Most of the new material in this GOT will easily be understood not as a gospel but- as mentioned in the sub-title: “The secret teaching of Jesus” As instructions , or keys for the inner circle of the initiated and conspirators- if any .The rest, most of which which appears in other Gospels is not at all for only those with "two good ears" . Oh! and by the way , when he does say that, he really means it.
The disciples must have hung around, for other reasons for none of his secret sayings seem to be in their range.
In the secret sayings of Jesus!one must look at the material as a seeker. One with good ears and who is not looking for personal salvation, nor for the presence of the “father" outside of himself, but rather for the secret passage to "the father" within. This treasure comes buried in the field, as Jesus puts it, the field ( our living body-) that is inherited through generations and is not normally looked for let alone discovered 'till someone starts questioning and digging ! Other sayings refer to our difficulty or inability to see what is, for what it really is. # 83 - like the image of the father--(father being ones' ideal form ) and the image of the material object being confused in each others' glare.
*but it Starts so-
*"Whoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death."
2. -Jesus said, "Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all. [And after they have reigned they will rest.]"
2 (DISTURBED IS THE KEY WORD! One cannot emphasize this enough- See #13 - "If I tell you one of the sayings he spoke to me, you will pick up rocks and stone me...)
Those who are looking for something do so because obviously they feel that something is missing. Therefore they should continue to look for it until they find it. They should neither desist nor turn their attention to some acceptable substitute. When they will find the real thing that had appeared to be missing, they will be disturbed and surprised to know that it had not been missing at all but that in their ignorance and fear they had rejected it. And they will be shocked and incredulous because the reason for rejecting it had been so impressive. They will then marvel because that which they had rejected outright now conferred on them the power to reign over all and thus make them at peace.
ps, this interpretation needs further elaboration which would be difficult.... very difficult at this time.
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22. Jesus saw some babies nursing. He said to his disciples, "These nursing babies are like those who enter the (Father's) kingdom"
22 The nursing baby is oblivious of anything else, he is nursing and nursing is both world and heavens and himself.
---They said to him, "Then shall we enter the (Father's) kingdom as babies?"
---Jesus said to them, "When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom]."
22 This is A Gorgeous piece! A step by step disassembling of a dual "reality" while simultaneously replacing it with an identical but non relative nor conditional reality.
3. Jesus said, "If your leaders say to you, 'Look, the (Father's) kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the (Father's) kingdom is within you and it is outside you.
When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you live in poverty, and you are the poverty."
3 knowledge is your heritage, without it you are poverty. In poverty you are easily persuaded that the wonder is elsewhere and so you are separated from it. When you will understand that as you are part of this living realm as much as this realm is living part of you, you will know yourselves without separations or limits.
4. Jesus said, "The person old in days won't hesitate to ask a little child seven days old about the place of life, and that person will live.
4 The fundamentals of life are the same at any age, here Jesus says that a child barely a week old knows as much about life as I or most old men. And it is so, because all the accretions of age are but tools and adornments to the simple fundamentals that a child naturally reckons with from the first day. Apart from libido no fundamentals are added no matter how long a mind attends with greater and greater ingenuity to the necessities of the individual and member of a group. It will never accidentally fall upon and recognize an absolute since the particular cannot comprehend the absolute unless it first comprehends absolutely all of itself. Being perfectly self knowing the particular needs not develop its existence by error against its own absolute essence since absolute knowledge even of a particular tantamount to absolute knowledge and absolute essence...
8- jesus said, "The person is like a wise fisherman who cast his net into the sea and drew it up from the sea full of little fish. Among them the wise fisherman discovered a fine large fish. He threw all the little fish back into the sea, and easily chose the large fish. Anyone here with two good ears had better listen!"
( This is a trick parable, not part of secret teaching. I would not normally bother with horse sense as this or plain moral aphorisms except in this case it illustrate the master's keen choice of metaphors that will discriminate against dull minds. It helps one in this case, to keep in mind the parable of the 99. This intended ambiguity is also evident in the parable of the merchant and the pearl and it is declared by him in # 62- I disclose my mysteries to those [who are worthy] of [my] mysteries. )
8- A practical fisherman would not throw away the small fry, he might sell the big fish and make a good fish soup with the small fishes. Likewise a practical mind, would not be clear on the behavior of the “wise” fisherman nor its implications. I know philosophers and theologians in fact who cannot completely disregard the “small fry” and so are continuously distracted from their main goal. So here too the two good ears have better pay attention .
