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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"HEREDITY"
An address given 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 July, 1925.
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"O CHRIST our Saviour and our Redeemer, draw near to-night
and gather us under Thy protecting care. Give to each
one the gift of peace, the gift of confidence in Thy
Love. Grant that all may feel indeed the Holy Spirit
on either side, and that because they have met together
in faith, there - centred in the midst - Thou wilt
be. Father, we ask Thee to give us this understanding
- to make us realise that between Thee and Thy children
there is no barrier so high, so broad which Thou canst
not dismiss.
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"And then we ask Thee once more to purify our hearts
and minds, to give freedom to the indwelling Spirit,
so that it can control the lives of Thy children, bringing
the physical into harmony with the Spiritual, when
they can offer their individual gift of love to Thee.
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"In the quietness we draw near to the things which are
unseen, to all that multitude of opportunity and capacity
which is bestowed upon each one. We draw near and we
ask that Thou wilt give light to the mind of the body,
so that we may go on, not only sensing Reality but
making it our own. Amen...
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..."WELL, MY CHILDREN, I want to say first of
all that it is wise when commencing these little gatherings
to dismiss all thoughts of failure as connected with
the body, and to place your entire assurance upon God.
It may have seemed to you that events have not justified
the trust which you endeavoured to place on the power
of the Spirit, so I would once more draw your attention
to things as they are, and not to things as they are
worked out on the physical plane.
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"My exhorting you to have perfect faith in God
that the physical might be overcome brought not only
protection to my child, but indeed another brick was
added to your own spiritual resources, and although
you knew it not the evening in question did its work
- its great and important work for the Spirit enshrined
within each one.
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"Ah, yes! I know to you the physical plays so
great a part; that which is evidenced before your sight
takes first place, and it is not easy to say when a
breakdown occurs: 'This is success!' Yet I bid you
take my words to heart, for indeed you shall see in
the days to come how the gathering together of spiritual
resources in this way not only left its mark upon you
but upon the world as well - and in this case I speak
of the physical aspect of the world; it shall leave
its mark, for the time is coming when those whom the
Holy Spirit has touched shall go back on your tracks
and they shall read and learn the lesson which lies
there.
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"Can you not see that if this work had been carried
on under favourable conditions its value would have
been infinitely less? Because of the strain entailed,
because of the wish to lay self aside, so that which
has come through, by God's grace, that truth shall
live for evermore; and it shall leave its mark on the
physical world in the measure that the world can understand.
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"And now, my children, there is another point
on which I wish to speak, and that is in regard to
the use of these records. There are those who have
been diffident as to the free use of the truths which
I have sought to teach; they are held back by many
reasons, some of which have their connection with the
earth and some which are entirely of the Spirit.
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"As I have told you before, when you are free
you will find that 'mine' and 'thine' do not exist;
you will find with so much joy that each and everyone
gladly - oh! so gladly, shares their treasure, be it
great or small, with those who are willing to take.
And why is this? Because they see in all its magnificent
detail that everything belongs to God, and that He
- the Great Possessor - lives but to scatter on all
His gifts with a generosity which never fails, with
a lavishness you cannot understand until the mind of
the body is laid aside.
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"Yet I would not have you think that I ignore
those rules which have been brought into being by man
as a protection. You see, that when what you call 'the
law' says 'Thou shalt not', not only does it protect
the owner but still more so does it protect those who
as yet are easily swayed by the forces of darkness,
easily influenced to betray that greater Self, to gather
that which they have not sown, to harvest that which
another has worked and toiled to produce.
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"Keep your minds at a level poise. The laws of
the earth framed by man, for the most part, do valuable
work in protecting the immature, the soul which as
yet has not learnt its lessons.
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"So I am not ignoring that it wouldn't be wise
to do away with that which comes under a very comprehensive
heading, which restricts man from using that which
has been produced by the mind of another.
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"Yet, dear children, in our case it has no application
at all, and so tonight I make it quite clear that the
truths I seek to convey, that the unfoldment of faith
which has been entrusted to me by the Master - that
these words are open to all, and indeed I entreat those
who have God in their hearts to make the fullest possible
use they can of that which is given to the world, only
and solely by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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"There is one thing more I would add in this connection:
that neither I nor my child need recognition, yet for
the sake of the Spirit within the one who speaks I
would remind him that a word of thanks is due to God
Himself; for His grace, for His understanding of the
needs of humanity, for His great, great Heart, where
those who are as little children in spiritual understanding
are concerned.
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"Render thanks to God and speak so far as you
can these words of truth, this fuller revelation of
the gift which is man's own, this exposition of the
great Love which the Father has for those who as yet
understand Him not. That is my message to those who
have asked, and also to those who have wondered mentally
how far they were at liberty to use these records.
