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(A note by R.F.B.: Seth was often pretty outspoken in Mass Events when he discussed our medical beliefs and practices, and the unfortunate results they sometimes bring about. At the same time he tempered his ideas with passages like this one, from the 870th session for Chapter 10.)

Whenever you can give it, then, reassurance with tempered sympathy.

(Softly amused:) As a matter of fact — in case you may think sometimes that I am not fully aware of your mores — I did indeed temper many of my remarks in Mass Events on several subjects, so that the book would not be found too objectionable in the context of your times. [...]

(We laughed again when we considered that Seth had tempered some of his material for Mass Events. [...]

His temper when aroused was very great however and he retaliated instantly. [...] The old stormy temper is now seen in Ruburt’s deep grudges. [...]

[...] In past lives he was never temperate, neither in a physical sense, emotionally or intellectually. [...]

[...] Many personalities prefer rebirth in pleasant temperate or warm climates. [...]

[...] They tempered others, but now he should become aware of his own natural flow, and follow it.

[...] As an infant and a young child he had a strong temper, which terrified him, and he indulged in childish tantrums. [...]

[...] He held them back in pure terror of the consequences, for suddenly the violent-tempered mother was immobile. [...]

[...] However your annoyance can be tempered with somewhat more understanding, and this in itself will tend to minimize their occurrence. [...]

[...] If you confuse the issues you try to temper your creativity (to gain approval, etc.) which can dilute the work; or you set up protective measures to protect yourself against the worlds disapproval or scorn.

He tempers the bitterness with understanding more than he realizes however, and because of his particular sense of right and wrong, he overly blames himself for what bitterness he has. [...]

[...] His rigidity of attitude resulted in a trend for self-destruction, tempered it is true, but dangerous. [...]

Now he is free to appreciate and use the energy shown to him by his mother in condensed dramatic fashion, tempered and freed by the free-flowing air of the father, and the physical mobility and sense of exploration that he represented.

The Christian-Science background with the father was also important, for it was this inner belief of the father that did sustain him, and that inclination of the father and his mother (Mattie) that Ruburt chose in his background to temper his own mother’s beliefs and lead him in our direction. [...]

You therefore would protect him from the results of his own spontaneity, carried too far, for he never thought in terms of a spontaneity tempered by self-discipline. [...]

[...] (Pause.) A change of environment would be good, not in an overly permissive atmosphere but one in which some personal freedom is tempered with the expectation of definite achievement of some kind. [...]

You would have an individual who displayed within himself [or herself] all of those great abilities known to the race, fulfilled according to his own unique temper — the artist, mathematician, athlete, the inventor — all the extraordinary qualities of creaturedom; the emotional realities would be used to their capacity, and any of the racial qualities or characteristics of the species would be given their complete freedom.

[...] (Pause.) Entirely different temperments, but very close. [...]

[...] With your help, he has tried to temper some of these.

[...] He feared his mother far more, however, and he tried to temper his own behavior, to ally the intuitions and the intellect or will.

[...] Many of their health problems will deal with eruptions — interior ulcers, skin eruptions, or in very definite mental and emotional eruptions, and great outbursts of force and temper all the more noticeable because of the usual disciplined patterns of behavior.

[...] The will, again, operates according to the personality’s beliefs about reality, so its desires are sometimes tempered as those beliefs change. [...]

[...] Jane chose circumstances this life to test own patience, to compensate earlier temper. [...]

[...] The very few times early in our marriage when I would lose my temper, he would absolutely infuriate me by saying softly, with a smirk, “Temper, temper!” and so I would clam up.)

[...] The lines between imaginative and physical experience have blurred for you, and of course they have also become tempered by other beliefs and the experiences that those beliefs then engender.

[...] It meant that you understood yourselves and the temper of the times, and understood the rhythms of your own growth, even if consciously you may have railed against the conditions and poor sales.

[...] The tension between the two leads him to temper aggressiveness with creativity, or to use aggressiveness creatively.