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| the spiritual laws, even if only on a subtle, inner level? Where do I lack clarity about | 2 DECISIONS AND TESTS |
| and therefore your feelings too, will undergo a subtle change and you will become more relaxed and | 9 PRAYER AND MEDITATION -- THE LORD'S PRAYER |
| to these highest splendors. These worlds consist of subtle matter of such immeasurable harmony and beauty that | 12 THE ORDER AND DIVERSITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLDS-THE PROCESS OF REINCARNATION |
| not only a physical body, but also various subtle bodies, each representing something different. You also know | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| both create very definite and substantial forms. Each subtle body, as well as the physical body, has | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| reactions show in the aura of the respective subtle body. Each living being has a higher self | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| is the finest and most radiant of the subtle bodies, with the quickest frequency of vibration, because | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| existence. From your perspective, these layers are of subtle matter which you cannot see with your physical | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| However, not all spirits can see all the subtle bodies of a creature; only those can who | 14 THE HIGHER SELF, THE LOWER SELF, AND THE MASK |
| You think all life in the beyond is subtle matter, but this is not so. Any difference | 16 SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT -- WILLPOWER |
| They are made unconscious and their fluids and subtle bodies are dissolved and put through a process | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| dissolved and put through a process where new subtle bodies can form around the original divine spark | 17 THE CALL -- DAILY REVIEW |
| certain course in one's life, there are many subtle inner will currents one should become aware of | 18 FREE WILL |
| out of your brain. There is a very subtle and important difference in this. I know that | 18 FREE WILL |
| your body; it is part, however, of your subtle bodies which live on. And whatever your personality | 18 FREE WILL |
| organ is damaged, which would affect the corresponding subtle body. I think most of you know that | 21 THE FALL |
| all thinking takes place in one of the subtle bodies, just as all feeling is in another | 21 THE FALL |
| bodies, just as all feeling is in another subtle body. The subtle bodies, as development proceeds, will | 21 THE FALL |
| all feeling is in another subtle body. The subtle bodies, as development proceeds, will integrate and eventually | 21 THE FALL |
| have integrated into the last, ultimate and eternal subtle body. Until this is accomplished, there is division | 21 THE FALL |
| each function belonging to a special layer or subtle body. The physical layer has as its sole | 21 THE FALL |
| lives eternally. The soul is one of the subtle bodies that will, eventually, disintegrate. Is that clear | 21 THE FALL |
| the universe is in various degrees dense or subtle. The lowest is of the thickest or heaviest | 23 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| all this should exist in spirit or in subtle matter -- are only an expression of the | 24 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| fear in your heart you do harm in subtle ways that are not obvious, but are nevertheless | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| you violate the law of brotherhood in some subtle way. Not isolating yourself requires a certain amount | 26 FINDING ONE'S FAULTS |
| often have the wrong attitude; in a very subtle way they think if they are trying to | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| gratified. So you can see the connection. These subtle, smoldering fears are infinitely more frequent and also | 27 ESCAPE POSSIBLE ALSO ON THE PATH |
| So you create a mask self. In some subtle way, you become a fake. And that, in | 31 SHAME |
| you try the other way, the way of subtle deception, the deeper your dilemma will be. You | 31 SHAME |
| easily recognizable from the outside. It is something subtle within that only you yourself can find, by | 31 SHAME |
| loneliness and you go on pretending in some subtle way. The wrong kind of shame also violates | 31 SHAME |
| easy to find out the truth. These are subtle and hidden emotions, and only the most severe | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| forms exist in actual fact. They exist in subtle matter. On the path, you find your way | 36 PRAYER |
| a definite change in the organism of your subtle bodies, as well as eventually in your physical | 36 PRAYER |
| are made according to previous existences; how the subtle bodies surrounding the physical vehicle of the incarnate | 38 IMAGES |
| the time the emotional reactions are much more subtle and complicated. I cannot stress enough that you | 38 IMAGES |
| understand what I mean. It is a very subtle and important matter. Do not leave the newly-found | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| only your physical body disintegrates but the outer subtle body as well at some later time. None | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| should bring out the inner person. The inner subtle bodies remain. These are the very layers you | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| this knowledge will be gone after the outer subtle body disintegrates. But if you use it to | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| that in spirit both are concrete forms of subtle matter. The way we see it, feelings are | 45 THE CONFLICT BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES |
