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LACERATED                                1995:       Pilate led forth this bleeding and lacerated prisoner and, presenting him before the
LADDERS                                       1666:       directed his friends to procure ladders by which they ascended to the
LADY                                               1508:       of his many wines. The young lady drew aside and inquired of her
LAGASH                                         876:         of the northern Suites and Guites. Lagash, the Sumerian capital built on flood
LAGGED                                          1128:       recorded that institutional religion has invariably lagged behind the slowly changing mores of
LAGGING                                        1753:       s admission of his divinity, the lagging faith of the twelve arose in
LAKESIDE                                      2050:       THE LAKESIDE GATHERING Word of the appearances of
LAMA                                             1038:       monks, nuns, abbots, and the Grand Lama. They pray to angels, saints, a
LAMECH                                        1764:       derived from the Scriptures referring to Lamech's exultation because of the metal
LAMENT                                        951:         backward tribes even yet howl and lament over each new sunrise. Primitive man
LAMENTED                                   2005:       many of these women bewailed and lamented. And when some of them even
LAND-AND-AIR                           562:         land, and thirteen per cent combined land-and-air types. But these modifications of early
LAND-AND-ATMOSPHERE      561:         very early provide a hospitable land-and-atmosphere environment. Conversely, on some worlds
LAND-ARRANGEMENT             907:         configuration of continents and other land-arrangement situations are very influential in
LAND-DEPRESSION                    678:         ago, toward the end of this land-depression epoch, North America was partially overspread
LAND-ELEVATION                      682:         since remained above the sea. This land-elevation period marks the beginning of the
LANDHOLDER                              1893:       parable
LANDLESS                                     782:         a succession of slaves, serfs, and landless classes. But improved machinery is gradually
LANDMARK                                 781:         "he who removes his neighbor's landmark."" These stone markers bore the priest'"
LANDOWNERS                             790:         check on the kings. Subsequently, the landowners, the aristocracy, exerted a restraining influence.
LANDSCAPES                               1366:       in nature. Jesus delighted in drawing landscapes as well as in modeling a
LANDSCAPING                             824:         paths were well built, and the landscaping was exquisite.
LAND-SELLING                             1074:       old land mores as against the land-selling attitude of the Baalim, against the
LANDSLIDES                                944:         forces, such as storms, floods, earthquakes, landslides, volcanoes, fire, heat,
LAND-TYPE                                   562:         fly even after they have become land-type beings. It is both amazing and
LANE                                               322:         between important inhabited points. Such a lane or line of energy, sometimes also
LANTERNS                                    1973:       soldiers and guards, carrying torches and lanterns, approached the garden, Judas stepped well
LAP                                                  2030:       all the apostolic funds, in the lap of Matthew Levi. It was about
LAPLAND                                      893:         throughout all northern Europe. Only in Lapland (and to a certain extent in
LAPPS                                             904:         by Sangik hereditary dominance. The Lapps and the Eskimos are blends of
LARGE-SCALE                              885:         solidarity the first to attain a large-scale cultural, social, and political civilization The
LARISSA                                        1427:       to Mesopotamia, passing through Thapsacus and Larissa. They spent some time in Babylon,
LARVAL                                         1866:       that this church is only the larval stage of the thwarted spiritual kingdom,
LASHES                                          1469:       of justice? One would impose forty lashes, another twenty, while still another would
LAST-MINUTE                              2001:       crucifixion was due to the last-minute decision of the captain to take along two thieves
LATENCY                                       1170:       three potentialities whose union constitutes the latency of the I AM, the suspended
LATENTS                                       1162:       functional activity. These manifold existents and latents have been previously suggested in these
LATINIZED                                    1084:       and cosmology of the Hellenized and Latinized versions of the teachings of Jesus.
LATINS                                           1080:       that the later religion of the Latins was more of a political observance
LATITUDINAL                              519:         Jerusem is divided into one thousand latitudinal sectors and ten thousand longitudinal zones.
