Power
elite 5
Understanding how individuals and civilizations self-destruct without
seeing what they are doing
Excerpts from Key
19
Separating yourself from dualistic identities
We have now come full circle and can answer the question of why people
do evil things and are unable to see what they are doing, often even
justifying them as being good. Yet, once again, we are dealing with
a subtle point that will require some contemplation and explanation.
Let us begin by reconsidering and clarifying our previous discussion
about your origin as an individual being. Your origin goes back to an
immortal being that exists in the spiritual realm. This being started
its existence as an individualization of a being in a higher level of
the spiritual realm, and this Chain of Being goes all the way back to
the Creator. Your spiritual source was created in a particular sphere
that was, at the time, the lowest level of the world of form, a sphere
that was not yet filled with light. Your parent won its immortality
by partaking in the process of raising its native sphere until it ascended
and became part of the spiritual realm. When that victory was attained,
a new sphere was created, and your spiritual parent desired to be part
of the process of raising that sphere. Yet because it had already won
mastery, it could not project the fullness of itself into the new sphere.
If a number of beings with a high level of mastery entered a newly created
sphere, they would instantly raise it, and that would defeat the purpose
of allowing new co-creators to grow gradually. So your spiritual parent
participated in the process by creating extensions of itself that were
designed as one of the following types of beings:
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New co-creators with
a minimal sense of predefined identity and designed to embody within
the new sphere.
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New angels serving the
new sphere from the spiritual realm or (in the case of your sphere)
possibly from the identity realm.
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Spiritual teachers working
inside the new sphere (the parents themselves serve as teachers
from the spiritual realm).
- Beings with a more developed
identity and mastery than a new co-creator. These are the beings who
hold the counterbalance for fallen beings and are sent in an attempt
to rescue them. Such a being does not have full mastery, but it has
a much more defined identity than a new co-creator. It takes embodiment
like a new co-creator, meaning that it must awaken to its true identity
and can potentially fall.
No matter where you came
from, you are an individualization of your spiritual parent, who incorporated
its own experience and mastery in designing your individuality. You
were designed as a unique individual, and although there are billions
upon billions of individual beings in the world of form, there is no
one who is exactly like you. You have a unique spiritual individuality
and thus you have the opportunity to bring a gift to the world of form
that no other being can bring.
For co-creators, their unique individuality was defined by their spiritual
parents and incorporated into creating a spiritual being that I have
called the I AM Presence.
This I AM Presence is permanently residing in the spiritual realm, and
it is an individual being within the greater whole of the spiritual
parent. It was the I AM Presence that projected itself into the lower
realm in which a co-creator first took form as an individual being (which
might not have been the material universe). Since angels are not created
to take embodiment in a lower realm, they have no I AM Presence. But
if they fall, their spiritual parents do create the equivalent of an
I AM Presence to hold an unerasable blueprint of their individuality.
The spiritual being who represents the Divine Mother, which is currently
the ascended master Mother Mary, then breaks her body to create a Christ
self for the fallen angels that can serve as a mediator between their
lower and higher beings. All beings who lose contact with the spiritual
teacher have such a Christ self created, but for beings other than angels,
this Christ self can be created by various masters who sponsor different
groups of beings.
The core of your individual being, or lifestream, is the conscious self,
which gives you a sense that you exist. For co-creators the task of
the conscious self is to build an identity as a co-creator with God
in its native realm. For angels the task of the conscious self is to
expand the predefined identity and become an even better angel. In other
words, the task of the conscious self is to build the identity through
which a being expresses itself and serves in the world of form. The
conscious self can then refine this identity as a result of your experiences.
In the beginning, all newly embodied beings were tutored by a spiritual
teacher whose task was to help them build a sense of identity that was
a combination of two elements. One was the individuality anchored in
the I AM Presence. By reconnecting to this spiritual identity, a being
would gain a framework in which it could build its own sense of identity
based on choices made by the conscious self. We might say that as everything
else, the identity has two aspects:
If you have harmony between
the two aspects, you will feel ultimately fulfilled and at peace. You
will be one being, a whole being – as opposed to being a house
divided against itself (Mark 3:25) – and thus you can complete
the Path of Oneness, whereby your total identity – a combination
of the Alpha and Omega aspects – becomes immortalized and can
ascend to the spiritual realm. It is the task of your spiritual teacher
to help you build this identity on your own. In other words, the teacher
is not trying to force you or manipulate you into building a particular
type of identity. However, the teacher is trying to guide you toward
having harmony between the Alpha and Omega aspects, which is the only
way you can become immortalized.
