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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"THE REDEMPTION"
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, 9th October, 1926.
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"O MOST gracious One, we thank Thee for this gracious
gift, and we ask Thee to bestow upon us tonight the
grace whereby we may understand. As little children
we come before Thee, asking for Thy blessing; as little
children we entreat Thee to allow us to enter into
that state of Spirit where that which is holy within
may be released.
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"Christ, guide us and guard us from our lesser
selves; pour down upon us courage and hope and determination,
so that we may go forward confident in the strength
which comes from Thee. In ourselves we are as nothing,
but we are conscious that we are children of the Most
High, and that the King loves to bestow upon His little
ones those gifts which He possesses Himself. Make is
worthy; make us fit vessels to carry Thy glorious Truth.
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"Father, we commend ourselves into Thy hands,
and we ask Thee to use us for Thy work this night.
Amen...
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"My little children, this evening it seems to
some that we are gathered together, as it were, by
chance; but I have taught you ever that the plans of
God are worked as the Father intends when His children
allow the Spirit within to guide them. And tonight
I would put on record that there are those in this
little room who have lent their aid, aye, more than
their sympathy, they have lent their faith to the instrument
I use. In the sweet by and by a content shall fill
their being, for they will see that, all unconsciously
to themselves, they lent their aid to God.
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"Children, in regard to this great Truth, there
are the believers, there are the doubters, and there
are the destroyers. Confuse not the doubters with the
destroyers. Lo! Here and there there is one who, out
of the release of the Divine within, proclaims God's
Truth; and there are others who, longing for that same
freedom, hesitate and hesitate again; and those who
companion them, in spite of their efforts are unable
to break down the barrier between them and the Spirit.
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"And then, dear children, we come to the destroyers,
and these, when spiritual sight is their own, will
be anguished, for they have worked in that which will
take ages to work out. Pray for them, for they need
your prayers in a way which no words can express. Pray
for them, for the Lord God of all, taking from your
thoughts that balm, will lead them out of the wilderness
into the land of promise; but only after much suffering
can this come to pass.
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"Children, when you are free you will see things
thus: As it were, the children of the earth are buried
in the confines of that which represents the material;
and those who are free - the messengers, the guides,
the missionaries of God - these dig and dig. Millions
of channels have been made; and sometimes, after much
toil, lo! The one so bound catches the sound of a voice
and answers, and all is well. But, dear children, there
are many who are unconscious of their imprisonment,
and they, instead of doing their part to thin and weaken
those barriers between themselves and their helpers,
by their acts, and still more by their thoughts, they
are throwing up more soil; until that which once represented
earth is as hard and as impenetrable as granite.
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"This, dear children, is no exaggeration, as you
will see for yourselves in the by and by. Nay, in physical
language I cannot express those barriers, those terrible
barriers which man, out of his folly and ignorance,
aye, out of his disobedience to the Lord God of all,
has built up between himself and freedom.
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"Tonight, because the conditions have been specially
prepared, I wish to speak to you on that which you
name THE REDEMPTION, and I want you all to give me
your undivided attention, for what I speak now one
day will be regarded by many as the Truth.
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"You see, dear children, man, limited by much,
hedged in by traditional thought, man has forgotten
so much of that wisdom which once was his own. He has
forgotten his holy heritage, he has misread - aye,
because the mind was bond by the earth - he has misread
the Sacred Record which has been preserved for is enlightenment;
and yet so plainly it is stated, so simple is the story
of God's love.
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"Children, I take your minds back to that parable
which describes so faithfully the creation of man in
God's own image; and there, for all to read, you will
find that the temptation which brought sin into the
world was pride of mind and not weakness of the flesh.
It is amazing to us that the representatives of the
Most High so constantly overlook this fact. The temptation
was power - to be as the Lord God of all. The weakness
which followed and which grew in volume, came later.
That which was man's downfall was his lust for power.
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"My children, in re-reading that simple narrative
you will find that immediately that act of disobedience
took place, then the Most High commenced His missionary
work, commenced those most merciful processes of redemption,
of retrievement, of restoring that which man had thrown
away. And those who have the power to think uncontrolled
by the minds of others, these see in the parable of
man's downfall the whole history as touching the individual
- the countless millions whom God, out of His love,
created and sent off on the long journey of experience.
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"Little ones, I recall to your memory the sentence
that when man was turned out of those conditions which
represented pure Spirit, God went with him to protect;
aye, in the measure that man would allow, God sought
to guide him so that the past might be retrieved, so
that the journey of experience might be shortened,
when once more as His child, by desire, God could bestow
upon him that gift of creating which He Himself possesses.
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"Children, deliberately I used the simile of a
tree for truth and also in regard to the gift of creating,
because in that first narrative amongst all the other
trees two stood out in their intrinsic importance and
sublime meaning - the two gifts to be made our own
in God's good time. Had the tree of Life been sought,
lo, the history of humanity would have been gloriously
different; but held before us all was the bauble of
power, power not purchased, power snatched at without
the price being paid.
