What the end looks like, and Neville’s standing answer to the fear that awakening as God means being dissolved into something. Twice over the answer is the same: the being you meet is YOU, and nobody is lost. When you meet your Imagination you see it personified as yourself, the most glorious being you have ever seen, and there is no doubt about the recognition — at 109, I have no doubt in my mind who I am looking at, I am looking at myself, but I am looking at myself raised to the nth degree of perfection. The phrase carries three loads. It answers the identity objection: at 1148, all of us, the three billion and more of us, will not lose any identity, only raised to the nth degree of majesty; at 1055, one day He will awake, and He is you, and you are God, without loss of identity — I will know you just as I know you now. It answers the objection from other people’s wickedness, and this is where it costs something: at 109 the same face is granted to Hitler and to Stalin — not another one like Hitler; he looks just like Hitler raised to the nth degree of perfection. And it marks the point where description fails, which is why Blake’s Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love [mercy-pity-peace-and-love-is-god] is so often reached for in the same breath, as at 1130, and why at 1055 he simply says I can’t quite find the words. At 1035 it is what other people will see when they look at the awakened man — a face raised to the nth degree of beauty and majesty and character beyond the wildest dream of anything on earth, and yet you are God, and they will know it. BOUNDARY. [behind-the-mask-you-wear-is-the-only-god] claims what is BEHIND the mask (the Father, God, the Ancient of Days). This motif describes what that being LOOKS LIKE when met, and its distinctive content is the preservation of identity. 1518 states both in one passage and should carry both. At 1110 the phrase is used for something else entirely — the number of a man, 666, the sixth raised to the nth degree — and does not belong here. COUNT: mine and provisional — the phrase is in about twenty-seven lectures; the tellings read for this record are 109, 1035, 1055, 1130 and 1148.