[Thespiritexpress] Poem read at Mastery

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This is the Poem that Riantee read at the beginning of last weeks Mastery Gp. ~~~~~ Thank you Riantee and everyone else that helps to start off the Mastery group with a Poem relating to the depth of of Mastery gp. studies~~~. 

Only Love ~~~~~~~Ron 

> On Oct 9, 2021, at 7:47 AM, Roz at mcn.org wrote:
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>> I love this! Thank you!
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> Roz
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>>> Subject: Poem read at Mastery
>>> Date: October 8, 2021 at 1:16:00 PM PDT
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Ages
>>> 
>>> When the child was a child,
>>> she was so very little
>>> she came down from where she had been
>>> and landed ever so lightly
>>> on top of a tree.
>>> 
>>> At five she struggled to come down
>>> to the lower branches and join her tribe
>>> in playful existence.
>>> Her own life was so far away
>>> that she forgot.
>>> 
>>> At ten she was happy to be
>>> with friends mindlessly swinging
>>> from branch to branch,
>>> just like monkeys,
>>> following the trail of popularity.
>>> .
>>> At twenty she desired the world below
>>> all of it, fame, fortune, freedom,
>>> but never condescended to descend.
>>> She wanted to remain high up,
>>> and have all eyes on her.
>>> 
>>> At thirty she heard the ground calling her,
>>> but was determined to learn from above
>>> all there was to know,
>>> come down only as a prophet,
>>> an example to all.
>>> 
>>> At forty
>>> she believe she knew so much better.
>>> She came down to earth
>>> to be useful, change what wasn't right,
>>> redress the wrong, repair the faulty.
>>> 
>>> She helped people through their crises,
>>> assisted them in being born, in dying,
>>> she supported, succored and aided the world
>>> to get to the next stage of advancement,
>>> It nearly killed her.
>>> 
>>> At fifty she was happy
>>> just to be and to have found out what that was.
>>> She touched the ground for the first time,
>>> felt the network of ancestral roots
>>> growing deep and traveling wide under the earth.
>>> She was related to everyone and everything.
>>> 
>>> At sixty she took a dive inward
>>> to an infinite vastness,
>>> catching the tiny movement of dreams
>>> at the very heart of matter,
>>> and she traveled
>>> within the Now of her seventies and eighties,
>>> towards the immeasurable pleasure
>>> of egoless existence.
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