The Solar Entity

The  Solar  Entity

Martin Cecil   October 24, 1976

 

“The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.” How can we begin to see wholeness, oneness? The extent to which we can begin to experience that wholeness in our outlook and in our living will be the extent to which we know the truth. 

When we look at the solar system we are inclined to see it fractionally: there is the sun at the center and there are planets in their orbits around the sun—in simple terms these are the main points—but the solar system might be better described as a solar entity, because it is one thing. When we look at our own bodies we see one thing. We are aware of the fact that there are parts, but we are assured of the integral nature of the body. 

Looking at the solar system and describing it as a solar entity we may see an immense sphere. This immense sphere has the sun at its center, what we call the sun, a physical body of some kind presumably, very hot and very big, relative to the earth. But that is the core of the solar entity; it isn't anything all by itself. 

The term "magnetosphere" perhaps describes something which may indicate the extent of the solar entity. Perhaps we could not put any boundaries on it actually, but, for sake of a new vision of what we have called the solar system, we may see the solar entity as extending to and beyond the orbit of the outermost planet—the sun's magnetosphere. Our capacity to discern does not include, at the moment at least, the discernment of the magnetosphere. It is there nevertheless, just as real, just as solid, in a sense, as the sun itself. 

This wholeness of the solar entity certainly includes parts, but we need to see the wholeness of it, and the extent of our seeing the wholeness of it will be the extent to which we are beginning to awaken to the truth. If we merely see a system, with a sun in the middle and little planets whirling around on the outside, we don't really see what's there. It is a very restricted view, unaware of the reality of the wholeness. The earth only exists as the earth in the solar system—because it is a part of the solar entity.

The world of which we are aware is based in our ability to discern and interpret what we discern. We speak of physical substance, but apparently this physical substance is not so physical after all. It's composed of atoms, and atoms seem to be composed of vibratory factors, and physical substance vanishes into a vibratory pattern of some kind. The point is that all is of this nature. We have become aware of the vibratory nature of all things. There are various levels of vibration. We translate or interpret certain levels of vibration as though it was physical substance. We do this because of our facility to discern it—we interpret it that way. It isn't really that way; we make it that way.

 

We can see our participation in the process of creation, because physical substance isn't really physical substance the way we imagine physical substance to be. It is of a vibrational quality, but we have certain facilities in our makeup which enable us to discern certain vibratory levels, and we discern a certain vibratory level which, in turn, is interpreted as being physical substance. But we interpret it as being physical substance. We make it that way, and we are capable also of giving it shape and color, and we consequently create what may be seen as a rich environment, based in our own discernment of it and our own interpretation of it. But what we are discerning and interpreting is all one thing, various levels of what we describe by using the word "vibration," and we create our own worlds.

 

The vibration which we interpret as physical substance emphasizes itself very particularly to us because we have been oriented in that direction. We have facilities to discern other things, but our discernment at other levels of vibration has suffered because of our hang-up in relationship to the physical level of things—and the appearance has been of separation. We look around and we see bits and pieces everywhere. There has been some sort of an awakening in recent years to what has been called ecology—but it’s still not seen in its wholeness, a wholeness which is the reality and which can never be shattered in fact. It's always there; it always has been there and always will be there. "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come." There is a wholeness.

 

We may begin to discern the wholeness of a solar entity. The earth is just as much a part of that solar entity as the sun is, or as any other of the planets are. They are all swathed in the same vibratory substance that, at the moment, we do not discern directly. Just because we do not discern it doesn't mean that it isn't there. This solar entity springs forth from what may be described as a centering point. Now, we think of the centering point as the sun, but the sun is merely something that we are capable of observing in various ways and is of the level of physical substance insofar as our direct observations are concerned—hot physical substance; we can feel the heat when the sun shines. But there is a centering point which is not that vibratory level which we interpret as physical substance.

 

On occasion we have considered the matter of dimension and how all dimensions spring out of a point, a point which has position but no magnitude. A point isn't a dimension; it only becomes dimensional as something emerges, is generated, out of the point. We have noted that the first thing to be generated out of a point is what is called a line. A line has length but no breadth—what's that? Whatever this solar energy is is generated out of a point; and if we want to give position to the point, we say it must be somewhere in the sun. It has position but no magnitude.

