Alright, a very good question. The new translation of that is “ Who by being anxious can add one hour to his span of life? ”. In other words, your entrance and your exit is predetermined. That’s what the Bible teaches; that you make your entrance on time and your exit on time, though the exit seems to be suicide, though the exit seems to be the result of an accident. “But no one takes away my life, I lay it down myself. I have the power to lay it down and the power to take it up again”. So no one takes it from me at any moment in time. So who by being anxious can add one hour to his span of life? Therefore, it’s there to tell every man don’t be anxious concerning your exit; that is already determined by the play. I had the good fortune today to read a letter that came from a friend, a doctor. He made his exit at the age of fifty-three and I saw him six weeks ago in La Jolla…a very, very successful dentist. He had what is called “the cream of the crop” as his clients. And years ago he planned and plotted retirement and bought a very interesting kind of insurance where he wouldn’t have to work, but it would only go so long. It paid him a fantastic return, but then it would suddenly stop. It was going to stop this year. But just as it came into full force he came down with this peculiar disease no one could diagnose and went down to eighty-odd pounds from one hundred seventy. So when I saw him I explained the facts of life as I understand them from my visions and my mystical experiences, and told him that you don’t really die. You planted the seed and now you’ve been living without working for the last six years, no work, with your wonderful clientele and the income that you made. But you didn’t want to work, so now you have all this money coming in, but it stops, stops this year. Then I told him exactly what I know would happen to him, that you’ll make your exit, you’ll be restored to life, inserted into a time sequence best suited for the work that is being done. But you’ve reaped the truth of what you’ve been planting. He listened carefully, he agreed with me; and his wife wrote a letter which I heard today as a friend called me up and read it for me in which she said, “After I (Neville) left the house he talked of nothing but until he died. He felt so comforted and so relieved and completely unafraid of the inevitable exit from this world.” So to answer your question, the modern translation is not cubit, meaning height, but time, it’s an hour. “Who by being anxious can add one hour to his span of life?” So forget that adding to and expending energies to make it so; but in the interval to be happy, to have money, or to have this, that or the other if you really want it. But the work of the promise is going on anyway. The promise is that he who became you will reveal himself as you. That’s a pregnancy. You already have been impregnated by God, and that’s being done whether you know it or not. The Bible only reveals the stages of the unfolding promise. Until the next time… Thank you.784 ¶60
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