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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"THE ETERNAL QUEST"
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), through the mediumship
of Miss Winifred Moyes in the first half of the twentieth
century
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"DIVINE Spirit of Heavenly Love, pour down upon
us tonight Thy blessing, Thy peace, and understanding
of Thy ways.
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"O most merciful Father, we thank Thee again and
again that ever Thou hearest the requests of Thy children,
both on the earth plane and in Thy Bright Realms. We
thank Thee for Thy ever-listening ear, for all Thy
understanding of those deep spiritual longings which
are urging Thy children on.
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"Grant tonight that indeed we may contact Spirit
with Spirit; that we may be able to lay aside the garment
of the flesh and to penetrate into the sanctuary of
Holy thought; into Thy peace and all that that means.
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"Inspire us with love - love towards Thee, our
Saviour Christ; love towards our dear ones separated
by the physical alone; love towards each other - all
linking us to Thy Divine purpose to the working out
of Thy infinite plan for the raising up of the children
of the earth; out of darkness and twilight into the
Divine Light, when the realisation will come as to
who they are and to Whom they belong.
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"Into Thy Presence we enter with humble hearts,
with the wish to learn, with the desire to be a little
nearer like Thee; and, trusting in Thy Love so confidently,
we hand ourselves over into Thy Father-care. Grant
that we may give out of ourselves thoughts of holiness,
of strength and of faith; we ask it for Thy dear Name's
sake. Amen.
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"MY children, I have come into your presence sent
by the Master, and the message that I give forth is
not my message - it is the message of the Christ! So
then, take care how you receive the holy message. Pay
no attention to the messenger but seek the Master,
the great Bestower of all things. Seek the Christ and
you shall find the Christ; seek the things of the earth,
even if they be the so-called truths conceived by the
physical mind of man, and you will find that which
shall fail you in time of need. There is only One Who
can hold when danger is around; there is only One Who
has the power to quell the weakness that is within,
and that One is Christ.
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"Children, I lift up your hearts and minds from
the earth plane and I link you to those conditions
which are Spirit in very truth, and following the direction
of my Master, I speak on that which I name 'The Eternal
Quest'.
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"Oh little ones, so vast a subject is this and
so little can I portray to you this night. Yet it is
not mine to do your thinking for you; I am a messenger
from the One Who is All-Wisdom and His direction is
that I should lay down that which is the truth in outline,
and it is your part to probe, to analyse and to make
conviction your own.
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"Think you as to this: The Mighty One when He
walked the earth plane gave out that which was pure
wisdom, unadulterated truth. How was this received?
Those with the lesser wisdom, those with puny intellectual
light, they took upon themselves the part of criticisers,
of scoffers, and the truth which was and which shall
remain for ever was discarded as worthless, as something
unworthy of attention! And so Truth - aye, the great
Truth-Bringer - was crucified by man out of the vanity
which held man's mind.
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"Children, when I take for our little conversation
the subject of the Eternal Quest, when I hold out to
you this high and lofty ideal, I wish you to penetrate
beneath the surface, to be content not with the idea
that the eternal quest is God - the God without and
the God within - but to ponder concerning the God without
and the God within.
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"Little ones, what is God? What is the Divine
within? In little part I can explain but only in little
part, because you, at this stage, cannot understand
the illimitable facts which remain for ever; yet it
is the Father's will that you should learn and that
I should come amongst you and seek to teach.
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"What is God? In the sacred record there portrayed
in simple words is the answer: God is love! Therefore
the Divine within you, in degree, is love as well.
Now, hold this thought in mind. There are many here
who have that which is the pioneer-spirit. There are
those others who would be as the pioneers, but weakness
of the physical garment or a certain indefinable frailty
of the mind holds them back. They are ones who give
generous admiration to the pioneers, but they say within
themselves: 'The steep and difficult road is not for
me; I am a child in such things.' Yet they delight
to listen to the stories concerning the pioneers of
old and the pioneers of to-day.
