come the healing of any nation;
and this subject is of utmost importance because until
something of healing can be given to the nations peace
cannot remain upon the earth plane. You have seen that
by the semblance of peace which followed the great
tribulation. You regard it as a very poor specimen
of that which you hoped for and prayed for. But the
fault lies with the individual not with fate, not with
God, not with the working out of events according to
universal law. The fault lies with the individual.
Millions of individuals make up this world; and millions
of individuals, to a certain extent in these so-called
modern times, have the opportunity to express their
own opinions and of casting their vote on the side
of right or wrong.
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"I want you to consider this subject because in
the days to come it may be brought back to you in rather
a forcible manner. You will say to yourselves: 'Yes,
too much time was wasted before an effort was made
to heal the nations!'
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"You must remember that a nation has a mind, a
body and a soul, just as you have; and through what
has taken place there have been wounds on the souls
of nations that cannot heal up; they have gone too
deep, the poison has penetrated right through and is
still doing its dreadful work.
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"Will you try to think on these lines and to consider
fairly and justly the kind of physicians you have to-day,
and, again, the physician that you yourself may become?
For, beloved, God's law of equality appertains for
each and everyone. You can be amongst the finest of
the healers, although no publicity may attend your
efforts. And you are called upon, if you love God and
Christ, to become a healer, to release from within
yourself that wonderful power which comes from the
Great Reservoir of Life granted unto you by Divine
Love - the Father, the Creator of all Life.
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"Around you you have many opportunities; but in
your mind you have far greater opportunities than the
physical can show. What are your thoughts when you
take up the daily papers and read of catastrophe here,
of threats there, and of the torture of innocent people
in some part far away, perhaps? Do you remember the
family spirit
- that such as these are of your blood and bone from
a spiritual point of view? How would you feel if it
related to those you brought to birth? But physical
birth is of very trivial importance compared with the
great link or bond of spiritual birth which holds us
fast together.
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"And I beg you to do your very utmost to think
on sane and constructive lines about this great subject
of HEALING, and to ask yourselves how far you have
got, how far are you released from self so that you
can enter into the lot of others. And always remember
that the best work cannot be done when there are other
gods worshipped at the same time, when there are those
who take so much delight in their own bodies that they
have but little time to think of the bodies of others
which are far less attractive to the eye and to the
physical mind.
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"Oh, I do implore you to think very carefully
upon this subject, to look at your own hands and to
realise that from your fingers - if you love sufficiently
- healing power can be imparted to another.
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"Then as you sit in the quietness of your own
room and consider the mind of the body, you will gain
help from the mind of the Spirit. How wide an orbit
does the physical mind cover at this same stage? Do
you think of others or rather of yourself? When there
is a call for service, is there something in the path
- a personal desire - which holds you back? Why do
I speak thus? I am fighting for the emancipation of
the real self from the physical self, because times
are urgent, and those who neglect their gifts in this
preparation-period may be heartbroken to find they
can do so little when so much should be done.
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"The physicians from the Spirit World swarm over
the earth plane, numbers could not express them, they
are here in training, they are doing their utmost to
help those who are sick in mind and in body and in
soul. They know that still more will be required of
them. But one thing they lack, and that is the response
from those in the body which would allow them to gain
far more experience than they can gain at present,
and to bring about far better results than they have
ever had before.
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"So you see, my children, that in your conditions
you have healers waiting there to express themselves
through you, but it depends upon your sympathy with
the sick, your desire to understand what they are going
through, and how far you have released the spirit of
service, which means that the coarse cloak which covers
that which is infinitely precious - your real Self
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"I ask you to visualise a tree with the bark 'torn
off', in your language. The bark is to protect the
more sensitive life within. As the tree evolves in
other spheres so the bark will become thinner, and
the time will come when in the World of Spirit you
will be able to see the tree in its original beauty,
and the veins of its true life will be obvious to you
then; you will see, also, how the different particles
in the tree, which give it strength and beauty in greater
measure, how they function.
