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those who seek to maintain the human world in a subservient
state.

The child achieves it’s eleventh year. This year tends to be a
year of anticipation. The child is aware of something being
“in the air”, but, because of it’s lack of conscious spiritual
awareness, it knows not what. Society on the other hand offers
other explanations. The child will be moving shortly to a more
senior school, it is told. It will be preparing for social or
religious initiation, it is also told. As there is so little spiritual
knowledge available for the adult, never mind the child, few,
except for indigenous peoples, can offer the explanation that
the child is coming to the point of receiving it’s personal
spiritual power back into it’s own control. You will remember
in the earlier part of these writings we told of how the child,
on birth, entrusted it’s welfare both physical and spiritual, into
the care of it’s parents. The anticipation this child is now
experiencing is the return of that responsibility to its self. The
child during this year might appear pensive and be finding it
difficult to be satisfied, finding it difficult to see pleasure in
it’s life. It will find some relief when asked about growing up
as these questions will feed into the anticipation and
encourage the child to think ahead. In order to provide an
answer they will look around them for appealing occupations.
It is here that the signs of awareness of their understanding of
life and its purpose will become exposed. Those children who
have even a small degree of spiritual awareness will connect
with the essence of their vocation, but will need to relate this
unconscious understanding to the various occupations that