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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"SPIRIT CONSCIOUSNESS"
An address by the celestial messenger 'Zodiac' (the
unnamed scribe of the Bible and a teacher in the Temple
of Jerusalem at the time of Christ), through the mediumship
of Miss Winifred Moyes in the earlier part of the twentieth
century
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"MOST gracious Saviour, we praise and bless Thy
Name. We thank Thee that Thou art ever ready to listen
to our petitions; and we ask Thee to so purify our
hearts and minds that we may be able to receive the
truth direct from Thee.
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"Father, be with us during these short hours of
holy communion. Grant that those who love us may not
only be present, but may show their greater love by
handing over everything into Thy tender care.
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"O God, we ask Thee to train us, to guide us,
to prepare us further for this great work; and we ask
Thee too, that by Thy grace the shrinking of the heart
and mind may be quelled; that we may take the 'tests'
which are necessary, even as decoration and honour
bestowed by Thee.
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"Give us the great sight, when we shall see in
the ease of the world the underlying danger; and when
we shall perceive that in the so-called blows of fate
is Thy Hand guiding us all the way, moulding us to
the Divine purpose, so that instead of hindering we
may indeed contribute our share. Father, grant that
this greater vision may come - that we may see before
us the Vision Glorious, and always and for ever Christ
our Saviour leading us on and on. Amen.
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"MY little children, we meet together in this
sweet way somewhat sooner than you anticipated, but
I want you to realise that things do not 'happen' in
the earth sense - that they are God-directed and by
acquiescing to His will you are contributing your little,
which, in time to come, shall be seen as great and
beautiful as well. So then, my little ones, remember
this always and for ever: that the next step and the
next is God's will and if you allow physical inclination
to intervene then indeed you are breaking that perfect
harmony which has been set into action in order to
bring you out of the wilderness into the Promised Land
of Revelation.
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"Oh, my children, take this to heart - and there
are some who know that I address them direct (medium and note-taker). Do not hinder those
(Spirit-Messengers)
who are piloting the ship out of the harbour of the
earth across the sea of experience into that harbour
which is Home indeed. Hamper them not by thoughts of
doubt - by those ever ready objections which fly to
the mind. Remember that in times of danger or when
direction seems a little vague to you, that those in
the Spirit charged with power from the Great Pilot
of all - they know best because they have seen the
future.
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"So, my children, let your minds at this moment
sink into that deep river of God's Love and say to
yourselves: 'All is well because Christ is leading
me on!' My child (Dorrie), I speak to you with special emphasis tonight. I am
endeavouring, and those who love you are endeavouring
to steer the little craft of your life into safe waters.
Cast not the rudder of faith aside! Never question:
'Can I do this, can I do that ?' Say instead: 'God
needs me for His work', and you shall see - oh, with
so much joy I say it - you shall see that the Father
knows how to look after His little ones.
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"Tonight, dear children, I ask you all to lay
desire aside. I did so before but then it was God's
will that those who loved you should speak to you in
person. Tonight we are a little farther on and I beg
you to concentrate on the Work and the Work alone,
when you shall see that by the very absence of the
visible and definite presence of those linked to you
by the closest ties of the Spirit -
by their absence
you have knit yourselves to them far more closely than
if they had spoken (through a medium). That is another spiritual law - the laying aside
of the lesser in order to gather to yourselves the
greater; yes, you shall see what it means to work for
God in God's way, putting aside the desires of the
heart.
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"My children, tonight I have another little inch
of that long furrow of knowledge to lay open before
you and I ask for your kind attention so that the links
may remain unbroken, so that God's will may be accomplished.
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"Last week, dear children, we discussed together
that subject which has raised much speculation: I speak
of thought transference, what you in your world call
Telepathy; and following on that which I was able to
convey - so limited, so fragmentary, it is true - I
want you tonight to think with me awhile on Spirit-consciousness:
that consciousness of 'something of God' within.
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"Now, dear children, as you were told, even in
the lowest forms of creation 'Spirit' must be, in the
sense that nothing which is, which has been, or which
will be, can have existence without the power of God
in it and around it. Tonight, however, I am taking
you a long way from Nature pure and simple, and I want
you to focus your attention on man - maybe the 'children'
of humanity - but those who indeed come under the heading
of Mankind.
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"Once again you get the trinity of thought. Here
is that instinct, that intuition, that Spirit-consciousness
which, as we see it, are the three big steps which
lead to God...yet confuse not my meaning: Although
to some it is possible only to experience that which
you term instinct, yet by the gracious will of the
Father, many there are who on stepping free from the
physical tabernacle find that Spirit-consciousness
was their own. Yes, though they knew it not, though
the physical mind bound and fettered them, though the
knowledge of the world was as an unopened book; yet
such is the Mind of God that He, taking the simple
impulses, the sacrifices, even that rebelling against
the sense of imprisonment - taking these - by the magic
of His Love, they are shown in their true guise as
'consciousness' not only of God the Creator but of
the gift of Divinity within.
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"Oh, my children, more and more do I implore you
to cast aside those conceptions of the world - those
hundred and one barriers between man and man, those
restrictions of race, of creed and still more so of
learning - I entreat you to try and get God's view
of the ones who toil and, it seems to them, toil in
vain, shut in by the darkness of the physical mind,
uncouth both mentally and spiritually it would appear,
yet because of their hardships, because of the very
lack of ameliorations in physical life, so they demonstrate
the strength and the courage of the spirit within.