LATTER-DAY                                901:         tasks. You who now live amid latter-day scenes of budding culture and beginning
LATTERS                                        1258:       penetration of the minds of the latters' indwelling. (And it was by just
LAUGHED                                      1699:       damsel was not dead, but they laughed him to scorn. Jesus now turned
LAUGHING                                     1725:       Father does not sit in heaven laughing in derision at the heathen. He
LAURELS                                        888:         great civilization has rested upon the laurels of the past, but it is
LAUSANNE                                   1989:       he retired to the province of Lausanne, where he subsequently committed suicide. Claudia
LAVAS                                            661:         up too many times with extruding lavas of deep origins and admixed with
LAVING                                           1936:       water, the basins, and towels for laving their dusty feet; and since
LAW-BOUND                                138:         force; he is not a slavish law-bound power. God is neither a mathematical
LAW-BREAKER                            1983:       "think should be done with this law-breaker and blasphemer?"" And they all answered"
LAWBREAKING                           1654:       they had amassed sufficient evidence of lawbreaking and blasphemy, to return to Jerusalem
LAW-BREAKING                          1982:       of death on informal charges of law-breaking, blasphemy, and flouting the traditions of
LAW-CREATOR                           53:           unintended homage the mechanist pays the law-Creator when he conceives such laws to
LAW-ENFORCEMENT                2019:       Sovereign of stern justice and rigid law-enforcement. Rather, make sure that you see
LAWLESSNESS                             1366:       something be done to suppress the lawlessness of his eldest son. And though
LAW-LIMITED                              31:           surrounded by an ever-changing and apparently law-limited universe, an evolving universe of relative
LAWMAKER                                54:           and perfect nature of the supreme Lawmaker.
LAW-RESPECTING                      41:           high moral standard and created a law-respecting people as a group, left the
LAW-SUBJECT                             1588:       henceforth look not upon yourselves as law-subject creatures of an all-powerful king but
LAZINESS                                      1134:       not foster moral indolence and spiritual laziness by encouraging the vain hope of
LEAGUED                                       602:         flesh, Lucifer, Satan, and Caligastia were leagued together to effect the miscarriage of
LEAH                                               1558:       her to death. Their eldest daughter, Leah, continued their work, later on becoming
LEAPS                                             193:         A personality can look before it leaps and can therefore learn from looking
LEASEHOLD                                  237:         title of physical possession, a cosmic leasehold. But the elevation of a Michael
LEASING                                         816:         earns a considerable sum from the leasing of military and naval equipment for
LEBBEUS                                        1563:       who were also called Thaddeus and Lebbeus, had neither strong points nor weak
LEBONAH                                      1492:       he did not visit Bethany), Beeroth, Lebonah, Sychar, Shechem, Samaria, Geba, En Gannim,
LECTURE                                        1485:       "was located a large building a lecture amphitheater dedicated to the ""spirit of"
LEDGERS                                        976:         extra credits on the self denial ledgers of their gods. It was once
LEDGES                                           902:         simply appropriated his shelter, lived under ledges or dwelt in caves. Next he
LEECHES                                         732:         closely related groups of earthworms and leeches, soon followed by the mollusks the
LEEWAY                                         664:         the Life Carriers are afforded little leeway in their plans for life implantation.
