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As
morning is upon me
My
dreams dwindle into day,
I
can still see a glimpse of Heaven
as
it fades away.
Sleep
on in life’s reality, one day we’ll understand,
We
are just sojourners in this world with immortality at hand. Ekowa ©2oo5-2oo6
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In
Response to a Dream
on
September
26, 2004 |
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I
had a dream last night... Let me clarify. I thought it was a dream, but it was not really a dream. It was reality and it burst into my sleep. I saw an old friend who'd passed away many, many
years ago.
My dear friend was trying to tell me what would be my/our experience outside of this natural world, at my/our death and rebirth. She came in a way or was sent, with this message, so I would not be afraid when that time came. I knew by our conversation this was the way I could receive this particular truth and understand it beyond my mortal/earthly comprehension and wisdom. Fear of the supernatural will stunt the magnitude of the truth given to us. We will not be able to see panoramically and understand spiritually when we filter the truth through fear. Fear makes the truth a lie in our own mind. 'Dreams
are glimpses into the future and through the Creator's space and timelessness.' We can not truly perceive this spiritual realm in our natural [fleshly] state simply because we live in a sealed box made of flesh. Flesh or the Body is a barrier to full understanding. Our experiences in this box are not completely real when basing upon the length and breadth and height of the unknown universes. The box that is our flesh, reacts mainly to earthly stimuli and that stimuli propels or quickens us and the product of that quickening makes us feel alive in this earth realm but ca make us dead to the unknown realm.
What we do not know this life is a shadow, a counterfeit reality.
But, we continue to function through space and time like there is nothing
else beyond our natural hearing, touch, taste or perception.
'We
go through life thinking we are in reality, but we are really outside the
whole of what is truly real. ' Then,
at odd moments, there is a light from the outside that quickens the
light within us and we are called by the Divine in a dream or
vision, to take another step up in the process of our becoming whatever
we are to be. We are also warned to not step in a pothole or get involved with
something that will set us back. At ti To accomplish this we need to communicate on the higher level, the level of the Divine [what we have called God], this is an inside and outside communication. We a not alone, we are helped in our growth. When we are
straining to grow and see, a signal may be sent to us, like a ray of
light, a strange noise it can be as simple as a highlight portion in a book we're
reading or a picture or a face or a word or phrase or saying that we've
heard all our life and then it lives, it takes shape and we SEE. This morning I was
sent a message in my dream.
Dreams
are not just the REM stage, Neurology, or sleep for rest sake alone or
whatever scientists would call it. So-called bad o complicated
dreams are not just the firing of neurons, a bad meal, or a fear
of the unknown exclusively. It can be at sundry times -
communication with the Creator of all things. When
that happens, that divine communiqué pierces our flesh-box and causes
us--makes us-- look and listen with attenuated spiritual eyes and ears. The
Biblical Jesus/Yahshua
said;
"...having
eyes you see not, having ear you hear not, neither do you
understand..." [I'm not speaking of evil communications like 'Son-of-Sam' or 'Charles Manson', they were crazy and possessed by the a force that I do not understand. Even David Berkowitz says he was possessed by evil. what compelled him to kill, I can only shudder to think.] What
I am talking about is the virtuous and righteous calling, something
else - the greater one in us communicating to its divine eternal source,
which is the
good, divine, just, that which is attached to the
Greater-One[ manifested in whatever way is pleasing and efficacious] who created all the Universes.
That part in
us that receives instruction from the greater Creator when we stop,
see, listen, sleep and then understand.
The
Hebrews daily saying is:
'Schema
The word Schema means to listen or to hear but, it is not ordinary listening or hearing, it is a process that makes you breath in or eat and digest what you have heard. This hearing becomes a part of your inward person. the Egyptian called it being part of Heru, Ra, Osiris, or Isis that is why they re depicted as those deities or attributes of the One that is eternal. We
call it being one with Christ [as in Christ in us the hope of
glorification] or revelation and for a moment, when we submit to the
process we can see. I mean really see. We can be like Moses and see the face
of the infinite or Yeshua and be the son's a daughter's of God. We can comprehend the vastness of
the real life beyond the cloak or veil and begin to understand who we really are!
That
realization plugs us into a outlet that energizes our truer self.
