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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"THE SHATTERED AURA OF THE EARTH"
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), at the Zodiac
Circle on Sunday, 9th March, 1947.
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"SAVIOUR CHRIST into Thy hands I commend the spirit
of this Thy child.
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"MY CHILDREN, it is always a privilege to gather
here in our own conditions because, although you may
not be aware of it, there are times when greater power
is essential for the next stage of the work. Sometimes
it seems to you that progress is being made and you
rejoice; you feel at last you are scaling another span
of the hill; and then come reverses, unexpected reverses
and those which have been anticipated, and a chill
falls upon the heart and mind, and there are those
who become despondent. So much they hoped to do and
much was achieved, yet more tests and still more tests
lie ahead. Now, my children, what is common to the
individual is general to this world.
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"So, to-day, I have been commissioned to speak
to you upon THE SHATTERED AURA OF THE EARTH. It is
a big subject, wide in its implications, deep in its
personal responsibility; but you are sons and daughters
of the Most High, and necessarily you must take your
part in the working out of the Divine Plan, because
you are part of that Plan. And I want you, in thinking
of the plight of the physical world, to concentrate
not only upon that which is universal, as it seems
to you, but also upon that which is of a more personal
character, that which concerns your own life, the lot
of the people around you and their plans for the sweet
by and by.
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"My children, I have tried oft before to portray
the kind of aura which has settled round the physical
world; it is, as you would say, a medley of power and
weakness, yes, of grace and of those patches of weakness
which are used so eagerly by those arraigned against
the Christ, seen and unseen. So I ask you to visualise
the earth from its inception as something which had
to gather its own power; and it is the same with anything
that has to be born into usefulness.
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"There are many stars or planets, as you name
them, which are in use for the furtherance of life
in its varied forms. There are some which are not yet
prepared, in the sense that the 'life' which is within
them - and there is life in all so-called 'dead' things
- has not been quickened, the stage has not been reached
when they have their part in the great Scheme of things.
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"I bring in these points because I want still
more to enlarge your vision; in a measure, shall we
say, to prepare your minds for those further stages
of understanding into which you will enter so gladly
when the restrictions of this plane are over for you.
So in thinking of the earth world you have to visualise,
if you can, something that had to be prepared from
a spiritual point of view, something that had to gather
together the power which is essential for the furtherance
of life in its many aspects.
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"This explains in little part why in those early
days man seemed to you to be so primitive, so limited,
so ignorant. You can see now that those early forms
of life in human form were really a demonstration of
the pioneer spirit. Such as these had to give from
themselves, through suffering, something that should
start the formation of those auric rays which are essential
for the progression of life in any planet; and when
we think of that we pay full deference to those of
old for what they did, which we enjoy in turn.
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"But as you can see, my children, one generation
or tens of generations, could not grapple with something
so vast and important; and throughout all time there
must be contributions towards the power which surrounds
those spheres or conditions in which there is active
life, because you are dependent upon that power in
a tremendous measure; for instance, in regard to the
release of the creative faculties.
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"You are amazed to find that at certain times
there seems to be a tremendous mental activity on earth,
which shows itself in inventive genius. And then there
seems to be a barren time, shall we say. But as you
look back upon your own physical lives and recollect
all that has happened during that short stage, you
congratulate yourselves that you were born to take
your part in something that really demonstrates a higher
grade of mental and physical ability.
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"And you are wise to adopt this attitude of mind,
because it is in a measure something of a preparation
for that greater Life, when you will look back upon
this stage and smile to think that you could have been
amazed over what man in the flesh was able to do, for
you see then what really has taken place, that through
the fact that the majority have followed their own
way, worked out their own desires, gathered to themselves
that which they valued the most, the power represented
by the auric rays around the earth is at times of a
very thin quality.
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"Then you find also that there has been something
of a readjustment; for instance: there have been those
inspired by God to take the part of spiritual pioneers,
to call to the people with an insistent voice, and
even though only the few responded, because those few
were in earnest, there was gathered something of real
power, which was left in the conditions for the benefit
of those who were to follow after.
