and we're doing uh the teachings of Matthew and 887 in little Bibles um we started this many years ago and we're winding it down but let's let's take let's take a look at the Bible in a in a in a way that many have chosen not to do

and let's not look at this as a literal interpretation at all let's bring it alive so that you can understand what happens when you comply and you realize that you're crucifixion and Jesus crucifixion are one at the point of the

crucifixion of the lower senses is what's being talked about here the the barrier to the holy place on the right side Falls we we hear about the VIS visualizations and the things that are happening and healing all this kind of

business and the reason that it's occurring in this age so beautifully is that in obeying Jesus Christ and seeking the meditation we open up the higher mind which in turn energizes the right side which is the holy place okay let's take a look and we we'll we'll um we'll

show you what I'm talking about we're talking about crucifixion not in a literal sense I have always and I have a problem with it I've always had a problem with it since I've been a little child and I always felt that if God

could not think of a better way to forgive me than by torturing somebody to death he was as screwed up as I was and I will say that till I die you know there's got to be a better way that nature can come up with saving us all

than by bloody barbaric torture of a human being. And then when I was able to read in the Gospel of Thomas, one of the Apocrypha books of the Bible that the church did not allow to be entered, and I saw in the apocryphal book that John the

Beloved, John who wrote the Book of Revelation, came to the cross and cried bitterly and looked and he says, "I can't stand this." And he ran up to a mountain and he ran into a cave to get away from it all. And there standing in front of

him was Jesus and they both laughed and Jesus said to John, "What they say I suffered, I didn't suffer." And John went down and he saw all the people looking at the cross and all of this stuff crying and he went away laughing and he says, "I realize that God

did all this symbolically for the salvation of mankind. What a relief, what a load off of me to know that there's no God, the God that I follow makes cats and puppy dogs and roses and dolphins and heals people and makes nice things doesn't butcher

anybody, doesn't drop bombs and all the fear. And so it was, you know, when I look and then I realize this symbolically and I start looking at what does it mean, I get to Matthew chapter 27:51 and after Jesus and the death of

Jesus on the cross it says, "And behold the veil of the temple was rent in twain, was split in two from the top to the bottom, from the top to the bottom." And basically what's being said here is that when the meditation takes place within

You, when the crucifixion of the five senses through your taking no thought, just as Jesus said. Jesus didn't say take no thought for no reason. He meant for you to take no thought. He said it five times in Matthew 6:25 to 6:33. He says, 'I

want you to practice the single eye in Matthew 6:22.' That's Hindu, believe it or not. Of course, Christianity can have no part in it. But when you have no part in it, you have no part in Jesus. And Jesus says, 'I want you to practice the single

eye,' and in the very next sentence, to know what you were talking about, he says, 'Take no thought,' five times. And take no thought means exactly that: subdue all of the thoughts of your mind because it is the thoughts of your mind that have made you sick. Subdue the thoughts of your

mind and set free the power of the Christ who dwells within you. And what happens when you subdue? You crucify the flesh. You crucify the five senses of sight, taste, touch, smell, hearing. What does it say in the Bible? What happens

the veil in the temple is split from the top, from the higher Realms of inner Consciousness. The split occurs, opening to you the kingdom of God, opening to you the right hemisphere. See what it says, the veil of the temple was split from the top to the bottom, from the from

the Realms of divine Consciousness within you, in the higher mind, all the way down into your carnal physical body, is free, set free and open. How, how do I learn this? How do I do this? By obeying Jesus Christ and practicing the single eye, by obeying Jesus Christ and seeking

the kingdom Within You by obeying Jesus Christ and entering in and casting your energy to the right side, that's how. Nothing more than that. You don't, it doesn't cost you anything, you don't have to go anywhere, you don't have to join anything.

