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was simply your imagination that didn't work But certainly identification wouldn't be useful in any wayMISS W I should like to ask whether indirect thinking about a thingcan sometimes be more help than thinking about a direct thing Forinstance, when I come to these lectures, certain things I think Iunderstand and take in, but there seems a lack of connection betweenmy understanding and being able to give any idea of what hashappened at the lecture when I meet the person who introduced meafterwards It isn't that I have forgotten it butMR O No, that is a little different You must understand first of allthat you mustn't say anything of what happens in these lectures Why?Because you cannot That is taken into account, and by this rule youare made free of useless attempts to say what you cannot say It is onething to understand for oneself, and another thing to explain And thisthat you call understanding will change and grow Different thingswill connect together Now suppose you understand each thing separately,after some time you will understand them together And thenyou will come to a certain moment when you will be able to speakabout it You will understand enoughMISS C Is it no help to discuss afterwards?MR O Yes, it is very useful Sometimes it is useful—sometimes it iseven worse than no helpMR M Are essence and personality different hydrogens?MR O No, hydrogens don't enter here You had better wait aboutthat It is quite a different idea You cannot put it in the scale ofhydrogens Later you will see that you can, in a certain way Notessence and personality, because essence can be different, but in acertain way it can be connected with hydrogens, only we ha\ en't cometo that yetMISS L You said impressions vary according to centres Would yousay more about it?MR o Yes, certainly, we will come to thatYou see, centres work with certain hy drogens For instance, intellectual centre works with hydrogen 48, instinctive and moving with 24Ordinary emotional centre doesn't differ greatly from instinctive andmoving, but higher emotional centre works with hydrogen 12, andhigher mental with hydrogen 6 That is four degrees of impressionsWell now I will speak about one diagram This Table of Hydrogens