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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"REINCARNATION AND EVOLUTION"
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, 15th February, 1925.
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"FATHER and Mother God, we Thy little children,
with so much thankfulness come together this evening,
waiting for Thy blessing to descend upon us, waiting
for the good gifts of the Spirit to be vouchsafed,
waiting to hear Thy Word, and to receive those dearly-loved
messages from those who have gone on before.
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"O Saviour, grant that we may each give the help
which is necessary; grant that our thoughts may be
sanctified - sanctified in the sense that self steps
aside, and the Spirit, which knows and loves its God,
is free to express itself unhindered. Help us to help
others; give us sufficient understanding that we may
understand the needs of others; grant that we may be
able to put ourselves more and more in imagination,
into the position of others, especially of those who
are hard pressed by spiritual or physical conditions.
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"Father, Thou knowest that as little children
wishing to learn, wishing to be used, we make these
petitions; and as we ask, we feel the power of Thy
grace at work.
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"Into the Silence, then, of the Spirit we enter;
and Love, which needs no expression in words, Love
awaits us on either side. For this, O Father, and for
all Thy many good gifts we thank Thee; and we thank
Thee again and again. Keep us closely bound to Thee;
grant that the sweet companionship thus established
may penetrate into the physical minds of these, Thy
children, so that loneliness will be no more, and joy
will be complete. Amen.
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"MY CHILDREN, to-night, as usual, there are many subjects
which I should like to discuss with you, but it is
not wise, on any occasion, to crowd too much in. I
mean that in order to assimilate things in a right
manner the physical mind must have time to, as it were,
turn over each fresh point before it passes on to the
next stage and the next. So, as opportunity offers,
we shall touch on all the many subjects which arise
in the mind, and which, as yet, have not been satisfactorily
dealt with by those who are chained within the physical
body.
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"I would remind you that why these so-called difficult
points remain unexplained in a way which appeals to
both heart and mind, is that man so often seeks in
the material world for his answer - forgetting that
the great Spirit, the Creator of all, waits, ah, yes!
ever waits to listen to His little ones, and to give
them the key to this problem and to that - if they
will but show a little of that patience which He expresses
in an unlimited way.
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"I speak with great, great love and understanding
in regard to those who, for obvious reasons, are unable
to be present with us; and I tell them all that no
thought passes through their mind which is not noted
by me, no hint of sadness approaches these, my dear
ones, without my instant aid to drive the enemy back.
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"I want you all to get a wider and more comprehensive
realisation of the love which surrounds your lives
- the love of many who are outside your physical thoughts.
And I want those who are far away, or so it seems to
them, to remember that by the miraculous power of love,
distance and time cease to exist. The guides and helpers
are never too occupied to attend to the half-expressed
wishes of their children on earth.
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"And so I would remind you all that if there seems
a little delay sometimes in giving the spiritual aspect
of a statement in your precious Record (Bible), or
of one of those queries which arise so fast in conversation,
I want you to remember that each one has been noted
by us and will be dealt with in God's good time - dealt
with in as adequate a way as you can take in; and then,
later on, a fuller explanation will be forthcoming;
and so the unfoldment will go on, and all will be as
God intends.
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"I am going to touch upon that very interesting
subject which you call 'RE-INCARNATION', but, as I
explained, it is only possible to give just an outline
of the vast scope and possibilities which are contained
in that state of change or transition which all must
go through.
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"There are many in the world who are convinced
that as the generations go on the greater self within
comes back to this earth in varied forms. You see,
there has been much said which gives rise to this very
natural explanation of the progress or the evolution
of the soul. It appeals to commonsense. Man looks at
himself and at his fellow beings, and his practical
side acknowledges that neither he nor they are ready
for the powers of the Spirit, or for the joys of the
Realms of Light.
