{"id":101,"date":"2013-12-31T12:36:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T17:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marshasummers.com\/wordpress\/?p=101"},"modified":"2013-12-31T12:36:05","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T17:36:05","slug":"week-9-of-the-lifes-word-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marshasummers.com\/wordpress\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"Week 9 of the Life&#8217;s Word Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Below please find Week 9 of the Life&#8217;s Word Experiment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">A couple of you have notified us that you didn&#8217;t receive the 8&#8217;th Mystery, or Week 8 of the Life&#8217;s Word Experiment which was sent last Saturday. \u00a0Please note that even if you don&#8217;t receive a reminder email, the whole workshop can be read and\/or copied from this link:\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marshasummers.com\/innerman\/lwworkshoppart1.htm\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: Calibri;\">http:\/\/www.marshasummers.com\/innerman\/lwworkshoppart1.htm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Would you help us out? \u00a0Please let us know one or the other:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">1) \u00a0if there were any weeks you haven&#8217;t received OR\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">2) if you&#8217;ve received them all and aren&#8217;t having any misses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">That will give us some idea as to the nature\/size of the glitch in the system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Please email your response to me at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:kymu49@me.com\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: Times New Roman;\">kymu49@me.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">With thanks!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;\">T.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>IX<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Ninth Mystery:<span style=\"color: #3366ff; font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Freedom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>The Ninth Mystery is the Mystery of Freedom.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now that&#8217;s what we all want here is to be free, huh? <span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>To prepare you for freedom, I have sold you into slavery.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You know, you have read the story about Exodus and all that stuff.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Those people would never thought about freedom if they hadn&#8217;t been slaves for a while, you see, huh?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>So we&#8217;ve all been sold into slavery to all sorts of things; and we&#8217;ll get out of it, maybe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>To prepare you for freedom, I have sold you into slavery. <span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>You were born a slave and raised a slave.<span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Even when you did awake <\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>and knew yourself for a slave, I did not at once deliver you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now, how many of us have really ever discovered that we are truly slaves? Have you, Mary?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Have you?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>You\u2019re a slave.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>You have kids, huh?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>You know, kids born into this world immediately have a couple of slaves. <span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>From slavery unto slavery have I brought you that you might at last be free.<span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>When I sent you any measure of physical freedom, I sent you chains for the mind.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To go along with it.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>So you got some physical freedom, you got some chains on the mind.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>You grew up and you could run around a little further, but then somethin\u2019 ties your head down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>That in you which you call the individuality was not capable of freedom.<span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>It was either a slave to your desires, or to what you thought were the opinions of others, or to what you thought was the conscience.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now you&#8217;ve been a slave, trying to keep the conscience from bitin\u2019 you; and it went along and was really a rough slave-master, wasn&#8217;t it?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Hmm?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Is that right?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>So we&#8217;ve been a slave to it.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>And we&#8217;ve wanted to know what others expected of us, and we&#8217;ve wondered, \u201cwhat&#8217;ll people think?\u201d<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>So we&#8217;ve been a slave to that one &#8211; their opinions.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>And we&#8217;ve been a slave to all the desires &#8211; for wealth and fame and prestige and attention and approval, and we have worked our little arms off tryin\u2019 to be sure that we got attention and approval and no disapproval &#8211; is that right?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>We really worked at it.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>So we&#8217;ve been slaves &#8211; is that fairly easy?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>And we are slaves until this day. <span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Environment has educated you into habits of action and habits of thought, and you have been a slave to those habits.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We talked about those a while ago.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>You got a habit of eating a certain time of day, goin\u2019 to bed a certain time of day, and then goin\u2019 to work at a certain time of day &#8211; all these things. We&#8217;re slaves to them, is that right? They control, direct.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Even now, certain chains hang about you called \u201caspirations\u201d and \u201cambitions\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That\u2019s the one that really binds you down.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>You&#8217;re gonna be a great \u201cspiritual being\u201d or something; and you can really get yourself tied up with <em><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">that<\/span><\/em> knot.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Or you&#8217;re gonna be a great and famous person or have a lot of money, and that\u2019ll tie you down pretty tight, huh?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>You&#8217;re gonna \u201dhelp people\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I said I&#8217;ve been selling things all my life.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>And I&#8217;ve sold some pretty far-out things, some invisible things that people have bought; but the hardest thing to sell is \u201cwell-being\u201d.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>That&#8217;s the hardest sell there is.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Even if you sell it for a buck &#8211; you know, sell it cheap, doesn\u2019t matter what, it\u2019s the hardest thing to get people to buy, is well being.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Did you ever notice that?