You don't have to come here, anywhere you are you can obey Jesus Christ and enter within and energize the healing Divine beautiful power that flows from on high. So it's rent from the top to the bottom. Look what it says, 'and the Earth did Quake.' You know what that means? You don't

think the way you did anymore. The Mind changes, there's a shaking down in the way you used to think. You're thinking beautifully, you're thinking differently, you're not thinking in the old competitive way you used to think anymore. You're thinking in the loving

compassionate way, you're thinking in the, in the way of newness. You're thinking in a way with nature and with life and and you're thinking in the way with the cosmos and all of the beautiful things and you want to be a part of it all. It was

I did a little television show yesterday and I was saying to people, you know the dog on a thing that ficks me off, you get all of these religious people and they talk about scientific astrology and they say you can't have any part in it. Don't

Go Near it, it's evil and all of this stuff, and yet in the very first page of the Bible it says that God made the stars for signs. What signs? Why don't you want to find out what the signs mean? And then in Psalm

147 it says and he named all of them well if he calls them names what do they mean why did he call them what he called them and in Job 38:8 it says can you bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades the influences of the Pleiades and then just

happens to be that the Apostle Paul in the book of Acts sails in a ship named Castor and Pollux which are the stars of Gemini I mean you know and everybody oh don't look at it and that's what we've done we haven't looked at it we don't

even appreciate or understand the universe that we live in another all of the things that religion has told us not to do are what Jesus told us to do what the Bible tells us to do so we've turned our back on the Bible we've turned our back

on Jesus Christ to satisfy all of this religious stuff which according to the newspapers hides behind closed doors to cook up all the screwball things that it does church is running around with pedophiles and all kinds of child abuse any other place that have the FBI

crawling all over the place that rip it down but now it's covered under the God's holy house the house of God you know there's an interesting thing here and it says in Matthew 27:51 and the rocks rent you know what that

means you know what rocks are in about rocks are those are spiritual essences that the human cannot get inside of they're solid but look what happened they split all of those things inside of you which are of the spirit that you can never touch with your mind you can never

touch with your thoughts, you can never touch with your prayers. It's split, and and and they're energized from inside of you. All of the glory and all of the beautiful things that are pouring forth all over the world today. I want to I want to just when it

says the veil rent, I want to just take with you, take you for a moment so that you try to get an understanding of it. Let's take a look at the veil that that split. Let me let me show you what it means. Go to page 70 in the Bible to

Exodus chapter 26. Okay, Exodus chapter 26, and if you look at verse 31 and look what it says about the Veil. Okay, and then and you shall make a veil of blue, purple, Scarlet. There's a reason for that. The veil of blue, purple and Scarlet stands

for peace, kingship, and love. That's what's available to you when you meditate, as Jesus said, and when you energize the right side, as Jesus said, and when you open that single eye, as Jesus said, you were flooded from on high with peace,

kingship or dominion over those things which hurt you. That's where it comes from. And love. See that you you can't have, see you've never, you can't go into the Bible and say, oh well the veil was was blue, purple and Scarlet, and then close the

book. You can't do that. You've got to find out why was it blue, why was it purple, why was it Scarlet? What do those words mean? You know what the trouble is with the Bible, and this is what people don't understand, we are Western people

reading a book that was composed by the people of the East who write an allegory in symbols and mysticism, and we've tried to read this stuff literally, having total ignorance about how those people write. Even though the Bible says it's allegorical, we chose not to do that, but

there's another interesting thing here. Okay, look at verse 51. Where was I? Matthew? No, wait a minute. 26:31. Look at it, it says, "a blue and scarlet and fine twined linen of hunting word with who?" Look what it says: cherubim. Did you see

that word "cherubim"? Huh. Now I want to show you something. You know what the human face means in the Bible? It means intelligence. You know what the face of a lion means? It means spirit. Human, here's how you can determine that this purple, blue, and scarlet and veil is

attributed not to, you know, a building somewhere, but it's talking about you. Watch this. Keep your finger right where you are. Go to page 715 in that little Bible. Look at the Book of Ezekiel, Ezekiel chapter 41, all right? Page 715, Ezekiel chapter 41.

