Friday, June 26, 2015

Orient and Occident

Orient  and  Occident



        


Loveland  Fireside  Talks  #2


Uranda   March 5, 1944



We noted that the different types of activity in the Orient and in the Occident have their base in the positive and negative phases of the structural vibrations of the earth itself, but that the negative phase of activity which we find characterized in the Orient, especially in relationship to what we might call the evil, or destructive, did not have its point of origination in the mere fact that it was located in that phase of the earth. Otherwise God would be the originator of evil.


The original point of separation on the earth's surface was in the region now known as Mongolia—the Gobi Desert was under water for a thousand years, between the submersions of Lemuria and Atlantis—and it was in that region that, during the period preceding the removal of the majority of unfallen men and women from the face of the earth, the realm of fallen activities reached what we might call its highest point of development; not necessarily relating to spiritual things, but according to the world standpoint that now exists, such as fabulous wealth, great cities, etc. We have many legends relating to that portion of the earth's surface.


The dominant characteristics of the Orient and the Occident—in relationship to the problems which we face as a Church, and to the problems of the world outworking—to what degree have they direct influence from the world standpoint and from our standpoint? The thing that is most outstanding in my own view of this is the fact that in the Orient you have such a startling picture of the natural tendencies of the fallen nature of man over the entire earth's surface.


Due to concepts of divinity, climatic conditions and many other factors, such as strife, economic considerations, as well as actual warfare, and the more widespread interest in individual attainment of wealth and position that we find in the Occident, the primary point of difference is that the natural expression of the fallen state of man—the mental quirks, characteristics and limitations—are personified so widely in the Orient. The main difference is that in the Occident we have driving forces, such as the things mentioned—what they call free enterprise, and all of that—which have tended to create an atmosphere with us, with all its evils and limitations, that has allowed a greater degree of conscious recognition-of and attunement-with the true spiritual expressions which God directed into the earth.


We can say that there have been great teachers in the Orient, but that which we speak of here as the Word of God [holding up the Bible]—although they are giving reality a degree of expression that substantiates the truth here presented in a more or less obscure manner in the Orient—was brought into activity by the Occident. We find that that out of which the Word of God developed is the same as the origin of what we call modern civilization, and the two developed at the same time, during the period in which the present dominant races developed. We find two things, stemming out of the same conditions, the same environment and through individuals in the same generations.


We have, step by step, the formation of the Bible on the one hand, and the formation of commercial enterprise and domination, so-called civilization and all of its various factors, on the other hand, the Word of God having modified that expression to a degree, so that we have what we call Christian nations. But the important thing is that when we take out of it (civilization) the Bible as such—i.e., if it were relegated to a place of temporal writings, such as we have in the ancient philosophers, like Socrates and Plato—and consider only the portion of our culture which is based upon crystallized concepts of those ancient doctrines without the Bible, and if we take out of it the strife which has been experienced through the Occidental factors that make for this strife we have spoken of, the difference between the Occident and the Orient would be very small. The rest of it could be explained largely on the basis of climatic conditions and temperaments of peoples and things of that nature.


Awhile ago, I spoke of the Orient personalizing the picture of fallen maneven the so-called spiritually advanced development in the Orient simply goes to the periphery of the realm of the negative and stops, so that it conceives the individual in God to be as a drop of water in the ocean. If we bring this view down to the point of individuals, these same principles hold true—remember that the world vibration is made up of individual vibrations—and we can see more clearly the needs of the Occident, by considering that which we see in the Orient.


The popular concept of the needs of the Occident relates to progress in making laws and setting up mechanical standards of doing various things according to the ideas of civilization, and that is where most of the plans that man advances slip up. If we are more or less illumined, then, and view these things that form the primary influences in the Occident—considering the Orient, and considering the nature of man as it exists in the Occident in the light of Oriental expression—the fool's gold is immediately in evidence, and the differences are no longer a factor and we come right down to the fundamentals of what the needs are in the Occident and the Orient alike. While the approach must be different in each case, because of the two types of interest in the fool's gold, the problem relates to convincing the human mind that it of itself cannot conceive of a plan by which it can work out its own salvation, according to its own desires in relationship to its own fancies individually or, in relationship to world problems, from a world standpoint.