LEFT-HAND                                   422:         cherubim — the senior or controlling personality. The left-hand deflector, or negatively charged angel
LEFT-HANDED                             170:         off as rings but in right- and left-handed processions. Whirled stars are also of
LEGALISM                                     1340:       a terrible bondage of ritualism and legalism, a bondage far more real than
LEGENDARY                                  1044:       to Arabia and Mesopotamia. In the legendary battle of Horus with Set the
LEGGED                                           696:         including the four tusked mastodons, short legged rhinoceroses, and many varieties of the
LEGIONNAIRES                            1415:       of the soldier. Now the Roman legionnaires were very sensitive to anything bordering
LEGISLATOR                                 1461:       made such an impression on this legislator that he spent the rest of
LEMURLIKE                                   706:         have been markedly changed. The immediate lemurlike mother of the dawn mammal species
LENDING                                        776:         the craving to be master. Treasure lending was carried on as a means
LENGTHEN                                     857:         the reigns of the individual kings lengthen from around twenty five or thirty
LENGTHENED                               459:         younger days, but the period has lengthened from the former three and one
LENS                                                1857:       your minds. Jesus is the spiritual lens in human likeness which makes visible
LEPROUS                                        1643:       the squalid hovel of a certain leprous man, the afflicted one, having heard
LETHARGY                                    1731:       the darkness of authority and the lethargy of tradition into the transcendent light
LEVELER                                         463:         rays. X ray is the great leveler of atomic existence. The surface temperature
LEVITE                                            1810:       road. And in like manner a Levite also, when he came along and
LEVITICUS                                     1362:       them. Beginning with the Book of Leviticus, they passed on to the study
LEVITY                                            1562:       so playful, but so free from levity and frivolity. It was this matchless
LEVY                                                1899:       "carried with it the right to levy taxes."" In this manner Jesus avoided"
LIABILITY                                      572:         the evolutionary worlds entails the increased liability that these near human personalities may
LIBERALIZE                                   1402:       time passed, Jesus did much to liberalize and modify the family teachings and
LIBERALIZING                              767:         superstition. Prior to the liberating and liberalizing instruction of the Dalamatia teachers,
LIBERATORS                                 225:         times without number as dispensation terminators, liberators of the sleeping survivors.
LIBYAN                                           1056:       the simultaneous onslaughts of a strong Libyan thrust from the south and a
LICENSED                                       1889:       regulation necessitated that money changers be licensed to exchange the many sorts of
LICENSING                                     815:         of their socialistic enterprises and by licensing various commercial activities. The rapid transit
LICENTIOUS                                  1060:       religious practices. They became idolatrous and licentious, and their idea of Deity fell
LICKED                                           1855:       yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores. And it came to
LICKS                                              940:         child; an Eskimo mother even yet licks her baby in lieu of washing.
LIEGE                                               897:         settlement of the Danubians was at Liege in Belgium. These tribes deteriorated rapidly
LIFE-ACTIVATION                      404:         the nature and source of the life-activation spark. We know that life flows
LIFE-ASSEMBLY                          1234:       a local universe. Here in these life-assembly chambers the supervising authorities provide that
LIFEBLOOD                                    753:         races through the infusion of the lifeblood of the new violet race the
LIFE-CARRYING                           398:         of life is reproduced by a life-carrying bundle which possesses twenty-four pattern units.
LIFE-CREATION                           204:         organization of their universe. 4. The Life-Creation Era. Upon the declaration of intention
LIFE-DESIGNING                           397:         reproduction. The Second World is the life-designing sphere; here all new modes of
LIFE-DETERMINING                    396:         group. They are directed by the life-determining trio, consisting of Gabriel, the Father
LIFE-ENDOWMENT                     559:         are thirty-six uninhabited planets nearing the life-endowment stage, and several are now being
LIFE-EVOLUTION                         736:         LIFE—EVOLUTION VICISSITUDES It was a source of
LIFE-EXTENSION                         826:         superchemical storage battery, mysteriously releasing the life-extension force of the universe
LIFE-FUNCTIONING                    855:         of unique beings existing on a life-functioning level about midway between those of
LIFE-IMPARTATION                   730:         the Master Physical Controllers and the life-impartation ministry of the Seven Master Spirits
LIFE-INITIATION                         190:         following spheres of activity
LIFE-LAPSE                                    568:         indispensable to terrestrial escape. Throughout the life-lapse period of the sleeping survivors the
