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The Laws of Manifestation
The laws of manifestation are one of the most essential spiritual practices a disciple on the path needs to master. In this chapter I have put together one of the most comprehensive, yet easy to understand thesis on the subject you will ever find. I have organized the information into a series of approximately 70 laws or principles to achieve mastery of this subject. The careful study, meditation, and note taking of these principles will literally be worth your weight in gold. The first law of manifestation is that every person must learn to manifest with all three of his or her minds. We must learn to manifest with our conscious, subconscious, and superconscious and/or soul mind. Manifestation on a conscious mind level is through the use of will, or personal power. Most people manifest their businesses through sheer will power. They work 18 hour days and just power it out. The conscious level of manifestation is also connected with physical action. This means, making phone calls, physically organizing, seeing clients, running errands, administrating, and so on. This is a very valid and important way to manifest. The second way to manifest is through the power of your subconscious mind. Now in reality everyone is using this level of manifestation, whether they realize it or not. The problem is that most people are not using it consciously. The other problem is that some people are using this level of manifestation to actually block manifestation rather than help their businesses. The law of the subconscious mind is based, again, on that famous Hermetic law or correspondence. This law states, "As within, so without - As above, so below". That which you think and imagine in your conscious and subconscious mind will manifest its mirror likeness in your external circumstance. Your outer world is a mirror of your inner world. This is the law and it manifests for the good or for the bad because the subconscious mind has no reasoning. It does whatever it is programmed to do. It is constantly attracting and repelling to us that which we allow to be put into it. The major work of the spiritual path is to clean it out of all lower self, and negative ego and imbalanced programming that is not of the soul and Higher Self. When this is done you have "the Midas touch" where everything you do turns to gold. This occurs because your subconscious mind is subservient to the conscious mind, which is subservient to the superconscious mind which is subservient to the superconscious or soul mind which is subservient to the Monadic mind which is subservient to God. The subconscious mind totally runs your physical body and will create health or disease depending upon how you program it, and the food you put into your physical body. The subconscious will attract to you everything you need for all minds are joined in truth. This is why the use of affirmations, visualization, and autosuggestion is such an important science. To learn to manifest effectively, the disciple must learn to be in control of the subconscious mind. Most people let their subconscious minds run them instead of the computer programmer (conscious mind) running the subconscious mind. Ideally it s your servant. It has been called the basic self, or servomechanism in other teachings. It is your faithful servant and will supply you with whatever you need as long as you program it directly. The third way to manifest is through the power of the superconscious mind, the Higher Self, the spirit and/or God. This is, of course, manifesting not by affirmation or visualization, but rather by prayer. Prayer is the spiritual practice of asking God for what you want and accepting it is done once you have made your request. God, through your Higher Self and Monad or Mighty I Am Presence, hears all prayers and answers all prayers. How, when, and in what form He answers them will be dependent on how you fulfill the universal laws of manifestation as outlined in this chapter. Why manifest just with will power and physical work when you can pray every day and acquire God's help? Not only do you have God's help through prayer, but also the Ascended Masters, the Angels, the Elohim, the nature spirits, God working through other people, your Higher Self and/or soul, and your Monad and/or Mighty I Am Presence. Most people do not pray enough. The ideal is to use all three levels of mind. Some people only use the conscious mind. Some people pray and don't get off their duff, but instead expect God to do everything for them. This will not work for God helps those who help themselves. Other people are constantly doing affirmations and visualizations, however, don't own their will power and do the physical action and work that is needed. This law deals with the importance of using all three levels of mind in perfect harmony, balance, and integration. The second key law of this new age form of manifestation is to manifest from the consciousness that you are the soul and not the personality. If you manifest from the consciousness of personality you see yourself as separated from your brothers and sisters, and from creation itself. This is an illusion. Your manifestation will be 1000 times more powerful if you recognize yourself as the Christ, the Buddha, the Atma, the Eternal Self, for that, in truth, is who you are. You are one with God and all of creation. So what you are trying to manifest is nothing more than a part of yourself. This cannot be emphasized or repeated enough times. The new age laws of manifestation deal with this shift in identity focus. To not use prayer and to not identify yourself as soul rather than personality, is to cut yourself off, to a very great degree, from the source