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The Banquet of God

The Book of Enlightenment - A guide to a better life

Sunday 6th June 1937

Ye are all invited to attend, let us realise how we do attend and our actions while we are privileged guests of progression. I will endeavour to become as material as possible and with this intention ye must try and follow in the light in which it is given.

An invitation from the one who we all acclaim our love and desire to please the day when we are all cordially invited to enter the Sanctuary and dine at the table of plenty.

There in abundance before our eyes and within our reach are the fruits of Progression. Our Host is absent we wait impatiently for the invitation to begin. Our impatience grows our desire breaks down our resistance strengthened by the desire of selfishness prompted by the darker influences of those not privileged through mistaken intentions of wilfulness remain in darkness but lend their strength and Power of temptation to those whose desire is weakened to snatch from the table of our God our Host the fruits of desire.

That is what we do every minute every day be our desire for knowledge or progression. Our desire is like those at the Banquet impatience leading to greed. Ye who cross the threshold in gowns of splendour desiring to cast aside thy garments and no longer behave in accordance with the behaviour befitting to such an honoured Host.

Is he not absent, it may be that he cannot see or feel or hear why should I not take from the platter why should I not reach forth and quench my thirst no one will know, am I not a privileged guest and is not life a banquet? Yes my friends ye are invited to drink the wine and eat the fruits of knowledge but have ye not the desire the impatience to transgress to cast aside the instructions that lead to the completion of that which with patience would have filled thy cup to overflowing. For the greed of material desires the fruit of the moment ye sacrifice the Banquet of years.

Friends, soon as a body ye will again be invited to join in a banquet with privileged guests. Let naught in thy material mind and desire create what is known in the land of Splendour and Progression as a guest of greed let us be guests worthy of the name worthy to be privileged to enter and dine in the House of Progression.

Now there are many versions of the words brought to thee in this simple banquet. In times to come these words shall form a basis for the material of the planes. They will so misconstrue these words to suit their own vanity thus placing themselves in accordance with the judgement of God as guests to be desired and accepted or guests to be rejected.

So we note the three stages of material life, the creation and development of material progress. Shall thou snatch from the lips of thy neighbour the wine that would quench his thirst or thy greed break thy resistance and make thee an unworthy and rejected guest. Here we see those who have filled their glasses to overflowing and their platters filled, whose eyes are cast to the splendour of the wines and fruits borne now to their platters and regret that the wines and fruits of splendour cannot be held. There is no room for in their greed and impatience they have grasped that which was not intended for them and when their wines and fruits of progression did appear they could no longer partake.

It was then with regret that they did realise their greed and selfishness availed them little. What is selfishness? What is greed? It has been questioned many times greed is to fulfil thy desires first and then the controlling forces of God.

It has been spoken many times by thy Spiritual Advisors and by Power God First God First. To appease thy God regardless of the sting of greed and the pain of thy hunger for thine own material inclinations are but the trials of temptation. Remember at all times thou art the guests of a wonderful influence a guest of God and are invited to partake of the food of progression. Let not thy neighbour fill thy cup to overflowing ere the Banquet begins thy God can not find room in thy cup for in thy greed and selfishness thou hast filled it. Thee and thine should have faced the test of temptation and the trial of thy strength to fulfil that which it was intended ye should do.