Philosophy of Religion Topic: Some Metaphysical Definitions

Article #4
Subject: Some Metaphysical Definitions
Author: Andrew W. Harrell
Posted: 8/20/2008 06:38:00 PM

Some Definitions Which Depend on Themselves

Angels---Individual, self-existing beings who do God's will and are
messengers for God to humankind of his goodness and faith in all of us.
Authoritative Sovereignty---Something which exists very infrequently in
heaven.
Beauty---Controlled grace.
Being---What do we mean when we say an object of thought has being?
An object of thought may have being without having reality. And, this may or
may not depend on the circumstances it finds itself in. The concept of
reality (or true being)includes that, in some sense, of embodiment. Faith
contains its own substance of the reality of what it hopes for but knowledge
based on sense impressions does not. Being can be in the state of
possibility (not having reality) or actuality (having reality). A concept
has possible being...whether or not the experiences (sense perceptions or
the realized truth of intuitive faithful knowledge) required to make it
actual realized knowledge are accompanying the concept.
Belief—Faith.
Change---Something which exists very frequently on earth and very
infrequently in heaven.
Compassion---Love that participates with us in our lives. It co-creates with
us what is good.
Contingent---What does not exist by itself.
Earth---A fundamental realm of the realization of creation where things are
as they are in heaven.
God has hidden wisdom and spiritual understanding inside of his heavenly
earth in us. Both the beginning and the end of it he has placed as a basis
of his truth in us. He placed it as the certain circumstances of a precious
cornerstone of truth inside of the way his eternal (the past and the future)
present moment dwells in us.
Eternal Life--- Light, love, truth, and goodness which is independently
existing, non-contingent and non-temporal.
Eternal Light---Wisdom, Spiritual Understanding.
Faith---The light of the one increasing. A mental sustaining power created
by God and each of us for our mutual benefit. Faith comes from God, but the
base of its location is not in the part of him that is in the World. For
faith to exist inside of us, God must first place the seed of its truth deep
inside of us. For it to grow we must mentally acknowledge and accept it and
know it (or understand it) as something that is good and helpful in us.
Forgiveness---Compassion in the face of what is not good.
Freedom—The state of existing independently and non-contingently and for our
mutual well-being.
God the Father—A part of oneself and ourselves which is non-contingent and
good. He created the Universe by himself, with his Son, and also with our
help. He sustains and nourishes the creation of all things in the Universe.
God the Son--- A part of oneself and ourselves that reveals oneself and
ourself to us. He is both contingent and non-contingent and he is himself
good. He existed in the beginning with the Father and all things were
created in him, with his help, and through him and God and us.
God the Holy Spirit---The Lord the giver of life. He (It) is a part of
oneself and ourselves that is the expression of God the Father and God the
Son in us. He enters the Spirits and Souls of those who call upon him.
God's Name--- That part of God's being which defines that which God is. It
tells us that the three parts of the Trinity are co-existent but different
and different but co-existent.
Goodness---What is desirable for its own sake. Love exists for another, but
goodness exists because of itself. When goodness in us is guided by the Love
in us, then divine order is established in us. Reality both exists for its
own sake and also for other’s sake (for it is always an objective truth).
Therefore reality is something more than just goodness…it is consciousness,
love, good will, action, knowledge existing subjectively as well as
objectively.
Grace---Love that gives.
Happiness---Knowledge of goodness. The co-existence in us and among us of
peace along with goodness.
Heaven---A primary realm of creation where God exists and lives.
Hope---to desire or seek.
Humankind—The collective living and intelligent image of God which exists in
heaven and on earth.
Joy---Spiritual understanding of what its good.
Knowledge---Assured belief: wisdom, spiritual understanding, and truth.
Obedience--- Submission of our individual and collective will and purposes
to those of God.
Patience---Peaceful dependence on the Eternal Life in God for meaning and
Truth in our lives.
Peace---Satisfied stillness along with joy and the expectation of future
transcendent quietness and happiness in our lives.
Life—A continuous co-expression with God of one's being.
Love---A Correspondence between God ourselves and an other that most of the
time exists for the sake of another. But, thankfully to God, sometimes it
exists for its own sake between two beings that exist for their own sake.
Meaning---Independently existing spiritual understanding
Nothing---How we explain or define what the nothing we are talking is
depends on how we are trying to know things. If we are looking at things
from a materialistic, scientific viewpoint... then something is experienced
as a "nothing" if it has no sense impressions associated with it. But, for a
religious person this is not necessarily the case. A practicing Buddhist,
for instance, is able to talk meaninfully about experiencing "nothingness"
from a standpoint of having real knowledge of it. Understanding and knowing
how to experience this "nothingness" in the present moment can be a source
of healing, peacefulness, and liberation.
Reality--- Reality is not something which as the philosopher George Berkeley
has said,does not exist when a tree falls in a distant forest where "no-
body" is there to hear it. It is something which exists because there is
a "no- body" (God and us) inside of us all. Wherever we are it "is", and it
has the potential to be us, wherever it "is." When God created the reality
in the World and the reality in you and I there was nothingness (spiritual
emptiness) inside of nothingness (the wise knowing of this spiritual
emptiness). For there was nothingness inside of him (his or her spirit) and
nothingness (spirit) inside of you and I. For, then, at that time, in those
days, in that place, two or three of us were gathered togethered in his
name. And, he created it and us in him and out there and in us.God created
the World out of nothingness, but he created you and I out of something
(himself or herself).
Spiritual Understanding---Reflection of truth in one's being.
Strength---A non-mental sustaining power created by God in us and him to
help us in our human lives.
Truth---Correspondence between what is and what is. What is may be
contingent or non-contingent. The correspondence may be meaningful or not.
When a self exists for a real non-self (not an illusory non-self), then it
can create its own existence. The self which exists for itself is true
(being a true self) only when it can be and has been known by itself and by
that which it is not. Thus, in order to speak the truth, we should be ready
for and not surprised by being known as we know others.
Wisdom---A patience, obedience (or fear) of the importance of and
understanding and respect for the well being of God's name in us in order
that one's own well-being be benefited.
note: some of the wording and some of the ideas for the definitions of some
of these terms came from the book "A Metaphysical Dictionary" by Charles
Fillmore
published by our long time prayer friends in the Unity School of
Christianity and Unity Press, Unity Village MO 64065