of energy for the manifestation of your desires. Ask for help from the Ascended Masters, Angels, your Monad, the Elohim, The nature spirits, and/or the Ashtar Command if you would like extra help. Do not be attached to what you are praying for or are trying to manifest, or you will repel it from yourself. Make your choice for manifesting a preference, not an attachment. With this attitude you will be happy until it arrives. Surrender your prayer request to God and leave it in God's hands. God is happy to help but you must surrender it. You can visualize your prayer request going up in a bubble of pink or golden light and melding with God's light. Then it is your job to go about your business and do what you can on the conscious, personal power level, and on the physical action level. Own that you are the Christ, the Buddha, the Atma, the Eternal Self. God created us and we are perfect, in truth. All that exists is perfection, in truth. Any time anything but perfection manifests, immediately pray and/or visualize and affirm the truth instead of the illusion of the negative ego. So this truth deals with the truth that you are the Monad, the Spirit, God, and all that exists is God's perfection. Cancel and deny any thoughts that try to enter your mind other than this truth. If you are sick, affirm and visualize only perfection. If your bank account is low, visualize that it is full. This law deals with the fact that God's universe is abundant and limitless. It, however, attracts to us either poverty or abundance, depending on the attitude we hold. this brings us back to the Hermetic Law, "as within so without, as above so below". Your outer world and physical body is a mirror of the inner world of your conscious and subconscious thinking and imaging. Your thoughts and images that you hold in your mind create your reality. The next law is that of faith. You know God exists and you know that god's laws are perfect and work every time. So after you pray, know that your prayer has been heard and God's law has been invoked. Nothing but perfection and perfect fulfillment of the prayer and law can happen as long as you have faith in God and God's laws. If you give into doubt and worry, you are blocking the energy manifestation which you just set in motion. The next law deals with consistency and alignment. The four bodies must all be in alignment for a quick manifestation of your prayer request. The mind must be attuned to God, spirit, and the soul so that this energy can flow through you. The emotions and feeling body must be attuned to the mind and then the soul. The physical body must be attuned to emotional body, which is attuned to the mind, which is attuned to the soul, which is attuned to the Monad, which is attuned to God. Another way this could be said is that the subconscious mind serves the conscious mind, which serves the superconscious mind or soul, which serves the Monad or spirit, which serves God. Each level is subservient to the one above. After you pray, you don't want the subconscious mind going renegade and saying, "I don't believe this is going to work." If this starts to happen, push that out of your mind and say, "Get thee behind me, Satan", then reaffirm God's perfection. The next law deals with the recognition that everything in God's universe is just energy, and all energy is just God. Even physical matter is must energy vibrating at a slow rate of vibration. So all you are really doing in working the laws of manifestation is changing or transferring energy from one form to another. This law deals with the fact that energy follows thought. What you ask for already exists on a higher level once the prayer, affirmation and visualization has been done. You are just waiting now for it to manifest into physical reality. The attitude should be one of expectancy, like it is about to happen at any second. You are just waiting for it to move down the dimensions and ground itself into physical reality. As long as you keep your four bodies and three minds in alignment there is no reason for this not to happen. This law deals with the fact that these laws are operating whether you are consciously aware of them or not. They are also perfectly happy to work with the negative as well as the positive as they are not selective or discriminative. Whatever you give the subconscious, it will use. If you hold a negative thought and image for too long, it will manifest into your physical reality eventually. So if you are not working these laws of manifestation for the positive then they are going to work to your detriment. Remember that every moment of your life you are working the laws of manifestation even when you are not praying, willing, visualizing or affirming. Every thought you think in your mind as you go through your daily life and that you think when you are sleeping is part of this process. If you never did any specific manifestation work but just were vigilant over every thought that you let into your mind, and only allowed those thoughts of perfection, prosperity, God, love, balance, and perfect health in, then you would have, in truth, everything you needed. In this state the three minds are functioning as one mind. The soul and Higher Self is doing your thinking, not the negative ego or personality. This next law deals with the importance of making sure what you pray for is coming from your soul and not the negative ego. Your soul won't help if what you are praying for is something that is not for the highest good of all concerned, and is hurting someone else, or some aspect of God which is everything. If a prayer doesn't manifest there is a possibility it is not meant to be and not truly a part of the Divine Plan for you. The next law deals with the need for perseverance. On