Post by Rogier van Vlissingen on Apr 8, 2007 20:04:44 GMT -5
P/GoTh:
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God's Divine Rule is like a person who had good seed. His rival came during the night and sowed weeds among the good seed. The person did not let the workers pull up the weeds, but said to them, "No, otherwise you might go to pull up the weeds and pull up the wheat along with them." For on the one day of the harvest the weeds will be conspicuous, and will be pulled up and burned."
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Form:
Here again Pursah uses 'God's Divine Rule' in lieu of the phrase 'the father's kingdom,' which is interesting, inasmuch as 'kingdom' in this sense is quite commonly used in the Course, but evidently she feels this phraseology has some merit. Rival in lieu of enemy. Clarifying 'them' as 'the workers.' Nothing else worthy of note.
Content:
This image seems very reminiscent of the Course's notion that resisting "evil" serves to make it real and reinforce it, and therefore forgiveness is the only path that makes sense. Anything we do to "take care of the problem" accomplishes nothing but to make the problem real. And in forgiveness everything gets washed away, and the ego "fades into the nothingness from which it came." (ACIM:M-13.1:2)
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God's Divine Rule is like a person who had good seed. His rival came during the night and sowed weeds among the good seed. The person did not let the workers pull up the weeds, but said to them, "No, otherwise you might go to pull up the weeds and pull up the wheat along with them." For on the one day of the harvest the weeds will be conspicuous, and will be pulled up and burned."
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Form:
Here again Pursah uses 'God's Divine Rule' in lieu of the phrase 'the father's kingdom,' which is interesting, inasmuch as 'kingdom' in this sense is quite commonly used in the Course, but evidently she feels this phraseology has some merit. Rival in lieu of enemy. Clarifying 'them' as 'the workers.' Nothing else worthy of note.
Content:
This image seems very reminiscent of the Course's notion that resisting "evil" serves to make it real and reinforce it, and therefore forgiveness is the only path that makes sense. Anything we do to "take care of the problem" accomplishes nothing but to make the problem real. And in forgiveness everything gets washed away, and the ego "fades into the nothingness from which it came." (ACIM:M-13.1:2)