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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT"
An address by the celestial messenger 'Zodiac' (the
unnamed scribe of the Bible and a teacher in the Temple
of Jerusalem at the time of Christ), through the mediumship
of Miss Winifred Moyes in the earlier part of the twentieth
century.
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"To Thee, O God, we turn in perfect trust, and
we ask Thee to send down upon Thy children gathered
here the Holy Spirit, to inspire and illumine. O God,
take that which we have to offer, and grant that each
one, charged with Thy power, may go forth and spread
the Truth. We ask in faith, as the little children
we are, we commend ourselves to Thy most loving care.
Amen.
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"MY children, it is a great privilege to come
into your presence this morning and speak to you of
the Christ. Think you like this: In time long past
I walked the earth plane in a physical body, held by
the same restrictions which hold you. Ah, and in my
surroundings there was that which beat upon the physical
mind - temptation in a thousand forms unknown by you;
but because within there was the desire to find my
God, so at last, through the grace of an understanding
Father, the Christ passed me by. Oh, think not that
He passed me by and left me forlorn. The Christ passed
me in the outer courts of the Temple, and a spiritual
compact was made, never to be broken.
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"Little children, how can I portray to you the
beauty of the Christ? I know that I stand in that much
more favourable position, for I saw the Master. I knelt
before Him and His blessing was given - the blessing
of the Cross; aye, the Cross which is the support of
man, the Cross that heralds a new epoch in the life
of everyone. For not until the pilgrim has faced the
Cross - that which you name sorrow and suffering -
can he be an instrument of the Most High, for the preparation
is absent, the tool is not prepared. Drawing in your
sympathy and your love, I would tell you at once that
each one is known to me separately. I know your cares.
I know your sorrows and I know the weaknesses of the
body; but I say to you: These are your gifts. Your
earthly possessions, that time when ease was your own,
when you thought not of others; the so-called good
time of man that, alas, is the bad time for the greater
self within.
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"Children, instructed by the Master, Who indeed
is present among you, I would speak this morning on
that which I name the Temple of the Holy Spirit, and
I want you, each one, to think in this wise: You, for
the time being, are cabined within a garment of flesh,
you are held by limited senses and by an understanding
which is bound by the earth in the measure that you
allow yourself to be swayed by the earth. But I remind
you that that tabernacle is but one garment of thousands
of garments in which you - the real self - have functioned
and have learnt some of the lessons necessary to fit
you to return to your great inheritance as sons and
daughters of the Most High, children of God by that
which you have endured, aye, once more bearing likeness
to God Himself.
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"So I ask you to think of the physical body in
its true sense, as the temple of the Holy Spirit. In
this little world there are that which you name the
Temples and the Churches, edifices built to honour
God. The few within pay deference to the Lord God Creator,
but - alas and alas - there are many who have other
gods than the One True God. There are many who worship
self in one of its many forms, and Christ is pushed
beyond the borders of their physical consciousness.
Yet I tell you that whatever a man may do, however
a man may betray the Divine within, God dwells within
the individual and nothing can destroy that glorious
fact.
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"Within you, my little ones, is God, is Christ,
for Christ is God. How then shall the temple which
holds that which is Divine be trained, be used? Ah,
here we come to truth in its noblest form, that truth
which remains, permanent, long after the physical experience
is forgotten. How are you preparing the surroundings,
the environment of the Holy Spirit which is gifted
you by God, your possession for ever and for aye, although
out of blindness and ignorance in the past you may
have desecrated your gifts, sold your inheritance for
a mess of pottage?
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"Children, listen to me for I speak in love. I
see the path in front, I see what lies beyond the so-called
grave, and I know that the time must come when you,
each one, must face Reality, must go back over the
past and read the record of your lives - not only this
life but of the many lives lived in other conditions,
other planes. Oh think you! When you stand before Truth,
when you are shown the mighty provision round you to
rise to higher things, when you see the messengers,
the angels, the guides, and the power they supply,
then you may have to face the fact that you turned
from those who were of God, and threw in your lot with
those who were arraigned against the Christ.
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"Little ones, in that day if such a condition
is your own, you will for the first time understand
the pangs of anguish. Self condemnation will flay you
like a whip with a thousand thongs, and more than that.