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"And now I come to the subject of what my little
ones are pleased to call 'the instruction'; and oh,
my children, could you but look into my heart and mind
you would see that your loving thoughts over my simple
words have indeed been a gift which cannot be priced,
and which will be held by me for ever and ever.
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"Children, to-night I want to speak to you about
that which has caused much discussion amongst the busy
minds of men; yes, and thought of a comprehensive nature,
in the physical sense, has been given to it as well.
As usual it is not my intention to destroy but rather,
if I can, to turn the attention of those who will listen
to the great spiritual meaning which lies beneath the
physical fact. I am referring to the subject of HEREDITY.
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"It is curious to us that the majority are content
to rest, as it were, on their laurels, and not to pursue
this question - or the many which arise from it - to
its ultimate conclusion. Still, you will see at once
when you are free that although man traversed in thought
half the journey, according to physical standards,
on this subject and on that - you will find when you
are free that after all it was but a bare inch of the
ground which was covered - so vast is wisdom, so limited
is knowledge; so spacious, so far-reaching the realms
of the Spirit, so narrow, so shut in the field of the
physical mind.
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"In regard to the inheritance of characteristics
and to the inheritance of physical disabilities, I
would ask you to look at the question in this way:
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"True it is that in families certain qualities
apparently are handed on from father to son or from
mother to daughter - although it has been found that
more often the characteristics of the father are evidenced
in the daughter and those of the mother in the son,
in varying degrees. And then we come to that very sad
aspect in regard to disease, in regard to those many
weaknesses to which the flesh is prone; and I want
you to give me your full attention while I try to put
in language which will be understood the spiritual
aspect, the great unpenetrated truth which lies underneath
it all. And here I bring in also that oft discussed,
oft abused theory of Predestination which, as it were,
throws a slight shade over the more important topic
under discussion.
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"You see, dear children, that in order to show
you things as they are I must lift your minds completely
out of the physical representation and plant them,
so far as I am able, in the great World of the Spirit,
where Truth is born and where Truth persists in spite
of the wrecking thoughts of those on earth.
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"I have told you that the lives you lead in this
little world - that the experiences you undergo were
decided upon by the indwelling spirit which is of God
and which God has gifted to you. Yet have I not said
as well that 'like attracts like' - that those with
mutual sympathies are drawn together and, again, those
with distorted tastes have allied themselves to those
who have chosen the same precarious path?
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"Now look you, dear children, on the one hand
you have the physical aspect and on the other you have
that which is of God. The spirit imbued with strength
according to its emancipation - and only according
to that emancipation - the spirit takes on that which
will help it most, that which will contribute further
to the freeing of itself from what is antagonistic
to God.
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"Remembering what I have told you regarding the
long journey of the spirit - the taking on of experiences
and alas! too often the turning to darkness out of
Light - remembering this, it is not difficult for you
to imagine that although the spirit is pure, untouched
by so-called sin, yet during its journey much that
is of a cumbersome nature has been gathered to it;
in some cases to the extent that that which is of God
is suffocated - strangled by the adverse influences
of those who are out to wreck.
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"So, bearing in mind the freedom or the captivity
of the spirit, it is not difficult for you to understand
that experiences are taken on according to the ambition
of that which is in the process of evolution. You see,
dear children, this accounts for much. Those who love
God consciously come into this earthly life - this
short period of trying and of testing - and out of
the greatness of their love they choose indeed the
hard, rough road, bringing but few supports to help
them on their way. And thus it is that sometimes the
body into which they enter is seriously hampered by
weakness, by lack of power to function as God intended.
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"Now wait awhile. There are many causes which
contribute to the weakness of the body. Some there
are who to-day are paying a heavy price for the disregard
of Nature's laws by those who were before them. Others,
dear children - and forget it not - others are suffering
from the same motive which inspired themselves. Those
who were before them, through whose bodies directly
or indirectly they came - these in many cases were
heroic souls, and they chose those experiences which
indeed left their mark upon the physical tabernacle
which was worn.
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"I want you to consider this in its spiritual
aspect. I deny not that the weakness in the one body
is reproduced - sometimes in most terrible form - in
those which follow after; yet, dear children, I ask
you: Does not this truth throw the bright Light of
God's Love over those who suffer, over those who indeed
have paid a great price for the inestimable privilege
of going through their earth's experience - the privilege
which brings them what nothing else can do, for those
experiences force on the spiritual progress in a way
no words can express.
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"And then we turn to the sadder side - to the
so-called inheritance of undesirable characteristics,
and here it is that you get the working out of 'attraction'.
