The Sabian Thesaurus

April, 2004 – Number 802

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 April, 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

Spiritual quickening fundamentally challenges each seeker to the achievement of something of worth in his own life and to exacting service in behalf of the vision that has quickened him. (BL 837)

Criticism is something creative and divine in every genuine sense, and thus whenever born of deep interest it almost inevitably leads to common new realization and constructive joint activity.

Growth is the control rather than the suffering of existence and in areas of spiritual reality such a growth is a control of greater or deeper phases of the doing that is being or of a basic agony of self. (BL 839)

Plotinian Idealism (“A”)

Identity is consciousness of wholeness. (XXV, p. 75, Last sentence)

The work of the seeker is therefore again a perfection of living in the everyday realm of the values known to him and his fellows, until out of these he unfolds into a master of men and is able to leave a definite imprint of himself on time and space. (XXVI, p. 77, para. 3,)

The Art of Play (“G”)

The people who order life are those who know the real nature of things and are certain down deep within themselves. (I, p.2, para. 3)

The Promised Land (“E”)

There must be the partnership represented in spiritual precipitation between each seeking soul and God, for this alone makes possible a genuine participation of the self, usefully and profitably, in life. (XLVI, p. 138)

There must be an enlargement of the horizon in all personal growth if the individual is to have a spiritual significance. (XLVI, p. 136, para. 5)

Rather we must realize that the very orderliness of the cosmos brings about a striking interrelation of all things, and that the discovery of this interrelation is the essence of spiritual interpretation.

(XLVIII, p. 143, Para. 1)

The Mosaic Covenant (“E”)

The consistent doing of things and living of life with all one’s heart and soul are the essence of the preliminary teaching that has been covered. (I, p. 1, Para. 1)

April, 1989 – Number 624

Message From the Blue Letters

While distractions seem to pyramid it can be known inwardly that fresh perspective and new channeling of effort is in high gestation. (BL 1101)