Oh bear with me while I explain that which must take
place. In the measure that that which you did, that
which you thought, that which you failed to build,
affected others, in that measure so not only must you
rectify your own past but literally you must recreate
the past of others; those whom you injured because
you turned from the steep hill and chose the valley
of self-indulgence; turned from the Cross; turned from
the sorrow; turned from pain; for you knew, you knew
the path that Christ took Himself; you knew the loneliness,
the persecution, and that which you name the Crucifixion,
and you cannot say within yourselves, 'I was ignorant
of life as it is.'
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"Yet, my children, I would not speak in tones
to cause you sorrow upon this happy morning, for we
have much to do and the opportunity comes each minute,
by provision of a merciful God. It is never too late
to come to the feet of the Christ - never too late;
but, oh, again I send your minds back to 'what a man
sows that must he reap.' No one can learn your lessons
for you, no, not even the One Who loves you best, Who
has fought for you, striven for you over time unthinkable
- God cannot give to man that which is against his
own free will.
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"God stands by the 'sinner', by the one who turns
to that which you name evil, Christ and His messengers
stand by such a one. They are waiting to help, waiting
to lift, waiting to guide; but they cannot until the
individual wants his Christ; the power of the Lord
God of all is limited according to man's desire. Yet
within you, my children, however weak you may seem
to yourselves, however bound, however restricted, within
you is God - power, courage, endurance.
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"Oh then, cast your chains from you. As little
children in faith, in trust, turn to the Saviour and
ask Him to help you to be that which you long to be
for His sweet sake, for the sake of that which is within,
and for the sake of humanity as a whole, which, as
yet, knows not God and wants not that which the Father
can supply. Within you is wisdom, within you is purity,
within you is a capacity for sacrifice hitherto undreamt
of by yourselves. The world may seem to hold but I
say that, with Christ, you are more than conquerors.
You have that strength which you draw from Him.
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"But the only way, dear children, to provide a
fitting temple for the Holy Spirit imprisoned within
is by work. Oh forget not this - first by work. Faith
is glorious, but faith without effort is as the sunshine
behind the clouds. Work - that form which is service
- and if you say to me: 'My opportunities are limited,
I am bound by much; my responsibilities forbid me taking
up the work that I fain would do,' then I say to you:
God has provided a way. You can work with your thoughts.
You can create power, spiritual power, as you go about
your daily task, as you pass among those in the busy
streets, as you take your way to purchase that which
is necessary for the nourishment of the body; in your
offices, in your homes you can create power, God power,
by the tender wish to help another, by the sending
out of healing thoughts, by compassion, by pity, by
giving a portion of that which you have.
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"Oh little children, you can be missionaries of
the Most High even though you may, by sickness, be
fettered to your bed, for within you, within you is
God; and you are gifted with powers undreamt of by
anyone upon the earth plane. But the only way to release
those powers is by dedication, by the consecration
of the temple so that the Holiness within may have
freedom, may have the power to express itself, through
the physical, on the vibrations, and to inspire others
to do likewise.
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"For think you like this: One day each child of
God must return to that perfection from which he started
on the long journey of experience. One day you must
be as God Himself - that fragment which you represent
- and not only you yourself, but every soul in every
condition must return to perfection. But the only way,
my children, to draw back those gifts which God meant
should be your own, is by service, by giving out of
yourselves to others, by lifting the sorrowful, by
going to the bonded and telling them the good news...'Brother,
sister, arise! Within you is God. Arise, and take the
blessing of the Christ.'
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"Temples of the Holy Spirit! Oh let this thought
pierce the physical consciousness and then you will
realise how greatly God has honoured His creation.
The mighty mind of Love instituted that most beneficent
law that each one, by helping another, should indeed
help himself; and, again, that the individual who thought
not of helping others could not be helped himself.
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"Do you think, my children, that although I have
passed out of the physical body countless years, as
it seems to you, that I could come into your presence
this morning, drawing upon the power of God, if over
the years I had not sought to do the Master's work?
When I passed out of that which held me, into Life,
sweetness, freedom and peace, so my Saviour blessed
me, and within a few short hours I had commenced my
work again. And when the tool had been tried, when
the purification of sorrow had done its work, so the
Master sent me amongst His children upon the earth
plane, and for years and years I have sought an instrument
and sought in vain until this child, through physical
suffering and the sorrows of the mind, provided that
which was essential in order for me to speak and do
that which God commands.
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"My children, I feel I must leave this elevation
and come down amongst you. Take this child and lead
her amongst the people, take this child...be careful
of the step. My son, take the child and lead her down
amongst the people, for I would speak as the Christ
spoke and as I spoke when upon the earth plane. I would
speak to the children; I would be amongst you, divided
by naught...
