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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"THE SLEEPING CHRIST WITHIN"
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), given through
the mediumship of Miss Winifred Moyes in the earlier
part of the twentieth century
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"MY children, you have been gathered into this
little home because a messenger from the Master has
a message to deliver to you individually, and that
message must be passed on through you to those in your
surroundings. Oh little ones, the messenger, whoever
he may be - however great, however weak - the messenger
must pass on the message as the message has been delivered
unto him, to give to others. The great Teacher of all
planes, all conditions has gathered close; and while
I seek to guide and to explain so the Master, the Holder
of wisdom in its infinite sense, is passing on to this,
His servant, the message which he must deliver. Therefore,
listen and make your own that which is the Father's
Will.
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"Around you many have gathered. They are the bright
ones and they hold the links between you all. Behind
them are those who seek to be as the bright ones -
many, many are these; and behind them, stretching out
even as a great multitude, are those who in time long
past forgot their God, forsook the narrow way, and
now at last are seeking to retrieve that which they
cast from them. So as missionaries we meet together
and the power generated, as you would say, by this
little circle of effort, that power has life everlasting
and its uses are many. It passes far, far away from
these vibrations and it shall raise one here, one there,
and the number shall be uncountable because this is
the law of God.
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"To-night, dear children, bearing in mind the
sacred season which you commemorate on your little
plane, I would speak unto you regarding the Sleeping
Christ Within. Is it not plain? As I draw your attention
to the work which must be done - the great, grand missionary
work, the task of retrieving for others that which
they are too weak to retrieve for themselves - is it
not plain that these, the great multitude, have a sleeping
Christ within. The Divine spark, that which is wisdom,
purity, holiness itself, that is the gift of the individual,
however bound, however far he may have wandered from
light and love, but the Christ within is in a sleep
that seems as death.
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"Have I not said - and I would impress this upon
your minds, for you must give out the truth - that
man was created in the image of God, that within the
individual there is all-consciousness, which means
all-wisdom; that by free-will that which is lovely,
that which is powerful in the God-sense, has been crushed
and buried? Yet it is there. This thought I wish to
impress upon your minds: That however far a man or
a woman by free-will may have wandered from God, yet
God is their Father and Mother, and the time must come,
because something of God is housed within, when that
one must return unto the Father and be again in His
likeness, hold, in miniature, His purity, His love.
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"Little children, when we speak of those in bondage
it seems to us that only so few aspects can be touched
upon. You upon the earth plane look around and you
see those who are held, those who no longer have command
over themselves for, alas and alas, they have relinquished
that command and given it into the keeping of the ones
who are out to wreck. You see those who are chained
by the thoughts of the world, fettered to their possessions,
making a god of earthly power; and you see that such
as these follow the false shepherds, and the false
shepherds hold them fast.
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"But think you, what of those conditions beyond
this little earth plane - and this earth represents
to us but one tiny patch of life in the God-sense -
those teeming millions of souls created by the Father
in His own image to share of His gifts? There are those
held in a way inconceivable to the physical mind. Have
I not told you that they bear no resemblance to human
form? Their diseases are many, their deformities are
great; yet within is God, but the Christ sleeps as
if in death.
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"Cannot you see, my children, that those who in
a measure have consciousness - consciousness of their
Divine inheritance - that these must forget self and
pass amongst those who know naught of truth and seek
to save? Cannot you see that the responsibility lies
upon those with sight to give sight to those who are
inly blind? Those who have been healed by the power
of Christ must go to those who know not Christ, who
have bound themselves in horrors which I cannot portray
in the physical language; those who have been healed
must seek to heal others, for you are one, one family
under God.
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"I have told you before that this earth plane
represents one stage of development, one experience
through which the evolving soul passes. I have told
you that there are countless stages, countless experiences,
innumerable worlds, and this applies to the long past
as well as to the glorious future. And so it is that
there are many - the children of God yet enemies of
their Father - who have not yet sufficiently evolved
to take on the earth body and the physical experience.
They are in the place which they have built up for
themselves by that which they have done, by that which
they have cast from them, by a denial of their holy
inheritance, by cleaving to the mess of pottage and
denying the Divine within.
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"What as to these? Hope in a glorious form I hand
out to you; for the Master bids me speak in His name
that which is the truth, and the truth is glorious,
the truth is joyous; for man shall be saved in spite
of his weaker self.
