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The point would not be nearly as clearly made, you see, were the victim a man giving himself to crime. He must be in one way or another a symbol of those idealized qualities that the individual and the massed natives of the land give lip service to. These ideals are highly vital and important. The strength of the inner unrecognized hatred and aggression can be disastrous, and yet it works for the service of the ideal.

He courted or adopted his dead brother’s characteristics and gestures not because, as it was thought, he wanted to bank upon his prestige, but because he had an inner compulsion to do so, knowing the events that would occur.

On the other hand, he fought against this tendency. With this incident one full cycle has come to an end, beginning with the former president’s death and ending with the present incident.

He himself changed the probabilities purposely, and his father realized this. But the probabilities thus changed, the two other brothers of which we have spoken this evening came into different positions of action.

The third is frightened. He will remain in a passive capacity relatively. (Note: Summer 1975. Kennedy [Ted] said he wouldn’t run for presidency. JRB.) Take your break, and take care of your beloved monster.

His effectiveness and his role are completed, however. I believe he will succumb. This is his moment however, and his inner choice. The next moment is never predetermined. Never, regardless of what you may hear. The individual can change the probabilities. They point now to his death. (Pause.

If he can adapt in this life to another vital but different role, then he could live; but to some extent, basically, with a different alignment, in your terms only, taking on the problems of the next reincarnation without changing physical forms. Now this is often done. I do not believe he has the strength for it. (Long pause.)

He is discussing affairs with his brother now. In the background of this incident, and connected with the slayer, a woman, a sister or like a sister to him. A small grocery store.

As Ruburt suspected, there is also a connection with his own emotional cycle and the two events. He knows what I mean.

The man Ruburt thinks of with the funny eyes is a fairly good portrait of the artist I told you of. He always wore a cap, however. (Long pause; slower pace, eyes closed.) It is as he was in a Belgium life.

(Here Seth refers to a portrait I am working on without a model, of a bald man with rather young features. He is fully bald, and as I painted it I wondered why he was bald. See the 401st and 402nd sessions. Seth then gave the artist’s name as Van Elver, saying he was from Norway or Denmark and that he was giving Seth painting data to be passed along to me.)

This time, 1317-1351. (Long pause.) Beside him a table and a golden goblet. A red velvetlike chair, with ornate wood. (Eyes closed, Jane made gestures.) Draperies behind a self-portrait he did of himself. (Pause; pace slow.)