The Sabian Thesaurus

June, 2004 – Number 804

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 June, 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

The acid test of a spiritual call to a place in the mysteries or to any real enlistment in the work of the Lodge is the eager enthusiasm of the seeker for continuing in a sharing of the steadiness he has achieved from his early initiation, once he has been successful in a way that has meaning to those not interested in the occult in the essentially complete solution of his more personal problems. (BL 848)

A true spiritual work is a magic mirror that reveals or makes manifest or establishes whatever is put into it. (BL 848)

There is a great deal that can be done here in the field of art, and no true religion can exist without affording the worshiper the chance to merge an everyday consciousness with some higher fellowship in an actual new creation of self in a greater frame of reference. (BL 851)

Man transcends the limitation, that if allowed to have a total dominance in his life would destroy his basic identity, by never ceasing to nurse a sense of magical self-creation within. (BL 851)

The Art of Play (“G”)

Conscious control of experience depends on a realization of what things are first or right, and what things contributory or secondary or left. (IX, p. 26, last para.)

A happy frame of mind is the key to all sorts of situations, and if life is to be likened to a game of cards then its playing becomes a matter of the player’s generalship or strategy.(X, p. 29, para. 4)

The Mosaic Covenant (“E”)

He shall not depend on circumstances to do for him what he has not the courage or the conscience to do for himself. (IX, p. 27, para. 1)

Real living is real because it moves constantly to the recurring social climax in which values may be tithed and enjoyed in fellowship. (X, p. 30, para. 5)

June, 1989 – Number 626

Message From the Blue Letters

The genius of spiritual channelship in man’s long history is not provided by the higher inspiration, but by the entirely lower perspiration and agonizing experiences of the channel that earns the guidance by a conscious participation in a world destiny. (BL 1112)