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Why did Jesus give the opening of the Lord's Prayer as "Our Father" and not as "My Father?" Was he not trying to get his disciples away from the self-centered attitude to the cosmic one? Was he not widening their outlook to make them think of mankind's welfare?

-- Notebooks Category 22: Inspiration and the Overself > Chapter 3 : The Overself's Presence > # 249