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Pructus Posted 12 years ago
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W-pI.151.4. Can this be judgment? 2 You have often been urged to refrain from judging, not because it is a right to be withheld from you. 3 You cannot judge. 4 You merely can believe the ego's judgments, all of which are false. 5 It guides your senses carefully, to prove how weak you are; how helpless and afraid, how apprehensive of just punishment, how black with sin, how wretched in your guilt.
W-pI.151.5. This thing it speaks of, and would yet defend, it tells you is yourself. 2 And you believe that this is so with stubborn certainty. 3 Yet underneath remains the hidden doubt that what it shows you as reality with such conviction it does not believe. 4 It is itself alone that it condemns. 5 It is within itself it sees the guilt. 6 It is its own despair it sees in you.
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Hello,
The underlined part is like this?
It tells you (that) this thing (which) it speaks of, and (which) (it) would yet defend, is yourself.
W-pI.151.5. This thing it speaks of, and would yet defend, it tells you is yourself. 2 And you believe that this is so with stubborn certainty. 3 Yet underneath remains the hidden doubt that what it shows you as reality with such conviction it does not believe. 4 It is itself alone that it condemns. 5 It is within itself it sees the guilt. 6 It is its own despair it sees in you.
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Hello,
The underlined part is like this?
It tells you (that) this thing (which) it speaks of, and (which) (it) would yet defend, is yourself.
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pructus The underlined part is like this? It tells you (that) this thing (which) it speaks of, and (which) (it) would yet defend, is yourself. Yes.
- pructus The underlined part is like this?
- It tells you (that) this thing (which) it speaks of, and (which) (it) would yet defend, is yourself.
- Yes.
- That's how I understand it.
- It certainly is a mish-mash of a sentence, though, isn't it?
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pructusThe underlined part is like this? It tells you (that) this thing (which) it speaks of, and (which) (it) would yet defend, is yourself.Yes. That's how I understand it. It certainly is a mish-mash of a sentence, though, isn't it?
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