“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

There is one commandment above all, in practical terms — a Christian commandment that can be used as a yardstick. [...]

[...] It represented, to him, something quite different than the Christian fish you wear around your neck (to Joel). [...]

“Ruburt found great comfort in the church as a young person, for if it created within its members the image of a sinful self, it also of course provided a steady system of treatment—a series of rituals that gave the individual some sense of hope the sinful self could be redeemed, as in the framework of most of Christianity, through adherence to certain segments of Christian dogma.

We had a hard time believing him when Seth told us the very next evening, on April 23, that Jane’s sinful self thinks her physical symptoms are necessary “for the personality’s own good”; that that self has no conception that its policies have become self-defeating; that, following Catholic and non-Catholic Christianity, it believes that suffering is good for the soul; that the idea of the flesh itself being graced is, to it, blasphemous.

[...] The repressive nature of Christian thought in the Middle Ages, for example, is well known. [...]

“Behind such ideas is the central point of Christianity, or one of them at least: that earthly man is a sinful creature. [...]

[...] The looting carried on in the name of the Christian God would indeed make the pagans blush.

The reasoning mind, as you have used it thus far, roughly (underlined) since the birth of Christianity, has used—instead of used, confined—has confined its reasoning abilities to a very narrow spectrum of reality. [...]

[...] Later, when the Christians were being persecuted, there were many safeguards taken — particularly by those who believed they had a responsibility to live long enough to see the new creed find fertile ground.

[...] Christians may find the body deplorable, thinking that the soul descended into it — “descent” automatically meaning the change from a higher or better condition to one that is worse.

[...] These are the Christian versions; but a certain fanaticism often goes with them that I would find most distasteful. [...]

[...] As Ruburt knows she was a Christian Scientist and a reader. [...]

The myth of God, as given in Christian theology, is too clearly seen by the intelligent adolescent to have evolved and changed from the Old Testament to the New Testament.

The Christians, generally speaking, did not want Roman converts. [...]

[...] You are familiar I am sure with the old religious Christian dictum that God always was and always will be, and this is considered a religious mystery. [...]

[...] I am supposed to be a teacher and I have felt a conflict since I have read Ruburt’s book and I have delved into Christian Science.”)

[...] He was only a Christian once, the last time, and otherwise was paganistic but always in ways that enabled him to feel close to the earth. [...]

“There is no personal God-individual in Christian terms,” Seth says, “and yet you do have access to a portion of All That Is, a portion highly attuned to you. [...]

[...] I’m sure that at the time Jane had no conscious knowledge about Egyptian, Hebrew, or even Christian origins or uses connected with the name, Seth.

[...] Rev. Lowe, as I’ll call him, publishes a national newsletter which discusses the psychic elements of Christianity. [...]

4. The Crusades took place mainly during the 12th and 13th centuries, and consisted of a number of military expeditions organized by Christians to recover the Holy Land from the Moslems.

[...] [Islam means “peace,” by the way.] The force of Iran’s upheaval makes the growing Christian fundamentalist movement in the United States seem tame indeed by comparison; therefore I want to concentrate upon the Iranian dilemma rather than the religious conflicts in our own country.

[...] According to Judaism and Christianity, among many religions, man could seek forgiveness and salvation; he had a soul. After Darwin, he learned that even his physical presence on earth was an accident of nature. [...]