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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"TELEPATHY"
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, 1st August, 1925.
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"INFINITE Spirit of Love, show us to-night how to live,
how to express in our daily lives something of the
glory we have witnessed, something of the Truth we
have learnt, something of those wonderful promises
which Thou hast given to all Thy children as an outward
expression of Thy Love.
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"Father, let it not be said that we who have listened
have profited but little by what we have heard; and
let it not be thought by any of Thy children that the
over-seeing care, that the unfailing understanding
and guidance are absent from their lives even for one
second. O God, give us that inward faith, so that we
may with confidence lay our lives in Thy Hands, certain
that Thy ways are best, and trusting that what the
present holds is but building for that beautiful future,
which is for all those who do Thy Will.
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"Tonight we ask Thee to gather us in, in the sense that
what the week has held may be wiped out of our memories,
and that, as the days go on, that deep assurance may
come of Thy love and protection, when all the shadows
will be dispersed. Grant that we may blend our wills
with Thine, and that as we seek to spread this Truth
so we may speak with confidence to all, saying: 'My
faith and trust have been justified up to the hilt'.
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"Saviour, in Thy Hands we leave the past, the present
and the future; and we know that, because Thou art
our Father, all three will be shown to us in Thy good
time, as representing neither sorrow nor loss, but
many obstacles overcome, and much gain and comfort
to the Spirit.
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"To-night then, once more we seek to harmonise our hearts
and minds with those from the Bright Realms, and most
of all to feel Thy Presence in our midst - Thy Presence,
and the blessing that it brings. Amen.
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"WELL, DEAR CHILDREN, once again the time has
come round and we meet together to bind ourselves still
more closely to the things of the Spirit and also,
as it were, to cement once more the tie of love there
is between us. And I want you in thinking over your
few possessions to try and remember to count us in
these as well, because when you come here you will
see so clearly that however many jewels a person may
possess, if the jewel of love is absent, then, by its
very absence, all the others are but lifeless stones.
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"It is a point which I cannot over emphasise.
I know full well that you have said together that it
is far easier to love those who come to you in this
way than it is to love those who walk with you in physical
life. You say that, dear children, but so often when
the warring things of the daily round come a little
too close, you forget that very love which you have
professed, and which in a way you cannot understand
now, goes far deeper than the physical and is beautiful
and strong in the Spirit.
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"Yes, it's a little confusing when you are dealing
with two worlds. You want to be centred entirely in
the one which calls you in a way that never will be
resisted in the days to come - for there your sympathies
lie; but perforce practical life in the physical body
goes on and much disharmony and fret of nerves come
as a consequence.
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"You say you are so 'out of your element', and
so you are! Cannot you understand when this and that
goes rather hard, that your Heavenly Father is not
unmindful of the position of things? Cannot you realise
that there must be always those who live in the world
who are yet not of the world, and because the sense
of loneliness and unfamiliarity is all around, you
should rejoice, for, in itself, that is an indication
where your real self dwells, where it functions and
where is its rightful Home? Children of the Light yet
doomed, as it seems, to live in darkness or in half-light,
and you long for the Door to be opened and to be free
of all those obstacles which hinder your progress towards
your soul's desire.
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"My children, I understand all this and much more
which even escapes your own comprehension, but still
I say that you should rejoice because of your alienation
from the world and those many material things which,
as you see so plainly, hold the minds of others to
the exclusion of everything which is of the Spirit.
(I Cor. chs. 12-14)
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"In the days of old there was one greatly 'inspired',
so you would say, who taught much concerning spiritual
gifts and the things which are of God. I speak of one
called Paul, and he tonight is in this little room
trying to help you, trying by love and prayer to still
those many sadnesses which assail the mind of the body.
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"In his day - as all will see in perusing that
which he wrote - he, more than all the rest, tried
to explain to man those powers which were hidden and
imprisoned within; those mighty gifts of the Spirit
which indeed indicate, in a way which no one can deny,
that close and intimate link between the child and
his Father.