this earthly plane of reality the space is slowed down so we may practice these laws. In the higher dimensions of reality things manifest instantly. We are on this plane of existence to prove our mastery of these laws so we won't create havoc on the higher planes. The higher one goes in initiation the quicker is the manifestation. Sai Baba can manifest whatever He wants instantly, while still in a physical body. We will be able to do this, too, in the future, but for now we may need to demonstrate the perseverance and endurance. This law deals with the understanding of not limiting how the manifestation will occur. If you are trying to manifest money, don't think or imagine it as only coming from working, for example. Maybe it will come from the lottery, or an inheritance, or you will find it, or someone will give you money. God works in mysterious ways, so don't try to out think God. If you think your prayer can only manifest in one way, then you have limited God and your subconscious mind's ability to manifest for you. This law deals with the ability to receive as well as give in life. I know a lot of spiritual people who are great givers, but do not know how to receive. They are offered a gift and they say, "no, I can't accept this" and they have just blocked their abundance. This is an essential part of having prosperity consciousness. Another extremely important law is that of gratitude. To be humble ad thankful for the abundance that God has bestowed upon us, to be thankful to God, the soul, the Ascended Masters, the subconscious mind, the angels, the nature spirits, for all the wonderful work they do for us. Make every day a thanksgiving holiday. This next law was made famous by Edgar Cayce, when he said, "Why worry when you can pray?" Own your own power and affirm and visualize anything you want into reality any time you want. If you are starting to worry it is time to get back to your spiritual practices of proper manifestation. If you continue to worry you might just manifest what you are worrying about. The next law is the understanding that you cannot fail. How can you fail with God, the soul, the Ascended Masters, the angels, the Elohim, your personal power, the power of your subconscious mind, your physical body, the nature spirits, other people, and your monad all helping you. Plus the fact that in truth, you are the Christ, Buddha, the Atma, the Eternal Self. You are God. Can God lose against the forces of illusion and maya. In truth, they don't even exist, we just think they do. I ask you, can God, the infinite Creator and God's sons and daughters, the Christ fail in their manifestation with all the forces working on their behalf? Can illusion win over God? Can God's laws not work? All that exists is God. There is nothing else. The only thing that exists that can stop your manifestation work is the glamour, maya, and illusion of your own negative ego and lower self. The only thing that can stop you from manifesting anything you want is you. God has given you everything. It awaits for you to just claim it. That is the only thing that God can't do for you. We must claim God's abundance and then it is instantly ours. "There is no force more powerful in the universe than our will." This is a famous quote and statement by the Universal Mind through Edgar Cayce. To manifest efficiently we must own our full personal power and will in conjunction with unconditional love, and the fact that we are God in action. To have all, give all to all. This is a law of manifestation made known in the "Course in Miracles". We must learn to receive, but we also must learn to give to manifest effectively. We must keep our abundance in circulation. When we become selfish and stingy, and stop giving then the universe becomes selfish, stingy, and stops giving to us. When we stop giving to the all, which is God, our pipes get clogged and we are not able to receive as much. The idea is to keep giving which allows us to receive even more, which keeps the abundance circulation factor flowing. This next law of manifestation deals with the importance of being vigilant over your speech. The power of your spoken word is even more powerful than the thoughts you allow to run through your mind. Every word you speak is a decree and fiat of manifestation. Just because you are not focusing on your manifestation work doesn't mean that you are not doing manifestation work. This next law of manifestation has to do with wording your affirmations and prayers with positive language instead of language with negative words and imagery. For example, if you want to heal a broken leg it would be better to phrase your affirmation and prayer without saying, "I am now healing my broken leg." It would be better to say, "My leg is now powerful, healed and whole." The reference to the negative image can have a negative affect on the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind has no reasoning and will manifest anything that is put into it. There is a danger here of giving it a double message. Before doing your manifestation work, build up your vital force and energy. The angels and spirit sometimes use the energy as well as the thoughts and imagery you send them in your prayer request. Vital force can be built up by deep breathing or physical exercise for a few minutes before you begin. The new law is that of enthusiasm. When you do you manifestation work be enthusiastic. Your enthusiasm is part of the previous law of building vital force, and also is incorporating your emotional body in the manifestation work which will make the manifestation happen 1000 times quicker. The emotional body is connected to the subconscious mind, and nothing will manifest unless the subconscious mind is involved in the process. The