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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"PREDESTINATION"
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 the
Zodiac Circle on Sunday, 13th June, 1926.
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"FATHER of all Love, we come into Thy Presence to-night,
certain that we are drawn together by Thy Will. Help
us, as the little children we are in understanding,
to approach Thy truth with reverent minds, and with
the will to serve in the way that Thou hast laid down.
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"O most tender Saviour, understanding the human
constitution as no one else can do, we ask for comfort,
for healing, for strength and for enlightenment; and
we know that because the desire is within, Thou art
in our midst waiting to bestow. Help us to be more
helpful to others, teach us how to be more lenient
over the failings of others, guide us into the path
of service so that in the little by and by, when free
from all that binds, we may stand before Thee and receive
Thy blessing.
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"With trust, with faith, with confidence we commence
our work to-night; and we ask Thee to send down the
power as Thou hast ever done in the past - the power
of the Holy Spirit - whereby those who have a message
to give may pass it on to the ones they love so well.
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"Father, we thank Thee for all Thy many good gifts.
Amen.
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"MY LITTLE CHILDREN ALL, to-night is not a chance meeting
although to some it seems most hastily arranged. When
you pass hence you will be shown for your comfort and
for your enlightenment that long ere the physical body
was donned by you, this meeting together, this linking
up of ties in love was planned, spirit with spirit,
under the sanctification of the Most High.
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"Oh! if man could but grasp what Life means, what
it holds in store, then he would be able to treat to-day
and the sorrows which to-day holds for many, even as
little lessons which must be learnt before the great
gift of service for Christ is placed within his grip.
Yes! there are those present who have suffered, there
are those who have been called to lay aside that which
meant more than all the rest; there are others who
have been severely tested in many ways, and from the
heart the cry has gone up: Why? why? why?
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"My children, first and foremost think you like
this: that the One Who created you - your Father and
Mother God - He understands! And think you again that
the suffering Christ stood not aside when those so-called
blows fell, but even as the mind of the body suffered
in intensity, so the Spirit within you was communing
direct with God.
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"And so to-night it has been laid down that I
speak to you upon a subject which has been misunderstood
by many - the subject of PREDESTINATION.
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"You see, dear children, that had man in the past
kept close to His God - I speak not of history as you
know it, and as recorded by others, I speak of a time
far beyond the ken of man when you and I were as God
Himself -
in miniature
His children, created by Him, imbued by Him with those gifts which
He possesses Himself. And as we started off on the
long journey of experience, so even as a cloak upon
our shoulders lay His blessing.
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"Children, there have been some, wishing to love
and serve their God, who have pondered within themselves
as to that Predestination which in the minds of millions
plays so large a part; these have a glimpse of the
Truth but a glimpse alone. They say among themselves:
Why fight against this, why struggle against that;
our fates are laid down for us and nothing we can do
or think can alter the decree of the Great Mind Who
rules us all.
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"I want you to listen with patience and to draw
on your store of understanding while I explain in brief
what that word means, how God's Love operates through
it, through all the ages, through the countless stages
through which we go, participating in everything that
touches us, bearing our burdens, healing, soothing
and retrieving that which we in our folly have thrown
away.
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"Oh, think you like this! Those who are parents,
what satisfaction would it be to you if you could create
a child which was but an echo of yourselves, a child
without individuality, without will, without opinions,
without consciousness of right or wrong, but just reflecting
even those characteristics, those thoughts, those actions
which are your own. Is it not the individuality of
each one that causes love to rise and hold the mind?
Is it not that character, that distinction between
each other which makes life worth living, which brings
the light and shade, which causes the rhythm between
those competing sides which, linked together by love,
make the harmony complete?
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"Oh, think you of the position of your Heavenly
Father! There are those ignorant of the mighty Mind
of Love and unconscious of the purpose, who question
amongst themselves why God allowed sin so to dog man's
steps, and temptation to wreak its destructive work.
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"My little ones, when you and I were created we
were pure and we were holy even as the Lord God of
all, but our holiness and our purity were gifts, they
were not our own, we had done nothing to win them,
nothing to make them our possession.
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"And God being a Father, found not delight in
the service which was compelled, in the love which
He Himself had given and which had no will of its own;
so All-Wisdom, realising the great gap, the great loss
which His children suffered because of lack of experience
- that experience which only is wisdom in its true
sense - so the Lord God Almighty sent us on that journey
which would bring us back to Him, aye! in the end,
pure and perfect, but with all knowledge, gained, fought
for, suffered for and therefore our own for ever.
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"Here, dear children, you find that word 'Predestination'
holds good: from God you came, to God you return, even
though it takes man aeons of time, for that which is
within shall find no rest until it is linked with its
Source, until completion is its own.
