{“Speak!”}[30th July 1987]

[Redbook4:48-49][19870730:0010]{“Speak!”}[30^th July 1987]

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*'Speak!”

' 'What shall I speak?'

'Speak what you are told to speak.'

'But I have no skill in speaking.'

'Skill will be given to you. Speak!'

It is a pressure, a pressure from within that cannot be resisted – in the end. If you try (or succeed without trying) to lose yourself in everyday details and common sense, depression results (Jung knew this I think). If you try to sublimate it, dissatisfaction results.

*(cf. Koran introduction [? – “According to Muslim tradition, one night in Ramadhan about the year 610, as [Mohammed] was asleep or in a trance, the angel Gabriel came to him and said ‘Recite!’ He replied: ‘What shall I recite?’ The order was repeated three times.... (The Koran, Penguin Classics, Tr. N.J. Dawood), 1956, 1974). “Muhammad responded "I am not a reader.” (http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Bible/Quran.html). Cf. also: “The voice said, “Cry!” And he said, “What shall I cry?” (Isaiah 40:6, King James Bible; & ”And Moses said unto the LORD, ‘O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue’. And the LORD said unto him, ‘Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD? Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.’ (Exodus 4:10-12, King James Bible). All of the book passages quoted here would have been read (but not necessarily the seven words quoted here from the Web). See next entry. <20160814>]) <880113>

{cf. III[[Redbook3:28-30][19870326:1543j]{Recurring Image: Death and Dismemberment}[26^th March 1987]].28-29,

[?[Redbook4:290][19880105:1252]{Student Teacher}[5^th January 1988]]290}

{V:35,125}

{VI.297}

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