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"So then let your thoughts pass from yourselves
and even from those upon the earth plane who are in
a bondage terrible to your eyes. Take the wider view,
the universal view, and think of those so held by the
past and so chained by the present that even the weakest
of this plane represents unto them something in the
nature of a god. And here it is that the weak ones,
the frail ones on this plane can be used if they make
the smallest effort to be strong.
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"Cannot you see the marvellous chain of light,
of effort, of service? The vibrations thrown off by
the ones in bondage here reach others still more bound,
who could not contact with you direct, who cannot contact
with us because they have built up the barriers which
divide. By the law of God, by His love and mercy, through
countless agencies straight from Christ, the power
is poured down until at last it reaches those frail
ones upon the earth plane. By its strength they raise
themselves and perchance seek to help another, to guide
the young into a safer path than the one they took
themselves, to stem the tears of the aged. Weakness
shows a measure of strength, though the mood may be
passing and the darkness closes in once again; but
out of that, so the link is made with others who feel
no compassion, whose darkness is supreme.
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"Yet again, by the mercy of God, in these something
is aroused - the sleeping Christ, as it were, stirs
within. They see something which represents a better
condition than their own and, out of the very selfishness
which holds them, they find the effort to grope towards
the twilight out of the night. Weakness gives place
to a little strength and God's Will is done.
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"Oh, cannot you grasp that this great and glorious
work must go on apace, that you, individually, have
opportunity in an amazing form for you know that which
is the truth? You have a measure of light, aye, you
represent to those in darkness a torch, and they, seeing
the light, gather as close as conditions allow. Some
of you feel that which is akin to fear. All feel sadness
yet know not what assails you, you know not why the
world seems suddenly to have lost its brightness and
its peace.
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"What has happened? The missionary spirit is in
action. The individual is giving off light to the one
in darkness, a flicker of peace to the one who is a
stranger to peace in any form; and, again, God's Will
on earth is done.
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"The sleeping Christ within - forget not the grave
import of these words - the sleeping Christ within!
Search your hearts and minds and answer truly. What
measure of consciousness has the Christ within you
regained at this stage - what measure of consciousness?
Little ones, you can answer out of the joy which holds
your hearts, that the sleeping Christ within has been
awakened, awakened! But that is one stage alone, and
here we come to the gigantic mistake made by many who
have Spirit-consciousness in little part. By the mere
fact that they know God and revel in His truth, by
the fact that they can read the sacred Book and gain
comfort and reassurance, so they think they are safe,
so they think that God's purpose has been achieved.
But the sleeping Christ has only been awakened and
the great realm of activity beyond the awakening has
not yet been penetrated by the one concerned.
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"Do you not understand? Those who find satisfaction
in ecstasies of adoration, these have not yet understood
the law of God; for though the sleeping Christ may
have been aroused, the one who has the active Christ
within works, works out his own salvation and the salvation
of those around.
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"So, little ones, I draw back your thoughts to
the tiny Babe in the lowly manger. Ah, there in the
arms of the Mother lay the sleeping Christ, beautiful
to love's eyes, precious beyond all words. Think you
as to the symbol of the tiny Child, aye, and as to
His journey through childhood until manhood was reached.
This is symbolical of each one, of the experiences
of the sleeping Christ within the individual who, in
the first stages, must take of another's care and protection;
yet as strength is gained, as consciousness comes to
the mind, so the child-soul desires to help those around.
Out of the passive into the first stage of the active;
and then, as the years go on, the taking on of suffering
in many forms.
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"The pangs of growth! Little ones, you cannot
grow spiritually without suffering being entailed.
As the child-soul grows so comes the development of
the greater sensitiveness, the shrinking from the cruelty
of others, the hard looks and the harder words. Through
the pangs taken on by the Spirit's choice, so the boy
emerges into the man in the God-sense. Yet look back,
have I not said that when the tiny child sought to
help those in his surroundings he had entered the first
stage of the active plane?
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"So, day by day, month by month, year by year
- this coincides with stages of experience - effort
is built up upon effort, and out of the suffering which
the effort brings, out of the pangs of growth, so at
last the awakened Christ within the human soul has
reached that stage when self is forgotten in service
for others. And, again, the symbol is carried on. The
one with the active Christ within - thinking, working,
building, creating - that one draws to him by the very
contrast of conditions those who give hate for love,
treachery for loyalty. Children, in thinking of this
sacred season of all the beauty of the story of the
Master's life upon the earth plane, oh widen your thoughts,
for Christ came as example, as symbol of a thousand,
thousand things. Yet man, because of the bondage which
holds him, so oft takes but one and precious time is
wasted, glorious opportunity has not been seized, and
thus sorrow awaits him in the time to come.
