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24. MEDITAÇÕES

            “OFFER unto God a pure oblation let the fire of the altar search thee and prove thy fortitude.

            “Cleanse thy sight, thine hands, and thy feet; carry the censer of thy worship into the courts of the Lord, and let thy vows be unto the Most High.”

            “Renounce the world and aspire heaven-ward; labour not for the meat which perishes, but ask of God thy daily bread; beware of wandering doctrines and let the Word of the Lord be thy light.”

            “Renounce thine own will, and let the law of God only be within thee: renounce doubt; pray always and faint not: be pure of heart also, and thou shalt see God.” (1)

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            “Cast thyself into the will of God and thou shalt become as God. For thou art God, if thy will be the Divine will.” (1)

            “God is nothing that man is not. What man is, that God is likewise. As God is at the heart of the outer world so also is God at the heart of the world, within thee. When the God within thee shall be wholly united to the God without, then shalt thou be one with the Most High.

            “Thy will shall be God’s will and the Son shall be as the Father.

            “Thou art ruler of a world, O man; thy name is legion; thou hast many under thee.

            “Thou sayest to this one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to another, Do this, and he doeth it.

            “What thou knowest is told thee

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from within; what thou workest is worked from within.

            When thou prayest, thou invokest the God within thee; and from the God within thee thou receivest thy good things.” (1)

            “He only can put Satan under foot who is released by thought from the bonds of desire.

            Nature is the allegory of spirit: all that appeareth to the sense is deceit; to know the truth, alone shall make men free.” (2)

NOTES

(155:1) Clothed with the Sun. Part II, Nº. 5.

(157:1) Clothed with the Sun. Part II, Nº. 9.

(159:1) Part II, Nº. 13.

(159:2) Part II, Nº. 15.

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