subconscious mind is a real powerhouse. The next law of manifestation deals with the understanding that, in truth, there is just one universal subconscious mind. We each focalize an aspect of this mind, while simultaneously we are connected to this universal mind, or as Jung called it, "the collective unconscious. This understanding and awareness in your manifestation work, again, gets rid of the belief in separation that can slow down manifestation. The next law deals with the understanding that the only block to manifestation is your own thinking, and imaging. If you master your thinking and imaging and hence feeling body, then nothing can stop the manifestation from occurring. Forgiveness is the next key law of manifestation. Be sure you have forgiven all people, situations, and your own self before beginning your manifestation work. If lack of forgiveness is involved, this builds guilt and other psychic blocks that make the subconscious mind not cooperate in the prayer process and affirmation work. Another key to manifestation work is self love. If you have lack of self love, this manifests as getting down on yourself, lack of self worth, and feeling undeserving. This undeserving faulty belief is again putting out a double message. If this is a lesson for you, seriously study the chapter in this book on "How to Achieve the Christ Consciousness". The next law deals with the importance of not overpraying or underpraying. Some people pray too much which is a sign of lack of faith. In reality, once is enough. If, however, worry and doubt is beginning to set in, there is nothing wrong with repeating your prayer to re-solidify your faith. There is a balance to achieve in this regard that is unique and specific to each individual. Another law of manifestation is the importance of writing your prayers and affirmations down on paper. The act of physically doing this serves as a stronger message to your subconscious mind than just thinking your prayers, or saying them out loud. the subconscious mind is more greatly influenced when some kind of physical action is taking place. Another law of manifestation is to do your manifesting work whenever in a state of meditation, or in an altered state of consciousness. At these times you are in a state of hypnosis which allows suggestions to get into the subconscious mind much easier. A good time to do manifestation work is just as you are falling asleep at night, and when you are just waking up in the morning. In hypnosis this is called the hypnogogic state. It is the twilight state between sleep and waking. The next law of manifestation is to not talk about your manifestation work. This is not a hard and fast rule, however, very often talking with friends or people about what you are trying to manifest can dissipate the energy. There is also the negative reaction that often comes from people that you may have to fight off and try and prevent from getting into your conscious and subconscious mind. (See chapter on Psychic Self Defense.) The next law of manifestation is the importance of being around a positive environment and positive people. Until one achieves self mastery this is the single most important fact on one's spiritual path. In manifestation work you are trying to hold a certain thought form, energy and vibration. You want to be around people that support this process. Being around negative people and negative environments tends to, over time, deplete one's energies physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually, and hence make it more difficult to hold the vibration. The next law of manifestation is that you are and have everything already. Since you are God, Christ, the Buddha, the Atma and the Eternal Self, the Monad, the soul, in truth everything is yours just like everything is God's. This has always been the case, however it is difficult for us to own this because we are so used to believing the ego's interpretation of ourselves that tells us we are just a physical body, a personality, and are separate from creation. If we truly held this truth that we are the Eternal Self then all our thoughts would stem from this basic understanding, which would then mean that everything we need would manifest whenever we need it. The next law is to only ask for what you truly need. If the ego becomes involved and starts asking for things you don't really need, then the prayer request is coming from glamour. This will sabotage your manifestation. Learn to rely solely on God and God's laws for your abundance, and prosperity. God, your personal power, and the power of your subconscious mind are an unbeatable team. When this is the case your security is inside of yourself instead of outside of yourself. No matter what happens in your outside, in terms of disasters of one sort of another, you always know that you can manifest whatever you need with God's help, your will, and the power of your subconscious mind. The next law deals with a method of prayer that was developed by the Kahunas of Hawaii. In the Kahuna system of prayer all three minds are utilized. Their method is to write your prayer down on a piece of paper very specifically, and with lots of colorful imagery. When you have the prayer worded and imaged in a way that you feel good about, then say it three times out loud, addressing the prayer to God, your Higher Self, and whom ever else. After saying the prayer three times, then command, in a powerful but loving way, your subconscious mind to take the prayer to your Higher Self. Visualize this happening like the Old Faithful Geyser, shooting up into the air through your crown chakra. Then forget about the prayer and do whatever you need to do on a conscious and subconscious level to manifest the prayer. In other words, all