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can remain static. One either enters into a healthy state and then the positive effects increase and 156 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
where you feel troubled, limited, handicapped, or trapped. Healthy unfoldment of the real self follows the creation 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
the real self follows the creation of a healthy personality. This can happen once you learn and 157 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF EXPERIENCE HINDERED BY EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
says a weak ego is incapable of establishing healthy living. These are not opposites or mutually exclusive 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
consequences of disapproval. The ego strength of such healthy self-assertion makes self-surrender possible. Conversely, the weakness of 158 THE EGO'S COOPERATION WITH OR OBSTRUCTION OF THE REAL SELF
forces. Your ego must be active in a healthy and relaxed way. You must not abdicate, or 160 CONCILIATION OF THE INNER SPLIT
indirectly. For no human being can truly be healthy and in balance within themselves and the forces 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
find it possible to let go in a healthy, harmonious way. Tonight's lecture will deal, once again 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
is mutual involvement and love between the sexes. Healthy, intense self-forgetfulness makes it possible for the ego 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
partakes of something greater within. In the ideally healthy life all of these experiences are sought and 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
fear letting go of the ego in the healthy way, on the other, they strive to let 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
to the fundamental reason why you fear the healthy, blissful state in which you allow the involuntary 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
to let go of the ego in a healthy, safe, and life- giving way. An ego is 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
safe, and life- giving way. An ego is healthy only when its attitudes are loving, generous, open 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
one is must be absolutely abandoned before such healthy self-observation can exist. If the ego -- also 161 UNCONSCIOUS NEGATIVITY ENDANGERS SURRENDER OF EGO TO INVOLUNTARY PROCESSES
of lifelessness and with lack of energy. Its healthy version is full of life and inner movement 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
that things must ripen by themselves and that healthy growth is a spontaneous process that cannot be 163 MIND ACTIVITY AND MIND RECEPTIVITY
neurosis is, in itself, a sign of a healthy spirit which rebels against the mismanagement of the 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
weight is subtly shifted relating to what is healthy and what is sick, so that the individual 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
the individual combats the very language of the healthy spirit. You then try to adjust to an 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
take a further example where, for a halfway healthy mind, opposites are transcended -- are no longer 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
uncertainty and guilt -- even if negation is healthy and constructive in a particular situation. I am 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
can embrace both opposites in their truthful, real, healthy manifestations. More and more you will become attuned 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
more you will become attuned to recognizing their healthy and distorted versions. You will feel, rather than 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
sufficiently progressed in the capacity to distinguish between healthy and destructive selfishness, so you will not fall 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
distinction that some forms of selfishness are intrinsically healthy and right. They guard a person's inalienable right 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
person who can be selfish in the right, healthy way is capable of genuine concern for the 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
for the rights of others. Selfishness has a healthy origin. It says: I am a manifestation of 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
of God. As such I am, in my healthy, unobstructed state, a happy individual. For only a 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
The more you come to express this honest, healthy and self-responsible way of life, the more you 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
who cannot be selfish in the right and healthy way does not experience his or her own 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
on the deepest level. However, even right and healthy self- interest almost always interferes with the egotistical 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
hesitation and fear of your probing -- that healthy self-interest cannot be against the true interests of 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
self, the part that wants to abdicate self-responsibility. Healthy self-interest can, however, be against the interest of 164 FURTHER ASPECTS OF POLARITY -- SELFISHNESS
something in yourself. There is, of course, a healthy way of fighting for something, which is entirely 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
versus death, but movement versus nonmovement. Although the healthy personality accepts death as one of the phenomena 167 FROZEN LIFE CENTER BECOMES ALIVE
the conflicts that one's undeveloped desires may bring. Healthy desires are relaxed. They are in rhythm with 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
the desire itself may be legitimate and even healthy, as I implied before. But the insistence that 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
the desire to be dead is far from healthy. It stems from morbid fears and from the 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