"We can give more and accomplish more than living a cursory life, bond only to what we do on this Earth." We
must realize we are brighter than the darkness we live in. We need to
understand that we are "All the Children of God." We must understand we
are not alone in this Universe. Light walks with us. Light is in us!
I
use the word God because it conventional and convenient, but we can not
bind ourselves in a word that means more than we can understand. the word
God is earthy and culturally universal, and for most
modern folks and it give us a basic understanding we can relate to. The Hebrews used the
name Yahweh, the When I say GOD, I am talking about the One - The Supreme Creator of all things and us All. The One that can manifest itself as what it wills Male or Female but neither. The Sprit, the Force ...
The
Uncaused Cause.
Now, understanding this - let me get back to my dream.
Those
are words used by ignorant fictionists and spook hunters trying to explain
the unexplainable. Those afraid of what they see and by using
simple spooky terminology cloaked in fear and intimidation they make us afraid to deal
with the unknown. We
can "Resist the Devil and he will flee". Isn't that what the
Bible says? We are the children of God and we need to walk in protection and revelation.
My
friend was as real as I was inside the vision, but she fitted into her
realm as I do in this one. She is
real, as real as you or I, but different spiritually. To
all those preachers who said they went to 'Heaven' or descended into
'Hell', and the people who said they met Jesus and he was a white man and
all the angels were white, blue-eyed blond-haired cherubs, those same ones
that would call anyone else's dream counterfeit if it does not agree with
your contrived theology... She was as real!
When
I saw her, Her countenance
was solemn. Her hands were clasped in front of her like
a messenger or judge announcing a verdict, and she said,
‘It
is not what you think.’ Even
though we did not go over the explanation.
I understood instinctively what she meant. She was speaking of death and the afterlife, heaven and hell and the existence outside this terra firma. She was talking about NOW and the PAST and the FUTURE. And NOW and the Future and the existence of all things all being one thing, a not a string of chronological events, but life going at once, effecting everything. She was trying to tell me,
it [The Afterlife] was not as we had imagined or what we
had been told. In fact, I sensed we could not imagine it at all.
Flesh limits our
understanding of the Super-natural.
We think the supernatural is not real. We have been taught that in our everyday life. We think it is far away, remote from our daily lives. It is not. They who have gone on before us SEE us. They SEE us clearly! Why did she come to me?
Why didn't God send my Father or my Son or Sister who had passed away?
I don't know. Just as the visions of Ezekiel, Isaiah, Daniel, Paul and John the Revelator and many others before and after the Biblical account could not be understood after they'd returned ' into the body' flesh limits the descriptions of what we have experienced. Apparently, where she was residing in her spiritual state,
she could still feel and she could still see. There was
a sadness or solemnity in her manner. I use those
words and the definition for them, but they are not quite accurate
and do not fully capture her mood. It was like
a sadness, even now, as I tell the story, I am trying to interpret an "ancient
spiritual narrative" using modern terms.
Then I was impressed to focus my thoughts on her only daughter. At
the time, I knew her daughter she had a string of problems in her life,
drugs, manipulation and her identity. Her father [my friend's husband] was an chronic alcoholic and
his problem was a
constant source of upheaval for their daughter. Although their daughter, an only
child, had everything she could desire, she gave in to a life of
drugs and prostitution.
Side
Bar:
We should all know that drugs are introduced into society at the height of
its creativity and it is used to demoralize and disjoint future
generations from taking positive control and over-throwing the negative status
quo that exists in
politics, social issues, religion...etc.
The daughter had a son in the midst of her odyssey and later gave him up to
his father's side of the family while she returned to the streets. After
another bout with the drugs she had another son. When
my friend died her daughter was left to emotionally fend for herself with
her children. Although she was left with an great earthly inheritance, by the worlds standards, it
was not enough. The problem was, in her life she was not given the "awareness" of a real spiritual connection. Although she and her other attended a church regularly and the rehabilitation center was god-based, she [ like most of us] did not realize that a divine connection with the Creator was necessary for our growth as a human being. Unfortunately in these modern times, church attendance, Pastor LOVE, the prosperity gospel and the victim mentality keeps people from developing a real spiritual relationship with the Greater One.
