Post by Rogier van Vlissingen on Nov 19, 2006 14:17:06 GMT -5
P/GoTh:
quote
Do not worry, from morning to night and from night until morning, about what you will wear. The lilies neither toil nor spin.
unquote
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Form:
Pursah streamlined this one, but also added the last sentence, which we are familiar with from another part of the same quote which is more familiar to us from the Gospels of Luke (12:27-28) and Matthew (6:28b-30) and which goes back to Q.
Content:
It is clear that Pursah's treatment does not add anything but makes this saying more rounded, more of a quotable quote. On p. 79 of DU, Pursah emphasizes that this saying is not meant in a physical sense, but concerns itself with our mental attachments.
The underlying thought is akin to the Course's "I need do nothing." (cf. ACIM:T-18.VII:passim), and Gary's comment of "The Holy Spirit doesn't do form."
As such it is the counter to the ego's endless concern with specifics, with form, with externalities, which forever serve only one purpose: to keep us completely enmeshed in the ego thought system, and "blissfully" (tongue in cheek) unaware of who we are as spirit.
quote
Do not worry, from morning to night and from night until morning, about what you will wear. The lilies neither toil nor spin.
unquote
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Form:
Pursah streamlined this one, but also added the last sentence, which we are familiar with from another part of the same quote which is more familiar to us from the Gospels of Luke (12:27-28) and Matthew (6:28b-30) and which goes back to Q.
Content:
It is clear that Pursah's treatment does not add anything but makes this saying more rounded, more of a quotable quote. On p. 79 of DU, Pursah emphasizes that this saying is not meant in a physical sense, but concerns itself with our mental attachments.
The underlying thought is akin to the Course's "I need do nothing." (cf. ACIM:T-18.VII:passim), and Gary's comment of "The Holy Spirit doesn't do form."
As such it is the counter to the ego's endless concern with specifics, with form, with externalities, which forever serve only one purpose: to keep us completely enmeshed in the ego thought system, and "blissfully" (tongue in cheek) unaware of who we are as spirit.