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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"THE GIFT OF CREATING"
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, 19th September, 1926.
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"O Most Gracious One, in reverence and in love we draw
near, and we ask Thee to so inspire us with something
of the Christ-spirit that we may lay aside self in
its many deceptive forms, and place ourselves entirely
in Thy Hands for Thy work.
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"O God, Thou Who understandest all things, give us tonight
the power to understand ourselves. O Christ, Thou Who
hast shown the way, let the Light which shines from
Thee penetrate into our hearts and minds, and illumine
the path in front.
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"As little children we approach Thee, and as little
children we take up Thy many good gifts; but as children
imbued with the wish to serve, inspired by the stronger
Self within, so we pray that we may be found suitable
tools; that the things of the world, the things of
the mind and the things of the heart may not come between
us and the things of the Spirit.
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"Father, remembering all Thy goodness, calling to mind
the many gifts which surround our lives at this stage,
once more with grateful hearts we approach Thee, and
once more we pledge ourselves to Thy work - service
to humanity. Make us ready to be used; show us that
the difficulties and obstacles which lie in front can
be overcome by faith and determination; and that we,
held back no longer, may go forward spreading the Truth,
consoling the sorrowful, raising the fallen, and uplifting
those, once strong, who have fallen into temptation.
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"Father, we thank Thee, and we ask Thee to give us tonight
an individual message to the spirit within, a message
that will be treasured for ever and for ever; for in
thinking of it the consciousness shall come of Thy
Love and Thy overseeing care. O Thou Mighty One, how
much we owe to Thee - how much! Amen.
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"MY CHILDREN, to-night, directed by the Holy Master,
I seek to make clear something of the wonder of THE
GIFT OF CREATING, yet because time passes so quickly
only fragments can I bestow; yet those fragments of
Truth shall put certain threads into your hands, and
I ask you to pursue each one so far as the mind of
the body, drawing from the mind of the spirit, is able
to attain. And then in a little while to come, I will
return to this same subject and take you another inch
into that Wisdom which is unlimited.
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"First of all, dear children, because you function
in a physical world I must touch on the physical aspect
of creating; and my words are a necessity, for damage
of so serious a nature has been done that the spiritual
emancipation of the children of this world has been
retarded, held back by ignorance concerning those things
which touch them all.
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"The gift of creating is as a gigantic tree with innumerable
branches and each branch covered with countless leaves;
but because man has turned from his God so, long since,
the mighty Truth represented by the trunk of that tree
has been overlooked, and to-day he is satisfied with
the few odd twigs which have fallen to the ground.
The gift of creating has been so disregarded in its
many forms that, for the most part, what is held by
the individual is as a dead stalk - its life has gone!
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"So I speak first of that 'creating' which arises so
easily in the physical mind, and I want you ere we
part to make a compact with yourselves: that henceforth
you will look at this wonderful gift in the God-way
and, more than that, you will accept the responsibility
of knowledge and do your best to pass on that which
I teach to others; aye, to the parents, and also to
the children when they have reached that stage of consciousness
when they can understand.
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"The greatest gift given to mankind by God is the gift
of creating life; and this gift is only a physical
expression of a great and mighty spiritual Truth. As
it were, it shows in a limited manner something of
the wonderful power which lies within the province
of the individual - the power to create life, in the
sense that they themselves are used to build up the
next body, the next casket which every soaring soul
desires to make its own, for only by the donning of
that cloak of flesh can it obtain those experiences
which are essential for its development.
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"Oh, think you like this: some there are, dear children
- ah! many, many - who have so misunderstood Love,
so misunderstood the plans of God, so misunderstood
the holy gift placed in their possession that they
have not only held back their own emancipation but,
by their abuse of the gift, have implanted in the bodies
of their children a predisposition to similar weakness
in turn.
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"Temptation? But have I not told you that to the strong
temptation comes? Yes, but only those remain strong
who fight against their weaker selves. Sometimes the
temptation seems too difficult to withstand, yet to
such as these I throw out a strong beam of light -
and I speak to thousands beyond your ken - I say to
them: maybe you cannot find the strength to fight for
yourself,
but for the sake of those you are bringing into the
earthly plane
surely you can find within the spiritual resource to
overcome!
