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+**[[Sun Papers]]**
+====== Lazarus, Come Forth! ======
+== SUN PAPER NO. 38 | FEBRUARY 1932 ==
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 When Jesus was sent word by Mary and Martha that their brother Lazarus, whom Jesus loved, was sick, He said to His disciples:
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 Read the above over many times and ponder it well. There is so much of vital moment in it all that we urge every disciple to stay with it, day after day, until all its wonderful meaning becomes clear and a living part of your consciousness. When this is accomplished we promise that some remarkable things will happen to you.
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 ====THE TIME OF TRIBULATION====
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 In the foregoing article and the one on the Crucifixion, we have pointed out to some very great truths, and we have explained their operation sufficiently so that all who are ready to make the sacrifice of self can use these truths to free themselves from the darkness, confusion and suffering now manifesting everywhere in the world, and which before they are removed will grow many times worse.
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 Constantly through these agencies are suggestions being poured into the minds of the people, and unconsciously almost all are finding themselves being pushed into doing things which, if they stopped and reasoned it out, they would never of themselves think of doing.
+Do you realize that ninety per cent of the people believe whatever they read in the newspapers and magazines, and it does not occur to them to think and reason about whether it is all so or not; or if they did they would have no cause for believing differently, for they have no other source of information—all sources being wholly controlled and directed by these super-forces to give out the information that they want the people to believe—and no more?
+And do you realize that most people are naturally credulous and trusting and wish to believe what they are told? They refuse to consider that they are being deliberately deceived by evil powers that are seeking to further their own sinister ends.
+Think you there is no actual direction back of all this—that it merely happens, that men are just naturally drifting into a state where they are forgetting all about God and losing their faith in an invisible Deity, discarding all the teachings of their forefathers?
+If so, recall the methods now being used in Russia at the present time to mould the minds of the people, especially of the children in their schools, who are taught that God is but a myth, a belief of the unintelligent fostered upon humanity by the capitalists; and the new generation there is actually growing to maturity in a world which has no God.
+Can you not see that no mere group of men is doing this—that there is a powerful and invisible intelligence with a most diabolic and far-reaching purpose back of it all, and which is just as surely working from the inner planes of being, influencing and weakening all minds in which selfishness in any way rules, as is the Christ Spirit influencing and strengthening all in which a loving desire to help others is dominant?
+Be not deceived, you followers of Christ, but keep your eyes wide open, for these are the days prophesied by our beloved Leader, Christ Jesus, the 24th chapter of Matthew. Read carefully the whole chapter, but note particularly these verses:
+“For many shall come in my name, saying I am Christ, and shall deceive many.
+“And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled; for all these things MUST come to pass, but the end is not yet.
+“For nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes, in divers places.
+“All these are the beginning of sorrows.
+“Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted and shall kill you; and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
+“And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
+“And many false prophets shall arise, and shall deceive many.
+“And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
+“But he that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved.
+“And this gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
+“When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place (whoso readeth, let him understand):
+“Then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains: . . . For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not from the beginning of the world to this time, no nor ever shall be.
+“And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
+“Then if any man shall say unto you, lo here is Christ, or there; believe him not.
+“For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
+“Behold, I have told you before.”
+We have printed nearly the same statements to show what you have to pay particular attention. We especially want you to note that we seem to be living in the days about which Jesus was prophesying. It is true that many times in history have there been those who claimed these particular times were meant. But we are now facing a period when the whole world is involved in the conditions mentioned, when previously only a few countries or at most one continent were affected.
+We are now in the midst of wars and rumors of wars. These things must come to pass. Can anyone deny it, or see how war can be avoided, with the mad scramble to increase armaments going on in every nation in their anxiety to be prepared for what they all expect to come? But the end is not yet. “These are but the beginnings of sorrows.”
+Therefore watch that they do not “deliver you up to be afflicted.” That is, be prepared, so that in His Name (His Consciousness) you can rise above it all and receive and understand by whatever comes to pass.
+Many are beginning to come and pose as Christs, to speak and prophesy in His Name and to “show great signs and wonders,” so that they are deceiving all but the elect. See that you are not caught by such. Remember, you have always within you a sure Guide and Authority, Who if you will turn to Him will instantly point out to you the fallacies in their speech and the qualities in their personalities that are not of Christ, and Who will surely prevent your being deceived.
+You can easily see that iniquity is abounding everywhere, especially in high places, and it is not to be wondered at that love and faith in God should “wax cold,”—when national authority prevents the word Christ being used in any state document, when the schools forbid children are eliminated from every school book in America, and when no President of the United States has dared to take this inaugural oath on the pages of the New Testament.
+Think you that the Anti-Christ is not almost in complete control of outer world, which means has almost complete control of men’s minds—of all but those who have been tested and proven in their allegiance to Christ? It is the testing and the proving that is now going on in the battling for men’s souls by the forces of evil and of righteousness, each side striving to win and hold those whom they can reach and influence. And it is only those who have definitely chosen Christ and who “endure to the end” that will be saved.
+The Gospel of the Kingdom is now being preached to all the world. It is the witness, pointing the way for all men and calling upon them to repent; for the Kingdom of God is truly at hand, is closer than even many of the elect dream. Every people on the earth has been reached and invited to come into His Kingdom. So now we are ready for the end. We have told all men the truth, we have converted to them the truth. They now must decide whom they will serve. No one can do that for them. And then they must be tested and proven. All can be saved, if they will endure to the end.