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"And then in regard to this brief stage upon the
earth plane, oh! think you like this, and be certain
that Christ is desirous of comforting each one - the
comfort which lies in explanation; and there are wounds
in heart and mind which never heal because the reason,
the purpose is not disclosed, and those shepherds who
have overlooked this need of their flock ah! in time
to come that regret which is torture must seize them,
for the work was theirs and it was overlooked.
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"My children, send your thoughts back to your
school days, to the hard lessons and, perhaps, the
undue severity of the one who taught.
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"At this stage the remembrance is dimmed, the
pangs you experienced no longer exist as in that time,
and maybe you smile now because you took this so hard
and that wrung your heart. You are older and you understand.
Perhaps you have tried to teach another and therefore
can realise that lessons must be learnt in spite of
a reluctant mind, in spite of distractions on every
side.
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"This then is as a school, a preparation for that
Life which is Life indeed. Here
(on earth)
senses, feelings, understandings, all are dulled, but
once the body is discarded and you have done your part,
so then, imbued with power and with the gifts of the
Holy Spirit, you will not only
live
but you will function in a way impossible for you to
grasp at this stage.
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"And then I come to the point which matters so
much. I tell you, instructed by my Holy Master, that
you, each one, before the body was taken on, chose
your own experiences, you chose your troubles, you
chose even the hardest lesson which you have had to
learn. But mark you this: the Spirit, being of God,
was strong; the Spirit, being of God, was wise, and
so it attached to itself during the earth stage that
which would bring it the greatest gain in the by and
by. But free-will is never interfered with, and so,
although the Divine within longed to reach the highest
and the best, sometimes the mind of the body betrayed,
sometimes the circumstances of life seemed too difficult,
the enemies too numerous and God so far away, that
the children of the earth fell from that which they
hoped in the Spirit might be their own.
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"You see, dear children, I make it quite clear
that although your real selves knew what life on earth
would hold, knew the sufferings and the struggles,
yet the Spirit hoped that the mind of the body might
be strong and not weak, might be courageous and not
afraid. And here you find that that word Predestination
must stand aside.
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"Preordained the events of your life, but with
free-will never interfered with, never unduly influenced,
so the result has come about. How have you borne your
troubles? How have you faced temptation? This lies
literally within the province of the physical mind,
and when that mind of the body is undiscerning, when
the world comes too close, so it is that the Spirit
within mourns over its lost opportunities, mourns over
the waste of time and the retrievement which must take
place; but God does not condemn.
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"This truth has got to be forced on the mind of
man: the Father, the Loving Christ, the tender, understanding
Companion condemns you not. His to succour, to recharge
with faith, to renew, to make whole again; and even
while you fail so the One Who loves you best is fighting
for you, and He will never let you go for you belong
to Him, whether the mind of the body recognises it
or not. You belong to Him.
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"Oh, my children, try and get your sense of values
more akin to those values as they will be presented
to you when spiritual sight is your own. This little
earth life - so important, so fraught with this, so
charged with that - this little earth life is but one
short stage. You have already weathered the storm of
many an experience, many a birth, and in time to come
when you have fought through this one and gained the
victory, so you will go on, with fresh knowledge, with
greater understanding and with a happiness and inward
joy no words can express.
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"This is the story of creation as it stands for
ever: from God you came, to God you return; and if
you falter by the way, if you are influenced to take
the winding path instead of the short steep path to
God, so then it is only postponement, it is only putting
off the fight for another day.
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"Predestined to be the sons and daughters of the
Most High, predestined to all knowledge, all purity;
and as you wend your way to-day, you are - unconsciously
it may be - you are strengthening your armour, you
are showing yourselves more fit to be called not only
believers, but soldiers of God, not only the minstrels
who sing to the praise of the Most High, but even while
the song is on your lips taking up your staff and going
forward to fight for Him for Truth's sake.
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"Predestination! - a word so fraught with misunderstanding
yet so simple if Christ is taken into your confidence,
so simple if the sacred Record, which has been preserved
for man, is read with the mind of the Spirit, if that
multitude of false ideas, all that traditional thought
is plucked from you for there in the sacred pages the
Truth is set forth for all to see.
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"God created man in His own image and gave him
control over all the powers of the earth - of that
condition and of all those many conditions in which
it was possible for him to function. But free-will
worked against the Divine purpose. Free-will is unlimited
in its scope, yet it can be controlled by something
which man has forgotten, and that is the Spirit of
God within which in time, in time will grow dominant
enough to say to the reluctant mind of the body: You
shall do this, you shall not do that! Free-will, the
free-will of the Spirit within co-operating with the
Will of the Lord God of all, when Love is demonstrated
for all time.
