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     Authentic meeting is known in the eternal now.    The
categories  of past and future are inadequate means to the
facilitation of the knowledge of, and mutual understanding
of, authentic meeting.  There are varieties of time and it
is not helpful behavior to engage in decisions and actions
which  confuse  the varieties of time  into---their  being
merely  different measures of the same quality.   Eternity
is not much-time.   Eternity is more a quality of being in
relation---than it is more time. In eternity there is hope
and meaning.  In much-time without eternity---there is  no
hope and no way out.   There is hope in authentic meetings
which  create  the eternal now.  The eternal now does  not
divide the causes and effects of the past and future  from
each other.  These ensymbolments point  to realities---but
they do not embody them as do incarnations.

     Those  who   live within the categories of  past  and
future,   cause and effect,  and the mathematical  instant
which separates them---are persons who live in a different
state  of consciousness than do the real persons who  meet
in the eternal now.  Each may fear to enter into the state
of consciousness of the other---for they do not anticipate
full control of and within the new state of consciousness.
This is particularly true if there is a presumption of the
knowledge  of  good  and evil---and a desire to  make self
acceptable   to   others.   Without  the   acceptance   of
acceptance---there is little  hope  and meaning and little
participation in the eternal now. Rather, there is the use
of  techniques of manipulation of persons as  things,   in
efforts to maintain  standards  of acceptability.  Because
of the essential uncertainties in the  nature  of reality,
such techniques confound themselves, and their users cease
to  live  as real persons in the eternal now.   The  users
become used.

     Those  who  seek to use cause and effect as  means of
retaining full control of their lives, and of the lives of
their  associates---will  not be free to see nor  free  to
accept the nature of reality within the eternal now.    To
do   so   would   be    contrary  to   central  principles
(principalities and  powers)  which rule their  lives  and
determine their self-image.   Such persons,  through their
state of consciousness,  will fulfill cause and effect  in
fulfillment  of their conception of the nature of reality.
Therein there is a strange integrity.  They who make 'It',
fulfill their own reality.   So also,  do others who speak
the primary word I-Thou.

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