three minds are working together in perfect harmony, synchrony and balance. One thing I forgot to mention is to build up your vital force and energy before you begin the prayer process, and do it with enthusiasm when you begin. I have used this method countless numbers of times in my life and it never fails to work. All forms of prayer work however, I would recommend using this method for important events. The next law deals with the importance of using all five of your senses when visualizing what you want to manifest. See it, hear it, taste it, touch it, and smell it. Make your visualization so real that this meditation reality is just as real or more real than your physical life reality. when the visualization is done in this way you are assured of success. Another method of prayer is to just write a letter to God and your Higher Self. Your Higher Self will respond to your letters in your daily life. The key law of prayer is that you must ask for help to receive it. If you don't ask for help your Higher Self and the Ascended Masters and angels are not allowed to help. Ask and you shall receive, knock and the door shall be opened. If you don't ask, God doesn't help. This is the law. The law of the subconscious mind is just the opposite of the previous law. You must tell the subconscious mind what to do, and give it suggestions. If you don't give it suggestions, affirmations, visualizations and computer programs, then it will manifest whatever happens to be in its computer banks already, and it will manifest what you allow other people to put into your computer and/or subconscious mind. This next law deals with the physical level of manifestation. Just because we are working with prayer and affirmation and visualization, this doesn't mean that we don't have to do physical work for a living. We will have to make phone calls, stay organized, and do our physical work. The attitude of this work from the soul's perspective is, however, that our work is our service to God and that true pleasure is serving God. Once we achieve some level of self realization there is no other reason to be here except to be of service to humanity which is God. Manifestation on the mental level has to do with concentration and staying focused, and keeping one's mind steady in the light. It has to do with not losing the idealized potential that you are in the process of manifesting. As we evolve we will not even have to be patient and wait, for what we choose to manifest will happen instantly, as it does with Sai Baba. Manifestation on the emotional level deals with child like faith and devotion to God. Did not the bible say that if you had the faith of a mustard seed you could literally move mountains. This child like faith, of many non educated people is a wonder to watch. Who is more prosperous, the multimillionaire banker who worries about money all the time, or the black woman living in the ghetto with six children who manifests everything she needs with her simple faith in God. Manifestation on the soul level deals with identifying ourselves as soul, not as the personality, and staying attuned to the soul consciousness. This leads to the energies of the soul being involved in the manifestation of whatever you need. To just work on mental, emotional, and physical levels for manifestation, and not utilize one's soul, would be to be cut off from the source of all life. Without the soul we are living in the illusion of separation, and negative ego with all its attributes. When the soul is included what we want to manifest is a part of us already. Manifestation, then in a sense, is just undoing or stripping away that which is already ours, but has been hidden by the delusion of the personality. The soul is not separate from the object that it is trying to manifest, as the personality would have you believe. The object you are trying to manifest is part of the soul, for soul pervades all things. This is why you have and are everything already. In reality it is already ours in a spiritual or soul state. A person such as Sai Baba, who is one with Spirit, thinks and images and it instantly manifests. The same is true for us except the process is slowed down a bit. When we think from a soul consciousness it instantly manifests also, except we can not see it yet with our physical eyes. Time and space do not really exist so once you claim your manifestation it is already yours. We are just waiting for it to come into manifestation on the earth plane. For those who have the clairvoyant ability already developed, it can be seen. Many people lose their concentration before it has the opportunity to move from the etheric into the physical. These laws are just slowed down for us on the physical plane so it doesn't appear to happen instantly. On this plane it takes a little longer for our manifestation to ground itself into the physical. Manifesting with a consciousness of the soul is a real key. Miracles are natural is the next law of manifestation. Miracles are the natural by-product of expressing and working God's laws for the service of mankind. When you are manifesting use the words "I Am" in beginning your affirmations, and if you like in addressing God. When you say, "I am" you are affirming God's name which is your own. (See chapter on the Mighty I Am Presence.) The next law of manifestation states, "Seek ye the kingdom of God, and all things shall be added unto thee." I think that this statement needs no more explanation. It is self evident. The next law of manifestation is "So what that you gain the whole world but lose your own soul." Many people judge prosperity by the amount of money or material things you own. True prosperity is being merged with the soul and spirit, which then leads to all your needs being