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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"PLANT LIFE AND ITS PLACE IN GOD'S PURPOSE"
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 Sunday, 22nd February, 1925.
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"O INFINITE Love, we ask Thee to pour down upon
Thy children Thy blessing - the blessing of understanding,
of being able to penetrate into the Realms of the Spirit,
the ability to lay aside the thoughts of the world,
to be free - and on the wings of love to soar out into
those realms of thought and of being which are within
the real self, that self which belongs wholly and solely
to Thee.
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"Father, into Thy Light we enter to-night, and
we thank Thee that this sweet communion has been made
possible, that it is a gift from Thee without any price
except that of wishing to reach the highest.
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"Then we ask that Thou wilt bless all those we
love, either in the body or out of the body. Grant
that the cords which bind us all together may be strong
indeed, that the links may be of service, and that
Thy Guiding Hand may lead us through the wilderness
of physical experience out into the Golden Land of
Promise, where love knows no bounds where it has free
expression, and where the Spirit can grow and, in growing,
can cast on either side sweetness and holiness; the
holiness which is of Thee.
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"Take us, O Father, and mould us according to
Thy Will; and according to the will which belongs to
the Spirit within mould us so that indeed we may more
fully express Thy thought, growing in the likeness,
following in the steps of Christ, our Lord and Master.
Amen.
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"MY CHILDREN, to-night we are drawn together for
God's purpose; remember that; remember that the desire
within you, even if it but half expresses God's purpose,
must, in time to come, be brought up to that high standard.
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"Remember, my little ones, that Christ has called
you, that the Lord of Hosts is in your midst to-night,
that the Sacred Presence always is there when those
who wish to serve meet together in this way. Give out,
then, of your love to the Great Lover of all; give
out your adoration and your most tender thoughts to
the Father who waits upon His children, seeking ever
to acquiesce in their wishes, seeking every means to
bind each one more closely to Himself.
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"When we meet together in this way it takes a
little time to break the thoughts which are fastened
too securely on physical things. I have told you before
that the things of the world have their place, but
now and again comes that most blessed privilege of
all, the power to disentangle yourselves from the body
and bodily things and, free in spirit, to penetrate
into that inner sanctum of the Spirit. Just a step,
it may not be more, as yet, but even this one step
is a gift beyond all price. Into holiness we pass,
and God shall use these precious hours to sow many
seeds which shall bloom in the years to come.
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"I told you once before that I had much to tell
you in regard to PLANT LIFE AND ITS PLACE IN GOD'S
PURPOSE. But, of necessity, I cannot take you far on
such a wide and extensive field. Yet, as you know,
the first few points must be explained in the beginning
in order to prepare your minds for that which lies
ahead.
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"Many in the physical world, by studying Nature,
and in particular the details of Nature, under what
you call the microscope, have discovered that the Mind
of God is a wondrous thing indeed. But even the finest
instrument cannot tell you how the marvels revealed
in the tiny leaf and delicate petal came into being.
The instrument can show the exquisite tracery, the
marvellous constructive thought in the flowers and
in the tiny particles of flower and stem, but the door
to the wider knowledge is shut, closed fast, and will
remain so until man learns the great lesson which I
am trying to impress upon you now: until man lays aside
his intellectual pride, and with humility approaches
the Great Creator, the Great Constructor, the Great
Architect of Nature and the Realms beyond and above,
so the door remains unopened.
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"My children, I want you to regard the flowers,
simple as some of them may be, I want you to regard
them as sacred in this sense: that because they express
a thought of the Most High therefore they must be tended
gently and with care. I want you to realise that in
the lavishness of the gift of Nature there you have
one of the most beautiful symbols of the Mind of God.
I want you to try and understand the inner life of
the flowers and the trees. I want you to listen for
the Voice of Nature as it runs through the long, fresh
grass. I want you to hear in the very leaves which
sway in the wind the voice of wisdom, the voice of
the Spirit, trying to teach those who will pause and
listen.
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"I know that for many the study of what you call
Botany is impossible. Neither the time nor the necessary
instruments are there, nor are there such patient teachers
as God would have who, gifted with physical knowledge,
could pass on from that, out of the physical and material
into the spiritual and Divine.