Those who are bent on denying the God-head within,
they during the sleep state mingle and have companionship
with those who are like-minded who have passed out
of physical life or who are waiting the opportunity
of coming into the flesh.
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"You see, dear children, that 'influence' is a
far, far bigger thing than man has ever taken into
account. Just as those who have led a wayward life
on earth pass out with their lessons unlearnt, so there
are those who down the countless aeons of time likewise
have not learnt their lessons, and it makes no difference
whether the physical experience has been carried through
or not. Like attracts like and that is the tragedy
which all have to face.
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"But you will say to me: 'How is it that sometimes
from the most degraded a pure flower springs?'
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"Well, this is so easily explained when you have
seen something of the Love of God, something of that
love which many of His children are able to show towards
others.
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"In cases such as these the spirit, imbued with
strength, deliberately chooses an environment which
is agony indeed; chooses it because by example - by
showing purity where only impurity is found, by throwing
out love where hatred holds chief place - the spirit
is able to demonstrate God in their midst.
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"I want to take you a little further still; I
want you to consider the theory of Heredity not merely
from the physical side but to penetrate through that
into the Spiritual, and I want you each one to answer
this question for yourself:
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"In regard to the inheritance of characteristics,
is it not logical that the Great Source, the Great
Parent of all must be taken into consideration? That
man evades, and because he evades God, his theories
remain theories and as facts they cannot stand. Go
back to the Source of this life and that. In each one
there is Spirit - that which is even as God, part of
Himself; and so to-night I proclaim that because the
weakest and the frailest has the inheritance of God
within, God shall prevail.
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"Yes, dear children, the significance of this
is far reaching. Even in your day, experiments valuable
to the individual have been made. It has been found
that a child taken from those who are bound most closely
to the things of the earth - to so-called vice, to
all those disabilities of the flesh - that it is possible
to take a child and in the right environment, for the
most part, to overcome or keep back that which it would
seem was its natural inheritance. Nay, I forget not
that again and again the experiment has failed and
the child has reverted to type, but for each one who
has strayed there are hundreds who have struggled on
- with many backward thoughts may be - but yet have
kept themselves free from those lower strata of evil
which otherwise would have sucked them in.
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"This to-night is my message of hope, my message
of faith for all: I say that the weakest and the most
degraded can be reclaimed, can be set on a sure foundation
of spirituality because of those inherited characteristics
from their Divine Parent, which nothing can destroy,
which are there in the individual, crushed down by
the forces of evil perhaps, but which sooner or later
shall and will assert themselves once more.
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"Never listen to those who class this one and
that as 'hopeless'. From the physical standpoint they
may be, but in the Spirit that word is unknown. There
are conditions which have been hinted at during these
sacred evenings which are indeed of darkness, which
in comparison to 'evil' as you know it, are as an inky
night to the twilight before the dawn; yet never has
it been said - never would it be allowed - that the
weakest, that those sunk into the innermost depths,
would not in time, by the grace of God, be gathered
into the Light which never fades, gathered into that
sonship and daughtership with their Mother and Father
God, because the inheritance is there, because they
come from Him, and nothing which emanated from that
which is all-power, all-thought, all-Love - nothing
which emanated from the Source of Holiness can do aught
but return to its Source at last.
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"You will see how those ideas which come under
the heading of Heredity and also of Predestination
- how in some cases they reflect half-truths, and again
how misleading they are when looked at under the light
which shines from God's Love.
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"Yes! as I have said, the spirit within has chosen
the path that it will tread; it has chosen the path
from that early beginning which your minds cannot grasp,
and it will choose its own path right through the unfolding
Eternity which is the gift of all. Yet looked at with
spiritual sight, how plain it all seems, how magnificent
is the generosity of the Father.
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"Oh, my children, in taking these thoughts of
the earth, these many theories and deductions which
man has laboured to produce, remember this: that it
is not God's Will that you should stop half way, yet
again and again those bound by physical thinking do
that, and there the weakness lies. I ask them but to
carry on their deductions until the end of the chain
is reached; I ask them not to limit the inheritance
of the individual to those who have trodden the earthly
way; I ask them to get back, link by link, to the One
Who created, to the One Who thought out everything;
not only to give God His due but to recognise that
which is hidden underneath - that which indeed shall
prevail because God has promised it, because God would
never consent to the final dissolution of that which
was and is Himself.
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"Children, rejoice! - rejoice for many things;
rejoice that there were those who suffered aforetime,
and because the blows of life fell thick and fast you,
in turn, are bearing part of the burden - not of their
burden, but because the tie between you was so strong,
because the love for God was in your heart, you were
attracted to those who were strong in Spirit, and you
have borne your burden too.