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"And then we think of the tribulation. As you
know, these tribulations fall upon the masses, but
they are generally created by the weakness of the few.
There are those who have sinned against the law of
brotherhood and they bring upon the innocent a suffering
which is far-reaching and which, in many cases, is
inherited by their off-spring. But God in His mighty
wisdom has ordained, by spiritual law, that those who
suffer through the fault of others, are in the position
of leaders - they are leaders in sacrifice, leaders
in giving from their real selves that which is essential
to bring together the power for which the earth as
a whole is starved.
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"I know that these things may seem to be rather
a tax upon imagination. On the other hand your minds
have been prepared, and you can understand that the
agonies of war - and I speak not only of those who
were slain but perhaps still more of those who were
left behind to take upon themselves great responsibilities,
and they know that until journey's end it must be struggling
and striving all along the way - you can understand
that all this is as grist for the mill of real life;
and the mill in this case can be likened unto something
working for the spiritualization of the auric rays
centred around the earth plane. And those auric rays
are common to all, in this sense, but only in this
sense: that free-will is never interfered with, and
you and all those you know have an equal right to draw
upon those finer auric rays as the other.
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"But at once we are brought up against something
which is irrefutable, something that never can be overcome
by the united intelligence of man, and that is that
only what man gives from a spiritual sense is he able
to receive. And so you find that there are so many
spiritually ignorant who are trying to gather around
themselves the power created by others, and this is
the position of the selfish in the home, in the wider
field of toil, amongst the nations. They are selfish
over many things; they want and they intend to have,
if they can possibly steal that which is their heart's
desire.
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"So as you take your way during physical life,
you are brought up again and again against this grave
problem. You think of War, but I have underlined again
and again that war with physical weapons is but one
aspect and not by any means the worst aspect from a
spiritual point of view, because through the intense
suffering much is redeemed to go into the Mill of Life
and so sweeten and strengthen the auric rays which
are congregated around this earth.
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"Now, my children, we must go a little deeper
than that. It is all very well to point out what is
wrong with the world, what is wrong with the people,
what is wrong in ourselves, but we are brought back
to the practical side, and the practical side is this:
how can these things be righted? Can they be cured?
And as we think on these lines, we are taken back to
the parable in the Holy Book where you are told that
God created man and breathed into him 'life'! (Gen.
2. 7).
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"I want to lead your thoughts into this avenue
but I can take you only a step or two now. It is your
part to exercise your minds, and still more your intuitive
faculties, to find out exactly, or as nearly as you
can, what is meant by 'the Breath of God'. Again, in
the Holy Book there is indicated that the time shall
come when all mankind shall be as one breath, or shall
breathe as one. You see where I am taking your thoughts?
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"You, with your physical make-up, are immortal,
you have within you much which you do not understand
at this same stage, and yet all the time you are using,
unconsciously, those spiritual faculties, or some of
them at least; and in regard to your own aura and the
auras of those around you, once again I emphasise that
the important part of the aura is represented by the
fact that it is a breathing apparatus. Through the
auric rays which you yourselves have built up by your
attitude of mind, you are able to breathe, spiritually,
to inhale the Breath of God, and also to expel the
Breath of God from the Divinity which is within you.
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"And some there are who unconsciously perchance
to the mind of the body, are keyed more closely to
spiritual vibrations, there is within them some deep
longing to be more like Christ, to be a burden-bearer
and to hope that the strength may come, and these people
have beautiful auras. And if your eyes were opened
you would see that in the aura there was represented
- for the lack of a better word - uncountable 'pores'
which vibrate to the Life within and also to the Life
without. Visualise a spiritual sponge with extremely
small cavities charged with a tremendous power and
vitality. Through those pores you are drawing in, as
it were, your daily bread; and, again, by the desire
to help another to become one of the Christ army, you
are also expelling nourishment in a far larger manner
than hitherto you have grasped.