And look at verse 18. Okay, "and it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so the palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub, and every cherub had two faces, so that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on one

side, and the face of a young lion was toward the palm tree on the other side." This, this beautiful veil is that which separates the intellect from the spirit. Okay? It's that which is totally consumed with talking about your consciousness, the face of a lion, the

face of a human being okay so let's let's go back one for just one minute and I want to show you the purpose of this Veil go back to page 70 Exodus chapter 26: 33 Okay and it talks about hanging it up

and then at the last sentence it says and the veil shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy place the holy place is the mind the most holy place is the Temple of the Mind the right side the right hemisphere of the brain is the right side

okay that's where it is 90% all you have that you have control over is 10% of your mind and that's why God in the Bible God in the Bible says I want you to tithe give me the 10% and what has religion done they made it into

a money thing give me 10% of your money you know it's not what it meant never meant that and nowhere in the Bible even in the beginning did it ever mean you give 10% of your money it was done symbolically as tithing with 10% of what

grows out of the ground and what grows out of the ground means the thoughts that grow out of your head I want that you give me the thoughts that grow out of your head and I'll give you the cosmos I'll give you the universe because it is the thoughts that

grow out of your head that keep you away from God that's what tithing means okay but but but people who are you know uh think the way they do use it to to grab 10% of the money that comes out of your wallet so there's the place of the

temple, it divides the holy place from the most holy place. Okay, now we have to find out where was the most holy place. The most holy place is in the temple, the temp the the temple that is made where God dwells is the temple that is not

made with human hands. The only Temple that exists in the universe that is not made with human hands is where right here, right on the side of your face, the temple, the holy place of Consciousness. And let's go and take a look at the construction of the temple, so we see

what we're talking about because it's very important when we talk about this veil in the Holy Place. Page 296, okay, page 296. First Kings chapter 6, okay. Now we're talking about what they what they also called it in the Bible was the Middle Chamber. It's the Middle Chamber

of the temple, which is the most holy place, and I want you to see where it is. And then you know, I leave this to you. I'm not here to tell you you've got to believe anything. I'm I'm just trying to give you something to think about for

the first time maybe since you've been involved in religious quote-unquote work. First Kings 6:8, the door for the Middle Chamber, which was the Holy place, was in the right side of the house, that is the right hemisphere of the brain, and they

went up with winding stairs, which is the Kundalini, into the Middle Chamber and out into the third, which is the third heaven. So let's go back to page 807, okay, where we started with Matthew, Matthew chapter 27 verse 51, okay. Matthew chapter 27 verse

51 so that when the lower is crucified now it opens the veil so we understand that when you go into meditation what's going to happen when you've obeyed Jesus Christ and you meditate and you you get that single eye activated as Jesus Christ said to do what's going to happen

is the veil that separates you from the intellect from the right hemisphere of the brain which is the god side is going to fall and you'll be able to begin to understand things you become enlightened and the power that is on the right side that can heal and make you better will

flow okay and what does it say so and Matthew Matthew 27 27: 52 what does it say and it says and the graves were opened and many bodies of the Saints which slept and come out of their graves and so forth and so on and it says and

they came out of the graves and went into the holy city and appeared unto many is this literal no I mean is it literal that that that Upon This time of cruci graves popped open and dead bodies climbed out how you know it it but do you know that do you know so

many people who are call themselves Christians who wouldn't have it any other way and who believe that do you know the condition of those people when they would come out of that [Laughter] box but how could we even say we're intelligent people and walk into

churches and say I believe this you're not supposed to believe that and I'll prove that you're not supposed to believe that it says in Job 7:9 he that goes down to the Grave shall come up no more but what does the Apostle Paul say

go and look at page 942, 1 Corinthians chapter 15, see what the Apostle Paul says and let's please read it and believe it. 1 Corinthians chapter 15:42, 'So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is

raised in incorruption.' That means when you put a body into that which is the spiritual grave physically, it is raised spiritually. No human being has ever died, got into a grave and got out of it. And that's part of the reason we don't

understand Jesus Christ. That's part of the reason we don't understand Christianity. That's part of the reason we don't understand the Bible, because we have chosen to take literally that which Jesus Christ says unto you is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom, but to

them that are without, all these things are done in parables, quote unquote. Jesus Christ, he said to us, 'It's symbolic.' For God's sake, don't be a fool and take this stuff literally. Understand it. And once you understand it, you will come out of your

grave and rise and go into the holy city. Don't you know what it means? We have been resting, logging in the graves of the carnal mind all of our lives, and finally as we energize this power, we come out of the graves of the

lower mind and enter into this holy city of the higher mind. See first, look at you at 1 Corinthians 15:42. Go ahead to 1 Corinthians 15:50 and see if, if, if a dead body can come out of a grave. See what Paul says. What does he

Say now I say this to you brethren, flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, and neither does corruption inherit incorruption. Once a body is dead, it's dead. It's like an old junk car. I don't want any of it. It's gone. Look what it says in Matthew 27:52.