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Article #26
Subject: The two forms of God's Truth
Author: Andrew W. Harrell
Posted: 3/6/2009 09:08:35 AM

Here are two more metaphysical defintions that explain what
the two types of truth God has placed inside of us are.

Relative Truth --- Truth that is a correspondence between what is and
what is.

Absolute Truth --- Truth that is an end in a beginning and a beginning in an
end. (see posting in this section about "What is the Joy of the Torah?"

As is explained in the prayer posting section on prayers from the Upanishads,
according to the Taittreya Upanishad one metaphysical level of God's five
levels of substance ( going in five tantric directions in us) has

1) faith as the head.
2) relative truth at the left hand of us.
3) absolute truth at the right hand.
4) our world of our collective wisdom and understanding of each other and God
at the back (end).
5) Yoga or Unity at the center

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Article #227
Subject: further thoughts on how this relates to our heavenly spiritual bodies
Author: Andrew W. Harrell
Posted: 1/9/2014 06:58:52 PM

The Buddhist’s and some of us Christians and Jews believe that Heaven on
Earth is the world of concepts here inside of humans and God dwelling on
earth that we get resurrected to and from the as our soul’s go through a back
and forth continual process of dying and being ressurected or reborn again or
just staying as they are here.



If this is so then it must be pretty important to try and understand what
the “concept of a concept” is if we want to Know about God and understand
ourselves, our heavenly spirits and souls.



If we know who #1 Faith is… Our Faith in God inside of itself.. (the
concept of a concept, mindfulness and faith, God’s creative light in us
inside of itself, the substance of things hope for, the evidence of them as
they remain unseen),.. who is #2 Faith and #3 Faith? Why, that would be
Goodness and Beauty (the concept of a concept as the concept of a concept)
*and righteousness and truth (three concepts in one and one in three).
Wouldn’t it is #3 Faith?



