And Jesus spoke to them:
"To lift your
eyes to heaven
When all mens'
eyes are on the ground,
Is not easy.
To worship at the
feet of the angels
When all men
worship only fame and riches,
Is not easy.
But the most
difficult of all
Is to think the
thoughts of the angels,
To speak the words of the angels,
And to do as angels do. "
And one man spoke: "But, Master, we are but men,
we are not angels. How then can we hope to walk in their ways? Tell us what we
must do."
And Jesus spoke:
"As the son inherits the land of his father,
So have we inherited a Holy Land
From our Fathers.
T'his land is not
a field to be ploughed,
But a place
within us
Where we may
build our Holy Temple.
And even as a temple must be raised,
Stone by stone,
So will I give to you those stones
For the building of the Holy Temple;
That which we have inherited
From our Fathers,
And their
Fathers' Fathers."
And all the men gathered around Jesus, and their
faces shone with desire to hear the words which would come from his lips. And
he lifted his face to the rising sun, and the radiance of its rays filled his
eyes as he spoke:
"The Holy Temple can be built
Only with the ancient Communions,
Those which are spoken,
Those which are thought,
And those which are lived.
For if they are
spoken only with the mouth,
They are as a
dead hive
Which the bees
have forsaken,
That gives no
more honey.
Communions are a bridge
Between man and the angels,
And like a
bridge,
Can be built only
with patience,
Yea, even as the bridge over the river
Is fashioned stone by stone,
As they are found by the water's edge.
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And the Communions are
fourteen in number
As the Angels of
the Heavenly Father
Number seven,
And the Angels of
the Earthly Mother
Number seven.
And just as the
roots of the tree
Sink into the
earth and are nourished,
And the branches
of the tree
Raise their arms
to heaven,
So is man like
the trunk of the tree,
With his roots
deep
In the breast of
his Earthly Mother,
And his soul
ascending
To the bright
stars of his Heavenly Father.
And the roots of
the tree
Are the Angels of
the Earthly Mother,
And the branches
of the tree
Are the Angels of
the Heavenly Father.
And this is the sacred Tree of Life
Which stands in the Sea of Eternity.
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