 

I was noticing the other day that the idea was beginning to percolate that somehow or other there was a black hole in the sun. They have discovered black holes here and there in the universe into which what we interpret as substance may flow and vanish. Perhaps there's something coming out of a black hole too, which isn't noticed. But the idea of a black hole at the center of the sun is related to this matter of the initial point of generation. There is something emerging into what we call the dimensional world: various vibratory levels, one thin band of which we interpret by calling it physical substance.

 

It seems to be a peculiar world we live in, doesn't it? It isn't the way we have always thought it to be. Now, it might be said that if I am describing the solar entity, we are indulging in a little imagination; but, you know, all imagination is based in something that is true. You cannot imagine anything that is not based in something that is true. We have noted that, in the creative process, God never makes something out of nothing, and if there is imagination, there is something back of the imagination. The point with human imagination is that whatever was real back of it is translated into distorted patterns insofar as human consciousness is concerned, and we have some pretty far-out things in imagination in consequence. But somewhere back of whatever it is, there is the truth, there is a reality, which is sensed but mistranslated.

If we imagine this solar entity as a vast vibrational sphere, that is an interpretation of something that is true, and perhaps it might be said that the interpretation in this fashion is nearer to the truth of the matter than some of the other separatist interpretations. We see how this separatist business permeates all areas of human experience. People want to maintain their state of separation, as though there is something valuable in it, as though "my" culture is better than "your" culture—all of it is based in this separatist approach, so the true culture is never seen; because, after all, if there is human culture of various types, it must spring from some reality. The human culture which comes out on the surface is not the reality, because it has been misinterpreted by reason of the separateness which has now become so inherent in the state of human consciousness. We are concerned to awaken to the state of oneness. 

Where people are polarized in the earth, they see everything in terms of earthly cause and effect, as it is considered to be; but this is a very superficial view, because everything that is happening is happening by reason of what is back of the surface event, or at the higher level of vibration. There is something emerging through everything that is working out, and so one thing is not really a cause of another thing, in the surface sense. The things that are happening in the surface sense are simply reactions of various kinds, on the basis of this separate condition in human consciousness, to what is emerging vibrationally speaking, what is emerging from the original point. 

This is particularly emphasized with respect to our solar entity. Obviously, the solar entity is not something separate from the rest of the universe. There is what might be called a galaxy entity, of which our solar entity is an essential element. We see, then, a much greater sphere of some kind, vibrationally speaking, of which we have an awareness because of the level of vibration which we discern as physical substance. We also discern, with our instruments, other levels of vibration which are included in this vast galaxy entity, but then the galaxy entity is a part of something else too. Our concern is to awaken to the awareness of wholeness, so that we don't merely see little bits and pieces of what we call physical substance spinning around here and there. That, indeed, is not nearly the half of it! 

The only way by which we can awaken to the truth is because we are centered at the point from which what is emerging may come forth in our own experience. Then we are not trying to adjust ourselves at the periphery to what is going on, but are simply allowing what is emerging—which is the cause of what is going on, anyway—to come forth through ourselves in our own particular field of function in the whole. It's coming forth through everybody else too. It is coming forth and is made evident through everything else! But if we misinterpret what it is that is coming forth, we get everything jumbled up in our consciousness, and everything, consequently, jumbled up in our world. 

How can the experience be a clear one unless we ourselves are clear with the point by reason of which the coming-forth is occurring? Then our movement will be in harmony with that coming forth; and while the movement of many other people may not be in harmony with that, nevertheless it is not outside of what we call the working of the Law. Human beings are always trying to set up their little patterns out here on the periphery and, generally speaking, totally ignoring anything that may be emerging from the focus point. Until one pays first attention to the focus point, one cannot possibly know what it is that is rightly emerging on the periphery. But human beings get these things set up on the periphery, and then, because what is emerging from the center point can't actually be stopped—it's going to emerge anyway— they find that what they'd got all nicely set up on the periphery begins to split apart. What is emerging from the center point is forcing it apart, and that's a painful business. There must be a centering at the core. 

