You must know one thing above all: a succession of words does not have only one meaning. - LS, p. 17 🧵 1/3

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But men strive to assign only a single meaning to the sequence of words, in order to have an unambiguous language. This striving is worldly and constricted, and belongs to the deepest layers of the divine creative plan. - LS, p. 17 🧵 2/3

On the higher levels of insight into divine thoughts, you recognize that the sequence of words has more than one valid meaning. Only to the all-knowing is it given to know all the meanings of the sequence of words. Increasingly we try to grasp a few more meanings. - LS, p. 17 3/3

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