“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

“By the time” that the Garden of Eden tale reached your biblical stories, the entire picture had already been seen in the light of concepts about good and evil that actually appeared, in those terms, a long time later in man’s development. [...]

Good evening.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(“Good.”)

(11:16 P.M. I’d say that much of Seth’s excellent delivery since break is related to some of his material in the 825th session, including this passage: “I put the word ‘good’ in quotes for now because of your misconceptions about the nature of good and evil, which we will discuss somewhat later.”)

[...] They will see the world in black-and-white terms again, with good and evil clearly delineated in the most simplistic terms, and thus escape a slippery, thematic universe, in which man’s feelings seemed to give him no foothold at all.

[...] Christ’s message was that each man is good inherently, and is an individualized portion of the divine — and yet a civilization based upon that precept has never been attempted. The vast social structures of Christianity were instead based upon man’s “sinful” nature — not the organizations and structures that might allow him to become good, or to obtain the goodness that Christ quite clearly perceived man already possessed.

Good evening.

[...] Your ideas of good and evil were highly polarized. [...]

(To Mack.) First of all, you are protecting the inner self very well and you have a protective attitude toward it which is good. Our friend over here deliberates, which is also good, but he does not deliberate in a dry manner, but creatively. [...]

Now, I bid you all good evening. [...]

[...] You also have a good sense of humor. [...]

In the next chapter, let us consider more closely your ideas about good and evil, the morality of the self, and examine the ways in which your ideas are reflected in your lives.

Good evening.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] It can be told now what it yearned to be told then—that it was indeed good, and not bad or evil, that it could indeed use its curiosity without the threat of abandonment, and that it could trust its own creativity and love of play. [...]

[...] Children want to “be good.” [...] The Sinful Self identification is a particularly unfortunate one, for to “be good” means that the child must consider itself bad or sinful. [...]

Good evening. [...]

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

Fanatics always use ringing rhetoric, and speak in the highest terms of truth, good and evil, and particularly of retribution. [...]

(Pause.) Fanatics exist because of the great gap between an idealized good and an exaggerated version of its opposite. The idealized good is projected into the future, while its exaggerated opposite is seen to pervade the present. [...] Behind all this is the belief that spontaneously the ideal will never be achieved, and that, indeed, on his own man is getting worse and worse in every aspect: How can flawed selves ever hope to spontaneously achieve any good?

[...] “I feel real good, and Seth did well finishing that material,” Jane said. “I feel good about Heroics, too. Before the session I was worried about what good stuff we might get, and whether we could put it in this book or if it would just lay there for years. [...]

Good evening.

[...] The story says that Eve tempted the male, having him eat of the tree of good and evil, or the tree of knowledge. [...]

Good Evening.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] So what happens often in your society when men or women have creative bents, and good minds to boot?

[...] The story says that Eve tempted the male, having him eat of the tree of good and evil, or the tree of knowledge. [...]

Good evening.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] So what often happens in your society when men and women have creative bents, and good minds to boot?

Ideas of good and evil, gods and devils, salvation and damnation, are merely symbols of deeper religious values; cosmic values if you will, that cannot be translated into physical terms.

[...] Behind the frame of good and evil is a far deeper spiritual value. [...]

Now: Good evening.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] Independent agents of good or evil, out to tempt men or save them, as the case may be.

Good evening.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] It will become then more powerful in terms of good. [...]

[...] To that extent also, energy is not neutral, as is often said, to be used for good or evil, for example. [...]

Good evening.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] The more you enjoy life, and your daily moments, the less difficulty you will be in in any area, for your thoughts become naturally pleasant, and naturally attract good to you from Framework 2.

[...] One man, passionately willing, good or evil, can overbalance, literally, a hundred men. [...]

Now, good evening.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] Her eyes had been open a good deal of the time. [...]

Within your system, for the “first time”, in quotes, individualized consciousness is strongly-enough organized to do, in quotes, “good or evil.” [...]

Good evening.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] (Pause.) I believe the woman knows, and wants to see her husband settled in a good physical environment before she leaves. [...]

[...] Death is viewed in terms of value judgments of good and evil and black and white — the annihilation of consciousness being perceived as black, and its resurrection as white.

Now: Good evening —

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

Now: You equate the color white with brilliant consciousness, good, and youth, and the color black with the unconscious, old age and death.

[...] The psyche dwells in a reality so different from the world you usually recognize that there good and evil, as you think of them, are also seen to be as operationally or relatively true as the difference between the perceiver and the object perceived.

[...] “I didn’t feel that I was necessarily with it tonight,” Jane said, although her delivery had moved along well enough, and the material was good. [...]

[...] Good night.” [...]

[...] Some stimuli were to be sought out, and others avoided, and so over a period of time he translated the pleasant and the unpleasant into rough versions of good and evil.

Basically, what made him feel good was good. [...]

I am not here specifically blaming Christianity, for far before its emergence, your ideas (underlined) and beliefs about good and evil [were] far more important in all matters regarding the species than any simple questions of genetic variances, natural selection, or environmental influence. [...]

[...] I bid you a fond good evening.

[...] I bid you both a fond good evening.

[...] Good night.”

[...] When the sessions began, Jane was especially bothered by what she called the trite and popular ideas about reincarnation, mixed up as they were with ideas of good and evil, punishment, etc.

[...] This does not mean that poverty leads to truth, or that suffering is good for the soul. [...]

Give us a good moment. [...]

In their own ways, these are heroes representing the detective who is out to protect good against evil, to set things right. [...]

Good evening (whispering.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

[...] Christ is one of these: in some respects the most ideal detective — in a different context, however — out to save the good and to protect the world from harm. [...]

[...] There is faith in good, but there is also faith in “evil.” [...]

Good evening.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

I hope, as you understand how Framework 2 operates, that you can clearly state your intent: Ruburt’s normal flexibility and good health, and that you will be able to see each improvement as a step in that stated direction. [...]