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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"OUT OF CHAOS"
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 Saturday, 24th September, 1927.
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"INTO Thy peace, O God, we enter by Thy Love.
Take that which is our real self and bind it closely
to Thee, so that Thy little children may be conscious
of all the protection which is ground, may be conscious
that because of that close tie the enemies must depart,
leaving that which is Thine own safe, bound to Thee.
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"O Christ, instruct as to all the strength from
which we can draw, give unto, us that illumination
of Life beyond the material, beyond the physical, and
teach us how, though fettered by much, we can cross
the threshold of things seen, and be conscious of the
mighty wealth of doing and wisdom which Thou hast prepared
for Thy children.
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"We commence our work to-night with humble hearts,
seeking ever the highest, putting all else aside, and
asking that Thou wilt take us and mould us according
to Thy holy Will. Father, in faith and trust we commend
ourselves into Thy most loving care. Amen.
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"MY LITTLE CHILDREN, when the lark soars up into the
heavens and thrills you by its song, something has
taken place in that which you recognise as your self,
for at that moment you too have soared. You at this
stage are bound to physical things, inasmuch as you
are in a tabernacle of flesh. Your life to a certain
extent is controlled by the lives of others; you speak
of circumstances and environment, and there are some
who with a sigh feel that they are indeed at the mercy
of their environment. Yet, remember the incident of
the lark! Although you may be restricted by material
conditions never forget that there is that within -
the Divine, all-pure, all-love - which enables you,
when the opportunity presents itself, to soar, even
as the lark, out of things physical above the clouds
of misunderstanding; and as you soar, by your thoughts
and desires you are, as it were, throwing out on the
atmosphere that which is the sweet music of the Spirit.
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"All around you in daily life there are symbols
in the mundane things, symbols of some great spiritual
fact. The majority, because they are bound by the earth
view, take the day, and it represents very little to
them beyond the irksome task, the disharmony and the
irritation imposed by others. They go to their rest
at night thankful, as they express it, to have a little
peace, a little freedom which they can call their own.
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"These moods attack even the strongest, and remember
this: that as you develop so, of necessity, your conditions
present a greater test, a greater strain on the patience,
for the grown man and the grown woman is not content
to learn the same simple lesson as the child in its
first school. No! a certain amount of maturity is your
own, and as you expand, as that which is your real
self dominates the weaker self, so your conditions
present something more difficult, something which calls
out a stronger resistance still.
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"But I would not have you as those whose eyes
are holden. The trivial task, the little things which
'go wrong', so it seems to you; aye! the rising in
the morning, the donning of fresh garments, taking
that nourishment which keeps the physical tabernacle
in its right condition; the work, the passing among
one here and there, the compassion, those many unvoiced
prayers - what does all this illustrate to the far-seeing
one? Physical some of these acts may be, but their
significance is spiritual in very truth. It is building
or destroying, remember that. You are builders or you
are destroyers, whether you are conscious of it or
not.
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"My children, having drawn in your thoughts, I
wish to speak to you about that which one day you must
understand, for it concerns your self. I wish to speak
about the beginning of things, perhaps more nearly
as relating to this little earth, for at present you
find it well nigh impossible to send that which you
name your imagination - that which is in fact spiritual
memory - to send that beyond this little earth and
what has been portrayed as to its beginning. Yet I
am here to enable you to have bigger thoughts, wider
feelings, a grander horizon both of the mind and of
the emotions, and so I would take you in thought to
that which represents to you THE CHAOS OF THIS LITTLE
WORLD.
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"In the sacred record it is narrated that there
was neither night nor day, nor was land, as you regard
land, in existence. In a few brief sentences it is
described as a condition of confusion, and I want you
to be certain that this was literal fact.
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"But first of all try and think of this, and I
have touched upon the point before: You are familiar
with the idea that when the body of flesh has played
its part you will pass out into your own 'place' -
those conditions built up by your life on earth. This
indeed is spiritual truth, yet forget not that the
Father, because He is the Father, expects not from
His little ones more than an hundredth part of that
which is; that which is contributed by you is as a
fragment compared to the contribution by the Lord of
all, for your Father and Mother God preserves, transforms,
expands, gives life to those efforts of yours which,
at times, seem almost too much to be drawn from you.