Where we see the graves, they open up and the people go into... you know, you know, I'll tell you another reason when when you when you look in the Bible and you know something is definitely symbolic, you know how you know Matthew is the only one that

mentions this. Don't you think in the whole, Paul doesn't know anything about it. Paul was a big shot in in Jerusalem at the time. He never heard of this. If people were getting out of the forkin river cemetery, do you think you'd hear about it? He never heard about it. He

never heard about it. Mark never heard about it. John never heard about it. Luke never heard about it. They never mentioned it. You're talking, can you imagine one person getting out of a grave, just one person, and on CNN would be there. Uh, here they are, we're waiting in

here he comes. All right, I see the hand. You know, don't meet you at the CNN, will be wherever anything happens, they'll be there. Okay? And here you have a situation where all of these people get out of the graves and nobody knows about it. Paul

never heard of it. Luke never heard of it. Mark never heard of it. And uh, so forth. But now notice something, they come out of the graves, they enter into the holy city. Now that's the important thing to understand. So let's start, you know, being

adult and really appreciate the Bible you come out of the grave you go into the holy city what's the holy city the holy city is Jerusalem now this would make you think and you've always thought so all of your life that all of these people got out of the

cemetery and marched down to Jerusalem what a ragtag bunch this was heading down to to you know hey call the state troopers there's a a mly looking crew heading down for the time you they're all stopping at the Jerusalem Agogo and

we just get these people out of here all right watch this now let's take a look at this the holy city go to page 953 and see what the holy city is the Apostle Paul is going to tell you all hey come on you I may

say some wacky things up here but I'll tell you something everything that I've ever said to you in this room you've confirmed you've looked into the Bible and you saw for yourself and you know dogon will you have okay Galatians

chapter 4 page 953 verse 25 Paul says there are two Jerusalems and when you talk about the holy city let's get it right Galatians 4:25 this aards Mount Sinai and Arabia and answers to Jerusalem which now is and is

in bondage with her children that's the city that's the town but look at the next Jerusalem but Jerusalem which is above is free which is the mother of us all not the father of us all folks the mother of us all because that holy city that dwells in your consciousness at the

right side is the feminine spirit of God waiting to embrace you and to wipe away your tears and make you well within you and all you've got to do to touch her and for her to place her arms around you and take you to the Christ in the holy

city is drop your thoughts and your ways and your ideas and your convictions and just come as a child with absolutely nothing within so when the lower five senses are crucified in meditation you're free from the grave of the lower mind and you come to life and you rise

up and you go into the holy city which is above and is the mother of us all did you see that did you read it in the book so what do we know how do we know how do we know the Bible told us and that's important because we go on we

get a lot of flack for people up here that don't understand they think you're down here sacrificing cats and drink and Kool-Aid and all kinds of stuff like that they don't know they don't know H they don't know so that when you go so

that when you talk to them I want you to use the Bible you you you use the Bible what is this Ro all right quick cuz that's true this woman could dispose of me so quick I I don't even know what she gives me every morning I

come out and there are pills 30 pills there could be cyanide anything I comble them up here she hands you a pill yeah you know cuz she just had the guy with the insurance guy was around a few that Tak a blood pressure oh we're going to give

You insurance, I said, for what? For her? I ain't getting paid, you're paying for it. I'm paying for it. So she gives me a pill. I said, hey, okay. Yeah, you just think about that okay, real quick now. I'm going to show you the

next aspect of this, Matthew 27:54, and I want you to understand something. When you begin to realize the symbolisms of all this, we'll talk about it in a few weeks, but there is this Mithra, this God of Iran, who also was born on December the 25th, who also was

crucified, and who also rose from the grave on March 25th, during the Spring Equinox. And that happened 600 years before Jesus. But nobody ever told you about that, cuz that screws up your story. But you can read about it. You can go

into the library, and you can get a book on mythology. You can get a book, and you can read about what happened in Iran 600 years before it happened in Jerusalem. Okay? It doesn't CH it doesn't mean it's not a Jesus. Don't, don't get it

wrong. I follow Jesus right off to the end of the cliff. I'll go anywhere he goes. I listen to everything. I do not say a thing unless he confirms it. The reason I speak of taking no thought is because Jesus said it. The reason I say you

practice the single eye is cuz Jesus said it. The reason I say the kingdom is at the right hemisphere of the brain is cuz Jesus said it. The reason I say you take away the key because you don't enter within yourself, it's because Jesus said it, and no other reason than that.

