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To: Sam Ferguson who wrote (16735)	5/31/1998 12:26:00 PM
From: Sam Ferguson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

"I say truly, as long as you do works for the sake of heaven or God or eternal bliss, from without, you are at fault. It may pass muster, but it is not the best. Indeed, if a man thinks he will get more of God by meditation, by devotion, by ecstasies or by special infusion of grace than by the fireside or in the stable--that is nothing but taking God, wrapping a cloak round His head and shoving Him under a bench. For whoever seeks God in a special way gets the way and misses God, who lies hidden in it." "It is true that you may receive the gifts of the Holy Ghost, or the likeness of the Holy Ghost, but it does not abide with you--it is impermanent. In the same way a man may blush for shame or blanch, but that is accidental and it passes. But a man who is by nature ruddy and fair, remains so always. So it is with a man who is the only begotten Son, the Holy Ghost remains in his being." "Not that one should escape from the inward man, or flee from him or deny him, but in him and through him, one should learn to act in such a way that one breaks up the inwardness (innicheit) into reality and leads reality into inwardness, and that one should thus become accus-tomed to work without compulsion." From the works of Eckhart.