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THE GREATER WORLD CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST CHURCH
THE ZODIAC MESSAGES
"THE THRESHOLD OF REALITY"
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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"MY children, around you all there is as a golden cord
and when I speak of 'you', I am also drawing into that
circle of light the many who read my words, and the
great majority who in time will be drawn into that
which has been bestowed by the Christ. I want you to
visualise this circle of gold, for within it the protection
is sure; without, although the witnesses of the Light
seek to protect, yet there the enemies swarm; and forget
not that in the measure they are able to influence
you against the bidding of your greater selves, in
that measure not only are you hindering your own progress
but ten thousand times more you are erecting barriers
between them and freedom.
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"Oh, think of the responsibility of condemning
perhaps your brother, your sister, to that which indeed
is twilight or darkness, for alas! no man can injure
another without having to work out the deed in anguish
of heart. So I say to each one: When you are conscious
of that which is temptation, remember first and foremost
that the strongest temptations come to those who seek
to be free from their lesser selves; and, secondly,
that if you fail to fight and overcome in that measure
you are condemning another to sorrow and suffering.
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"But, having emphasised this point - and indeed
it applies to every child upon the earth plane and
to uncountable travellers in other conditions - having
emphasised this point I wish to speak upon that which
I name 'The Threshold of Reality'. Now, think you as
to this. Around you there are things physical, some
sweet to look upon, some which cause you to shrink,
others which make you stumble or turn back from the
hill of achievement. These things to you are tangible,
they are those which represent the real, the vital,
something which stands as life; yet speaking under
the guidance of the great Truth-Bringer I must tell
you that all this is as seeming, and the things that
are real, the things that are tangible, lasting, those
with the true life, they, as it were, are just across
the threshold from where you stand to-day.
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"Therefore I bid you look at physical life and
what it represents with judgement, with caution, holding
the fact always firmly in the mind that the things
around are only symbols, only the outer wrapping of
something that is precious within. Yea, even the flowers
which fill your hearts and minds with joy, these, dear
children, however beautiful they may be, are but reflections
of the flowers of the Spirit; they are the shadow of
the real blossoms created by our Father and Mother
God.
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"Yet I would not have you think that I belittle
that which you love so well. I use this illustration
but to warn you, to show you that even that which stands
for loveliness, fragrance, pure life, that all this
but indicates in a tiny measure that which God has
prepared for those who love Him, and which indeed shall
be your own in time to come.
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"This law applies to the gifts of the mind, to
the capacity of the hand, to the power within to create
for the benefit of others beautiful sounds, harmony,
that which lifts the soul of the listener into other
conditions than their own. Oh, think of this as you
hold the brush and seek to transfer upon the canvas
the beauties of Nature, the wide scene, the stately
mountain, the exquisite flower at your feet. Remember
that you are trying to do that which is preparation
for the next stage in front. And those who, out of
their inner consciousness, charm the ear of others
by the sweet melody drawn from the instrument before
them, these are training themselves for that which
lies ahead. I say that the man at the bench, the woman
in her home, in the measure they seek to produce good
workmanship, to create order out of chaos, to take
what is meaningless and to mould it or to chisel it
into that which delights another, or is of use for
another, that these are preparing themselves, are endeavouring
to release something of the creative spirit within.
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"Oh, my children, how oft must I emphasise that
within is God, and the Father - the great Thinker-out
of all life, beauty and power - has bestowed upon you
that which is of Himself; and as you apply your mind,
as you seek to train your thoughts, so slowly, as it
were, you are cutting away the rope that binds, and
you are even as something representing loveliness,
yea, in time to come you shall find that the old garment
is cast away and you bear resemblance to Christ Himself.
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"Ah, as I speak I am gently leading you a step
nearer into Reality. You pause upon the threshold of
things physical, they represent to you the familiar,
those which stand for life; but I say: Have no fear
or misgiving, for as we meet together so, through the
power of the Holy Spirit, you are crossing the threshold
of things as they seem and drawing to you a faint consciousness
of things as they are.
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"Yes, dear children, the next stage represents
something which can be glorious, something which will
fill your hearts and minds with a joy that nothing
can kill; but remember this: That this stage is the
testing stage, it represents the plane of temptation,
for you are free yet in a measure you still are bound.
The God within is able to guide, to instruct on this
day and that, and then the physical mind, as it were,
slams the gate and the Spirit in anguish is bound within.
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"These things are true, they indeed are real,
yet I would not have you think that sorrow is in my
heart over any one. I see not that which you name your
failures but I see, through the grace of God, that
you can overcome your failures, you can be strong although
you may seem as weak; for around you are those with
the strength, those who have taken the steep road,
who remember their own shortcomings, their own weaknesses,
and out of their pangs, out of the remembrance of the
weariness of the journey so they come to you and they
say: 'When you feel weak rest on our strength, and
through the strength of the Christ we can help you
and you shall not fall.'
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"Yet I would draw you by my love over the threshold
of the physical into something of the glory of Reality.
I want you to feel 'this concerns me,' not that it
concerns another. I want to show you something of that
prepared for you by the great Creator, by your Protector,
who has never lost faith in any one of His children.
Oh, send that thought round the world. Man may fail
himself and fail the God who loves him so well, but
God the Father, the Mother, He is certain that in the
end His child will be won by love, He is certain that
the day will come when Parent and child once more will
be linked together in perfect unity, for indeed that
is the mighty plan.
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"But, little ones, I would focus your attention
on the next stage, which indeed represents something
of Reality. Now hold this thought in mind: You cannot
pass out of one stage into a stage that is totally
different. If I could take your minds back over the
long past, over the many so-called spheres in which
you have functioned in other garments than the one
you wear in this stage, so you would see at once that
involution and evolution was by very slow processes
indeed. Remember ever that when you lay aside the physical
garment you pass not into that which is unfamiliar.