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"To such as these I say, commanded by the Master:
Oh little ones, in time to come you too shall create
spiritual history, for because the desire within is
to be as those brave courageous ones, so then it is
ordained that the strength shall be forthcoming. Aye,
in the to-morrow you shall be numbered amongst the
great and glorious pioneers.
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"The eternal quest - God, not only the God Who
is the great Creator, but the release of the God within.
The valley seems so far from those great and glorious
heights, and the valley holds, the traveller tarries,
yet the traveller must go on; but once the valley stage
is passed no longer is he or she a traveller but a
pilgrim on the long steep way to God.
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"So I draw in the brave and the courageous, and
I draw in those who seem weak and frail unto themselves,
and to the weak I speak in tones of understanding.
Oh, remember that at one time this same servant of
the Master was weak even as yourselves, but by the
strength borrowed from the Christ, by the protection
of His holy angels and those of old, so this same servant
gained a little of strength, and his exceeding great
reward is to come back amongst the children of the
earth plane and give out messages of cheer, aye and
perchance of warning, but the message of cheer could
not register the truth which is of God if the warning
were absent, if the voice of the messenger cried not:
Beware!
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"To the weak, to the frail I speak this night,
for I can tell them the short quick way up the mountainside,
out of the travellers' stage into that of the pilgrim.
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"Call back your thoughts to the eternal quest;
hold in your minds the great God of all, and, again,
cleave to the interpretation of the mighty Creator
- Love, illimitable Love! So then, little ones, you
have your direction; to those who are weak comes the
opportunity which is never taken from them.
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"Children, what know you of love? Ah, what know
the children of the earth of love! Perchance you answer:
'I have loved greatly, but pain followed fast on the
giving of that which meant so much and now, disillusioned,
with sadness in heart and mind, I have vowed within
myself to hold my love, lest another has the power
to make me suffer once again.' These thoughts pour
through the mind of the body, and why? Because the
little children of the earth plane understand not the
meaning of love, understand not that which is a symbol
of their great and grand inheritance, understand not
that love is the eternal quest! Oh, remember ever that
no pioneer gets beyond the first range of the hills
of achievement without the staff of love.
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"So, little ones, you who think that courage is
far from you, take this lesson to heart. Train your
mind to think on the lines of love. Send that which
you call the emotions through the pure channel of love
as love is, and have no fear. As you learn to give
out that which is essentially of the Divine within,
so you will find that around you the conditions - once
dense and holding - seem to lighten; indeed, they are
charged with a beauty that is of the Spirit. And as
you give forth of love, lo, to your great astonishment
and delight the love-waves of others reach you, intermingling
with that which you name the aura, and something of
God is created for all time. Consciously or unconsciously
you have started towards the eternal quest - love in
the God-sense, love which holds within its folds power
in a million forms.
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"Therefore, if hitherto you have chided yourselves
over weakness, over lack of that courage which you
admire so much in others, take heart, be of good cheer!
This night you can commence that which is the foundation
of your courage, your resistance, your determination,
and in the little to-morrow, with the cloak of protection
around you, you shall find yourselves struggling up
the steep road to God, caring naught for the difficulties
and obstacles on your path because the eternal quest
holds you, mind and body and soul. You are seeking
love in the God-sense, and you cannot seek love in
the God-sense without finding in your vibrations amazing
demonstrations of the love of the Most High, for God
is Love and you are His little children, drawn to Him,
aye, fastened to Him by the chain of love throughout
the long past and for all eternity.
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"Now I speak to the brave ones, to those who have
something of the pioneer-spirit. Perchance at times
you count your wounds; perchance at times others say
unto you: 'Is it not some great foolishness which holds
your mind? What have you gained? See what you have
lost!' And for the moment the shadow of doubt is cast
across the brightness of your high endeavour. You ponder
within: 'Is it an act of folly? What have I gained?
I have lost and lost!' But the pioneer has a firm foundation;
the staff which he has purchased by effort does not
fail, and a moment later his laughter rings out. True,
the enemy drew close; yet by the strength and vision
drawn from God, so the pioneer sees that it is an enemy
who speaks and not a friend. A little older, a little
wiser, a little more experienced he goes on and on.
