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TOMAS: It is a good [[question]] and it is also a good qualifier, Hestor, that you have added. There are sometimes [[limitations]] based on damage, but I will set that aside and address the greater subject of normal-minded, and I will not go on at length, for the bottom line is that it is [[necessary]] that an [[individual]] have sufficient mental capacity to make those [[decisions]] which will [[assure]] his eternal [[survival]]. That is to say, can they make those decisions which will give birth to [[the soul]] and can they then assist in the development of the [[soul]] by those decisions that can only be made by a normal mind?

TOMAS: It is a good [[question]] and it is also a good qualifier, Hestor, that you have added. There are sometimes [[limitations]] based on damage, but I will set that aside and address the greater subject of normal-minded, and I will not go on at length, for the bottom line is that it is [[necessary]] that an [[individual]] have sufficient mental capacity to make those [[decisions]] which will [[assure]] his eternal [[survival]]. That is to say, can they make those decisions which will give birth to [[the soul]] and can they then assist in the development of the [[soul]] by those decisions that can only be made by a normal mind?

Obviously it does not limit itself to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.Q. I.Q.] You could say that someone with an exceptionally high I.Q. was not of normal mind, and by the same token, there are some who are considered "slow" who are not in the normal range of I.Q. but who are capable of making [[soulful]] and meaningful [[decisions]] regarding their survival. There are those who have had a [[normal]] [[mind]] and have made requisite [[decisions]] but due to [[accident]] or [[disease]] or sustained fever, have lost the capacity to make decisions, and that would be constituting a sub-normal mind. The point being, the [[being]] must be able to make soul-[[ascending]] [[decisions]].

Obviously it does not limit itself to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.Q. I.Q.] You could say that someone with an exceptionally high I.Q. was not of normal mind, and by the same token, there are some who are considered "slow" who are not in the normal range of I.Q. but who are capable of making [[soulful]] and meaningful [[decisions]] regarding their survival. There are those who have had a [[normal]] [[mind]] and have made requisite [[decisions]] but due to [[accident]] or [[disease]] or sustained fever, have lost the capacity to make decisions, and that would be constituting a sub-normal mind. The point being, the [[being]] must be able to make soul-[[ascending]] [[decisions]].

Elizabeth: Thank you. That's a good bell-weather there: the [[ability]] to make [[decisions]]. Evidently that's a big part of this [[question]] and thank you very much for answering the question so roundly. And I think that Anne had something she might put to a [[group]] question.

Elizabeth: Thank you. That's a good bell-weather there: the [[ability]] to make [[decisions]]. Evidently that's a big part of this [[question]] and thank you very much for answering the question so roundly. And I think that Anne had something she might put to a [[group]] question.

Elizabeth: Thank you very much. I think that helps a lot. To know that you can do this. I guess I've had this [[question]] for a lot of years and tended to want to maybe play down [[the Book]] because of it, but now I'm into a [[different]] [[stage]], now that you've helped me along.

Elizabeth: Thank you very much. I think that helps a lot. To know that you can do this. I guess I've had this [[question]] for a lot of years and tended to want to maybe play down [[the Book]] because of it, but now I'm into a [[different]] [[stage]], now that you've helped me along.

TOMAS: I am glad I could help. I have some [[understanding]] of the bushel that [[the Book]] was under for awhile, inasmuch as it was [http://urantiabook.org/archive/history/Michael_Complaint_5-16-00.htm restrained by copyright], and this was indeed [[necessary]]. And yet the door has opened and it is not as it was. It is still probably not the kind of book that ought to be advertised on the television, but it is certainly more open, and indeed, if we are to touch base with these [[hungry]] [[hearts]], these spirit [[seekers]] who are out there willy-nilly searching, finding, discarding, searching more, it would behoove us to be in the thick of things and not sitting off on our [[pedestal]] waiting for them to stumble and fall and grovel to the [[truth]]. Right?

TOMAS: I am glad I could help. I have some [[understanding]] of the bushel that [[the Book]] was under for awhile, inasmuch as it was [https://urantiabook.org/archive/history/Michael_Complaint_5-16-00.htm restrained by copyright], and this was indeed [[necessary]]. And yet the door has opened and it is not as it was. It is still probably not the kind of book that ought to be advertised on the television, but it is certainly more open, and indeed, if we are to touch base with these [[hungry]] [[hearts]], these spirit [[seekers]] who are out there willy-nilly searching, finding, discarding, searching more, it would behoove us to be in the thick of things and not sitting off on our [[pedestal]] waiting for them to stumble and fall and grovel to the [[truth]]. Right?

Elizabeth: That's true.

Elizabeth: That's true.