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Now. Good evening.

There was something else. She resented the authoritative tone of the dream book as she first saw it, thinking again: “Now my God, this Jane Roberts imagines herself an authority.” Wollheim did not overstate what she told him. She never thought that Ruburt would revise the book. (Pause.)

Now give us a moment. (Two-minute pause.)

It is too closed a system. Now astrology has its merits, and many good ones. An excellent astrologist can help people to better understand themselves. Understand that individuals themselves between lives choose the time of their own birth, adopting ahead of time those characteristics that they feel will best aid their development, and challenge their abilities.

Now I suggest that you take a brief break and I will continue with some other matters.

Now. Give us a moment.

Our friend attempted to choose a different battleground last evening. He decided to think of his symptoms as an enemy, and to give them form in another plane of reality where he could do battle with them. Now this was not an astral plane, but a lower one.

He attempted to destroy the animal of evil, and it bit him back. Now evil does not exist in those terms, and even illness or fear is not necessarily an enemy, as much as an aid to understanding and the means to a greater end.

Now the evil which Ruburt imagined he was projecting outward does not exist, but because he believed it did, he formed his materialization from his fears. It was the shape of the desolation he had felt last weekend. Now in larger terms, and in the deepest sense, there is no evil, only your lack of perception, but I know this is difficult for you to accept. But this fact is Ruburt’s safeguard in his astral travels—as long as he remembers it.

Now Ruburt was attempting a legitimate projection, and the Grant book, in the overall, was good for him; but he got the idea for such a materialization by playing around unconsciously with an idea in the book. He thought of turning his symptoms, or the fears behind them, into a demon which he could then slay and conquer for good. (An autobiography by Joan Grant is referred to here.)

Now in the first place the symptoms are not evil nor his enemies, but methods of instruction that he has himself chosen; and if ever he imagines them isolated in such a fashion, they should be imagined instead as being projected out from him into the whole of the universe where they are absorbed harmlessly, and their energy used to the greater good.

Now give us a moment.

Now, if he is worried about a recurrence (pause), I suggest that he say quite simply: “God’s peace be with me,” before he sleeps, without worrying or arguing with the meaning of the term God.

This will always protect him in any out of body endeavors, or any other unearthly realities. He was actually getting rather tricky, and the accomplishment, while misguided, shows the growth of his abilities. Now had he been in severe difficulties someone would, have helped him. He has many friends, but it was best that he followed through on his own for his own confidence.

Now. Do you have questions?

Give me a moment. (Pause.) Now it will help if you take it for granted that under some circumstances—and underline some—dealing with Ruburt’s idea of authority, he has difficulty expressing dissatisfaction, or expressing any normal impatience.

I know you realize this. It would help however if you simply remind him of this when such occasions arise, for your reminder, given without rancor, would be enough now to let him make a suitable adjustment at any given occasion. You need not force an issue, but remind him of the fact. You fear over-influencing him, but since your influence is considerable in any case, this is a good time to use it.

He feels a new freedom, realizing, because he can be such a knucklehead, though a beloved one, now that he has freedom to do as he desires, to hold sessions or not to hold them. Because he does at times use you as an authority figure, he did have a tendency to think that he must have sessions because you wanted them.

The rigidity was in his mind however and not in yours, and he knows this now. Give us a moment. (Pause.) You are to him in this existence a figure for lover, father and child, but he is also a figure to you of mother, mistress and child. And all of this energy in both of your cases unconsciously understood, is then at its best, joyfully bound together and projected into your works.

Now if you have no questions I will end the session, but I will be glad to answer any that you have.

Now do you have questions?

You know, I know, that your compliments quite go to his head, when they are real ones, and this also sends his symptoms running. Now I will leave you. A fond good evening. Were it not for time involved in your typing of my immortal words, I would stay with you longer. Now, I wish you well.