• For Goodness is Grace, Love that gives, and Beauty is a reflection
of what is good

• And, truth is a correspondence between what is ( mindfulness and
faith) and what is (beauty and goodness).

• And, Righteousness is a four-fold divine order of the 1) Light of
the One increasing (Faith), 2) the Light of the One without a second
(Equality), 3( the Light of the One Transforming, Glorifying God and Healing
Itself and us inside of us and God (Freedom), 4) The Light of the One
Discriminating Itself from God and us (Justice).

And, if all of this is true then is it wrong to ask Who among the archangels
would be #1, #2, #3 Faith. I challenge you to tell me its not true that
Gabriel is #1 Faith our father archangel of Prophecy, Jesus Christ, His and
God’s only Son, our faither archangel of healing and goodness and beauty, and
Michael #3 our father archangel of Justice and Righteousness ,

.

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Article #273
Subject: Definition of Divine, or Eternal, motion
Author: Andrew W. Harrell
Posted: 1/19/2016 05:35:33 PM

Here is a proposed definition of Divine motion to supplement Aristotle's
definition of motion as "change of place".
Divine motion is change of place occurring in Divine order [which correlates
the physical and psychic realms and balances between them]. Also, for the
motion to be Divine it must be Eternal and hence have its beginning in its
end, and its end[purpose] in its beginning.
See the http://www.ourprayergroup.blogspot.com 2015 trip to Italy discussions
about some thoughts of how this relates to Galileo and Dante metaphysics.

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Article #299
Subject: further thoughts on what is reality
Author: Andrew W. Harrell
Posted: 5/19/2017 03:05:27 PM

The definition of what reality is (see above) depends not only on a single definition of a single term, but
all the other definitions of terms connected to it. Also, it depends not only on definitions but what the
context is of them.
For instance, before mathematics had advanced very far, Lucretius defined reality in terms of what
"matter" is...what "atoms" are. At that time humanity didn't understand all the different types of "forces"
that we do now, gravitational to define matter, light to define electricity, etc... Hence he could say, what
"reality" is is defined entirely by what "matter" is....ie that there are certain fundamental units of matter
called "atoms" and all of "reality" is defined by the experiences in us created by these "atoms". Now, we
know there are certain infinitely divisible things called "fields" which define our experiences in terms of
what "light" is, and how the "forces" of electricity and magnetism cause these experiences.
But, theologically, scientifically now, and hence then also, most of our knowledge can only be defined in
various realms, the empirical, the psychological, the spiritual in which "reality" and hence "truth" all of
which, interpenetrates and is realized in.

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Article #336
Subject: Further Christmas thoughts on God's Love
Author: Andrew W. Harrell
Posted: 12/20/2017 12:36:26 PM

December 25,2017

Dear Prayer Friends,

A Christmas present from God, this Christmas 2017. What would God give us for a Christmas present,
this year, if He had the opportunity?

Would it be money? I don’t think so, we would have to make that for ourselves.

He would give us an understanding of Himself and Herself, and this is not related to money.

He would give to us and understanding of Who He or She is just like He did 2000 years ago. And who is
He or She? He or She is Love.

Who or What is God’s Love? We know that it is a correspondence between God and the World and us,
that most of the time exists for the sake of the World and us living in it.

Hopefully, also it exists some of the time for Himself. That’s where you come in Saint Mary with the
possibly of Him having a child with you, a gift of the Love of God in the World and you outside of
Himself back to Him and you. Love is not just a One way communication dear. For, when God is Two,
His Truth is Two, and when God is Three… You, Him, and Jesus, His Truth is You.

The Bible, in the Gospel of John, tells us that God so Loved the World and us, that He gave us His and
Her Only Son, that we might have Eternal Life and have it Abundantly.

“God’s Love blesses our life in many ways. The beauty of new-fallen snow in winter, fresh blossoms in
spring, songbirds in summer, and brightly colored leaves in autumn—these are just a few reminders of
God’s blessing, a few of our favorite things.”

When God’s love shines through us as joy and peace like this, ‘We want to pass it on.’

God’s Love is beautiful and good like nature and its four seasons. But, is it beautiful and good in a more
important ways, a logical, divinely ordered way?