The teacher is also trying to help you see that becoming immortalized
means that your lower sense of identity, your Omega identity, comes
into complete harmony with the laws of God and your spiritual identity.
Take note that this does not mean you have no freedom to define your
Omega identity. You have great freedom, but in order to attain wholeness,
you must exercise that freedom within the parameters set by your Alpha
identity. The Father and Mother aspects of your Being must come together
in harmony before new life – the immortal you, representing the
Son aspect of God (regardless of your physical sex) – can be born.
We might compare this to driving a car. You have certain traffic laws
that guide how you can drive, but if you follow the laws, you can go
anywhere the road will take you. As you started out building your identity,
you did not have a clear understanding of the laws of God or your Alpha
identity, so you created an Omega identity that was not in harmony with
your higher being. For you to become immortalized, this identity must
be spiritually reborn and brought into harmony with the upper part of
the figure-eight flow of your total Being. The reason is that only beings
who have passed the test of selflessness can become immortal beings,
as God obviously would not want a selfish being to become immortal.
There did come a point when your teacher had to give you the opportunity
to make the choice as to whether you would consciously choose to align
yourself with your spiritual identity. You had to give up the sense
of identity you had created during your neophyte phase and be reborn
into oneness with your true identity. As I have tried to explain, this
was not something that was forced upon you from without. It was truly
your own higher will to come into this wholeness rather than remaining
in the divided state that can only cause suffering. Obviously, your
ego is born from a separation between your higher and lower being and
can only see the will of your higher being as coming from outside itself.
So it is up to the conscious self to overcome the illusion of the ego.
This is the choice between defining your identity based on the mind
of Christ – who alone knows your spiritual identity – or
the mind of anti-christ, that can never know your true identity.
***
In the first three spheres
that were created in the world of form, all beings successfully passed
this initiation and became immortalized beings. Yet in the fourth sphere
a group of beings rebelled against the very process itself. They refused
to bring their Omega identities into alignment with their Alpha identities.
They refused to bring the will of their conscious selves into alignment
with the will of their own spiritual selves (or for angels, with the
beings who created them). Thus, instead of creating a sense of identity
based on the Christ mind – becoming one with all life –
they created an Omega identity based on the mind of anti-christ. Thereby,
they set their Omega identities apart from their Alpha identities and
from all other parts of life. In other words, what these beings created
was a separate sense of identity, and because they all rebelled for
the same reason, they created a superstructure that became what I have
described as a separate mind, entity or beast.
As the process of the fall continued, other separate or dualistic identities
were created, and there are now a number of them that have been reinforced
by many beings. My point here is that when the first beings rebelled,
there was no separate identity, no identity based on the mind of anti-christ.
Yet after the first such identity had been created, it now became easier
for beings to fall. For co-creators the problem was, as I explained
earlier, that many of them refused to take command over their lives
because they did not want to make their own decisions. Co-creators were
allowed to do this for a season, but there came a point when they had
to make a decision. And once a fallen identity had been created, it
now became possible for co-creators to choose to enter into that state
of identity instead of building their own separate identity. For angels
the problem was that they became judgmental and rigid, which also caused
them to refuse to self-transcend. So they were likewise tempted to enter
a predefined, separate identity.
When a being refused to step up and consciously create an identity based
on the reality of Christ, it often did so because it seemed like too
much hard work or too great a responsibility. It was easier for such
a being to keep following someone else. Many students did want their
teachers to continue to tell them what to do. Obviously, a true spiritual
teacher must eventually refuse to play this role, and at that point,
the student is faced with the inevitability of making its own choice.