| same rebellious feelings do exist there, too, in subtle ways, in the subconscious. These produce in the | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| not necessarily always overtly, but perhaps in more subtle ways. The law upholders, in order to safeguard | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| very difficult subject because it is so very subtle in nature. Each one of you can find | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| why you have reacted so adversely to certain subtle manifestations of the wrong kind of authority in | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| strengthen your power to discriminate in a very subtle way -- not intellectually, but intuitively. Now, as | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| with the other person who revolts in some subtle way you may only sense -- while you | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| so quite unconsciously. This balance is very, very subtle, my friends, and it has to be found | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| not only extremely difficult to squeeze these very subtle concepts into human language, but also that it | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| know that thoughts and feelings create forms of subtle matter which are of a substance every bit | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| every human being, only in a much more subtle way. And if you become sensitive, if you | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| said. I pointed out a hidden danger, a subtle danger. If you are truly desirous of making | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| a person's aura, that which emanates from the subtle bodies and penetrates the physical body. It reflects | 47 THE WALL WITHIN |
| And do not forget another thing, that the subtle changes in the personality manifest first inside, so | 48 THE LIFE FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE |
| is a world of difference, although fine and subtle, between the two types of guilt I have | 49 OBSTACLES ON THE PATH: OLD STUFF, WRONG GUILT, AND WHO, ME? |
| obvious, at other times it is much more subtle and hidden. What people say when they indulge | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| have not only a physical body, but several subtle bodies. Each subtle body represents a certain aspect | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| a physical body, but several subtle bodies. Each subtle body represents a certain aspect of the human | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| The higher your development, the more of these subtle bodies dissolve, until finally the only original spirit | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| the only original spirit body remains. The various subtle bodies differ in degree of density. The densest | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| would all fall into the same category of subtle matter. Actually it is not so. There is | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| more see it than you can see real subtle matter, subtler than your own. You could walk | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| revitalization? ANSWER: It leaves temporarily. There are various subtle bodies that leave the physical body in different | 50 THE VICIOUS CIRCLE |
| body disintegrates. And after that one of the subtle bodies does. Is that the etheric or the | 51 IMPORTANCE OF FORMING INDEPENDENT OPINIONS |
| you believe that they are true. In a subtle way, this is sometimes the case. Realize that | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| comes to words, their meaning can often be subtle and confusing. As you all know from your | 52 THE GOD-IMAGE |
| of self-love. Until you discover all the hidden, subtle emotions you cannot go further. But after you | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| rare. I want to look at the more subtle region of the same current which is much | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| life, with her manner of living. This is subtle, and is easily confused with the feeling of | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| from life, shortchanging it, cheating it in a subtle way with your inner attitude. This is the | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| punish. This can happen in very hidden and subtle ways. It does not necessarily show in actions | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| live it out just the same in other subtle little reactions? Instead of indulging in the death | 53 SELF-LOVE |
| you different benefits of a higher and more subtle nature. Even as far as this proof is | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| her thought process which I influence through her subtle bodies. Thank you. QUESTION: Tell me please, why | 54 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| levels and in all forms, from the most subtle to the coarsest. They exist in their pure | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| times, when the connection is more indirect and subtle and not so easily noticeable. You have found | 55 THREE COSMIC PRINCIPLES: THE EXPANDING, THE RESTRICTING, AND THE STATIC PRINCIPLES |
| mind and soul where the deviations are very subtle and unobtrusive. You may have a perfectly legitimate | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| to others -- may they be ever so subtle -- destructive currents result. These destructive currents either | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| others, even if it exists only in a subtle way, suffices to twist your motives and make | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| have followed me so far will know the subtle and fine difference. Declaring yourself responsible for your | 56 CAPACITY TO WISH -- HEALTHY AND UNHEALTHY MOTIVES IN DESIRE |
| the same trend is more hidden and more subtle. Rather, it is a question of the degree | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| of the world is on the other. Many subtle emotions will, upon analysis, reveal to you that | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| sell your soul. This may happen in many subtle ways, and I venture to say that there | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| your bondage to public opinion, no matter how subtle. Then find, further, why you need the dependency | 57 THE MASS IMAGE OF SELF-IMPORTANCE |
| of how you go on and on in subtle, hidden ways, provoking people and setting up negative | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| you have provoked all this in ever so subtle ways, you will also be able to find | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| for instance, the provocation itself in such a subtle way that this, too, escapes your attention. Or | 58 THE DESIRE FOR HAPPINESS AND THE DESIRE FOR UNHAPPINESS |