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"You see, dear children, when you think on these
same lines at once you are aware of the link you have
with the earth and its auric rays, because the earth
is dependent entirely upon the life there is within
it for the supplementing of its auric rays and for
the maintaining of their spiritual strength; and what
appertains to the physical world is also a law which
is worked out still more minutely with spiritual states.
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"In a spiritual sense, it is man's own doing what
is built up around him in the way of conditions or
vibrations: man goes to his 'own place', but that is
quite independent of the mundane physical aspect of
the circumstances of your life. This is apparent, for
there are those with courageous souls who choose deliberately
that which perchance hurts the heart and mind the most;
they are contributors to the power which is wanted
so badly for the raising up and the inspiration of
this plane from a spiritual point of view.
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"So when you feel 'inspired', remember my words
- that your own aura is becoming more sensitive to
the auric rays from another sphere; and those auric
rays pass, as you would say, automatically through
the auric vibrations surrounding the earth, whether
they be good or whether they be ill.
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"Children, you are intended to be in direct contact
with your Father, and as at times you feel inspired
to do great things spiritually, ponder upon the significance
of this fact. What has happened? You have engaged upon
an experiment into the supernatural; your real self
deliberately has counted the cost, and in spite of
the reluctance which you know will come from the physical
mind, you have decided to pay in full for what will
represent unto you infinite treasure in the days to
come.
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"And this is why, my children, there are many
who are inspired - the musicians, the great poets,
those who try to do God's work amongst His unfortunate
children - this is why they find themselves up against
such tremendous obstacles. In the first place, they
have been entering an unknown province - the province
of the supernatural; and they are as yet somewhat inexperienced,
they have to buy their experience, because only by
buying your experience are you in a position to pass
on the lesson of that experience to others who are
still more inexperienced than you may be. Sometimes
your hearts ache as you think of those with great minds
and wonderful ideas, those who were highly inspired,
and you read of their poverty or their bad health,
of the unkindness of others, of the weakness, perchance,
in their own characters which worked against them and
their inspiration throughout the long struggle to achieve.
And you are wise to send out those loving, understanding
thoughts, because when you are free from the flesh
and you witness the great experiment upon which such
as these were engaged, you will marvel at their temerity;
yes, and at the courage which must have been behind
it to drive them forward and keep them determined,
whatever the cost and whatever the suffering involved.
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"You see, dear children, I am coming a little
nearer to leadership, and leadership must exact a price
from the more sensitive part of you, that which you
regard as your very being. In this way only can this
world of yours continue its progression. As you think
of the material hardships of your forebears, and those
of the far past, as you remember their lack of opportunity
and yet what they were able to do - their faithfulness
to the path of duty, their ignorance of Divine Love,
and how many showed love for their fellow-beings -
at once you can reckon up in your own minds that they
must have made a very big contribution to the auric
rays which surround the earth plane; and this is true.
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"Then the question comes in these days when in
many ways things are easier - and they could have been
very much easier if the quality of inspiration had
been given its rightful place - when you think of this,
the thought naturally arises as to your own contribution.
Work, prayer, faith, yes, all essential for the purification
of the earth plane; but you want something more than
that - you want to express 'the Breath of God' which
has been made your own by your own free choice, and
by your own attitude of mind.
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"There are some who in their hours of weakness
utter that prayer: 'Breathe on me, Breath of God!'
and they are conscious of contacting with a purer power
than their own. These are the baby stages but they
are of the greatest use; and I want you in thinking
of this great subject of the Breath of God, to remember
that only in the degree that you can inhale the power
of the Holy Spirit, can the real self entombed within
you gain anything of release; and its release is essential
for the betterment of the earth plane, for the giving
out not only of inspiration but for the manifestation
of those higher forms of the creative faculties.
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"The earth is growing old, so it seems to some,
but really it is in an infantile state of consciousness.
I say this in all humility, and when you are rid of
the cumbersome body of the flesh you will, in your
measure, understand that which I sought to convey.
