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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"SPIRITUAL LAWS"
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
Miss Winifred Moyes in the earlier part of the twentieth
century
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"FATHER of all Love, we Thy little children ask
Thee tonight to reveal unto us a little more of Thy
wondrous thought in regard to humanity. We ask Thee
to instruct us how to proceed - how best to release
the Spirit which is within. Teach us how to grow; teach
us how to think of the things which, in Thy sight,
are good; teach us how to express ourselves to others.
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"O most Understanding Mind, lead us on out of
the twilight of comprehension, into the full sunshine
of revelation. And as we climb, let it be our prayer,
let it be our most earnest desire that we should bring
others into the Light. Yes, grant that the consciousness
may come that this gift, which Thou hast bestowed so
freely, is but a trust - a trust to be used to help,
to encourage, to enable those who are going through
their physical experience.
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"In Thy most perfect way, Thou wilt make all things
plain; Thou wilt level the rough places, and clear
the undergrowth which still remains in the minds of
those who wish to love Thee. And we pray Thee tonight
that we may be responsive, mentally and spiritually,
to the guiding Voice, that most loving direction -
the direction which Thou hast laid down for all to
follow who wish to grow nearer to Thee in likeness,
both in thought and in action.
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"Father, bless us all. Bind us still more closely
to the things of the Spirit, and grant that the Silence,
the Holy Silence, may gather us in. We ask it in Thy
Name, knowing that Thou waitest, ever to bestow Thy
good gifts. Amen.
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"WELL, my children, tonight we have much to do
together, and I want you all to give out as much strength
and power as you can. You will see in the days to come
that this evening typifies constructive work, and,
therefore, in the measure that we can use it for God's
most holy purpose so the blessing will rest on you,
the little children who contributed to that which the
Father had already provided.
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"This evening we are in tune in many ways. I would
like some of you to go back on the events of this little
day, and you will see that harmony and peace held and
maintained their place. This was the preparation -
the necessary preparation - so that your minds might
be in suitable condition to listen to the Voice of
the Spirit, to take in, in some measure, what God has
directed me, and others, to impart.
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"Well, dear children, in the first place, I have
a little to say in regard to those spiritual laws to
which I and your loved ones have referred in a general
sense. I cannot tell you much tonight because you are
scarcely experienced enough, but unless I put in the
first few bricks then you will have nothing on which
to support the bigger and more beautiful construction,
which is only waiting your readiness to be your own.
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"In the first place, dear children, as you have
suspected, these laws - which are intangible and indescribable,
for the most part - these spiritual laws have an importance
which cannot be over-estimated.
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"As a crude illustration of their working I would
refer you to what is called the 'wireless.' Yes, to
the physical mind the wireless is inexplicable, except
by results. You see my point? Certain rules are followed,
certain equipment is used and 'result' is obtained;
but no one can tell you why, or how such simple mechanism
can produce such gigantic results. The thing itself
eludes entirely the physical mind of the most highly-trained.
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"This is indicative, to a degree, of those same
spiritual laws which govern your life and mine, your
world and all the bright and glorious Realms in which
holiness and happiness reigns.
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"My children, I want you to consider this: That
if you send a thought to another - whether they be
on the earth, or whether they have laid the physical
covering aside - that thought, unimpeded, reaches their
Spirit with a rapidity impossible to put into words.
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"Again: you have been told that in regard to prayer,
the Listening-God hears not only as the words arise,
but even as the thought is being gathered together
in the mind.
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"There are many such illustrations of spiritual
laws - of those multitude of spiritual laws, which
are worked out in rather a beautiful way in the flowers,
in the growing things, in the power which nature shows
on every side.
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"You must remember that when God created - and
I am speaking of creation long before this little world
of yours was concerned - that when God's thoughts were
manifested in form - even before that time these marvellous,
detailed spiritual laws had been set into being. They
were the first thoughts, they were the preparation
for the Life - life unlimited and unending - the Life
which was to follow.
