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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"THE ROAD TO VISION"
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 earlier part of the twentieth
century
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"FATHER, with a grateful heart I thank Thee for the
opportunity vouchsafed this night.
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"My little children, I speak to you as those I
know and love. Think not that the word stranger could
exist where you are concerned, for indeed it is true
that in the state you name sleep so we wander far together
and I have drawn your love towards me and, in the Name
of Christ, I have sought to teach you that which is
the truth. So this night you gather into this little
temple of love, and I say to you that the blessing
is upon all. The blessing is upon those who started
from small beginnings, aye, upon the pioneers who did
that which was the Father's will. You are blessed by
the Holy Spirit, and there is held out for you that
which shall gladden your hearts in time to come. Oh,
little ones, we are out on a great, a glorious mission.
I speak under the ray of Christ, and I ask you to think
within yourselves not as to the cost, ah no, but as
to the privilege, the honour, the glory of suffering
a little for the One Who loves you best.
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"So this night I take the subject of 'The Road
to Vision', and I wish to impress upon you not the
earth view, not the view propounded by those who have
half-vision, half-wisdom, but that which is the teaching
of the Master, that which was followed faithfully by
those who indeed held up the torch of truth so that
the generations which followed them should know Christ
as Christ is and was, and know God as God is and was
as well.
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"So I speak to you as to The Road to Vision, what
the future has in store. Little ones, when I was bound
by a body of flesh even as you to-day, when I sought
for the light but found only that which was darkness,
so then something was released within; aye, by suffering
as you name suffering, something was born within -
the desire to probe, to penetrate, to grasp truth in
spite of the cost, in spite of the pain it might entail.
And as dawn broke I knelt in spirit before my God,
the Lord God Jehovah about Whom we knew so little,
and I prayed with my heart as well as with my lips.
And so the time came when the Master called me out
of the temple, laid upon me the cloak of service and
with the kiss of peace sent me out to war.
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"Now, little ones, follow me in thought for there
are many - deceivers - who would tell you that the
road to vision can be purchased by concentration, by
the withdrawing of yourself from the toil of the day,
from the irksome round, from its irritations, and retreating
into some quiet and beautiful spot to commune with
God. That is the road to vision, so these ignorant
ones proclaim, but I tell you, for indeed it is the
truth, that the road to vision is the hard road, the
steep road, it is the road that the Master took Himself
and bid us, nay, called us to follow too.
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"Oh, listen and learn, for I feel that there are
those present who have not grasped truth in the measure
that God intended. Children, I say that great things
are coming to pass and there is much that must be worked
in if, when these things come upon this little world,
you can arise in courage and hold fast to Christ, can
give of your vision and the faith that is born of vision,
to those many who are without.
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"Little ones, think you as to Paul. Perchance
you will say to me: 'Even before Paul acknowledged
Christ so vision came to him, and through that vision
he was made aware of Christ; but I say that the vision
of the Christ, that which brought upon Paul physical
blindness and something akin to death, that in itself
was but the first step, it was the summons to endure
what those of the earth should wreak upon him. Paul's
gift of sight came long years after that priceless
gift of Christ. The vision that called him out of the
worldly bondage of his day, that in itself signified
one thing and one alone - that he must cast off his
fetters, separate himself from those who would hold
him back and take the lonely road, the road of exile,
the road of suffering. And after many years Paul had
'sight,' the only sight which is worthy of the name
- the release of the Divine within and the inrush and
outrush of the wisdom which does not pass away.
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"So, little ones, come with me in thought while
I go over your lives, and you are well known and loved
and cared for by me in company with those you name
your guides; we work together for the fulfilment of
the Holy plan. Children, I feel that with some the
autumn of physical life has been reached. Oh, let not
this thought bring aught but happiness to those who
desire to do the Master's will. How can I put it into
words that will portray to you what God intends? The
autumn of life and all that which lies beyond; the
putting aside of the physical garment - so-called death;
yet we know it not as death but as re-birth, as fuller,
glorious life.