29 -Jesus said, IF the flesh came into being because of the spirit, it is a marvel, but if the spirit came into being because of the body, it is a marvel of marvels. Yet i marvel at how this great wealth has come to dwell in this poverty.
29 - Likewise one may marvel at how such poverty came to dwell in such great wealth! Later in 87 he will clarify it - Jesus said, "How miserable is the body that depends on a body, and how miserable is the soul that depends on these two."
Gorgeous! here the body depends on the idea of the body and the soul is miserably forced to depend on the two
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10. Jesus said, "I have cast fire upon the world, and look, I'm guarding it until it blazes
10 ' this is a echo of I brought a sword not peace. It is one of the clearest and historically great consequences of his philosophy and teaching . Before him, people did not have to decide on a particular belief system and live according to its strict principles. Those mandated by society , customs and laws sufficed and a citizen biggest decision approximating a spiritual duty was which God to propitiate for which occasion or purpose. After Jesus a ritual was not enough, a decision to an unconditional spiritual commitment to a set of ethics and dogmas was essential. The soul had acquired the social equivalent of duty,responsibility, reward and punishment.
13. Jesus said to his disciples, "Compare me to something and tell me what I am like.".......................... Thomas said to him, "Teacher, my mouth is utterly unable to say what you are like."
Jesus said, "I am not (singular- your teacher). Because you have drunk, you have become intoxicated from the bubbling spring that I have tended."
13 Thomas has been enlightened [ intoxicated] by personal tutoring by jesus, so he is unable to verbalize his surreal knowledge of Jesus.
11. Jesus said, "This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will pass away. The dead are not alive, and the living will not die.
11 -This reality will prove illusory and because of it the other invalid,. Therefore those who are unaware of this ,do not live, [they are necessary links] on the other hand those who are aware of it will not perish
7- Jesus said, "Lucky is the lion that the human will eat, so that the lion becomes human. And foul is the human that the lion will eat, and the lion still will become human."
( the lion represent power. In this particular case the power of a concept, a true concept in one case and a false concept in the other).
7- Therefore great is that power that the human will acquire so that this power will become human power, and foul is that human which will be absorbed by an (evil) power, whereby that power also [regrettably] will become a human trait.
15. Jesus said, "When you see one who was not born of woman, fall on your faces and worship. That one is your Father.
15- Simply meeting someone who has so thoroughly transformed himself that he has very little in common with an ordinary person.
n.b. (I make no distinction between man's genders when it regards common problems or aspirations that are not directly related to procreation )
17. Jesus said, "I will give you what no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, what no hand has touched, what has not arisen in the human heart.
17- Here he states his mission and exercises his power upon us which is the power of truth. and so though most of us may remain uncommitted we can no longer be unaware of it and do so with impunity. He has set our souls on fire.
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30. Jesus said, "Where there are three deities, they are divine. Where there are two or one, I am with that one."
30- Where there are tree virtuous persons it is a divine thing, but where there is two or one virtuous person (struggling-or going at it alone) , I have got to be with that one!
2b, [see 37 also] this is my idea [like everything else]of what appeared to be missing, but was in reality the key stone we rejected as we interpreted its value to be negative or say-zero. In our chosen dual reality death functions as the terminator of life, whereas in a single reality it is part of a total experience, a live portal," Stargate"
through which life's essence flows in a self consciousness promoting rhythm .