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Hmm?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>I can sell a little square on a map on the wall for $7,000, $20,000 cash.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>You know it represents a piece of real estate way off in a desert somewhere.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>People will buy that, pay you for it, Mack.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>But they won&#8217;t feel good.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Even though you show \u2018em how it&#8217;s so simple as one, two, three.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>It&#8217;s the hardest thing in the world to sell somebody on feelin\u2019 good.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Why is that, do you suppose? <span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span>Why is it so hard to sell it?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Now I make a good pitch for it too and I&#8217;m a pretty good Pitch Man. <span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(The not-I&#8217;s take over.) <span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Well, I wasn&#8217;t trying to sell them anything.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>I was trying to sell the person on getting rid of them.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>I wasn&#8217;t talkin\u2019 to them in the first place.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They want you to feel bad, all right. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>That in you which you call the individuality was not capable of freedom.<span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>It was either a slave to the desires, or what you thought were the opinions of others, or to what you thought was the conscience.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That&#8217;s the big one.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Environment has educated you into habits and you&#8217;ve been educated into those.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Have you broken all the old chains which bound you into My mysteries of long ago?<span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Yet are you not free!<span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Have you suffered the crucifixion of desire and the humiliation of defeat?<span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Have you given up unto Me all desire for what you think would be good?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Have you decided you don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s good and what&#8217;s bad and that you gotta get on it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Yet, per chance, you art still in slavery to your own opinions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That&#8217;s a good one, to be in slavery to your own opinions.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Oh man!<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>My freedom is the freedom of the heart and shines forth brightest when the environment seems most to enchain.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Don&#8217;t pay any attention to the environment. <span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Herein is this mystery, that freedom is not external, nor in any way dependent upon the actions or thoughts of others.<span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>He who is forcibly detained and does not mind it, who takes all external things as he finds them, and sees no fault in them, partakes of My freedom.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In other words, there&#8217;s this man we mentioned earlier today that said he had discovered one thing &#8211; in whatever state he was, therein to be content.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Hmm?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>So now if you lock the door on me and tell me I got to stay in here and I say, &#8220;Well, that&#8217;s fine, it&#8217;s rather comfortable in here.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019d sooner be here as anywheres else,\u201d have you got me locked up?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Are you kiddin\u2019 yourself?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Hmm?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>As long as I&#8217;m free to be here&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I know a guy they put in jail one time for some infraction of political law.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>He hadn&#8217;t committed any violence to anybody or anything; and they put him in jail for some failure to keep up with all the regulations that was passed out.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>And he said, &#8220;Well fine, if you wanna keep me here, you&#8217;ll feed me, and you&#8217;re housin\u2019 me.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>I&#8217;m gonna do the same thing here I was doing outside anyway; I&#8217;m gonna sit and meditate.&#8221;<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>So he set cross-legged and meditated.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>And he set there, and they brought his groceries and fed him every day, and he got up and eat, and then sit down to do his meditation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You know how long they kept him in there?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They couldn&#8217;t punish him.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>So they threw him out.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>He was ruining the morale of the whole prison.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>You know.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>He had all the other guys thinkin\u2019 they weren&#8217;t being punished, there in a few minutes.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>So if that ever got out and everybody found out, and everybody found out \u2013 \u201cAs long as I&#8217;m free to be here, you&#8217;re not punishin\u2019 me,\u201d \u2013 you see, it would wreck the whole penal system.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>So they got him out of there in a hurry.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>So suppose they threw a guy in for robbin\u2019 banks and he said, &#8220;Well, I just needed some time to meditate.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>So I&#8217;m gonna meditate here while you feed me.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>I don&#8217;t even have to get up and go knock off a few stereo sets or anything this week to get groceries.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>I&#8217;ll just meditate all week now.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>You give me a bed to sleep in, a roof over my head and food, now I&#8217;ll meditate.&#8221;<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Can you see how fast that would wreck the penal system?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Huh?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>You\u2019re not punishin\u2019 anybody.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Unless the guy don\u2019t wanna be there, you&#8217;re not punishin\u2019 him.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Is that right?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>So naturally it got him out.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>So if any of you get in, why sit there and say that&#8217;s what you want, and you start meditating.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>So sit there and meditate.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>And so, nobody\u2019s gonna get you in any trouble. <span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So freedom is from within.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Now, if I\u2019m free to do something.