“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. The inner reincarnational structure of the human psyche is very important in man’s physical survival. [...]

(9:17.) Each species is endowed also, by virtue of the units of consciousness that compose it, with an overall inner picture of the condition of each other species (pause), and further characterized by basic impulses so that it is guided toward choices that best fulfill its own potentials for development while adding to the overall good of the entire world consciousness. This does not curtail free will any more than man’s free will is curtailed because he must (underlined) grow from a fetus into an adult instead of the other way around.

[...] Man possesses free will, but that free will operates only within man’s degree—that is, his free will is somewhat contained by the frameworks of time and space.

Good evening.

(“Good evening, Seth.”)

(“Good.”)

The Garden of Eden story in its most basic sense refers to man’s sudden realization that now he must act within time. [...]

[...] Among a larger variety of possible actions, man was suddenly faced with a need to make choices, that within that context had not been made “before.”

(9:02.) Speaking in terms of your time, early man still had a greater neurological leeway. [...]

[...] The awakening mentioned earlier, then, found man rousing from his initial “dreaming condition,” faced suddenly with the need for action in a world of space and time, a world in which choices became inevitable, a world in which he must choose among probable actions—and from an infinite variety of those choose which events he would physically actualize. [...]