The Sabian Thesaurus

October, 2004 – Number 808

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 October, 2004, as well as a selection from the Thesaurus fifteen years 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 coming again promised by Jesus was not a pointing to a future occasion but to a present continuation, “Lo, I will be with you always.” (BL 866)

A goal is of value as it somehow exalts or quickens a here and now. (BL 867)

The goal in spiritual work is never more than a means or fundamentally an artificial agency for instrumenting values that bring spirituality where alone it can be found, or here and now. (BL 868)

The Art of Play (“G”)

The man with a gift for genuine reflection or self-examination is always poised in the face of new or challenging experience because he has ordered himself in the light of all potential experience. (XXV, p. 74, last paragraph)

What is of primary importance is creative intelligence or imagination as consciously directed and deliberately put to work. (XXVI, p. 77, para. 3)

The art of play is the total capture of imagination for the experimental adjustments of self and life, and therefore playing the game is a spirit of the doing of all things and not any particular doing of any particular thing. (XXVI, p. 77, para. 3)

Aristotle’s Biology (“F”)

In less exact terms life is the persistence in any given determination to continue to be. (I, p. 2, para. 2)

The Mosaic Covenant (“E”)

To find the truth or the sacred element in all foundations is the secret to real power and to an enduring accomplishment. (XXV, p. 75, first paragraph)

To gain stability from what has gone before is the prerequisite for all genuine service to the race. (XXV, p. 75, para. 5)

Retaliation is the law of slavery whereas forgiveness of a real and not sentimentally foolish sort is the law of freedom. (XXVI, p. 77, last paragraph)

October, 1989 – Number 630

Message From The Blue Letters

The past has no existence in any case except as it continues in import or as it constitutes the effective roots of something in the present.