People get ticked off at me, but I can stand with this book and say, "Hey, wait a minute, it says it here!" So they don't bother me anymore, do they? Nobody bothers me. Nobody says me, they only surround the people they... they come down and get the

kids going into the bathroom. Oh, this is evil. Remember that time... was it Sean and Sean got in a car and chased them off the highway? What you should do cuz they're Devils? No, they're just... Okay, Matthew 27:54. I take that out that I said that.

When the Centurion that were with him watching Jesus saw the earthquake... that's page 87. Surely the Centurion is the part of you... Don't you understand there is a part of you which is the leading factor of your mind? That's the Centurion, that's the

director, principle of your mind. And you know what? There's a part in you that when you offer that sacrifice in meditation and that Veil rinses and you open the right hemisphere of the brain, it will inside of you say, "Surely this is the Son of God." Then is the point that

you will know, "Surely this is right, surely this is right." That's what happened. The mind has seen the earthquake in inside of you. You've changed. All of these old fears are shaken down, all of these old hates are shaken down, all of these and the

complete destruction of all the things that you used to think were very important... not important anymore because you know now I've got to get back and I've got to find nature. I've got to get back, I've got to find out why... why things are happening. I got

to find out you know oh God Bless America yeah but I I'm also a citizen of the universe I'm a citizen of the whole world because God is God doesn't select Jesus Jesus was is an American God isn't an American that's the first thing I ever said to get

people ticked off I said God's not an American half the people get up left I want to hear that God Bless America see but the world the universe everything is life is God to be a part of it to be one with it so the mind is

awakened and you realize this is and now this is the good part look what it says in verse 55 page 87 and many women were there beholding afar off which followed Jesus this is the first introduction of the woman because when you die to the

lower the first thing that happens within you is the feminine star side awakes the feminine part of God awakes and it's no more the masculine we're going to fight our way through kill everybody destroy you know armageddon it's now the pretty side of God the soft side of God

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The speaker discusses the teachings of Matthew, emphasizing a non-literal interpretation.

The speaker encourages a non-literal understanding of crucifixion, focusing on the crucifixion of lower senses.

The speaker connects the crucifixion of lower senses with the opening of the higher mind and the right side of the brain (holy place).

The speaker explains that obeying Jesus Christ and seeking meditation open up the higher mind, energizing the right side of the brain.

The speaker expresses personal discomfort with the literal interpretation of Jesus' crucifixion.

The speaker cites the Gospel of Thomas, an apocryphal book, where John the Beloved questioned Jesus' suffering.

The speaker contrasts a violent God with a God who creates beauty and heals.

The speaker discusses Matthew 27:51, interpreting the veil of the temple being rent as a symbolic representation of inner transformation.

The speaker connects the rent veil with meditation and the crucifixion of the five senses through 'taking no thought'.

The speaker emphasizes the importance of 'taking no thought' as mentioned five times in Matthew 6:25-33 and links it to the practice of the single eye.

The speaker explains that the rent veil symbolizes the opening of the kingdom of God and the right hemisphere of the brain.

The speaker outlines the process: obeying Jesus Christ, practicing the single eye, and energizing the right side.

The speaker emphasizes the accessibility and simplicity of this process, requiring no cost, location, or affiliation.

The speaker interprets 'the Earth did Quake' as a change in thinking, moving from competitive to compassionate and loving ways of thinking.

The speaker criticizes religious rejection of scientific astrology, citing biblical passages supporting the study of stars.

The speaker points out the use of star names in the Bible (e.g., Castor and Pollux).

The speaker contrasts religious prohibitions with what they believe Jesus and the Bible actually advocate.

The speaker criticizes hypocrisy within religious institutions.

The speaker interprets 'rocks rent' as spiritual essences being energized from within.

The speaker analyzes the symbolism of the veil's colors (blue, purple, scarlet) in Exodus 26:31, representing peace, kingship, and love.

