“The third seal represents the third circle of mind. It will open the
soul to a greater wisdom and love. It will do good without fear or
favor. It will show what mind should do for mind. It will seek peace
and pursue it. But it is conservative. It neglects, oftentimes, its
own good. It neglects, sometimes, the good of others. I will unloose
the seal. The same good to others as to self. The same degree of wisdom
also. The whole duty of this circle is considered as being embraced in
doing by others, as it would have others do by it. The seal of wisdom
and benevolence, needs further development. It has been the mission
of minds, I am now instructing to aid them. Success has attended your
efforts, and reform has been attained. The whole duty of mind is not
contained in doing by others as you would have others do unto you. But
the wisdom of the third seal goes no further. It was wise to mind, when
it was unloosed. It saw a new creation, and the old vanished away. It
passed into disrepute. It was respected by those who saw the opening
wonder no more. It was a new heaven, and a new earth to mind, emerging
from the weakness of the second seal. It was a freedom to mind, which
had served two masters, hope and fear. It was wisdom of superior worth
to the ignorance of the second seal. But the third seal was not the end
of progress. Eternity will have no end. Mind will have no end. Time
will have no end. Periods will end. Time is marked by periods. Day and
night is a period. Circles are periods indefinite. Years are not known
to you, only as the reckoning of the rudimental condition. Night is
as day. Circles are as periods of progress. Minds work as circles of
wisdom in their degree control. I have aided you where you will now
instruct, as you are instructed.
“The fourth seal is now broken. Its condition is good to all. It
recognizes no enemies. It never wrangles. It will bless enemies.
Your own experience was the criterion of truth. Fear and favor were
powerless over you. No wrong was where you labored, but the wrong
of less wisdom. It was not wise to make others unhappy, because you
deemed unhappiness a recommendation to the favor of God. It was not
wise with what wretchedness required, but harmonious with the eternal
law of order and love. It sought and relieved mind from the uncongenial
elements of social wrong. It was interested in the progress of mind,
and the social good of society. It gave beauty for ashes, and the
garments of praise for the spirit of weariness. It was wise in good
things, and shunned not the truth. It was worthy of elevation to a
higher circle, for which cause the circle I am now addressing was
advanced.
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