taken care of, in service of God. This law of manifestation states that it is okay to ask and pray for material things. This is a point that some people in the spiritual movement are confused by. It is perfectly okay and actually desired by the soul and Monad, for you to utilize their help in this capacity, however don't be greedy. Ask for exactly what you need, no more and no less. Manifestation on the level of personal power is greatly increased when your work is seen as and focused upon as service of humanity. There is an ancient metaphysical saying that says, "When your heart is pure you will have the strength of ten." When our work is for a noble cause, and we are doing it with a pure heart and intent, we will have a much greater amount of energy to do what we need to do for we are aligned with the universal force. Another law of manifestation is to be very specific in your visualization and affirmation or treatment for manifestation. If you are too general, then by the laws of the universe you can only manifest a general solution, or one that is too vague to manifest at all. This law deals with the understanding that whatever we manifest is not really ours. We are in truth the caretaker for it. It is really God's and we are just taking care of it. There is no ours as separated from God's. The new law deals with the importance of taking good care of that which we manifest. If we manifest a car and don't take care of it, then we are not deserving in truth of the manifestation on the physical level. All levels need to be in alignment or manifestation can be blocked. This next law deals with what abundance really is. True abundance is not having everything, but rather being a source through which that which is needed can manifest. It is being at one with the essence behind and within all things. This law of manifestation deals with the need for self discipline. There is no way you can learn to manifest effectively without this quality. One must learn to discipline their mind, emotions, body, and their consciousness to hold the proper vibration and attunement to the soul. One must have self discipline so as to not let the lower self infiltrate the mind with its doubts and fears. Having discipline gives us consistency. It allows us to stay continually in the light, joy positivity, love, and to maintain an unceasing abundant consciousness. This law deals with the lesson of manifesting from the state of consciousness of authority and being a master. There is no force more powerful than your will and to manifest effectively you must own your full power and identity as the Christ, the Buddha, the Atma, the Eternal Self. You must manifest with the full power of your self as soul and as spirit, and the universe will instantly comply with your command and fiat. In reality we have only one need and not many needs as the negative ego would tell us. Our only need is to own the fact and truth of our identity and oneness in God. When this need or illusion of need is met, then all other needs are instantly met as a by-product of this state of consciousness. This next law deals with the importance of not looking at what you are trying to manifest as a lack. Everything, in truth, is really a part of yourself so you lack nothing. The need for manifestation then becomes nothing more than an opportunity to demonstrate the presence of God. Sai Baba talks about this when He does His miracles of manifestation, as being nothing more than a by-product of its infinite nature Manifestation is really just creativity at work. This next law deals with the issue of group manifestation. When groups of people are trying to manifest it is essential that all share the same vision. If not, the differing visions can cancel the manifestation from taking place. Another very important key of manifestation is to follow your inner promptings and intuitions after praying for help. For example let's say you have prayed for a specific dollar figure for your rent check next month. The universe is manifesting this through a person you are supposed to meet at a party. If you get the guidance to go to this party, however your lower self tells you that you are too tired and lazy to do that, then you may miss the manifestation that was provided for you. This is where self discipline dovetails with being obedient to your intuition and soul and spiritual guidance.
Miracles arise from a miraculous state of mind, or a state of miracle readiness. --"A Course in Miracles". The last law of manifestation is one of absolutely essential importance. After praying accept your prayer as answered. You have followed all the universal laws and principles of manifestation. You have fulfilled the law. Don't just believe that it is answered, rather "know" that it has been answered with every cell, molecule, and atom of your being. It is done. It is finished. So be it, for you have decreed it to be so. Your work is God made manifest. You are God, and you are one with God. You have fulfilled the law so how can your prayer not be made manifest. This last law of manifestation is the law of tithing. The law of tithing has to do also with the law of seed money. The universal law states that if you give one tenth of your income to a charitable or beneficial cause you will receive a tenfold return on your generosity. This law is working with the law of karma, which states that that which you sow you reap, what you put out comes back to you. The giving of a tithe and/or seed money keeps the energy of money in circulation. If you are stingy with the universe which is God, then the universe and God will be stingy with you. If you are generous with the universe then the universe by law, will be generous with you.
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