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"It is a little difficult to make this clear.
You are bound by finite thinking; you are bound by
that indication of time which is connected with the
inhabitation of your little earth, and it is difficult
to take you outside its borders in imagination.
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"Yet, dear children, I want you to do your best
and I want you to consider, among other things, the
body with which you have equipped yourself. The power
of the limbs, the wonderful mechanism, in a physical
sense, of the blood and nerves, bone and muscle; and
the harmony - yes, in spite of conditions of civilisation
- the extraordinary harmony between all the organs,
and how they, sometimes against enormous odds, work
out on to the side of health and strength and beauty.
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"You see, dear children, I have always given the
body its rightful place; yet I have never allowed it
to over-step that position and to approach upon the
domain of the Spirit within.
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"In illustration of this I want you to consider
the relative importance of the strength of the body
and the power of the Spirit, which it seems to guard
even as a prisoner whose freedom has been forfeited.
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"In the hands there is much power, much that causes
amazement when looked at from the physical point of
view. You had it described that the most marvellous
piece of machinery, the greatest invention of man is
as nothing compared to the perfect mechanism of the
hand and what it can do. Yet, dear children, I should
be misleading you if I did not take you on from the
thought of the powers of the body to those greater,
stronger, far more wonderful powers of the Spirit.
In comparison again - only enlarged to an extent you
cannot understand - is the difference between the power
of the physical hand and the power which lies in that
hand when the body has been cast aside.
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"And this brings in again another spiritual law
which has far-reaching results. You will remember that
there have been some who have passed through your lives
who have possessed what you regard as marvellous healing
power in the physical fingers and the electricity they
are able to throw out.
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"Well, dear children, this lies within the reach
of all. Many there are - and again I think of the mothers
- many there are who have soothing, who have peace
and healing in their touch.
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"Christ, of course, illustrated the power of healing
in its highest form: but I have told you before that
being sons and daughters of the Most High you are asked,
you are entreated by that which is Love itself to develop
those same powers - the powers which Christ showed
for all time could be transmitted through the physical
covering if the heart and mind were pure. Yes, that
is the key, that is the solution of the power: purity
of heart and mind and the wish to serve.
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"I want to instil into your minds, if I can, that
within, entombed in some, imprisoned in many, fettered
in varying degrees in others, there is power, there
is that marvellous controlling force - a gift direct
from God - which is your own possession, to be used
when you are ready to be true to your trust.
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"You see, dear children, where I am trying to
lead you in thought. The physical, to you, presents
enormous barriers; the body is like a high and impenetrable
wall which lies between you and the garden of your
desire - which is to be able to do and to think through
the Spirit, in its sweet and precious liberty of action.
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"Yet, dear children, I want you to try and grasp
that the body can be triumphed over, that although
it may blunt those finer perceptions and feelings -
the more sensitive side - yet in spite of this, in
spite of that sense of restriction, if you have the
courage, the faith and the patience, you can bring
out those hidden powers of the Spirit for use among
those with whom you come into contact.
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"Children, I know quite well that the outward
demonstration of these gifts, in the way of impressing
others, presents no temptation to you at all; but over
and over again comes that deep longing to help, to
lift up, to be able, really, to do something that is
concrete - something which, in your own sight will
show you that you are getting a little nearer to the
things which are of God.
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"I take you back to the illustration of the wireless.
You may say that, in searching through your mind, you
find nothing there to warrant the assumption that you
possess this power. But although you cannot explain
from whence it comes or how it is able to act, yet
I can promise you that if only you will set your mind
to the vibrations of holiness and of love you shall
find, in a way you cannot grasp now, that the gift
is there, that you can be used even as a channel to
pour out power direct from the Spirit, that you can
- by simple thinking, simple living, keeping as close
as possible to the injunction of Love Divine - you
can, even as Christ said 'follow' Him, not only through
the dark valley of sorrow but up on to the heights,
where He is able, through you, to send down a visible
manifestation of that power of healing which is of
the Spirit.
