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• v.3: Blessed are the pure in heart for they will love and not demand love in return.
  • jk: sounds like Matthew 5: Beatitudes - beautiful (美) attitudes [?]
• v.5: Defines higher and lower self
  • ⛲ higher self = alive (embodiment of truth)
  • 💀 lower self = death (everything that harms)
• v.2: Interconnectedness
  • Does God bless us directly or does he bless others as a way to make us happy (blessed)?
  • Conversely, does God punish us directly or indirectly. Which one would hurt/learn more?
• v.19 controversial: ❎ adam/eve 🍎 🐍, no patriarchy, no feminism retaliation.
  • If man would find his devil he must look within; his name is self.

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Source Text

https://hermetic.com/moorish/7koran#chapter-iii

Outline

1. Again Elihu met his pupils in the sacred grove and said:

2. No man lives unto himself, for every living thing is bound by cords to every other living thing.

   

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3. Blessed are the pure in heart for they will love and not demand love in return.

4. They will not do other men what they would not have other men do unto them.

5. There are two selves; the higher and lower self. ☯️?, dunno

6. The higher self is human spirit clothed with soul, made in the form of God.

7. The lower self, the carnal self, the body of desires, is a reflection of the higher self, distorted by the murky ethers of the flesh.

8. The lower self is an illusion and will pass away; the higher self is God in man, and will not pass away.

9. The higher self is the embodiment of truth, the lower self is truth reversed and so is falsehood manifest.

10. The higher self is justice, mercy, love, and right; the lower self is what the higher self is not.

11. The lower self breeds hatred, slander, lewdness, murders, theft, and everything that harms, the higher self is mother of the virtues and the harmonies of life.

12. The lower self is rich in promises, but poor in blessedness and peace; it offers pleasure, joy, and satisfying gain, but gives unrest, misery, and death.

13. It gives men apples 🍎 that are lovely to the eye and pleasant to the smell 👃; their cores are full of bitterness and gall (annoyance, disrespectful).

14. If you would ask me what to study, I would say, yourselves; and when you well have studied them; and then would ask me what to study next, I would reply, yourselves.