In other words in life as a dual system natural death is the constant common denominator to which we attribute the value of zero for it ends in reducing everything that preceded to nothing. Accordingly-and as Ecclesiastes lamented- the durations and import of all life experiences eventually compute to zero. 78 years over zero, or 2oo years, over zero adds to zero, etc. You can add as many years, orgasms, beers empires and in the end everything will still amount to zero. Unless you can change the value of the denominator your net value will always be zero plus x remainder. X being your offsprings which however will automatically be transferred to the account of nature the moment your individual account is permanently closed at zero . By understanding the function of death as a unifier in the unified field of experience- which as i alluded above- must be willingly entered upon and experienced as part of the whole rather than to eschew it and desperately cling to the one half to which we are bonded. We cling until it slips away and thus eventually lose the one outright and forfeit for ever the chance to the other.
[ In "The book of maybes" Gameteus finds himself on a lofty crag's thin ledge in total darkness. He cannot move in any direction except forward into what seems dark bottomless void. To step forwards he needs faith, absolute unquestionable faith that his foot will find the support that did not seem to be there and indeed might not materialize had he but a hint of a doubt.]
The living may decide to die, and thus demonstrate true faith and honor their life, but the dead can never decide one or the other.
Jesus not only makes it impossible to equivocate in the choice of a spiritual conduct but also declares that to cling to life is to lose it. Lose everything. This should explains the shock and the necessity to keep his teaching secret. ...
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19. Jesus said, "Congratulations to the one who came into being before coming into being.….For there are five trees in Paradise for you; they do not change, summer or winter, and their leaves do not fall. Whoever knows them will not taste death."
19- There are five senses in "paradise" just as on Earth. in paradise the senses unite us to all existence and experiences, thus changes cannot arouse concern or threat. In life the same senses juxtapose our sense awareness to everything in range and thus any changes affect us one way or another. Furthermore, in life all changes contribute to our eventual permanent extinguishment without ever- apart for reproduction- disclosing the purpose of our existence. In unity , changes may be renewal and the continuous unfolding and denouement of the eternal purpose. [Here i have to admit that i offer these are guesses based against the known particulars of life and in harmony with the tenor of the text under examination. Also it is evident that the door has opened for all kinds of conjectures, from reincarnation, avatar, deiunification etc. but the emphases and focus should not let us stray too far from the main topic, spiritual emancipation and the role of death in it and in a paradisaical unity.]
56. Jesus said, "Whoever has come to know the world has discovered a carcass, and whoever has discovered a carcass, of that person the world is not worthy."
56 - the world to us is like a fresh succulent carcass to a scavanger, and whoever discovers this to be his world will no longer be satisfied with it
27. "If you do not fast from the world, you will not find the (Father's) kingdom. If you do not observe the sabbath as a sabbath you will not see the Father."
28. Jesus said, "I took my stand in the midst of the world, and in flesh I appeared to them. I found them all drunk, and I did not find any of them thirsty. My soul ached for the children of humanity, because they are blind in their hearts and do not see, for they came into the world empty, and they also seek to depart from the world empty.
But meanwhile they are drunk. When they shake off their wine, then they will change their ways."
27-28, If you do not detach yourself from the material world you will never find your higher self. [I watched a very stupid video recently, called Cosmos , by Carl Sagan]. Most people would no doubt differ violently with me, very much like a drunk might insist that he could drink the oceans or be the best driver in the world. Hubris one might call it. the thing is that we are drunk as Jesus says, and naturally the state one is in impedes one's recognition of that state. So we brag about such silly things as our conquest of space say, while we are well on the way of totally destroying and poisoning ourselves and our planet which we could never ever have accomplished had we not first and foremost completely lost our senses to vanity.
It is a state, he suggests, that is the side effect of an advanced life form that starts out empty, produces in concert great wonders and causes great catastrophes as a specific means of leaving the world as empty as they came.
I do not like to indulge in moralities, not only I am not an exemplar but also probably because such occupation would have neither aim nor end in sight, but I do feel the need to see things in the leveling light of reason. In such light, boasting of being able to drink the ocean is not more improbable nor silly than to conquer space especially considering what we omit to see about ourselves in the light of our hybris. On this he says, #67- "those who know all but are lacking in themselves, are utterly lacking." In fact there is only one challenge and one conquest worthy of man; and it is man.
