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Now we will see to it, if he does not tell you, that these steps are clearly given, but you will discover them for yourselves. Some of you are quite familiar with what we will class, or Ruburt will call, Alpha V or VI, but the time has come for you to start at the beginning and work your way through. Now I will not give you a diploma, you will give yourselves your own diploma. And you are quite correct in thinking that an added dimension has appeared in class. And it is a dimension that had to appear in class for, as I told you before, the time has passed, here, where you can hide in concepts. You will begin to live the concepts.
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Now all of you, in your own way and even you (Nadine), have begun to be familiar enough with concepts so that in your dream states and in some of your conscious states you are beginning to play around with them, and so we are in a new playground. And in this playground the root assumptions and the rules and the regulations are somewhat different. And the concepts are not to be used as elegant fences that you climb up and, hopefully, over or that you admire, but the concepts will begin to open up for you so that you experience their reality. And any reality to you, at this time, involves emotional awareness and gradations of it. And so, you cannot ignore your own emotions or the emotions of others in the room and expect to use your abilities.
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(To Arnold.) And for our friend here, some concepts that you can understand in Alpha I and II because you will be able to experience their reality.
([Arnold:] “Concepts are a crutch I hope I can get over.”)
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