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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"THE GIFT 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 at the Zodiac Circle at Whitsuntide,
on Saturday, 30th May, 1925
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"SAVIOUR Christ, we hand ourselves over into Thy
Hands and we ask Thee to bless us and to comfort us,
to separate our minds from the physical - from all
thoughts of the busy life, and to gather us up into
the peace of the Spirit.
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"To-night, O God, we realise that we are on sacred
ground; we realise that to us Thou hast given the gift
of Light, and we ask Thee to make us worthy - to make
us fit vessels to be used in Thy service. Grant that
we may go forward with valiant hearts, fearing nothing,
trusting in all things in Thy tender love, because,
as little children, we are seeking to follow Thy injunction;
we are endeavouring to find Thee - to find Thee in
that beauty, in that holiness that we can understand;
and we know that as we go forward so the greater vision
will come, so we shall get more closely in touch with
Thy love, and Father-Spirit and child-Spirit will be
linked together for ever and for ever.
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"Take us, O Christ, and mould us according to
Thy desire. Amen.
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"GOOD EVENING, MY CHILDREN, and it is with great
joy that we meet together in this way. Yet I have a
few instructions to give you and I ask you all to think
with the mind of the Spirit alone to-night, for indeed
we are on Holy ground. I entreat you to still both
your thoughts and nerves - which are of the physical
- and to enter with me into the courtyards of the Lord.
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"Children, to-night, when your minds are lingering
on the outward manifestation of the Holy Spirit, I
think it an opportune time to tell you just a little
- I can do no more because as yet your understanding
blocks the way - but I would tell you just a little
about THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, which has been man's
from the day of creation and will be for ever and for
ever.
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"Keep this thought in your minds: That the bestowal
of the Holy Spirit on those who had been prepared by
The Master to do His work - that that was but an outward
and visible manifestation of what had been and what
would be the free gift of all. With the Great Parent
there are no distinctions, no divisions - no 'sheep
and goats' in any sense whatever. It is the Father
and His little ones; the Saviour and His children,
whom He loves and cherishes for ever more.
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"Oh! listen to me and try to learn and understand!
God is your Father and the best gifts are for all His
children alike; yet, as would seem reasonable, there
are some who are not ready for them, many who would
not prize them, others who indeed would use them for
most destructive work.
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"So, dear children, you can gather how it was,
and why it was, that those who had followed Our Lord,
those who had listened and tried to learn - ah! remember
that: tried to learn in spite of physical disabilities
and the limitations of the physical mind - these, dear
children, because they had prepared themselves were
suitable vessels to receive this most Holy gift, to
be good stewards of that which had been placed within
their hands: power unlimited.
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"And remember that when this power comes there
are those - yes, there are those who would divert it
from its sacred purpose; there are those enemies, those
dwelling in the darkness who because of their own captivity
seek to enchain others. So it is a double responsibility,
and so it is that the heart and the mind must be prepared
by sorrow, by those deep anguishes of the mind, that
the things of the world must be thrown aside, that
those encroaching desires must be torn out of the mind,
lest when the gift is bestowed destruction itself takes
place.
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"Oh! my children, cannot you grasp something of
what I would convey? There is this gift direct from
God making communion between the two worlds complete,
unbroken; there is that power which can help others,
which can console the sorrowful, which can relieve
physical suffering - there on all sides lies this gift
from God. But man, alas! is not ready for it and so
the years go on and barrier after barrier rises up
between the children of the earth and the Glory of
God - the glory of that profound Love which knows no
limitations and which puts no limitations to the progress,
to the power of you and me.
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"It is, dear children, a subject on which I can
take you but a little way, yet I would explain to the
stranger present - ah! stranger so he seems but brother
and friend of mine - would explain that the gift of
the Holy Spirit, bestowed in those long past days,
productive of so much - the gift which indirectly altered
the whole history of the world - that that gift in
exactly the same proportion is waiting for humanity
to accept to-day. Yet while man bars the possibility
so the gift remains ungathered; while the physical
mind denies the manifestation of the Holy Spirit in
daily life, so that which is of God remains unused,
untried.
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"Cannot you see the responsibility which lies
with each one? Cannot you see how this attitude of
thought grieves that which is Love Itself? Cannot you
see how it is keeping back the spiritual progress of
the world? Yes! and this will be so until there are
those strong enough in faith, pure enough in heart,
valiant enough in Spirit to proclaim God's Truth; who
will go back on the sacred records and read with the
mind of the Spirit the simple teaching - the direct
teaching of The Master Himself.
