Christmas: A contemplation out of the Wisdom of Life
GA 101/1907-12-13/p038
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English
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“Before Abraham was, I Am.” In this way does the saying appear in the original—which usually is so expressed that nobody quite understands what it means—“before Abraham was born, I am.” The “I am,” the innermost spiritual being, which everyone has within him, existed before Abraham.
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