Part 2.
the code of the Nazarene. Part 2
44. Jesus said, "Whoever blasphemes against the Father will be forgiven, and whoever blasphemes against the son will be forgiven, but whoever blasphemes against the holy spirit will not be forgiven, either on earth or in heaven."...
A few days ago I had a crisis of conscience. I realized that I was attempting to divulge certain knowledge that a teacher called Jesus (whoever he really was, ) tried to keep secret, or at least make it very difficult for most people who were not in his confidence, to access. Also at first I thought that these secrets were more or less a heterodox or possibly an heretic interpretations or deviations of the local current religious dogmas which the establishment would have enough reason to consider dangerous and an object of persecution. But in reading on , such as logion 44, I was astonished to find that this teacher was not only undermining the local belief ,or the governing Roman religious preferences, but that he was attacking the foundations of any belief system based on supernatural forces or entities. I realized that all references he made to supernatural forces, deities etc., were but a convenient cover, a code to express his view of creation to his disciples and when possible to gain the attention of some rare free thinkers. I believe, and here I may for good reasons be suspect of prejudices in support of my character in the book of maybes - that Jesus, like Gameteus beheld all creation as integral part of himself. So when he says that you may blaspheme the Father, and the Son and get away with it, he is actually saying that you can deny the earth, the sun, people and all things that are exterior to your identity and do so with impunity, but you cannot deny the" holy spirit" of which all things are its expressions. It is not a wild leap from here to assume that this teacher was Pythagorean , which is to say that he believed that the creative sub-stance to all manifest found its source in the power of all the possible numerical sequences and operations. And that indeed as I suggested in " Si fallor sum" the fact that there is a universe is predicated on the inadmissible mathematical sit which would arise when in a hypothetical state the odds of being and not being would happen to be exactly equal.
98. Jesus said, "The Father's kingdom is like a person who wanted to kill someone powerful. While still at home he drew his sword and thrust it into the wall to find out whether his hand would go in. Then he killed the powerful one."
- Jesus often uses words like father,mother, as if they were geometric or mathematical figures, and When it comes to the kingdom of heaven he never compares it to a beautiful oasis or some splendid realm in the sky. Also he often plays with the one and the two when he refers to psychological problems his disciple will have to confront.
But Keeping in mind the metaphor of the lion, here in logion 98 (as in 88, then 96 & 97 and others) he compares the kingdom of heaven to a mathematical problem. A person is facing a big difficult problem at work let's say. So at home, as most of us would , he works at it until he figures out the solution.Once he has the solution he goes ahead and takes care of the problem.
17. Jesus said, "I will give you what no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, what no hand has touched, what has not arisen in the human heart."
17 Something that is invisible, does not make a sound, has no substance and has no connection to human passions but is apparently of such great value, can only be the pure and exclusive property of the mind.
esus said, "Whoever blasphemes against the Father will be forgiven, and whoever blasphemes against the son will be forgiven, but whoever blasphemes against the holy spirit will not be forgiven, either on earth or in heaven."...
A few days ago I had a crisis of conscience. I realized that I was attempting to divulge certain knowledge that a teacher called Jesus (whoever he really was, ) tried to keep secret, or at least make it very difficult for most people who were not in his confidence, to access. Also at first I thought that these secrets were more or less a heterodox or possibly an heretic interpretations or deviations of the local current religious dogmas which the establishment would have enough reason to consider dangerous and an object of persecution. But in reading on , such as logion 44, I was astonished to find that this teacher was not only undermining the local belief ,or the governing Roman religious preferences, but that he was attacking the foundations of any belief system based on supernatural forces or entities. I realized that all references he made to supernatural forces, deities etc., were but a convenient cover, a code to express his view of creation to his disciples and when possible to gain the attention of some rare free thinkers. I believe, and here I may for good reasons be suspect of prejudices in support of my character in the book of maybes - that Jesus, like Gameteus beheld all creation as integral part of himself. So when he says that you may blaspheme the Father, and the Son and get away with it, he is actually saying that you can deny the earth, the sun, people and all things that are exterior to your identity and do so with impunity, but you cannot deny the" holy spirit" of which all things are its expressions. It is not a wild leap from here to assume that this teacher was Pythagorean , which is to say that he believed that the creative sub-stance to all manifest found its source in the power of all the possible numerical sequences and operations. And that indeed as I suggested in " Si fallor sum" the fact that there is a universe is predicated on the inadmissible mathematical sit which would arise when in a hypothetical state the odds of being and not being would happen to be exactly equal.
