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Now, although I admit I usually come to you with a voice like a musical thunder, with a voice that seems to weigh a thousand pounds, that seems to plop into the room, yet I can also come lightly as a leaf and be here when you do not know. (Florence tried to smother a cough and Seth boomed out.) You may cough to your heart’s content. You may all cough and have a coughing session!!
[... 2 paragraphs ...]
No stimuli is ever accidental. No stimuli is ever accidental. I repeat the sentence so you can understand it. You are never controlled. God is creativity and he creates creativity or other creators. Creativity of necessity, because of its nature, leads to further development and existence—to further creations. Control leads to rigidity, nonexistence and the negation of all. In the terms that are usually used, perfection would be death and annihilation, for it presupposes an end beyond which no progress is possible. Creativity always knows that further development always lies latent. New possibilities grow constantly from the heart and spirit. To control is to court rigidity. No God knows the word or the meaning of control, nor does he exert control as far as his abilities are concerned, for it would lead to dead alleys, and spirituality would go and leave him dried up as a fruit pit.
[... 5 paragraphs ...]
Now what brings you here? Knowledge that you do not realize that you possess, yet you do possess it. I look back again at your past histories and to your probabilities and futures in your terms, and my, how you change. You would not know yourselves. Be good of heart. You have more staying power than you know and you (Amelia) should realize that you are also here for a reason and that you build more that garden roads.
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
Now that was a fine sermon and I shall take it to heart. The barriers that you erect are no longer needed. The dangers have long since passed. They have been conquered. The transgressions were not as severe as your strong conscious supposed and the time of penance is over.
[... 8 paragraphs ...]