(I Cor. 2,14)
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"I would like all those who read these records
to ponder still more on the many digressions regarding
the things of the Spirit which were peculiar to this
faithful servant of the Master; I want them to read
and to re-read again - laying aside as much as possible
the physical mind - to read with the mind of the spirit,
when they will see, slowly at first but in growing
degree, that he who was called Paul put into words
much which escaped the discernment of others - escaped
that spiritual discernment which he declared was essential
in order to explore those things which are of God.
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"My children, much was written in those early
days of what you call the Christian era - much was
written which only now is being uncovered to man; yet
had not those words been written aforetime there would
be many today who would bar the Truth because of that
exclusion. And so, as always, building for the far
future he - dominated by the Holy Spirit - put on record
not only statements but explanations regarding the
gifts of the Spirit which have been given to man.
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"Yes, tonight there are many here who, away back
in the long ago, trod a difficult path, and I want
you in your regard for the pioneers of the great Truth,
to remember always that for the most part they climbed
the steep hill to God by faith and by faith alone.
Many were shut off from what you call the intellectualities
of physical life; they lived in a very humble way,
and those who were born to ease saw, by God's grace,
that only by laying aside that which came too close
to the earth could they attain to the heights.
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"You see, dear children, that the physical setting
of the so-called Saints was very ordinary, was much
like the common lot of the majority today - not very
much of anything - and yet, as seems so strange to
the unthinking mind, required to lay even that little
aside because the quest which lay before them was holy
indeed.
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"And while I am speaking on this I would like
to say one word about the contrast which has been presented
to you in the lives of two, both sorely stricken yet
one apparently surrounded with all those mitigations
which should be forthcoming in times of physical tribulation,
and the other poor, yes! and rather forsaken by those
you think should, out of common humanity, do the most.
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"Referring to my remarks last week regarding Divine
Justice, I can assure you with a light heart that Divine
Justice will be worked out down to the tiniest degree.
Your respect for one whose life of toil has left little
behind in a material way - that respect, dear children,
is entirely on the side of the Spirit. Cannot you see
this because here are indications of a fine nature,
because the past has held much work - aye, and some
sorrow too - cannot you see that by the very fact that
such a one calls out not only your compassion for his
plight, but that deep admiration for the qualities
held and treasured by the soul, that the Spirit is
at work, unconsciously though it may be to the physical
mind which holds him?
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"There was one who told you that, ere she passed
out, those of the Bright Throng had gathered to her,
and I tell you tonight that could you but see things
as they are you would know that the lack of the physical
and the material brings a correspondingly greater power
from those sent by God to tend and care for His beloved.
Put all thoughts aside as to the seeming injustice,
and hold on to your greater knowledge - that in the
Hands of God he is safe, safe and cared for in a way
no words can express.
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"Yet think not that the other is not under God's
care as well but as you must know, when the world still
holds, those who are free are, as it were, pushed a
little far off, and because the desire for their presence
is not there, so they wait until the spirit realises
its great need.
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"And then I would say just one word about the
qualities which are possessed and which have been shown
in the daily life of the one to whom your sympathy
goes out so freely, and indeed is God-blessed in its
passage.
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"Now, dear children, there are those in your little
world who do not understand the inner meaning of good
workmanship and here it is that I want to show you
that the good workmanship which is individual and the
good workmanship which is admired and insisted upon
in others, are quite different things.
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"Children, this man is a 'good servant' and I
want you to take those words in their highest and finest
sense - a good servant not only to his master, but
in a gigantic way a good servant to himself. Children,
I have told you that the lowest kind of work in the
world sense, is hallowed by the way in which it is
done; I have said to you that because work of a certain
character goes against the grain, causing even physical
repulsion, if that work is done well, then indeed it
is beautiful, it is holy in a manner no words can express.
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" - 'Ah, yes' - you will say to me - 'but this
man knows nothing of religion in its religious sense'
- and I answer that, ignorant though the mind of the
body may be, the spirit within was strong enough to
insist on good workmanship; and because he toiled with
a consciousness that the best was required of him,
so he shall see, in God's good time, that his humble
occupation has produced an order and harmony which
cannot be explained.
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"Oh, my dear children, I know your hearts go out
to these forgotten ones and I thank God for it; I know,
if you could, you would lift them out of their need,
but that lack shall bring them recompense a million
times over in the days to come; and remember my words:
That God knows His own and God has him under His care.