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"Now, think you, what have you gathered, what
have you attached to yourself, how far do the material
things of this little earth hold and fetter? Do you
look up at the wide expanse of sky and over the deep
blue sea and say within yourself, 'It will be hard
to go'; then, my children, ponder upon my words, for
I say to you that when the physical is no more there
shall open before you a horizon staggering to your
consciousness now and you shall pass over that which
is the sea of forgetfulness. Oh, many have seen these
glorious waters, symbolical of so much; and as I speak
so, opening before me, is that ocean where men and
women can forget the sorrows of life, its disappointments,
the many partings and the anguish of the physical garment.
Aye, and you should know that many walk across those
waters, even as the Master walked on the waters of
old, yet they are drawn not down but they are raised
up.
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"Oh, beneath your feet, little ones, something
of the miracle of God's love shall be revealed, but
you will pause not there: you will gather up that which
has been gifted to you and take of the waters of forgetfulness
to others; and the one in sorrow, the one who cries:
'My heart is broken!' will arise and say: 'I have faith
in God!'
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"The autumn stage of the physical experience should
indeed represent a golden glory; but look around. Those
of the world, those fettered by the subtle temptation
of love of possessions, what does the autumn of life
stand for to such as these? Alas, the relinquishing
of all they hold dear. They cling to the physical garment
although, literally, it is withering upon them; they
cling to that body yet faculties are failing and sight
grows dim. The road to vision has not been chosen by
them and when the winter time falls upon them, lo,
it will be barrenness indeed.
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"I speak in tones that perchance sound over stern,
but the world must awake to reality, to the truth that
God is not mocked and that what a man sows that must
he reap. The earthbound, the spirits in prison, they
hold and they hold. 'Life is sweet,' they say. What
know they of Life? That which they call 'life' is even
as some hideous form of decay; they have clothed themselves
in that which indeed shall represent bondage when the
physical body is no more.
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"But I bring back your thoughts to that which
is held out to those who love their God, to those who
say within themselves: 'Though I fail a thousand times
yet will I arise and try again.' Little ones, your
first deep sorrow indicates that you have in very truth
crossed the road of misunderstanding and have placed
your feet on the road of vision; but remember this:
One sorrow, one struggle, means one step and no more.
Yet through the grace of God, all round the little
children of the light there is opportunity in a glorious
form. Some say within themselves: Must I seek trouble,
must I long for physical suffering? Oh no! God's law
is that His little ones should be happy and should
pass through the earth way with a body fitted to do
the work necessary for itself and others. But man has
forsaken the laws of God; they were too simple perchance,
or they exacted too much, perchance; but the laws which
man has built up for himself exact from him ten thousand
times more.
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"My children, think! Yesterday perhaps sorrow
crept close, but to-day the clouds have parted; oh,
with gratitude thank your God, but pause not there.
Yesterday perhaps for others the sky was free from
threat of storm; to-day such as these are held by anguish
of the physical or tortured by anxiety of the mind.
So, little ones, because you have chosen the road to
vision instinctively you go to such as these and in
ministering to them you are one step farther along
that road, one step farther.
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"Then, perchance, there are others in your environment
who say: 'The gifts of the Spirit indeed are constructive;
I would that I had sight; I would that I could see
other conditions, other worlds; I would that I could
pass on re-assurance and demonstrate this truth to
others.' Good, little ones, but there is something
better, far, far better.
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"The road to vision holds sight in a thousand
forms. What is that which you recognise as 'sight'?
The privilege and the joy of seeing those who have
passed on, aye, and perchance those who have fallen
back though free from the physical garment. But that
to us is one gift, one stage of that which we name
sight. Now think you, my children. This little temple
of light and that
(table)
which my hand rests upon; oh, commonplace it seems
to you. But I am far away from this little England
and I gather up that which you name the vibrations
of other climes, other peoples - children of God not
yet as yourselves. I am going back over ancient history.
