{God at the Centre [continued]}[2nd July 1988]

[Redbook5:202-203][19880702:0914d]{God at the Centre [continued]}[2nd July 1988]

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The Quality associated with this experience* – which I shall call God simply because that is what seems to apply to it, which seems appropriate to it, what fits it and nothing else so well – may be described with words such as Rest, Indivisibility (i.e. Unity), and Truth. Truth in the sense that I cannot conceive of it being other than it is: although at times I perceive it, and at times I do not, when I do see it, it is always the same; and in this differs from less centred qualities or emanations, even of the Inner Circle: of which, although I believe them to be the same from one perception to the next – to exist in an ideal form of which I am aware – my perceptions differ in detail,** in a way which I believe to be due primarily to my own nature.***

There is an implication that there is a secondary explanation in the nature of the Circle quality – not necessarily in having changeability, but in the way it relates to my awareness: the implication arises out of the fact that the Centre does not seem capable of change**** (but surely, rationally, I could expect to know it better?)[.]#* I am over-theorising, losing my ground[ing] in experience.#

*[See last previous entry]

**cf [[Redbook5:165-170][19880617:1949b]{Inner Truth: Love}[17^th June 1988]ff;

& especially [Redbook5:166-167][19880617:1949d]{Inner Truth: Love [continued (3)]}[17^th June 1988]] 167

***Phew, what a sentence!

[But is it, strictly?]

cf [presumably, [Redbook5:167][19880617:1949f]{Inner Truth: Love [continued (5)]}[17^th June 1988],] 167

****(even in my perception)

#(But cf [[Redbook5:108-109][19880320:1650f]{The Experience of the Trinity}[20th March 1988], ]108

#*There may be a distinction between distortion qualitatively and revelation (as it were) 'quantitatively': both being by the observer; in the second case I see the Centre with a greater or lesser intensity, but the same in outline; in the first case I actually distort what I see as well, so that the Circle quality appears different. This makes some sense given the geometry of the Circles.

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