LIFE-MAINTENANCE                 857:         the staff members of the powerful life-maintenance circuits of the Satania system. These
LIFE-MIND                                     402:         living organism of intellect status. These life-mind emplacements are perfect indicators of living
LIFE-PROCESS                               563:         who are competent to effect their life-process exchanges directly by means of light- energy
LIFE-RECORD                                672:         "that great ""stone book"" of the life-record preservation which was so methodically laid"
LIFESAVING                                  1432:       the morning to view this splendid lifesaving device of man, and amidst the
LIFE-STORY                                   501:         history into the future. 6. The life-story tellers — those who perpetuate the meaning and
LIFE-TRANSMITTING                 581:         There occurs a change in the life-transmitting mechanism when these Sons are rematerialized
LIGHT-AND-LIFE                          631:         of the fifth epoch of the light-and-life era. We observe that the upper
LIGHT-BEARERS                          1910:       make the children of Abraham the light-bearers of truth to the world had
LIGHT-GIVING                               1685:       of his handiworks and for the light-giving lights which he has made for
LIGHT-HEARTED                         1206:       eternal destiny is wholly compatible with a light-hearted and joyous life and with a sucessful
LIGHT-HEARTED                         1206:       eternal destiny is wholly compatible with a light-hearted and joyous life and with a sucessful
LIGHTNINGLIKE                           439:         seraphic carriage, which shoots forward with lightninglike speed, leaving a trail of celestial
LIGHT-REJECTING                       1807:       the kingdom. But woe upon the light-rejecting inhabitants of Chorazin, Bethsaida-Julias, and
LIGNITE                                          690:         limestone, together with inferior coal or lignite, and in many regions they contain
LIKENING                                       929:         purely social and civil institution. The likening of human associations to divine associations
LIKES                                               1096:       the recognition of divine value. Human likes and dislikes do not determine good
LILY                                                 1737:       followers the story of the white lily which rears its pure and snowy
LIME-SHELLED                             676:         shore lines. The seas teemed with lime-shelled life, and the falling of these
LIMESTONES                                681:         by the crinoids. The finer building limestones were laid down during this epoch.
LINEAGES                                      1348:       career on earth. Many of these lineages contain much of the Master's
LINEAL                                           882:         twentieth century after Christ are the lineal cultural descendants of the priests of
LINEAR-GRAVITY-RESPONDING             190:         energy manifestations exhibited by the linear-gravity-responding units of organized
LINEAR-GRAVITY-RESPONSIVE              9:             electronic level of material or linear-gravity-responsive matter in the grand universe
LINGERS                                         548:         to one's order, and which lingers as a memory possession of the
LINGUIST                                       1484:       violently ill, and Jesus, being a linguist, volunteered to take his place. Since
LINGUISTS                                     546:         a local universe; they are the linguists of the realms. You will not
LINIMENTS                                    991:         even as moderns attempt to rub liniments in. Cupping and sucking the affected
LINTEL                                            1710:       pot of manna which decorated the lintel of this new synagogue, and which
LION                                                1044:       one worshiping the bull, another the lion, a third the ram, and so
LIP                                                    983:         idea of human sacrifice. Nose and lip piercing is still practiced in Africa,
LIQUIDATED                                1327:       your universe will be in substance liquidated. And with the subsequent endowment of
LISTING                                          334:         especial significance need attach to the listing of these orders together except that
LISTINGS                                        334:         progressive climb to Paradise. The following listings make no mention of vast orders
LIT                                                    1851:       lost one piece, and how she lit the lamp and diligently swept the
LITERALISTS                                1500:       the new kingdom on earth. The literalists taught that a world wide war
LITHOGRAPHIC                            687:         during this submergence that the beautiful lithographic stone of southern Germany was laid
LITIGATION                                  618:         the viewpoint of Uversa, where the litigation is pending, could be indicated by
LITTLE-KNOWN                           1064:       with the invaluable assistance of the little-known Micaiah, kept the light of truth
LITTLENESS                                  1564:       Jesus does not look down upon littleness, only upon evil and sin. James
LIVERS                                            1739:       upon purely material upheavals; spirit livers are not perturbed by the episodes
LIVING-TRUTH                             1949:       is constantly elevating wisdom to the living-truth levels of divine attainment; the spiritually
LIZARDS                                        732:         surviving divisions
LLAMA                                           702:         the last glaciation, the horse, tapir, llama, and saber toothed tiger became extinct.
