Jeremiah 18: 'I went down to the Potter's house and the Potter was working at his wheel... and the vessel in his hand was spoiled, but he reworked it into another vessel, such as seemed good unto him.' Neville reads every term inwardly: going down to the potter's house is going into one's own being; the wheel is sitting alone thinking, cogitating on what the day brought; the spoiled vessel is the distressing word or the letter that formed an image he could not stop. Imagination is the potter - the word means maker, and it also means God. So today, did I take what was spoiled and rework it? Could I read the letter I wish I had received? If I can do it I have proved I am beginning to awaken; if I did not do it, Jeremiah is not speaking of me, because I am not being the potter as I should.
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Jeremiah 18 | I went down to the Potter’s house and the Potter was working at his wheel
Jeremiah 18 | And the vessel in his hand was spoiled, but he reworked it into another vessel, such as seemed good unto him
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I can read the letter I wish I had received.
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LectureThe Only Christianity
The word “Potter” means Imagination. “I went down to the potter’s house and he was working at his wheel, and the vessel in his hand was spoiled, but he worked it into another vessel such as seemed good to him.”
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LectureThe Only Christianity
if I am a wise potter I will change it and hear you tell me that you now have what you desire. I will make a new vessel.
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LectureLife Has a Purpose
We take anything in the world and refashion that being in our mind’s eye, just as though he or she were as we would desire them to be.
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LectureWhat Is Truth
He didn’t discard that material at all, didn’t discard it as you and I would discard people who are not coming up to our ideals. He simply took the same vessel and reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to him to do.
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LectureFawcett's Letter (Imaginism)
Well, today did I take something that was spoiled and rework it? Did I take some distressing word and rewrite it?
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LectureFawcett's Letter (Imaginism)
Imagination is the potter. The word means “maker;” it also means “God.”
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“I went down to the Potter’s house and the Potter was working at his wheel.” I went right into my own being. I was working at the wheel.
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