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"Ah! let those who make sweeping assertions as
to 'instinct' take care, because instinct, in a crude
form perhaps, is indeed that Spirit-consciousness,
without which no one can climb the hill to God. And
when those same instincts drag man away from the Light
into the twilight, again I say: Judge not but pray,
for there are those allied to the destructive forces
who indeed play upon that very sensitiveness with which
the child of Nature is endowed. And here, dear children,
I want you to give full value to the sensitiveness
of those same primitive races; how again and again
they are forced to rely on that which is within, for
which they can find no reason and of which they can
give no explanation; but as you have been told, those
in the Spirit directed by God - by that 'instinct',
by that very sensitiveness - are able in a measure
to protect and guide them. Physical though instinct
may be, it is spiritual as well - and that is what
the majority forget.
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"Now, dear children, it is quite possible with
the untutored types of humanity - for these to possess
in an enormous degree that which is regarded as 'intuition',
and here it is that I want to make it quite clear that
the gifts endowed by God work separately, operate on
an entirely individual basis from the physical mind
and the knowledge it may contain.
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"Have I not shown you that instinct, that 'sensitiveness'
to conditions - for which no explanation in physical
language is available - that this is protection for
those who are not in a position to protect themselves?
Again I say that intuition - the capacity for pushing
aside material facts and, as it were, seeing in the
distance the light of direction - that too is solely
and only part of the spiritual equipment. How often
have you found that by obeying unquestioningly the
Voice - that influence coming from you know not where
- that you have achieved greater and better results
than by long hours of mental concentration?
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"And, mark you, this faculty is within all; the
gifts of the Spirit are not scattered here and there
as favour directs. God, in giving of Himself to you,
to me and to the countless millions that have lived
on your little plane - God gave with both Hands equally
to all. Yet there have been those who, listening to
the shadows, have allowed themselves to be diverted
out of the straight and shining path, and the darkness
of the forest has closed them in; and darkness and
light are, as you must see, enemies in every sense
there could be. Yes, Light is the enemy of darkness
because it must destroy it; and darkness knowing that
Light in the end shall prevail - that darkness - by
subtle means, with the wile of the serpent, seeks to
shade the Light so that the true Vision is gone, so
that God's gifts may lie within unused, untried.
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"Keep these points clear in your mind: that valuable
as knowledge may be, attractive as all those accomplishments
of the physical mind may appear to you, the greatest
gift of all is within - the greatest gift that could
ever be thought of is consciousness of the love of
the Father and of the kinship there is between you.
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"So, my children, I ask you to guard those intuitions
- not to dismiss them as imagination or as accounted
for by physical conditions but to guard and to tend
them, realising that delicate plants need understanding,
need care, need suitable food in order to bring them
into the beauty which God intended that the flowers
of the Spirit should possess.
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"And then, dear children, I want to speak to you
about that Spirit-consciousness which I am so anxious
to forward and to strengthen, and the importance of
this cannot be over estimated because what is not accomplished
now must be done in time to come when those gifts will
be wanted for use by the Master. And it is just like
this: there you will be with the One you love best,
and in your hands you will find the tools of service
but they won't be bright or ready for use. Yes, and
this is what causes the greatest grief of all. Opportunities
on every side, all those wonderful things that you
longed to do when in the body, made possible - nay,
they are waiting to be done. And the children of the
earth - because they still remain children - are hampered
and hindered, they have then to set to work to do that
which might so easily have been done before.
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"Does this sound hard? Then, my children, I have
infinite comfort for you all. I tell you that there
is not one of you who, when you are free, shall not
thank God that you are free indeed; yet in order to
make this possible I beg you to prepare still more
because of the wonderful future which awaits you.
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"In regard to the unfoldment of the Spirit, most
of you instinctively - aye! mark that word 'instinctively'
- have found the key; and is it not that of service
to your brothers and sisters who, as yet, are further
down the hill than yourself? - that service which is
entirely of the Spirit, that giving out of love - so
hard to do it seems to some, yet when they are in the
atmosphere of love they find that so naturally the
love flows out from them to contact and to join with
the love which is all around.
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"So, dear children, I would tell you for your
instruction, that by quiet concentration on the things
of the Spirit, by spreading the truth regarding the
things of the Spirit among others, by doing the next
thing, by holding on to the promise of God that He
will guide you, you can - without any of those mental
attainments which now seem so attractive to you - you
can indeed be 'conscious' not only of God in your life
but of His mighty power and His creative thought within
you - within that which is restricted indeed. And mark
you this: that God expects His children as well as
entreats His children to come closer to that which
His Holiness represents. Many there are who would warn
you that the cultivation, or the wish to cultivate
those higher, stronger powers which are Divine - they
would warn you that this is presumptuous indeed; but
Christ says to you as He said to us in the days of
old: 'Follow Me', and He was God.
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"My children, as the days go on you will find
almost in a miraculous way that the physical mind will
hold you still less and less; you will find that you
will look at Nature with new eyes, you will look at
humanity with new love, and because of this you will
understand - yes! understand a little more of what
is in the Heart and Mind of the great Father.
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"And now, my children, I am going to leave you
for a little while, yet in speaking at so brief a length
I am definitely calling upon that Spirit-consciousness
within; I am saying to each and every one: 'Teach yourself,
for within you is something of the greatest Teacher
of all!' And if you endeavour to put God first, so
the light of revelation shall stream down upon you
and you will indeed realise in all its sweetness, in
all its wonder, what it is to be a child of God. And
now I go..."
©GWCSA
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