Isaiah 64:8 taken word by word. 'Lord' is I AM, so 'O Lord, thou art our Father' means I AM is my creator; and the word translated 'Potter' means imagination. I AM in itself has no form - form begins when I say 'I am a man', 'I am rich', 'I am poor', which is I AM personified. So everything that has happened to me is the work of that hand, and none of it means a second person. The test is subtraction: leave off for one moment imagining yourself poor, and where would the poor man be? It would vanish and leave no trace behind it. Anything assumed by imagining ceases to be the moment the imagining stops - which makes the events of a life the Potter's vessels and the imagining the only hand that shapes them. (Distinct from Jeremiah's potter and the spoiled vessel; this is the Isaiah 64 clay, and the move is lexical.)
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Isaiah 64:8 | yet, O Lord, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou art our Potter; we are all the work of thy hand
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the word translated “potter” means imagination
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LectureThe Book of Job
You and I are the clay in the potter’s hands and he brings us out into his own image.
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LectureWe Have Found Him
Well, how can I, the thing worked, the pot, say to the potter “Why do you make me in this form?” I have no choice in the matter. He has made me as he desired me, and then endowed me with life by giving me himself.
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The word “potter” in Hebrew means imagination. And who makes anything? If God made me out of the clay, out of the dust, was he not a potter?
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LectureIs Causation Imaginal
Anything that is happening to me is the work of thy hand — and it does not mean a second person, but I AM, which means my imagination.
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The word translated “Potter” — thou art our Potter — the word translated “potter” means imagination.
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If I dare to leave off imagining that I am limited, then the thing that is assumed by imagining, by dreaming itself limited, will simply cease to be.
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yet, O Lord, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou art our Potter; we are all the work of thy hand.
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