LOADING                                       1481:       watched his teacher help with the loading of their twenty camels and observed
LOAD-PULLING                            911:         depends on an enthusiastic and effective load-pulling spirit. Ten men are of little
LOADS                                            547:         flavor and otherwise lighten the heavy loads of the present.
LOAF                                               1619:       If the child needs a loaf, will you give him a stone
LOANS                                            971:         the shadow. Names were pawned for loans; a man could not use his
LOATHED                                      1997:       of death. All of these Jews loathed Judas; they looked upon the betrayer
LOATHING                                     1446:       an end of your misery by loathing sin. When you look up to
LOBES                                             701:         forth the many tongues, or ice lobes, which carved out the present day
LOCALISTIC                                  806:         economics. Education has too long been localistic, militaristic, ego exalting, and success seeking;
LOCALIZATION                           375:         Creator Son. It is through this localization and personalization of the Third Source
LOCATIONAL                               293:         Paradise can discern the geographic or locational presence of the Trinity, the great
LOCOMOTION                              462:         also capable of light and energy locomotion. The calcium feat is all the
LODGERS                                        1351:       cleaned up for the reception of lodgers. Leaving the donkey in the courtyard,
LODGINGHOUSES                        774:         smiths maintained the first inns, public lodginghouses, on the outskirts of the settlements.
LOFTIEST                                       997:         embodying the highest ideals and the loftiest aspirations of the praying ego. And
LOGGERHEADS                            1457:       are destined always to be at loggerheads. This is not true of those
LOGICIAN                                      1116:       and reason ever reveal to the logician or to the reasoner the eternal
LOIN                                                2007:       the Romans always provided a suitable loin cloth for all persons crucified at
LONDON                                         118:         know the location of New York, London, Rome, or Singapore, cities definitely and
LONG-AGO                                     1909:       why the individual descendants of these long-ago Jews should be made to suffer
LONG-DESPISED                           1827:       entertain kind feelings for the long-despised Samaritans. Accordingly, when Simon Zelotes
LONGER-LIVED                             910:         fraternal regulation will be productive of longer-lived co-operation than will the older and
LONG-GONE                                   962:         carry this cultural birthmark of the long-gone days of the emerging ghost cults.
LONG-GROWING                          968:         particularly the hair and nails. The long-growing fingernails of the chiefs were highly
LONG-GUARDED                          825:         the Garden temple Van planted the long-guarded tree of life, whose leaves were
LONG-HONORED                          1340:       and who dared to flout their long-honored regulations of social conduct. They could
LONGINGLY                                   253:         courts of the superuniverse look so longingly and appealingly at even the recent
LONGITUDINAL                           519:         thousand latitudinal sectors and ten thousand longitudinal zones. The sphere has seven major
LONG-LOOKED-FOR                    1588:       now I come announcing that this long-looked-for kingdom is near at hand, even
LONG-LOST                                   1852:       And then said the servant
LONG-LOVED                                1248:       first time, actually to see your long-loved and ever-present angelic companions of earth
LONG-NURSED                             1567:       pieces of silver to satisfy his long-nursed craving for revenge, rushed out and
LONG-PENT-UP                             1384:       but Mary gave vent to her long-pent-up fear and anxiety when, rushing up
LONG-RANGE                                1190:       But regardless of such apparent independence, long-range observation unquestionably discloses that
LONG-SETTLED                            636:         by observing what takes place on long-settled worlds that we arrive at fairly
LONG-SUPPRESSED                     1926:       and supremely motivated by sullen and long-suppressed vengeance ! What a crushing thing is
LONG-WAITING                           1849:       you to recognize and appropriate the long-waiting answers to your earlier but ill-timed
LONG-WAVE                                666:         long-distance transmission of your long- and short-wave radiobroadcasts. Your broadcasting is
