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Now, I bid you all good evening.

(To Sissy.) Now, may I give particular greetings to a friend of Ruburt’s over there in the corner. With a name like Lord we shall, indeed, welcome her to the class. We have a Lord and a dean now so the atmosphere should, indeed, be very auspicious.

(To Theodore.) Now, I simply came to let you know that I was in on your conversation, and because I did not want to have you think that I played your little trick and rob you of the pleasure of realizing that you did it for yourselves. It was an excellent phenomena. Now had the lights been off and candles burning dimly and incense added then, indeed, you would have all had a time. As all of you know, the spirits are somewhat more lively. They do not require any darker rooms than you do.

(To Florence.) Now, this will doubtlessly be our very tardy Lady of Florence. We are delighted that you came at all.

(To Mary Ellen.) You knew what the message would be before you came here on a subconscious basis and Ruburt, all unaware, has already delivered it to you, and it was in his terms to cool it because spontaneity must progress at its own rate and feel comfortable in both physical reality and inner reality. You are not to go into inner reality like a door to a closet, and close the door behind you. It may be comfortable, but that is not its purpose. Now, your own unconscious mind knew this and you were told to come so that the message could be delivered rather forcibly, so consider this a forcible delivery. You are doing very well.

And you have received some legitimate information in regard to your family. Information that helps you relate to them more clearly. Now, whether or not it is couched in reincarnational terms, it offers clear, precise and excellent insights as to how those within your family operate and what stimuli is important to them. Be thankful for it.

Now, I will let you all take a brief break now that I have broken the ice and I will return shortly.

Now, if there ever was a puritan remark it was the one that just escaped our friend, Ruburt’s lips, for in his mind still, you see, you must have this purpose and be active and it is wrong to simply go back to bed for no better reason than that you want to go back to bed.

Now, in all of your minds there is still this conception that what you want to do automatically, because you want to do it, must be wrong because it is too easy. Now reality is easy. This universe is not maintained by conscious thought and if all of you together had to consciously decide ahead of time why the universe should exist, it would not exist, for you would not have made up your mind yet. Be lucky and thankful that the inner self does not have these hang-ups. You see how well I do with your vocabulary.

(To Natalie:) Now, intuitively, you knew that information was going to be given to you and spontaneously you went along with it, and that is good.

(To Florence.) Why is it that you trust everyone else? Anyone with any easy authority, myself included, rather than yourself? I do not want you to think that because I look in any particular direction I am speaking to anyone in particular. Now, you expect me to bawl you out in good terms because you have not been following the pathways within yourself.

And now after our new friends see what a playful personality I am with a sermon like that, I will let you take your break.

(To Theodore.) I have a remark for our dean and it is this. You know very well that surprises are being prepared for you in your Great Hall and when you are ready to understand them, you will return. Now you are completing a cycle. After going inward to some degree, to some considerable degree, you are now using your abilities to manipulate physical reality and turn in your outlook into your physical environment using your abilities to help people that you know, and this is excellent. But you will also find it both necessary and enjoyable to return to the inner source of your being, which for you is symbolized as the Great Hall, for it is from there that you receive your insights and your support. And you know this as well as I do.

(To Laurie.) Now what Ruburt said to you I would like to reinforce ten times: It is like a woman in the rain who carries an umbrella, and instead of using it, she says, “Well, it is raining too hard. I do not want to get my hands wet or put up this umbrella.” And so she carries the umbrella and remains soaking wet. So you have not been using your abilities in your family relationships.

Now that I have given you all these goodies, I will let you take your break. And if I did not care what happened to you, I would not yell at you so. Besides you expect it (to Florence).

