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revelation!

From the October 1980 issue of The Christian Science Journal


                               to read-read-read a book—does that reveal?
a revelation—yes (so well, completely feelingly described)
         the letter yes
                 and yes the spirit too . . . what has been seen . . .
                                                                                       and known . . .
to read because it tells . . .
                                               and at the same time does it also
say "come reader! to this point of revelation too. your own
one-to-one-ness    (1 to 1)     (1-1) with revelation, too.
with love i'll share it all with you.
         (not an    i've-got-it-squashed-in-these-words   at all)
         (nor      memorize-these-words-to-codified-panacea)
         (not       i've-brought-this-revelation-down-to-you either)
this far we go together, you and i . . . and yet
you know who's really telling you . . .
come reader! let your spiritual seeing witness revelation too."

         like forinstance onceuponatime there was a little
         seeker who couldn't see how . . .

                                                                   well, how could
         God heal evil, if He really never knew it . . .?
         (study and ponder . . . (part of it) . . . study . . .
         ponder) (and seek, too . . . seek and ponder . . . and
         seek) . . . ((a little struggling too, eh, littleseeker?))
         (but listening too . . . listening and pondering)

and    t h e n . .
         (not care/study/depths of hyperintellectuality but
         little glints and big ideas and tinywidening views and
         focuses and finally a natural and spiritually sensed)
t h e n . .
                        the seeker knew (just . . . knew)
                                                                      (by feel then, mostly)
that Love wouldn't be Love—unless it healed.
It just has to (because that's the way Love is)
                                                           (naturally     [of course])
      and the seeker loved the book—joyed in its blessing—
              and knew that that seeking
                                                      had reached its revelation, too . . .
right from Love. . . . . . .

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