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John 21:15-17 read as imagination questioning itself: having found one's shepherd and saviour in one's own imagination, one is asked three times 'lovest thou me?', and to love him is to feed his sheep, one's rambling thoughts, with lovely imaginings of others. Joined to Matthew 25:40-45 ('inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these'): every unlovely thought imagined against another is done to him, walking the Master in the mud, and the least of these turns out at last to be oneself.

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John 21:15-17 | Peter, lovest thou me? Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. Then feed my sheep
Matthew 25:45 | When you did not do it unto the least among one of these, you did not do it unto me
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Any time you imagine any unlovely thought against another, you walked me in the mud

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And the day will come when man will discover the “least” spoken of is himself.
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“Peter, lovest thou me? Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. Then feed my sheep.” And three times the same question is asked
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Any time you imagine any unlovely thought against another, you walked me in the mud.
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And morning, noon and night he imagines the unlovely things against his neighbor, not knowing at that very moment he was walking his Master in the gutter.
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When you did not do it unto the least among one of these, you did not do it unto me.
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and then begin to feed my sheep, begin to change my thoughts, my feelings, my moods concerning others
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And then, having discovered, you start really to feed the sheep and you will stop, as of now, this walking of your Savior in the mud.
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Every moment of time is an opportunity to feed him, and you’re always feeding Christ every time you use your Imagination lovingly on behalf of another.
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the very word translated “feed” in John 21 is translated many times in the Bible as “shepherd,” as “rule.”
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This is simply saying: practice the truths you have heard, for it means to shepherd the thoughts of the mind.
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Then feed my sheep. Become ruler of this mind of yours
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