Now, the first awareness of that core is like unto our awareness of the sun—we see something. We don't need to try to analyze what it is, but that's a first awareness. The centering point is not the sun, as we think of it; it is a point, if we wish to give it position, at the center of the sun, a point which has position but no magnitude. That's the point of orientation. The sun is a very good illustration of the flaming sword, isn't it? You can't get to that center point in the sun without passing the periphery of the sun, which is pretty hot. 

Only as we begin to awaken to the necessity of total centering, total love, for that point, toward that point, toward the quality and nature of that point which is revealed most distinctly the closer one is to that point—only as there is this total centering, can there then begin to emerge what should emerge on the surface. To the extent that we get hung up in the surface patterns, to that extent there will be a tendency to ignore the center point. 

How much we have considered the tone which emanates from that point and with which we rightly associate ourselves, become familiar, discover what the quality of it is in relationship to this aspect of our expression and to that aspect of our expression. All this is primary, because we don't know, until we find out what that centering point is in relationship to ourselves, what our expression should be; so we don’t know what our relationship with others should be. 

"The Lord our God is one." That is the supreme truth. Let us experience that truth! Using the solar entity as an illustration, we may be very much aware that the nature of this entity emerges by reason of the sun at the center. In this sense, this planet can be seen as a part of the sun, a specific means by which the truth which is present at the center may be revealed in all its glory. This is the challenge that is presented to us and to all the angels of the Lord on earth.

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Home

Home — His  Temple  On  Earth

from   Uranda’s Christmas Message

Uranda   December 15, 1948

 

Tonight, in this Christmas Season, the word, Home, contains a Spirit of fullness and significance which we might well meditate upon. First, I am reminded that many years ago our KING'S Home was divided. His Home originally was—and it was supposed to be—Heaven and earth; that which we speak of as the Whole Holy World. Perhaps you have sometimes thought of Heaven as being His Home, and it has been, although it has been an incomplete Home for Him through all these thousands of years. 

I am reminded that only a little under two thousand years ago He left one part of His Home and came to visit the other part, the part that was supposed to complete His Home. He was born into the world a Babe—into the most humble of surroundings. He, the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings, when He came into this half of His Home, found no place awaiting Him. He was born in a manger in a stable because there was no room for Him in the inn. The people of the world were too busy following their own fancies and looking after their own puny affairs to pay any attention to the fact that the LORD of the world had come. He lived in this world, and grew to manhood, and He began His Ministry. 

He began to tell the people how this world might become that beautiful other half of the Heavenly Home, and He assured them that that which was of the Heavenly Home was not far away. He made clear the Plan by which the two halves might be reunited; He made clear that the separation between the two did not have to continue: but the people of the world, instead of welcoming the LORD of the world, crucified Him. Nevertheless, on the third day He came forth victoriously from the tomb, and returned to that other half of His Home, where He has been waiting for nearly two thousand years, waiting for human beings to wake up, waiting for human beings to put into practice His instruction, to follow His Plan, so that He might have the privilege of coming again to this part of His Home. 

Human beings, through their self-activity, selfishness and self-centeredness, have kept Him out of His Home, this portion of His Home, these thousands of years. These usurpers who prevent His free use of His rightful Home will not be tolerated forever. Sooner or later, in His own good season, He will return; but it is His longing, His great desire that springs from His wonderful Heart of Love, that when He comes again to this part of His Home it shall not be to drive out all who are living here. He does not want to return to this part of His Home and find nothing but empty rooms echoing with the deeds of evil. His Heart desires that those who are living here now should let themselves be so transformed and so prepared that they may remain here when He comes, that they will not have to be cast out, and that this part of His Home will not be found to be empty. He wants to come to this part of His Home and find those He loves, and those who love Him. He wants that coming to be a family reunion between those who live in this part and those who live in that part of His Home, that the Whole Holy World may again be what it ought to be—His Home, where all the Members of His Family live in their appointed places, in joy, in peace, in happiness. 

This world, this part of His Home, must be cleansed and purified, the debris must be swept out; the mean and shameful furnishings that man has put into it must be cast out and burned; it must be cleansed, and the Sunlight of Love must shine into every room, and those who dwell here must let themselves be changed, so that they will not be uncomfortable in His Presence, so that they will not be annihilated when they come before His Face, so that they will find joy in beholding Him, and so that they may rejoice greatly, without fear, in the holy privilege of welcoming Him back to this part of His rightful Home. 

