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Will you let me address a few words to you? I am awaiting for your answer. Far be it from me to speak to you if you would rather not hear what I have to say.
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We have had more enthusiastic responses. Now this is a preliminary. The rest will follow as you are ready for it and if you rush up in rage against me then I will leave Ruburt to face it. So listen. Now consciousness is a beautiful, personified, precarious thing. You cannot really see it or feel it or touch it and yet you know its characteristics. The cat taught you to love again and to open up again. You were also close to hiding within your home with the cat and ignoring physical reality. The love which was awakened is to be directed in other areas, and you may speak when I am finished, but for this one time I will have my say.
The cat awakened your love. You knew this was to happen and you chose the means. Now, in so doing, you also gave affection to the animal and awakened within it characteristics it did not have earlier. In other words, you stretched the extensions of its own awareness and consciousness. You brought it up, to put it very simply. The consciousness of the cat grew and developed. You taught it communication. Now I am not speaking in words of physical communication but you opened up its awareness. Now though it seems to you perhaps at this point tragic, the facts are that the real tragedy would have occurred had the cat lived, in your terms, and had you curled up in it, in your house on the corner, and turned your love inward to the animal rather than outward, for there are people who need it.
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([Rachel:]“In other words, I am forming this myself.”)
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You knew, and I am not implying, I am not implying guilt. You knew what was going to happen when you let the animal out at that corner. The animal felt no pain. It left its body immediately. You aided in the development of its consciousness and it helped you by renewing your love; but as the animal changed its form so also now this reawakened love must look outward.
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Now, I will let you all take a break, and I will let our friend over here (to Florence) think that because of her suggestions she drew me out. My welcome to the new members here this evening and to our guest. Now, I am not on color TV this evening but we do our best.
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(To Ned.) You are not clear in your mind, in your subconscious mind, or even your conscious mind at times, as to what you want. We will not bring this up this evening for reasons that you know, but I am aware of them and so are you.
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You also, however, had connections in past lives, very strong ones. Now, give us a moment here. You may ask whatever questions you have either at another class or later, but give us time to pursue this now. You were members of a group. The campfire that you have experienced in class is connected here. He was a leader of a band of men and women. You were an itinerant traveling tribe. At one time you were his son and at some time I will give you particulars, dates and places. Now I am concerned with your state of mind, not with the state in which you lived. At another time he was your daughter and you were the father. There was an over-protectiveness involved in all of your relationships, an exclusiveness. He was interested in music and the piano. He was afraid for his fingers and his hands. You had several existences together where you were involved with plants and flowers, hence, in this life, your love of flowers and the business that you had.
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