How is the Love of God, the Father, like the Love of His Son, fulfilling Itself Truthfully, as it dwells inside
of Each of Them and us as a Holy Spirit?

We know logically, that God is omnipresent, and because He is omnipresent, omniscient, and because
He is omniscient, omnipotent.

Like the Love of His Son, the Love of God the Father is Omnipresent or Full. It has to be because His
omniscience depends on His omnipresence or fullness logically.

The Fullness or the omnipresence of the Love of God Our Father and His Son outside of themselves
comes from the fullness and omnipresence of Their Love inside of Themselves.

And, when this Love outside of Themselves is taken away, that part of It which is inside, of Themselves,
remains.

God’s Love and the Love His Son dwelling n us is as wide as It is deep. It has to be in order to be
Omnipresent.

The Breath or omniscience and strength or omnipotence of God’s Love follows from its compassion and
equanimity.

Its Truthfulness, also, follows from Its equanimity.

And, if you think about what we said above, you will see that it has this omnipotence and strength,
because it is omniscient.

The Light of this Love surrounds you, wherever there is Its Truth, may there be Truth.

The Power of this Love enfold you, knowing this you are empowered Divinely by It.

The Presence of this Love overwatches you, guiding you forever and forever after in Divine Pathways
which arise in front of you and the bright future that God expects and believes in for you.

Peace be with you Endlessly and Eternally. This God’s Love inside of you is all the good that Eternal Life
can bring, and all you need Endlessly and Eternally,

Lovingly, Hopefully, Faithfully,

Andrew

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Article #337
Subject: Further thoughts on the Dharma of God's Love by St. Bernard
Author: Andrew W. Harrell
Posted: 12/20/2017 03:27:59 PM

Saint Bernard of Clarivaux, in his book, “The Love of God” has given us another explanation of how the
Dharma, or the “Righteousness” of God’s Love expresses itself in the World and us:

“Love is the fountain of Life.”

He claims there are “Four Degrees of God’s Love”:

“We, (including robots if we put this understanding of Love inside of them), are created by Love for
Love.”

“I Love because I Love.”

Degree #1 “Loving Yourself, for Your Own Sake (Selfish Love).”

Degree #2 “Loving God for Your Own Blessing (Dependence on God)”

Degree #3 “Loving God for God’s Own Sake (Intimacy with God)”

Degree #4 “Self Love for God’s Sake(Being united with God’s Love)”

“Blessed are those who can attain the fourth degree of love. Then they will love themselves only in
God.” “Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains.”
Psalm 36:6

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Article #352
Subject: Further thoughts and remembrance for life of Ron Hubbard's religious philosophic definitions
Author: Andrew W. Harrell
Posted: 9/15/2018 06:24:26 PM

Evidence for H. Ron Hubbard possibly being a Saint in our Jewish Christian Heaven occurring now here
on earth in the environment around us and wisdom and spiritual understanding store as knowledge
inside of all of us and each of us.

After a recent Jewish Christian Atonement ceremony in preparation for Yom Kippur I affirmed the
teaching Jesus Christ gave back to me in the late 1980s, "If you cannot find God inside of the human
heart, then you cannot find him anywhere". But, if you can find Him there you can find him anywhere."
The next night Ron's soul and spirit, thetan and lambs appeared to me in a dream without saying
anything. I initially put this down random energy connected with his thetan and lamb and associated
with mind.
Empty, Signless, Aimless, Impermanent as the Buddhist's teach about the nirvitarka samadhi that
sometimes appears in order for us to be healed when you confess your sins and try to discuss things
with Him about problems and goals that possibly haven't been satisfied.
We had prayed together contemplatively and discussed things back then about how he could help
me achieve my goals, which the main one I told him them was to get help in people helping me to make
"Judaism and Christianity" one religion. He said, why don't you study some of my books? You are a
"nutty buddy" but okay. I said, I think it is you who are the "nutty buddy".