We need that real
spiritual relationship it to prepare for the slings and arrows of life on
this earth and to be prepared and working effectively in our next birth.
When we have not developed that connection, it is as if we are born premature in this world, and Preemie left to fend for themselves do not survive. If we do not, by our own ignorance develop in this world we are unprepared for our spiritual future. By doing is we will be ineffective in our spiritual future. "It is given to you to know the mysteries" says Jesus speaking to his disciples. Why would he withhold the truth from those came to rescue? It hurt my friend to see what was going on with her daughter and to know that she did not give her enough divine instruction, or at least given her the tools to find the direction. I understood by her presence that it hurts all of those who have gone on before us. Again, they grieve to see the choices, we, their children and the people of this world have made, because...
Love
does not die... When I spoke [ through nonverbal communication] to her again, she was distant in her mind and I realized that she traveled somehow on a thread or string of her/our memories. She brought the pastor the experience of the past, with her as a means of transportation. The memories of the past was like an energy that also does not die, but becomes a vehicle. When
we communicated I realized we could both see the depth and
width of our experiences as friends and I could see the examples or
snapshots of our friendship, incidents plucked out of the whole and this
is what she used to return here in my vision.. I
saw, when I focused my [inward] attention that the experience of our friendship
was swirling around us, passing through us like a wave of love or
conductivity. It was almost like she
brought the "imprint of her life" with her as proof she
was who she was and not a counterfeit. It was like an
identification card of sorts. I
was part of her and she was part of me, that I could feel. Our connection was like air, or breath or water, or life , it was a sign
or imprint that surrounded us.
I
told her my mother had passed away. But, in reality she had not. My
mother was depressed from an illness she had and was afraid she may
die, but I did not understand why I said my mother had died. I think
because I was experiencing timelessness and the workings of eternity that
there is no a line in space and time. It may have been, I saw a
glimpse of what
is
mixed with what was,
and what will be.
It may have also been the tragedy of many of my mother figures had died...my Grandmother, sister, godmother, mother-in-law and several older women friends had all gone on and my own motherhood was at an end due to menopause.
My son who'd lived to be 2 years old -had struggled in this life and God
did not let that dream come to fruition. He died and my heart is still
broken. I had no more birth children and now well into
menopause the thought of never conceiving and carrying a child
weighs heavily on me. Whatever Motherhood implied, I said
my mother died, as hers had.
I
asked her had she seen my mother but, she did not respond. I understood
that it was not her current mission to tell me about anything or anyone else or
explain to me what I meant by 'my mother dying, that was something that
would be reveled as I spiritually matured. Then our conversation was interrupted
and she just repeated. ‘It is not like what we think-- It is not like what we think."
In
her words was a wisdom that made me understand - the phrase was used as a
key
to unlock my spiritual understanding.
After I awoke from the dream [actually my husband spoke to me and I woke up ] my
mind and senses were opened up. I felt raw and sensitive and I could see
and
understand things I had only known
in shadows before.
But, as in most things outside the body when we return we lose the intense sense of the truth and the realness of it as we come back into our clouded reality. It is like decay and the concept of energy half-life. I talked to my husband and told him my dream and when I could not go back to sleep I decided to write it on this website.
Listen:
I am not the type of
person that would write a thing as personal as this, because I know it can
be misconstrued by those looking for ...whatever. We use the word spiritual or supernatural because that's all we know to say for a thing unexplainable in natural terms. We differentiate what is spiritual from what is natural, but in reality they are fused together somehow. There is no line between them except in our own flawed imaginations. Spiritual is the only way to
explain this experience, I have found that words like spiritual,
just as using gender and anthropomorphic terms to explain and relate to
the Creator and supernatural-ness are all 10 cents words, revisionists tales and
sad concepts that do not begin to tell the truth of the matter.
This body holds down our understanding and then people with no vision try
to explain the Divine we fall further away.
Escapism is a trap! Whether it
is in alcohol, drugs, food, sex, money, power they are all false
doors and can never reveal the truth, they can never lead to true wisdom
or true love.
Egyptians Praising the One God! Looks like church doesn't it! Well it was the same thing! Now lift those hands and praise him cause there nothing new under the SUN!