©GWCSA
(Mr. A. led the medium from the platform to the middle
aisle.)
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"All is well. Children, out of the love which
I have for you, I implore you to come to the Christ,
to let not anything upon the earth plane hold you,
for the Christ is here blessing us, and the sunshine
of His Presence is on everyone. He asks you to give
up all and follow Him. Oh think you of those fishermen,
those bound by much, how they - in spite of that which
man named persecution - how those humble men braved
the enemies of the physical, braved the powers and
the principalities of darkness, and gave up all for
the sweet Saviour Who spoke to them in tones so kind.
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"Little ones, forget not this. Within is God,
and the Master claims His own. Only by the power of
the Holy Spirit I enter your presence this morning
- and I would speak again this night, for times are
urgent and the preparation must be put in - and I ask
you all to make this compact with yourselves: 'I will
follow Christ up the steep hill and naught shall hold
me back. With His strength I shall be strong. With
His patience I shall have endurance. With His love
so the love shall pour forth from me over my brothers
and sisters, and they, through the force of my love,
shall be drawn back to the source of Love.' This is
the message of the Christ. Children, turn not from
my words; say not to yourselves: 'I am weak, the world
holds me'; for one day with sight standing before Truth,
so this hour shall be returned to you, and you shall
see the gift which God held out to you, and torture
must be your own if you turn from that which is opportunity
in the God sense.
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"When upon the earth plane so the children, the
men and the women, gathered round me, sitting upon
the hard earth, and I taught them as to the Christ.
I told them of the sweet Saviour, of the One Who had
laid aside His power and come in a physical body, fettered
as man, to demonstrate to man the love of God, the
glorious humility of the Christ, aye, the Christ aspect
of the Great Being Who created all things. In this
room this morning, so indeed those of the past have
gathered to bless and teach in turn...I feel that I
must go amongst my children. Touch not this instrument,
but I must bless. Son, lead me down and then return,
for I would be amongst the children of earth as in
the time of old.
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"Oh little ones, within you is power, within you
is wisdom, within you is God. Take of your gifts, and
henceforth stand by the Christ, and you shall do miracles
in His Name, miracles out of the Grace within - truth,
dedication and consecration; you shall do miracles
in the Name of the Christ. The Cross is athwart this
little temple. The angels of the Most High stand at
the points; and, by direction of the Master, I stand
as the centre, humble servant though I am. The great
God of all, the Christ calls you, calls you, calls
you...'Give up all and follow Me!' aye, out of the
misunderstandings of earthly life into the illumination
and the revelation of the Spirit.
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"Let the sunshine of the love of God pour upon
you and cast its sweetness, its healing power, over
those in your surroundings, for time is fleeting and
the call is coming for volunteers, volunteers to stand
and fight for Christ, volunteers who will take up the
Cross - not the Cross of sorrow but the Cross of joy
and peace and power, so that those who as yet know
not God, by the peace and the power and the joy shall
be drawn back into their mighty inheritance...The temple
of the Holy Spirit cleansed so that the God within
can function as the Great Father intended.
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"Thus I bless this room and I consecrate it in
God's Name. The Master is here, and only by the effort
put forth by that child
(Mrs. Boydell)
could such conditions have been created - only by the
effort. Faith is grand and glorious; but faith without
effort, without work, without sacrifice, ah, my children,
it is as the Spring when the sun is absent. The buds
wait to unfold in beauty, and many wither on the stalk,
for the power - the creative power of the sun - is
absent.
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"So then take this message to yourselves and pass
it on to others: That henceforth you have bound yourselves
to Christ and you mean to work for Him, to strive for
Him, and to create for Him that which shall remain
for ever. Thus I bless you; I bless this room; I bless
those who have made it possible for us to meet together
in this way, and I bless you each and everyone. Take
the blessing of the Christ, passed on through me out
of His infinite compassionate love and grace, the blessing
of the Christ - peace and harmony, service for God.
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"The message of the Christ calls. The blessing
of the Christ waits. Oh little ones, remembering the
God within, take of the blessing, and do that which
the greater self has desired over the long past.
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"Farewell! So I leave you. All is well. The Master's
work has been done.
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"O Thou Most Holy One, grateful are Thy children
for all that which Thou hast bestowed; grateful are
Thy children. Amen."
©GWCSA
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