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By Jack Joseph Smith

"You have the form of what I need to accomp- lish the creative aspect in me, I am like a blind sculpture, but with you I will be able to feel you see my endevor in the world." "What is that? What is your endevor in the world?" "To reduce pain to ashes; which is the sub- stance to which it belongs. But going that far is not possible here. Let's just see if we can bring it from the heart to the should- ers, where you can judge it, as it judges you." "I don't understand." "Even if a judge on a bench has his person- ality reveiled, he will have a more difficult time being a judge, and the judges you have in your heart are the black robes of your soul." "My God." "God!s hiding is cloudlike. What I speak to you of is a nature in humanity that has stayed concealed by the walls of caverns. But let's get busy now and put this thing up on the shoulders. After all, should not prob- lems be placed on the scale? Well? The should- ers are a perfectly balanced design!" "What must I do?"

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

The page develops Montreal's strange therapeutic vision, turning inner judgment and pain into something that might be moved from the heart to the shoulders, where it can be seen, weighed, and judged.

It is mysticism phrased like bodily engineering. Judges, robes, balance, shoulders, and scales blend together, making psychological release sound like a physical redesign of where suffering sits in the body.

Claude

Montreal lays out his program: he is 'like a blind sculpture' who needs Marie's 'form' to 'feel you see my endevor,' and that endevor is 'To reduce pain to ashes; which is the substance to which it belongs.' Since that's 'not possible here,' he proposes a smaller move - bringing the burden 'from the heart to the shoulders, where you can judge it, as it judges you.' His imagery fuses jurisprudence and the body: 'the judges you have in your heart are the black robes of your soul,' and 'God!s hiding is cloudlike,' the concealed 'nature in humanity' walled in 'caverns.' The shoulders become his scale - 'a perfectly balanced design' - so spiritual release is phrased as physical engineering. This reading remains provisional because a legible handwritten 'from' near the caverns line has an uncertain insertion target and was omitted.