I see not the wood, I see not the tree, but I see something
created by God, not the seed from which the wood was
produced, but back, back, back to the 'seed' from which
the seed of the tree gained its life. Now think you
not as to one generation or another; I am going back
over countless ages before this little world was thought
of; yet I say that this is but one more aspect of that
which you name 'sight.'
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"Again, I call back your attention to the ocean
of forgetfulness in that which you name the Spirit
World. As a cleansing water so this will appear to
you; and forget not that the water of the earth is
but the merest reflection, but the faintest manifestation
of that which I name the waters of forgetfulness. Oh,
gather in this thought, for I would teach you, I would
instruct, I would enlarge your vision, for I say that
you have taken up your burdens and you seek for a city
far beyond this little plane - the city of revelation.
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"Now little ones, hold this thought in your minds
while I seek to explain. This little planet represents
to many 'life', indeed 'creation.' Oh, how foolish
it sounds! I would explain that that which is on this
little earth, its trees, its wood, its beauties, its
horrors, these things are but reflections, fragments
of something which was in the stage before in lesser
perfection; yet, again, - forget not this - in a farther
stage still, nearer perfection. Yes, the beauty of
this earth is but a pale reflection of the perfection
which God created when He desired to have those of
His own to love and cherish.
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"When you look at the flowers and the trees, the
hills and the dales; as you take up grains of the earth
and let them pass through your fingers, what are you
looking at? Oh, talk not to me of that which you name
the atom. Man in his ignorance provides theories and
statements but the time comes when humiliated he stands,
for he finds that that which comprises the atom is
but a reflection of something greater or something
less, according to that which you name involution or
evolution.
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"Now to what am I leading you? More and more,
my children, I say to you: Fetter not your thoughts
to things physical or things material, for these things
are as the dust to be swept beyond your reach, beyond
your consciousness. You are sufficiently grown to appreciate
something better, something nearer to that created
by your God.
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"The road to vision! You who have the gifts of
the Spirit, ponder within: What is it that you possess?
Something precious in God's sight, but keep your sense
of proportion; let not these gifts assume too great
an importance; for when you are free, when the light
of the love of God shines upon you, so then the little
things that you had and you held seem even as the tiny
daisy which is gathered up and cast aside. Yet the
daisy has life, forget not that; the daisy has life,
sweet and beautiful in this earth plane; but what was
the history of the daisy, whence came the daisy, what
was the origin, what was the source, what was the long
family behind the daisy? Oh, carry your thoughts back,
think of that created by God, the 'life' within the
daisy; for the daisy as you see it, is as a pale reflection
of that created by God. The white and gold is symbolical
of much, aye, of something beyond your consciousness
now; but indeed the daisy of to-day shall evolve into
a beauty unthought of by anyone upon the earth plane.
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"The road to vision! How can we travel the road,
how can we make ourselves fit for the 'sight' which
God intends shall be our own? I come back to my first
words: Only by the way of service, by suffering, by
relinquishing the things of the earth and clasping
those of the Spirit.
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"So I speak to the young and I speak to the old,
I speak to those who have tried and those who have
forgotten to try; I speak to those who are willing
to sacrifice their lesser selves, and I speak to those
who flinch from that which is self-denial; to you all
I say: Let not your hearts be disquieted; God is not
mocked. That which you give up, that which you steel
yourselves to do without, oh, to-morrow, to-morrow
in another sphere so indeed you shall find to your
exceeding great joy that you have purchased something
of vision. And forget, not this: That vision brings
joy and peace and a thousand other things as well.
Again I say to you, pause not nor linger along the
way, for this little world in time must go through
its crucifixion. Why? In order that its children may
have something of vision. You say to me perchance:
But what is my part, how can I help? And I answer:
Day by day, hour by hour you can help your God, you
can help the Lord Creator of all by simple methods;
not by propounding strange and difficult theories,
not by searching the minds of others to find 'knowledge'
for that which has no life beyond this little stage.
