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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"THE WILL TO CREATE"
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), given through
the mediumship of Miss Winifred Moyes in the first
half of the twentieth century
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"MY children, we have been called together by the One
Who has watched over you through the long past - our
Saviour Christ, and I want you to commune within, to
reason with yourselves thus: For what purpose have
I been called to listen and to make these links? And
I would entreat you to answer out of the wisdom that
is within: It is for the furtherance of the work upon
this little plane; it is for the spreading of the Light
and for the safeguarding of others.
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"These words, perchance, seem great in importance,
indeed, they are fraught with much, and I address you
to-night as instruments, as tools ready in part to
do that which is the Divine Will. I speak to you not
as little children in understanding, but as those who
want to rise out of the past and to clasp the hand
of the One Who for ever goes in front.
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"Now, my children, this night I would discuss
with you that which you, in turn, must pass on to others,
and so I take for my subject the Power or the Will
to create. Oh, think you as to this: The power to create!
That power is housed within the individual - not one
here or one there - it is part of the equipment of
each one; but there is a great dividing line between
the power to create and the will to create. This is
where personal responsibility comes in. Follow me in
thought while I seek to gather up a few threads of
that which I have sought to impart before.
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"You have been told that in the far past you had
all the gifts, that indeed, in miniature, you were
as God Himself; but over the lone stages of Life in
its greater form, through the tests, the trials and
the temptations, so then these gifts in their beauty
and in their freedom were lost. But mark you this:
That which has been, though it may be lost, it can
be found! Oh, never forget this, that once God has
created something, whatever it may be, it is charged
with life and nothing can kill it; it is only, as it
were, buried beneath that which is antagonistic to
itself.
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"In the long past you had creative faculties in
so wide and stupendous a form that no words can portray
to you that which is fact. You may say: 'There are
those whom I know who have the power to create beauty,
those who have the power to create strength and that
which seems miraculous to me'; but again I say that
the highest powers possessed by man today are indeed
as weakness in comparison to that which God intended
should be his own. So, my children, I come into your
presence and I seek to tell you - because your part
it is to tell others - how to restore to yourselves
something of the creative gifts as bestowed by the
great Mother and Father God.
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"Now I bring you back to those which seem as trivial
things. First of all, in regard to that which you name
self-government. Aye, and I get nearer to the earth
than that; I focus your minds on those little self-indulgences
which, assuming a pleasant guise, are able to masquerade
as that which is harmless, as that which has no lasting
effect.
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"Little ones, I want you to remember always that
the truly spiritual is the divinely practical. Now
think you as to this: You at this same time are in
a garment which is governed by physical laws. You have
within you a wonderful machinery, as it were, which
enables you to carry on your toil during the day and
to build something that will be lasting, something
precious in the sight of God. I speak of the flesh,
of the muscles, of the bones and the blood as a great
machine controlled by certain laws.
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"It is the Father's will that this machinery should
work in harmony; that it should be protected from the
foolish ones, and still more from the individual who,
as it were, holds the key to the great machine. I speak
of yourselves; I speak of the one who owns the body.
So many are unconscious as to the gift, as to the privilege,
as to the priceless opportunity presented by the physical
garment.
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"Now let your thoughts pass from yourselves. Think
of your attitude towards those who are ignorant of
physical laws. The mother's watchful care, the safeguarding
so that the little one shall not damage that which
it must hold over the years, and which must do the
work which the spirit within has taken on the earth
journey to accomplish. Oh, how loving is the care!
That harmful of nature is pushed from the clinging
hands; the bright blade is carefully removed beyond
the reach of the longing eyes; and when that which
you name disease overtakes the little one, how that
form is guarded and watched over until it has safely
passed through the physical ordeal.
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"Now, hold this thought in mind, for indeed it
applies to those who have grown to man's and woman's
estate: For the safeguarding of the unwary that which
you name hygiene and laws of health have been broadcast
- warnings as to this, injunctions as to that. All
this is according to the Divine Will, but it is the
merest symbol of something wider, bigger, which concerns
the soul-body, that next garment into which you - the
Spirit within - must step.
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"So I bring back your minds to that which I name
self-denial or self-government. The individual is conscious
that if he or she errs against the laws of health -
that which you recognise as commonsense - the body
at once suffers in great or little part, and the man
and woman with judgement condemn themselves. They say:
'I was foolish, I should have remembered; I allowed
myself to be persuaded by others'; or 'through some
trivial self-indulgence I did that for which I have
suffered since' - and they recognise it as justice,
but I say it is more, it is Divine protection. Again,
a marvellous symbol of that which concerns the soul-body
and the laws which govern it. Now I come to that which
matters so much. The physical garment soon recovers
from the abuse of its powers or the carelessness of
its owner, but, alas, that recovery is not so speedy
and not so sure where the soul-body is concerned.