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"Children, I cannot let this point be ignored.
There are many in the world who have a love of order
which perhaps appears to others as carried to an extravagant
extent, yet listen to me. Thousands and thousands have
that faculty - the determination that order shall be
the rule of others, yet placed in similar circumstances
they would not find within themselves an equal love
of orderliness which would induce them to labour in
like degree.
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"In the realms of the Spirit order and harmony
is everywhere - on every side, but it is contributed
individually. Those who have the power to command others,
those who have many at their beck and call - these,
though careless and heedless in their own actions,
insist with a severity which is almost cruel, on perfect
exactness in others. They have much to learn, yet mark
you this: that because those underlings suffer under
the discipline imposed, by the very formation of such
habits done under compulsion, these, when they are
free, will step into harmony and order - into that
perfection of harmony and order which is everywhere
in the realms of the Spirit.
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"Cannot you see my point? The one who is in your
thoughts possessed the gift - I call it a gift - and
by labour and close attention he was in every sense
'a good servant', not only to those for whom he worked
but a far, far better servant to that spirit within,
of which at this stage his physical mind is unconscious.
I want you to take this in its widest sense; I want
those who have this sense of order to try and extend
their sympathy to those in whom as yet it is not so
fully developed; yet I must say that if it is their
own possession, worked for and striven for in the past,
then indeed when they are free they will find themselves
one in the perfect harmony which is the keynote of
the Spirit Realms.
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"And now, dear children, I have a more interesting
subject - so you will think - to discuss, yet as we
go on you will see that these remarks of mine indirectly
had their bearing upon the greater topic.
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"To-night I am going to endeavour to tell you
a little about that much misunderstood word, or subject:
'TELEPATHY'; and I want you to give me your undivided
attention because as usual I must take you entirely
out of the physical into the Spiritual if I am to give
you even in the least degree a true idea of what lies
within that word Telepathy.
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"There are many in the world today who have not
studied the method by which this holy communion
(Mediumship)
is set into being; there are very many who quite idly
- yes, it is a form of idleness - dismiss the whole
subject under the word Telepathy; and yet if you pursued
the subject with them, quite easily you could drive
them back against their last post when they would be
forced to admit that very little was known, or had
been proved, about that misleading gift of Telepathy.
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"First of all, dear children, I want to touch
upon Hypnotism, because in the many experiments which
have been carried out, the power of one mind over another
has been used in some cases to a damaging extent. Dear
children, those who possess the power to dominate and
control the will of others - these hold a very grave
responsibility.
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"It is not wise that anyone either in the world
of the flesh or in those vast ranges outside, should
ever have the power to dominate and control the mind
of another. I have told you before that we - although
imbued with an immense power by God - that we in the
Spirit are unable to influence the thought even of
a tiny babe except by love, and that love is real love
in which self never must find a place.
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"Yet there have been those, and there are some
to-day, who possess this tool of controlling the minds
and the actions of others; and, dear children, it is
necessary for me to make this quite clear:
that
power is not of the good but rather of those who are
out to destroy. If the power is used for the mitigation
of suffering, if it is put into action in order to
protect the weaker from itself, then the gift is hallowed
indeed, but how seldom is it used in this way.
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"Confuse not this force with the power of the
Spirit, with those who are used directly by the Great
Healer to bring healing to others, for with these -
when they get out of touch with God - their power goes.
You have had this illustrated again and again: that
the gifts of the Spirit cannot bide when the heart
and mind are really estranged from God.
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"Children, you see to what I am leading your thoughts.
It is a fact, and a very sad one as well, that it is
impossible for anyone to be able to dominate the mind
of another without damage coming to the one so used
- so far as the physical organ is concerned - far more
damage to the other because that damage is done to
the greater self.
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"Then, dear children, we pass on to what I regard
as the next stage - that transference of thought between
two who are linked together by sympathy if not by love;
and this, dear children, goes on in a way totally unimagined
by the greatest enthusiast of the practice. It has
been in action from the very beginning of creation
and to it there is no end, because in the realms of
the Spirit thought takes the place of speech in the
sense that speech seems cumbersome in comparison.
