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Sleeping man is an automaton walking tracks laid down by his own inner talking. By the curvature of time the next life is this life, replayed in every detail without memory, as in Neville's vision of the workman at the coal hole who did the same thing each time the scene returned. Only by laying new tracks, through revision and new inner conversations, does man break the circle of recurrence; in later lectures the awakened are lifted off the wheel of recurrence.

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the next life is this life
man must awake from the dream where he is simply an automaton
what appears to be so new in our world is only the appearance of the return of phenomena already old

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That the present is not receding into the past, it’s advancing into the future? That the bygone is not bygone, it’s oncoming?
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We all feel so secure in recurrence.
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Everything is still recurring, nothing is new, but that makes him feel secure.
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All day long I think the same thing over and over. I am working at the wheel of recurrence.
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We are walking tracks and the tracks are forever, and by the mere curvature of time your next life is this life.
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So I bring you a message to make you conscious: man must awake from the dream where he is simply an automaton.
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You will find your self repeating it but you will not know you’ve done it before.
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if I use it wisely, I will break the circle of recurrence and rise beyond it into eternity
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the whole vast world playing their parts that they’ve played forever, and will continue to play on the curvature of time forever until he snaps out of it and rises from the dead
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I make you a prophesy, I make you a promise, your next life is this life
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for may I tell you the next life is this life
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the curvature of time will bring you back and back and back forever and forever until you break it
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so you are doing it and you think you’re doing it for the first time
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that track is laid forever and he will walk it forever until he awakes
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Now I could prophesy for that man; I knew exactly what he would do every moment of time right up to that manhole
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The Biblical view of time is: what appears to be so new in our world is only the appearance of the return of phenomena already old. The whole vast world is moving on a circle
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Now he tells me: that which has been done (which is my birth) is that which will be done. That I am moving towards that same thing on a wheel of recurrence, that same thing in this world of Caesar, and only divine mercy can redeem me from the wheel.
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The lady who saw it before it happened, and saw it so clearly ten days before, she forgot. Within a matter of seconds she completely forgot that she’d seen it, saw the headlines, complete headlines, “Kennedy Shot.”
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“What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun.
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You can be just as asleep beyond the grave. I meet them constantly, and they are just like this. Same loves and same hates. No change.
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Haven’t you seen where—we go back to 1840—and he elected every twenty years made his exit while in office? Now, we’ve gone beyond the hundred years. Can’t you see the wheel of recurrence?
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