Creating a separate sense of identity based on anti-christ was originally
much more of an effort than building an identity based on the mind of
Christ with the help of a spiritual teacher. Yet once the first separate,
dualistic identities had been created, students had an alternative to
doing the work themselves. They could simply choose to step into the
mold of a predefined identity based on the mind of anti-christ. They
could choose to partake of the “fruit” of such a predefined
identity, which had knowledge of relative good and evil because it was
created from the duality consciousness. Once beings had taken a bite
of the forbidden fruit, they would no longer have to make their own
decisions. They could simply flow with the stream of this new identity,
just as a flock of sheep follow the lead sheep. So if a being did not
want to follow a true teacher – who demanded that it step up to
becoming self-sufficient – it could choose to follow a false teacher
who would make no such demand. Thus, for beings who did not want to
make their own decisions, following a false teacher seemed like much
less of an effort. False teachers will gladly tell you what to do and
never demand that you think for yourself, as they want you to follow
them blindly. Furthermore, the dualistic identities are tied to the
beasts behind them, and this creates an aggressive pull on the emotional
and mental bodies of beings who have stepped into the gray zone of doubt.
This pull is often the factor that overwhelms the minds of the beings
who have become houses divided against themselves (Mark 3:25). Thus,
it is the gravitational pull that makes it seem like following a false
teacher is easier than following the true teacher, who – by the
law of free will – can exert no pull on the student’s mind.
Once beings stepped into a predefined identity, an ego would be created
for them, and this ego would then make most daily decisions so the conscious
self could withdraw into a little “cave.” Also, there would
be other beings who had long ago chosen the false identity and who could
act as leaders. Finally, the gravitational force of the beast itself
would pull them along. In other words, once beings had chosen to join
the club, they could get away with not making their own decisions. What
does it take to join such a club? Every separate sense of identity is
based on a specific dualistic lie, so in order to enter that identity,
you have to accept the lie—which, of course, is presented as an
absolute truth. Here comes the essential point. Once you have accepted
the lie, you must pledge to never question it again!
If you do decide to question the lie, then the combined force of your
own ego, other fallen beings who accept the lie and the beast itself
will do anything in their power to prevent you from seeing through and
abandoning the lie. My point being that while entering the club requires
no effort – can be done by making the decision not to make a decision
– it requires an entirely different effort to get out of the club.
An identity based on the mind of anti-christ is a club that has no provisions
for allowing you to resign your membership. Once you are in, you are
supposed to stay forever, continuing to feed your light to the beast,
which has now become your new god.
Of course, you were not told all this before you joined, but the reason
was that you had made the decision not to listen to your spiritual teacher,
and thus you could not be warned. Instead of taking the Path of Oneness,
you took what seemed to be the path of least resistance. Yet in reality
it turned out to be the path of maximum resistance, the path of separation,
the path of death. As they say when signing a contract, “Always
read the fine print.” The only problem is that the mind of anti-christ
provides no fine print, for the fine print is in the mind of Christ.
Even fallen beings and beings blinded by duality have access to the
Christ mind through their Christ selves, which is what Jesus described
as the Comforter, “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost,
whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things,
and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto
you” (John 14:26). The question is whether they will listen to
this inner teacher or to an external teacher—even the “external”
teacher of the ego.
***
We can now see why people
can commit evil acts without seeing what they are doing, without realizing
that what they are doing is against what they profess to believe, thus
becoming hypocrites. The reason is that they are not actually thinking
about what they are doing, and thus they do not see that what they are
doing is evil. Since they are not thinking, they cannot see the inconsistency
between what they profess to believe and what they are actually doing.
That is why people can believe that God will reward them for killing
those who are not members of their religion, even though their religion
contains the command not to kill. Killing another human being in the
name of God is truly the ultimate form of hypocrisy known on Earth.
Yet why can’t people see that this is hypocrisy; why are they
not thinking? It is because their conscious selves refused to step up
to the next level of the path, the level where you take full responsibility
for creating your identity, thus taking full responsibility for your
own growth, even for your own salvation. Instead of accepting this responsibility,
the conscious self refused to think and decide for itself. It then joined
a mass identity, and now it is blindly following along with what the
leaders in that state of consciousness are saying. It has become a blind
follower of the blind leaders, and thus the blindness prevents it from
seeing the obvious. The false identity is based on a lie, and this lie
uses the duality consciousness – which can justify anything –
to justify the actions and portray them as not being evil. That is why
people are able to commit the most evil acts while feeling fully justified
in doing so, even feeling that they have the ultimate justification
of being told by God to do what they did.
