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(11:26 PM.) The following is for Ruburt, yet also for others, and can serve as a brief essay on the nature of will.

Ruburt directed his will in certain areas. Your will is your intent. All of the power of your being is mobilized by your will, and your will makes its deductions according to your beliefs about reality. Each of you use your will in your own way. Each of you has your own way of dealing with challenges. Ruburt used his will to solve one challenge: he was determined to find the kind of mate that would best suit him, and his own unique characteristics. That intent was in his mind.

When that challenge was met he used his will and mobilized all of his power to fulfill his abilities, and to bring about conditions in which he hoped Joseph could also fulfill his. The will, again, operates according to the personality’s beliefs about reality, so its desires are sometimes tempered as those beliefs change. Ruburt always concentrated in his own way upon one challenge at a time, boring in, so to speak, and ignoring anything else that might distract him.

To his way of thinking he cut out all excess baggage, so he had a spare diet, physically speaking. Because the body has its own sense there were always periods when it rebelled, when physical improvements showed. But the power of Ruburt’s will was not directed in those terms. The power of his will said “We are not ready yet. We are still working on one challenge,” so it seemed, finally, that he was powerless or helpless to alter the rigidity of his body.

Ruburt does not like the physical results of his plan on the one hand. On the other hand it was part of his method, a way of intensifying focus, increasing perception in a small area while also insuring safety, so that inner excursions would be balanced by a constant worrisome body that would urge him to return.

You were determined to find the kind of relationship you have with Ruburt, the kind of relationship your parents never had, and you applied the power of your will in that direction. You were at the same time determined to set yourself apart from the world to some extent, while still maintaining and developing an emotional contact with a mate that would be unlike any in your earlier experience.

Creativity would have to be involved. You were also intrigued, determined to travel into the nature of reality, and at least glimpse a vague picture of what it could be. For all of your talk you envied Ruburt his concentration. In one probability you did the same thing yourself. In this one you provided yourself with a background that included sports and the love of the body, knowing it would sustain you.

One of the beliefs then was a strong joint one that you had to protect your energy at all costs, and block out any worldly distractions. Ruburt with his practical mind interpreted this more literally than you, and physical restriction was a part of his natural early environment, as it was not in yours. You were half scandalized, yet half approving, for some time. In the physical area in the meantime, Ruburt lost the connection between will and body. This was a natural result of his method.

The methods Ruburt adopted in his 30’s became more frightening in your terms of time, in the 40’s, so he is looking for a way out. But he closed off his will from his body, so in that area he felt powerless.

There are reasons why he “relapsed,” but the point of power is in the present, and this material and its understanding by Ruburt is more important than “past” causes. I have said this it seems literally thousands of times, but there must not be a concentration upon the problem. Instead there have been a series of challenges that Ruburt has met through using the power of his will, and this is simply the next one to be conquered.

Again, many people are not even familiar with that power. Ruburt does not need the extravagances of today’s statement, though it is a stepping stone, but he must now realize the importance of a balanced life. He has the body on his side, for it is only waiting for him to allow it to use its power.