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>So shall we say that this Mystery is \u201cI am free to experience whatever may arise today\u201d &#8211; just today, not tomorrow or anything.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So this Mystery is &#8220;I am free to experience whatever may arise today.&#8221;<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Now then, can you see that that is truly freedom?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>You&#8217;re free to experience.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>All we are is an experiencing organism.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>You&#8217;re experiencing it freely, you&#8217;re in no bondage, is that correct?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Huh?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Now if you&#8217;re really free, can you be free to experience a little discomfort, if discomfort is what should arise today?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Hmm? Then the discomfort isn&#8217;t punishin\u2019 you or causin\u2019 you any difficulty or anything else, is it?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Are you free to experience boring people? <span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(Ok.) <span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I just wanted to see if I could get to you there for a minute there, Marcy. <span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(I&#8217;d rather die!) <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I said, are you free to? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(Yeah.) <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ok, then they can&#8217;t bug you, can you see?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(Yes.) <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>It is well for you if you are enchained.<span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The organ of the brain through which I shall afterwards express My perfect freedom can only be developed by the operation of the sense of slavery.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In other words, you really couldn&#8217;t get around to being free to experience whatever may arise unless you had gone through a long period of being totally un-free to experience what may arise today, unless it just happened to suit you, is that right?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>And then you wanted to hang onto that and not let the other one go.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>So again we&#8217;re back to what the man said.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>I&#8217;ve discovered one thing\u2014whatever state I find myself in, to be therein content.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Or, I am free to experience whatever may arise today. So if it rains, fine.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>If clouds fall, fine.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Sun shines \u2013 fine.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>People are nice to me &#8211; fine; if the restaurant&#8217;s noisy &#8211; fine; if it&#8217;s nice and quiet \u2013 fine.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>And on down the road &#8211; so what&#8217;s the difference? <span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>So it is in all My mysteries, that the worse you do seem to be, the better it is for you<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That&#8217;s why all you folks who have been alcoholics and etc. are such wonderful people &#8211; you&#8217;ve been through that rat race.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>You know about it.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Really.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>And I&#8217;m not \u2018wolfin&#8217;; I&#8217;m not making snide statements.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>That is a literal fact.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>You&#8217;ve been through something and now you know what it is to kind of fly clear once in a while.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>So when the world says you are in a mess, well that&#8217;s when Life says you&#8217;re better off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>So it is in all My mysteries that the worse you do seem to be, the better it is for you.<span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Are you painfully self-conscious? Then I am developing the organ of the brain which I design to use for expressing the consciousness of Me.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I, at one time, was the most bashful of all people.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>It was horrible and painful. And I recognize what this statement means.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>It was really miserable.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>And now I know what it really means. <span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Are you fearful and afraid?<span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Then I am developing the organ of the brain <\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>through which I will afterwards express My perfect courage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You know if you get enough of that stuff, after awhile you quit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Do you suffer because you lack judgment? I am using that suffering to develop the organ of the brain through which I will afterwards express My perfect wisdom and judgment.<span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Now the great suffering and discipline which I send unto the minds of many is that they should not be able to see the perfection of My law.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And that is probably very, very accurate cause you see, the laws are usually that when you make anything important, you become anxious.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>It&#8217;s wonderful you can&#8217;t see that for a while.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>It really is kinda nice.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>And it really is nice to see that as long as you&#8217;re struggling to be happy, there&#8217;s no way to be happy; and the day you don&#8217;t give a durn about being happy, you&#8217;ll find you are.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>So it&#8217;s wonderful you can&#8217;t see all that for a while.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Therefore, I say unto you that you are blessed if you do suffer, <\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>for that suffering develops you;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It&#8217;s a good exercise. <span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>and you are double blessed if you are afraid, for out of fear I will bring forth courage;<span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>but you are thrice blessed if you do suffer; and also are in fear, and also cannot see that it is I being born in the heart.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">All that comes about is the way Life is born in your innermost being; so you&#8217;re thrice blessed, three times blessed, if you see all.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>You see that was some of the great beings through history have been called \u201cthe three times blessed\u201d.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They were blessed because they suffered, because they were afraid, and also because they were blind.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They couldn&#8217;t see what was going on. <span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>For out of blindness will I bring sight.<span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The darkest blindness shall develop the most glorious light.