I saw the pure LIGHT of the Creative Power gradually dimmed and then
obscured altogether in him, by a dense wrapping of chains and thongs.
1.121.3 I questioned the meaning of the vision
and there came to my mind a clear understanding
which may be expressed in the following words:
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1.122 ‘From birth to death – people believe and insist
that their five senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste, correctly predicate the reality of themselves and the universe around them. 1.122.1 Therefore, because they draw their mind power direct from Divine Creative Power, it is done to them according to their beliefs. |
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1.122.2 Each thong represents a person’s habitual thoughts,
responses to people and events, prejudices, hates, animosities, anxieties, sorrows, all of which bind him down and shut out the Light from his inner vision drawn from the Creative Power. |
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1.122.3 Thus he enters into darkness but does not know it.
1.122.4 He believes he is growing up and becoming mature in the ways of the world which will enable him to forge ahead and make good – become successful – the aim of most people on earth. 1.122.5 In fact, the more mature he becomes and versed in worldly ways, the more densely do his chains and thongs imprison him within the grip of the twin IMPULSES of Bonding-Rejection. |
greed, aggression, violence and rape.
1.122.7 These chains hang heavy around him and burden the psyche,
which is the creative consciousness power deep within him.
1.122.8 Chain and thong will bind him tighter with every passing year
1.122.8.1 until he realizes what he is doing to himself
1.122.8.2 and sincerely repents each thong and chain
1.122.8.3 and makes due restitution to others whom he has harmed.
1.124 Man himself is born with all the potential to make a beautiful life for himself
but he, himself, by indulging his selfish desires and hatreds,
creates a prison of misery for himself
from which there was no escape
until such times as he realizes the TRUTH OF EXISTENCE.