| can face constructively. I refer only to the subtle little fears in your soul, to the frustration | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| you discover your own contribution, no matter how subtle, as you go through an unwelcome experience, you | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| may manifest only in a very hidden and subtle way. Obviously, the illusion that you must never | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| or, expressed in a different way, of various subtle bodies. The level on which you give out | 60 THE ABYSS OF ILLUSION -- FREEDOM AND SELF-RESPONSIBILITY |
| between the outer and obvious dishonesty and the subtle inner one. QUESTION: I was wondering whether it | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and effect in such a case. In more subtle, hidden and unconscious ways, the same thing holds | 61 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| -- although the matter is an infinitely more subtle quality, and its frequency rate infinitely higher. Only | 63 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| it is more important than the little, inner, subtle rights or wrongs in your private lives. But | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| private lives. But you ignore that with these subtle private undercurrents you contribute to the so-called big | 65 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| react and behave. These reactions are often quite subtle. Such subtleties are at work when you are | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| Thus, you ally yourself in an ever so subtle way with the rejecter and, together with him | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| a weakness that deserves contempt. The betrayal is subtle, but it is at the same time the | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| Perhaps you continue the betrayal in the same subtle way as you betrayed the parent. Whenever you | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| role of the rejecting parent. Examine your most subtle and elusive emotions. Go behind the sometimes valid | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| self. The act of betrayal is so very subtle, my dear friends, that you cannot put your | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| not really your own. Again, this is a subtle thing. Only in your personal work can you | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| term phony. No, it is again much more subtle than that. It is a part of your | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| of the original and real personality. In a subtle way, you dramatize yourself and your love all | 66 SHAME OF THE HIGHER SELF |
| subject at all times holds on to the subtle bodies, usually because of an unknown fear. If | 67 QUESTION AND ANSWERS |
| main activity. It may be something small and subtle, not easily discovered because of its apparent insignificance | 68 SUPPRESSION OF POSITIVE AND CREATIVE TENDENCIES - THOUGHT PROCESSES |
| with it. But the everyday reactions, the many subtle little ways in which your emotions express themselves | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| out to prove. You will also detect that subtle little tendency which strives for conformity with others | 69 THE FOLLY OF WATCHING FOR RESULTS WHILE ON THE PATH; THE VALID DESIRE TO BE LOVED |
| analyzing their significance. We also discussed that inner, subtle, and very devious current with which you try | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your substitute emotions which find gratification through the subtle current of forcing others to love you; 2 | 70 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| your desire can be fulfilled. This process is subtle and happens in many different forms. For instance | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| his or her own way. All this is subtle, my friends, so do not be deceived by | 71 REALITY AND ILLUSION CONCENTRATION EXERCISES |
| you as you learn to give up your subtle forcing current. You will feel as though a | 72 THE FEAR OF LOVING |
| wanted and needed. How could you draw the subtle, fine borderline distinction between real affection and pseudo-affection | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| you seek the parents again -- in a subtle way that is not always easy to detect | 73 COMPULSION TO RECREATE AND OVERCOME CHILDHOOD HURTS |
| the course of this work, you may find subtle inhibitions which invariably affect the very part of | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| short in some way, perhaps in a very subtle inner way -- you will gain deep insights | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| will automatically come. Such enrichment is often very subtle; perhaps a seed can be sown, and the | 74 CONFUSIONS AND HAZY MOTIVATIONS |
| your outer life. The transition is much more subtle than that. Once you begin to recognize the | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| of self- responsibility, even if only on a subtle inner level; (3) guilt: the feeling of I | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| separate state is not clearly recognized as the subtle and unconscious factor it is. The incompatibility creates | 75 THE GREAT TRANSITION IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT FROM ISOLATION TO UNION |
| of Man, He wanted to indicate in a subtle way, as He often did, that His birth | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| page, at least so far as the outer subtle body is concerned. All these influences that later | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| the Spirit World. The latter is infinitely more subtle and has a much wider horizon than the | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| how is it with local anesthesia? Do the subtle bodies leave that particular area of the physical | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| unconsciousness, means that one or several of the subtle bodies leave the physical body. The etheric double | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| double, as it is often called, is the subtle body most similar to the physical one. It | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| similar to the physical one. It is of subtle matter, but of a much coarser texture than | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| of a much coarser texture than the other subtle bodies. After death, this etheric double disintegrates -- | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| If sleep is very deep, other layers or subtle bodies may be slightly drawn out too, but | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| but not in all trance states. QUESTION: What subtle bodies remain in a state of very deep | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| of very deep anesthesia? ANSWER: Then all the subtle bodies are drawn out, but, of course, they | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| a cord, or elastic spiral-like band, also of subtle matter. This cord is not severed. The connection | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| unconsciousness is ended, the band will bring the subtle bodies back. When this cord is severed, death | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| In local anesthesia, the respective organ of the subtle body will remove itself from the physical body | 76 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (Compiled from Private Sessions and Earlier Lectures) |