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"Now I said that this transference of thought
goes on in a very comprehensive way, but I want you
to realise that quite independently of arrangement,
or even of those love-thoughts which are directly focussed
on another - independently of all this, thought transference
or Telepathy is everywhere, in every road of life because
it is a spiritual law.
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"I have tried to tell you something about Thought
and I have warned you that thoughts are definite things,
that they have individual formation and substance of
their own.
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"Is it so hard for you to grasp that even a child
is sending out a multitude of thought-forms which intermingle
with the countless millions which are on every side?
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"Now listen to me! Every temperament is keyed
to certain vibrations of thought and feeling, and because
temperament is individual and 'attractive', so do people
gather unto themselves those thoughts which are nearest
their own. But forget not this: that many thoughts
are weak in power, they have no depth in them. There
are those in your little world who are classed as the
'shallow', and the word expresses exactly the thoughts
to which I am referring. You would be surprised if,
with the eyes of the spirit, you could see some of
the thoughts which such as these send out. They are,
to use a crude illustration, like the unfinished drawing
of a tiny child - chaos, for the most part.
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"You see how I am trying to prepare your minds
for the understanding of what lies beneath that wonderful
law of the Spirit which acts so perfectly and yet,
to you, quite automatically in your daily life. As
the individuality of a person develops, so also do
their thoughts gain in formation and finish, and this
applies both to the bad thoughts as well as to the
good.
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"And then I take you one step further and I ask
you to try and visualise those thoughts which are of
love - the unselfish thoughts, the thoughts of sympathy,
of help and of healing. And so gladly I tell you that
these thoughts, because they are charged by power direct
from God - these thoughts are a million times stronger
and have a million times more vitality in them than
the greatest intellectual thought which ever man has
sent out.
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"I want you to consider this: that everyone unconsciously
is practising Telepathy; I want you to realise just
a little of the gigantic character of thought transference
one to the other; and here again we bring in that greatest
force for evil or for good there is: I speak of influence
- the influence that each one has upon the other.
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"Now, dear children, it would seem to you quite
reasonable that the more sensitive the individual,
the more likely are they to be suitable instruments
through which the practice of Telepathy could be illustrated,
and this is so.
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"Here I would like to bring in a purely physical
fact: it is common knowledge that those who are what
you call highly strung - the sensitive - that these
are affected directly and sometimes disastrously by
changes in climatic conditions. It is a fact, and as
I go on I will show you how impossible it would be
that this should be otherwise.
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"Imagine if you can, even a square inch of what
you call 'vibrations' - what this appears like, remembering
the conglomeration, the multitude of thoughts which
it contains. Then take a room or a building or, again,
think of this great big world, as it seems to you.
That which man calls Telepathy is in evidence everywhere,
only in a way so gigantic that it is overlooked, yes,
because it is everywhere its significance is overlooked;
and here, dear children, we bring in somewhat as a
side issue those experiments with sound-waves and what
can be received apparently without any in-between agency
at all.
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"Children, you are receivers and transmitters,
only no instrument is required and it is totally unnecessary
to wait for certain hours or certain occasions in order
to get the connection you desire.
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"I want you to think of it like this: right down
through Nature, even with the smallest insect, Telepathy
is practised in a way not yet unfolded to the mind
of man. 'Instinct' it is called - that instinct with
which the Creator has endowed everyone from the least
to the greatest, from the lowest - using earth language
- to the strongest and the purest.
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"Children, the word 'instinct' is simply a rough
translation of one or other of the many spiritual laws
which dominate your world and ours; and forget not
that spiritual laws concern not only mankind but, because
God is the Creator of all, 'Spirit' runs through everything
that can be thought of - through everything that has
been and will be.
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"I must leave it to you to think out for yourselves
how this spiritual law is, as it were, automatically
always in use between the cruder forms of creation,
right up through each 'kingdom', forgetting not the
flowers and the trees.
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"Now we come back to yourselves, and I tell you
that as man develops so will this gift of Telepathy
come into its own. Even now where love is strong, again
and again thoughts sent from the far away reach the
one to whom they belong - perhaps unconsciously - but
there are many who are sufficiently evolved, who can,
as you put it, 'pick up' fragments of the thoughts
so sent in their direction.