life. What I do say is that the healthy attitude leading toward life would be an attitude 168 TWO BASIC WAYS OF LIFE: TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE CENTER
is possible to the degree these attitudes are healthy and to the extent trust in self and 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
different. However, this does not mean that the healthy, integrated man represents exclusively the activating principle, or 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
represents exclusively the activating principle, or that the healthy, integrated woman represents exclusively the principle of letting 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
prevent their use of the creative principle. Therefore, healthy activation, self-assertion, and autonomy are also temporarily bound 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
your activity, without falsely feeling guilty about your healthy aggression. The creative activation will do justice to 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
phase. If one of these two principles is healthy, the other must also be right. It is 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
be right. It is impossible that one is healthy and the other distorted. Hence, the man who 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
paralyzed passivity which is but a distortion of healthy femininity. The pulsating activity of the soul in 169 THE MASCULINE AND FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS
If you pretend that your selfishness is the healthy version of self-assertion and thus rationalize it, you 170 FEAR OF BLISS VERSUS LONGING FOR IT -- THE ENERGY CENTERS
has an opposite, which can be either a healthy complement or a distortion. Thus, a distortion in 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
recognized in order to resolve the problem. The healthy version of these opposites is a harmonious balance 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
her seething resentment when they are not fulfilled. Healthy, openly expressed self- assertion and flexible giving in 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
not in itself responsible for all that. The healthy soul also experiences early unhappiness but throws off 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
there are fewer hidden negative attitudes than overt healthy attitudes. But by virtue of being unconscious, the 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
to create a clear vision of how the healthy, productive personality would function, as opposed to the 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
Each can be either. Each alternative may be healthy and productive or unhealthy and destructive. The following 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
means of evading the self. If introspection is healthy, a healthy concern for others will also automatically 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
evading the self. If introspection is healthy, a healthy concern for others will also automatically exist. Conversely 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
as well. Self-assertion can be an expression of healthy autonomy or of rebellion and hostile opposition. Flexible 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
Flexible adaptability can be the manifestation of a healthy psyche, or it can be submission and a 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
disguise for masochistic self-denial. Again, if self-assertion is healthy, the adaptability will be, too, and vice versa 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
the other side of the coin. In a healthy personality it is the basic self-reliance that enables 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
thus escapes into solitude, rationalizing the escape as healthy. Such a person will often denigrate all outgoingness 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
person will often denigrate all outgoingness -- the healthy as well as the distorted version -- as 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
it can be passed off as the apparently healthy version. The deeper one goes on this path 171 SPIRITUAL LAWS
that such feelings close up the streamings of healthy energy flow? When emotions tighten up because of 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
If the ego is not fully developed and healthy, this energy center is underactive. The energy does 172 THE LIFE ENERGY CENTERS
your outer body has attained the relaxation, feeling healthy and vital, and you therefore gain awareness of 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
behind every sick particle of yours exists its healthy original state. Sickness is a product of the 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
that recognizes both the sick state and the healthy and joyful one that already exists underneath, you 173 BASIC ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TO OPEN THE CENTERS - RIGHT ATTITUDE TOWARD FRUSTRATION
something new will evolve. In this re-creating process healthy, resilient, adequate, and truthful reactions will come easily 176 OVERCOMING NEGATIVITY
longing for it is the most real and healthy movement within yourself. It is only your confusions 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
be altogether unconscious. Distorted pride, as opposed to healthy dignity, is always comparing and measuring the self 177 PLEASURE -- THE FULL PULSATION OF LIFE
self-possession undoubtedly exists when these two aspects are healthy. The first is the ability to deal with 179 CHAIN REACTIONS IN THE DYNAMICS OF CREATIVE LIFE SUBSTANCE
this desire. What are the common denominators of healthy desire and healthy desirelessness that make meditation and 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
are the common denominators of healthy desire and healthy desirelessness that make meditation and indeed all life-expression 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
both involvement and detachment must exist in the healthy psyche. Again there must be a twofold approach 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