Let us consider color. White is all colors. Black is absence of color. If you take white and divide it in a prism, you get such colors as exist. You know the primary colors, combinations of which make all colors. Divine man, entering the first phases of fallen activity, still had a certain amount of control over actual creative processes, and after a period of time there came a certain blending with a lower form of animal life, which resulted in the particular body which we have today.


We have white, which contains all colors. In God's creation as it was originally established, there were no colored people; that is, they were all white. When man began to propagate in the fallen state, still retaining a certain degree of control over creative processes, he interfered more or less with the laws of propagation. We now consider all that to be automatic—man does not have anything to do with controlling development in the prenatal period, other than through food, environment and mental attitude—man does not have anything to do with creative control of the creative processes at the present time. Man was created to have within himself all vibrations of the animal world—man contains within himself the vibrational function found in, or vibrations relating to, all forms of animal life.


Then when man in the fallen state began to propagate while still retaining the ability to interfere with the natural function, we can see how instead of getting all of the colors in to make white it was very easy for different individuals, establishing different vibrations, to leave out certain of the colors, so to speak; that is, certain of the vibrations which would immediately have a result in connection with the color of the skin. The outer appearance, the actual nature of the skeleton, was quite similar in all races. As man continued in creative activity, the current of power within his control receded, and the last that he accomplished in the fallen state by the use of that creative control produced certain other types.


There were many types that were unnatural in many ways, which did not survive to this present day, but we are only considering that which has survived. Scientists have been looking for the missing link, etc., but have largely failed, although they have unearthed various types of ancient creatures supposedly of the human species, that led them to believe that man has over a period of millions of years developed from some lower form of life. Some of these skeletons, or signs, that have been found have been of these miscreations during the final period in which man had controlled a degree of creative power, and which did not survive.


We have the white race, the brown race, the yellow race, and the black race. From the standpoint of the activities in these earlier days, there were those who started, more or less accidentally to begin with, to interfere with natural processes through control of creative forces. They started a vibration which diminished the perfect out-manifestation of the white. So the origin of the races, and the colors of the races, were more or less a manifestation of the prism effect of the creative powers acting in and through man in the early stages of the fallen state. [Incidentally, there was a blue race. A portion of Lemuria, prior to the final submersion, was inhabited by what I have spoken of as the blue race. — added April 2, 1944]


We recall that evil use of creative power produced the destructive tendencies in insects and animals. These destructive distortions were used in a process of warfare. Certain tribes originally began to establish that which differentiated them from all others; then, when they had accomplished their purposes, they used those differentiations as a symbol of themselves, and it was out of that that we have the origin of the distinctions of racial characteristics.



All of the destructive animals and pests that we have on the face of the earth today are survivals of, or the warping of, originally designed characteristics to suit the purposes of fallen man, and were used as weapons by what we might call enemy tribes or groups, until they developed very ferocious animals to use in fighting. Take the mosquito, for instance. Originally that was a creation of fallen man developed with the idea of controlling them, and as long as the originators of them controlled the mosquitoes, they could keep them from destroying their own peoples and send them against their enemies. It started out by using expressions of nature as combatant forces. Now they have mechanical means of combat. Take the serpent, for instance. Snakes are despised at the present time. Originally they were among the most beautiful creatures on the face of the earth. Originally they flew through the air and were absolutely harmless, and were very beautiful.


Most destructive creatures were originally creations which God created—excepting only such as the mosquito—and since most of them were not actually individual creations, they were perversions which were developed out of the originals in order to produce that which could be used on the basis of black magic, or human self-will. Take flies—if it were not for flies, the ordinary house flies, humanity would have perished from the earth long ago. Why? You take a carcass of a dead animal, and if there isn't something to devour it the stench from it as it putrefies would become a breeding place for disease and create ill conditions, causing disease which would wipe humanity from the face of the earth. It has been said that three flies will be able to produce offspring in the form of larvae which will consume a carcass more quickly than a lion would be able to consume a carcass of the same size, like a cow. The mosquito is as near an original creation still surviving as there is. To say absolutely a creation, that would not be true, because they already had something to work on or they could not have accomplished it.


