TCR 623 [2-3]
'A horse,' he said,
'means the understanding of truth
drawn from the
Word.
All the horses you have seen meant that.
When someone goes along
meditating on something from the Word,
his meditation seen from a
distance
looks like a horse, of good breeding and alive
if he meditates
spiritually,
and by contraries a poor or dead one
if he meditates
materially.'
Then the boys asked: 'What is meant by
meditating
spiritually or materially
on something from the Word?'
'I will
illustrate this,' replied the master, 'by examples.
Everyone who
reverently reads the Word
thinks inwardly about God,
the neighbor and
heaven, doesn't he?
Anyone who thinks about God only as a Person
and not
as Essence thinks materially;
and so does anyone
who thinks about the
neighbor
merely as an external form,
without regard to the sort of
person he is.
If anyone thinks of heaven
merely as a place,
instead of
as love and wisdom,
which are what make it heaven,
he too is thinking
materially.'
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