Therefore when you pass out of the earth stage, with
delight you will find that little things represent
big gains; that your conception of beauty is infinitely
greater - and I speak now of beauty in the spiritual
sense, not that alone which pleases the eye or comforts
the mind - I speak of the beauty which is the splendour
of doing, those bright rays which you send out from
yourselves, for the most part unconsciously, when another
is in need; you call it sympathy.
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"Those thoughts, those tender feelings which you
have had, they are gone, so you think, but any thought
that has a fragment of God in it lives on for ever.
And so when you leave the twilight of the earth conditions
and pass into the radiance of that which is of the
Spirit the regret will come that you did not do more,
for God has given you so much.
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"Yet to-night I must fetter your minds to the
point we are discussing. The conditions beyond the
'grave', as you name it, are built up by the individual,
and that accounts for those many grievous planes of
twilight and darkness about which you have learnt a
little. Those who imprison themselves upon earth take
their prison-house with them, and the gift of the sun
- which indeed is a symbol in miniature of the great
Spirit of Love - that sun is no more for they are out
of conditions which represent physical light, physical
sunshine, and are in those built up by their thoughts,
by their weakness when on earth.
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"Could you but see it, selfishness is as the darkest
dungeon, horrible in every sense there could be, and
the selfish, those who had no thought for others, those
who vented their cruel wills upon the victims in their
vibrations, they pass into, literally, a dungeon which
holds them fast.
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"I underline the point that the conditions in
the next stage are built up by the individual, yet
everything which has a fragment of God in it comes
under the miracle of the Creator's Love; and in that
time, dear children, you will find a harvest beyond
your physical minds to conceive.
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"Holding this thought in mind I take you back
to that which I name the chaos represented by this
physical world and its slow evolution over the ages.
Now think you as to this: I have laid down, because
it is God's truth, that the earth represents one short
stage of development alone. You, bound by many restrictions,
find it impossible to think of millions of years in
connection with this little planet, but, my children,
in order to portray something of 'time' - that word
so little understood by you - I have to emphasise that
those millions of years represent but one stage, the
stage which is designated by you as the material; and
the earth stage, as I have said before, is as the plane
of temptation.
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"Remember that in the 'before' stage many were
less evolved than they are to-day, and also recall
that the free-will of the individual is never interfered
with. Yes, in every stage there are those who squander
their opportunities, who turn from the Light to the
darkness of self; and the next stage, which was meant
to represent a higher development, denotes instead
a step back, something lost not something gained.
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"This truth I am instructed to impart. This physical
world of yours with its chaos, was built by the thoughts,
the actions of God's children in that before stage
which I have touched upon in the past. Keep your vision
clear! Remember that I have laid down that out of the
little so God creates much; therefore, that which represents
something untouched by God indeed was chaos, and indeed
represented a 'night' of blundering and misunderstanding.
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"Go back to the parable as narrated in the sacred
record, and there laid down so clearly to those who
have the will to learn, is that most beneficent act
of the Creator which, in a measure, took chaos and
moulded it into something resembling order. Never forget
that this simple fact relates to all stages, to those
innumerable experiences through which you have passed
since. As a thought of God, as something of Himself,
all-pure, all-wisdom, you started on your long journey;
yes! even as the circle, and, as it seemed, getting
farther away from the great Source until the point
was reached when evolution was commenced.
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"But I have instructed you that though I use the
circle as an illustration yet, however far off it might
appear you were from God, the Father and Mother God
filled the circle, and at every stage poured upon His
children the Light of His countenance. But alas and
alas! we were turned from Him and we saw Him not.
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"Oh, listen and learn, for these things, these
facts make all things clear! Out of the chaos of that
built up by the sons and daughters of All-Holiness
so the Creator - because He was always Father and Mother
combined - so the Creator out of His Love parted the
waters, gave life, gave beauty.
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"Yet, my little ones, forget not this great comfort
- that had there not been those in the past, had there
not been your selves in that stage before, who clung
to something which represented the Divine, so the Creator
could not have wrought that beauty, that which delights
and has delighted the countless thousands who have
passed through the earth stage. Yet the very riot is
representative, the confusion is a symbol of the blunders
of the past. Yes! but remember that this again is a
sign of the unquenchable mercy of the Creator of all.
