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No one can give unless he has. In fact, giving is proof of having. We have made this point before. What seems to make it hard to credit is not this. No one can doubt that you must first possess what you would give. It is the second phase on which the world and true perception differ. Having had and given, then the world asserts that you have lost what you possessed. The truth maintains that giving will increase what you possess.
How is this possible? For it is sure that if you give a finite thing away, your body’s eyes will not perceive it yours. Yet we have learned that things but represent the thoughts that make them. And you do not lack for proof that when you give ideas away, you strengthen them in your own mind. Perhaps the form in which the thought seems to appear is changed in giving. Yet it must return to him who gives. Nor can the form it takes be less acceptable. It must be more.
Broadcasting in total the unity and singleness
of purpose of the universe.
Determinism and Free Will
Determinism is the absolute capacity to be everything.
Free will is the absolute capacity to be everything.
A hippopotamus is not everything because it thinks it is everything but rather because it thinks.
The limitation of species man places on a hippo concerns it not in the least.