Characteristics of Divine man physically—speaking from the standpoint of the physical, he was less dense; speaking from the standpoint of the divine, he was more solid. That sounds like a paradox. From the standpoint of the physical nature as we know it now, he was less dense; from the standpoint of the spiritual, more dense, more the manifestation of the positive vibration of being and less the manifestation of the negative vibration of being. While the body of Divine man was larger, it was proportionately lighter in relation to gravitational buoyancy; that is, he could jump higher into the air. Do not get any idea of clumsiness; he had grace, symmetry, ease of movement, surpassing anything that man can achieve today.


The pineal gland is the connecting link for the silver cord. Each of the endocrine glands is a connecting link between God and the physical being. The first six of the endocrine glands form contacts which relate to the unconscious realm of physical function, that is, automatic functions, etc. The vibrations received from the pineal gland activate the auric radiations which form the mind, intensifying them to the point where consciousness becomes positive.


The angels of heaven are God Beings that incarnate in the earth, and there are also God Beings in heaven. The angels of heaven are God Beings in the inner planes, and God Beings incarnate in the earth. It is ordinarily believed that angels are neither male nor female because Jesus said that there is no marriage in heaven. Since each God Being has his perfect cosmic mate there is no need for marriage in heaven. “God said, Let us make man after our image… Male and female created he them.” So the masculine and feminine must be in the nature of God, when He said “in our image.” Therefore God Beings are male and female.




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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

The God Beings Were There

God  Beings  Were  There  Down  Through  The  Ages






Creation and the Fall of Man


Loveland Fireside Talks #1


Uranda   February 27, 1944



Uranda began the consideration of the recorded Biblical story of the creation and the fall of man and stated that the only picturization we have from the beginning of creation until the flood is given in the first four chapters in the Bible, covering exactly seven pages in the Scofield version, and four or five pages in the ordinary Bible edition. In other words, everything that took place up to about 12,000 years ago, or approximately over a period of 300,796 years—that is, up to the time of the flood, or the submersion of Atlantis—is pictured for the Bible student in condensed form in the first few chapters of Genesis. Such being the case, it becomes obvious that much is left out, or unrecorded, and therefore the student of the Bible should not form any definite or dogmatic views concerning this portion of Biblical history.


Using a school globe, Uranda then proceeded to briefly picture for us what took place during the above stated period, filling in those portions unrecorded in the Bible, certain phases of which are considered by the world as being purely legendary. The Gobi Desert in Mongolia, for example, was the portion where fallen man was banished to. The Oriental civilization, particularly in China and India, developed from remnants of people living at the time of the submersion of Lemuria, and later, the submersion of Atlantis. They developed as tribes within this area that was segregated for fallen man, and because of that, we see how the Oriental tribes functioned. We go back to the Law of the positive and the negative.


The earth itself must have a positive and a negative phase. The hemisphere dominated by the Orientals is the negative phase of the earth itself, and the hemisphere dominated by the Occidentals is the positive sphere. From the standpoint of history the records are Occidental, not Oriental. As regards man and woman, the positive and the negative, the negative phase was ignored except as she related somehow particularly to the positive phase. There are a few exceptions, but primarily women were ignored and history deals mostly with the history of men. The important thing in relationship to this is that the Oriental development or the negative phase, comes directly from tribes growing out of remnants of those who escaped destruction at the time of the submersion of Lemuria first, and Atlantis later. The only means by which any did escape destruction was because the Himalaya Mountains were thrown up at the time of the submersion of Lemuria. Only a few escaped into these mountains, and from these the Oriental peoples developed. The sea gave way in both directions, north and south from these mountains, which permitted a few of those belonging to that earliest settlement of segregated individuals, fallen man, to live through that period.


It is to be noted that certain portions of Lemuria remained above the surface of the sea, forming what is known today as the South Pacific Islands, which retained a more or less responsive attitude toward the source of life, so that prior to the coming of missionaries and the inroads of our civilization these islands were practically free from evil and from the diseases of the so-called modern civilized white race. We see, therefore, in the Orient a decided expression, or manifestation, of what we call the negative phase of life.





Uranda — When a human soul reaches nirvana, according to Oriental philosophy, it does not incarnate anymore. It is just like a drop in the ocean, disappearing into the vast body of something or other. It is supposed to be tranquil, but there is never any real expression of itself in creation out here in the world—which shows that there was an attunement only with the negative phase of life itself. Arriving at the edge of the negative phase, and being attuned to that, the positive phase is ignored, as if it did not exist. They did penetrate as far as the negative went, and from there on, as far as they were concerned, there was simply nothing; nevertheless this state of attunement with the negative phase, or the Mother God expression, was something greatly to be desired, according to their concepts.


