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There is no God on the outside to bow down or pray to: whoever turns to a power outside himself and worships it, as a relic, a sacred object or a being enthroned in space, worships an idol, for the living God is within. Prayer is communion with oneself, not petition to another, and a people that turns to an external God has confusion and war.

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1 John 5:21 | Little children keep yourselves from idols
Exodus 20:4 | Thou shall make no graven image unto the Lord thy God

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And you do not get down on your knees and pray to an external god.
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Bow to nothing on the outside.
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you are asked please not to make anything external to your own mind and bow before it as creative power
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For the God of this world is an internal God.
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So any man who turns to a power outside of himself and bows before it as some sacred relic or some sacred object, or in any other way turns to it, he worships idols, for the living God is within you.
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He turns to something outside of himself and it fails him and he cries that he is forsaken.
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They have not reached the sixth eye, or I AM. He who has reached that turns to no one.
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billions of us don’t believe in the God; we believe in some little totem pole, something on the outside.
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LectureFalse Gods
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LectureFalse Gods
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LectureFalse Gods
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LectureFalse Gods
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October 16, 1973 ¶2024
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