“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now. He is not as scintillating as I am—but he has his reasons.

First of all, may I say good evening to you (Rochelle K.) and it is good to have you back (Rose) and I welcome you, and I welcome this one over here and I knew he (Doug) was coming.

Now despite my gentle, good-humored remarks about the personality you call Seth II, let me tell you something—You cannot translate the dimensions of his personality. What he is cannot be translated, in your terms.

His thoughts are not translated in those terms because you cannot rightfully call them thoughts in the way you are accustomed to thinking of thoughts. Now, a thought to him is a creative experience. What he thinks immediately is. It is not that he is cold, he has a different kind of thermal quality. He is vast. I am old, but he is vast.

Ruburt mentioned something earlier about a “Saturday afternoon.” Unfortunately, your world would fit in one of his Saturday afternoons—if he knew what a Saturday afternoon was.

However, his energy is beyond my knowledge and his creativity is beyond my knowledge. I will not grow into what he is—we have our own ways to follow. And yet we are connected. And some of my energy, you see, also comes from him.

Now, I happen to like my worlds better. Otherwise, I would not come here so often. I have always dealt with emotion, but he deals with those realities that make emotions possible.

There is also a large effort made when he speaks through Ruburt and an effort on his part. He knows a portion of him is filtering down into this room. Now, when the sun shines and the rays fall from the sun down through your solar system, the sun is not consciously aware of its rays nor of the rooms that these rays may illuminate.

This “other personality” is aware that a part of himself is filtering down, and in his own way he is aware of you and of the room. But he is not aware of you as you know yourselves, and he is scarcely aware of me as I know myself. He is aware of me, but in another context, and in another dimension of existence.

I should tell you that I am sorry that I kept you so long last week. My friend Ruburt has been telling me that I must apologize. And I should tell you that I have deep sympathy—but your time is not my time. I do try to take it into consideration. And yet those issues that might bring me to you in a session, have nothing to do with time as you consider it. Now I will let you take a rest period, but I have not said good evening, and you can all be comfortable. Our friend will not be speaking to you this evening, and he is not a bogey man.

He broods over this. However, to begin with, Ruburt writes as Ruburt or, if you prefer, Ruburt writes as your friend Jane. Now, I can write as the many selves I have been, with full knowledge of my background so that I can address myself to mothers, and fathers, and children...consciously remembering my experience in those roles.

(Brad said that he had brought it but he had not drunk it during a previous class.)

Ruburt would not let me take advantage of it because he does not like brandy, but if it were here!

(Brad replied that he would arrange to have brandy on hand every class night, and a cigar!)

The “other personality” is more difficult to relate to, for he is naked of these characteristics. So shall you all one day be naked of these characteristics. Remember that! And remember also that even these characteristics of mine are put on again as a garment that was at one time discarded. The characteristics are mine, and I rejoice in them!

(There was a comment about Seth’s statement, as to how he had been around in a few of Rochelle’s endeavors. Seth clarified this.

And, he was not speaking symbolically.

Now there is something you do not understand, and so I will set you straight. It has been given in our material—I do not want to upset any of you. You have all seen, I suppose, educational TV. Now when you turn on your miraculous contrivance and you see the teacher on the screen, that does not mean that at that moment, the teacher is on the screen. Do you follow me? The teacher is quite legitimate but he is not there when you see him.

Much of our work is done when Ruburt is sleeping... or when he is otherwise engaged. And he becomes then your vitalized TV set, and I am sorry that the reproduction is not as good as the original because I also have other endeavors and other places, in your terms, that I must be.

Now when your teacher appears on the TV screen, he is not aware consciously of himself within the image that you see. It is completely a taped production. When the same thing happens in our classes, however, I am here—but to a lesser extent than I am at this moment. I am aware of myself, going with our analogy, within the image that you would see on your TV screen.