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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"SCIENCE AND REAL LIFE"
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 Welwyn
Garden City, on Sunday, 9th August, 1931
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"Saviour Christ, into Thy hands I commend the spirit
of this Thy child...
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..."My dear children, I come this night because the
Master bids me to go to the north, to the south, the
east and the west, to give to the children upon the
earth plane the simple truth which is of Him. I want
you to bear with me for a while, for indeed I would
unfold something of the truth which is of God. I ask
you to bear with me with sympathy, for I must use earth
language, that which applies to material things, and
yet it is the Master's Will that I unravel those things
which are spiritual in very truth.
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"From the outset I would explain that I use the
term 'dear children' simply as an endearment, for we
who are free have a great, wide love, and those upon
the earth plane - whether they know us or not, whether
we seem unto them as strangers in very truth - each
one is loved by us. I use that phrase 'dear children'
because the Master has instructed this one, His humble
servant, to try to pass on to you some conception of
the mighty love which He bears for each one.
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"So, dear children, as we meet together this night,
blessed by God, feeling upon us the sweet sunshine
of the earth, is it not a time suitable, is it not
a time well chosen when we should try to draw unto
us something of the sunshine of the Spirit? And tonight
I have been instructed to speak to you upon that which
I name SCIENCE AND REAL LIFE.
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"Science to us simply means the truth. I want
you to go over that which you name 'science' upon the
earth plane, and to realise that those who give forth
fragments of truths are blessed in the degree that
they seek to help their fellow men; I want you to send
out thoughts of peace, thoughts of help to all those
many who even at this hour are struggling with disease;
I want you to realise that God is not a god in the
far spheres, but God as Christ walks side by side with
the patient investigators, those who want to restore
health to the physical garment, those who want to restore
healing to the mind within.
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"Blessed are the healers, blessed are those who
have given their little all to tear out those secrets
which shall bring health to a nation, health to a people,
and peace upon earth. And here I would unravel something
which is so oft ignored.
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"Little ones, do you know how much so-called 'evil'
is cast over the conditions because the individual
concerned is out of health, is prey to some foul disease?
These diseases fasten upon the body and they poison
the clear blood stream, and that blood stream, as it
courses through the brain, rouses irritation in many
forms; and so it is that malicious thoughts, thoughts
which are damaging to the one concerned and to those
around, arise in the earth mind and they foul the clear,
pure stream of life.
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"Therefore, from the spiritual standpoint, you
see that it is of the greatest importance that the
healers should have full powers; and the unseen healers,
countless in number, they work with them by day and
by night, hoping that the thoughts that they cast upon
the physical consciousness may become tangible in material
conditions, and that the investigator, the man who
probes hoping to unravel the secrets of this complaint
and that disease, may be lead into the clear path of
truth.
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"But here, because it is the truth, I must enforce
and emphasise again and again that these workers, these
investigators, could have shortened their labours,
could have penetrated into true wisdom if they had
prayed more, if they had turned to the Master of all
life and asked for His help. There are some - and I
thank God for it - there are some of the healers who
do pray that God shall guide their hands, that God
shall guide their minds; but there are many who have
yet to find that a God really exists and is conscious
of their work upon the earth plane.
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"Cannot you see that in the great science of medicine,
in the great science of surgery, man, because he is
held by intellectual pride, thwarts that which he desires
to do? But the time is coming, the great awakening
is coming when the wiseacres will lay aside the wisdom
which is of the earth, and with the heart and mind
of a little child kneel before their God and ask that
He shall use them as the Father would have.
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"Then we pass from the science of healing, and
we take a brief survey of other sciences which hold
the mind of man, indeed which seem unto him as all-important,
not only now but for all time. There are many who exclaim
with joy as they see machines sailing so gaily through
the air, but the honest man knows that there is so
much beyond his grasp. When he watches the tiny butterfly
as it flits from flower to flower, as it flies against
the air currents, he realises how futile is the earth-mind,
how limited, how held; for in that tiny insect there
is something which triumphs over man's difficulties;
the butterfly has within itself the power to soar and
to go where it wills.
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"But remember this: because you are divine, your
limitations can pass away, they need not hold you;
yet man wills that he shall be held by the things of
the earth. Again, I turn your attention to the flowing,
marvellous life beneath the ocean, within the waters.
Man stands humbled before those creatures of speed,
those creatures of utility, those creatures which seem
to have mastered that which is beyond human ken. The
'Science of God' is revealed, the 'Science of real
life' is exemplified by so-called lower creations.
