About thirteen lectures (988, 1024, 1035, 1106, 1175, 1448, 1517, 1528, 1824, 1913, 1966, 2083, 2239), and it is the exact statement of how the law stands to the promise - the thing that keeps the whole teaching from being a prosperity method. The blows are inevitable and cannot be stopped; what the law does is soften them. 1035 puts it with the repetition that makes it unmistakable: while we are here in this world, to cushion the blows, and only to cushion the blows, he has given us a law - and the law is simple, imagining creates reality. 1024 agrees - the promise is fixed, it will come to every being because it has been predetermined, and while you are in the world of Caesar you can cushion the inevitable blows by learning the technique. 1106 gives it a name: the Torah is a law to lead man in exile, and with it man can cushion the blows as he is sent through the furnaces. The consequence Neville states at 1824 is the one that matters and it removes any leverage the practitioner might think he has: don't think that because you've mastered the art you could work in cooperation with God to bring a new order into being. That new order is coming whether you forgive or not. If you want to continue adjusting yourself to the environment in which you were born, it will not delay your entrance into the kingdom of heaven. So the law neither earns the promise nor hastens it; it makes the wait bearable. Keep it beside M997 and M865.