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You have demonstrated your strength to bounce back from adversity or setback. Now, in a time of great personal power it especially behooves one to bear his ideals in mind. Do not abuse this influence and strength. When the cosmic flow is with one’s every movement, there is the temptation to go beyond the limits of what is proper. The sage is one who does not forget his responsibility to the good, no matter how great his power waxes. |
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Hence in the present will come those experiences when, as a leader, as an officer even, the entity may be given power that may be exercised upon, and for or against, others; yet, used aright, may bring contentment—in the things that were as tenets then; used awrong, or as aggrandizing of self’s own interests, must bring destructive forces in the experience of the entity. 329-1 With this entity then, as we find, the astrological influences make the entity naturally as one headstrong, as one naturally tended towards having its own way. Hence it depends upon the manners of usage of these tendencies as to whether they may become as forbearing or forgiving or for that oneness with Creative Forces, or for self-indulgences. Yet the entity is a natural leader, with the natural inclinations for directions that may be as an impelling influence, if not by might by power, if not by right by the main forces in associations itself. Hence all the more reason that such an entity keep the ideal before self, not only of its material relationships, not only in the material positions, but more so in that the spiritual ideal is not lost sight of in all of the activity, in all of its relationships. 1211-1 In knowledge and power comes responsibility, that in patience may be tested in self. Be not overcome by either trials or by those joys that may make forgetfulness of the source from which the power comes. In patience is the race of life run, that the joys may be the greater in Him. 262-26 And if there will be first, in the present, the purposing and living in such a manner before God as to walk circumspectly in thine own conscience before Him, and in dealing as through that experience with thy fellow man, ye may find—as this world’s goods increase in thy hands (as thy must necessarily do)—they will not and do not become burdens to thy conscience nor separate thee from thy home or thy fellow man. But rather is the opportunity to serve thy Maker. Ye have earned that right for much of this world’s goods. Do not abuse that; else ye become—in thine own conscience—an outcast in this experience. 1901-1 So as ye come to thine weakness, find thine strength and thine power and thine love in Him; and life’s pathways will grow brighter, though the road may be rough, though there may be words that are harsh. Yet as thou lookest upon that tower of strength in thine seal as of the pyramid, as thou reliest upon the cross of Him who bore it for thee, the rose of love, light and radiance will bear thee up, and thou wilt not dash thy foot against a stone. 845-1 | |
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