98. Jesus said, "The Father's kingdom is like a person who wanted to kill someone powerful. While still at home he drew his sword and thrust it into the wall to find out whether his hand would go in. Then he killed the powerful one."
- Jesus often uses words like father,mother, as if they were geometric or mathematical figures, and When it comes to the kingdom of heaven he never compares it to a beautiful oasis or some splendid realm in the sky. Also he often plays with the one and the two when he refers to psychological problems his disciple will have to confront.
But Keeping in mind the metaphor of the lion, here in logion 98 (as in 88, then 96 & 97 and others) he compares the kingdom of heaven to a mathematical problem. A person is facing a big difficult problem at work let's say. So at home, as most of us would , he works at it until he figures out the solution.Once he has the solution he goes ahead and takes care of the problem.
17. Jesus said, "I will give you what no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, what no hand has touched, what has not arisen in the human heart."
17 Something that is invisible, does not make a sound, has no substance and has no connection to human passions but is apparently of such great value, can only be the pure and exclusive property of the mind.
28. Jesus said, "I took my stand in the midst of the world, and in flesh I appeared to them. I found them all drunk, and I did not find any of them thirsty. My soul ached for the children of humanity, because they are blind in their hearts and do not see, for they came into the world empty, and they also seek to depart from the world empty.
28 - Rubbies!
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before i go any further I must mention and briefly discuss what i believe is the intellectual (human) constant. The constant that apart from maths and dependent sciences, permits reason to access information that could never be arrived at without omissions. minor or major fortuitous or unknown and sometimes intentional, omissions guide our life, our societies, our policies, our philosophy, our taste, sense of beauty and goodness etc etc, and of course first and foremost – religion. most assumptions in most fields of inquiries and their enterprises owe their success to the ability of the mind to navigate skillfully between true and false on the base of gain versus loss. i am no exception..
No need to go on with that. I will just admit that that certain particulars such as the need for almost excessive secrecy or dissimulation, reiterations and variations of certain points, plus a style with detectable harmonics reminiscent of ,of.... of, yes, algebra! Have made me jump to a certain conclusions.
Here is a good example:
101. "Whoever does not hate [father] and mother as I do cannot be my [disciple], and whoever does [not] love [father and] mother as I do cannot be my [disciple]. For my mother [...], but my true [mother] gave me life."
Of course algebra came much later! But to me that phrase has the construction of an equation... or something.
#98 bis
Other expressions may just be idioms, meaning comprehending, assimilating etc. like eating a lion or "During the days when you ate what is dead, you made it come alive..." An obvious one is drinking, or drinking from my mouth. So how does all this help me understand the Guy in #98, with a terrible foe or a big problem? How does it relate him to the kingdom of heaven. At this point it is obvious that i must ask myself if what the "Kingdom of heaven" evokes in me is the same or even somewhat similar to what the great teacher was referring to. The answer had better be negative. One of the reason that attracted me so much to this gospel was precisely because here i did not have to deal with a comic superhero but with a real person. So I must try to determine what a sage in the wake of the Golden age might have had in mind when replying to questions about the other place or the other third of reality. I say the other third because I take it for granted that it is commonly accepted that the minimum number of elements involved in a situation that can be defined as real are three= subject , object and awareness. O hell! Let me just say that His awareness was something else. This something else is to be looked for in the true meaning of #98,97,96 and others. I Feel I may have a better chance of finding the key to the kingdom with # 98 simply because I have been able to free my attention from the details of the scenario to arrive at its essence which is simply a Classic dilemma. Now I can concentrate on what the problem may be. I know- from the original scene- that It is a powerful problem, that the man needs to build his confidence, that its solution involves violence and requires absolute decisiveness. This factors plus the sayings in 1, 2, and the part of 13 that goes : Thomas said to them, "If I tell you one of the sayings he spoke to me, you will pick up rocks and stone me, and fire will come from the rocks and devour you." tells me that the approach to this version of the "heavenly Kingdom" is not for the fainthearted, certainly not for the grovelers and not even for the virtuous. In Fact it reminds me of a high narrow ledge above a impenetrable dark and seemingly bottomless void. I would say a fair definition of death. Gameteus would say- that which one has to be able to deliver onself to it thus conquering it by defiance.