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"Children, there is so much to be said in regard
to those laws which God instituted for the benefit
of His children; but tonight I want to turn your attention
to another aspect, which is in regard to the strangers
who have gathered here and, in speaking, have brought
in the names of many more who had not before passed
through your physical minds.
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"Yes, you have queried not only the reason but
sometimes the advisability of such strangers demonstrating
their presence in this way. It has seemed to you, perhaps,
the introduction of names well known on earth savours
a little of that deference to fame and popularity which
is so common a characteristic amongst the majority.
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"Well, dear children, I can understand these thoughts;
I can understand that what you would shrink from doing
in your daily life naturally rouses a little doubt
in regard to those uninvited guests at these evenings.
Yet, dear children, when you come here it will all
seem so plain and clear. It is the operation again
of a spiritual law which, ignoring entirely the physical
aspect of things, links up whom it will - links up
those who are likely to be of use in the work which
God has entrusted to those who will undertake it.
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"I want you to clear out of your mind such thoughts
because they hamper those who wish to speak. You have
been told that in the Spirit distinctions or differences
of any kind - all those many man-created barriers -
that those cease to exist. The one thing which separates
is spiritual aspiration, and that divides only to the
extent of the depth of the sleep of the Spirit within.
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"I put it that way, dear children, because I want
you to realise that those who wish to rise - wish to
work out the past - have every help it is possible
to conceive; and the nearer we get to the Father so
we see, so we understand, and so we long to succour.
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"By that same spiritual law, by that wish to climb,
by that wish to know the Truth, your lives are weaved
and interweaved again with many who are quite outside
your range of thought. So, dear children, attune your
thinking to this view, which is the view I am instructed
to impress upon you: that common aim, unity of purpose,
and the desire to serve, bridges all gaps. And, more
than this, there are those drawn into these vibrations
who, as yet, have been able to make but little progress,
but, even so, are striving to work out the past.
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"So you see you get both sides of the picture;
and it will comfort you to remember that not only are
you linked to those who have done better than you have
been able to do but also, by the same spiritual law
- so entirely of love - you are bound by sympathy,
by the wish to help, to those who are finding the struggle
back into purity, into health of soul a difficult problem
indeed.
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"On another occasion I will try and show you how
you, and nature in all its forms, are, as it were,
interlocked with the celestial beings who have been
working for God since away back in that dim and distant
past which you find it impossible to think about. I
should like to explain that as all that has been, and
is, is of the Father, so you and the messengers of
Light, you and those disciples who were used to reveal
Truth to the world - you and Divinity Itself - are
linked, are interlocked in a way impossible to be broken
or severed.
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"Yes, dear children, it is a little complicated
just now, but as we go on so, fragment by fragment,
you will get a little nearer to a conception of things
as they are.
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"It all comes down to this - so simple and yet,
in some cases, so difficult to put into practice: that
by thinking of Christ, by holding on to the thought
of His companionship you are setting into operation,
in the most perfect way imaginable, not only the working
but the life-giving power of those spiritual laws which,
at this time, seem obscure indeed.
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"Everything created by the Perfect Mind is simplicity
itself; and Christ, during His sojourn on earth, showed,
in an indisputable way, how it was possible to make
the communion between man and God complete - perfect
in every sense there could be.
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"And if you would remind me that, even so, it
led Him to the Cross, then, my children, I would say
at once that only through the death of the body can
the glorious resurrection - that resurrection which
is of so stupendous a nature - come to you or to any
of the children of the earth - those children who at
one time or another, will realise the quest of the
Spirit within.
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"And now, my children, I will leave you for a
little while. Remember that this is an evening of work
in a spiritual sense and, by sympathy and love, help
those who wish to speak to you - those who wish to
contribute something towards this gigantic test of
revealing Truth to a half-listening world - the Truth
which one day will have to be faced by all, faced and
made their own possession in order that the Spirit
may come into its own ..."
©GWCSA
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