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Originally Posted by aron
A related question - if Watchman Nee availed himself of some 3,000 "Christian classics" per the Lee biography, then were there some 30 (+/-) sequential "spiritual giants", each with the "vision of the age" penning some 100 works (+/-), each building on the previous one? No, according to Lee: rather WN picked the good bits from each one* and fashioned his unique message.
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And Lee said Nee had a photographic memory. That he could read a chemistry book in one night, and than the next day you could open the book to a random page, and ask, for example : "What's on page 168," and Nee could read it off.
I never really bought into that. Lee was creating a Nee legend, making Nee great, and a spiritual/leader superman -- prolly to cover for Nee's private lascivious life. Plus, Nee had to be great, cuz Lee was riding on his coattails ; Nee gave Lee bona fides.