+But evil has cajoled, coerced and so deceived the minds of men that few will endure; vast numbers of them have succumbed to evil, have been enticed by it over to the side of darkness, and now evil sits on the throne and has become the king of the world. It only remains for it to become established in the holy places, compelling all the nations of the world to repudiate Christ and God as they have done in Russia, and then will the abomination of desolation begin, spoken of by Daniel and Jesus.
+Then is the time when all disciples of Christ must flee into the mountains of the Spirit, must deliberately and actually transcend their body consciousness and enter and abide in their Christ Consciousness.
+Those who are journeying with us have been taught to do this. Every stage of the process has been shown them and has been made so plain that all may know. Only those whose minds have been more engrossed in outer things and would not be convinced of the necessity of doing what we persistently urged; have failed to find the Kingdom, and are now unhappy and discouraged; and unless they deliberately go back and start over again and study and live with the teachings until they prove their truths every step of the way, they will find when the evil days come that they will have no place to flee. “For in those days there shall be great tribulations, such as was not from the beginning of the world to this time, no nor ever shall be.”
+We have spoken of these things in our booklet “Brotherhood,” but published in 1927, but in the Papers only casually. But the time has come when we must needs speak plainly and tell all our dear ones of the vital necessity of thoroughly preparing themselves, of now applying assiduously the teachings given to the immediate problems before them until all are fully proven; so that they will be ready for whatever comes. You can now see why all the chief things we have been preparing you for; we have been so insistent in urging you to discipline and master your minds only in order that they learn instantly and perfectly to obey when you command.
+We want not one of you to be left behind. But that means that those who have not been diligent in their study and efforts being now as never before to make the finding of the Kingdom and the living in their Christ Consciousness first in all their thinking, speaking and acting. For as stated by the Master, although the time of tribulation will be shortened, yet will there be but few who find the narrow way.
+He speaks of the “elect”—they who cannot be deceived. Would you be one of them? Then you must find Him within your hearts and learn to retire within to the soul realm and to abide there with Him. He in those days will be your only refuge and strength.
+With those who are able thus to retire within—to “flee into the mountains,” it matters not what happens to their garments of flesh. For they will then be consciously living in their immortal soul bodies in a higher dimension that will soon manifest upon the earth.
+Those who will endure to the end are those who have passed the tests in this term of earth’s schooling, called the Piscean Age, and have graduated into the Aquarian, the next higher grade. It means that they will have faithfully learned the lessons taught them by their great Teacher, have freed their minds from all the error and sins of mortal consciousness, so that they will have risen into His Consciousness and thereby will have earned the right to follow and be with Him in the higher grade.
+It also means that their minds having been cleansed of all the old beliefs of mortality, including the sense of separation and the fear of death, their bodies will no longer be really flesh, but the light of the Spirit will shine through them making their youth and vigor immortal soul bodies within visible to those who have eyes to see. In other words, the Word, the Christ or Him, will actually have become the flesh.
+So it makes no difference to them, in the terrible times that will later manifest in the outer, what becomes of their physical bodies. They will merely withdraw their consciousness from the body and it will no longer be visible, for the physical is not the real body; it exists in the Soul realm. But when they so choose they can again appear in the physical wherever they wish to be.
+What really will take place is that the account of the mass presence of the great Army of Light on the inner plane of being, its vibrations of Divine Love are so powerful that the whole earth and everyone on it will be affected in their inner nature in such a way that everything not attuned to the Christ Consciousness will be quenched to endure its high vibrations and will consequently disappear from manifestation.
+The fact is, these new vibrations are going to be those continually manifesting in the New Age, or in the higher grade of earth’s school into which those who have passed the tests and endured to the end will have graduated.
+We want you to realize all that this means. First you understand that this great Army of Light is composed of all the souls of heaven and earth who have entered the Christ Consciousness. This means that you, if you are a disciple of Christ, in your soul consciousness are one of this army, for being conscious of serving Him in your heart, which means in your soul consciousness, your soul is definitely enlisted with Him and His Light is guiding you in all that you do. And many new recruits are joining this army on the inner plane daily, due to the increasing efforts of all workers on both the outer and inner planes.
+Then try to realize that this great army of souls comprises the actual inhabitants of the Kingdom of Heaven, and they are bringing with them the Light of Heaven, which means of their Christ Consciousness, right down upon the earth; and that their powerful Light will drive out all darkness of error and evil from men’s minds, until there will be no longer any mortal bodies; for all sense of separation—of there being a body and a soul—will have disappeared; there will then be only the soul and its body.
+Can you not then see that all who cannot rise into their Christ Consciousness while undergoing the tribulations of the testing period will be unable to endure its high vibrations, and will naturally give up their fleshly garments into any or another and retire back into their soul homes on whatever planes they happen to be?
+Then naturally the disciples of Christ will possess the earth, bringing Heaven, their world, where there be souls dwell, where all is goodness and perfection, down into actual manifestation upon the earth, and which world will then be visible to all those belonging and dwelling on the earth. While all those in the lower grades of the Spirit who were formerly below the earth on its own on the various inner planes of the soul. But we will explain more about this in the next Paper.
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