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I have looked at this week's verse from the Calendar of the Soul, from three interpretations, and they pretty much align with the significant intention. It is all about the Cosmic Word, which adheres closely to the Parable of the Sower of the previous entry. Here are the three entries, with TM in the middle, and ML last:

Within my being's depths there speaks,

Intent on revelation,

The cosmic Word mysteriously:

Imbue your labor's aims

With my bright spirit light

To sacrifice yourself through me.

In the depths of my being,

full of mystery,

surging toward revelation,

the Cosmic Word speaks:

Fulfill the goals of your work

with my spirit light

to sacrifice yourself through me.

IN deep recesses of my being

a power presses for a revelation,

lo! the cosmic WORD doth raise its voice to say:

“attain thy strivings’ destination

my light divine will show the way,

to sacrifice thyself through me.”

Now, here is what the prologue to the Gospel

of John says in its best interpretation:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was a God. The same was in the beginning with God.

All things came into being through It and save through It was not anything made that was made. In It was Life and Life was the Light of men.

And the Light shone into the darkness but the darkness comprehended it not.

There was a man; he was sent from God, bearing the name John. The same came as a witness in order to bear witness of the Light that through him all might believe.

He was not the Light but was a witness of the Light.

For the true Light which lighteth every man should come into the world.

It was in the world and the world came into being through It, but the world knew It not.

It entered into individual men (that is, the ego-men); but individual men (the ego-men) received it not.

But they who received it could reveal themselves as Children of God.

They who trusted in His name were not born of the blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man — but of God.

And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we have heard His teaching, the teaching of the once born Son of the Father filled with Devotion and Truth.

John bare witness of Him and proclaimed clearly: He it was of whom I said: — He will come after me, who was before me. For He is my forerunner.

For out of His fullness have we all received Grace upon Grace. For the law was given through Moses, but Grace and Truth came through Jesus-Christ.

Hitherto hath no one beheld God with his eyes. The once-born Son, who was in the bosom of the Universal-Father, has become the leader in this beholding.

https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA103/English/AP1962/19080522p01.html

Thus, we should give real consideration to this type of analysis, which is in our hands today.

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Sorry that it all ran together.

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