On the other hand, in accordance with the Occidental idea, we have the concept of God as the positive concept of being. There we have a positive conception of a Divine Being of specific form, and so on. A conception of that which is beyond the physical is altogether different in the positive phase than in the negative phase, and the Orient constitutes the negative phase. We now see the great conflict. Russia belongs largely in what we speak of as the Oriental sphere, and we see the influence of the Oriental concepts and attitudes in the development of atheistic viewpoints. That would come out of such concepts of nothingness, in the elements of ruggedness, where there is danger from cold and the constant necessity to fight for life itself—sufferings from hunger, cold and labor. An individual would tend to develop a denial of this Oriental type of concept of Deity. It is because of that that we see the atheistic trend so prominent in Russia. We see that there is a terrific struggle going on between the Orient and the Occident. This war that now rages has part of its bearings in this struggle.


In the earlier periods of the development of civilization, as in Egypt and points in the Babylonian region, we have the legends that relate to the period of creation of the world, to the flood, to the submersion of Lemuria. We may say that in some of the records preserved in the Himalayas we find the same story, but they did not come there purely from an Oriental standpoint. For 7000 years prior to the submersion of Lemuria, sections of Lemuria were going down. There was a spread out of Lemuria into various parts of the earth, evidenced by the legends that we find now, for instance, in reference to the North American Indians, the records contained in Mexico, Honduras, South America, the Himalayas, Babylonia, Egypt—all spreading out from Lemuria because of this submersion and because of upsets that were taking place in Lemuria during these 7000 years. The other half of the world condensed the stories that were all virtually identical. And so we are not dependent upon the Biblical story only. These legends, etc., all tie in.


The God Beings were there, down through the ages. These legends and records, wherever found, all point to the same story. There are many things which serve as evidence; for instance in the Easter Islands, which was the eastern portion of Lemuria, they have found quarries of solid stones which simply could not be quarried by the best engineers today. How are such things to be explained? All these things indicate that there is something overlooked, that is not given in the Bible. This does not detract from the Bible, or from its validity of course. It points to the fact that the condensed history as given in those four chapters of Genesis cannot be treated as if it were a detailed history covering that vast period of time.





You will observe, as you look at the globe, that Lemuria extended over the globe, binding, so to speak, the negative and the positive spheres of the earth; that is, it extended from a point not far west of California over the Pacific Ocean, including the remaining South Sea Islands as they stand today, as well as Australia.


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Monday, June 22, 2015

I  Was  There





Young  Folks’  Explorers  Club  #9


 

Uranda   May 17, 1939



In Paper Eight, you were introduced to many interesting facts, and we shall now continue our consideration of Ages. I pointed out to you that the First Universal Age was a Water Age, as indicated in Genesis 1:2. We saw that all the Ages, whether ordinary Ages, Solar Ages or Universal Ages, always move in the same order through their cycles, and that the cycle always begins with a Water vibration and closes with a Fire vibration. We found that the order of the four vibrations is always the same, and that they are: 1st, a Water vibration; 2nd, an Air vibration; 3rd, an Earth vibration; and 4th, a Fire vibration. These four vibrations may be spoken of as the Four Forces. Everything that manifests in this world is related to these Four Forces in various combinations of vibration.


If you understood all that this means, you would understand all that there is to knowso do not be discouraged if you do not yet see why these things are so very important. Just read them over until you have these facts clearly in consciousness, and as we continue on you will learn to understand them. The main thing for you to realize now is the fact that the names—Water, Air, Earth and Fire—as used with vibrations in connection with Ages, mean much more than they are usually thought to mean in ordinary use of them. In other words, these names are applied to the Four Primary Forces, or Creative Vibrations in Reactive Form, as symbols that give keys by which the secrets of the Four Forces may be unlocked and easily understood.