As an obvious example of this, consider the Crusades. We have two groups
of people who both claim to be devoutly religious and completely devoted
to following the will of their God. As the ultimate irony, both Muslims
and Christians say their religious tradition is based on the Old Testament.
They both claim to be worshiping the God of the Old Testament, which
they see as the only true God and define as the God of Abraham. They
also believe that this God used Moses to bring forth the ten commandments,
one of which states in no uncertain terms, “Thou shalt not kill”
(Exodus 20:13). So how can it be that these two groups of people are
now killing each other, while both of them feel their actions are justified
by their God? How can the true God of Abraham give his followers the
command not to kill and then tell two groups – who both claim
to be worshipping this God – to kill each other in his name?
I know full well why this can happen, namely that the Old Testament
contains many passages where – supposedly – the “one
true God” told his chosen people to kill those who were not so
chosen. And throughout history, Christians, Muslims and Jews have used
these passages as a justification for a wide range of atrocities that
all violate the unconditional command not to kill. Yet what is the truth
here? Is it really possible that the true Creator of the world of form
– who gave self-conscious beings a part of its own Being –
would command a group of people on a very small planet called Earth
to kill another group of people that were also out of the Creator’s
Being? Or is there possibly some other explanation?
What might such an explanation be? Well, it seems we have arrived at
a point where our next logical step must be to examine the role of religion
on this planet. After all, the topic of this book is how you can attain
spiritual freedom. Ideally, religion should be a tool for giving you
that freedom. Yet it now seems necessary for us to consider whether
the duality consciousness could possible subvert the original purpose
and turn religion into a tool for taking away your spiritual freedom.
We will do so in the next chapter, but first I want to make a crucial
point.
***
One does not have to be a
prophet – merely a student of human psychology and history –
to predict that some people will take the teachings in this book and
reason that the main cause of all of humankind’s problems is that
a number of fallen beings are embodying on this planet. Thus, the way
to solve all problems is to identify these people and either get them
off the planet by killing them or by making sure they have no power
in society.
I trust the more aware students can see that such people are reasoning
this way because they are trapped in the fallen consciousness. They
are seeing everything through the filter of duality, and thus they think
in terms of “us” versus “them,” which is precisely
how fallen beings think. The people who would use my teachings to initiate
hostility toward other people are themselves trapped in the same state
of consciousness that created all of the problems on this planet. Thus,
they obviously cannot contribute to the solution—until they free
themselves from that consciousness.
Therefore, I will – in the strongest possible terms – encourage
everyone who reads this book to consider that the fallen consciousness
has been influencing this planet for a very long time. It is virtually
impossible to embody on this planet without being influenced by this
consciousness. In fact, the vast majority of the people who are in embodiment
right now have fallen or have become blinded by the fallen consciousness,
which happened many lifetimes ago. Thus, they have had a very long time
to incorporate elements of the fallen consciousness into their lower
beings, into their identity, thoughts and feelings—what most spiritual
and religious people call the soul.
In reality, the “entity” that people normally call the soul
is not something that is created by God. Technically, it is a vehicle
that is created by the spiritual parents, as they have to allow an extension
of themselves to go into duality. Thus, out of their love for you, they
give you a vehicle that you can then use as a foundation for your expression
in the material universe. However, the contents of that vehicle are
created by you as you make decisions based on duality. This will require
further explanation, but before we go into it, let me remind you that
even fallen beings had the opportunity to be in a spiritual schoolroom
with an enlightened teacher.
***
One can say that the soul
– or at least the contents of the soul vehicle – is an outgrowth
of what I have so far called the Omega aspect of your identity, namely
what your conscious self is charged with creating. However, there is
a crucial distinction to be made. In an ideal scenario, you would be
completely committed to following the Path of Oneness according to your
teacher’s instructions. Thus, there would be nothing hidden between
you and your teacher. When you made a decision based on the mind of
Christ, the decision and the memory of it would rise to your causal
body so that your attainment would not be lost. This is what Jesus called
your treasure in heaven (Matthew 19:21), and it is basically a conglomerate
of all decisions that are based on the Christ consciousness. Your conscious
self could then draw on this attainment when making future decisions.
