“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(During break I went over a few questions about the relationships between the three members of the Christ entity — John the Baptist, Jesus Christ, and Paul. [...]

[...] Christ spoke in terms of the father and son because in your terms, at that time, this was the method used — the story he told to explain the relationship between the inner self and the physically-alive individual. [...]

What I have said, of course, applies as much to Buddha as it does to Christ: Both accepted the inner projections and then tried to physically represent these. [...]

[...] In your terms, by the time of Christ, the ego was sure enough of its position so that the projected picture of God could begin to change.

(Jane’s question arose out of material in the 560th session in Chapter Fourteen: She wanted to know the name of the third personality making up the three-part Christ entity that Seth has postulated. [In Chapter Eighteen of Jane’s own book, The Seth Material, Seth gave as members of this entity Christ, of course, and John the Baptist.] I told Jane now that I thought Seth intended to go into this whole matter much more thoroughly later in this book.

[...] The feelings of joy now may lead to images of Christ, Buddha, or the prophets. [...]

(“And the third Christ information?”)

When the race is in deepest stress and faced with great problems, it will call up someone like Christ. [...]

There were three men whose lives became confused in history, and merged, and whose composite history became known as the life of Christ, for example. [...]

[...] One of these is a personality that most stories of Christ refer to.

[...] Christ as you think of him was simply saying that you form your own reality. [...]

[...] (See the 614th session in Chapter Two.) This belief in your society also harks back to the Bible and Christ’s association with the poor rather than the rich.

(Just before the session Jane told me that Seth could give us what she called The Christ Book at any time. [...] Seth told us we could have more on Jerusalem and related events whenever we want it, or have the time, so presumably the Christ Book idea stems from that. [...]

[...] You can have more material on Jerusalem or Christ now, or when you want it. You can have the Christ book when you want it. [...]

[...] He also told me that the man, Christ, was kidnapped by the Essenes. [...] Nor at the time he told me did I know who Christ was.

In the historical time of Christ, I was a man called Millenius, in Rome. [...]

At the time that Christ lived his existence was known to very few, comparatively speaking. [...]

[...] The fourth century encompasses the years A.D. 301 to 400, since our modern computation of time is based upon the assumed date of the birth of Christ. [...]

(Since I knew so little about the time of Christ, it’s taken me a while to do the extra reading necessary so that I could write appropriate session notes. [...]

(The Essene group generally known would be the Jewish sect in the Holy Land during the time of Christ, early in the first century. [...]

[...] Christ, you see, was to deliver the message and John was to prepare the way for it.

[...] They had to appear as men before men, before Christ could proclaim himself as anything beyond the natural man.

[...] You end up with Christs, spacemen, various saints or spirits, or other personality fabrications whose characteristics and abilities are already known.

The Christ image is often used because it so perfectly represents the combination of the grandiose self, as per the all-knowing son of God, and the martyred victim who is crucified precisely because of his lofty position.

The Christ figure represents the exaggerated, idealized version of the inner self that the individual feels incapable of living up to. [...]

[...] But if God cannot be objectified, what about Christ? [...] “When the race is in deepest stress and faced with great problems, it will call forth someone like Christ. [...]

“There were three men whose lives became confused in history and merged, and whose composite history became known as the life of Christ. [...]

[...] One of these contained the personality that most stories of Christ refer to. [...]

CHAPTER
EIGHTEEN:

The God Concept—
The Creation
—The Three Christs

[...] I forget just how those feelings went, but that approximates them, being ashamed of my condition as if for Christ’s sake, they blemished my art, or ashamed because they blemished my work. [...]

[...] Christ, as you understand him historically to be, spoke in parables and symbols. [...] But heaven meant an inner reality for Christ, not an exterior one.

[...] But Christ, my condition is worse than poverty; so—out it goes. [...]

[...] I have here the Christ Book, as well as another Seth book, The Rules of Love: A Seth Book. [...]

[...] Fred also handed me a thick, neatly tied package of brown paper and yellow string—The Christ Book, he said, which was for Jane and me, and for Prentice-Hall. [...]

“It’s inside The Christ Book,” Fred said. [...]

[...] Christ became the Crucified, Judas became the betrayer, though Christ was not crucified and Judas did not betray him. [...]

There is one point I can add here, in connection with the religious drama of Christ and the disciples.

([Gert:] “How then, does the Catholic church come to say that the Pope is the Church instituted by Jesus Christ and it is, therefore, it?”)

[...] It does not think, ah, there is a bad (word missing) in Elmira, New York and, by God and Jesus Christ, we are going to save her for her own sake. [...]

[...] He must be seen in heroic dimensions, while Christ could be shown in divine and human attributes also. [...] If no one had seen Christ, there were pictures of him.

[...] This imaginary personage may say that it is God, or a famous hero from the present or the past, or Jesus Christ, or Mohammed, and the personality involved will be quite certain that such is the case.

[...] They were perfectly sincere people, and I found it arresting to listen to them as they spoke of Jesus Christ, the afterlife, and so forth, with such utter sincerity and conviction. [...]

(Bill remarked that in terms of our existence our Christ was a supernatural being.)

Your Christ had abilities which I still do not have... [...]

[...] (Louder:) What difference can it make to the world if you are a better salesperson, or plumber, or office worker, or car salesman, for Christ’s sake? [...]