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"Children, does it not bring us back to reality,
does it not rouse within our hearts and minds something
which inspires us to try and try again? Knowledge is
sweet, knowledge is power, as yes! and because knowledge
represents so much power to the earth mind and earth
body, so there have been many over the past who have
worshipped at the shrine of knowledge; but when the
earth body was cast asunder they found to their consternation
that they were worshipping something which existed
only in their imagination. For mark you this: the knowledge
of the earth is of the earth; the wisdom of God is
of God, and only the one who is linked to the Great
Spirit - the Creator of life in a million, million
forms - only that one can draw unto him true wisdom,
the wisdom which does not pass away.
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"Science and real life. Brother, what will it
mean to you when the earth body is no more if you have
learnt to conquer that which man calls the air? you
will see then for your own satisfaction - for in that
time something of freedom will have been made your
own - you will see the marvels hidden in that which
man calls space; you will have revealed unto you that
form of life which is ignored by those in an earth
body - the life brought into being by the tiny child
who looks with tenderness upon her doll. Strange it
seems to some of the wiseacres that a tiny child has
it within his power to create the animal he loves so
well; strange it seems to those who have probed into
the sciences of the earth, that the little maid has
drawn unto her not only devotion, not only service,
but has drawn unto her the power to create life in
tiny measure, because she loves the flowers, because
she listens to the song of the birds, because it seems
unto her that the strange things that fly so fast around
know that she loves them and they respond in turn.
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"What of the baby-mind; does she understand the
different names of the birds? Can she pick out the
flowers which are prized by the expert? Nay, she culls
the daisy out of the grass; the buttercups bring a
message sweet and full of cheer.
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"God is revealed to the child-mind in the life
upon the hillside and in the hedgerows, and that tiny
child - I say it by the power and grace of God - that
tiny child, by her ability to love, has more wisdom
than the wiseacres of any generation.
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"So I ask you to consider this great truth, not
to be content with the things of the earth, but indeed
to probe in the God-way into those truths which are
all around. The flowers? - yes, they are sweet; the
strong trees which shut off the wind from the little
homestead, and the great hills, all, all have a message
for you: to probe deeper an deeper still, to go back
beyond the history of this little planet, to ask yourselves
as to the beginning of the life of this and that which
is shown on all sides. This little planet, dear children,
is of short duration; the life thereon, so short it
seems to the mind of God. what of the world to come,
what of the world from whence you came? Spirit you
are, spirit you will remain for all time. Over the
far, far past, long before this planet came into use
for God's purpose, you were a living soul in conditions
hidden from your consciousness now. You learned your
lessons or you forgot to take up the lessons which
lay before you.
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"Does this not bring unto us all a truer sense
of proportion? When men talk glibly of the sciences
of today, I ask them and I ask you to take the true
view; to get away from the thought of this little planet
alone and to allow your mind to soar into eternity,
and also back into the far, far past when science,
the truth which is of God, was within your possession.
For you were created in the image of the Divine and
gifted with something of His mighty gifts; but during
the long journey of experience, by the misuse of free-will,
so many of those gifts were cast aside. Yet to us all,
because we are divine, because we were created in the
image of God, to us all comes this glorious chance
- to be as Christ intends that we shall be; and then
the gift of creation shall be ours in very truth.
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"How sweet it will be to fly through the atmosphere
and to explore those marvels in God's Land. How wonderful
it will be to defy time and space. We thing of the
omnipresence of God and we know, because within us
there is something of God, that also something of this
gift shall be our own.
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"Aye, even at this same stage something of that
gift has been made our own. The body remains here,
perchance, but your thoughts, your sympathy, your love
fly across the wide ocean, and those gifted with true
vision see your soul body by their side. The link with
the physical has been kept, but the soul body of the
individual, drawn by the chords of love, has defied
all physical restrictions and limitations, and a hand
is grasped or a message exchanged.
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"Here we get one small instance of the science
of real life, the true science which shall stand for
all time, when all that which man so prides himself
upon at this same day shall be cast asunder as of little
worth. But mark you this, by the effort torn forth
from the investigator, by the giving up and the self-discipline,
so he has purchased for himself the right to enter
through the door of revelation, and according to his
spiritual strength - not according to his mental strength,
but according to his spiritual strength - he shall
pass therein and miracles of God's grace shall be revealed
to his longing eyes.
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"So I come back this night with the simple message
of the Christ, and I ask you to go back upon His words
and to remember His love of little children and His
appreciation of the simple heart and mind. If you love,
you shall create in the God-way; if you serve your
neighbour, you shall indeed have a kingdom all your
own; if you apply the gifts of the earth-mind to unravel
the 'secrets' which shall bring alleviation to those
so sore beset, your powers and your gifts shall be
uncountable when the earth garment is no more.