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"The sleeping babe, the humble home and the mother's
love - these indeed are symbols of the journey home
to God. The boyhood, the manhood, the crucifixion and
the resurrection - symbols again of what each one must
undergo before the Christ, as the Christ was given,
can be raised again.
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"So I draw in your thoughts and I place them,
as ever, upon the Beloved of our hearts, and I ask
you during the days to come to seek to gain the wider
outlook, yet to pause not there; to remember ever that
thought is good, but thought unallied to action is
only half-good in the God-sense. Meditation is sweet;
contemplation can release the soul from many of its
complaints, but meditation and contemplation unallied
to action leads but one foot up the steep hill of achievement.
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"Nay, again I bring you back to the Christ, to
the One Who was the embodiment of effort, the One who
worked while others slept, the One Who prayed yet prayed
not only but sought to put that which He prayed into
action. I bring you back to the One Who walked this
little earth plane, Who, by suffering, by work, created
sufficient power to bring about the release of humanity
at large; not only upon the earth plane but in all
other conditions, if those so bound could have taken
of the power, could have remembered the message that
He delivered so faithfully, the message of His God.
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"So, my children, I lay upon you this great injunction:
To widen your outlook, yet in widening your outlook
to forget not to search your heart and mind, to say
unto yourselves: 'What measure of consciousness has
the Christ within me attained at this same stage?'
And then, if sorrow seizes your heart because the Christ
seems so inactive, to cast your fears from you and
to go to another where the Christ within sleeps and
sleeps, and seek to awaken him. By the effort put forth,
by the holy desire, so the Christ within you shall
not only gain strength to act, to think and to construct,
but the Christ within shall dominate those in your
surroundings, for the active Christ cannot be withstood.
The power has come, and even as one working miracles
you shall go to this one and that, and as your vibrations
contact with their own, so consciousness shall come
to them, for the awakened Christ cannot be withstood
by those held in the bondage of self.
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"Thus I bring you back to hope in its most glorious
form. You have within you all-power, all-wisdom, and
that power and wisdom can be released as you strive,
as you work, as you think, as you pray, as you turn
to God. Oh, forget not that those who seem even as
animals, held by the desires of the flesh and the bondage
of the past, that within them too is Christ, all-wisdom,
all-power; and it is your part to awaken the sleeping
Christ so that God's will on earth may be done.
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"Cannot you see how God has blessed us, how He
has given it into our power not only to lift the weak,
to guide the straying, but - joy upon joy - to bring
gladness to the Father and Mother Heart of God, Who
yearns over His children, Who has sought for them over
time unthinkable, Who will not let them go but holds
them by that within which is of His Holy Self.
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"So then, my children, we are banded together
on the glorious mission to arouse the sleeping Christ
within those of our brothers and sisters, not only
upon the earth plane but in conditions far denser than
these. Hope before us in all its radiant glory, hope
before them, untarnished, undimmed - this is the future,
God's glorious future.
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"Remember that within the physical body - limited
though it may be, restricted by the laws of the earth
plane - remember that within that body, housed, imprisoned,
is power, God-power; and through your own effort, through
your attitude of mind, through your holy desire, your
determination and your faith, so that power can be
released.
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"Many there are who, when finding the obstacles
thick upon the path, retreat. Pray for such as these!
Many there are who scale the first obstacles and think
that that is all. Pray for such as these! Some there
are who, whatever the difficulties upon the path, however
great the temptation, some who cry: 'I go on whatever
may befall!' Oh pray for such as these, yet in your
prayers let thankfulness be the dominating note.
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"So, dear children, I bless you with vision, Spirit-vision,
which is consciousness of the great and glorious opportunity
held out unto you by God. I bless you with consciousness
as to the honour bestowed upon you, aye, and as to
the strength which comes to each one as you seek to
answer to the call. The power of the Holy Spirit is
resting upon you all, binding you together for service
for our Master Christ. Let the power of the Holy Spirit
remain. Hold fast that which is your portion and go
on, recharged, seeking with determination to arouse
the sleeping Christ in the hearts and minds of others.
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"The chains are breaking, the clouds are lifting,
the sunshine of the love of God is streaming upon this
little earth. Out of the efforts of the few, out of
the hope, out of the courage, so the clouds shall be
dispersed and so the Kingdom of God - which is peace
and love amongst men - will be brought about, but the
suffering must come first.
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"Farewell, little ones, I bless you and bless
you again."
©GWCSA
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