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"And the next step is this - so natural, leading
on in a perfectly practical, commonsense way - the
thoughts, dear children, which your loved and loving
ones in the Spirit send towards you. Have I not said
that even as the rain, so are these thoughts showered
down upon you: that symbolical rain of love; and sometimes
- ah, very often - they fall all around you to the
ground, as you would say, shedding their beauty on
those same vibrations but not finding a lodgement in
your minds, because the things of the world - its many
distractions and disturbances - held you too tight
and you did not know what you were missing.
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"You see, dear children, that when man talks of
thought transference, for the most part he is totally
ignorant of what this implies. Those trivial - yes,
from our point of view they are intensely trivial -
those experiments which have been undertaken with so
much gravity, these, because they concern the things
of the earth alone, not only demonstrate but little,
but, as it were, have the power to throw dust over
the spiritual vision of those who think they would
like to know more.
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"Now I have shown you in very rough outline, something
of what underlies that word Telepathy, yet the point
I have not yet touched upon is its relation to this
sacred communion which is going on now so widely between
those who are held by the body and those who are free
in the Spirit (Spirit Return or communication with those in Spirit).
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"Think over my words and you will see at once
that it is rather beside the question of Telepathy;
in fact, its concerns are so definitely - not in an
opposite direction - but in an entirely individual
direction that you realise that the two gifts operate
in a different way.
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"Children, in regard to those who seek out these
instruments of God
(mediums)
and ply them with questions - many of a very misleading
character and, sad to relate, put with the express
purpose of proving the one so used as unfaithful to
her trust - such as these questioners very often cover
both their own lack of spirituality as well as the
lack of complete satisfaction they have experienced
by saying that 'Telepathy' is the explanation of the
facts so gained. Well, dear children, Telepathy in
those cases is going on in rather a terrible way. The
doubter and the scoffer by the very fact of his unworthy
thoughts, by his concealed distrust of the one he wishes
to use, he - all unconsciously to himself - is contacting
with and attracting those out of the body who are like-minded
to himself. If the 'conditions' could be seen with
the physical eye, such a one would be aghast at the
companionship he had brought around him.
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"And because these instruments of God - so delicately
poised, so at the mercy of those who are brought into
their vibrations, yes, so at the mercy of such as these
if God is not definitely in their hearts and minds
- these suffer in proportion, and the gift which they
possess is not able to demonstrate itself with the
freedom which the Giver intended.
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"I want you to mark this well. There have been
many of your own acquaintance who have gone to these
instruments with faith and with trust in their hearts,
and they have received a hundredfold in return. Distrust
- that hypocrisy of the mind which, while the lips
say: 'I seek the truth', yet says to itself: 'I seek
to prove it false'. These get what they bring themselves,
for here are those who are attuned to finer vibrations
than the physical world presents and because they are
as you say, direct 'mediums' between the coarser and
the finer, so they must suffer by the ignoble actions
of others.
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"Children, when you come here it will seem to
you thus: that the communion between those in the body
and those who have laid it aside
(Spirit Return or Mediumship)
is such an extraordinarily natural, simple thing; and
when you look at what you call Telepathy - at that
mighty thought transference which is going on in a
way no words can express - you will, with reason, think
that it is a very difficult subject indeed to understand.
Not so to us because, remember, we are well grounded
in those laws which govern Spirit life, whether that
Spirit life is free or whether it is entangled in the
depths of the earth.
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"Yet recollect my words, that every moment of
your life you are receiving direct thoughts from those
who love you in the Spirit. The Telepathy which goes
on between the Great Father and His children is continuous.
One thought of God makes the contact complete; even
one thought of love or compassion for a brother or
a sister in your daily life makes the contact between
you and the Great Heart of Love complete. You cannot
take it in, but these thoughts of Love are, as I have
said, rained down upon you wherever you may be, whatever
your thoughts, whatever your actions.
