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Contents

Interesting Reading: Links to other
The Good Side of Self
Transforming Your Dragon
Jordan Management Consultant Firm
Spiritual Warfare: An Image

Interesting Reading

Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Who Is The Man In Your Life?
The Clearing In The Woods
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What is a self?

“A self or individual will is a marvelous mystery,” said the King,

“for an individual will

is really a part of the Will and Consciousness of the Creator Himself,

a part which He has made free

so that it knows itself to be distinct in some lovely and mysterious way

from all other individual wills,

even from the Will of the Creator Who sent it forth.

But it is so shaped and fashioned that it yearns back instinctively

and with unquenchable longing for reunion

with that from which it came forth.

It is a capacity to love

and is therefore a spark of the eternal fire of holy love,

and so it can never find rest or real satisfaction until,

like the leaping sparks which fall back into the fire

apart from which they cannot continue to exist,

it finds the way back to the heart of God

from Whom it came forth.

It is a ceaseless hunger and thirst which,

turn wherever it will for satisfaction,

can find none

till it responds to the attracting pull of the eternal Being or Self

from which it came forth.

As long as it turns away from the source of its origin

it is like a wandering star or a lost meteor

until it falls back into the heart of love

and yields up its own right to Self-Control.

A human spirit is indeed a capacity to love

and to respond to love

and according to what it chooses or wills to love,

so will its woe or blessedness be.”

from Mountains of Spices by Hannah Hurnard

...But in an instant, he realised the truth. That dragon face in the pool was

his own reflection....Sleeping on a dragon’s hoard

with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had

become a dragon himself....An appalling loneliness came

over him. He began to see that the others had not really been

fiends at all. He began to wonder if he himself had

been such a nice person as he had always supposed....

HOW EUSTACE BECAME UN-DRAGONED

"...The water (in the well) was as clear as anything

and I though if I could get in there and bathe it would

ease the pain in my leg. But the Lion told me I must

undress first. Mind you, I don’t know if He said any words out

loud or not. So I started scratching myself and my scales began

coming off all over the place. And then I scratched a little

deeper and, instead of just scales coming off here and

there, my whole skin started peeling off beautifully,

like it does after an illness, or as if I was a banana.

In a minute or two I just stepped out of it. I could

see it lying there beside me, looking rather nasty.

It was a most lovely feeling.

So I started to go down into the well for my bathe.

But just as I was going to put my foot into the water I

looked down and saw that it was all hard and rough and

wrinkled and scaly just as it had been before. Oh, that’s

all right, said I, it only means I had another smaller suit on

underneath the first one, and I’ll have to get out of it too.

So I scratched and tore again and this unde skin peeled

off beautifully and out I stepped and left it lying beside the other

one and went down to the well for my bathe.

Well, exactly the same thing happened again. And I thought

to myself, oh dear, how ever many skins have I got to take off?

For I was longing to bathe my leg. So I scratched

away for the third time and got off a third skin, just like

the two others, and stepped out of it. But as soon as I

looked at myself in the water I knew it had been no good.

Then the Lion said--but I don’t know if it spoke--You

will have to let Me undress you. I was afraid of His

claws, I can tell you, but I was pretty nearly desperate

now. So I just lay flat down on my back to let Him do it.

The very first tear He made was so deep that I thought

it had gone right into my heart. And when He began pulling

the skin off, it hurt worse than anything I’ve ever felt.

The only thing that made me able to bear it was just the

pleasure of feeling the stuff peel off. You know--if you’ve

ever picked a scab of a sore place. It hurts like billy-oh but it is such fun

to see it coming away....

Well, He peeled the beastly stuff right off--just as I

thought I’d done it myself the other three times,

only they hadn’t hurt--and there it was lying on the

grass: only ever so much thicker, and darker and more knobbly looking

than the others had been. And there was I

as smooth and soft as a peeled switch and smaller than

I had been. Then He caught hold of me--I didn’t like that much

for I was very tender underneath now that I’d no skin

on--and threw me into the water. It smarted like anything

but only for a moment. After that it became perfectly

delicious....

After a bit the Lion took me out and dressed me...in new clothes...."

from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader pp. 88-90

To: Jesus, the son of Joseph

From: Jordan Management Consultant Firm

Jerusalem, 26544

Dear sir:

Thank you for submitting the resumes of the twelve men

you’ve picked for management positions in your new organization.

All of them have taken our battery of tests and each

of them has had a personal interview with our psychologist

and vocational aptitude consultants, and it is the staff

opinion that most of your nominees are lacking in

background, education and vocational aptitude for the

type of enterprise you are undertaking.

Simon Peter, for example, is emotionally unstable and given

to fits of temper. Andrew has absolutely no qualities of leadership.

The two brothers James and John, the sons of Zebedee, place personal interest

above company loyalty, and Thomas demonstrates a questioning attitude

that would definitely undermine morale. We feel it is

our duty to tell you that Matthew has been blacklisted by the

Greater Jerusalem Better Business Bureau. James the son

of Alpheus and Thadeus definitely have radical leanings

and they both register a high score on the manic depressive scales.

They do not have a team concept.

We would recommend that you continue your search for persons

of experience and managerial ability and proven capability.

There is one candidate, however, that shows great potential.

He is a man of ability and resourcefulness; he meets people well

and has contacts in high places and he has a keen business mind.

He is highly motivated, ambitious, and responsible.

We recommend Judas Iscariot as your controller and your right hand man.

From Joyce Meyer Ministries

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