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When I am lifted up from the earth,
I will draw everyone to me.
–John 12:32 (GNT)–

Looking unto Jesus the author
and finisher of our faith.
–Hebrews 12:2 (KJV)–

Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts:
all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
–Psalm 42:7 (KJV)–

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Squint your eyes to see clearly
Blur reality to make it real
Let focus go from your deceiving eyes
To know what’s been concealed
We’ve all been blinded
Subjects to visual misinformation
A systematic denial of the crystalline
To see the fine grain
To read the hidden words
The context of parallel truth
Devoid of fragmentation

Our light-induced image of truth
Filtered blank of its substance
As our eyes won’t adhere to intuitive lines
Everything examined, separated, one thing at a time
The harder we stare, the more complete the disintegration
Dissolution
Eyes re-opened
Reasoning focalized
Receptors activated

Perspectives distorted
The ladder beyond our grasp
The twin-headed serpent forever hidden
Where’s the true knowledge?
Where engines of the sane and insanity merge
The clarity, the unity

Reality untouchable, transparent
Invisible to our fixed, restricted fields of vision
Existence taken for granted, absolute
Possessed, owned, controlled
By the common sense-infected rational gaze
Onward, forever we walk among the ignorant
Never stray from the common lines

–Meshuggah, “Rational Gaze”–

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J.B., How to Experience God (WesleyGospel Publications, 2012).

Richard J. Foster, Prayer (HarperOne, 1992), ch. 14: “Contemplative Prayer.”

Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God (Whitaker House, 1982).

A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God (Christian Publications, 1976).

Savinien Louismet, Divine Contemplation for All (Burns Oates, 1920).

Augustin Poulain, The Graces of Interior Prayer (Kegan Paul, 1910).

Arthur Devine, A Manual of Mystical Theology (R&T Washbourne, 1903).

Dr. Adolphe Tanquerey, The Spiritual Life (TAN Books, 2013).

Saul thought, “I’ll pin David to the wall.”
He threw the spear at David twice,
but David dodged and got away both times.
–1 Samuel 18:11 (CEV)–

God hath not given us the spirit of fear;
but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
–2 Timothy 1:7 (KJV)–

¹ Blessed is the person who obeys the law of the Lord.
    They don’t follow the advice of evil people.
They don’t make a habit of doing what sinners do.
    They don’t join those who make fun of the Lord and his law.
² Instead, the law of the Lord gives them joy.
    They think about his law day and night.
³ That kind of person is like a tree that is planted near a stream of water.
    It always bears its fruit at the right time.
Its leaves don’t dry up.
    Everything godly people do turns out well.
⁴ Sinful people are not like that at all.
    They are like straw
    that the wind blows away.
⁵ When the Lord judges them, their life will come to an end.
    Sinners won’t have any place among those who are godly.
⁶ The Lord watches over the lives of godly people.
    But the lives of sinful people will lead to their death.

Fools despise the wisdom of the Word of God; and because some of them go about their lives to make a lot of money, this confirms them in their foolishness, but their souls are destroyed for it. So forsake the foolish, and live for God; and go in the way of understanding. The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, a way of deceit, but deep within his spirit he knows he’s wrong with God, and he’s not right. Fools consider it abominable for them to depart from evil. He that walks with wise men will be wise: but a companion of fools will be destroyed. Fools make fun of the concept of sin: but among the righteous there is favor from God. A fool has no delight in understanding the Word of God, but only that his heart may know itself to its full extent. Better is the poor that walks in integrity, than the man that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool. Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words. This scorner is an abomination to men. Such a fool as this has even said in his heart, “There is no God.” Fools are corrupt, they’ve done abominable works, none of them do anything good at all. And fools because of their transgressions, are afflicted.

Proverbs 1:7, 32; 9:6; 12:15; 13:19-20;
14:8-9; 18:2; 19:1; 23:9; 24:9; Psalm 14:1.

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