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Nº. II
CONCERNING INSPIRATION AND PROPHESYING (1)
PART 1
I HEARD last night in my sleep a voice speaking to me,
and saying: –
1. You ask the method and nature of
Inspiration, and the means whereby God revealeth the
Truth.
2. Know that there is no
enlightenment from without: the secret of things is revealed from within.
3. From without cometh no Divine
Revelation: but the Spirit within beareth witness.
4. Think not I tell you that which
you know not: for except you know it, it cannot be given to you.
5. To him
that hath it is given, and he hath the more abundantly.
6. None is a prophet save he who knoweth: the instructor of the people is a man of many
lives.
7. Inborn knowledge and the
perception of things, these are the sources of revelation: the soul of the man instructeth him, having already learned by experience.
8. Intuition is inborn experience;
that which the soul knoweth of old and of former
years.
9. And Illumination is the Light of
Wisdom, whereby a man perceiveth heavenly secrets.
10. Which Light is the Spirit of God
within the man, showing unto him the things of God.
11. Do not think that I tell you
anything you know not; all cometh from within: the Spirit that informeth is the Spirit of God in the prophet.
12. What, then, you ask, is the Medium;
and how are to be regarded the utterances of one speaking in trance?
13. God speaketh
through no man in the way you suppose; for the Spirit of the Prophet beholdeth God with open eyes. If he fall
into a trance, his eyes are open, and his interior man
knoweth
what is spoken by him.
14. But when a man speaketh that which he knoweth
not, he is obsessed: an impure spirit, or one that is bound, hath entered into
him. (1)
15. There are many such, but their
words are as the words of men who know not: these are not prophets nor inspired.
16. God obsesseth
no man; God is revealed: and he to whom God is revealed
speaketh
that which he knoweth.
17. Christ Jesus (2)
understandeth God: he knoweth
that of which he beareth witness.
18. But they who, being mediums,
utter in trance things of which they have no knowledge, and of which their own
spirit is uninformed: these are obsessed with a spirit of divination, a strange
spirit, not their own.
19. Of such beware, for they speak
many lies, and are deceivers, working often for gain or for pleasure sake: and
they are a grief and a snare to the faithful.
20. Inspiration may indeed be mediumship, but it is conscious; and the knowledge of the
prophet instructeth him.
21. Even though he speak in an ecstasy, he uttereth
nothing that he knoweth not.
22. Thou who art a prophet (3) hast had many lives: yea, thou hast taught many nations, and
hast stood before kings.
23. And God hath instructed thee in
the years that are past; and in the former times of the earth.
24. By prayer, by fasting, by
meditation, by painful seeking, hast thou attained that thou knowest.
25. There is no knowledge but by
labour; there is no intuition but by experience.
26. I have seen thee on the hills of
the East: I have followed thy steps in the wilderness: I have seen thee adore at
sunrise: I have marked thy night watches in the caves of the mountains.
27. Thou hast attained with patience,
O prophet! God hath revealed the truth to thee from within.
PART 2
A Prophecy of the Kingdom of the
Soul,
Mystically Called the Day of the
Woman (1)
1. And now I show you a mystery and a
new thing, which is part of the mystery of the fourth day of creation.
2. The word which shall come to save
the world, shall be uttered by a woman.
4. For the
reign of Adam is at its last hour; and God shall crown all things by the
creation of Eve.
5. Hitherto the man hath been alone,
and hath had dominion over the earth.
6. But when the woman shall be
created, God shall give unto her the kingdom; and she shall be first in rule and
highest in dignity.
7. Yea, the last shall be first; and
the elder shall serve the younger.
8. So that women shall no more lament
for their womanhood: but men shall rather say, “O that we had been born women!”
9. For the
strong shall be put down from their seat; and the meek shall be exalted to their
place.
10. The days of the covenant of
manifestation are passing away: the gospel of interpretation cometh.
11. There shall nothing new be told;
but that which is ancient shall be interpreted.
12. So that
man the manifestor shall resign his office; and woman
the interpreter shall give light to the world.
13. Hers is the fourth office: she revealeth that which the Lord hath manifested.
14. Hers is the light of the heavens,
and the brightest of the planets of the holy seven.
15. She is the fourth dimension; the
eyes which enlighten; the power which draweth inward
to God.
16. And her kingdom cometh; the day
of the exaltation of woman.
17. And her reign shall be greater
than the reign of the man; for Adam shall be put down from his place; and she
shall have dominion for ever.
18. And she who is alone shall bring
forth more children to God than she who hath an
husband.
19. There shall no more be a reproach
against women: but against men shall be the reproach.
20. For the woman
is
the crown of man, and the final manifestation of humanity.
21. She is the nearest to the throne
of God, when she shall be revealed.
22. But the creation of woman is not
yet complete: but it shall be complete in the time which is at hand.
23. All things are thine, O Mother of God: all things are
thine, O Thou who risest from the sea; and Thou shalt have dominion over all the worlds.
Footnotes
(4:1)
(5:1) “By ‘bound’ in this connection is
meant the soul in prison of the astral,
and unable to transcend that level” (Letter of E.M. in Light,
1894, p. 478).
(5:2) Here
implying the Christ Jesus within, or the regenerated human nature, in whomsoever
occurring. E.M.
In an article on “Mysticism,” in
The Unknown World, 1894, p. 79, Edward Maitland says: – “It was to this
principle [as subsisting in all men according to the degree of their
regeneration] that St. Paul referred when, looking beyond the ‘Christ who is
after the flesh,’ he insisted on the ‘Christ formed within’ as the ‘agent of
salvation,” and “the one way of salvation” – in opposition to the sacerdotal
doctrine of “salvation by Substitution.” S.H.H.
(5:3) This
utterance may be regarded as “an apostrophe to the prophet in general” (Life
of Anna Kingsford, Vol. i, p. 333).
(6:1)
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