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"And then I would draw the attention of the many
readers outside this little circle to the incredible
folly of those class distinctions which play so large
a part in this little earth life. When you come here
not only will the folly be apparent, but the humiliation
will be great as well. Those who have chosen the easy
path - they indeed will see with shame that the despised,
that those reckoned of no account were the strong souls,
were the pure souls, were the souls who had seen God
face to face, and because of that were struggling and
striving to express in a fragmentary way something
of the beauty of the Divine Mind.
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"Remember this and let it curb your judgement;
remember that the deep decision of the spirit is responsible
for the environment in which each one is placed, and
it must be apparent in certain conditions temptation
is rife indeed.
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"Therefore judge not when the forces of evil sometimes
overcome those whose lives are sordid and free from
joy, those who are hemmed in by the many horrors of
physical life, those who walk side by side with poverty
and with care. Judge not these, dear children, because
in time to come you will see that all the while they
were Christ's friends and that He calls them thus.
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"And again I say judge not those who are surrounded
with the beauties of the world, with a multitude of
comfort, yet wilfully seek that which is of darkness
and repudiate the God within. I say judge not these
but pray for them instead, for great, great will be
their affliction when this brief sojourn is ended and
they see the wrecking work that was done.
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"Oh! compassion for all, understanding for all
as far as may be, helping by prayer and thought and
action. This is the gospel of Christ, this is the truth
He taught, this is what He waits for those who love
Him to adopt. Prayer, faith and trust, and above all
the deep conviction that the spiritual inheritance
of man shall prevail; that the earth's standards shall
be brushed aside because they are of the earth and
not of God; and in the future, purification for the
individual, perfect unity with Love, all working with
their Maker in restoring those others who likewise
missed the path which led into light and joy and peace.
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"And now I leave you. If there are any loose threads
which you require to be fastened securely, then as
time goes on I will come back to the subject and all
will be as God intends. It is not wise to unveil too
much at once of the treasure which is waiting for you
all, because the physical mind must be trained, must
be brought along, so that, in its degree, it can keep
pace with the mind of the spirit; neither hindering
it nor forestalling it in a false way, but just fitting
into its little niche, contributing its part to the
great, grand quest which lies before it - the quest
which ever daily is becoming clearer, the clouds passing
beyond the horizon, leaving the view beautiful in prospect
and the path free from those obstructions which would
hold you back. And now I go.
(After others had spoken Zodiac returned and continued.)
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"Well, my children, you have had a long evening,
and you have seen as well that when a little rest is
possible my child is able to withstand the physical
body, and our happy evening is carried on to its conclusion.
I want to underline
that, because, as I have told you from the beginning,
it is against God's wish that we should work directly
in opposition to Nature's laws and, therefore, it is
ruled out of these little gatherings for all time.
We can replenish, we can make good again and again,
but beyond a certain point we do not go.
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"From this you will gather that I am quite willing
that you should arrange this meeting together on any
day you think fit. So far as we are concerned we could
come and demonstrate God's Love evening by evening,
but that would not be wise. First, because the physical
mind can only take in a certain amount of thought in
a given space of time; secondly, and equally important,
the truths which I am directed to give out to you,
and from thence to those in the world who will listen,
these truths would drop to the ground because no time
would be forthcoming for the records to be taken and
written out.
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"You see how wise are God's ways! Nothing is withheld
from you, but in using the physical as His tool, certain
laws are brought into action which, if worked against,
interfere with the good results. So, dear children,
settle it among yourselves and be quite sure that whenever
you choose to meet, those in the Spirit will be waiting
and, and God's grace as usual will be forthcoming.
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"And now, dear children, take unto yourselves
God's blessing. Remember that you are, as it were,
His epistles in which His words are written, and as
such conduct yourselves to others. Remember that in
demonstrating God, even in the little that you think
you are able to do, in demonstrating Him so you are
adding to the strength and the holiness of the world.
Rest then in peace of mind, certain and sure that the
Father - because He is your Father - understands you,
and more than that: that He will lift you out of that
lesser self into the self you long to be. Yes, these
are my words: that God, being your Father, can do what
so often it is impossible for you to do yourself -
raise you up into truth and holiness and peace, when
with those who love you, both on the earth plane and
in the realms of the Spirit, you will indeed reflect
that love which God has gifted to them and to you to
pass on to others.
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"Now, my little ones, Goodnight! Forget not your
guide, forget not his love, and his happiness in the
charges which God has bequeathed to him for all time.
Goodnight!"
©GWCSA
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