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Among other convictions formed in my common presence during my responsible, peculiarly composed life, there is one such also-an indubitable conviction-that always and everywhere on the earth, among people of every degree of development of understanding and of every form of manifestation of the factors which engender in their individuality all kinds of ideals, there is acquired the tendency, when beginning anything new, unfailingly to pronounce aloud or, if not aloud, at least mentally, that definite utterance understandable to every even quite illiterate person, which in different epochs has been formulated variously and in our day is formulated in the following words: "In the name of the Father and of the Son and in the name of the Holy Ghost. Amen."
Strange events, incomprehensible from the ordinary point of view, have guided my life.
EXACTLY A MONTH HAS ELAPSED since I finished the first series of my writings-just that period of the flow of time which I intended to devote exclusively to resting the parts of my common presence subordinate to my pure reason.
EXACTLY A MONTH HAS ELAPSED since I finished the first series of my writings-just that period of the flow of time which I intended to devote exclusively to resting the parts of my common presence subordinate to my pure reason.
Today and the day before, I seriously meditated upon how I should find such a method for my explanations, by the totality of which I intend today, and in the two of three following meetings, to make clear for you certain definite information having a close connection with your life, and to give a shape and sequence to my expositions, such as might perhaps, in the conditions created by you North Americans-in the sense of abnormally great as compared with other people's mechanism of mentation-contribute to a normal and impartial comprehension by you of this definite information.