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I not only support you but congratulate you, and I want you all to know that the effort involved on Our Lady of Florence’s part this evening was only somewhat short of fantastic, and that her achievement more than equals the achievement of those who had had the projections. In trying to deny these early facts of your existence you have shut off strong portions of your own energy and creative strength so that they could not operate for you in your life. You used, literally, a half of your energy repressing these memories and ideas building up a bridge between yourself and the rest of the world in terror that they should discover this secret, and so constructively you could not use this energy. And you built up about your physical image a fortress of flesh to protect you. The image that you have has been built around you from these fears so that you would be so secure that none could find out the secret. And the secret when it is said, you see, releases that energy, particularly as you begin to understand that in that past there was nothing shameful. That the ideas of Orientals that you had at that time were highly distorted. That other incidents of which I know are not, in those terms, my dear Lady of Florence, shameful. The energy can, therefore, be released.
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I have told no secrets. I am very afraid to tell you that I have forgotten what I considered secrets through the lives that I have lived. I certainly know that, like any of you in the past, I have not always been charitable. I know that I have hated one parent or another. I know, certainly, once that I plundered in the wages of war. I do not come to you as someone who does not know what it is like to be human. And in those personality characteristics that I use when I speak to you, I show you that the emotional life continues.
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