Counterfeits
can
not illustrate the truth. They masks it and our perception to it. Those
escape tactics put us further into the shadows and we become use to living
under a cloud, being dull, just a reactionary-- a being acted upon and eventually
becoming so numb to spiritual stimuli that we look for a high[ in church
or the world]. We become animals and we just don't know it. We
go here and there looking for stimuli - either, sexual, emotional, or
spiritual. We become a willing audience for a grand play that is all a big lie used to keep us as children here and in the world to come. It is supernatural, cross realm slavery. BUT,
we have the answer
within our grasp but we no not understand how to accurately discern,
explain and teach what we see because of our disconnection.
The best we can do is use the terrestrial words we have.
Every
once in a while, the rays of a supernatural understanding will
come to us and penetrate this atmosphere and this flesh [shell] and we see
for a brief moment.
Tonight was my moment.
Catch
this with me or as soon as time has elapsed we are dead again, numb to that which
we knew was supernatural it we don't seize the dream. If we do not
seize it, in our frustrations and numbness we go back to worrying about
things that are terrestrial, houses, cars, clothes, success, power, money,
sex, envy, jealousy---stuff that makes no matter inside and outside of the
realm of Matter. We worry about our daily bread how we will rob Peter to pay Paul. We go back to looking for love in all the wrong places, because we have not settled in ourselves the truth of "long haul love", the love that never fails. That which will not violate the ultimate vow. We go back to hating others and being hated, we go back to this reality. Let look at what the Biblical speaker repeated and UNDERSTAND this truth came from the ancient sages thousands of thousands of year earlier.
'Now,
the message that we have heard from his son and announced is this; God is
light, and there is no darkness at all in him. If, then we say that
we have fellowship with him, yet at the same time live in the darkness, we
are lying both in our words and action. But if we live in light -
just as he is light -then we have fellowship with one another, and the
blood [essence] of Jesus, his son, purifies us from every sin.'
1John
1:5-7
Light
and truth and communication with God, is like a meteor plunging into the
atmosphere. As it plummets to the earth it loses energy, becoming
dense and changes as it goes through each invisible sphere as it finally hits the earth's crust.
As it rests on the ground it is a
mere shadow of its former self. The mass of the meteor does not match the
size. It has become condensed into the lump that lays upon the ground with
all of the power laying dormant inside it. That's what gets to us here on earth. We hear condensed information, smashed with the power dormant inside. We are a heap and without the keys to see and understand we grow cold only allowing ourselves to be awakened once in a while. We need the keys to decode the message that God has given us. The first key is LOVE!!!!! We,
at different times have seen the truth and understood it for a moment,
then the moment fades.
That's
All Blasphemy... The
words of this terra firma have no real meaning outside of this world.
We need to see the larger truth of life. There is life beyond this
life! We are spirits living in a body and on a day-to-day basis we
have no CLUE about our true essence and how we should act and react
in order to grow out of this womb into the next life. We are the living atoms that bump up against the positive and negative and incorporate those elements into our lives. We are charged electrons, but we do not understand that truth even though we were taught it in Chemistry. God
lives in us… Our
natural boxes/bodies have natural needs. Yes, We need food and shelter, security and
love and we seek pleasure, but nothing can satisfy us here. We
always look for more, need more. We spend whatever it is, as soon as
we get it. It is a cycle of growth and decay, But it is not enough good
energy to drive us to truth.
Love is Fue Not
just physical love, but the purest kind of love is the true fuel.
When you become older and you need less sleep, less food and the things you held so dear that gave you mental and physical pleasure are few and far between. Your body begins its journey to where we all come from. You start to "roll up this tent" long before you are carried out of this life in a wooden box. Since we do not understand what is beyond the veil [ I don't care what religion you profess - all of it is belief]--
We become afraid!
We
fear what we think is the unknown. But, it isn’t unknown, it is actually
familiar. We all come from the same place and we all return there every night in what we think
are dreams. We
are only afraid because we are in a state of mass amnesia.
Birth We
know there is an outside world, just as sure as a child in the womb hears
the voice of their mother and sees light and understands love and pain.
That child believes that the womb they live in is the whole world, and
they are the master of that domain. then, the birth pangs start and
the child is moved into the birthing position [ head first] on that decent
[ascent] does fear course through their body?
