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Originally Posted by awareness
Nee was a young man when he wrote this. Sure he might have been brilliant. But all young men are prone to far-fetch fantasies.
And he was obviously writing under the spell of Penn-Lewis, as he quotes her over and over again, as an authority on these matters. And Penn-Lewis was too far-fetched to use as springboard.
As a result Nee couldn't help but be far-fetched. And I think that's being kind. As I think all this latent power of the soul is actually a little tetched. But it suits Nee's sense of specialness, by condemning all of man's religions as products of the latent power of the soul. At this point Nee was a budding MOTA.
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When I look at things in context, considering how young both Nee and Lee were when they started their ministries, it seems all the more ridiculous. That's not to say that those who are young cannot have a ministry, but it seems that the case with both WN and WL was that they each got the idea very early on that they were someone special who saw things that no one else saw.