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First of all the landscape and the surroundings were, indeed, symbolic but they represented to you several things. They represented culture and civilization, both as it has existed in the past, and as you see it in the future. The people within the environment appeared happy because they did not think and everything was done for them and life was, indeed, like an institution and they could not leave.

(To Valerie.) This one was here last night and I was here and I spoke to you because I am such a friendly fellow and you do not remember. The least you all could do is say, hello, when you meet me in the middle of the night.

I will have to think up something for you some night. I will have you on as a flower and I will show my own film to my friends and say, look, they exist, would you ever believe it? I have never seen such benign tomfoolery in all my life before.

Our friend’s dream, in her own way, closely approximates our African God’s dream over here, for you are considering the same questions. In your case you used religious terms in which to couch it and ease the inner self. Legitimate—is the question of the validity of the soul legitimate? Is it legitimate whether spoken about in conventional terms through religion, or is it legitimate in the terms spoken about in this room, or is it legitimate in any terms at all?

Now conventional religion requires tribute and so the men came to you at the door. Now you saw them hooded and with red hoods, this meant several things to you on a subconscious basis. First of all, robbers come hooded and they do not come to front doors but to side doors and to doors not usually used. They came, therefore, as hooded strangers and they were requiring tribute and you did not know whether or not the cause was legitimate or if you should contribute to it. The conventional religions were symbolized as St. Paul to you.

([Molly:] “They were still outside all the time.”)

It is, indeed. Now you are a good matter-maker since you made the matter of the image that now sits before me. You are all matter-makers and I bet none of you have been called that before.

(To Joel) I have a few remarks for you and it is this. You depend upon her to do all this questioning for you for it releases your mind and you can go into your trance in an easier manner. You know that she will be highly critical and, therefore, she saves you the burden, the added burden, of questioning yourself. This releases you to go into your trance. In the back of your mind the two of you have made a bargain.

That is a portion also of your self that you do not admit. Fears that you have. Now the fears are natural enough. You do not need to be afraid of the fears, for example. Again, it is a division of labor, she acquiesces in all this far more than she knows, as you doubt it, far more than you know. She counts on you to go ahead and to break into these inroads and to make progress as you count on her to double check your every step along the way.

The both of you may, indeed, do so. At this point it is reflected in all the areas of your life and I thought you should be aware of it. Once you are aware of it, you can change it as you want to.

I will bid you all a fond good evening and I would like it if some of you would think of some of the matters that we have discussed here this evening. When you think up questions personal involvement must be connected or they will have no real meaning to you. Think in terms of your own personal reality, your own personal life and how these theories apply to who you think you are now.

Now I bid you all a fond good evening and I am smiling the best smile that I can make these features smile and if that will not do for you, you will have to wait until the sun rises in the morning.