The closest a woman
and child get to dying and life is at childbirth. Then, all of a sudden that child--that baby--that precious thing--that innocent
being is forced out into a new world. Forced out into death? Or carried
into this LIFE?
It is death to the child - leaving a place that had become his home. Leaving a place where food and love and comfort and truth was abundant. That baby heard the mumblings and grumblings of something outside of that womb-world, but could not understand its true meaning. Just like we hear the mumblings and grumblings of a spiritual world outside of ours, and SOMETIMES we even experience the supernatural but we can n truly understand the meaning without the vocabulary in order to decipher it.
BUT, it will not be until the child are spewed or pulled out into that hidden world that
the baby will understand the reality of this natural life. We must not fear the unknown. We live! We Live! There is another place where we will continue. We are immortal I have read all the accounts of when the idea of immortality came into the writings of the ancients, but it had to come from somewhere. We are not just as plants that seem to die and another comes in its place. We are more than just a melody, more than just a song, more than a genetic code. One songwriter says that is why we pen songs that say...'I will love you forever.' or 'I will love you for always' or my personal favorite Steve wonder's lyrics from:
AS... As
around the sun the earth knows she's revolving
Until
the earth just for the sun denies itself
We
know there is an eternity, there is an ALWAYS!!!! It is not just wishful
thinking. That
Eternity and everlasting-ness, that Always
dwells in us as well as outside us. We
have to teach ourselves to see and understand it, just like
we need to teach self-control, honoring our flesh, educating our mind,
living with respect for one another and our planet. We need to be aware that
our body has a mind and can contradict our supernatural mind which is the person we really are. How
many times have we said to ourselves and others. 'Why did I do that?’ or ‘That wasn’t right for me to do?’ What
is seen as conscience to some is God to others. An understanding
that we are in a greater circle where our actions matter! This
may be a simplistic interpretation and I am sure another, more eloquent
writer could have penned it with more beauty, I am a simple writer trying
to explain the unexplainable, the supernatural or as they say: 'Gods’
voice was like the sound of [a thousand] many
waters. Flesh
is not evil like the Gnostics would preach otherwise why are we in it? But our flesh is limiting
but we are that microcosm [internally] of the heavenlies. 'As it is
above so, it is below' of As it is in heaven, so it is on earth.
I
can say the vehicle to understanding this principle is Love.
'Love
the Lord with all your heart, mind and strength, and Love your neighbor as
yourself.'
'Do
unto others as you would have them do unto you.' These principles are at the core of our being, written on our spiritual hearts. It is compassion and love, and reciprocity, but each parent/guide who has reached the real understanding must open the door of understanding in their children by teaching it. Action, Word and Deed. "Impress [mark or chisel] them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up." Deut. 6:7 Here the writer seemingly referring to the Commandments of the Hebrews, but where did they get the commandments from? Mos[es] and where did he glean them from? The Egyptian priests he was schooled under. This truth was known and taught long before Moses. True
love is the closet thing to understanding our Creator. But, that
love has to be unselfish. That is the only way it can turn into
truth, wisdom and workable energy. That is all but impossible in this
modern world because
the flesh [our coffin] filters each action and each emotion and each
understanding through the sieve of this world. . That is earthly love. Heavenly love is different.
Let us master the art of Heavenly loving one another.
How do we know that Love is not the currency of Heaven?
‘It
is not what we think!
she
said...'
Our
ancestors and those who have gone on before can see us, can still
feel sorrow when they see how we live this life and they are
concerned. Once in a while the message gets to us:
This
is not your best. You must do better!
They see the problems or temptations coming before we do, because they are looking from a heavenly purview. This happens to us all when we put on incorruptible. As the Bible says:
"We don’t know what we will be, but we will be like him…" that is a
biblical concept that I am left thinking about.
'We
must let the Christ be formed in us...' We do not know who we are, we do not understand the process, we are more than flesh and blood but, we reside on this earth-suit and we can not see or understand the greatness or the poverty of ourselves. The eyes of our understanding is darkened. That is why we are sent messages, and perceive differences and are warned and encouraged by God through his people.
We
can not let our Flesh rule! I
must confess freely that I did not visit my friends before she died and I've
regretted that for a time. But, this was not a dream of reconciliation or
forgiveness, per se. When she arrived it was already acknowledged and
understood that forgiveness was given by her and already extended to me.
