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We want to do away with the normal punctuation of your experience, for you put periods and question marks and dashes where they do not belong. What Ruburt said earlier concerning the songs of the Sumari is indeed true. The words are stepping stones to lead you into other areas of experience. (To Gert.) Do not be afraid to step off of the words.
Do not think first, “Is this a true word?” Use the word as a launching pad to experience. Within the word is a wordless knowledge. Now you need the sounds to remind you. In time—in your time—you will dispense even with the sounds. You will be walking backward, in your terms, into the heart of perception. Therefore, you will leave behind many of the truths that are now familiar to you, the words that you take for granted. For when you consider an experience, you apply words to it much more than feelings: “Does this word apply, or does that word apply, or what is it; and without its label, dare I experience this unknown?”
Illuminating the centuries and the landscapes of your thought, revelations have indeed appeared and appear now. The Bible is but one aspect, and highly distorted, of revelations that occurred, in your terms, in the past. But revelations are always, they do not end. There is not a revelation that stopped happening centuries ago. You are revelations. You are each revelations. You very carefully examine your experience. Is this valid? Is this true? but you are yourselves experiences. Are you valid? Are you true?
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