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([Theodore:] “About problems, I’m wondering whether to make a distinction between a problem which is a personal thing in nature that we must solve on our own, and a problem that is not so personally oriented but community oriented where the decision you have affects someone else and can be a wrong solution. And doesn’t affect you personally, necessarily.”)
All problems affect you personally. The community in which you live is a community which you have constructed personally. It is the en masse production that you have constructed.
Now, I speak jokingly to you, telling you that I am the origin of the material, and therefore you must listen to it and study it. The fact remains that I am also a channel through which this information comes to you. And as yet you have little idea of its significance and meaning, not only to you personally. It makes little difference that I transmit it and that Ruburt receives it. The material itself, however, is the important issue here. I receive it and interpret it from our sources, as I have told my friends. Ruburt has always been cautious here, for when I tell him of the significance of the material, then he wonders about the aspect of his own personality. But I tell you and I tell you frankly that the personality by which I show myself to you is but a small aspect of my whole personality. And that personality is not cold. You simply do not understand it, therefore I come to you in terms that you can understand, and these characteristics of mine that seem so cozy are to some extent devious. They are my characteristics as I am, but also as I was. For I am no longer what I was.
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(Other Personality [later named Seth II]:) I have not traveled where you are, and yet a portion of me that you know as Seth has so traveled. I am more divorced from you than he is. There is more effort involved in theses communications, for Ruburt must come farther, since I cannot come closer.
You must, you should realize, that your own personalities exist in realities of which you do not know, and yet a portion of you is so aware of these existences. You find me impersonal as Ruburt does, and yet it is simply because you do not understand the gestalt of personality and action and the meaning of identity. For my own identity is aware of many other personalities that are my own. You are also a portion of other such personalities, but egotistically you are not aware of them. Seth is a part of what I am and I know him well. It is difficult for me to explain to you what I am since the components of my reality are so different, and yet intuitively, intuitively you realize your own greater reality, and that includes the knowledge of what I am.
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To me, your universe is perhaps as a star might appear to you. I do not perceive it clearly, but when I focus upon it, then I can perceive your psychic reality and your individual intensities. It is only the psychic distances between us that make me appear so alien to you, for my personality structure is far different from your own. I transmit information to Seth, who then interprets it for Ruburt. The information that I have would not be understandable to you in my terms, and therefore must be interpreted and translated.
I have not been [a] personality acquainted with your own reality or with your system or with your dimension. Seth, however, has. He is therefore in a position to translate the information which I then impart. I am not in your terms male or female. These are designations that are used within your system. Seth tells me that it is difficult for you to understand this particular point.
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