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"You see, dear children, in God's sight, weakness -
that which the world calls sin, that which the world
condemns so hardly in the unprotected, but which it
excuses in those who have the protection of the law
- with God these things are seen as they are; and because
the children of the earth are the children of their
Father and Mother God, the time must come when they
too must face Reality, when they too must be strong
enough to grapple with that mighty readjustment which
must take place.
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"I am bound to speak frankly on this subject. The physical
laws which govern the physical body can express purity
as nearly as it is possible to approach purity on a
material plane; but the majority, so untutored in the
things of the Spirit, so ignorant of the spiritual
aspect of the gift of creating, these have desecrated
the gift, these have thwarted the plans of God, these
have kept back their brothers and their sisters; aye!
they themselves have been kept back by those who were
before them; and they pass on to their children that
terrible bar to progression, they pass on the same
obstruction which one day must be overcome.
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"The gift of creating is for a great and mighty purpose,
and to those amongst my children, wherever they may
be, whoever they are and whatever their mental or physical
capacities - to all my children I send out an entreaty
to face this question in a spiritual way; to confuse
not prudery with purity, and to seek not refuge in
that silence which gives consent.
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"Those who have eyes to see, those who have ears to
hear, they look around on the world at large and they
know that the lack of purity, the lack of self-restraint
has done its terrible work. They see - and I refer
to those who have God in their hearts - they see that
on vast numbers no shadow of shame is allowed to rest;
but here and there on the individual, less guilty in
intent - aye, less guilty, I say - on these the cross
has been laid! Do they think, can anyone think that
by an act of law, by a church observance, that that
which they name 'immorality' is erased?
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"Oh, think again! You are the children of the Most
High, gifted with a precious gift which, though changing
its aspect as you pass through the evolutionary stages
of progress, is held by you, purified, strengthened,
until at last, claiming from God those gifts which
were once in your possession, you create in the God-way,
you create that which represents something of His own
creation in a time long past.
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"My children, in listening to my words I would disabuse
your minds of any false impressions that may arise.
You have been told before that there are countless
souls waiting to take on the physical experience, who,
but for the provision made by God, would be hindered
in their progress because those on earth are unwilling
to face their responsibilities - they have not either
the courage or the endurance or the selflessness to
give that physical life which the other so sorely needs.
And the time comes when such as these pass hence and
on looking back, find to their horror that within their
own grasp lay a gift so precious, a gift so wide in
its import, a gift which was expressive of the creative
faculty which belongs to God; but, blinded by the world,
deafened by the cries of expediency, they went on their
way, and that great gain which was their right was
overlooked.
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"And then I speak of others, and I remind you of my
previous words : that there are no childless people
in any sphere and there are no orphans in any condition
which could be thought of. For those who during physical
life have suffered in this way I have words of so much
hope, so much cheer, so much promise that I long to
pass them on. That desire of the heart to hold a child
in your arms which you could claim as your own, that
desire is God-given indeed; and in accepting certain
physical restrictions and limitations in the body which
you wear, you, by going without, have brought within
your own vibrations a gift to create which shall stagger
you when you are free.
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"I speak to many men and women all over this little
world, for sorrow has wrung their hearts over the with-
holding of the precious gift of parenthood. I say to
them: fear nothing, regret not at all, for lo! that
for which you long has been made your own; and that
which you could not have so far as the physical stage
was concerned, that gift of creating has been so purified,
so refined, so immeasurably strengthened that, when
the body is no more, before you will lie a world of
creating all your own.
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"But, children, in regard to the physical facts of
life a terrible responsibility rests on the elders,
aye! and most of all on the representatives of our
Father and Mother God; for it lies with these to teach
the young, it lies with these to show that this gift,
so desecrated by the majority, is spiritual in every
sense there could be.
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"Those whom you name the scientists, rebelling against
the wall of silence erected between the young and the
facts of life, these have sought to present them, so
they think, in a way both safe and reassuring. But
the young - those who have God in their hearts - have
shrunk with horror from the biologist, for something
within has told them that they are not as the animal,
that they were created as the children of God! And
between the two - that prudery which some love to think
is the purity which counts so much - that prudery and
the representation of the facts of life by the one
who has not penetrated one inch over the threshold
of Spirit - between these two the young have gone astray.