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"Cannot you see that the true science, the real
science is ever the science which Jesus the Christ
came to earth to bring? Cannot you realise that those
with the worldly minds have been deceived and they
have deceived others in turn? The cry goes up from
all quarters of this little globe: 'Feed the mind!'
But so oft the spirit within is starved. Oh, feed the
mind with the true food of the Spirit, let those abilities
which you possess be dedicated to your God, and then,
dear children, you shall prove, not only your wisdom
for this little planet, but the wisdom which shall
be yours when the earthy body is cast asunder, the
wisdom which shall need no revision, for it is of God.
You have learnt how to hold the key of true life, you
have leant how to insert the key in the door of true
knowledge, and peace shall be yours for evermore.
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"The scientists of every age revise their theories,
they alter their boundaries and they rebuild again
and again; but I emphasise once more that if only these
men would approach their God with a humble heart and
a humble mind so, by divine power and inspiration,
that which is the truth would rush through them to
a waiting world. If the clever ones, the so-called
wise ones, over the ages had followed the path laid
down by Christ, disease would now be unknown, war would
be an impossibility, and you would have a miniature
heaven upon earth. Many 'secrets' of God would have
been revealed, those secrets required by man during
the physical stage; and when the physical stage was
past, true wisdom, the wisdom which is Love itself,
would be open unto man for evermore.
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"And now, dear children, I come amongst you to
release, in the degree that it is possible, the earth
mind.
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"Let not doubt hold your mind as to the power
which is given unto us by God. Go back on the sacred
Scriptures; read there again and again the promises
of the Most High. God shall give unto His creation
those gifts which are of Him, but man must realise
that he has much to learn, man must realise that he
indeed is a son of the Most High. Knowledge must be
acquired by slow stages, many experiences must be his;
but the road, which seems so sorrowful to some, so
dark and overcast, so full of earthly loss, the road
of experience is the short sweet way to God.
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"Peace be upon you, little children of the Light;
let it not be said that our Master ministers unto His
children from some far sphere; nay, where the need
is greatest, there the Master comes; where the weakness
is greatest, there the power of the Holy Spirit is
bestowed in unlimited measure; for the children of
the earth are the children of the Father of all life;
the children of the earth, wayward, foolish though
some may be, they are the children of the King, and
the Kingdom of God is indeed desolate until they are
gathered in.
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"Oh, I would release you from the bondage of the
earth-mind, I would give unto you something of spiritual
consciousness, for great things are coming to pass
and I want you, each one, to be ready, I want you to
be as the tried tools, to be as that which can be used
in the redemption of this little world. Is it not worth
a little pain now? Is it not worth that which you call
loss, so that when the call comes you can answer out
of the released spirit within: Lord I am ready, use
even me!
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"Healing for you, dear children, not only of the
earth body, but the closing of the wounds of sorrow,
the closing of the wounds of anxiety; healing for you,
dear children, over all that which memory represents.
Count not these things as 'trouble', but rather go
back and see in the thorns of physical life the promise
of the roses of love which are to come. Back, back
to simple things man must go; back, back to where Jesus
stands, there to receive from Perfect Love not only
that which He delights to give, but to receive that
which the individual so longs to make his own - the
command to go forth: Feed My lambs, feed My sheep,
seek for the lost and seek until they are found! And
the time shall come - and I say it inspired by the
Holy Spirit - the time is coming when man shall awaken
from his long sleep and then, as a freed being, the
true science of real life will be made his own and
he will work for God for evermore.
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"I bless you as I leave you. Those with clear
vision can see this night some manifestations of the
Spirit of God; those with clear vision can see, as
I speak, the golden Cross of Jesus the Christ built
athwart these conditions. Oh, dear children, open your
eyes, but if true vision cannot be made your own for
a span or two, then open the mind of the body and allow
the true vision of the Spirit mind to guide your footsteps
along the way which leads to God. Then sadness will
be no more, then suffering will be seen as the gift
it represents, then the tools of the earth will be
rededicated to the Master's use; and when the earth
body is cast asunder no sorrow, no darkness and few
restrictions shall hold the children of God, for God
waits to give to the humble heart and mind.
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"I bless you as I take my leave. Hold fast to
these last words - 'the humble heart and mind' - The
true science of real life is the science which the
Master exampled in perfection.
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"Farewell!"
©GWCSA
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