As the first Universal Age was a Water Age, and it closed 388 B.C., it is evident that we are now living in the second Universal Age, and that it is an Air Age. The Universal Air Age vibration, in that Air is the symbol of Spirit, is clearly seen as the background of our Great Master’s ministry. This present Universal Age began 2327 years ago—and from a Cosmic standpoint our dates should figure from that point, rather than from the supposed time of Jesus' birth. As the Universal Air Age began with a new cycle of Solar Ages—just like the hour hand on the clock begins a new cycle every time it reaches twelve o'clock—we can see that the Universal Air Age began with a Solar Water Age. Also, that the Solar Water Age, which will not end for 23,545 years yet, began with an ordinary Water Age. As an ordinary Age is only 2156 years long, you will see that the first Water Age of this present Solar Age, came to a close in 1768 A.D., or just 171 years ago. That means that the second Age of this present Solar Water Age began with the close of the first Water Age in 1768 A.D., and that now we are living in an Air Age.


Mankind as a whole is somewhat sensitive and responsive to the vibrations of the ordinary Age in which it is functioning—as evidenced by mankind’s present function in relation to the air, in which man has developed airplanes, radio communication, and the many other uses of the air which have been devised during recent years. The mass of mankind in the fallen state does not recognize, or respond to, the vibrations of the Solar Age to any great extent. This failure of true response on the part of fallen humanity is that which prevents mankind’s right use of the vibrations of the ordinary Age.


In other words, the vibration of our present Solar Age is that of the Water classification, and Water stands for Truth. If man, then, were properly responding to the Solar Water Age vibrations, he would make only true and perfect uses of the vibrations of the Air Age into which the world entered in 1768 A.D. Man has still less response to the vibrations and forces of the present Universal Age, which is a Universal Air Age, and this means that the true Spiritual application of the Air vibrations released through the ordinary Age has completely escaped mankind as a whole, and the human application has been from an unbalanced standpoint of the physical plane only. That is the reason why the inventions which mankind thinks to be so very great are really of little value—they are not the perfect blessings which God intended man should have through the vibrations made available to him.


In the New Age, into which we have entered, all that is humanly conceived of evil and limitation must fall away, and evil will be destroyed from the whole world. As you consider carefully the things that are being revealed to you, you will find it easy to understand how these things will be.


You will note that the three different Ages relate to the three phases of yourself. You have a body, a mind, and to the degree that you respond to your Lord within yourself you have a spiritual expression phase—and these are the three phases of your own being as a Temple of your Lord. In perfect Divine Man, as God first created him, his physical body was attuned with the vibrations of the Age in which he lived; his mind was tuned with the vibrations of the Solar Age in which he lived; and his spiritual expression was attuned with the vibrations of the Universal Age in which he lived. In the fallen state, as humanity now is, man’s body is attuned to the uncertain vibrations of man’s own making in his outer environment; his mind is partially attuned to the vibrations of the ordinary Age in which he lives, and he has almost no spiritual expression of any kind—though he often thinks his mental gymnastics to be spiritual. Thus you see how man is all out of tune with the Cosmic Forces, and no one can hope to enjoy the perfect life God has provided for Divine Man until he has allowed himself to be properly “tuned up” with the Cosmic Vibrations.


The present purpose of the Third Sacred School is to assist all who respond in the process of allowing themselves to be attuned to the Cosmic Vibrations of the three types of Ages through the Four Forces. Only those who carry through in response can be lifted up into that perfect state.



As you realize that you are now living under the vibrations of three different Ages—1st, an ordinary Air Age; 2nd, a Solar Water Age; and 3rd, a Universal Air Age—you will see that the triple vibration of Air-Water-Air contains the secrets of release which allow rebirth into reality here and now. This Triune Vibration is Spirit-Truth-Spirit in full and free function through all three phases of your outer being—that the Triune Vibration may fill your Triune Temple. When this takes place, the Lord of your Triune Temple will take full control of the Four Forces by which His works may be accomplished in the earth through you. This is that which the Great Master revealed in the Two Commandments He gave.


Now we will return to the Bible story of Creation. You have seen that the First Day was a Solar Water Age, and that the Second Day was a Solar Air Age. If the order of the Four Forces as they work through the different Ages is correct as we have outlined it, it is evident that the Third Day should be a Solar Earth Age, and the Fourth Day a Solar Fire Age, and then the Fifth Day should again be a Solar Water Age. Let us check this with the Bible and see what is revealed.


