{Emptiness of the Spirit [continued]}[4th September 1988]

[Redbook5:337-338][19880904:2022b]{Emptiness of the Spirit [continued]}[4th September 1988]

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I imagine that many people would flee in terror from this* pure Emptiness** – and do so, [sic] hiding it instinctively or deliberately behind layers of Separation: particularly material Separation, but also the physical (and mental) Separation of frantic activity. I imposed layers of Separation on it not through terror of the Emptiness, which would have been understandable, but through craven fear of economic scarcity*** and social degradation. I overcame the latter, but the former haunts me still:**** being connected with # that resentment which fills and hides the Emptiness, or did do until today.

I do not flee from the Emptiness: although I rejected the depression which used to fill and/or hide it, I accepted the Emptiness as holy.#* Nevertheless it must be filled: it will not leave one happy until it is filled. Tending superficially to fix on lost loves – the dead, real or imagined, and times past – it is not satisfied by these until they are fused into the knowledge of that God, the Spirit, in whom they all co-exist: the imagined as much as the real, for these imagined are composed of real Qualities which exist in the Spirit; and in the end, all will and must be wound up into Him.

*[See last previous entry]

**[cf [Redbook1:206][19710612]{Vacant Possession}[12th June 1971], &

[Redbook1:196A][19710206][Emptiness][6th February 1971], & cf

[Redbook2:129-132][19780829:2025d]{Publication [continued (5)]}[29^th August 1978]]

***(the material or separated expression of the Emptiness?[)] <891011>

****no longer! <891011>

[but it returned]

#at least a part of

#*[Possibly referring to one or more of entries listed at fn** above]

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