LOOMED                                        944:         were close at hand, or which loomed large in the commonplace experience of
LOOSENESS                                   932:         of these early pairs, notwithstanding the looseness of the association, the chances for
LOOSENING                                   1667:       which Jesus was speaking, and after loosening the tiles, they boldly lowered the
LOOSER                                          925:         another. All over the world the looser forms of communal marriage gradually evolved
LOOSING                                        1891:       "act as a judge, ""binding and loosing such matters as might be brought"
LOOT                                               1056:       of which was augmented by the loot of the advancing host of escaping
LOTION                                           1652:       a large flask of perfumed anointing lotion and, standing behind Jesus as he
LOUISVILLE                                   678:         banks of the Ohio River near Louisville, Kentucky, and are about one hundred
LOVE-COMPREHENSION           648:         divinity reality. As this love-comprehension of Deity finds spiritual expression
LOVE-DOMINATED                     22:           which is so satisfying to the love-dominated nature of the Creator Father. When
LOVE-EXPANDING                      1089:       Creative, comforting, and love-expanding fellowships. 4. Progressive enhancement of spiritual
LOVE-SATURATED                     1874:       of friendliness which emanates from a love-saturated soul. Goodness always compels respect,
LOW-CASTE                                  1037:       espoused in self-protection by the low-caste monarch Asoka, who, next to Ikhnaton
LOWERED                                      1667:       after loosening the tiles, they boldly lowered the sick man on his couch
LOWER-GRADE                            826:         peninsula had been overrun by these lower-grade Nodites for almost four thousand years
LOWER-LEVEL                              482:         be discovered or discerned by the lower-level minds of the universe, much less
LOWER-MIND                               738:         but there is influential direction of lower-mind function from the system capitals. On
LOWLIEST                                     739:         spirits, and they function from the lowliest minds of primitive and invisible existences
LOW-TIDE                                      1928:       tremendously. This Wednesday evening was the low-tide mark of their spiritual status up
LOYALATIA                                  419:         "objects of worship. The great seraphim, Loyalatia, when your seer ""fell down to"
LUCIFER-SUGGESTED                 1494:       "a greater universe."" To all the Lucifer-suggested compromises and makeshifts, to all such"
LUGGAGE                                       1481:       "all your might."" After preparing their luggage for the camel caravan, they passed"
LULL                                                1707:       "were in the midst of the ""lull before the storm."" Thomas expressed the"
LUMBER                                         1504:       lunch and were waiting in the lumber room for him, as it was
LUNAR                                            751:         measurement of these days was the lunar month, this period being reckoned as
LUNCHED                                       1910:       and friends with whom he had lunched, and with whom he was conferring
LUNCHTIME                                  1838:       friends and enemies. At their noon lunchtime, on Wednesday, he talked to his
LUNG                                               679:         survivors of these ancient fishes. The lung and armored fishes reached their evolutionary
LUNGS                                             680:         whose swim bladders had evolved into lungs. From the briny waters of the
LURED                                             922:         sex urge that selfish man is lured into making something better than an
LURKED                                          1718:       much of the time, there always lurked near by two or three of
LURKING                                        959:         living during the transition period of lurking about before their actual departure for
LURKS                                             1984:       the half civilized man there still lurks an evil brutality which seeks to
LUXOR                                            1215:       the walls of a temple at Luxor, where is depicted the birth of
LUXURIATING                              718:         northern climes, their backward cousins were luxuriating in the southern tropical forests of
LYING-IN                                        935:         groups where the husband participated in the lying-in, the expectant mother was shunned, left alone
LYNCHING                                     796:         of escaping this sudden group anger. Lynching and dueling represent the unwillingness of
LYSIMACHIA                                1560:       And it was in Thrace, at Lysimachia, that certain unbelieving Jews conspired with