(St. John 14, 21)
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"The Master said that to those who loved Him He
would manifest Himself; and, dear children, right down
the ages there have been those - who have suffered
much for His sake - who have not only felt The Master
but have heard Him and seen Him in their actual presence.
Again I say to you listen not to the voice of the unbeliever.
'Imagination', 'delirium', these are the explanations
that they give; but to the faithful, those with the
prepared mind to whom the vision has come, they
know
- they know that The Master has not only spoken to
them, not only companioned them, but out of His great
Love He has shown Himself in that guise which they,
bound by the physical, could recognise.
(*St. John 16, 16- 19)
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"My children, I reminded you before that Christ
said to His disciples - to those who loved Him: 'I
go away. For a little while ye shall not see me, but
again in a little while ye shall see me.'* And, as some have already been told, during those
long years of trial, of work and so-called persecution,
Christ fulfilled His promise again and again.
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"Oh! my children, get back to the realisation
of the Father's Heart. Does it sound possible to you
that He Who led them out of their homely ways, Who
took them away from their kind, Who foresaw the path
they must tread - is it possible that the Great Lover
of all could withhold the joy and the reassurance of
His Presence from those so sore beset on every side?
The Master promised, and the Master came again and
again and supped with them, comforted them and directed
them on their way; and under His protecting wing those
few men were able to show to an ever-growing world
the beauty of the Fatherhood of God.
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"My children, have I not told you before that
in the Father's sight there is no difference whatever
between His children. Some are younger than others
in experience and so require more care, more watchfulness,
more understanding than those who are linked to Him
- who instinctively know how to protect that which
is of God within from the enemies who would destroy.
And so I say to you to-night - directed by The Beloved
- that the same privileges, the same gifts which were
bestowed on those simple men of old can be yours, can
be possessed by anyone who will take the rough hillside,
who will ignore the physical, who will steel their
hearts to suffer. The gift of the Holy Spirit and all
it means, the gift of seeing Christ while yet bound
by the physical, this waits - waits for man to claim
as his own.
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"Children, when you come here you will marvel,
as we have marvelled, that so much harm has been done
by conscientious people, by those who think they are
dominated by motives which are both practical and sincere
- what these worthy people have done in the way of
erecting barriers between themselves and the God they
would worship.
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"Yes! unconsciously, those who are out to strike
Love itself have been listened to - and why is this?
Because that mind of the body, pursuing its endless
course, as it goes gathers unto itself more furniture,
and more and more, and so the owner, forging through
the knowledge of the world, all unwittingly has built
up an impenetrable barrier between himself and the
wisdom of the Spirit.
(St. Luke 16, 13)
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"Cannot you see that by choosing the complicated,
by allowing yourselves to be immersed in the 'thinking'
of the world, as a natural result the thoughts which
belong to God get crowded out? You cannot serve God
and mammon, and in regard to 'thinking' this is driven
home with most terrible force.
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"The way to God is hard but it is simple; it is
steep but it is direct, and all that anyone is asked
to do is just those two things: Love God, and seek
to serve your neighbour. If only those gifted with
the powers of physical thinking could hold that thought
in their minds, how much they could have done for the
world, how much they could have taught to a spiritually
ignorant people, how much nearer they could have drawn
humanity to the Fount of Wisdom, Who lives but to pour
out on His children the knowledge of the things of
the Spirit - the Truth, unbound, unimprisoned by all
that physical thinking which in itself is a denial
of faith.
(St. Mark 10,15; St. Luke 18, 17)
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"If only they could remember Christ's own words:
'Unless you become as a little child you can in no
wise enter into the Kingdom of God' - that 'Kingdom'
which is not in spheres far distant, that Kingdom which
is centred within. You cannot come into your own because
the door of the Kingdom is locked and barred, for there
are those thoughts which are centred all round it which
forbid an entrance.
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"Get back to the child's attitude of faith; keep
to the simple paths of thinking, and by concentrating
on God that wider knowledge of the things of the Spirit,
of the wonderful laws which govern your life and mine,
the unravelling of the secrets of the earth - these
and many, many more which as yet you understand not
- these shall be made your own if only you will approach
God as He has directed.