Deliverance Comes tremendous. Deliverance comes tremendous!
My guess is that those few with two good ears have heard engouh, for the others there are louie schwartzbergers galore!
yeah , it certainly is the desirable, pleasurable, the beautiful , sentimental and the lovable that the guy on 98 is drawing his`sword at. I feel that the few with two good ears have heard enough, for the rest there are louie schwartzeberg galore. AND ON TO BOOBIELAND!
2. Jesus said, "Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel,
and will reign over all...
Part 3 -draft
32. Jesus said, "A city built on a high hill and fortified cannot fall, nor can it be hidden."
32. Like man's spirit, never really conquered but never at peace.
33- Jesus said, "What you will hear in your ear, in the other ear proclaim from your rooftops.
33- What you hear deep in your heart, impose it with absolute conviction to the head.
36- "...As for you, when you have no garment, what will you put on? Who might add to your stature? That very one will give you your garment.]"
36- Only the spirit can add to your stature
37- the meaning of it was well interpreted
38. Jesus said, "Often you have desired to hear these sayings that I am speaking to you, and you have no one else from whom to hear them. There will be days when you will seek me and you will not find me."
38- ...
40- Jesus said, "A grapevine has been planted apart from the Father. Since it is not strong, it will be pulled up by its root and will perish."
40- life separate from truth has no lasting substance.
42. Jesus said, "Be passersby."
42- Fantastic! ....
I was stunned!
He deals with the whole hullabaloo of life in two words!
a break, celebrate!
48. Jesus said, "If two make peace with each other in a single house, they will say to the mountain, 'Move from here!' and it will move."
48- No doubt he is referring to a mind undivided, and at peace.
57 Jesus said, "The Father's kingdom is like a person who has [good] seed. His enemy came during the night and sowed weeds among the good seed. The person did not let the workers pull up the weeds, but said to them, 'No, otherwise you might go to pull up the weeds and pull up the wheat along with them.' For on the day of the harvest the weeds will be conspicuous, and will be pulled up and burned."
57. It is becoming clearer and clearer that the "Father " and "The Father's kingdom" have nothing in common with our concept of God and Heaven. 59- refers to it as the living one...
77. Jesus said, "I am the light that is over all things. I am all: from me all came forth, and to me all attained.
Split a piece of wood; I am there.
Lift up the stone, and you will find me there."
77. Gameteus is at he feet of the master. When in Wawanessa he had cried out boldly and yet somewhat resigned: "In the end It is all up to me !" The master simply said: "Split a piece of wood; I am there."
To summate or not to summate, is not even a serious question.
here is another translation of 2, by Thomas O Lambdin:
2- Jesus said: " Let him who seek continue to seek. When he finds, he will become troubled, he will be astonished, and he will rule over the all. 2- for the dummies. ( You may avoid looking , if you do look at it you may regretfully catch a glimpse of the truth, and if you do, you will be troubled, You will be astonished!!! And then -presuming you do not what just about everyone else would do, shake your head and dismiss it, you will be omnipotent.
To be clearer than that, Jesus himself would have to come up to you, knock your blueberry off your hand , grab you by the neck and yell it at your face, Yet even then the most you might get out of it- once you satisfactorily rationalize the whole crazy experience- may be an explainable urge to pick up rock climbing. Close, but No cigar.
Like I said, The truth is that which the mind will not allow in the garden of earthly delights.
ps.
in the final analysis I do not believe Jesus was a jew, or a buddhist, a christian, a pythagorean or bits and pieces of whatever. He was unique both as being unprecedented as well as unequalled.
The cosmos , despite all its sound and fury can only rarely manage to produce such an actor on its stage.
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