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"So, my children, I want you in thinking of that
which you name prehistoric man to see for yourselves
how perfectly it all fits in. I have told you that
man was created in the likeness of his God, but that
likeness was marred, aye, covered by this, buried by
that, and there were those who had strayed to such
an extent that they were even lower than the beasts
of the field. Not God's will but the will of His creation!
Not God's will but the result of the abuse of the freewill
of the individual.
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"Yet see again how God's mercy has been shown.
My children, in this room, gathered out of that far
past, are those who when upon earth resembled something
lower than the beast.
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"To-night they are here, restored, in a measure,
to something of the likeness of the God by whom they
were created. Oh, confuse not my meaning. They have
much to do but they have striven, they have suffered
over the past, and could you see them with the eyes
of the body you would name them as the bright fairies
that you have loved so well. Aye, they demonstrate
something of God.
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"Little ones, in regard to those who came in later
years into the tabernacle of flesh, remember that according
to the equipment - and I speak not of advantages in
your sense of the word - according to the spiritual
equipment of the individual to-day, you may know how
much that one strove in the before stage, or how much
they allowed themselves to be swayed by others.
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"And this accounts, in part, for the different
appearance during the ages of the physical tabernacle,
but forget not this: again I remind you that any stage
can fail to play its part if the temptation which it
represents is not grappled with and overcome. And so
it is that there are men and women in bodies, perhaps
pleasing to the eye, with a physical equipment which
reaches a high standard judging by the world's view,
yet such as these literally desecrate the name of man
or woman. There are those lower than the beasts of
the field, there are those lacking the elementary instincts
of the animals or the insects.
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"What think you? Is it reasonable, is it according
to the perfect order of Divine laws that when that
man or woman lays the garment of flesh aside, they
will still be beautiful to look upon? Nay, by their
lives, by their thoughts, by their unholy desires so
the garment is framed, that next garment in which they
will find themselves; and there are countless thousands
who represent something more terrifying than that which
you name prehistoric man.
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"Children, cannot you read within my words the
real message we must give forth? Cannot you see how
history is repeated again and again? - the awful waste,
the unnecessary anguish, the terrible bondage that
the children of God impose upon themselves.
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"One point in passing I would explain if explanation
is necessary. The formation of the garment, whether
of man or whether of beast was according to the conditions
which obtained in the physical world. In that which
you name the organs, that which you name the frame,
of necessity there must be similarity; and even, in
the flowers there is that which represents the lungs.
Oh, the folly of man's thought! Out of their limitations
so they seek to limit and restrict their God.
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"The garment which will be your own when you pass
hence, when all pass hence - whether into denser conditions
or into finer - that garment is attuned to those conditions;
that garment is more material, as you use that word,
or more spiritual according to the record of the past.
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"My children, cannot you read the message of the
earth? Out of chaos order came. Cannot you read the
message of your life? Out of chaos - order, Divine
order!
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"So much lies within my words which I must leave
to you, individually, to probe and penetrate in thought.
I am here to bring you on, to teach you how to cast
off your own chains. Alas! I cannot learn your lessons
for you. Each one must make them their own in their
own way. Please God it is the Christ way!
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"So, in pondering on the sacred record and the
simple statements therein, take these in the sense
they were intended. They represent a great spiritual
truth in symbol, and they are applicable to every stage,
to every state of development. Out of the chaos of
the acts and the thoughts of the children of the King,
so the King, because He is Father and Mother too, brings
that which represents something of order.
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"And, little ones, as you go on, so your consciousness
of order must grow and grow. Upon the earth plane some
seek to build up that which they name method and system.
Again it symbolises a great spiritual fact - the marvellous
order of Divine laws, the wonderful provision and protection
which is around each one, even, dear children, in that
which you name the darkest plane. But alas! God cannot
give when His children will not take. That is the tragedy
which surrounds the mighty Mind of Love.
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"So, my little ones, think within yourselves.
Put that which you name the life of to-day, the life
of yesterday, put that under the microscope of this
fragment of wisdom, of truth, which I have passed on,
and a mighty revelation will, in part, be made your
own. And forget not that which I have imparted before:
the spirits who had to wait for a suitable physical
garment before they could take the earth stage, those
Spirits have worked upon the earth, some for generations.