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"I emphasise that around you, representing your
environment, your surroundings, there is in intangible
form that which you yourself have built by your thoughts,
your actions, your omissions, your commissions, during
the stage before. But here is comfort and in no sense
condemnation or that which should cause you to shrink.
Oh, think you! In this same state perhaps at times
you fail your better selves. What happens? You suffer;
you suffer within, and even the physical mind suffers
by the lack of harmony without. Aye, and in the degree
of your sorrow, your regret, you seek to reconstruct.
Perchance yesterday you were unkind, then to-day by
some act of service you seek to make that which was
ugly beautiful once more. Perchance to-day you forgot
to give the help that another desired, but you know,
oh so well because of past experience, that as to-morrow
comes so regret will come as well. The children of
the earth cry in their half bondage: 'Why was I weak?'
- and out of the stripes, and still more out of the
desire to retrieve, so that which was done can be obliterated
so far as the next stage is concerned.
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"Cannot you see the comfort of this great, grand
spiritual law, set into being out of God's mercy, God's
understanding of the frailty of His children? Cannot
you see even in this stage how you yourself condemn
and judge yourself, indeed pass sentence upon yourselves;
and that is God's way, God's most wonderful way, so
that when you pass hence into something of Reality
there shall be gain and not loss...Oh, how wonderful
is the mind of God! Yet that is but a reflection of
the love of the One who has fought for you over time
unthinkable.
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"God says to man in the earlier stages: 'Thou
shalt not': and then as man gains something of consciousness,
something of realisation as to the meaning of life
in its wider sense, God says to His children: 'Thou
shalt!' and, little ones, could you grasp things as
they are, that indicates the crossing of the threshold
of things as they seem into things as they are. You
have grasped something of Reality, no longer is it
necessary to say to you as children: 'Thou shalt not
touch, thou shalt not do'; but God speaks to you as
the missionaries you are and He says: 'Go to my children
who have not your freedom, and give them of your gifts;
come up higher and I will show you something of that
which is Myself.' Oh, what honour is ours, what a privilege
to think and to know that God has recognised that within
there is the desire to be as His sons, His daughters;
the desire to claim our inheritance, that which He
has prepared for us, held for us, protected for us,
although an army of destroyers may have been around.
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"My children, that which I would pass on is this:
Your daily tasks, whatever they may be, they are preparing
you for the next stage in front; and in the measure
that you put in good workmanship you are making it
possible for a miracle to take place. It may be the
needle and the raiment, it may be the garnishing of
the house, it may be all those things which seem to
you so trivial, so mundane, so far away from God. Yet
as the mother puts together the little garments for
her child, as the wife seeks to make the home as beautiful
as may be, so, by the grace of God, a miracle has happened
and the transformation has taken place. And when you
pass into Reality, in your hands, in your minds, will
be creative power; and according to your holy desire,
according to your willingness to endure, so the Kingdom
of God is opened unto you, and you can create - in
the measure of your strength - something which represents
that which emanated from the God-Mind, for within you
is God.
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"So, my children, hold ever close and closer still
the thought that though you may be in a physical garment,
bound by many restrictions, held and fettered by that
which causes your heart to ache, yet at will, through
the grace of God, you can not only function in the
world of Spirit but you can draw to you the things
that are real, the things that have life everlasting.
And as you seek to put this law into operation, so
you are preparing yourselves for the next stage, that
stage which, in comparison with this, represents a
liberty, a power, staggering to your mind.
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"Therefore I entreat you to apply what I have
said to everything in this little life of yours; not
to hold fast the fragment I have passed on, but to
increase that fragment into something that will guide
you in the days to come; as it were, to look at what
has been and what is, under the light which shines
from the love of God, and to say: Not only are God's
ways best but they have worked out that which is the
plan; the most merciful plan, for my life hereafter.
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"We are prisoners upon the earth plane only in
the measure that we despise the freedom that can be
ours, we are free because we are the children of God;
and never forget that failure one day need not mean
failure the next day but indeed, if you raise yours
hearts and minds, can lead on to success. And when
you pass hence that success not only represents something
which concerns you but - and I bring you back to my
first thought - in the measure that you resist temptation
whether it may be great or small, in that measure you
are making it possible for the one who tempted to be
that much less bound. And when that takes place there
is joy in the Heavens, for forget not we are all children
of the one great Father and Mother God, and we dare
not, aye, we cannot attain ourselves unless we help
another to attain as well.
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"I want you to realise that only Love can work
the transformation, and that the only Love which is
strong enough is the Christ-Love. I can borrow of that
love and you can borrow of that love as well; therefore
in your hands it lies to work miracles in the name
of God. Oh, realise that around you there are the things
that no enemy can destroy, for they are built up by
effort, by suffering, by the desire to do better.
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"So then, my children, hold fast for your comfort
this great, grand truth: That although you may be prisoners
in part, yet the real self can ignore restrictions,
can pull down barriers, can open the gate which leads
into revelation. Why? Because within you is God. O
turn to the One Who loves you best, on your sad days,
and perhaps still more on your bright days, for in
the pleasures of life the enemy seeks to strike so
that the morrow shall represent sorrow. Yet with Christ
the protection is complete. Let not the past hinder
or hold you back but turn to Him with confidence, certain
that He understands all things and cannot fail. And
the time will come when you will look back with amazement
and see the transformation which took place all unknowingly
to yourself; the transformation which was brought about
when you turned to Love and sought to overcome in His
Name.
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"I bless you with strength, I bless you with illumination
as to your daily life, as to those Realities which
lie all around; I bless you with the courage to go
on until the peace of God is made your own, never to
pass from you. Farewell!"
©GWCSA
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