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"Here we come to the will to create, and I fasten
your minds to that which I underlined - the marvellous
powers and ability housed within to build something
that shall not pass away. Children of God, gifted with
God-like powers! Yet the children upon the earth plane
at this same time are not ready, are not sufficiently
grown, are not sufficiently released to have the use
of those gifts, for they would bring unto them something
resembling disaster, for self-government is only in
its infant stages.
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"My children, I want you to be intensely practical.
I am here to teach you, to safeguard, to show you how
marvellous is the protection, how unbounded is the
love of God. The little things in daily life, that
which you name the slack will, the taking of the easier
course, the pandering to the desires of the body, in
whatever form that may be, and, again, the heeding
of the desires of the mind of the body, all this means,
as it were, tares sown to be reaped when that body
has passed away.
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"Little ones, have I not taught you that elimination
is not according to the Divine Will? Have I not said
to you that God understands the desires and the longings
of the human heart? But also I have shown you that
in place of elimination should be protection of the
gifts which are your own - the spiritualising, the
holding up of the gift so that in the near future it
shall represent something of the God-gift which the
Father desires you should have. Oh, never forget that
I am not taking away, that I say not to you, 'Give
up'; but I say in the Name of Christ: Little children
of the Light, prepare to take! Be not deceived by that
which in time to come shall have rung the death knell
of your creative powers. The death knell, ah yes, and
the burial takes place; but because God is Love, so
even though the gifts of the mind and the body and
the spirit may be buried fathoms deep, the resurrection
must and shall come though that time may be far ahead.
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"I would teach you, I would show you! The little
acts of self-denial, the curbing of the physical will,
the silencing of the physical mind, all these things
cannot be done at once, but your Father and Mother
God, out of His deep desire to give you unlimited power,
asks you to try and to try again; aye, over the thoughts
and the feelings, the hopes and the anticipations,
the tricks of that which you name the imagination -
which is remembrance of other conditions, other states
- just day by day, hour by hour, not to kill, but to
transform. Children, no one can arise out of the rubbish
accumulated by self in an instant. These things take
time to be pushed aside. The individual cannot extricate
himself at a moment's call, even though the call may
come from God. Little things, little weaknesses, little
bondages, may be, but the chains have been riveted
by the one concerned, and it takes struggle and effort
to get free.
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"Oh, think not that I say to anyone: Cut yourself
off from the joys of life, turn your eyes from the
beauties of Nature, forbid yourself all that which
is natural according to the garment that is worn. Nay,
nay, I say not that, but I say, because you are out
on a grand and glorious mission: Oh, take of the desires,
take of the hopes, take of the ambitions and strengthen
them, purify them, beautify them; for the time is coming
when, with a joy surpassing anything I can portray,
you will look around and see the rubbish of self and
earthly desire behind you with no power to impede,
and by your side and in front the tools which are Divine,
the power to create as God intends.
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"I speak in urgent tones to all who have gathered
in. I speak to my brothers who listened to my words
in the little temple of light (at Bickington). I speak to my children who have worked for me over
the years that have gone, and I say: Little ones, what
I would have for you is not the lesser but the greater,
is not elimination but those same gifts in fuller,
grander freedom.
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"The will to create, the will to work! Oh children,
would that you could grasp what the will to work has
the power to create for the one concerned. I say not
to you that there are not many grades of power in connection
with work, but I say that there is no work that has
not the power to create for God, for indeed the energy
and the will - even the unwilling will - draws its
strength from the great grand Worker, our God.
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"The will to create! What is it that is confined
in the physical garment? Gifts in plenty, so it seems
to you, but I say that these gifts are in their merest
infancy; yet even while the body binds and holds, so,
my little ones, it shall be possible for you to do
that which seems miraculous in the eyes of others.
And again, when you pass into the light of understanding,
that which is miraculous to the physical eyes shall
be seen but as a shadow of the powers you then possess;
the powers purchased by that built up over the past,
purchased by the will to create, although so unconscious
of that which was imprisoned within.
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"Little children, you are called by the Master
to demonstrate the power of the Spirit upon the earth
plane, but the power of the Holy Spirit available to
the individual is limited by the individual himself.
Illimitable is the power, but until those upon the
earth plane become in a measure conscious of their
great destiny and are willing to turn their eyes from
the false to the true, from the trivial to the great,
from weakness to strength, so the power of the Holy
Spirit - though it beats upon the one concerned - cannot
link up with the Divine within, for the Divine within
is still bound and fettered.
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"I speak to many. I speak to the thinkers, I speak
to the toilers and I speak to the idlers. Oh children,
take care! Within your power it lies to create that
which is indeed of God or that which is indeed as a
barrier between humanity and the One Who seeks to save.