It will seem to you that everything upon the earth
plane was so laborious, so hampered by material influences
that the wheels of life were clogged by man's exercise
of free-will, which, naturally, brought its own consequences.
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"So in thinking of your particular lot and trying
to visualise something of the future, will you adopt
this attitude - that you are in training for leadership
in the degree that you are willing to lead in so-called
sacrifice and suffering. I say 'so-called sacrifice',
because once you understand Divine Law, sacrifice as
regarded from the earthly point of view is an impossibility;
you give up the lesser to attain the greater. One tiny
portion of yourself - the physical - groans under its
burdens; but it is only such a tiny part of that which
is pure and perfect, that which has an all-glorious
future, and a future in which there is the right exercise
of power.
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"And in that word 'power' there is included all
the good gifts. Power on earth is limited to its material
use, and there are many uses which may be destructive.
But when you are free you will find that in that word
'POWER' is expressed the Breath of God, which, breathed
upon man, can change him from a material being into
a spiritual one, from something so hampered by limitations
that he is almost, even at this stage, as clay; but
by receiving the Breath of God once again he bears
resemblance to the Image in which he was created, and
is a partaker in all that which Divine Love expresses
now and for evermore.
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"My little children, there is so much that we
could discuss together. Again and again I must go back
upon the subject of 'the Breath of God' and lead you,
if I may, by easy stages into a greater consciousness
of all that it implies, all that it means not only
for this planet, but for countless spheres. And because
you are all as one family, so the conditions around
you, in another sense, represent, again,
one
family.
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"There are spheres which are terrible to behold
- representations of the folly and selfishness of God's
creations - and there are spheres bright with the beauty
of sacrifice, enhanced with the melody that has been
culled from faithful hearts and minds undertaking the
mundane task; and then there is that which you name
Heaven, so vast, so all-embracing that it would be
impossible to convey anything of what it represents
in the language of the earth.
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"But God's Plan is that worlds, as well as people,
should represent in turn one great family, that the
Universe, as you understand it, and the Universe as
we understand it, should represent one family; and
the time will come when each state, so far apart now
in progression, will be brought, and shall be brought,
into harmony one with the other. And beyond that lies
another area of usefulness in which you, as highly
evolved beings, as those who have struggled up the
steep hill side in spite of weariness and pain, will
have your part. But this is far beyond the physical
consciousness to grasp, for there is no end as there
was no beginning to the Love of God and its varied
manifestations in countless forms, all expressing miracles
of Infinite Love and Grace.
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"Now I leave you for a span, but I want you to
welcome those who come as your fellow workers, as those
who have earned the right to speak to this little planet.
And they will be blessed by that which they have sought
to give forth, and those who hearkened will be blessed
in the measure that they were able to breathe in the
inner meaning beyond, the simple message that was given.
(After others had spoken Zodiac returned and gave a
personal message to each of the 19 sitters)
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"And now, dear children, I draw in the strands
of your lives, binding them close together for a mighty
purpose, and through this dedicated hour or two there
has been something of a miracle wrought. Only a small
group, it seems to yourselves; but if your spiritual
eyes could be opened you would see that we have drawn
in those from many conditions, some to learn, some
to teach you, but all desiring to rise on the stepping
stones of the past to better things.
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"In so contributing to this time of holy communion
they have done something towards sweetening the earth,
cleansing its aura, allowing those holy ones who have
passed through myriads of experiences for love of Christ,
to come back and bind you together closer still, until
at last you form an unbroken front, all different,
all fulfilling individual parts of the pattern, but
all 'one life' and ultimately, 'one breath', because
God will not only be without but within you, in that
full expression which is the Father's Will for us all.
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"I bless you in the Name of the living, radiant
Christ. Go forth and take upon yourselves those garments
which will seem unto others as expressing joy - joy
in the mission to which you are dedicated now and for
evermore!
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"Farewell, my little ones, farewell."
©GWCSA
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