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Close your eyes and let the mind expand. 

Let no fear of death or darkness arrest its course. 

Allow the mind to merge with Mind. 

Let it flow out upon the great curve of consciousness. 

Let it soar on the wings of the great bird of duration, 

up to the very Circle of Eternity.

—Hermes

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Imagine if all the tumult of the body were to quiet down, 
along with our busy thoughts. 

Imagine if all things that are perishable grew still. 

And imagine if that moment were to go on and on, leaving behind 
all other sights and sounds but this one vision which ravishes and 

absorbs and fixes the beholder in joy, 

so that the rest of eternal life were like that moment of 
illumination, which leaves us breathless.


—Saint Augustine

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