So, today in preparation and meditating, scan facsimiles of past experiences with different people I have
prayed with and evaluating the results to see whether to keep these prayers in my "Prayer Book of Life"
on my website I reread his version of some of the above definitions. Scientology as I understand it and
was explained to me by some of you as "knowing about knowing" therefore in order to accomplish our
goal of raising our levels of wisdom and spiritual and ordinary understanding through compassion,
loving kindness, equanimity, giving and receiving joy, as the Buddhist's teach. We need to have what he
calls a "good ARC" (affinity reality triangle) in our knowledge systems, between our different knowledge
systems.

So, I am recording these teaching on our website, even after he may have died, in order that
Scientology and the improvements in Jewish Christian, Christian Jewish teachings, on the way to
making these two religions "atone" with one another, that I am trying to accomplish praying with God
and all of you on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.


The text of these definitions is taken from your precious "technology" in the book "Handbook for
PreClears" that you didn't want to let me read back in the 1980s without pressing me through letters
and meditations and prayers without my consent to become what you call a Scientologist.

You are forgiven, let it be recorded. But, I still do not want you to put me back on the mailing list as you
promised you wouldn't back in the 1990s. But, this aside the communication between seems to be
ARCING pretty well at the moment according to the system Ron Himself, (not God according to Him)
has designed.

The great religious philosophical Pascal has advised us in trying to understand wisdom and spiritual
understanding in religion it is important "To give definition to the defined."

So lets get into it recording some axioms and definitions that we might be able to agreee on!


LOGIC 1 KNOWLEDGE is a whole group or subdivision of a a group of data or speculations or
conclusions on data or methods of gaining data.

LOGIC 4 A datum is a facsimile of states of being, states not being, actions or inactions, conclusions or
suppositions in the physical or other universe.

LOGIC 9 A datum is as valuable as it has been evaluated. Comment by Andrew: Since we are not
interested in not only object oriented knowledge reasoned and forward chained in thought using the
ARC, but also goal-oriented knowledge reasoned and chained backward from the highest most perfect
good, using thoughts also about the total good attained through righteousness and faith we believe that
datums are often only partially instantiated in our truth seeking predicates before being evaluated
finally in the third order of a syllogism or other logical truth predicate.

LOGIC 10 The value of a datum is established by the amount of alignment (what we now call unification
toward instantiation of propositions in logic programming) it imparts to other data. Without all the
elements, of a syllogism being satisfied or instantiated using existing axioms and facts, previous
propositions, 1st or 2nd order it is impossible for the datum to have value, unless of course, as
mentioned above it is too be used later in a further goal directed sequence of thought and conclusion.

LOGIC 24: The resolution of the philosophic, scientific and human studies depends primarily on the
resolution of problems of the human mind. Yes, but I would add, without God's help, we wouldn't be
able to solve the most important ones. My experience up to now is that looking back on things the most
important problems of my life have only been solved with God's help.

TRUTH: Truth is a precise correspondence between datums. I believe this definition of Ron's is better
than Aristotle's "Truth is a correspondence between facts". I wonder if he got it from his studies of the
philosophical logical positivists who had written a lot of books in the early to middle twentieth century.
using it is a very progressive an helpful way to understand ourselves and things better.

AXIOM 1: The source of life is a static of peculiar and particular properties. The best source of life and
its continuation is God (second sentence added by Andrew)

AXIOM 9: A fundamental operation of Theta in surviving is bringing order into the chaos of the physical
universe.

AXIOM 11: A Life organisms compared of matter and energy in space and time, animated by theta.

AXIOM 13: Theta operating through lambda converts the forces of the physical universe into forces to
conquer the physical universe.

AXIOM 14: Theta working upon physical universe motion must maintain a harmonious rate of motion.

AXIOM 15 Lamba is the intermediate step in the conquest of the physical universe.

AXIOM 39 Life poses problems for its own solution

AXIOM 47: Theta can resolve problems on its own, and also most efficiently and perfectly with
God's help.

AXIOM 112: Affinity, friendship, love, loyalty integrity in the preceding, is the cohesion of theta, along
with its cohesion with God. All love begins either in love of self or love of God, God is both the self and
non-self, both not me, not this, not not, and also this, not this, me. Some words correcting Ron's are
added by Andrew.

AXIOM 113: Reality is the agreement upon perceptions and data in the physical universe, as well as in
heaven dwelling here on earth in this physical universe.