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"From this, dear children, I lead on your thoughts
to those many stories so true in detail, so true in
meaning; and you will see how again and again the Christ
in God was revealed to man. How in spite of repeated
disobedience - of the ignoring of those laws framed
entirely for the protection of His children - how in
spite of all this God came again and again as the Redeemer
of man, rectifying his mistakes, readjusting all those
many conceptions regarding the wrath of the Creator,
which had been presented to man - came to His children
and showed them that the One they were asked to follow,
to regard as their guide, was a loving protector.
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"And then, dear children, I remind you of the
parable which was given by the Master Himself ere that
which you name Calvary took place. I speak of the householder
and the husbandmen (Matt.21,33; Mark.12,1; Luke.20,9). Did not Christ in those words proclaim for all time
the Redeemer in God, the great Rectifier, the great
Reconstructor whom the children of the earth would
not heed? My little ones, I implore you, because you
wish to be as the Father intended you to be, I implore
you to enlarge not only the boundaries of your own
minds, but to seek with renewed vigour to break down
the barriers erected round the minds of others. Show
them, reason with them, point out the many incidents
in that far past when God came to His children as their
Redeemer, when He took upon Himself their burdens,
when He saved them as far as was possible from the
effect of their own mistakes.
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"Point out to them that when Christ came amongst
men it was but another instance of the most wonderful
generosity which any mind can imagine. That simple
act of coming Himself - the laying aside of the Godhead,
binding Himself as man was bound; enduring the same
temptations, but as a hundredfold in comparison; experiencing
the weariness of the casket of flesh, and that still
greater burden of a mind free only so far as the Holy
Spirit within was given its freedom. Aye, bound as
man is bound, so the Lord God of all came and walked
upon the earth, seeking to retrieve that which had
gone astray, that which we had cast aside.
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"My children, as I have told you before, in those
days I too functioned in physical body, I too mingled
with the throng; I too saw - not the thoughts of man,
but his actions, his trickery; and as I lived my days
so at last the Light was forced into my tortured mind.
So oft we spake of the Messiah, so oft we and planned
this and that; but, dear children, there was no one
who imagined that Christ would come in the way He did.
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"Those who were the priests - the custodians of
the Truth, they took it as a matter of course that
the Messiah would come to them, would issue the Truth
from their altars and cast upon them that added earthly
glory for which they craved.
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"Yes, and had that been so the Crucifixion and
the persecution which followed would never have taken
place. Had Christ been as man in his selfishness, so
He would have been received with that honour which
the occasion demanded.
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"But God, looking into the minds of men, read
their treachery, and had to go far afield to find the
simple heart, the faithful heart through which He might
be born into the physical world, and from which centre
He could teach that gospel of Love which had been for
all time.
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"Children, I speak of that which I know, I speak
of that which I saw. If Christ could have been bought,
could have been linked to the Temple, then the day
of Calvary would have been unknown. If Christ had laid
aside that mission of enlightenment, of the transposition
of power from those who had abused it to those who
did not know they possessed any power at all; if Christ
had been non-resisting to the demands of those who,
out of their minds but not from their hearts, had built
up that which they called the Truth; if Christ had
laid aside His tenderness and understanding of the
poor, then, my children, there would have been many
who would have been glad to claim Him as the Messiah.
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"Oh, mistake not my words. Have I not told you
before that the greatest miracle that could ever be
performed was that of the Lord God laying aside His
power and coming as a simple babe, hedged in by the
same physical restrictions as the children you have
held in your arms? Yes, that miracle one day will be
realised in something of its magnitude, something of
its inexpressible love.
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"But, dear children, as the Master said, the husbandmen
- the custodians of the Truth - they destroyed those
who came before and they would not spare the King's
son Himself. Yes, that has been worked in many ways
where the Truth is concerned. Over the ages so the
Lord God of all has sought to give to man that which
would make a protection impossible to be assailed,
but the barrier between humanity and Spirit is the
desire for power, is the absence of the humble heart.
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"And so, little ones, in thinking of the Lord
God, in thinking of His generosity, of His gracious
humility when He trod the earthly plane, remember that
that greatest gift was but one of a series; and God
has never ceased to send among His children, redeemers
- lesser redeemers, imbued with strength from the Great
Redeemer of us all.
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"Today, dear children, in regard to this little
branch of the Truth which you and others are trying
to plant in the hearts and minds of many, forget not
those obstacles which surrounded Christ, forget not
His example, His great suffering. I use not that word
'sacrifice' for where love is sacrifice is unknown.
But remember the Great Example, and when there are
those who turn coldly from you, gather up your gain
for, in miniature, you are suffering as God suffered
when man refused Him and all that mighty revelation
He would bestow.
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"You see, dear children, there are many today
who, if the Truth had come to them direct, who if that
power of sight and of hearing and of sensing were their
own, would preach it far and wide. But the gift has
come to others, the Holy Spirit has been manifested
in curious places amongst, so it seems to them, unsuitable
people, using blunt and inexperienced instruments.
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"Yes, but again the Lord God had to look for the
humble heart in order to reveal His Truth. Many there
may be who have that extra development in the way of
sight and of hearing, but what have they given out
to the world? Is the world better or purer for their
knowledge? Have they not rather fouled the vessel and
so instead of the Waters of Life, lo, that which has
poison in it has been distributed instead?