Until we, in our Home here, begin to let the Spirit of His Home manifest, we will not be doing very much toward preparing the way for the Union, for the reuniting, of Heaven and earth. We have made progress, it is true. Something of His Spirit of Love is manifest, or you would not be here; and you have recognized something of the vision of the beauty of the Pattern of Truth, or you would not be here; but those old patterns of the world have no meaning here. Here the Spirit of the Home of our KING must manifest, so that when He comes again He will be at Home, and we will be at Home with Him. 

We want to feel at Home with Him when He comes, and when He comes we want Him to find His Home ready and waiting for Him, worthy of Him, with the Spirit of His Home made already manifest. That is our purpose here, and when we remember the true significance of Home, and the wonderful privilege and sacred responsibility that is ours in helping to prepare this part of His Home for Him, surely such a realization must have meaning by the very force and weight of it, by the very glory and wonder of it, through every thought and word and deed, through every hour of every day. We are here for that purpose, so that when He comes He shall find His Home in the condition that it ought to be. 

If He were to come and stand among us tonight, in a manner that you might see Him as He is, do you think you would be ready to say, "LORD, Thy Home is prepared; we welcome Thee, and find joy and complete peace in Thy coming"? 

Let us, then, be about our Father's business, that we may be ready whenever He deems it wise and proper that He should come. Let us remember always the meaning of Home, and, in this Christmas Season, be re-dedicated through the Spirit of His Love to that Plan and Program whereby He shall nevermore have to come and be received in a stable or a manger, and whereby, when He shall come, in His Power and His Glory, it will not be to wipe out and remove all who dwell here, but that there may be those who shall await Him with joy, and welcome Him in Holy Love, ready to serve Him and make Him feel at Home in this part of His Home, from which He has been so long separated.

If we have been exiles from the Kingdom of Heaven, so also has our KING been an exile from this world; for, as much as we need that which is there, so does He need that which is here, that His Kingdom may be complete, and that all of His Children, all of His subjects, in the Whole Holy Word, may know that glorious world which is according to His Will.

 

I feel that you have all come to a deeper realization and understanding of many things tonight. Everything worthwhile is contained within the true meaning of the word, Home. We all love to be at home, but so does our KING; and how can we hope, anywhere, under any circumstance, to be at home until we can be at Home with Him, and He can be at Home with us? 

Praising God for your response and prayerful meditation, and for the spirit of realization flowing through you, I must remind myself that it is needful that we go our several ways to find rest for the morrow. A time is coming when, as a Unit, we will let ourselves be so engulfed, with one accord in one place, in the Spirit of our KING, that the passage of time will have less meaning than it does now. Day by day each one is learning more of what it means to hold the vibration, to stay centered in the Central Current of Being; and when we can rest in that Current without letting it break, or without causing it to break, in its relationship to ourselves, we will be ready for something that cannot be described, and I feel that that day is coming. Constancy and consistency in our worship of the One God in Spirit and in Truth, according to the One Law, surely opens the Way, it opens the door, so that, for us now the floodgates of Heaven may be opened, and the Spirit of our KING'S Presence may be made manifest in and through us, that we may become, in Oneness, so accustomed to the Spirit of His Presence, in the full wonder of His Glory, that we will be able, and know how, to welcome Him Home.

 

That which the world calls home, or the people of the world call home, has meaning to me only to the degree that it helps toward preparing this world for the return Home of our KING. Anything that human beings call home, or imagine to be home, that does not do that, is meaningless, a waste of time and a futility. Here we have the privilege of proving the Reality of Home on earth, but I cannot conceive of any place or any circumstance that could be called home, or that could be of any satisfaction, or of any meaning, if our KING be excluded therefrom.

 

So, in these realizations, we are privileged to rest this night because we are nearer Home than ever before, and because the Day is nearer than ever before when we can have that Blessed Privilege of welcoming our KING into His Temple on earth, that Temple not made with hands.