She did not demand to know why I was not there in the end when she fell
ill, she did tell me when I called her why did not want to see me. It did
not matter now. That was not the thing that was important. She understood
my shortcomings and hers. She
understood the weakness of flesh and our fears and confusion
about the whole life, growth, death, transition process. We are all confused about death and dying and afraid
when our turn comes and wondering whether it's heaven, hell, sleep or oblivion.
She
wanted me/us to know that it is a different world and they" are watching
me/us, they are grieved and I/we must find a way to corporately and individually
rise to the GLORY that is in all of us!
Listen
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If,
there is anybody reading this...
and
I hope there is! This
may be it, this may be the last time you'll have an opportunity to say ' I
love You' or show ' I love you' to those you care for and who care for
you! That is so important, so very, very important. Not for guilt
sake - No! No! But for LOVE sake. Remember
your grandmother, or teacher or mother or Dad...whoever it was that loved
you and was proud of you and had a stake in your life?
Well,
they're watching you! They are loving and grieving and fretting and
praising and singing over YOU!
'You
are better than what you are doing!'
You
are better than how you are acting!'
You
are better than what you are planning!
Don't
let your flesh and the ways of this world keep you from the truth. Don't
let this world kill you! It's
not what We think! This
life's love and wisdom is stores up for the next, just like a child in
the womb is formed daily, not to stay permanently in the womb, but is made for this
phase of the learning
earth-realm, only for a terrestrial life-span.
We
are being formed into what
we will be, just like a moth or butterfly we
are being changed from the inside out!
Stop,
Turn, and Return to our source of Life
TODAY.
Last
night we had a three-quarter moon and around it were puffs of clouds.
It was a beautiful sight. We saw the handiwork of our Creator and we
all acknowledges its beauty. 'We
beheld his glory and we were humbled.' But,
that glory is not just in the sky, or sun's reflective power in the moon.
That glory is in
US...all of US! We
must stop looking at one another as if we do not have God residing in all
of us. We
must take hold to this Generation. They are becoming less spiritual
and more carnal because we continually let them remain children by helping
them ignore spiritual truths. When was the last time they beheld his
glory in you? We
must stop looking down on those in a worst shape than us and help them Up,
help them Understand.
We are a peculiar people a chosen generation a kingdom of priests. We must stop seeing our brothers as Ghetto dwellers, Trailer park trash, pimps, crack heads, or welfare rats and the inconsequential. Every life affects/effects ever other life!
'We
are fitly joined together...where every joint supplies.' They, We,
all
of us need to know and express to one another that ' We are all the
children of light the children of God'. We need to see divinity in each other. We've
dreamt it. We've sensed it. We've studied it. We have felt it! Archeology
has dug up the truth about it. We see the light of it. Now, we need
to ACT on it.
We need to understand
We
are the Children of Light.
The
entrance to Heaven is Wisdom and obedience!
The
currency in Heaven is LOVE!
'Then
God said ' let there be light' - and light appeared. And God was pleased
with what he saw. Then he separated the light from the darkness...'
Genesis
1: 1-5
'Ye
are the light of the world, a city on a hill can not be hid.'
Matthew
5:14
'Before
the world was created the word already existed; he [it] was with God, and
he was the same as God. From the very beginning the word as with
God. through him [the word] God made all things; not one thing in
all creation was made without him. The word [sacred utterance] was the source of life, and
this life brought life to mankind. The light [revelation] shines in darkness, and
the darkness can never put it out...This was the real light - the light
that come into the world and shine on all mankind.'
John
1: 1-9
'
My dear friends, we are now God's children, but it is not clear what we
shall become. But know when Christ appears we shall be like him,
because we shall see him as he really is.
1John
3:1
'...There
shall be no more night, and they will not need lamps or sunlight, because
the Lord God and the lamb/ram [love, innocence and gentleness] will be their light[
revelation and truth], And they will rules as
KINGS forever and ever.'
Rev.
22:5
Blessings
to you all, Ekowa
'Change your words into truth And then change that truth into LOVE, And maybe our children's grandchildren , And their great-grandchildren will tell.'
Essays by Ekowa
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