“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Involved in her feelings, of course, are her own youthful conflicts with the Roman Catholic Church; these led to her abandoning organized religion by the time she was 18. [...]

[...] The Sinful Self is quite as evident there as it is in the Catholic Church. [...]

Now, a connection with a church. [...]

To some extent the churches as well as the scientists are responsible, but priests and scientists are not some foreign people, thrust upon you. [...]

[...] The organized church feared it. [...]

(In the same average voice she began: “In the shadow of the image organized religion [at the same time my hands want to fly up], after it has been set up, has always been afraid of revelationary knowledge; to protect itself; and the Catholic Church in particular cast it in the form of a devil, which I was taught: the sin of pride, wanting to learn.”

[...] He emphasizes that “truth” is not found by going from teacher to teacher, church to church, or discipline to discipline, but by looking within the self. [...]

(Long pause.) He used dogma in a mystical manner, only to discover, however, that the church’s mysticism had no place to go: it was in its fashion dead-ended. [...]

[...] He was also the sexton of a small church, the Church of England. [...]

[...] It is very easy for such persons “to become [religiously] converted” after such episodes (as Watergate), lining themselves up once more on the side of good, searching for “the power of fellowship,” turning to church rather than government, hearing in one way or another the voice of God.

[...] Churches wanted sinners galore, but shied away from saints, or any extravagant behavior that did not speak of man’s duplicity. [...]

[...] It could become as secondary to life as, say, the Roman Catholic Church is now, losing its hold upon world dominance, losing its claim of being the one official arbiter of reality.

[...] The panic has to do with many issues involving Ruburt’s earlier experience, particularly with his mother and the church when he was a very young person, very determined to survive in life, and trying to learn what kinds of behavior added to or threatened that survival. [...]

[...] He played church and state against each other, made an ass of the Pope whenever he could, and was deeply involved in the social, political, and religious fervor of those days. [...]

[...] His connection also here—keep this separately from mine—is of the old house used by the Christian Science church.

[...] These are Jane’s impressions, as Seth noted, and referred to my niece’s marriage, and the Christian Science Church.

[...] It was no coincidence that Father Traynor used to read Don Juan of Austria (in the Catholic Church the young Jane attended), for they knew each other at that time.

[...] Their rituals were as strict as they are in your church and they were as religious as they followed them. [...]

[...] Jane and I attended a jazz mass presented by Joe Masters in the Presbyterian Church, in Horseheads, just north of Elmira, NY, where we live. [...]

[...] We haven’t been to a church in years, except to attend weddings or funerals. [...]

[...] At the same time his church may tell him to turn the other cheek when he is upset, and to be kind, gentle and understanding.