The Sabian Thesaurus

December, 2004 – Number 810

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 December, 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

Our respect for genuine personality means that there can be no leveling out of members in making some conform to the ways of others since our concern is held firmly to the root task of helping quicken each divine spark and helping direct it to vital ends as it is activated. (BL 874)

Everything in the cosmos is useful to everything else as a matter of basic cosmic order and on a higher plateau of the real the same principle prevails. (BL 874)

Aristotle’s Biology (“F”)

When the dreaming faculty becomes daydreaming consciousness becomes creative, and when daydreaming becomes controlled man is able to transform the world of his experience and so achieve the full stature of his human estate. (VIII, p. 23, last sentence)

Aristotle’s significance from a Sabian point of view is his suggestion through all this that man achieves his destiny as he takes control of his own affairs in a truly creative sense, and as he accomplishes this fundamentally by a refinement and reproduction of those adaptations by which reproduction preserves the species on the social as well as the physical level. (IX, p. 27)

The Mosaic Covenant (“E”)

Every living individual has a place for himself in the divine scheme if he will but take it. (XXXIV, p. 101, last paragraph)

Traits of genuine character are always evident outwardly. (XXXIV, p. 102)

Every seeker has the privilege of displaying in word and attitude a constant evidence of his virginity or pure un-seeking admiration of every worthwhile expression of human nature or that invisible fellowship to which he has irrevocably committed himself. (XXXV, p. 105, last sentence)

December, 1989 – Number 632

Message From The Blue Letters

The greatest possible manner of meeting the needs of another is through this proposition of enjoying life, or conviviality in both the high and low senses of that word, and the eternal dynamic for the seeker is the balance where he has at all times a richness in himself that matches and calls the similar richness of others into flame. (BL 1139)