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"I want you always to take a very broad view in
regard to such theories. As you know, our understanding
Father does not say to His children: You must not think
of this; or you must not try and explore that channel
of thought, which is long indeed. No! our Father God
wishes His children to use their mental powers to their
fullest extent; but you can appreciate this without
much explanation from me - that the Father does not
like to see His children worrying over apparently insoluble
conundrums when the solution lies so near at hand.
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"I have emphasised this point before, but I do
so again, deliberately, tonight - I say that the secrets
of physical life and its many phases, together with
the unravelling of those glorious truths of the Spirit,
can be attained by retreating into the Silence of the
Spirit, and communing with God in that intimate, closer
sense, when, in one way or another, an explanation
will come.
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"I make this statement with a perfect appreciation
of the responsibility of so doing; and I tell you that
there have been those who, loving God, have laid aside
self in that entire sense, who have put this into practice
and have not been disappointed.
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"But let me get back to the first point in regard
to the passage of the Spirit through its many stages
of experience.
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"I have taught you from the beginning that you
and I and all the countless millions who have lived
and are living on any plane, that these are of God,
that they are part of God, that they emanated from
Him, that, in the first instance, they were as a spark
from that which is Unlimited and Divine - God giving
out of Himself so that others should share in the joys
and the powers which are His own.
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"Having reminded you of this, then it is not difficult
for you to imagine that, starting from that which is
All-Holy, these expressions of God had to go through
many processes of 'involution' before the stage of
'evolution' was reached.
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"This, my children, takes you back so far that
the mind is quite incapable of taking it in; but, never
mind, all you are asked to do is to reconstruct in
your mind your ideas of the time of Creation. You must
remember that this little earth of yours is but one
stage - a most important one, as I have said - but
one short stage only in the process of spiritualization
which all have to go through.
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"And in using the word 'spiritualization' at once
I get the thought from you: 'But if we started off
from God, holy as He is holy, spiritualization seems
the last word to use!' Yet, have I not said that the
journey of the Spirit was one of experience? The Divinity
which is within us all is a gift from God; but only
by the process of overcoming and rising above that
which is evil, can the gift of Divinity be made our
own.
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"You are asked to believe, then, that starting
from the point of Perfect Purity, you went through
stage after stage of experience before the point of
'evolution' was reached; and, as a result of experience,
you are making that gift of God your own.
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"There is one point here which I want to emphasise,
and that is this: When God gave out of Himself, He
gave the gift of 'free-will', and that gift has never
been interfered with, and never will. You see, dear
children, that if man - if we all - had been stronger,
more watchful than we were, we could have gone through
our experiences without losing so much of the holiness
and the purity with which we started.
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"I want to make it quite clear. As you have it
stated in your Bible, man was made in God's own image;
and that image, it was His intention, should remain
for evermore. Yet there have been many who, as you
know, have not only fallen to the level of the animals
created for their use, but indeed have shown signs
of far less advancement, in a spiritual sense, than
the animals possess.
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"This is your explanation, and I give it to-night
as plainly as I am able. Because there have been those
who have found traces of man on a level with the animal
creation - because these types have been found, it
only means that during certain stages humanity, as
a whole, forgot its sonship and its daughtership with
the Most High. The power of evil had far too great
a scope; and thinking and living as the beasts they
drove, so they degenerated into that which, as I have
said, in many cases was far worse than the lowest in
the animal kingdom.
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"My children, I want you to remember that you
can think only of finite things; and then to recollect
that this little world but represents one short stage.
Those processes of experience have gone on in states
and conditions which are entirely beyond your imagination;
and during certain phases of the world in which you
now live, the conditions there were only suitable for
those sons and daughters who had forgotten the link
between them and their Maker.
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"Get things in their right perspective. You cannot
expect to understand just yet the gigantic nature of
the subject on which I speak; but, as time goes on,
the dawning will come, and later on, when the physical
mind is laid aside, so the revelation and the understanding
shall be your own.