On the Third Day God gathered the waters into one place, “and let the dry land appear,” and “God called the dry land Earth.” So we have proof that we are right so far, and that the Third Day was a Solar Earth Age. Now consider the Fourth Day. As the dry land had appeared, the mists and clouds around the earth were condensed, the atmosphere was cleared, and at last, on the fourth day, the light of the stars and the sun and the moon reached the earth’s surface. The heat and light of the sun began to work its wonders on the earth's surface—and so we again have proof that a Solar Fire Age was the Fourth Day of Creation. Next is the Fifth Day, and lo, we find that it was on the Fifth Day that God said, “Let the waters bring forth abundantly” both fish and fowl—and “it was so.” Here we have, then, five proofs in succession, which no one who believes in the Bible can possibly deny without denying the Bible itself. What of the Sixth Day? On the Sixth Day the creatures of all kinds, including man, which breathe air, and which must have a constant supply of air in order to live, were created. The average human being cannot live for even three short minutes without air. Man may go for days without water, or weeks with out foodbut air he must have all the time. It is clear, therefore, that Divine Man was created in an Air Age—and in a Solar Air Age. Of all the Four Forces, it is evident that Earth would be the one most natural to a Day of Rest—and we find that the Seventh Day of Creation was a Solar Earth Age of 25,872 years duration. God Himself made this clear in His instruction to the Children of Israel that they should let the earth rest every seventh year.


Now that I have shown you how the record in the Bible proves the Truth of the Ages, and reveals the Keys by which we may fully understand Creation, it is possible to tell you the Story of Creation that you cannot find in books. This Story is one which you cannot find from any source in the whole world outside of the Third Sacred School. Each one will have to look within himself to find whatever confirmation, or assurance of Truth, he may require in order to let go and allow himself to relax into the New Vision of Reality which is now revealed for all who are ready and willing to respond.


I tell you this Story as it was, because I was there and I took part in all of the events of which I speak. It is not by “memory,” as human beings think of memory, that I am able to reveal this picture to you. It is not some strange and “mystic memory” which has been conjured up by some strange experience. It is not something that anyone has told to me—and, as it has not before been written during present recorded history, it certainly is not something that I have read somewhere. Neither have I any ancient and mysterious “tablets,” or writings of any sort whatsoever. Some there are who will attribute my story to imagination, and they will look upon it as fiction—and to all who so think, I give assurance that I have no objection to their attitude. This Story is to each one according to his response thereto—Reality to all who respond to Reality; fiction to all who respond to fiction. I ask no one to believe it; for spiritual things must be spiritually discerned in the Light of the Fire of the Christ Love.


The Cosmos is without end and without beginning. Your Lord within you is eternal—He never “began,” because He has always been. Seek not to comprehend the things of God which go back into the eternal past, or on into the eternal future. It is enough for you to be assured that your own individual, personal Lord within you now, has the eternal identity which He has always had, and which He always will have—but I speak not of that which you think yourself to be, nor of that which the world has called you.


Your Lord was with me in the beginning, before the world was—this I assure you; but be not concerned about “trying to know it” for yourself. Many hundreds of thousands, yes millions, of years ago, your Lord was one of a vast company of millions of Lords, or God Beings, who were all working together in the creation and transformation of a huge world which became our sun long ago. Your own Lord was, and is, one of the God Beings about whom this Story is told—but as we continue it is to be understood, without my repeating it, that your Lord was one of those of whom I speak when I say “we.”



In the creation of the huge planet which is now the sun of this solar system, we created wonderful plant and animal kingdoms which were marvelous beyond all the imaginings of men. In that whole creation there was no evil; no suffering; no sorrow; no death. The magnificent race of Divine Men and Women who lived in that huge world were always perfect and without sin of any kind. Their beauty of body, their symmetry of form, and their magnificence of stature were more wonderful than you can imagine; and they always functioned in perfect Wisdom, in full Harmony of Oneness With the God Beings who dwelt in them—and we were among those God Beings!


Again I greet you in the Garden of God, that you may truly understand the Secrets of Creation. The blessings of the LORD of the Sacred Seven are ever resting upon you, and are released through you according to your response in love to Him. Remember that the Way is easy—and that the burden of light will dispel all darkness from before you as you truly trust in your Lord, and obey His will.



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