(Q) Explain what is meant by those whose names are not
written in the book of life.
(A) Those not written are those who have climbed up some
other way, or have only for impunity's sake or only for the
momentary conscience's sake, as form the influence about
them, acknowledged the Way. For as we see later more
definitely given, whosoever WILL may take of the water of
life.
But as has been given, there are those who from the first -
as he that is last to be bound - had the import to do evil.
Then those who have followed closely after the flesh, or the
indulgences of the emotions of the body alone, without the
considerations of others, without, other than self's own
interest - as is shown by the beast that is loosened - these
are they whose names are not written, and these are they who
are easily led about by every wind that bloweth, unstable as
it were in those as represented in a portion or one of the
churches; not hot, not cold, but allowing today, tomorrow,
the circumstance of the moment to sway - without purpose,
without direction, without the Name. For there is only given
under heaven that Name whereby men may be saved, by their
belief, their faith, their trust, their works in Him. Hence
those who do them not, those who are seen about the
individuals striving, are not to be by the individual
lamented so much as that the individual loses his own way,
but rather knowing that God, the merciful Father, the loving
Father of the Christ, in His own time, His own way, will
bring those necessary influences.
Be YE then, as is given, in the same association by the
promptings of that ye have gained. Having tasted of the tree
of life, the knowledge of God, make thyself and thy calling
and thy election SURE in that ye faint not when ye see these
troubles, these disturbances that are only of the earth-
earthy, that only the emotions of the desires of self's own
show coming to pass in thine experience.
(Q) Explain the symbol of the 2nd beast with 2 horns, having
the power to perform miracles. Rev. 13.
(A) As has been given by Him, the power as attained by the
study that has been shown in the first portions is to be
applied, or may be applied unworthily - as is shown by the
beast with two ways, two horns. Then here, how hath it been
given? One Lord, one faith, one God, one baptism, one way!
Yet in the experiences as ye watch about you there are
constantly shown the influences by the very forces of the
beast with the double-mindedness, as showing wonders in the
earth yet they must come even as He hath given, "though ye
may have done this or that, though ye may have healed the
sick, though ye may have cast our demons in my name, I know
ye not; for ye have followed rather as the beast of self-
aggrandizement, self-indulgence, self-glorification," even as
the beast shown here.
(Q) Do these two beasts as described in Rev. 13 have
relation to the subconscious and conscious mind of man?
(A) They work in and through these influences, to be sure;
the subconscious forces that become as a portion, and the
consciousness that works through the elements - for self or
for God. They work THROUGH these but not as directing, as
being the beast.
(Q) What is meant by the mark of the beast in the right
hand, or forehead?
(A) These are as signs or symbols of this or that grouping,
or of the organizations that become as a part of the vows or
obligations to those who have joined in with the work of the
beast.
Hence the warning that if these come to mean more in the
experience they stand as that which condemns, rather than
that which is the helpful experience.
For having the mark of the beast and the mark of the Lamb
becomes the difference between the consciousness of the
indwelling presence of the Christ and the hoped for yet not
seen or known.
(Q) What is meant by the number of the beast is the number
of a man, 666?
(A) Just as has been given, that when it is taken on as
being the exercise of the man without reference to or
realizing the influence which has brought same - though it
may be in an organization, in a group, in any influence that
becomes the work of man's hands - then it is the number of a
man and is numbered as may be the days of man, but lacks that
consciousness of God and God alone directing.
For as in each organized work or each association, or each
group - it should never be as is said of any man, but how
hath He given? God that worketh in and through Him. Thus is
the mark of the beast effaced from the workings of the hand
or the activities of the head, and it becomes not as the name
or the number of a man but the trust alone in God.
(Q) Explain "Here is wisdom" mentioned in this connection?
(A) That as ye have gained by the analysis or the study of
the activity and influence of the spirit of truth throughout
the whole members of thy body, physical, mental and
spiritual, and have come to the knowledge of that which has
first been given, that there is only ONE God, ONE Christ, one
faith, one baptism; or as Christ hath given - this is the
whole law; to love the Lord thy God with all thy mind, thy
body, thy soul; thy neighbor as thyself. This is the whole
law. This is wisdom. This is knowledge. Knowing that those
things which have been put on through the activities of the
elements within thine own forces of thy body and mind are but
as the stepping-stones to the knowledge that God is in and
through ALL and in Him ye live and move and have thy being.
When this is fully comprehended, fully understood, ye have
the working knowledge of God in the earth.
We are through for the present.
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