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"The 'missing link' will never be found; because
man, so characteristically, carries on his researches
on the material plane alone, searching in Nature for
the solution of these difficult problems; ignoring
the fact that the great Mind of Love, which created
Nature, reserves certain parts of knowledge as His
own; and only Spirit can contact with Spirit, and Love
provides the key.
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You will see, dear children, that the physical mind
has very good grounds for the assumption that 're-incarnation'
only provides a workable explanation of man's being.
Yet, as I have told you before, into a physical body
you will not enter again; but the next body, in many
cases, is not so dissimilar as you might think. Those
who have neglected the opportunities provided on earth
find their powers are very little greater; and those
who have wilfully shut themselves off from the Light
- which is all around - these are severely handicapped,
and the physical body, when looked back upon, represents
power and freedom indeed.
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"Once more I say: 'Get things in their right perspective',
keeping always in mind the order, the magnificent order,
of God's plans, the unparalleled justice of His laws
and the infinite patience of the Father Himself, who
waits and waits and waits!
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"What I have said to-night answers also the very
natural query which arises as to the spirituality shown
by some even in those times which you call the 'dark
ages'.
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"It was possible, as I have indicated, that the
experiences taken on by the individual soul could be
worked out, could be made their own without alienation
from the Father.
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"These so-called 'Saints' just illustrate this.
Yes! they have passed through many fierce battles,
many temptations, which to the minds of the children
of the earth would be inconceivable, because they are
not subject to them themselves.
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"That is another point which I want you to remember:
that there are states and conditions where those who
are out to find God have been tried even as by fire,
and have come forth suitable vessels for His use. It
sounds, as I speak, rather awe-inspiring; but, beloved,
before you entered this world, of necessity, you must
have gone through that; otherwise, I could not teach
you or speak to you of the things which are of God.
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"It was the same with those who loved our Saviour
during His brief sojourn among them. These, in spite
of weakness shown, perhaps, in the physical mind, these
had tested themselves, had voluntarily taken on those
deeper experiences, which you cannot understand now,
so that when God was manifested among the children
of the earth He might find a few to whom He could impart
the Truth, and to whom He could entrust the gifts of
the Spirit.
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"I am having a little difficulty in making this
subject clear, but I think, on reading it over, you
will perceive that which I am anxious to convey. It
is impossible to do more than outline something of
the gigantic pattern which the Creator set into action
in those distant periods of time which are beyond us
all.
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"Yet it should do this: it should give you a sense
of responsibility, and also a feeling of great comfort
as well. Thinking of the past, of the many stages,
of the experiences lived through and overcome, surely
then you should rejoice that so much lies behind.
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"And if, at the same time, so much lies in front,
yet each stage, indeed each year, brings you nearer
to that which is Love Itself; each minute of your life
contributes something which is going to provide just
the necessary power which, later on, will enable you
to step into the illumination of the Spirit, when misunderstandings
pass away never to return again.
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"Then onward into the Unlimited, into Eternity,
into Completeness, which means joy upon joy. But I
cannot take you more than a step on this road, because
the mind is bound by the definition of joy upon earth;
and that, as you know, is just as the reflection of
a tiny beam of light in comparison with the power of
the sun itself.
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"To-night my closing words are entirely on a personal
note; and they are to remind you, once again, that
you belong to me, in Christ's Name, to remind all those
who read these records that the link of the Spirit
is there. And if it seems strange that I use the term
of 'children' to those of experience, then I would
add, as an explanation, that it is purely a term of
endearment; it is never used to suggest distance in
spiritual age or in understanding the things which
are of God.
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"You must, all of you, recollect that if, by God's
grace, we in the Spirit have penetrated a little deeper
into that vast subject of Truth, yet, as we advance,
so the horizon grows and so we realise our limitations
in love, and in that same understanding.
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"God bless you all and keep you in the brightness
of His Face; and may the sunshine of His Presence,
working through you, give light to others, for Christ's
sake. Amen.
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"Goodnight, my children."
©GWCSA
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