# Chain: Armour Of The World > *The soul moves through the world in clothing that is not its own, and it must be exchanged* **The argument it traces:** A person navigates a wounding world in armour: a shield against betrayal, a cloak of accumulated pain, mental assumptions worn as protection → the armour is worn deliberately and for good reason, since the world it answers is real → but it is the same thing that keeps God out, so it cannot be reinforced, only set down → and it is not simply removed and gone, it is exchanged, the cloak of error shed for a cloak of Light **5** messages · **5** supporting · complete --- ## Foundation ### 2016-08-28 - [[2016-08-28 Come Down to the River|Come Down to the River]] **(anchor)** Names the clothing and says why it is worn: the mental assumptions a person wears as protection, which the message calls removable. This message is the hinge between two threads and holds a role in both: the Reframe above rests on the fear of full immersion, this one on the clothing itself. ## Elaboration ### 2016-09-09 - [[2016-09-09 Put Away Your Shield and Your Armour and Lead with Love|Put Away Your Shield and Your Armour and Lead with Love]] The armour as defence against a people that cannot trust, and the instruction to set it down, "put away your shield and your armour, to trust in God who will protect you... You will not be hurt. Only when you join into this condition will you feel that way." The first of the three things the clothing is said to be. ### 2016-09-10 - [[2016-09-10 Divine Love Will Change the World, Starting with You|Divine Love Will Change the World, Starting with You]] The armour as unworthiness before God, "There is a great ocean of Love which you may bathe within if you but remove your cloak and your armor and come to God as a child filled with longing to be home with your Heavenly Father." The second of the three things the clothing is said to be. ### 2016-09-12 - [[2016-09-12 You Are Supported in Your Struggle|You Are Supported in Your Struggle]] The armour as accumulated pain, named and handed over, a full account of what the clothing is made of. "It is hard for mankind to put aside their armor, their error, their anger, and their mistrust", and in the prayer, "this is my cloak of pain, this is the armor which I don in order to navigate this life and I wish that you would take it all." Here the clothing is surrendered to God rather than simply removed. ## Capstone ### 2016-10-24 - [[2016-10-24 Consider Your Progress|Consider Your Progress]] Completes the argument by making it an exchange rather than a removal. "As you shed your cloaks of error and don your cloak of Light you become a clear and effective channel." In the other messages of the cluster the clothing is taken off so that something can happen; this one says what is put on instead, which is what turns a repeated figure into an argument with an end. --- ## Also touches on this *These messages restate or echo the idea rather than carry it forward, so they sit alongside the thread rather than in it.* - **2016-09-12** [[2016-09-12 You Are Supported in Your Struggle|You Are Supported in Your Struggle]] (build) - The same image runs through one travelling circle. [[2016-08-28 Come Down to the River|2016-08-28-af-francis-of-assisi]], remove the clothing of your mental assumptions and wade into the waters. [[2016-09-09 Put Away Your Shield and Your Armour and Lead with Love|2016-09-09-af-andrew]], put away your shield and your armour. [[2016-09-10 Divine Love Will Change the World, Starting with You|2016-09-10-af-augustine]], remove your cloak and your armor and come to God as a child, with an ocean to bathe in. And this message, put aside their armor, "this is my cloak of pain, this is the armor which I don". Only the Francis message carries the [[Chains/Fear Of Full Immersion|Fear Of Full Immersion]] argument. The other three use the same clothing to say three different things: defence against a suspicious nation, unworthiness before God, and accumulated pain to be handed over. This is the argument-and-image question at scale. A roster that admits the image will collect all four; a chain that admits only the argument will keep one. The image appears again at [[2016-10-15 There Is a Purpose for You|2016-10-15-af-confucius]] and [[2016-10-24 Consider Your Progress|2016-10-24-af-confucius]]. - **2016-10-15** [[2016-10-15 There Is a Purpose for You|There Is a Purpose for You]] (witness) - Carries the water half of the cluster rather than the clothing, "Open your souls. Drink in these living waters. Allow yourselves to be fully immersed in this great Love." - **2016-10-24** [[2016-10-24 Consider Your Progress|Consider Your Progress]] (build) - The image recorded at [[2016-09-12 You Are Supported in Your Struggle|2016-09-12-af-jerome]] runs through [[2016-08-28 Come Down to the River|2016-08-28-af-francis-of-assisi]], [[2016-09-09 Put Away Your Shield and Your Armour and Lead with Love|2016-09-09-af-andrew]], [[2016-09-10 Divine Love Will Change the World, Starting with You|2016-09-10-af-augustine]], [[2016-09-12 You Are Supported in Your Struggle|2016-09-12-af-jerome]], and [[2016-10-15 There Is a Purpose for You|2016-10-15-af-confucius]] on immersion. This message gives it a different form: not removal but exchange. "As you shed your cloaks of error and don your cloak of Light you become a clear and effective channel." In those messages the clothing is taken off so that something can happen; this one says what is put on instead. That matters for the scope question raised against [[Chains/Fear Of Full Immersion|Fear Of Full Immersion]], because a cluster with its own internal development, worn then removed then exchanged, begins to look like an argument rather than a shared figure of speech. - **2016-12-02** [[2016-12-02 The World Needs Your Prayers|The World Needs Your Prayers]] (witness) - The clothing as pain and error, shed rather than exchanged, with freedom following, "you will shed whatever mantle of pain and error that you carry and walk forth in this freedom and this liberation of your souls." One clause in a message about prayer for the world; [[2016-09-12 You Are Supported in Your Struggle|2016-09-12-af-jerome]] carries the accumulated-pain facet as an Elaboration. - **2016-12-05** [[2016-12-05 Talks of the Challenges That Come with Soul Growth|Talks of the Challenges That Come with Soul Growth]] (witness) - The exchange the Capstone makes, "that you may remove your old garments and don new garments of light," with its pace left to the seeker, "some carry these dilemmas for a very long time while others have gladly removed their old cloaks and donned the cloaks of light swiftly. It is your choice, the pace of your own progression."