what you want right away generates, then the healthy, productive version of involvement is inverted. I will 182 PROCESS OF MEDITATION (MEDITATION FOR THREE VOICES: EGO, LOWER SELF, HIGHER SELF)
specific instances. Human beings can be free and healthy in areas where they do not resist change 183 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF CRISIS
energy. Hate will turn into love, cruelty into healthy aggression and self- assertion, stagnation into joy and 184 THE MEANING OF EVIL AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
path and begin to resolve their inner conflicts. Healthy, balanced people who have found themselves always find 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
is exchanged, the universal movements flow evenly. The healthy alternation of the expanding, contracting and static principles 185 MUTUALITY: A COSMIC PRINCIPLE AND LAW
part of the self strives for what is healthy, furthering pleasure, love, expansion, growth, fulfillment; while the 186 VENTURE IN MUTUALITY: HEALING FORCE TO CHANGE NEGATIVE INNER WILL
weak, and your fight is ineffective. Effective fight, healthy aggression, becomes possible only when you no longer 188 AFFECTING AND BEING AFFECTED
learn to receive it in the right and healthy way. This is the only way you can 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
to pain with anger is totally normal and healthy. If you can understand that such a reaction 191 INNER AND OUTER EXPERIENCE
this higher, more fulfilling state is a legitimate, healthy need. When this need becomes conscious, a positive 192 REAL AND FALSE NEEDS
and prevent the personality from functioning in a healthy way, from having good feelings, and from experiencing 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
vis-a-vis your life experience, the less your inner, healthy, relaxed will can function. The tight selfwill of 193 RÉSUMÉ OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PATHWORK: ITS AIM AND PROCESS
any aspect of yourself can be either desirable, healthy and fruitful, or the opposite. For example, you 195 IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL SELF TO OVERCOME NEGATIVE INTENTIONALITY
unjust. Only then will you also understand that healthy anger can be justified. When this is understood 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
envy, however, are never justified, and are never healthy reactions. Though feeling anger and hurt can be 198 TRANSITION TO POSITIVE INTENTIONALITY
which you ultimately reunite. The ego must be healthy in order to venture beyond its present confines 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
areas of your ego consciousness can you adopt healthy, truthful attitudes. Only a healthy ego can transcend 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
can you adopt healthy, truthful attitudes. Only a healthy ego can transcend itself and unify with the 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
can transcend itself and unify with the naturally healthy divine consciousness. The weak, sick, distorted ego very 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
rigid state, perhaps for many incarnations, thus making healthy ego transcendence as impossible as the false kind 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
kind. You can succeed only by using the healthy part of the ego to shed light on 199 THE MEANING OF THE EGO AND ITS TRANSCENDENCE
Therefore, the ego must grow sufficiently strong and healthy to bear the high vibrations when the inner 200 THE COSMIC FEELING
individuals completely reverse their painful lives into happy, healthy, unified, fulfilled lives, while individuals with much less 201 DEMAGNETIZING NEGATIVE FORCE FIELDS -- PAIN OF GUILT
prevents you from moving on any level. The healthy individual continues to move -- not for therapeutic 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
selfwill; it has to come from the smooth, healthy inner will. If you can do this, if 203 INTERPENETRATION OF THE DIVINE LIGHT SPARK INTO THE OUTER REGIONS - MIND EXERCISES
of life. The substance is within. In the healthy life of every human being there must be 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
and openness. Also, every human being needs in healthy proportion recognition of what he or she does 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
enormous difference between wanting this recognition in a healthy way and depending on outside recognition to such 204 WHAT IS THE PATH?
yourself that it does not matter. This is healthy, necessary control. It is a function that the 205 ORDER AS A UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE
and creative laws. Your soul movements can be healthy and therefore creative and thus further creation, or 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
creative receptivity. Both yes and no can be healthy or sick, desirable or undesirable, good or bad 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
definitive movement in you. And every must defeats healthy desire, therefore not allowing fulfillment. For a short 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
the soul currents of desire, right and wrong, healthy and distorted, relaxed and creative or tight and 206 DESIRE: CREATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE
truly genuine and arises from a real and healthy foundation, you will find it is directed to 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
a glib way by simply judging them as healthy or neurotic, or morally right or wrong. There 207 THE SPIRITUAL SYMBOLISM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SEXUALITY
degree that the parents and the child are healthy and purified souls, the child identifies with their 210 VISUALIZATION PROCESS FOR GROWING INTO THE UNITIVE STATE
fully resolved and the problematic self can become healthy, whole, and renewed in a vital way. The 212 CLAIMING THE TOTAL CAPACITY FOR GREATNESS
this out. In the confused human mind this healthy movement is often taken for a general rebelliousness 213 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF LET GO, LET GOD
God. ANSWER: This is a distortion of the healthy, realistic attitude regarding self-responsibility and self-dependence, of knowing 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN
aspect is self-containment, self-sufficiency, impartiality, serenity. In every healthy life there must exist a harmonious balance between 219 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE -- MESSAGE TO THE CHILDREN
hand, and serious commitment, endeavor, focused will and healthy aggression on the other. This process is the 220 REAWAKENING FROM PRE-INCARNATORY ANESTHESIA
But if you know that there is a healthy selfishness that you have every right to pursue 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
unselfishness versus selfishness, you will truly see that healthy selfishness is good at certain times and that 222 TRANSFORMATION OF THE LOWER SELF
undreamed-of bliss. So you see, the crisis is healthy and unavoidable. Growth cannot take place without crisis 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
of the lower, little self. Then you learn healthy selfishness, and from there you come into true 223 THE ERA OF THE NEW AGE AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS
both have their function and both have the healthy, truthful expression, or both can have a perverted 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
They are not able to differentiate between the healthy and the unhealthy attitude toward group and individual 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
group and individual consciousness. They cannot differentiate between healthy selfishness and unselfishness as two expressions of the 225 EVOLUTIONARY STAGES OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS
energy body -- you need balance to be healthy. Illness of any kind is the result of 228 BALANCE
any kind is the result of imbalance. The healthy body keeps itself balanced. The consciousness that perpetuates 228 BALANCE
balanced. The consciousness that perpetuates and nurtures the healthy body will make sure that you lead a 228 BALANCE
the masculine principles must be represented in the healthy individual. They may not be expressed in exactly 229 WOMAN AND MAN IN THE NEW AGE
you flounder, you grope, but not in a healthy way. You are truly confused and the struggle 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
and deep self-esteem. However, the groping that is healthy, that is necessary, that is the doorway to 232 BEING VALUES VERSUS APPEARANCE VALUES -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION
levels, and some levels may be in a healthy state of movement, while others are not. In 241 DYNAMICS OF MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE TO ITS NATURE
to be bothered and dispenses with this necessary, healthy discipline, is as much at fault and does 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
this system also offers more possibility for a healthy fusion of two apparent opposites. The other two 242 THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS
and humiliating. On the contrary, it creates a healthy pride and dignity. By surrendering to God, one 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
forth. When this movement surges forth in a healthy, organic way, it is neither depleting nor effortful 245 CAUSE AND EFFECT ON VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
must therefore always be coupled with change. The healthy balance of the soul of the earth can 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
place. It requires their physical nature to become healthy and enlivened by creative energy. Last but not 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
well if this process were not allowed. The healthy body lives positive tradition and positive change in 246 TRADITION: ITS DIVINE AND DISTORTED ASPECTS
can indeed create real riches, based on a healthy policy. You are constantly running on deficit, giving 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
collective entity, until the latter will be sufficiently healthy on all levels, including the material one, so 250 INNER AWARENESS OF GRACE -- EXPOSING THE DEFICIT
a heavy armor. Imagine the joy and the healthy pride of holding your head high while knowing 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
about the destruction caused by evil. It is healthy and good to allow this state to grow 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
become, the more you will experience this very healthy pain. You may feel pain when you see 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
what appears to be a victim. This living, healthy, loving pain is also the threshold to joy 252 PRIVACY AND SECRECY
and struggle. They ignore that there exists a healthy and constructive struggle. The pitfall of this approach 253 CONTINUE YOUR STRUGGLE AND CEASE ALL STRUGGLE
assert justified claims, is indispensable in any productive, healthy life. The need to discriminate when to trust 254 SURRENDER
only occur when the self is strong and healthy; then the self will grow even stronger and 254 SURRENDER
to lose yourself, is tantamount to being a healthy and whole person. First, you should mentally fully 254 SURRENDER
is concerned. You may do it in a healthy and productive way that you therefore generally enjoy 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS
and selfhood -- is the prerequisite for a healthy, fully lived and satisfying life. It forms the 256 INNER SPACE, FOCUSED EMPTINESS
process that makes room for self-love in the healthy sense. It is also true that without at 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION
near you -- then you can create a healthy center of gravity anchored deep within your soul 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION
be free from neurotic dependency. It will be healthy interdependence that will give you clear vision, the 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION
it is not. Therefore you will have a healthy relationship with your leaders and your followers. Without 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION
ground under your feet. And that is the healthy position which allows you to reach truth and 258 PERSONAL CONTACT WITH JESUS CHRIST-POSITIVE AGGRESSION-REAL MEANING OF SALVATION

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