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come on people;

can only DB recognise the genius (or did he say "original", originality?) of the mystic/esoteric interpretation???

No room for the faint-hearted here......

Is it really possible to become one with eyn sof ?
For the Mystic in Leonard suggests, in my opinion, that it is.

Is it really possible to become one with eyn sof ??????????
"That is the question" as the bard says.

Are we slaves or are we "gods"? (not Gods; but gods)
You decide for yourself.

That is what 1.10, leads to, obliquely, for me.

good night sweet prince...s..and princess....s...

That sounds like blackmail, Mat.

mat james wrote:
No room for the faint-hearted here......

I kept asking myself why I felt that those words didn't seem quite right.
Then that made me think of the line

"You bound me to my fingerprints, as you bind every man, except the ones who need no binding"

and Leonard's Song

"Bind us tight
All your children here
In their rags of light"

In another place Geoffrey was writing about the above and describing the practice of how babies are often bound very tight. He used the example of Jesus in the manger probably being bound very tight.

All this get me thinking that the ones who need no binding are the children, even though they are the ones we bind and that gets me thinking about what is needed to become like one of them. Then I asked myself why am I thinking that something is needed. Then I thought about Rabbi Pinhas saying "What you pursue, you don't get. But what you allow to grow slowly in its own way, comes to you."

So Mat I think that there is room for the faint hearted. I can't imagine anyone being more faint hearted than me and I feel that there is plenty of room for me here.

Discussion about Book of Mercy contunies in Book of Mercy, Part Four:
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