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"I want you to try to visualise those veins. Sight
here is blindness to us. When you stand before a tree
in the World of Spirit, having loved Nature for herself,
it will seem to you that miracles are being enacted
before your eyes. It was never meant that the processes
of growth should be hidden from the understanding of
man, but in this material state it is essential because
the real life of the tree would be far too sensitive
to live here without the protection of the bark.
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"Now this is a simile which I want you to apply
to yourselves and others. The physical body and the
aura around the real Self represents the bark of the
tree, and adding to the thickness of that 'bark' there
are all the forms of self-desire and material ambition.
As you know, with many people the bark seems to get
thicker and thicker and the real self retreats further
and further from those who are anxious to help and
to release.
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"But as time goes on and you take on other bodies,
finer bodies and still finer bodies in the World of
Spirit, you will then be able to see, as in that rough
illustration I have given you, how growth, indeed life
itself, goes on in the vehicle which covers the Divine
Spirit within; and as man strives to be free from that
which holds, the outer covering becomes less dense,
less binding.
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"Even with some people upon the physical plane
you have noticed that this one and that seems to be
more Spirit than flesh. This is a little illustration
of the law which is in operation. All this brings you
back to the family spirit, and the family spirit is dependent largely upon the
release of the instinct of the true physician. So then,
my children, will you not do your very utmost to further
the release of those healing qualities within you?
They have so many aspects that if I attempted to describe
even a few of them I would bewilder you.
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"But remember this: you are sons and daughters
of the Most High, you have inherited from God all those
qualities possessed by God, only He is the source and
you are the fragment. But does not this open unto you
possibilities which you have never considered before?
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"And will you not, for the sake of the glorious
Hereafter, set to work to release from within the healing
Power which Christ showed to perfection?
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"I know there are many here who are in need of
healing over their anxieties, healing for the physical
body, healing perhaps for the physical mind, that very
unruly servant over which we all complain when we are
in the flesh. The mind sometimes is like a young colt;
loosen the rein and off it goes over the plains of
desire, and we are shocked by it.
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"But only by practice can you harness the mind
of the body to conform to the will of the Spirit. Be
not disturbed too much when these things happen, but
gain from them the lesson which surely they underline
- that you have yet to find the way to become master
of your unruly self, which means arbiter of your own
fate. But I know that there are many here and those
who read my words who put up a valiant fight, who have
constantly striven to become more spiritualised, who
desire with all their being not to fail in the great
Battle of Life; and by the Battle of Life I mean that
struggle which is going on between the forces of evil
and the forces of good. Well, my little ones, in the
degree of their sincerity they shall not fail.
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"But you must struggle with yourselves, you must
take the little things as well as the big and see what
they really mean; you must seek to understand those
wonderful gifts which God has given unto you during
this stage. Some may seem to be buried for a span,
but they are all there, my children, all the gifts
and talents that you can imagine are in your make-up;
but it depends upon the degree of struggle as to their
degree of release Hereafter. That is a fundamental
point.
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"But to-night we are met here with gladness of
heart. Once again the preparation has been put in,
and more and more, beloved, I ask you to prepare to
become a warrior, if need be, and to remember always
that if you love God, in time you must become a warrior
in the great Christ army. Many more are wanted to take
an active part and leave their mark on time for the
benefit of the generations yet to be born.
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"I bless the workers here, and beg them to increase
their efforts. I know that other people very often
seem as broken reeds, but the call has come to the
leaders to take the broken reed to give it a support
- the support of example - when the reed shall become
stronger and stronger and be of great utility in the
furtherance of the Divine Plan.
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"Yes, I bless you all, and I remind you that although
the ills of the body may be hard to bear, and the ills
of the mind a constant frustration, they are trivial
in comparison with the ills of the soul, which are
absolutely against God's Will. See to it, little ones,
that you try to cover those old wounds in your soul
by remembrance of the sufferings of Christ and the
balm He brought as the great Healer of all Life. And
then to remember to go carefully so that you may not
be used to damage the soul body of another.
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"I bless you in the Name of the Master Christ,
and I remind you that when sleep holds the body this
night we can meet again, and you can verify all that
I have told you under instruction from my Master and
my Lord.
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"Farewell!"
©GWCSA
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