And perhaps at this late date, so it seems to you,
they come into a body of flesh and they shed on all
sides a reflection of the purity, the compassion and
the understanding associated with the Christ.
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"They have gained their experience through the
ages, working with this one and with that; and could
you see that which is the individual within the garment,
you would know that, all unaware, an angel was in your
midst. So simple are God's laws, so profoundly wise.
And remember that each one has an equal chance with
the other, each one can draw from the same Strength,
the same Source, but many forget - yet God forgets
not them - and out of their desire to be strong and
not weak, out of their prayers to be pure and not impure,
out of their compassion, the help which they render
inspired by the Divine within, so such as these, even
if they forget their God, are demonstrating their God
to others.
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"Oh, my little ones, enlarge your vision, stretch
out and claim something of those mighty gifts which
can be made your own! And forget not the symbol, the
illustration in this and in that as you pursue your
way through the weeks and months. Are you building?
- Are you destroying? What of the next stage? - you
understand that which the last has produced.
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"Out of the deep love which is in my heart, I
speak to many, many beyond your comprehension. I say
to each one: 'Look up, not back!' I say to those who
have blundered so in the past: Forget not that within
you is something of God, something of his great creative
power. Arise and build for to-morrow, and remember
that each grain gathered by you is, as it were, turned
into a brick by the One who loves you best. Many when
the physical life is ended pass into a chaos indescribable
in words, yet they have the message of the earth that
out of chaos order can come. And the bridge builders
to-day, those who open up this country and that, who
turn the little track into the safe short road over
which others may travel; those who harness Nature for
the good of man, those who use their minds to contribute
to the beauty so sadly needed by all - these but illustrate
a great spiritual truth, they are taking that which
once represented disorder and chaos and bringing it
into use. An example of order in its Divine sense.
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"This then is the message of the earth, this is
the message of the individual; out of that which is
incomplete, nay! confusion itself, so, by pursuing
the path, by effort, by hoping, by seeking and, above
all, by loving - confusion is brought into harmony,
and harmony is of God.
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"And so, my little ones, I leave you for a space.
Remember ever that these evenings are solely for God's
purpose, for bringing the possibility of His Will to
be done on earth. You, in the measure that you contribute
of your earnestness, your holy zeal, you are bringing
that nearer to accomplishment; you are building out
of the confused and restless thought of the world a
measure of stability, for the only things which remain
are the things which are of God. Another law of Divine
mercy, so far-reaching, aye! illimitable in its scope,
that only Love could conceive, only Love could ordain
a gift so great! And now, my children, I will go.
(After others had spoken Zodiac resumed and continued.)
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"My children all, the power has been gifted in
so lavish a manner that those you love in many numbers
could speak, but having regard to the work entailed
over the record, so, my little ones, we accept what
Love has given, and we thank Him with grateful hearts
that He has bestowed in such overwhelming measure.
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"This night once again is an illustration, a symbol
of those Divine laws which control and protect your
life. You gather here in faith. Out of that faith,
large or small as it may be, so you attract the greater
faith of the many who took the earth way in a far-off
time. Their faith was won even as you seek to purchase
yours - by putting faith to the test. Faith that is
untested is as a cloud which passes not away. Faith
which is tested may resemble a cloud, even as of rain,
but lo, by the use of that mighty gift so the power
comes, and after the rain is the blue of the sky and
the sunshine which revives.
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"This is a prophecy, this is a promise from God.
I but pass on that which is held for the future. Put
your faith to the test and if the cloud envelops, still
have faith, for the sunshine shall wipe out of your
consciousness for ever the memory of pain.
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"This evening you have met together in faith;
this evening you have not only purchased a gift of
the Spirit, but you have laid down the foundation of
further, greater, grander revelation in the days to
come.
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"Walk firmly into the Light! Heed not the calls
of this one and that. In the Light is the Presence,
the Christ; and Christ is not only your God but your
Creator. And as you advance, so the garment which represents
yourself shall be changed; and as you climb so something
of the radiance of Love shall fall upon you and be
claimed as your own.
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"I bless you with greater faith, the faith that
is not of the mind alone, the faith which is of action,
that faith which the Master showed for all to follow.
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"Goodnight, my little ones. Rest in peace."
©GWCSA
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