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"Within you is wisdom and wisdom is love. Day
by day, hour by hour you can help your God to prepare
His children for revelation, revelation as to Christ
as Christ is, revelation as to the road that has been
travelled, revelation as to the glories which lie in
front; ah, by the raising up of heart and mind, trying
to be brave when courage seems to fail, trying to smile
when grief holds your heart, thinking of others and
not of yourself. Thus around you, my little ones -
oh, how beautiful it is! - comes the cloud of power,
and that cloud, shot with a thousand hues, radiates
light not only to those in your surroundings but far
beyond this little plane. This is your gift. Is it
not worth the struggle, is it not worth the withdrawal
of yourself from these things which at one time seemed
essential to you? Ah yes, you know well.
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"We have struggled in the past with those who
indeed are as spirits in prison; we have struggled
in the present and we shall struggle in the future,
and the result will be as God intends. And such as
these, with the strength purchased by suffering, they
shall lend their strength to the weak; and those that
are weak shall rise out of their weakness and show
to the astonishment of others something of strength.
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"I must pass from you, yet I would portray to
you before we part that which is held out to the pilgrim
who travels light. Little ones, do you expect that
I describe that which is beauty to your eyes and mine?
Nay, I hold this back, but I say unto you that the
most beautiful spot on earth is as nothing compared
to that built up on the road to vision. But how is
all this glory created, you ask me. By something drawn
from you, by something that you have given up.
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"Again I see those you name the Bright Ones; ah,
as you pass along the day so, though unconscious you
may be, they are even as the 'walls', and they give
you of their power, they give you of their peace, they
give you blessings uncountable. And a little farther
on I see that which is indeed a portrayal of the love
of God. Ah, my little ones, those of you who have seen
the Christ! What is that vision? To you something precious,
something sweet; but I say that no physical eyes, no
physical mind, can see aught but a fragment of Christ
as Christ is. And there is the Master, standing with
outstretched arms, calling ever to you: 'Come, come!'
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"And as the pilgrim goes forward, blind and bound,
unconscious of the sweet companionship, unaware of
the closeness of the Master's presence, so indeed something
of vision at last is made his own; and linked to 'vision,'
as you understand it, is the wisdom released from within.
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"And that is why there are men and women to-day
who, after a life of suffering, after going through
'purgatory' itself, men and women who can with calmness,
with faith, turn to the Christ and say: 'God's ways
are best.' This, little children, is vision - and,
in comparison, that which you name 'sight' is blindness
itself - the vision which comes, bought and purchased
by suffering, that God's ways are best, that Christ
is love and all is wonderfully well.
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"So, my little ones, as I leave you I entreat
you to turn not from my words but to make a holy compact
with yourselves that henceforth it shall be the hard
road for you, the road of service, the road of watchfulness
over self and double watchfulness for others. And I
promise you, in the Master's Name, that a span ahead
you shall have this gift of vision, you shall say and
mean: 'Whate'er betide God's ways are best; not my
will but Thine be done.' Ah, then indeed you stand
side by side with the angels of God and something of
their vision has been made your own. So, little ones,
I bless you yet I warn you. I warn you as to consequences
and I bless you in the name of your Father and Mother
God with the strength to pursue the path, to hesitate
not but to claim your spiritual inheritance.
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"I bless you in the name of the One Who loves
you best with vision, with that which shall teach you
that all is so wonderfully worth while; that trials
and sorrows are gifts, that indeed they open the door
into revelation. Thus I bless you by the power of the
Master with vision as vision is. Peace be with you
all; hold fast to the gift of the Holy Spirit which
has been bestowed this night, and in thankfulness reach
out to Christ, for indeed great things are coming to
pass. Farewell."
©GWCSA
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