“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now I come to you often with playful characteristics—like a benign bishop who comes for a cup of tea and discusses realities with you. I come complete with characteristics that you can understand. I come complete with human characteristics to which you can relate and you can smile usually when I am here and smile when I am gone. But you must understand that they are the characteristics that I show you—there are other realities of personality and identity that are mine—just as there are other realities within your own personalities and you cannot laugh these away. You are but symbols of yourselves. I can tell you how to meet your own identities, and I have told you, but no one can make you look into yourselves. I can look within you and beyond you into the selves that you really are. I can see your potentials and your abilities and your promise—and you could see your own potentials and promise if you would open your inner eyes, if you would look within yourselves.

Each consciousness, regardless of its physical form, is filled with creativity and joy and possibilities—each is unique. You are at a certain level of development or you would not be here. Because you are at this level of development, you are ready and able to use your abilities more. You are able to look within yourselves. There is nothing stopping you but you. And it is for this reason that I speak severely with you this evening.

And so I hope the baby talk [here] is not obvious!!! It is time for you all to understand the material as I have given it, to use your mind. You have been in this class long enough to pass now beyond kindergarten. And I [no] longer feel that it serves that I speak to you in the most simple of terms. You have been here long enough now. When I speak to you, I shall therefore expect on your part some effort to understand me if necessary. I shall expect more of you, and you must expect more of yourselves.

Now. You do not understand. In many ways, Ruburt does not understand. And so now when I speak, I speak to him as well as to you. What I have been telling you, and what I will tell you, has been said before through the centuries. It is being said now again and those of you who come here will have reason to remember it well.

In many ways you do not understand what you are doing. And you do not understand that in which you are involved here. You do not comprehend its true meaning to you or to others. It may be as well for now that you do not.

But you are being given a road into yourselves that you would not have otherwise. And you are being given instruction that you would not have otherwise. And you were led here for a reason and you came for a reason and the reasons were yours, rather than mine.

My purpose was to be here, and to say what I must say.

Now, I do not want any of you drifting. You cannot afford to drift. You cannot afford to come here and see me as a fine old fellow either. For these characteristics by which you know me are but one portion of my personality and my reality. And I come to you from distances that you cannot evaluate.