“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Give us a moment. (“Yes.” Pause at 10:31.) Chapter Thirteen. I want this done in a certain way — the heading, “A State of Grace,” written thusly (with horizontal gestures), then a line drawn down … and under it, “Health” … and under that, “Wealth” …

You were born into a state of grace, therefore. [...] You will die in a state of grace whether or not special words are spoken for you, or water or oil is poured upon your head. [...] You cannot “fall out of” grace, nor can it be taken from you.

Love perceives the grace in another. Like natural guilt, the state of grace is unconscious in the animals. [...]

The splendid biological acceptance of life could not be thrust or forced upon his emerging consciousness, so to be effective, efficient, to emerge in the new focus of awareness, grace had to expand from the life of the tissue to that of the feelings, thoughts and mental processes. Grace became the handmaiden of natural guilt, then.

Man became aware of his state of grace when he lived within the dimensions of his consciousness as it was turned toward his new world of freedom. When he did not violate, he was aware of his own grace. [...]

NATURAL GRACE, THE FRAMEWORKS OF CREATIVITY, AND THE HEALTH OF YOUR BODY AND MIND.

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Chapter Nine: “Natural Grace, the Frameworks of Creativity, and the Health of Your Body and Mind. [...]

Thus far I have rather frequently mentioned the state of grace (in the 636th session in Chapter Nine, for instance), because while it has many dimensions it is, practically speaking, the cause of your sense of well-being and accomplishment. [...] Each of you may put the following in your own terms, but often it may seem as if your conscience tells you that you have “fallen out of grace,” and that some inner, mysterious, joyous sense of support no longer sustains you. [...]

GRACE, CONSCIENCE, AND YOUR DAILY EXPERIENCE

[...] We are beginning the next chapter and the heading is: “Grace, Conscience, and Your Daily Experience.”

[...] It is quite earnest in its own desire to “be good,” or to feel a sense of grace in its being, so it does understand that kind of purpose. [...]

(9:38.) The ideas of the flesh itself being graced also seemed quite blasphemous then to the Sinful Self. [...]

[...] Its motivation is to feel at one with a state of grace, at one with its place in the universe. [...]

[...] My feelings toward the Sinful Self were certainly not charitable, nor was I about to concede it a state of grace in view of its damaging actions, even if Jane has ignored it and shut off communication. [...]

[...] The natural self operates within a state of grace, by whatever name, a state that allows for spontaneity, and implies self-trust. Most religious concepts, unfortunately, regardless of the original intentions behind them, end up by dividing man from his own sense of grace—his sense of rightness within the universe, and the individual will do almost anything to gain back that sense, for it is highly vital. [...]

(9:00.) His Sinful Self therefore tried to restate its position in order to right the situation, but its reasoning, again, was that a sense of grace was dependent upon the prior admission of a sinful reality. [...]

[...] so bright!
For we are the spark that flutters in space,
Consuming an eternity of a moment’s grace,
For today is tomorrow, and present, past.
Nothing exists, and everything will last.

[...] In one way, a state of grace or illumination happens where there is the greatest poised balance of the conscious mind with other levels of the psyche and body — a biological and spiritual recognition of the individual’s wholeness within himself and his relationship with the universe at large.

(9:45.) When your body and mind are working together then the relationship between the two goes smoothly, and their natural therapeutic systems place you in a state of health and grace. [...]

[...] Here I merely want to point out some of the natural doorways to self-illumination and states of grace. [...]

[...] Any of these natural healing methods can even lead beyond feelings of well-being and strength, physical health and vitality, to those sublime experiences of illumination and grace.

[...] It reinforces the animals’ sense of grace, in terms mentioned earlier in this book. [...]

[...] Its sense of grace is built-in. [...]

If you misinterpret the myths, then you may believe that man has fallen from grace and that his very creaturehood is cursed, in which case you will not trust your body or allow it its “natural” pattern of self-therapy.

[...] I told you earlier (in the 636th session in Chapter Nine) that you cannot fall out of a state of grace. [...]

“… you are a part of nature, and that is your saving grace—that no matter how you try to leave that framework you exist within it, so that you communicate with earth at other levels, even if you refuse to be aware of that communication. [...]

[...] Grace gave John sales figures for Seth Speaks which are much too low, so we really have little idea of how the book is selling, judging by those. Actually, Grace told Jane last week, and John this week, that the book is “a smashing success,” whatever that means, and is in its sixth printing. [...]

(A hassle began developing last Thursday, involving Pat Golbitz at Pocket Books, Grace Bechtold at Bantam, and Tam, John Nelson, and Jane at Prentice-Hall. [...]

[...] Both John and Grace are upset also because Pocket Books thought about using the same photo of Jane on the cover of their book—The Coming of Seth—that Bantam had used on the cover of their issue of Seth Speaks.)

Now: particularly, tell him not to become impatient, to proceed as he is, trusting his inclinations: and most of all trusting the validity on and the grace of his being.

(Pause at 9:47.) If you affirm the basic grace of your being, then this will automatically weaken the beliefs you have that are contrary to that principle. [...]

[...] And again, it does not mean that you must smile constantly, but that you affirm your validity and grace within the dimensions of your creaturehood.

Ruburt and Joseph have both worked with the nature of creativity, and from an early age each of them sought for answers — but most of all they trusted the destiny and grace of their beings.

[...] It is a natural grace, characteristic of consciousness of any kind. [...]

I want to discuss the state of grace in some detail and in different ways throughout this book. [...] The psychologists hoped to bring about a cure for various emotional difficulties, to literally introduce a “state of grace.” [...]

(The session came about because Ron B. and his wife, Grace, members of ESP class, requested help with a problem involving their family. [...]

(Ron’s wife, Grace: “Seth, did we fulfill our purposes in that time?”)

When you are fairly happy and content in your daily life, you can be said to be in a state of grace. [...]

[...] According to the state of illumination or grace, those mass memories may be activated that do not necessarily involve your personal experience — though your own involvement and the events of your life may appear within them in an entirely different framework than the one with which you are familiar.

Naturally, left alone, you will at various times spontaneously experience such states of grace or illumination, though you may not use those terms. [...]

(“and something to do with grace”, Jane burst out laughing when she made a connection here. [...] Jane at once made the connection between church and grace.

[...] It seems the letters D and C, and something to do with grace, and an appointment.

[...] And the Grace Episcopal Church is two blocks up Church Street.

(“Does this include Jane’s connections about the church and grace data?”)

[...] You can then, as I have said, lose sight of your own grace, but you cannot fall out of grace.

[...] They accepted life on its own terms, and in so accepting it they were filled with a grace, a grace that comes from giving life all that you have.

[...] (Louder.) The whole development of your individuality and of your whole self is a gift of All That Is; a state of grace is the acceptance of life and vitality and joy. [...]