“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, I will tell you. In many ways, you are indeed children. And because you do not understand the truths and have not reached or understood the connections, it does not mean that the truths do not exist. And you must work towards them and use your mind to do so. It will not lead you astray. You can trust it—it will help you arrive at some questions.

I have told you time and time again, in class, and I tell you all again—and Ruburt has told you: you form your own reality. You form the world that you know and you form your own images. And there is no justification for violence. Now, the words sound simple. None of you has fully accepted them except as they apply to others. You must apply them to yourself. You must look within yourself and then apply these truths and learn from them. They are not theoretical ideas. They are realities.

Now. I will say this over and over again—I will say it simply—and I will repeat it time and time again, until you understand intuitively what I mean. And I will say it in many ways. And again I will tell you: the energy that is behind and within me now, that energy is available to all of you and it resides within the selves of which you are composed. You have access to it. It is you who have denied the knowledge and it is you who close your eyes.

Now, I speak to you somewhat harshly, and yet all of you know that what I say is true. You must look inward and apply these truths. It does no good to look outward and apply them to others. You must take the first step and take the responsibility for yourself and then you have the freedom to change it. If you do not accept the responsibility, then you do not have the power to change. And the power to change is within you.

Now I will let you rest—but I am not saying good evening.

You will not find truth neatly wrapped. You will not find it in the shelves of some store—and you will not find it chocolate-coated. Now, welcome to you (Oliver F). I am sorry that you came in on a night when I am not at my jovial best. But if I do not call you to line, who else will call you to line? You are very poor at calling yourselves to line.

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.

Now you (Florence) have your kindergarten class. Your children play with wooden blocks and they make houses. You play with mental blocks and you make worlds. You encourage your children in their creativity, and when they make errors and when you see that their houses will not stand, you do not kick the blocks aside in ire. You try, instead, to explain how the blocks must be placed one upon the other, or you smile at their childish efforts.

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 the truck (the sound of one can be heard outside on the street) pauses at the corner. It is a method of communication—a vehicle. And in many ways I am a vehicle, for I am the means by which information is given to you. You are yourselves vehicles—as you move through experience and through moment points. Now you do not know what moment points are because I have not explained them in class and you have not read the material. But now it is time for you to be challenged. It is time for you to challenge your own mind and your own intuition. I shall cease speaking to you as kindergarten children, and I shall expect that you will cease thinking like kindergarten children.

Think of all the techniques that you use when you are teaching—the visual aids, the play principles. And then try to understand what I have been doing in this class. For we are taking, now, some steps forward. And you must take steps forward.

Now, imagine this: Within you, there are sounds, colors, sights that stretch backward into infinity. Your faces face this room, your eyes look out upon physical reality. Imagine, however, that you have innumerable faces, for our analogy. And that these faces look out into other realities quite as varied and quite as real. For this is indeed the cause. You can close your physical eyes and focus upon these other realities in which you also have your existence. And you can learn to manipulate in physical reality the better, because you understand your full potential. I challenge you to use all of your abilities and all of your senses. I challenge you to open your inner eyes, to use your minds, to use your inner intuitions. I challenge you to be yourselves and it is the greatest challenge that could be given you, and it is the only way that you will learn.

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.

Now I speak to you when many conditions and many circumstances form together. This is independent of your time. You had better take advantage of it.

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.