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"I know that to few the opportunity comes to delve
into the secrets of Nature in the way I have explained,
yet to all there is the open road to knowledge, there
is the unfettered path to wisdom, that which can rise
above physical conditions or the training of the physical
mind.
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"From our point of view it does not avail very
much to be able to enumerate the number of veins there
may be in a certain leaf, the signs of age in a tree,
or any of those many facts, tabulated facts, which
man has prepared throughout the ages. These things
have their place, along with the physical, but the
hour approaches when that physical side will be lost,
will be allowed to slip away into the past; for those
who love God shall cross the threshold of things material,
of things known, and shall enter into that vast Sphere
of the Spiritual, the so-called unknown, yea, even
while the physical body remains.
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"You have heard me say before that the only barrier
between mankind and the higher knowledge is lack of
dedication, lack of simplicity and purity of heart.
By laying aside self, by preparing the physical mind,
by the discipline of the physical will, man, no longer
bound to that which has been proved, to that fickle
mistress called science, freed from shackles, born
into a new freedom, the valiant soul goes forward to
see for himself, not only how God has made this or
that, but something of the stupendous purpose underlying
everything which has been created.
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"Beloved, I ask you to listen to the Voice of
Nature. Some of you already have heard these faint
voices. Some of you, when alone in a forest or out
on the wide hillside, have felt and heard that which
lies within. These things, as yet, are misunderstood
or perhaps I had better say, not understood - misunderstood
in the sense that man, in sensing these finer vibrations,
takes all the credit to himself - not understood by
the majority who, having never listened themselves,
rule out this spiritual law as non-existent.
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"Those who have trained themselves for pursuing
the path to the higher wisdom would tell you that from
certain trees they are able to get certain emanations
which express that particular tree. And it would be
possible for those whose 'sensitiveness' is trained
to be taken into a forest and, blindfolded, to stand
in front of that which has known centuries of time
and be able to say: 'This is an oak because I can hear
its voice'.
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"That is the first stage, but the first stage
only. To you it sounds difficult even thus far; but
I say to the earnest, to the strong, to the pure, that
the gift shall not only come but shall develop in a
manner absolutely beyond your imagination now.
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"When the Spring comes tripping in, when Nature
takes on new beauty, new expression, get out by yourselves
and listen to the many voices of Nature; Nature trying
to teach you, trying to train you, trying to show you
how beautiful is the Mind of God; how exquisitely merciful
and loving as well.
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"The trees will answer to the faithful; the flowers
know those who love them best. And if, perchance, you
understand but little at the first attempt then go
back to the flowers, go back to the example of the
trees, wait and try again. That perpetuity of effort
which is expressed in Nature is a lesson for us all.
Because a tree fails to come up to standard one year,
oft when the Spring comes round again new strength
has been gathered to its roots, and the second year
atones for that which was lacking in the first.
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"Nature is so restorative, and this is another
thought to make your own. If you fail in the first
or second or the third experiment, remember that the
God-nature in you has powers of restoring, of rebuilding,
of recharging, and what you cannot do to-day is but
held in store to be granted in the happy days to come.
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"My children, I want you to realise still more
that in regard to the gifts of Nature under your care
you are, as it were, a custodian, a custodian of the
thoughts of God. And if a garden be denied you, then
with the flowers which others supply you can show your
appreciation, your gratitude for these little messengers
of Love, which are sent to lighten and gladden your
lives; to express a beauty which, perhaps, is absent
from your own; to demonstrate a hope which perhaps
has not occurred to you before - that hope which always
tells you and explains to you that the beauty or the
happiness or the brightness which passes away only
passes to return again in a new form; and, if you have
acted worthily, in a sweeter and lovelier form as well.
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"There is nothing in physical life which has not
its spiritual counterpart in the Realms of Light. Those
things which surround your lives, they were given to
you in order to try and prepare your minds for something
of the gigantic, the magnificent manifestations of
the Mind of God, which are everywhere in the Spirit.