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"It seems to me, dear children, that to-night
I have only touched on such a little of this great
subject, but the time has sped and I cannot say much
more now, yet to those who have held the thought in
their mind as to Telepathy relating to this work (Mediumship and the Greater World Movement and its
philosophy), I bid them think again and get things into their
right position. Those who have passed on are able to
use the physical organs of the trained and the prepared,
and for the most part they refer to their thoughts
and to their attitude towards life when on earth. I
want the doubters to consider this aspect and to give
Telepathy its rightful place, and once they have done
that they will find that the two gifts
(spiritual Mediumship and Telepathy)
are quite separate in their working; both God given,
both harmonising, but in effect, in action, they are
separate and complete in themselves.
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"And then I bring you back to the thought of order
and harmony in daily life. You will realise ere this
that only by precision - which is a physical expression
of harmony - could your little world or the many realms
of the Spirit continue producing and progressing.
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"You see, my little ones, that God's Mind is perfect,
and because that Mind is perfect, only that which harmonises
with Perfection could emanate from it.
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"The conditions on earth may be distressing and
destructive because of the disharmony which humanity,
by forsaking its quest, has brought upon itself; yet
in spite of that obvious disharmony, the spiritual
laws set into being by God work on in perfect order,
unchanged, unchangeable, protecting man from himself
as far as he will allow it, renewing and recharging
every second of time. And only by this perfect precision,
this exquisite harmony, would it be possible that those
who stray should be gathered back into the Home they
have forsaken.
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"You see, dear children, man wars against the
greater self within and so long as this feud goes on
so suffering comes, but because God is the God of harmony
so, by the power of that same Telepathy - that thought
transference - man will be brought back to that same
Harmony from which he started out to learn his lessons
and gain his own experiences.
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"Perfect is the Mind of God, perfect is that which
is of God within you, and because of that Perfection
within so the evolving stages go on, and as the spiritualization
of the soul-body takes place, so the spirit is able
to link itself - just a few threads at first - but
to link and knit itself to that Perfection and Harmony
to which it rightly belongs.
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"Children, think it out for yourselves; try and
grasp something of the great gift which is your own
and which is in the possession of all, and then go
back to the one I named first - to that same Paul and
read between the lines. Ponder over his life, on his
many visions, on his fight against the attitude of
the world and the Light which came to him, on those
many truths which he struggled so hard to put into
human language that might convey to the mind of man
something of the wonder of the Mind of God.
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"And as you think, so your appreciation of the
Divine Mind will grow; and as you think again, so you
will realise how limited is the physical mind and how
generous is the Mind of the Father - all-thoughtful,
all-love, and His children - so many of them - misunderstanding
the purpose and the plan, so often thinking of their
Father as one who but represents what they would be
if His powers were their own. I have told you dear
children that the Father-Mind is not like ours, yet,
as humanity goes on - by suffering, by work, by emancipation
- so, by God's grace shall man represent in a fragmentary
way something of the beauty and the humility of the
Great Giver of all.
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"And now I go. Keep a firm hold over the conditions
here - they are, as you would say, of the finest; treat
them gently and with respect, for God has blessed us
all in this happy communion to-night.
(After others had spoken Zodiac returned and continued.)
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"Well, my children, we have had a busy evening
and I am going to close almost at once. Yet just one
word I would underline, and that is: because you are
the children of the Light, you are keyed to those finer
vibrations of Spirit which are all around you; and
because the things of the Spirit are harmony, and peace,
and love, so I entreat you to gather in that thought
- to hold on to your rightful heritage, and to believe
that God is directing and guiding your lives.
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"And now rest and be thankful - thankful that
the gifts of the Spirit have been shown so freely to-night
- and resting on the Father's love, certain that strength
will be forthcoming, mentally and spiritually, to meet
the incidents of your daily life. Rest and be thankful,
and give over your heart and mind into the Father's
care; when indeed that which now seems a little awry
will be found to be perfect in design - all those details
of physical life working together in complete harmony
with those of the Spirit.
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"Yes! blest and controlled by God Who seest all
things, and by Whom all things are provided, even as
the need arises. Rest and be thankful because so much
of the hill has been climbed.
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"Now, my children, Goodnight! Yes, this has been
a 'good evening' in every sense there could be. Let
the days to come be good as well, because the promises
of the Most High never fail, and His love changeth
not. Goodnight, my children."
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