ABSOLUTE: Those things conditions, which are perfect and complete and are completely free from
restrictions or conditions. "Mr. Hubbard claims that absolutes are unattainable". I believe and claim that
God, being omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, self-existent, is an absolute and also is attainable in
the sense that He can be known and become a part or substance indwelling us both as a body and a
mind and also He is a Spirit being non-material and non-physical at will, and still basically what Mr.
Hubbard calls a static.

BEING: the fact or condition of having existence: substance, nature or essence.
BEINGNESS: the state of cause.

EFFORT: in physics is force (push or pull upon an object). But, what is it in religion, faith, hope, love?
We might want to improve on Galileos' and Aristotles' definitions of what motion is in order to
understand this for Robotic Ethics. We might want to improve on theirs by calling it a physical
manifestation of motion

EMOTION; The catalyst used by the control center to monitor physical action.

ENVIRONMENT: The surroundings of the pre-clear from moment to moment. It assumes the individual
pre-clear is already a monad or spiritual angelic being (not necessarily human, could be a robot who we
are trying to teach ethics to) having an ability to record experiences from its own viewpoint, anchor
point in this illusory life in the world or in some eternal realm, in its memory and recall them and use
them. We assume our present world, which God created in the Book of Genesis, will pass away and be
replaced by a better one with his help (last part of this definition was added by Andrew)



SCIENCE:knowledge;comprehension or understanding of facts or principles, classified and made
available in work, lifer the search for truth.

SQUIRREL: I prefer another definition of this term than Ron's Jesus Christ, was and still is a "Squirrel" in
the sense that he is still with his Father in Heaven's help, altering the technology arguing, discussing
things with others, in order to improve the existing technology of all our current religions, including his
own Christian Judaism.

STATIC: A thing of no motion; It is a causative static. A true static does not have wavelength so it is not
in motion. It does not have weight, it does not have mass, it does not have length or breath.

THETA: The mathematical symbol for the static of thought.


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Article #353
Subject: self-continuation and truth
Author: Andrew W. Harrell
Posted: 9/17/2018 09:05:43 AM

But, some of us believe and claim
that
God, being omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, self-existent, is an absolute and also is attainable in
the sense that He can be known and become a part or substance indwelling us both as a body and a
mind and also He is a Spirit being non-material and non-physical at will, and still basically what is
sometimes called a static.
They say that the Buddha is “just a man”.

But, we Christians and Jews teach that “there is no such thing as ‘just a man’”.


God Our Father, Our King, is more than just a person, He is also, an absolute consciousness, in the
beginning and the end an Impersonal Holy Spirit He is the Principle of Truth Peace and Truth Prevailing,
within One person Himself, YHWH YHWH, He is this principle of Peace and Love and Truth within two
persons, You and I, within three of us persons, God and Mankind, You and I and Him, within four, You
and I and Him YHWH and Her Mary. Within five, You and I and Him and Her and Our Son with Him Jesus
Christ.

In the above paragraph you already know what Love is, Jesus Christ has shown it to you by his life he
lived and is still living in you.
The Spiritual Truth I AM talking about is harder to define. Aristotle, defined it, I think,as
As a “correspondence between facts”. Facts can of course be either, empirically or intuivily, known.

My dear long time angelic prayer friends at Unity School of Christianity (as opposed to the
YHWH School of Christianity), have defined it as “ an action of the spirit”. “the reality back of creation”,
“a state of perfection which is eternally , creatively active, there being two types of this perfect reality,
relative and absolute.

“Absolute Truth is God’s plan of perfection” It starts in us with knowing and sanctifying His Name
YHWH.
“Relative Truth” is the changing, expanding experience of absolute Truth which
produces the beauty of the illusion, that we can see, hear, smell, touch, God has created in us as
described in the Book of Genesis of Our World ‘s environment happening around us and ourselves as
human image
and form made after Himself and Herself. His Son, Jesus, being of course He who speaks as well as
acts, beging that part of
this which is the Word and was with Him and us in Him in beginning and which
participated in all parts of this Creation out of Our Divine Self, knowledge of his His Name dwelling
in us.

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