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Christmas Message To Young Explorers

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Christmas  Message  to  Young  Explorers

Uranda   December 8, 1938

This year I would address my Christmas Message to the Young Folks—for Christmas is a time when people of all ages feel young and happy as they let go in the true Spirit of Christmas. So it is that on behalf of all the Young Folks of the Explorer's Club, I invite all the adults in the Third Sacred School to be the Guests of the Young Folks' Explorer's Club through this Christmas Season, and during the first part of the New Year. We trust that all of you will find Joy in entering into the Spirit of our Invitation—for Jesus said that all people needed to become as Little Children, and this is a time of year when it is easy to be young in heart and in Spirit, no matter what the years of the calendar ago may be. So it is that we, the Young Explorers, welcome you as our Guests. 

I have prepared a special Christmas Poem, and we designed a special Christmas Folder for it, and had it printed on parchment as a fitting symbol of the parchment that was used during the time of Jesus' Ministry. On the front you will notice the three Wise Men who are following the Star. The three Wise Men represent the three phases of yourself, namely, your own body, your mind, and your outer Spiritual Nature. The Star represents the Christ Light that shines forth from your own Father within you, and as all three parts of you are wise, they will always follow the direction of the Christ Light, or the Star, until the three human parts of you will be blended with your own Father within you, so that you will be Born Again Spiritually, and you will become a true Son of God. 

The important thing for you to do during this Christmas Season is to find a New and Deeper Meaning to Christmas—you are to Explore into the Spirit of Christmas so that you can begin to experience that greater Joy which is the Will of God for you. In this Message I am going to help you have the right attitude toward Christmas, so that you can begin to find many wonderful and interesting things that you have never even thought about before. 

Not long ago one of the wide awake Young Explorers asked about the time of Jesus' birth. We all know that the Christmas Holidays are supposed to celebrate the birth of Jesus, in Bethlehem. The story of His birth never grows old, and it is told in many ways; in song, in poetry and in prose. 

Jesus was not born on December 25th, even though we celebrate His birth on that day. There is no exact record of just what day of the week Jesus was born on, nor of the day or month. However, we know that He was born in the Spring, and not at the beginning of Winter. In the Third Sacred School we accept the 7th of March as the Birth Date of Jesus, in the year 4 B.C. 

You are not all supposed to know just what it means now, but I would mention that Jesus came in the early part of the great Water Age—and Water is the symbol of Truth—and He was born 384 years after the beginning of the Water Age. The Water Age ended in 1768 A.D., just 270 years ago, and the great Air Age began at that time. Air is the symbol of Spirit, just as Water is the symbol of Truth. So now we are in the Spirit Age, or Age of turning to the Spiritual Life, just as Jesus came in the Truth Age, or the Age when Truth was given to man. Jesus said, "I am the Truth." In this you will see that we have a great many things to Explore into as we go along the Way. 

Now let us find out why the birth of Jesus is celebrated on December 25, instead of on the day when He really was born. The Apostle John, who was so close to Jesus all through His Ministry, lived to be a very old man, and after he left the earth, there was no one who took the lead in Living and Teaching the Christ Life. Soon after John the Revelator passed to the Inner Planes, the true Spiritual Teach­ings of Jesus were forgotten by most people, and what they did remember they mixed with their own ideas to please themselves. By the time 300 years from the time of Jesus' birth had passed, there was not anyone, anywhere in the then known world, who was really letting the true Christ Light shine forth. The human ideas had been given more attention than the Truth, and by giving attention to the "letter" of the law, the Spirit of it was ignored. So it was at that time that the Dark Ages of history began. 

Before this time, that which has now developed into the Roman Catholic Church had been started. The man who really started the Catholic Church was a very devout follower of the Christ, but others who sought to have power over the people soon took control away from him. Shortly, those who were giving first attention to the Spirit and the Truth were crowded out of authority, and a selfish priesthood began to de­velop. In the fourth century after Christ, the Catholic Church began to grow rapidly, gaining converts from the so-called pagan countries. Because they claimed to follow Christ, they were called Christians. 

