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Matthieu 6:3

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3 Mais quand tu fais ton aumône, que ta main gauche ne sache point ce que fait ta droite.

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Spiritual Experiences # 1826

  
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1826. It is amazing that mental images are enriched more by the Lord when a person is not paying attention or trying to fill them in, or is not looking. Thus I believe the mental images of little children are enriched much more than those of adults while they are praying the Lord's prayer. Adults disturb them with their own mental imagery, so that they are rendered unsuitable to be enriched, because they are from their own thoughts. Although this certainly sounds paradoxical, yet I have learned it from actual experiences.

  
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Thanks to the Academy of the New Church, and Bryn Athyn College, for the permission to use this translation.