{God the Spirit Incarnate [continued]}[22nd February 1989]

[Redbook6:103-104)][19890222:1537b]{God the Spirit Incarnate [continued]}[22nd February 1989]

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That caveat* provides an example of the opposition of inspiration and reason (or analysis). Interestingly, it is not so much that the first speculation** lacks reason, but that the second, the caveat,* lacks inspiration. The inspiration in this case arose from images*** of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.****

As all reason requires starting-points, or assumptions, we must say that the equivalent of inspiration, for the caveat,* was memory. By circle pattern, the sequence inspiration-reason (or analysis) is preferable to memory (or knowledge) and reason on two counts: first, that the former is balanced, whereas the latter is one-sided (ie right-semicircle dominant); second, that the former is an inner-circle sequence, whereas in the latter case the two elements are so close together, both in time and on the Circle, that it is hard to be certain of a sequence at all.

What does this mean? Well, not – I think – that the knowledge and reason approach is wrong, but that it is not likely to tell the whole story: not that the probability pattern is inapplicable, but that {it} allows for the autonomous intervention of the Spirit without breaking the rules of the Universe.

The other reason for the Spirit to intervene is by Man’s own initiation,# and by the unveiling of the Spirit within himself. This may occur in response to a Teacher such as Jesus Christ; but it is Man’s decision: like God the Spirit, and due to the presence of the Spirit of God in a Man, Man is autonomous.

*[See last previous entry, final paragraph]

**[ie presumably, the first paragraph in the last previous entry]

***(‘Testament’, BBC2[TV], 19890222.1430ff)

****[Istanbul]

#[presumably, in the sense: initiative; although the use of the word initiation is interesting and may have been deliberate]

{III. [[Redbook3:113-114][19870404:1821h](DEVELOPMENT (2): {Invocation and Inspiration})[4th April 1987] ] 113-4}

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