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"And then for the comfort of my children, so many
scattered here and there, I bid them think to themselves
like this: when trouble comes it means that my Spirit
wanted to be brave! When temptation assails, then my
Spirit wanted to show how it loved God! When those
linked to them by love are taken for a little space,
to say within themselves with conviction: 'Where love
is, death is powerless to divide. Because my Father
and Mother God is Love, therefore I trust in Love,
and my love shall follow love, and neither the powers
of darkness nor my own secret tears shall come in between!'
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"This is the Will of God, yet in bestowing this
gift (Spirit communication), as must seem to yourselves, the preparation must
be there, that which is so precious must be guarded,
that which is of God Himself must draw out from within
a reflection of the Divine in order to be put into
operation without mischance.
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"That is the point: Am I - say it to yourselves
- am I prepared to give that of myself which is necessary
to make this communion complete? Am I prepared to be
strong and not weak? Am I prepared to have my faith
tested so that faith no more can be assailed by anyone
or anything? Question and find the answer not from
the mind of the body, which puts this obstruction and
that suggestion to bar the way, but from the Spirit
within, from that mind which is in tune with God. Ask
the question and beware how the answer comes! For though
it seems to you that you work for to-day, tomorrow
you will see the purpose, you will see what has been
brought back to yourself - those tools, those gifts,
that stability to work for Christ when weariness is
unknown, where Love reigns supreme, when one look from
the Beloved will wipe out of your memory every pang
you had, every sorrow, all the-agony which assailed
that which is your vital self.
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"One look from the Beloved, and the past will
seem as naught, and the future a gift, a sacred gift,
for there laid out before you will be Life - not that
sleep which you call life, when the mind binds, when
the body cramps, but the Life which is doing, creating,
and retrieving that which shall never again pass away.
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"And so, my children, I leave you for a little
while, but next time you hear that word 'Predestination',
claim it in God's name. Say to your inquirers: 'I came
from God and to God I return; I was predestined, preordained
to be a son, or a daughter, of the Most High, and by
God's help I will hasten on, and with Christ to guide
me I will not falter by the way.'
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"There is in front much laid out before you even
in this little life upon the each plane; and the dedication,
the sacred thoughts I find within each one - by and
by you shall see for yourselves the harvest they have
sown, the harvest which the Lord God of all shall use,
use to feed the spiritually hungry, use to stop the
famine in the land. And there your portion - that which
you yourself sowed in ignorance, providing for others
just that which they need. And as you see, so the peace
of understanding will enter in, and so those intrusions
in the shape of thoughts - questioning thoughts, sorrowful
thoughts, aye! and rebellious thoughts - so they shall
be banished, yea! even in the little days to come;
for the Spirit within, drawing from the Great Spirit
without, has bought its healing and you see the Light
beyond. And now, my children, I will go.
(After others had spoken Zodiac returned and continued.)
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"Well, my children, I think to-night you will
be able to say amongst yourselves that God has demonstrated
His love in your midst; that you called to Him and
that He answered; that faith was put to the test and
the power came. Oh! take this thought away with you:
that you are children of the Eternal Father, and though
you fail yourselves, although sometimes you deny Him,
yet He never fails you and He never turns from you.
Get into your hearts that consciousness of the impossibility
to separate yourselves from Christ, and when at times
a weak thought comes, don't feel that Christ has retreated
from you so that He may not see. Say to yourselves:
'I am weak but He is strong, and He is fighting for
me and He will never let me go!'
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"This is the message for the people of to-day
- of all ages: the impossibility of separating themselves
from Christ. Take it to the poor, take it to the rich,
take it to the famous, take it to the disappointed,
take it to those who love God and, ten thousand times
more, take it to those who understand Him not.
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"Christ in your life, impossible to be removed;
and Christ waits with a patience surpassing the imagination
even of the strongest soldier who is free - Christ
waits with patience for His children to turn to Him,
for them to be willing that He shall help them to climb
out of the mire, out of the misunderstanding, out of
all the mistakes and weaknesses and failures - to climb
into peace, into joy, into illumination. That is God's
purpose, and for that you were predestined, and from
that no one shall escape.
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"Out of the little tasks building up the foundation
of the work which lasts, out of the sorrow, out of
the tears, out of the heartache, the cleansing of the
mind, the preparing of the heart - so that when the
foundation is firm, in your hands the tools, the essential
tools, will be found. But the tests must come! The
faith must be tried, and the love must be proved! Yet
even in the pangs so borne, you are building around
you, dear children, a protection which shall never
fail. And in the by and by because you were strong
you shall give strength to others; because you were
faithful so the ones who find faith wavering shall
be firm; because you wished for the very best so they
shall find within their hearts the resolution to strive
for the best as well.
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"This is the Christ work - the Christ message,
and to it you are called by God Himself! And now, my
children, I bless you with peace, with joy - the joy
which is understanding, and with that balm of the Spirit which shall close
in the wounds and the memories. In the Name of the
Beloved I bless you, and Love is in your midst.
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"Goodnight. my little ones."
©GWCSA
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