Even the houses you build, the furniture you make,
these but tell you that harmony and good work, stability
and firm foundations, create something which will stand
and serve; something which, even though it concerns
the most mundane things of material life, by its harmony,
by its orderliness, by its good workmanship, expresses
God, the God within.
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"I have not been able to take you very far, but
on another occasion we will go a step further. I have
asked you to-night to set about the preparation, the
listening, the sending out from yourself of those sympathetic
vibrations which can, and will, contact with the vibrations
of that which you wish to understand. The sensing,
the hearing, as well as the seeing, that is the next
stage towards understanding the place which Nature
has in God's great scheme for the raising up of mankind.
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"There is one other point, quite on practical
lines, and that is to remember, in regard to flowers
and plants, that even as a surgeon treats his patient
so should these be served. When a limb fails to do
the duty which has been laid upon it, then, with a
sure stroke, the surgeon removes that which offends.
It is done in the quickest and the most skilful way,
according to the knowledge available. It is but a little
thing, but I want to teach you that flowers and plants
have their capacity for feeling which, though not in
the sense of physical pain, yet is definite; and rough
handling causes a wrench, a jar, a sensation to that
which is delicately poised.
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"The flowers shed many tears in secret, and this,
dear children, is not pure fancy. They long to be loved,
they long to be regarded in the way that God meant
them to be regarded; they long to have their place
in your lives and in the lives of the children of the
earth, and so you can understand that, in the matter
of care, of consideration, the flowers have their rights
as well as the rest of God's creation.
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"It is true that the little ones err in this respect.
They pick the pretty blooms and soon, withered and
broken, they lie on the ground to perish. Their effort
to express beauty has aroused neither the desire of
the heart nor of the mind, but of that lesser self
which seeks but possession.
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"Teach the children, then, to be merciful; and
still more so, warn the older ones who so recklessly
and heedlessly destroy loveliness without a pang. Tell
them that these things must not be; that the flowers
which are given to them are trusts which will have
to be made good some time in other conditions, when
they will see and know that, in God's sight, the tiny
daisy has its place. And that place is for the raising
up, for the expansion, for the releasing of the closed-in
spiritual mind, which is struggling to get free from
its physical toils.
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"Yes, in the daisy as well as in the rose, God's
Love is shown; in the beauty of the sky is reflected
the beauty of the trees; in the beauty of the trees
you get the contrast of the sky. Each has its place;
each draws its strength, its vitality, its being, its
life, from the Great Creator; and to God these things
belong. Gifted to the children of the earth by a generous
Father. Ah, yes, my children, gifts bestowed with so
much love.
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"But it grieves the Giver of All when those who
take seek but to destroy instead of to preserve; seek
but to make void the beauty He has created; instead
of, by their thoughts, by their gratitude, by their
acknowledgement of God in the flowers, to send those
flowers onward with new strength, with greater possibilities
of beauty and a higher expression of the Mind of the
Divine.
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"Children of the Light, onward we go, out of the
shadows into the beauty of the morning; when revelation,
when those good gifts of the Spirit shall be counted
as your own. Only have faith, have courage; be watchful
and all will be well. There is in store for each one
of you that which the Father has prepared, which cannot
be put into words; yet, because He is your Father,
so He delights to bestow.
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"You are asked, ah yes, asked, as a Father asks
His loved one, to come to Him and receive His gift
in person. You are asked to gather your resources together
and, with joyful hearts, to continue the upward climb.
There, on the crest of the hill, illumination awaits
you; and if weariness and hesitation may have been
yours in the past, surely now you have reached that
stage when you can see something of the prospect which
lies in front.
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"May God give you this greater vision. May your
hearts and minds be so in tune with Him that gladness
will take the place of sadness; and the companionship
of our Saviour Christ forever cast out the thought
of loneliness, giving you just that courage which,
sometimes, you feel you lack now; the courage which
can say and mean: 'Whatever the obstacles I am going
to reach the highest!'
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"God bless you, steady you and inspire you, so
that you may not only gain the highest yourself but
may show others the glory and the beauty of the climb."
©GWCSA
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