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Trust a force beyond your knowledge which is drawing you and others together. It is a time for collecting and assembling people with a common feeling or a shared vision. A strong center radiates a harmonious group and creates accord. Discover the true source of the cohesive force between people. |
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First, as has been oft given, there is strength in unity of purpose—for, as has been given, "Where two or three gather together in my name, I am in the midst of same," and if in that name ye ask believing ye shall receive according to the faith that lies within each and every one of you; for God is not mocked, and whatsoever ye sow, so shall ye reap. As ye build, so shall the structure be. 254-52 (Q) [689]: How is the best way to cooperate with other organizations who are in sympathy with or who have an understanding of this work? (A) As has so oft been given. Let those that are sincere, that are honest with themselves, seek not the differences in the organizations but where they may cooperate. And as they do, you will find—as with these that are gathered here, they are of many faiths, many creeds, yet they find one common purpose—good to thy fellow man! So, as those that have found in this vision, in this interpretation, or in that promotion or in that experience of this or that nature, seek rather the common interest where there is cooperation, rather than the differences. And then if any group, if any organization, if any association has not this, it has not the full soul. 254-95 For if ye would in thy daily or material life be a musician, may ye think of thy music once a week or a month or a year? or art thou making it a portion of thy life? If ye would be an athlete, would ye disregard thy hours, thy body, thy meals? or would ye work at that which ye would make as a portion of thy real inner self? Are thy relationships, thy friendships, such that ye need only to mention or to speak of or to act at or like there is never any communication with same? or are they renewed, with the memory of those periods when thou wert enjoined one with another, in a common purpose, in a oneness of desire? 281-26 There may be different channels of approach, yes. For not all peoples walked in the field when the wheat was ripe. Neither did all stand at the tomb when Lazarus was called forth. Neither were they all present when He walked on the water, nor when He fed the five thousand, nor when He hung on the cross. Yet each experience answered, and does answer to something within each individual soul-entity. For each soul is a corpuscle in the body of God. And when differences arise in a body, where corpuscles are at variance to a common purpose for all, sin enters, and death by sin, to whatever may be that group, that organization, that is stressing differences rather than the coordinating channels through which all may come to the knowledge of God. 3395-2 | |
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