Deuteronomy 32:18 taken literally enough to make a scandal of it, and it is the scripture by which Neville reads his own quartz vision (M948). The Rock, his work is perfect - and the pronoun changes in the same verse, so what was inanimate takes on the form of a person. And of the Rock that begot you, you are unmindful, and you have forgotten the God who gave you birth. His inference is one line long: if I was begotten by a Rock and born of God, then God and the Rock are one. He joins it to the first letter of Peter, where the same stone is offered as an invitation - O come to him, to that living stone, rejected by men, but in God's sight chosen and precious; become living stones, built into a spiritual house - and notes that the word Peter means rock. Then he names what the stone is in his own world: my own wonderful human Imagination, which I through the years rejected. The rejection is given without excuse. In my search for God I thought he was another, because others thought he was out there and showed me pictures of him, and in my innocence I believed them; I could not believe, trained as I was trained, that I myself was the cause of the phenomena of my life - so I rejected the stone that begot me. By accepting what you rejected, you are accepted, and you become a living stone yourself. About sixteen lectures. At 1171 and 1246 the emphasis falls on the fragmenting: the Rock is fragmented and we are all the pieces, and when gathered we form one body. At 1176 a woman who trusted nothing else is told the Rock is herself. At 1213 he equates the Rock with God and goes on to the rock in the wilderness that all drank from.