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"Mark you this - and I would underline it - that many
of these young ones have bodies which have a pre-disposition
to weakness of this kind through lack of self-restraint
by their parents, by their forefathers, by those from
whom they came. For, dear children, though I have taught
you that the spirit chooses its own experiences, yet
the necessity for going through the physical stage
is so great that it is forced to inhabit a body that
presents from the outset temptations which, alas! so
often prove too strong.
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"Oh, are there not any in the world to-day who have
the courage, who have sufficient of the Christ within
to speak words of warning on this question, on that
which brings an unending train of consequences to others?
To the representatives of God I speak and I ask them
to consider their position. Have they out of the stronger
self within, ever presented these facts in their true
spiritual light, or have not they rather hidden them
under that inky cloud of silence, of reticence, and
allowed the world to take its way?
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"I know that to some of you I have brought dismay.
These things are not talked about amongst those upon
earth. This fact, this great responsibility, which
is going on everywhere all over the physical world,
which brings misery and anguish to countless born and
unborn, this subject is taboo, this subject must not
be discussed! Yet tonight I ask you to emerge out of
your lesser selves and to be not as the children of
the earth but as children of the Most High, to face
things as they are and to grapple with the task which
lies in front.
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"The gain which comes to those who, inspired by love
for them, bring little ones into the world - that gain
cannot be over-estimated, nay! it cannot be explained
in words. The care, the suffering entailed, the provision
for the future, all the thoughts, all the hopes, all
the prayers, ah, in miniature it is true, but I say
by parenthood you are nearer to God - nearer to the
great Father and Mother aspect of God than anything
else could bring you.
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"But oh! beware of the enemies which would fall upon
the young! Teach them to understand, show them that
though these things are physical now, one time - and
not so far ahead - one time that gift of creating will
be seen for what it is; no longer dependent upon the
physical body or upon those laws which govern the physical
body, but the individual - out of her love, out of
his love, will find it within her or his power to create,
not only for those around, but to create for God!
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"Children, one other point on the physical side I must
touch upon, and this is so spiritual in its aspect
that you will bear with me a little longer before I
take you in thought out of planes of sense into the
realms of true feeling where you love to dwell.
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"There have been those - steeped in the things of the
earth, blinded by the materialism of their age, who
have come back to God, come back to purity in looking
into the eyes of the child which they have created;
by the innocence, by the intense spirituality which
shines out of their baby's eyes so the parents have
been shamed, so the parents have awakened to a sense
of responsibility.
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"And in regard to all who love God I would point out
a fact which no one can deny: in the first smile of
recognition from the tiny form which lies in its parent's
arms, in that first smile of recognition a man or a
woman reaches the highest point of happiness which
this earth can give. The possessions of the world,
the tools of the mind, ah, all those things which are
coveted by the majority, these are as nothing in comparison
with that wave of spiritual emotion which rushes over
the true parent as he looks at his child - his child!
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"And in that moment, dear children, the world as the
world fades away and, all unconsciously, man has been
given a reflection as to how his Father God feels towards
him when, after uncountable time, sufficient consciousness
comes when he looks up with recognition to his God,
and they are reunited in Spirit once more.
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"Yes, dear children, 'details', so these appear, but
these details express a mighty truth, these details
reflect something of the great Heart and Mind of God!
For when the mother or the father catches the love-light
in the eyes of the babe they have brought into the
world, in that moment that mother or that father is
sharing in the experiences of God.
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"My children, I pass on now, just for a very brief
space, to try and show you how, by thought, you can
not only build for yourself, but you can put together
that which the Lord God of all will use - because He
is your Father - for the working out of His mighty
plans.
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"Think you to yourselves like this: in regard to the
creation of a child, when love inspires, lo! the body
and the mind of that child is nearer to perfection,
is nearer to that which God intended. So, carrying
on that thought, you get an indication of what lies
beyond. For before you can create those things which
death cannot touch, love must be your tool; before
you can build anything resembling that perfection which
God has put before man as an example, before you can
create a tiny daisy, aye, or a blade of grass, you
must have penetrated in a measure into Love as Love
is.