| you give forth, no matter how hidden or subtle, is returned to you. And you deeply feel | 78 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| observed as they function in the most hidden, subtle and unobtrusive ways, one slips back inadvertently. However | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| such and such. This entire process is so subtle and most of the time so hidden that | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| you want so much. Often this is a subtle thing indeed, but nevertheless, you all have similar | 79 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| a wall around you, be it ever so subtle. If you let go of both extremes, out | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| such measure is the submissiveness -- sometimes very subtle -- with which you sell your soul in | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| cannot find the inner truth about such a subtle and elusive matter if you merely discuss it | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| treatment. Could that damage the psyche and the subtle bodies? ANSWER: Yes, it does damage, and does | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| do, damage parts of the human psyche and subtle bodies. QUESTION: I saw in the last few | 80 COOPERATION, COMMUNICATION, UNION |
| the world and these conditions in ever so subtle but nonetheless decisive ways. As you focus on | 81 CONFLICTS IN THE WORLD OF DUALITY |
| unless you become fully aware of the devious, subtle, unconscious ways in which this idealized self-image exists | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| person might condone cruelty in an insidious and subtle way. Certain things one can learn only by | 83 THE IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE |
| contained in it. These emotional reactions are so subtle and elusive, however, and so covered up by | 84 LOVE, POWER, SERENITY AS DIVINE ATTRIBUTES AND AS DISTORTIONS |
| but greedily, compulsively. These soul movements are very subtle. Only this work can bring them into your | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| almost exclusively on yourself. Again, this process is subtle and hard to detect. Even though, theoretically, you | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| look away from it because it is so subtle and so easily camouflaged. The less you are | 85 DISTORTIONS OF THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION |
| a person actively withdraws. It may be more subtle; you may unconsciously sabotage yourself and then project | 86 THE INSTINCTS OF SELF-PRESERVATION AND PROCREATION IN CONFLICT |
| of the process I just described. These are subtle processes and when explained in crude language they | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| occult science that there is not just one subtle body, but several. Actually, the division goes further | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| of matter and the substantial part of the subtle bodies. That is why you always feel reborn | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| feelings, and motives. This may occur through the subtle coloring of self-deception, or it may be crass | 87 THE NEXT PHASE ON THE PATH; QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| dependency, helplessness, and a humiliating, though often very subtle, tendency to appease. This has the additional crippling | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| Both crude types -- often appearing in more subtle mixtures and combinations -- represent, of course, psychological | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| an equally false countermeasure. So, find in what subtle, deeply hidden recesses of your soul you expect | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| be able to change. You must find these subtle and unobtrusive emotional reactions. They are neither obvious | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| completely unconscious. They are there but they are subtle, and you are so used to them that | 88 RELIGION: TRUE AND FALSE |
| now see where this leads to. If such subtle hidden emotions can be detected, it will alleviate | 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION |
| tendencies. This moralizing tendency may exist in many subtle forms, even in those who appear outwardly quite | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| anything but very crass issues, the borderlines become subtle and hazy. The issue is no longer capable | 90 MORALIZING -- DISPROPORTIONATE REACTIONS -- NEEDS |
| one's efforts, courage, and humility. There is a subtle but important difference in this outlook. In addition | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| unnoticed by anyone else. Real improvements are often subtle. QUESTION: My question has already been answered in | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| the repetition. You repeat it in such a subtle way, perhaps in a slightly different way, that | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| not affiliated with any religion. It is a subtle and pervasive poison. QUESTION: I have noticed that | 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
| and less frequent. Moreover, as you find the subtle point of relinquishing, you will no longer be | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| in prayer. This is a very deep and subtle thing. If you pray and find the hidden | 92 REPRESSED NEEDS - RELINQUISHING BLIND NEEDS - PRIMARY AND SECONDARY REACTIONS |
| very same arrogance and superiority. The difference is subtle, but very distinct. While you still find yourself | 93 THE LINK BETWEEN THE MAIN IMAGE, REPRESSED NEEDS, AND DEFENSES |