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kinship. The adult influence might make it seem otherwise
and at times might pervert the purity of the word love and take
it into the unaware adult concept that confuses the word love
with the word lust. Other confusions that arise are the
questions around the subjects the child might find themselves
studying. They will often question what uses these will be to
them, and often get the answer that it is the curriculum that
has been set for them. Even when seeking love there seems to
be protocols that control the process. Nature seems to be
being ignored and society is the ruler of life. Up to this point
in the child's life it has accepted, more or less, how things
appeared to be, and were confirmed as right by the adults, but
now that it is approaching the age of initiation the child senses
that it is being made more responsible for it's choices and it's
actions. The child's nature is to accept the law of Cause and
Effect, and to accept responsibility under that law, but now it
is discovering another law and will question the validity of
that law, the law of society. Social law is imposed through the
conditioning of the child's parents when they too were at this
age. The parents, and other adults just perpetuate this law,
such is their conditioning, and will seek their children to do
the same. Another way this law is imposed is through the
educational system and through the bullying of peers who
already succumbed to the social law. God is not adequately
represented anywhere for the child to relate to, and it's Spirit
gets further buried under it's ego.

The thirteenth year is really, to the child, a coming of age. It
can now belong to the group known as teenagers. It begins to