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Vanity and God - (4433)

When we are so vain we think that we are like God because either we are so good looking, have such a good body, so intelligent, so smart, so funny, so kind, so spiritual or this or that... Or sometimes it is just because it is us  that we feel so vain....


We think that because we are so beautiful that we can get access to anything, be exempt from certain conditions or limitations, exempt even from some Laws, and that we can move this or that circumstance to favour us... Just like God is and can.


Really if we think about it, there is beauty because of God and it is because of consciousness, and Divine sovereignty of will that God can move or change circumstances...


The reality is that we get things things upside down inside out. The power is not in beauty it is in Divinity and it is not beauty that moves everything but Divinity. 


The fact that a beautiful woman or a handsome man manages certain allowances that favour her or him  is another thing altogether. It is not honesty or fairness that gives her or him those allowances but the corruption owing to lust in men and women that permits it.


The right thing trades with the right thing and the corrupt trades with the corrupt.


End (4433).

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