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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCHTHE ZODIAC MESSAGESAN EXTRACT FROM"PIONEERS: WHAT THEY LOSE AND WHAT THEY FIND"Taken from 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 Greater World Sanctuary on Sunday, 18th December, 1949."...But as you know - and I have mentioned it before - there was one of the company who thought he knew better than the Master with all His spiritual experience. Judas was not a bad man, he was an ardent man, he wanted to do great things and he saw beside him the One Who could meet authority with superior authority and grind it under heel. And Judas tried by material means to force the hand of the Gentle Stranger. He argued with himself that he was a public benefactor, that the others were too stupid to grasp the great ideal that surged through his mind. He was the one to make known the wonderful truth brought by the Master Christ; and, moreover, to demonstrate to the doubters the power possessed by Jesus of Nazareth, Who forever passeth by. "Why did Jesus remain silent? Because, my little ones, free-will cannot be interfered with. But, as you will remember, the Master tried to open his eyes, tried to give the warning; but wilfulness was paramount. Judas was certain that he knew best. "He did not bargain with the enemies of the Christ; he accepted because he had to, a trivial sum, and tragedy followed fast. Vanity was shown to be the enemy of mankind; wilfulness, linked to vanity, to be a very dangerous tool not only in regard to others, but still more dangerous for the one concerned. And Judas, a mistaken man, a man possessed with the one idea which he thought no one else was capable of holding, sent the Gentle Stranger to a terrible death..." ©GWCSA GIFT
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