From small beginnings commence to release that nobler
self within; for, little ones, God meant that you should
be creators, aye, lesser creators under the Great Creator;
God meant that you should do that which reflects the
Divinity within. But by taking the easy way, by self-indulgences,
by hesitating over the trivial sacrifices, you are
binding yourselves; and though the world may speak
to you in other tones, when the physical is no more
grief must be yours, for no one can bear for you what
you have done unto yourselves. 'I am to blame!' 'I
did it myself!' These words are torn from the lips
of countless thousands of newly released souls.
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"Again I bring back your thoughts to the Mother
and Father God, for I would not leave upon your minds
any thought that God would deny His little ones the
pleasures and the joys and the happiness of the earth
plane. Nay, the Father desires that you should have
the very best, and so He has sent me to give this word
of warning, for joy and pleasure and happiness as represented
by the spiritually bound, these kill the real joy,
the real happiness and the real pleasures of the earth
plane. Oh, think you as to the abuse of the physical
garment and how it brings suffering to the physical
body.
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"Therefore, with the creative gifts, whether they
be of the mind or the Spirit or, again, of the physical
body, remember this: By the abuse of the gift so in
time the gift as meant by God is beyond your reach.
So, then, commune within. Be practical in the God-sense.
Say not to yourselves, 'Then I must give up this and
I must forego that.' Nay, keep your heart and your
eyes and your mind upon the gift as God meant that
gift to be; and soon - oh, how soon - you will be out
of love with that poor representation of the gift which
at one time stood for reality itself.
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"I would teach and I would guide, I would warn
and I would send out on the vibrations the protection
which knowledge brings. You, little children of the
light, have offered to you by the Lord God of all,
gifts in so Divine a guise that no physical language
can portray them. You are asked not to give up or to
forego. You are asked to fix your eyes and your minds
on that which is worth having, worth keeping; and I
say to you in the name of Christ that as you strive
for that which has been laid down, so a joy inconceivable
to you now shall come, so a peace undreamt of shall
be made your own, and gifts in plenty - the power to
create, purchased by the will to create - the power
to create shall be as a flowing stream through the
garment that you wear, for the channel has been opened
between you and the Holy Spirit. The channel has been
opened by the will and the desire to transform the
lesser into that which bears resemblance to the gifts
as bestowed by God.
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"Great things are coming to pass. You, each one,
will be hard put to find the essentials, the spiritual
essentials; yet, again, I promise in the name of Christ
that by starting from small beginnings so in that time
the essentials which you possess shall appear as miraculous
in the eyes of those who have them not. Forget not
that your gifts, your powers will be needed to safeguard,
to protect, to encourage and to inspire those foolish
children who are without that which they need so much.
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"I ask you to pass on this message to all within
your surroundings: to show them the sweetness of self-denial,
to unravel the mystery of 'sacrifice' which is not
loss but a stupendous gain; to urge them to strive
for the beauties of the Spirit, for the strength of
the soul-body, and thus allow the Father's Will to
be done. Aye, to release something of those Divine
gifts housed, imprisoned within, to be creators under
the Great Creator, and to demonstrate the joy and the
freedom which come from extricating yourselves from
that which binds.
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"The Master blesses the man or the woman who attempts
that which is self-government, and I have much to teach
you concerning this, much to reveal. God blesses the
man or the woman who desires to arise, and to answer
the call to give up that which is the lesser and cling
to the greater.
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"I bring you back to the will to create - to create
for God - the will to take up your staff of faith,
to put aside the persuasions of others, the misgivings
of the physical mind and those desires which still
reflect the earth, to put all that aside and take your
stand by Christ, the One Who started from small beginnings
and taught and showed how great and permanent things
could be built up to the glory of God.
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"Oh little children, what is held out for you
I cannot portray. Lightly you will step from that which
is the rubbish of the past; for the gifts of the Spirit
weigh not down, they are supports, they bring to you
the strength and the vitality which triumphs over physical
fatigue, weariness of the mind and the doubts and the
misgivings which have been fastened to you through
the weakness of yourself and others in the past.
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"So I draw back your thoughts and, as it were,
I weave together not only the thoughts which have passed
through your minds but the thoughts and the desires
of the guides, the companions and the loved ones
(in Spirit)
who are gathered round so thickly, seizing this opportunity
to tighten the links. I take of this and I weave it
in by the power of the Holy Spirit; it shall represent
a strong rope and in the time of test, the time of
strain - because of the unity, because of the will
to work together - so you shall have something that
shall not give. Ah, by the desire to do you have purchased
the power to create.
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"I bless you in the name of the Most High with
illumination and with a will so strong that it shall
resist all attacks. I bless you with determination,
and I say: Hesitate not, go forth, challenge your enemies,
defy seeming failure and build for God! May the Holy
Spirit instruct and may the presence of the Master
so fill your hearts and minds with joy that as pilgrims
you may take up your Cross and follow into the light
of revelation, aye, into that which awaits your swift
advance.
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"Farewell, my children, but we shall meet again."
©GWCSA
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