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"Oh! children, think it out alone, think it out
in silence, think it out when you are closest in touch
with God and try and realise that between you and the
gift of the Holy Spirit there is nothing but your doubts,
your unpreparedness, and your immaturity. If only you
could realise the significance of these gifts I should
not have to ask you to prepare and yet prepare still
more; if you could only grasp just one degree of the
joy - the inexplicable joy - which this close communion
with the Divine brings of necessity, then you would
not rest, nothing would hold you back - the things
of the world, the pangs of the body and the thoughts
of others would be taken just as an added impetus to
spur you on.
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"And then there is one other point which I should
like to bring in tonight, and that is in regard to
us. As you know well, there are countless millions
who have 'come back', as you would say, to this little
world of yours in order to help their brothers and
sisters, in order to bring them into that same sweet
peace which is their own.
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"Now, dear children, there have been some who,
ignorant of spiritual laws, have exclaimed: 'Oh why
bring them back, let them rest; let them be at peace!'
Well, dear children, in their minds is a very definite
misunderstanding of the Mind of Love. I ask you to
consider this in a practical way. Once more, is it
reasonable that the Father would allow one of His children
to be deprived of that which was their own because
they wished to help their loved ones on earth, who
as yet do not understand the meaning of physical life?
I put it to yourselves - to those who have children:
I ask them would they - with all their limitations,
with that strange travesty of love which is only possible
while bound by the body - I ask them if they would
treat a child in such a way?
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"Children, in everything I want you to put these
things to the test. In reading your Scriptures I want
you to stop and question: 'Is this according to the
highest standard of love?' and if there is anything
in those records which fails to come up to that, then
you may know that the minds of those who put the words
together were responsible and that God, in great or
little measure, has been misrepresented.
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"I come back to my point. Is it reasonable that
those who out of love both for you and for the Saviour
of mankind - is it reasonable that they should be separated
from their conditions of joy, earned by the experiences
of physical life? When we come here in this way we
bring our gifts with us, and that is why, if you could
see with the eyes of the Spirit, you would know that
in this room, everywhere - every inch, as you measure
space - there is the beauty, there is the power, there
is the glory which is of God. Blind though the physical
eyes may be the Spirit within is responding to the
Spirit which is everywhere, within and without, and
when that which is within links itself up with the
Divine the unity is complete.
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"So, my children, I entreat you when you hear
such foolish things said that you will answer with
faith: 'My loved ones bring with them their beautiful
conditions!' And more than that: each act of service
done to another enhances that beauty; each time we
are able to strengthen you - to keep you firm to your
purpose - so added power is our own.
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"The Father gives through many channels. Sometimes
it may be that the power, coming from on High - coming
from the One Who is all-Holiness, all-Power, all-Love
- charges many as it passes from one to the other;
and when you upon earth are conscious of that indwelling
Spirit so its course is not ended. Out again go the
rays of power and, dear children, could you see things
as they are it would appear to you as vibrations of
light, exquisite in beauty and colour, which indeed
vibrate in ever-increasing circles and expanding force
- on, on until at last it reaches again the Source,
when, recharged, it is sent on its journey once more.
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"I am talking to you of things which are beyond
your ken, yet I must prepare your minds ever more assiduously
than before. I am impelled to try and implant therein
some conception of those wonderful powers, those mighty
spiritual laws which are in evidence on every side;
yet I am held by lack of illustration and by lack of
understanding in minds so anxious to learn and yet
still held by physical conceptions.
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"Still, dear children, let me get back to simple
things for they are the greatest and the grandest.
I tell you that you cannot think one thought of sympathy
or of real love without actually sending out from yourself
those waves of light.
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"And then from that I ask you to think of what
real service creates - real love for God, the wish
to do His will and the wish to help others for His
sake and their own. Try, dear children, from the remembrance
of this simple thought, to magnify and to magnify,
and to gain some understanding of this mighty force
of the Spirit which is at your disposal, used by you
unconsciously, unheeded, and yet for all that doing
its work, doing God's work, creating fresh strength
which shall help the weaker ones on.
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"One last thought - and I speak to my friend and
brother - I ask him, in God's Name, to try and follow
me in thought in what I have to say. In these conditions,
where holiness abounds, the things which are of the
earth must not penetrate, yet I would tell him this:
that the things of the Spirit over-rule and control
the things which are of the world. I tell him that
'duty' lies nearest to God; that should two paths lie
before him, then not only the spiritual point of view
but the most practical as well is always to follow
the road where he feels closest in touch with his Master.
