About sixty-one passages, and it is the operative consequence of everything else Neville teaches - the point at which the doctrine stops being a description and starts forbidding something. You know now that there is no power outside of your own consciousness; therefore you cannot turn to anyone outside of self. The form of the sentence matters: it is not that turning outside is wrong or weak but that there is nothing there to turn to, so the prohibition is a report on the furniture of the world. He adds the hearing clause, which is the practical half - you have no ears for the suggestion that something else has power in it - and he is honest about the cost: any enlargement of our concept of Self involves a somewhat painful parting with strongly rooted hereditary conceptions, and the ligaments are strong that hold us in the womb of conventional limitations. At 1327 it becomes a test with a pass mark: if you turn to anyone outside of yourself you have turned to a false Jesus Christ and failed the test. Turn only to God and not to anyone or anything on the outside. M437 holds the refusal of an intermediary and M723 the turning to other gods; this is the underlying claim that makes both of those follow. PROVENANCE. Coined out of sequence at the request of the attach lane, which found the passages while attaching other motifs and reported that nothing in the catalogue held them. The canonical and the occurrences below were read in full before coining; the rest of the corpus-wide set was supplied by the lane and is attached, not read, so the occurrences here carry confidence 0.95 rather than 0.99.
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there is no power outside of your own consciousness. Therefore you cannot turn to anyone outside of self
You have no ears for the suggestion that something else has power in it
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LectureNo One to Change But Self
You know now that there is no power outside of your own consciousness. Therefore you cannot turn to anyone outside of self. You have no ears for the suggestion that something else has power in it.
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LectureGod's Creative Power
If you turn to anyone outside of yourself you have turned to a false Jesus Christ and failed the test. Turn only to God and not to anyone or anything on the outside.
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