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WE ARE and WE are NOT as also WE are NOT and WE ARE
saying of it, could not substitute for the experience of what it is. And in the realm from which this soul emerged, there was nothing but light. Every soul was grand and every soul was magnificent and every soul shone with the brilliance of God‘s light. So the little soul was like a candle in the Sun. In the midst of the grandest light, of which it was part, it could not see itself, nor experience itself as to who and what it really is.
Now it came to pass that this soul yearned to know itself. So great was its yearning that God one day said, whether it knew how to satisfy its yearning. The soul replied that it does not and added that it would do anything for satisfying this yearning. God replied in such a case it should separate itself from the rest of the souls and then it must call upon it the darkness. Perplexed the soul asked what this darkness is. God smiled and said ―that which you are not‖ and the unfortunate soul understood. And the soul did so, removing itself from the ̳All‘ going unto another realm. And in this realm the soul had the power to call into its experience all sorts of
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