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[... 4 paragraphs ...]
It is not a necessity, it is simply the result of ignorance. Now, and you all have the beginnings of a good text book, and I am going to ask you questions. You had better read it thoroughly, and if you will read some of the material again that is in the book, you will see what I mean. You do not deprive another person of air by breathing it, for you yourself contribute to the atmosphere. And no man needs to build up his ego by crushing another. And no man builds up his ego by crushing another, he merely crushes the inner being which is within him.
[... 3 paragraphs ...]
Now, read some of the material in the back of the book on plant life. Now, I see upon a chair, a woman who is not there. Some of the material I gave you one evening I will give again so that you have it. The conditions are not good this evening for that particular context but I will see that the material is given.
[... 1 paragraph ...]
Now, I have been, in many ways, a sly and cunning teacher, for the material is given in such a way that as you read it and use your intellect and intuitions to understand it, you automatically develop both your intuitions and your intellect and expand the nature of your own consciousness, though part of the training of consciousness itself is in the body of the material as it exists. To the extent that you extend yourselves, your abilities will automatically be developed, as you read and study the material. There are many books and there are many teachers and there are many ways. Some of it is simple but they are quite necessary to those at a certain level of development. If those ways were sufficient to you, that is where you would be. You have become dissatisfied with those ways, but in becoming dissatisfied you must also extend yourselves to learn new methods of perceptions, and you must expand your consciousness.
[... 6 paragraphs ...]
I will now say good evening so that you may all go home and go to bed and have some real experiences. And I want to thank you for the questions that you asked in class and that Ruburt used in the book for those sessions will help others more than you know, and the questions that you ask will be asked by others, and they will be looking for answers, so in your way you have done your thing and the doubts and questions that you have, have helped others.
[... 2 paragraphs ...]
Now, I will close so you can go home and read the whole book all over again. My heartiest regards to you all and particularly to my friend of the roses to whom I will not look.