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Date: June 01, 2017 at 00:33:29
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: unless the Work has been pondered continually |
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Now in this Work we have certain ideas taught us whose object is
to transform our whole way of thinking. These ideas are given in small
quantities, so to speak, at a time. Let us take once more the idea that
Man is asleep. Now this idea is very dangerous unless it is taught
rightly. What is the preparation that begins to make it possible to
understand this idea rightly? The preparation consists in realizing
through self-observation that one is oneself asleep. This takes many
years of self-observation and mental exertion, many years of private
thought and private reflection and inner dialogue. When this prepara-
tion has reached a certain point, the vision of Man asleep—of the world
asleep—comes to a person in the right way. It no longer comes in a
negative form, or with a feeling of superiority, but as an actual percep-
tion without any negative emotion or personal identification connected
with it. In such a case we can say that one of the ideas of the Work
has begun to influence a person and change that person's whole mode
of thinking. But unless the Work has been pondered continually in the
most intimate part of one's own private thinking, this really cannot be
expected to take place. The person will only say in a parrot-like way
that Man is asleep, or even that he himself is asleep, without realizing
what it means. All the ideas of the Work convey great density of
meaning but without personal thought and application they are merely
so many signposts. A superficial knowledge of the Work helps no one,
yet at the same time a superficial formatory knowledge of the Work
is necessary as a first step. To understand an idea of the Work is quite
different from knowing about it. The difference between knowing and
understanding is incommensurable. It is quite possible to say to our-
selves that in the affairs of ordinary life we are very rarely influenced
by the Work. We know something about it and occasionally perhaps
think about it for a very brief time, but the influences of life are far
more powerful, therefore it is necessary to find and seek by what means
the influences of the Work begin really to affect our lives and the way
we behave and think and feel and so on. That is why we have to try
to understand the Work and not merely to know it.
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Date: June 02, 2017 at 08:49:04
From: Jeannie, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: unless the Work has been pondered continually |
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Immanuel Velikovsky "Mankind in Amnesia" Interesting read.
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Date: June 01, 2017 at 11:25:55
From: Terra11, [DNS_Address]
Subject: the Work has been pondered Profound Thankyou Ryan(NT) |
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