<span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Behold I am light shining forth from within you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And that light, you will remember we looked at, was several different things: love, and health, and wealth, and joy, and so forth, and happiness.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>So that&#8217;s that light, and it&#8217;s shining forth from men, but we cover it up pretty heavy with all our good stuff.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>You know, all the not-I&#8217;s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>My words come alike unto many, but it is not possible then to be understood by you until you are ready for that understanding.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And I think everybody here today is ready or we wouldn&#8217;t have been here. <span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Herein is this Mystery of Freedom: that you are free to believe as you do choose, but you cannot believe anything in the heart until I have developed the body to the point where it needs such a belief.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In other words, if the heart wasn&#8217;t possible to believe in regeneration, there was no way you could accept it.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>I have thrown this out in many places to many different people that it was possible for regeneration and Life eternal to exist; and I have found that there is precious few that can accept it.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>So there&#8217;s very few bodies prepared to that point.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Yet most of \u2018em say, one guy said, &#8220;Who in hell would wanna live forever?\u201d<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>He&#8217;s already had it, he wanted out now.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>So obviously he wasn&#8217;t interested in it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>You are free from the environment, for I can adapt the heart to freely allow that other to have any opinion he chooses.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So you know, we don&#8217;t have to fight other people&#8217;s opinion.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>If they have an opinion, it&#8217;s wonderful.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>If they have an opinion of this idea, that idea, reincarnation, or soul sleep or transportin\u2019 on flying saucers to other realms, it&#8217;s all wonderful &#8211; it&#8217;s just fine.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>I don&#8217;t find any fault in it.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Why not?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>That&#8217;s as good an idea to believe in as any.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Yet you are free to struggle against environment and free to be<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>influenced by another&#8217;s opinion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now you&#8217;re free to do that, it said &#8211; pretty obvious, isn&#8217;t it?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>I&#8217;m free to do anything and I can choose what I wanna do then.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>And herein is this mystery, that I call you by many voices, through slavery, fear, and doubt, that I may develop my expression, which is the body, unto freedom.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So we could possibly say that the Mystery in this, this one on Freedom, is that we are free already to experience whatever may come along today without gettin\u2019 all torn up about it.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Now then you&#8217;re free, is that right?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Comes all into that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So everything that we&#8217;ve fought with, and struggled, made it possible when we see, &#8220;Well, I don&#8217;t wanna fight and struggle with that one anymore.&#8221;<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>You&#8217;ve been free to experience it now.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>You don&#8217;t want to fight it anymore, is that right?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Hmm?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Then you&#8217;re already free.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So freedom can be very instantaneous; and I suppose that&#8217;s what everybody has said they wanted more than anything else.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>But most people have approached freedom by trying to be free <em><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">from<\/span><\/em> something.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>If you want to be free from unhappiness, you&#8217;ll never get it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If I wanted to get even into Whitney (it\u2019s not very far from here, is that right, Mack?) and I followed signs that said, \u201c<em><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">From<\/span><\/em> Whitney\u201d, how long do you think it\u2019d take me to get there? <span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(You just wouldn&#8217;t make it.) <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But if I followed signs that says \u201cTo Whitney\u201d, I&#8217;m there in a few minutes, is that right?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Now if I follow signs that says, \u201cFree From\u201d, I&#8217;m goin\u2019 away from freedom; free from want, free from fear, free from this.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>You know, we been sold all this by institutions, that we&#8217;re gonna give you so many things that you\u2019ll be free from fear, free from want, that correct?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>That&#8217;s what the great society is all about, is to give us things so we&#8217;ll be free from the great things we wanna have Freedom from.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Now if I&#8217;m free to do anything, I&#8217;m already free.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>So freedom follows the signs that says, \u201cTo\u201d, not \u201cFrom\u201d.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>So I am free <em><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">to<\/span><\/em> do anything; experience whatever may arise today.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Now I&#8217;m totally free, but if I wanna be free even from one thing<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>and even though it don&#8217;t happen today, I&#8217;m still anxious about it.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>It might happen, is that correct?<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>So are you free to experience whatever may arise today, huh? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(You bet.) <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Then you&#8217;re a free individual.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>You&#8217;re free, you&#8217;re one\u2026Life, not not-I&#8217;s expressing through you.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>See, the not-I&#8217;s and their urge to be never disturbed are the ones that wants to be free <em><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">from<\/span><\/em> things.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>So we&#8217;ve struggled to be free <em><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">from<\/span><\/em>.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>That\u2019s the way we approach everything.<span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Free from bein\u2019 sick, free from bein\u2019 old, free from dying, free from bein\u2019 broke, free from bein\u2019 hassled &#8211; 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