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Now, mankind builds civilizations. He has gone beyond the child’s game. The toys are real, and yet basically the analogy holds. I am not condoning those violences that occur. The fact is that they can never be condoned, and yet they must be understood for what they are: man learning through his own errors. He also learns by his successes, and there are times when he holds his hand, moments of deliberation, periods of creativity. (Pause.) Identities take many roles in many lives.

The race of man is far more than the physical race however. You see him in but one stage of development. When an individual leaves your system it is for other systems. He has learned his A B C’s, but that is all. There are some exceptions—identities that choose, then, to return and teach. They are not in the same league, so to speak, as those whose reincarnational cycles are not complete.

They may return, even enduring violence, as a man might set up a school amid a jungle of savages. And yet even with this there are advances made within the system itself. A nuclear weapon in the hands of the inhabitants of middle-age Europe would have been used almost immediately, and with nary a qualm, to wipe out all but Christendom.

In those days neither did a sane, righteous man give thought to sharing his wealth, or even consider the plight of the poorer classes. Not only was charity not given, its practical nature was not considered. The archaic concept of God nicely covered such matters.

Women were scarcely thought of as human creatures, but in very select circles. The progression through the centuries would be far more noticeable if you knew all the facts. There is one aspect here that I have not previously mentioned. Man was not allowed to play with the more dangerous toys until certain evidence was given that he had gained some control.

There were 9 planets once, grouped like jewels around the sun. They were evenly spaced one from the other, and they were evenly distributed outward from the sun. And this was the first system that knew the race of man. These were in your corner of the universe, but in your terms they would have seemed to have drifted off so far that none of your instruments could ever find them.