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"If only the majority could realise this, then
decisions or indecisions would fall from them. The
test of every question, every decision, every opportunity
is: 'Does this bring me closer in touch with the things
of the Spirit?' That is the path! Duty to this one,
duty to that one stands aside, God comes first, and
by ministering to the God within so the plan of one's
life works out - as I have said - not only best spiritually
but best practically, in its highest sense.
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"There is much which lies before you, much that
would seem in the nature of tests; but I say to you
that God is able only to test the strong because the
weak would fall or fail under it. Cannot you see to
what I am leading your thoughts - that the hard road,
that the road which brings enemies to be encountered,
that the road which is steep is the road to God? And
because there may be much to contend with so God sends
down His power, recharging and recharging again; and
even as the disciples of old, so indeed, in His good
time, those who were valiant shall find recompense,
shall find the joy which can never fade in that perfect
companionship, in that perfect unity with the Divine.
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"Oh, let not your heart be sad! Joy is in front,
and in the measure that the Light shines upon you,
so the joy of the Spirit shall be your own; and, in
comparison, the joy of the earth will be as the light
of physical day, compared to the unending light of
the Glory of God.
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"And now I go. Children, I want you all to give
out sympathy and welcome. I want you to put out of
your minds the personal and to lend yourselves as instruments
of God, because to-night there are those who would
come, and, by coming, they demonstrate in your midst
the power of the Holy Spirit (Spirit Communion), and
the unlimited grace of God.
(After others had spoken Zodiac returned and continued)
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"Well, my children, I must not keep you longer
to-night; yet, being your guardian - your loving guardian
- there is a word of advice which I should like to
give to my children. In the little rest which is before
them, I want them to be certain that those in the Spirit
have them under their care. I want them to try and
be as happy as God means them to be happy. I want them
to use their little time of freedom to free themselves
from the bondage of nerves and from the weakness of
the body. So, dear children, when you are far away
- as it seems to you - remember that we have you under
our watchful care; but remember this also, that the
body has its rights; don't overstrain that which has
been gifted to you for this work. Rest and be thankful.
Fill your heart and mind with the sunshine of God's
Love, and remember that you are instruments chosen
for this great work.
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"And now for my closing words. I want you, as
you go on your different ways, to try and readjust
the thoughts of the physical mind with what you have
heard concerning the things which are of God. I want
you to realise that it is not God's Will that there
should be any division between the mind of the body
and the mind of the Spirit. I want you most of all
to be certain that the Father understands you best,
to for ever dismiss that conception of the Controlling
Mind, easily offended, rigid in His commands.
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"To gather this thought instead unto you - that
God has bidden you try and love Him because, if you
are in touch with Him, He can lift you up out of sorrow,
out of misunderstanding, out of false conceptions of
life into knowledge - the knowledge of His perfect
Love; when, as a child, with confidence, with no barriers
in between, you can go to Him and you can say: 'Into
Thy Hands I commend myself, because you are my Father
and I am your child.'
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"Children, once more I remind you that it is the
Spirit within Who disciplines you. It is your greater
self which says: 'Thou shalt suffer if thou err from
the path.' It is that stronger self which chooses the
stony road, which sometimes takes on pain as an added
burden to a load which already is somewhat heavy. It
is that self which has seen God, that self which knows
that sorrow works out, that self which, ignoring the
complaints of the physical mind, says: 'I will reach
the highest, and nothing, nothing shall hold me back'.
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"Keep this thought clear in your mind: that joy,
that peace, that perfect health of soul and body is
of God! Yet by experiencing, by understanding what
grief means, so you can be brought more closely into
contact with the One Who bears the sorrows of all.
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"Oh! never forget that Christ, literally and actually,
suffers with all His children, suffers in a way you
cannot understand until you join us here, and then
only in part. No one can fathom the sufferings of the
Great Lover of all, no one can approach that sacred
ground. Yet believe me, dear children, that God finds
His joy in bearing your burdens, in soothing those
troubled thoughts; that in supporting us, in delivering
us from the little load which we have taken on, the
Father finds His greatest joy, because we are His children,
and He is Love Itself.
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"God's peace rest on you all, lifting up your
hearts. Take unto yourselves the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Attune yourselves to Love, and realise that you are
sheltered, you are protected by the wish, by the desire
to be a little nearer to the Christ ideal, to represent
a little more your sonship and your daughtership with
the Great Parent - the Lord God, the Creator of everything
that has been and will be.
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"Goodnight, my children."
©GWCSA
GIFT
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