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"Those free from the body have come back to you and
have told you again and again that love is the motive
power, that without love they are helpless, almost
useless. So think to yourselves in the by and by as
well as today: 'Those things in my mind which I long
to portray - to express in colour, in form and in melody
- these things will be barred to me unless love in
its purer, finer, sweeter sense is there!'
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"Children, I tell you as an example - simply as an
example of the over-powering influence of love - that
if there was a woman upon the physical plane who was
sufficiently free from self, sufficiently pure, sufficiently
in touch with God, she, by her pure emotions, by her
holy desire, could herself create a child and bring
it into the world.
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"But confuse not this with the one you name the Virgin
Mary; for, as I have explained, it is well-nigh impossible
for the individual to reach such heights. And this
in itself is a protection, for the world, bound by
self, blind to things of the Spirit - the world would
hurl upon that woman the shame which it would consider
she deserved.
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"The child, Mary, does not come under this category.
As you know full well, she was prepared over the ages,
and when the appointed time arrived, through the power
of the Holy Spirit the young Life was started. She
was merely - and yet that word 'merely' includes a
greatness which no other has attained - she was merely
the instrument for the working out of God's purpose
to live as Man amongst men.
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"So, dear children, I must bring this little conversation
to a close, only indicating tonight, because time presses,
how within each one there are mighty gifts stored;
that there is no limitation imposed on anyone in regard
to creating that which their Father God has created
Himself. For it is the Father's wish that His children
should share His gifts, should have His power; but
before this is possible they must have His purity and
His love as well! Therein lies the secret of creating.
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"You see it all around in your daily life. Some there
are who seek to put together this and that; the construction
is faulty, yet here and there this rings true, that
seems worthy of the artist's intention. Grades of evolution,
different stages of growth. And it applies to melody,
to all that which you name the Fine Arts, aye, and
even to the sweeping of a room. The artist, the one
who has the creative faculty must do that humble task
to perfection. That indicates - not in so low a stage
as you may think - that indicates in itself something
of the great gift which has been held out to all through
the ages, through the many evolutionary stages, held
out to all but not grasped, for they failed to understand.
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"Perfection? Few are privileged to know what this means,
but as we strive for perfection, as we strive to put
together that which represents harmony - true balance,
good workmanship - so we are creating, so we are preparing
ourselves for that expansion of the gift, not only
when the little earth life is o'er, but throughout
that 'growth' which goes on for ever; for as we strive
so our conception of Perfection grows; as we create,
so a larger area still of creating is opened out before
us.
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"Never forget that the Lord God, the Holder of all
power, the Bestower of all gifts, only waits for His
children to be ready, only waits for it to be safe
to entrust them with that which means so much to them,
to others and to God Himself.
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" To-night there has been that which no language can
portray. In your daily lives there is that unending
power, that Source of strength which never can be exhausted;
for, linked to Christ, linked to All-Power, at your
will you draw down to you that which your Father delights
to bestow.
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"And now, my children, I will leave you. Have no fears
any of you, for nothing of the physical can intervene
between you and God's plans. The future, so far as
the instrument I use is concerned, has been sealed
by God, and those in her vibrations shall gather to
themselves many gifts, many priceless tools, for the
blessing is bestowed on all. Like a shower of power
each one shall feel that which represents Spirit; like
a shower of power so that consciousness of Spirit shall
be cast out on others, reviving and recharging; and
this is God's work.
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"I bless you with courage! In the Father's Name I bequeath
to you endurance - the capacity to endure a little
now for the sake of the joy to come. To suffer, aye,
because suffering brings so much gain; for only by
suffering can you solace another, only by the understanding
of those many enemies directed against spiritual aspiration,
can you inspire others to leave the depths and to climb
the hill to God.
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"Remember that God's ways are best; remember too that
Christ calls out from you - from that greater Self
within, the strength and the ability and the will to
do His work on earth while the opportunity remains.
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"Goodnight, my little ones."
©GWCSA
GIFT
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