Most of the dead do not particularly wish to influence the living. Some of us, however, have a particular course to follow as we did, in your terms, in our lifetime. There are many courses that you can follow after death after you have finished your reincarnation. Because when you are finished with your reincarnation, there is not a time when you can say, “There, I have had it. I put in my chips and now I will find peace ever after.” You continue to develop your abilities, but you continue to develop them in dimensions of reality that you do not understand now and so in this existence of mine I am a teacher and I visit other dimensions of actuality such as your own. In this particular instance, I try to affect you so that you will not blow yourselves off the faces of your planet. Because while your planet is dispensable, it is the only one you have right now and there is no use being so wasteful.

Give us a moment. First of all there are not levels, per se. You develop the abilities that are yours, the best you can, within physical reality. You may, therefore, for example, choose to be an intellectual giant in one life and an emotional idiot in order that you can concentrate upon intellectual abilities. Or you may emotionally be extremely mature, and decide not to use your intellect to any great degree so that you can concentrate on emotional reality. Now, in your case, you have had four past lives. Two as a woman and two as a male. There is not time to go into them deeply this evening.

One, however, was as a merchant in Germany in approximately 1830, the area now around Austria. You have been rather pedantic in several past lives and given in one particularized in Spain, as a priest, to severe attitudes and ideas that lead you, alternately, toward violence and peace. You believed so strongly in principle, for example, that you would do anything to uphold it and there was little leeway in your personality. You were not able to give and take and, to some extent, that rigidity is still present in your personality. However, you are learning now to mitigate to some extent. You are, in other words, opening up in those areas. You were involved in the Inquisition. Your ideas of good and evil were highly polarized. You are making strides in this existence although you have also encountered some difficulties along these lines for it is not easy for you to be flexible, psychically or spiritually. And you are learning to do this despite the difficulties that have been involved.

(To Florence.) Now, a note. If you listen to your own conscious thought, you will know exactly where you stand. The inhibitions are conscious, now, you simply ignore them. They are not buried in the subconscious now, they are just beneath your stream of consciousness but readily available as your interesting, but brief, monologue this evening made clear.

When you feel that way you are falling into a trap. You are so distrustful of the innate vitality of life and of consciousness and of All That Is that you feel that your aggressive thoughts can take it off balance and, magnified a million times, destroy it. Now on an individual basis, each of you is quite able to accept from the other, though I am certain that it would never happen in this class, a stray negative thought, or an aggressive thought, or even at times a stray ray of hatred.

If you feel in that way then you should first of all admit to yourself, honestly, that that is your feeling, and as a feeling it exists and is legitimate. Do not say, “I will not feel in such and such a way, or worse, I do not feel this way.” Do not say, “God bless his soul,” when you hate his guts. You are the one who will feel the pain in the guts in that case, and not him. Instead honestly admit the feeling as a reality. Now, if it is strong, use whatever commonplace methods are available to you, a punching bag, yell your lungs out if you prefer, but when you are finished then say, “This is a feeling that I have, it was legitimate. Soon I will not feel the need for such feelings for understanding will change my emotional makeup. Now, the feeling can vanish from me that I have expressed it in a harmless way that I know.” Then immediately forget it and imagine the vitality of the universe as being strong enough and wise enough to absorb your petty violence and survive.

Now, I cannot explain this so quickly to you for it is a delicate question and each individual in the room must learn his own way of handling these feelings. But there are ways, and there are creative ways. For as you progress, the annoyances will no longer be annoyances. You will be big enough to absorb them but while they are realities, you must accept them and deal with them as realities and trust in the vitality of life to absorb them harmlessly and even to translate them into constructive activity. I will have more to say on the particular point in other class sessions.

(To Florence.) And if you trusted your spontaneous self, then you would allow yourself greater freedom. Now class is good for you. It gives you a framework that you can trust in which you can allow yourself freedom. You cannot allow yourself freedom within conventional religion at this time because of your own ideas. You cannot allow yourself freedom without any framework because you are afraid of what you will find, so you had better take advantage of the framework that is here presented to you.

Now, I give you all my fondest wishes and those blessings that are mine to give, I give to you. And those of you who are ready to go their own way and do their own thing, I will speak to you later this evening. And Ruburt would appreciate a few words on nice white bond.