The Sabian Thesaurus

March, 2004 – Number 801

Each month, students are invited select one sentence from the Blue Letter, Philosophy and Bible lessons from the sets in the previous month which they have found to be especially meaningful. These selections are included when the next set of monthly lessons are mailed. It is extraordinary to see how many of the selections match each other, and instructive as to where lies the focus of the consciousness.

Here are the selections for the month of March, 2004, as well as a selection from the Thesaurus fifteen year ago. It is possible that these selections, and the lessons from which they are taken,  may also speak to you.

Message From the Blue Letters

No spiritual group can survive and demand of its members what it on its own account refuses to make manifest. (BL 832)

Source once is source forever, and thus it is necessary for each seeker to hold firm in seeing the beauty and the immortal worth in every group to which he makes tie and every individual who for the moment is privileged to direct him as a teacher. (BL 834)

Plotinian Idealism (“A”)

The vision of the divine universe entering into the visible universe is a realization of an actual and effective blending of self into unity or of immortality as totality in realization. (XXII, p. 65, para. 3)

The seeker must ever reach out in the aesthetic fields of expression to add richness to human life and share the richness that others add, and then he must give voice to the creative aspiration within himself and by a steadiness of character and source make his actual imprint on everyday living. (XXXIV, p. 71, para. 1)

The Promised Land (“E”)

God helps man to do not to be. (XL, p. 119, para. 2)

He shall carry his ark by losing all fear and dread of life; he shall stand before his inspiration by creating a spiritual nucleus of value in his own life and material affairs; he shall bless in his name by carrying along, uplifting and making a part in essence of his eternal being, all the passing and transient features of his experience. (XLIII, p. 128, last sentence)

The spiritual life is a constant process of beginning in which each day is a new birth and each event a new facet of being as a tribute to the skill of the cosmic lapidary. (XLV, p. 134, para.1)

March, 1989 – Number 623

Message From the Blue Letters

The person who realizes that his fulfillment is in and through his fellows and in shared values, not because this is unselfish but because he can in this way have more and so share more, is the one who at the end is sacrificing the negatives for positives of self-expression. (BL 1097)