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"To all I speak and especially the representatives
of the Most High. God chooses His instruments because
those instruments are suitable for His work. It is
not for them to lay down restrictions as to whom should
be so blessed; it is not for them to criticise the
bestowal of that gift which lies only with God.
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"My children, much lies underneath these words
of grave and serious import - words of warning, words
which one day will be understood. God our Father is
the great pioneer Missionary, the Saviour, the Redeemer
of those who hate Him. He sends this one and that;
He tries this method and that, animated by love - aye,
by that love which holds in its folds a multitude of
thought and foresight for His little ones. God reasons
with His children, brings into being that form of help
and this tool of service, so that unconsciously to
themselves they shall in a measure be redeeming that
which they have lost.
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"Oh, think you to yourselves: how could a God
of love over the ages allow man to wander without endeavouring
to save him from the result of his own acts? How little
it seems, how indescribably ignorant does it not appear
that there are men and women who have preached that
until Christ came as Man, man had no Redeemer, no Saviour
in their midst!
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"Children, I entreat you to do your best to enlarge
the Spirit-consciousness of others, having once grasped
the Truth yourselves. Show them that in the Sacred
Record, preserved for them, is the redeeming Hand of
God at work right from the beginning; as this will
be until the end, which is the beginning again of that
life when sorrow is unknown because weakness has ceased
to exist.
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"This is the gospel of hope, and this gospel of
hope in time shall break down those doctrines and theories
erected by the physical minds of men. The Redeemer
- they know not of what they speak. The Saviour - they
have not understood its deep import.
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"Little children, gather in the comfort which
I bring to all. Your Mother and Father God understands
the force of temptation but He has gifted you with
power; your Father and Mother God knows how difficult
is the earthly way; He condemns not when you fail -
He is your Redeemer, your Saviour and your Consoler.
He bids you try again; He bids you faint not nor be
disconsolate, for lo, as you strive so the strength
will come; and He holds out to you that which He was
and is Himself - the gift of being a redeemer of others,
the gift of saving those who are weaker still. For
the Lord God of all delights to use His little ones,
to bring them on, to entrust them with His holy power;
for because you are of God, within you, implanted at
your creation in time long past, was something of the
Redeemer Himself, gifted to you to develop, to be put
to use, ah! and to release in others that capacity
to be as a redeemer in turn.
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"This is God's Truth, and the Holy Master is here
tonight blessing us as we gather together to learn
and to grow. For, my children, it is as tender plants
that we start, yet as time goes on so, using the soil
of the physical world, even that materialism, so strength
comes to our roots, and by our resistance of imprisonment,
the time comes when out of the earth, glorious we rise,
holding up that which represents our Selves to catch
that which our God waits to bestow.
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"Oh, hearken you not to those who would limit
the Lord God of all; hearken you not to those restrictions
on love, to that single act of redemption which has
been handed out by man to man. You and I, because we
listen to the dictates of the Spirit, we know that
all have had their Redeemer, their Saviour; and we
know that amongst even the weakest and the frailest,
lo! The Saviour walks today, seeking to retrieve, seeking
to restore; and out of our greater knowledge we give
thanks to God.
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"And now, my little ones, I will leave you. Hold
fast to these holy conditions, for they have been put
together only by that which you name suffering, but
which we call joy. And now I go.
(After others had spoken Zodiac returned and continued)
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"I do not intend to keep you longer, yet, ere
we part, a few words more must be interposed.
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"You, little ones, soldiers of Christ, have a
wonderful chance and a wonderful work to do. Say not
to yourselves: "I am hindered and hampered on
every side!" Nay, no barriers exist. By your thoughts,
by your holy aspiration, so every second of your life
you can create power which will be used again and again.
Ah, limit not yourselves by the view of the world,
by those restrictions of the physical body. You are
Spirit, and enclosed within is that greatest gift of
all - the gift of redeeming for others that which they
have cast aside.
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"So then, my little ones, if that active work
for which you crave seems, in some cases, to be withheld,
fret not, but think for God. To those others who are
free to follow the dictates of the Spirit, a word I
am asked to pass on, and that word comes from the Holy
One who guides us all: "Think not that you are
bound in regard to the earthly plane; for lo! As you
construct so you are creating there; as you do the
little tasks at hand, so you are bringing into your
vibrations the capacity, the power to build that which
no man can name."
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"Spirit - a word so charged with meaning. One
representation has been gifted to those on earth, but
when you are free you will find that that "one"
expressed a myriad which lay within it - all manifestations
of the love of God, all revelations of His unceasing
thought for us. As realisation comes, so you will render
to God the things which are God's, and so God will
bestow upon you those gifts which are of Himself.
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"God bless you with that illumination which shall
explain the past and the present, and light up the
future. God guide you to minister to those who know
not that sweet content which comes from the release
of the Divine within, so that in the by and by you
may see yourself as the saviour of others, through
the strength of the One who has saved you. Amen.
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"Goodnight, my children, and remember the strength
and the power which is within."
©GWCSA
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