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"Children with the brave spirit, children inspired
with something of the Christ-Spirit, what is it all
about? Whom seek ye? One who gives unto you that which
your lesser self craves, one whose fair promises concern
to-day and not tomorrow? Ah no! You seek One Who took
the earth way in time long past, and you go back in
imagination upon His life, His struggles, His toil,
His sufferings, and conviction is born within, and
the struggles of your own life - its pangs, its disappointments
- are as signposts on the road to God. Were these things
absent fear might easily seize your mind, for they
were upon the road the Master took Himself.
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"The One Who sought for love upon the earth plane
and found it only in the few, the One Who gave unlimited
love, Who typified love in a thousand forms, that One
is the One you seek, and the One you have found in
a way you cannot understand at this stage. 'Whom seek
ye?' - the Master Who went in front and called to us
to follow on.
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"To you who are brave, to you who have courage
I speak: and I say unto you that in the little time
to come so you must produce all your resources of courage,
for there will be others who will be in sore need,
and if you fail them then indeed they will be as ones
forsaken.
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"Cannot you grasp that that which must come to
pass upon this little plane is part of the plan? The
eternal quest of the Spirit within cannot be continued
unless the cleansing takes place - the eternal quest:
love in its greater, holier, God-like form. Oh little
ones, I entreat you because I know your lives, because
each one is linked to me through our Master Christ,
I entreat you to make ready, to hasten your footsteps
towards that grand and glorious goal upon which, as
it were, the Divine within has fixed its eyes - love,
God's highest, sweetest gift!
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"Should that which you name catastrophe touch
you or yours, you have your direction. In the measure
that you can forget self, in the measure that you can
be brave, resourceful, in the measure that you can
keep your courage high, so you indicate to those who
have true vision that you are that much nearer the
eternal quest - love for humanity, which indeed is
love for God. You who are hard beset by the enemies
of the physical and those struggles which you name
material, oh, is there not opportunity now to demonstrate
the Divine within, to show courage, to faint not under
the load of anxiety, to remember the poverty, the anxiety
in the little home at Nazareth and the great and glorious
triumph over circumstances?
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"Cannot you see that around you your privileges,
your gifts lie in their thousands? But the test must
come, the test as to your weakness or your strength;
and in the measure that you rise above the test so
you indicate to those around and so the consciousness
is born within you, that you are a pilgrim, that your
quest is God, and God is Love.
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"Little ones, so plain it is. Man, out of his
pride, out of that which he builds up over simple,
holy things, has made the road so difficult, has cast
over the traveller the heavy cloak of doubt which impedes
and holds him back. But I say unto you, a messenger
of the Christ, borrowing at this moment of the power
of the Holy One - that the road to God is simple and,
when love is within the heart and mind, not too difficult
to be taken, even by a tiny child. The difficulty comes
in when the eyes stray from the Christ and are fastened
upon the toys of the earth, for then, unknowingly,
the traveller is engulfed in the wood of misunderstanding
and the stars of hope and promise are obscured.
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"But that is man's way, not God's way. True, the
Master suffered but His suffering was because those
He loved so well wanted Him not. Perfect Love was spurned,
and therein lay the anguish of the Christ - not the
Cross. The body had its pangs, oh, many pangs, but
the Tender Heart was torn by the hatred of His own
creation. Such tests, little ones, do not come to you.
You have friends in plenty, aye, many in the body who
show unto you their high and fond regard; and those
with clear vision can see around them the bright ones
who are charged with power, and they know that they
live under the rays of their most comprehensive love.
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"So I say unto you, the road is straight and simple
if love governs the heart and mind; and the time shall
come when numbered amongst the pioneers, the spiritual
warriors, you shall see - just a span in front - Love
in a form so glorious that it will amaze and overwhelm.
Yet have I not said that love is the eternal quest?
