(Q) In referring to the affirmations, in same reading, was
it meant that just the nine affirmations given in that
reading were to be prepared and preserved by those to whom
they were sent, or all of our affirmations?
(A) All. For each affirmation should, and does, fill a
place, a purpose, in the minds, in the hearts, of those that
- through concerted and consecrated effort - seek to be a
channel and to be one with Him.
For if ye would in thy daily or material life be a musician,
may ye think of thy music once a week or a month or a year?
or art thou making it a portion OF thy LIFE?
If ye would be an athlete, would ye disregard thy hours, thy
body, thy meals? or would ye work AT that which ye would
make as a portion of thy real inner self?
Are thy relationships, thy friendships, such that ye need
only to mention or to speak of or to act AT or like there is
never any communication with same? or are they renewed, with
the memory of those periods when thou wert enjoined one with
another, in a common purpose, in a oneness of desire?
The same do those find in their periods of meditation, their
periods of seeking to become one with those promises made by
Him that gave, "I go, but will come again and receive you
unto myself." Did He say "as many as have forgotten to keep
my ways, as many as neglected to show forth my love"?
Rather, "he that abides in me; he that showeth forth the
love I have shown thee." For, "As ye do it unto the least
of my brethren ye do it unto me."
So, in thy undertakings BE - as has been given oft that ye
ARE - the sons and daughters of a merciful, heavenly Father.
Do ye quit yourselves like men; do ye act in that way and
manner? that one not knowing that thou hast CLAIMED, would
know that thou hast chosen to be a channel for the
manifestation of that love in the earth?
Then, in every manner show forth that love; in decency, in
order, in love, in cherishing that which has brought, does
bring in thine experience the great, the happy, the joyous
moments of thy manner and ways of expression.
These, my children, will show thy growth. For He hath
given, "Ye GROW in grace, in knowledge, in UNDERSTANDING."
Ye do not put on thy claims as a coat, as a cloak to be laid
aside. No. Rather ye gird on same as ye become one with
Him. Thy speech, thy manner of activity will show forth
WHAT thou art!
(Q) Were the group of dancers in N.Y., who call their
place, the Temple Beautiful, associated with us in Egypt?
If so, how? If not, how did they get that name?
(A) The one through whom a message came WAS associated in
the activities there. And the BEAUTIES of that vision
prompted those that in secular things, in material activity,
"caught ON," as it were, to a reflected beauty that might be
theirs; that they might even, as it has been said, catch but
a glimpse or the crumbs or the portions of the music which
might, would, could, make for that attunement within those
individuals in whom such might be aroused to those glories
OF those that did minister there!
(Q) In the seven stages of man's development, why is the
beetle the symbol of the world, the cockerel as birth, the
serpent as the mind, the hawk as wisdom? [
281-25, Par. 34-A]
(A) We are going far afield. Keep rather to the spiritual
healing.
We are through for the present.
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