When you made an imperfect decision – whether based on ignorance
or the mind of anti-christ – the decision obviously could not
rise. Yet as long as you did not seek to hide it from your teacher,
the teacher would help you learn from the decision, he would take on
and resolve the karma and then he would help you overcome the memory
of it. In other words, your mistake was turned into a positive learning
experience – which could rise to your causal body – and
the imperfect aspects of the incident were consumed as if they never
existed. Thus, a decision would leave no elements of innocent or willful
ignorance in your Omega sense of identity—it would be aligned
with your Alpha identity, although you might not yet be consciously
aware of the latter. Yet there would be no division or “space”
between your higher or lower identity.
When you first decided to start hiding things from your teacher, the
learning process was – at least partially – interrupted,
and your imperfect decisions could not be erased. Thus, a “space”
had to be created that could store them until you decided to go back
to the path and turn your imperfect choices into perfect learning experiences.
As long as you were in the schoolroom, that space was in the teacher’s
Being, for everything in the schoolroom is inside the teacher’s
Being. Yet after you decided to break the tie to your teacher and became
subject to the process of reincarnation, you needed a vehicle that could
carry your memories from lifetime to lifetime, so that you did not have
to reinvent the wheel – or rather, reinvent yourself – and
make the same mistakes in every new embodiment. That vehicle, that separate
space, is what most spiritual teachings call the soul. Of course, when
you withdrew from the teacher, the conscious self refused to make decisions,
and thus the ego took over. The ego can only make decisions based on
the duality consciousness, so since then the ego has had a greater control
over your soul than your conscious self.
The soul is made up of decisions based on the duality consciousness.
Some of these decisions might be what people normally call bad or evil
while others will be what people normally call good. Yet my point is
that all of those decisions were influenced by the duality consciousness,
or they would have become part of your treasure in heaven. Nevertheless,
even though these decisions are imperfect, they still have the potential
to be turned into learning experiences that can become part of your
causal body and can help you grow spiritually. That is why virtually
all spiritual teachings say that the soul can be resurrected or saved.
In reality, it is not the soul but the decisions and energies that make
up the soul that are resurrected.
The resurrection of the soul is not a process that will happen because
some external savior will do the work for you. It is a process that
requires your conscious self to be willing to look at its past decisions
and – by working with a spiritual teacher – turn them into
positive learning experiences, meaning experiences that help you transcend
the consciousness that caused you to make the decisions in the first
place. Rather than being a source of pain, your past decisions should
be seen as a resource that can help you ascend the spiral staircase
of life. They can be turned into learning experiences, but you have
to look at them, understand why they are dualistic and consciously replace
them with better decisions. Yet until the conscious self begins to take
responsibility for itself, people cannot look at the past. They seek
to avoid looking at it or they seek to justify and defend their actions
instead of neutrally looking for the lesson. This causes them to repeat
the same patterns over and over, which in a sense is another opportunity
for them to see the need for change. Always keep in mind that the purpose
of life is to learn and grow, so even your mistakes can become stepping
stones for growth—as long as the conscious self is willing to
transcend itself and be spiritually reborn.
This leads to a very important realization. There are some people on
Earth who are completely identified with their physical bodies. Yet
most spiritual people are aware that they are more than their bodies,
and many see this “more” as the soul. Thus, the vast majority
of spiritual and religious people identify themselves as the soul and
think the soul needs to be resurrected or become immortal. In reality,
the soul – as I have just defined it – cannot become immortal.
Which means that the soul – and the individual decisions that
form it – must be allowed to die. It must be given up so it can
return to its source. This is the process that Jesus illustrated through
the crucifixion. The cross symbolizes how you are immobilized by the
dualistic decisions in the four levels of your mind. These decisions
are what make up the soul, and since they are dualistic and unreal,
they must be replaced by decisions based on the Christ mind. Yet in
order to replace a dualistic decision, you have to accept that it is
unreal and then you have to let the decision – let part of the
soul – die. By dying on the cross, Jesus illustrated that in order
to be resurrected, the conscious self must let the soul die, it must
give up the ghost (Matthew 27:50) of its dualistic sense of identity,
namely the soul. The soul – the separate, mortal you – dying
on the cross is the prerequisite to the real you, the conscious self,
being resurrected into a new identity based on the oneness of the Christ
mind.