Ah yes, and as we gain release, as the Divine within
controls and governs the lesser self, so love expands
in beauty, is transformed again and again. And throughout
all time to come still the same quest is ours, for
love is of God. The child is of the Father, created
in His own likeness and gifted, in miniature, with
His powers - in time returning to that holy state -
but the child is the child and the Father is the Father.
It is our gift to have love in its highest form, but
because we are the children of the Father so only a
fragment can we hold.
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"Thus the quest goes on. We seek ever for love
in its highest, holiest form, and as we shoulder our
burdens, as we carry our Cross, as our staff of faith
strengthens, so, before us, is the Master, and little
by little our consciousness opens and we are able to
take in something of the majesty, something of the
humility of the Divine.
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"So, little ones, as you go your way, hold fast
this holy thought, that you can be as the great and
glorious pioneers of old, and the way is straight and
simple. You have been gifted with understanding in
part, you have been told as to the goal, as to that
which you must seek until you find; and even as you
raise your hearts to God and ask Him as the child you
are to lead you, to protect you on the way, to give
strength instead of weakness, light instead of twilight,
so those others who understand love in something of
its true character gather close.
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"Neither fear nor dismay should ever find a place
within your heart and mind, for you are companioned
upon the holy quest; and, what is more, the Divine
within shall not be satisfied until the steep road
has been taken and the eyes are lifted above the earth
away from the things that once appeared so attractive,
so desirable. And when eyes and mind are lifted to
the heights above, from within comes the consciousness
that no longer can you wait - the eternal quest will
not be denied.
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"Forget not that the quest of each child, whether
they acknowledge God or not, the quest is always the
same. That is why those who are bound catch at that
sore travesty of love which is proffered by some as
the gift itself; aye, that is why the children upon
the earth plane desecrate the Divine within. A glimmering
of the quest has pierced their physical consciousness;
they ask for love but oft give and receive that which
indeed is of the earth and must represent bondage in
time to come. Yet I would not have you overlook that
this inverted desire, this desecrated impulse is a
mutilated indication of the quest of the Divine within
– Love.
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"So, my children, I pass from you in this way,
yet ere I go I urge this upon you, and I speak in tones
imperative because I see the need which lies in front:
Gather in your courage, force out the weak thoughts,
the frail thoughts, the dark thoughts! Be certain that
because there is that of God within, so indeed the
quest - the Divine quest - is yours. Make ready, not
to-morrow but to-day. Each hour give out the love that
is within; and if it is the lesser love at this stage,
oh, as you give, it shall become the greater love,
for you cannot give love in any form without being
a better man, a better woman. Those who take love and
seek not to give back love in the measure that they
understand, these are betraying the Christ within,
and such as these, in time to come, must learn to give
out love. Love is life; Love gave us the consciousness
that we possess; indeed, we are expressions of the
Divine love of the Creator and, in turn, as lesser
creators we must hold the gift in something of its
holy form.
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"So then, little ones, start to-day. Give out
love! Purify the channel through which your love seeks
to run, and in the little time which you name the future,
so with gladness in your hearts, with strength within
your minds, you shall find yourselves as pioneers,
servants of the Most High. And you shall look back
and see those others, once so weak, whom you dragged
from the valley of self, and your eyes shall go over
them and you shall note how bravely they are taking
the hill. The eternal quest at last has seized their
being, and the part you have played is blessed by God.
So we go on, the weak succouring those who are weaker
still, and the strong sending their strength to the
weak and weaker, and thus God's Will is done.
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"Little ones, I bless you, bless you with that
highest gift of all – Love. Fear not if your love
fails your high desire. Through the blessing of the
Christ that love within shall be purified, refined;
and as you strive and as you struggle so around you
the beauty of the Spirit is being built up, and that
beauty and the power it represents shall never pass
away.
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"Little children of the Master, I bless you with
love. Resting upon each one, even as a cloud of rosy
gold, is the love which is Divine. Oh, thank the Father
that through the release of the Divine within you are
on your way towards the eternal quest - God, and God
is Love!
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"Farewell, but we shall meet again."
©GWCSA
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