In order to make it easy for the sun worship­pers, and other so-called pagans, to become so-called Christians, the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church made it a practice to take the Holy Days of the people, change their names, and then let the people keep the same Holy Days that they always had. There was a certain people that had a great festival for Seven days between the close of the old year and the beginning of the New Year. These Holy Days—for that is what Holidays really mean—began on what we call December 25 and lasted for Seven days. When the Catholic Church went to convert these people, they did not want to give up their Holy Days, so the Church decided to let the people keep the same days, but they would change the name of the days. They had not yet set apart any certain day to celebrate the birth of Jesus, whom they claimed to follow, and so they called it the Day of Christ, and told the people that the day was alright, but that they had to change its name. The Catholic Church always had a special Mass for each special thing which they wanted to celebrate, so on the Christ Day they had a Christ Mass as a part of their religious celebration. In a short time the 25th of December came to be known as Christ Mass Day, which was changed to Christmas Day, as it is known to us. So you see that people now celebrate the birth of Jesus on Christmas Day, just because some ancient people had set apart that time to worship the Sun, and the Roman Catholic Church just changed it from a day to worship the Sun to a day to worship the Son of God. 

However, even though we know that Christmas Day is really not the day on which Jesus was born, we can celebrate His birth on that date, and take a leading part in the Radiating of the Christ Love into the world at this Season when others are thinking about Jesus. 

Let us explore for a few moments the reasons why those ancient peoples who worshipped the Sun as a god, should set apart the Seven days beginning with December 25th as a Holy Day Season. It is at this time of the year that we have the longest nights and the shortest days. Because all life of plants, animals and human beings must depend so greatly on the Sun, the Sun was looked upon as the Giver of Life. It was realized that if the sun should go away, and stop shining on the earth, all things on the earth would soon freeze up in the darkness and die. All through the fall of the year the days get shorter and shorter, and the nights get longer and long­er. Now if the nights should keep on getting longer, and the days shorter, all life on the earth would cease. About the first of the year there is a change. 

For the first part of the Seven days before the first of the year the length of the days and the nights appears to be unchanged, as if the Sun were trying to decide whether to keep on making the days shorter, or to begin to make them longer again. So these Seven Days were devoted to a worship of the Sun, first praying that the Sun would re­turn and give them longer days again, and then when the Sun did start giving them the longer days, as it really does at that time of year, they gave thanks to the Sun for returning. In these Holy Days they greeted the New Year, and they knew that before long the returning Sun would melt away the snow, and bring the Springtime when they could again plant their crops and grow their food. So you see those ancient people had a very good reason for celebrating at that time. Now we know that it is not right to worship the Sun, but we do worship God who made the Sun in the first place, and causes it to shine for us. People today are too much inclined to take for granted the blessings God provides for them. They might well learn a lesson from those so-called pagan people in giving thanks to God for their great Blessings. 

As you contemplate the story of the birth of Jesus, it would be well for you to realize that He was born in a manger, in what today would be called a barn, in order to show that Spiritual Realities of God do not come in the way that human beings think they should, with worldly pomp and power. In the manger the oxen and the don­keys were fed. All through the Bible an ox is a symbol of the human mind—of your own outer mind. The ass, or donkey, is a symbol of your own body, which is a temple of the living God. Jesus rode into Jerusalem on an ass, indicating that the Lord of the body will guide it into the New Jerusalem if the body will respond, just as Jesus guided the donkey into Jerusalem on that triumphant day. 

Just so, the ox and the donkey had to be taken out of their stall in order to let Jesus be born in the manger. That means that your own human mind and body must stop being self-active before the Christ Spirit can be born into the manger of your daily life. Both the ox and the donkey are very slow and stubborn—just like people who do not have the Christ Spirit. When your body and mind stop acting like a donkey and an ox, and then begin to respond to the Lord within, just as the three Wise Men came to Jesus, giving Him their ALL, you will find that your body and mind and Spiritual Expression will be made wise, and you will be the three wise men all in one person. In order to do this you must follow the Star of the Christ Light, Love and Life, which will surely lead you to your Lord within you, and as you give all you have and are to Him, He will begin to fill you with His Presence. The shepherds who heard the Angels sing, are symbols of those who respond to the loving Call of Jesus, "Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you Rest." 

Now you know more of what Christmas means, and you will understand the Love which I send to you, and  I AM  Uranda

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