If you identify yourself as the soul, you will think that if your soul
is gone, you will die and be no more. Thus, you cannot let go of the
soul, cannot let go of the past, and this becomes a spiritual catch-22.
Your identification with the soul blocks the very process of life, the
act of self-transcendence, whereby you let the soul – the imperfect
identity – die so that the real you – the conscious self
– can be reborn into a higher sense of identity. Thus, the master
key to spiritual growth is to realize that the core of your being is
the conscious self, which is more than any aspect of your lower being,
more than the soul. Only when the conscious self pulls itself out of
your lower identity will you truly start moving forward on the spiritual
path.
***
My reason for giving this
teaching at this point is that it leads to a very important conclusion.
Virtually every person on Earth has a soul that is influenced by the
fallen consciousness. As the Bible puts it, “For all have sinned,
and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). This should
give reason for great humility that can prevent people from developing
a negative attitude toward anyone else. It is true that some people
are beings who fell in a higher realm. They have completely identified
themselves with the fallen consciousness and they have built such an
intricate sense of identity that it is very difficult for them to see
beyond it. Yet these beings still have a conscious self that has the
potential to project itself outside the separate identity and stop identifying
itself with and as that identity. Thus, every human being has the potential
to rise above its current sense of identity, and it is essential for
the most spiritually aware people to focus on this potential. You must,
as Mother Mary explains it in her book, hold the immaculate concept
for all.
A basic drive of the fallen consciousness is to define some people as
being better than others. So if spiritual people start identifying others
as fallen beings or fallen angels and begin to feel superior to them,
then these people have not risen above the fallen consciousness. They
have simply fallen prey to one of its more subtle aspects. That is why
you need to commit yourself to doing what Jesus described in the following
statement:
3 And why beholdest
thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest
not the beam that is in thine own eye?
4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out
of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and
then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s
eye. (Matthew, Chapter 7)
My point here is that you
must first of all focus on overcoming
the elements of the fallen consciousness in your own being, rather
than seeking to identify them in other people. I am not thereby saying
that the top ten percent of the most spiritual people on Earth should
refrain from speaking out against the duality consciousness and those
who embody it. For if they did so, how could the general population
ever be enlightened to the existence and influence of the fallen consciousness?
What I am saying here is that it is counterproductive (at least until
you reach a certain stage of Christhood) to identify people as fallen
beings. Instead, it is far more productive to focus on identifying the
fallen consciousness in all of its variations and showing how it influences
individuals and society. By depersonalizing the topic, you will minimize
the risk of setting up dualistic battles between individuals and groups
of people. And once society begins to recognize a certain state of consciousness
as dualistic, it will be easier for people to withdraw from it. If some
people refuse to do so, they will eventually isolate and expose themselves,
but that is a different matter than when someone begins to label others.
My point being that much can be accomplished by identifying a certain
state of consciousness and thus giving people an opportunity to withdraw
from it in the privacy of their own minds.
As a spiritual person, it is extremely important to strive to attain
a perspective that is beyond duality. One characteristic of duality
is that it always seeks to judge others, so you must be aware of judgment.
With this I mean a judgment that labels some people as “bad,”
giving rise to the belief that they are beyond help and thus cannot
be saved. There is even the belief that God does not want to save certain
people but wants to punish them forever in hell. There is a fundamental
difference between seeing that a person’s beliefs and actions
spring from duality and labeling the person as a bad person or a fallen
angel. You should never accept any imperfect images – of yourself
or others – as permanent but always focus on people’s spiritual
potential to be resurrected in Christ.
We of the Ascended Host never judge, for we are absolutely committed
to the growth and resurrection of every lifestream. Thus, we do everything
possible to help any lifestream disentangle itself from the fallen consciousness
and come back to its true sense of identity as an individualization
of God. I expect all who are sincere about the spiritual path to make
that same commitment—and then to exercise it with discernment,
as we will discuss later.
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