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Now I bid you good evening, and when you realize that you have been many people and that you are many people, then you will realize that you need not think so in terms of age, for you are as much now the young woman that you were back in Naples in the 14th century as the man that you now think you are, and you are not bounded by what you think of as your present age. When you realize that your own personality is indeed multidimensional, then you will realize that your age is a reality that you are presently experiencing, among many other realities. It gives you a certain viewpoint and a certain framework from which to view reality, but it is not the only viewpoint that you have available to you, and it is not the only framework from which your reality springs.
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(To Bette.) And for our friend over here, Richelieu’s cousin, neither are you supposed to know what each word of Sumari language means. You are to use the words again as stepping stones and that is all. At some time you no longer need them.
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(To Mark.) Now spontaneity knows its own order. It does not need order put upon it from the outside. Some of you fear that spontaneity is destructive. You wonder where it will lead you, but the earth as you know it is spontaneous and you can trust it, and therefore you can also trust the spontaneity of your own nature.
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Now I will tell you briefly that you were involved with last week although I have already told Ruburt and Joseph in their session. You realize that nothing happens in this class that you do not want to happen. That no impetus arises that does not come from you. I do not say, “Aha, my friends need to know this and so I will stuff it down their throats.” The impetus comes from you and therefore what happened last week came from you. You were indeed involved in a variation of an ancient ceremony in which you were all, in your terms, at one time involved. This was your translation of it in terms that you can understand. As what you are now is a translation of yourself in terms that you can understand. I made some comments last week. You do not have them now, but you will have them shortly for the session is not yet typed, but that will help clear up some of the questions that you have in your mind.
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