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At this point it will be helpful if we enlarge upon the idea above stated in regard to temporarily shutting the light of Mind from the projected image of Mind-imagining. We mean by this exactly what you mean by saying: "John Smith was killed by a bullet."

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When the light is shut off in the cinema the projected picture ceases, but the REALITY of that picture still exists as IDEA, and can be repeated. The entirety of this objective universe of moving bodies is precisely alike in principle to the cinema. It is a series of electrically projected pulsings of changing thought-patterns with black rest gaps between every change of thought-pattern. The pulsings are so fast that ever changing patterns create the illusion of motion and all of its kindred effects. The projected pulsings are transient effects, which ever change. The Source of those pulsings is eternal, and never changes.

There is no motion in the Cosmic cinema. All of it is a radial projection from a zero fulcrum of stillness. It is the apex of an unborn cone. A radial projection from zero creates the illusion of a three-dimensional universe. Its sequences of pulsings create the illusion of time. Your body is a Mind-projection of your Self. We are thoughts of Mind being made in the image of our imaginings. The multiplicity of mathematics, as well as the density of concentrative thinking, are expressed, in infinite variety and complexity "out there" on the other ends of light rays, but they are zero at their Source within them. That brings us back to John Smith whom you say, was killed by a bullet. It is true that a whole system of the growth of thought-patterns, which constituted the projected image of John Smith, was interrupted, but it is not true to say that he was killed, for John Smith was not "out there" where he could be killed. John Smith is a Mind-Identity. He is not one thought of The Cosmic Thinker, but is also ONE with THE ONE THINKER. Never forget that. John Smith and the Creator of this universe are ONE. That ONE cannot be killed.

Let us parallel this thought with other words. Instead of John Smith being killed by a bullet, let us say he was electrocuted. That means that his light was shut off by sending a current through his projecting wires, which was too great for them to carry. If we now substitute a body of tungsten for the body of John Smith, and electrocute the tungsten, it also would be short circuited, or "killed," if you prefer to use that word. As we described in previous pages, a tungsten wire thus electrocuted in

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a vacuum tube leaves a residue of the inert gas helium. That helium is the Soul-seed of the tungsten body. It is the Soul-record of that body which is its identity in a unitary universe. It is the zero of tungsten's multiplicity. That cannot be killed, nor can it be prevented from reincarnating its image within it. This is a universe of eternal repetition of pulsing thoughts which are ever being repeated. In the Cosmic sense reincarnation and repetition mean the same thing, for Nature is eternal, it is endless and beginningless. The idea of death - or of identity - or of being killed - is a conclusion of the senses of bodies. Such a thought is impossible for the knowing Mind of the Cosmic mystic.

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