Hierarchy Index Cards - H
Heard
Card-H-20-05 Date Ripon 4.8.45 Reading Heard: Training for the life of the spirit.
Card-H-20-08. DH on the stages from events being external and imposed to being internal and willed:
Acceptance of what happens…5. Understanding the factors which control you externally is a half-way house to accepting them. In fact, understanding is a sort of acceptance. What’s more, when you understand, and accept perhaps, external control, you have restored it to true concrete personal activity, and rescued it from ‘mechanical’ abstract pressure. This mechanical, accidental, impersonal pressure of events is of course an illusion, an abstraction. Nothing accidental or unwilled happens, because activity is will.
6. The true and concrete reality is found when ‘you’ understand and fully concur in all that is external, thereby making it internal. This means that nothing can happen at any time or place which is not ‘your’ will. This means that the body of any mechanical action is ruled out. All that happens is willed. And of course, ‘you’ are God. Even the resistance to the Divine Persuasiveness is concurred in for bigger ends.
Index Card H-20
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