The speaker interprets the cherubim imagery, connecting human faces with intelligence and lion faces with spirit.

The speaker uses Ezekiel 41:18 to further explain the veil as separating intellect from spirit.

The speaker explains that the veil separates the holy place (mind) from the most holy place (temple of the mind, right hemisphere).

The speaker discusses the meaning of tithing, emphasizing the symbolic giving of 10% of one's thoughts, not money.

The speaker identifies the most holy place as the temple not made with human hands—the right hemisphere of the brain.

The speaker refers to First Kings 6:8 to describe the Middle Chamber as the most holy place, accessible through winding stairs (Kundalini).

The speaker connects the right side of the house with the right hemisphere of the brain.

The speaker reiterates that meditation, obedience to Jesus Christ, and activating the single eye open the veil separating the intellect from the right hemisphere.

Resurrection and Symbolic Interpretations

The speaker addresses the symbolic nature of graves opening and the dead coming out, contrasting it with literal interpretations.

The speaker uses 1 Corinthians 15:42 to support the spiritual, not literal, nature of resurrection.

The speaker emphasizes Jesus' use of parables and the importance of symbolic understanding.

The speaker interprets coming out of the grave as leaving the carnal mind and entering the higher mind.

The speaker uses the lack of corroboration from other Gospels to argue against a literal interpretation of Matthew 27:52.

The speaker interprets the 'holy city' symbolically, not as literal Jerusalem.

The speaker uses Galatians 4:25 to distinguish between the earthly and heavenly Jerusalem.

The speaker identifies the heavenly Jerusalem as the mother, representing the feminine spirit of God.

The speaker explains that accessing this feminine spirit involves dropping thoughts and convictions.

The speaker summarizes the process: crucifixion of lower senses leads to freedom from the grave of the lower mind and entry into the heavenly city.

Mithra and Jesus: Parallels and Symbolism

The speaker mentions Mithra, an Iranian god with similar birth and death dates to Jesus, highlighting the symbolic nature of these narratives.

The speaker emphasizes following Jesus' teachings, not personal interpretations.

The speaker interprets the Centurion's statement, "Surely this is the Son of God," as an internal realization.

The speaker identifies the Centurion as the leading factor of the mind.

The speaker connects the earthquake with a shift in thinking, discarding old fears and hates.

The speaker connects the appearance of women in Matthew 27:55 with the awakening of the feminine side of God.

The speaker analyzes the names Joseph (remover) and Arimathea (city of the Jews).

The speaker interprets 'rich man' symbolically, referring to richness in spiritual matters, not material wealth.

The speaker connects the rich mind with the Divine principle of God, taking over the lower psyche.

The speaker describes how the rich mind takes the dead (old, sick, depressed) to the city of the Jews (where healing takes place).

The Rock of Salvation and the Flow of Truth

The speaker interprets the tomb as the Rock of Ages, where the old is placed inside during meditation.

The speaker emphasizes the purity and inaccessibility of the Rock, purged from outside influences.

The speaker uses Numbers 20:11 to connect water (truth) flowing from the rock with the truth revealed through meditation.

The speaker criticizes new-age techniques, emphasizing that the only technique is 'taking no thought' as Jesus taught.

The speaker uses Moses striking the rock twice as an example of unnecessary techniques, contrasting it with Jesus' single instruction.

Completion of Separation and the Rolling Away of the Stone

The speaker interprets the rolling of the stone as separating the individual from outside influences.

The speaker connects the rolling of the stone with Jesus' teaching on prayer (Matthew 6:6), entering a closed space for meditation.

The speaker emphasizes sealing oneself off from outside influences during meditation.

The speaker describes a shaking and coming of great light during meditation.

The speaker connects the appearance of the woman with the awakening of the feminine spirit.

Conclusion: The Path to Higher Consciousness

The speaker summarizes the process: crucifying the lower flesh, being taken by the rich spirit into the rock, awaiting resurrection.

The speaker emphasizes the simplicity of the process, requiring only obedience to Jesus Christ and entering within.

The speaker mentions Jesus's words about entering the upper room, connecting it with the current global spiritual awakening.

The speaker contrasts the understanding of this process among different religions, noting Christians' lack of understanding.

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