Part P14
Purposes of Life: 9 Commands / Commands 8th and 9th, and Summary
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The Eighth: To understand the words concerning the Creator's unity and Maker's dominicality uttered by the beings in the world each in its particular tongue.
The Ninth: To understand through your impotence and weakness, your poverty and need, the degrees of divine power and dominical riches. Just as the pleasure and degrees and varieties of food are understood through the degrees of hunger and the sorts of need, so you should understand the degrees of the infinite divine power and riches through your infinite impotence and poverty. The aims of your life, then, briefly, are matters like these. Now consider the nature of your life; its summary is this: