“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

This is a crossroads that comes, not only to you, but to each individual upon the face of the planet and in every time it comes when an individual realizes that they are using all the resources that they have, and that they are not getting the results that they wanted. It happens when it seems to them the meaning has fled out of the universe. When they look back on their childhood and realize that, in that time, there was great magic and great rejoicing and great freedom and they ask, “Where has it gone?” It is a crisis that comes to each soul born in flesh.

Now this crisis has a meaning and a purpose. It does you no good to avoid this crisis through drugs, through tranquilizers, or through material possessions, for you must face certain facts, and the facts are these. The high and mighty intellect that deals with the world of sense is not all. The validity and the vitality of your existence is far more than this. And when you find your intellect, alone, cannot give you the answers, and that it cannot bring you joy and that it brings you no closer to the fountain of existence, then you begin asking the proper questions. Then you are like the flower who accepts the sunshine, and in accepting the sunshine knows far more about the reality of sun than any scientist who measures the spectrum of light without feeling. Your soul, your inner self, your reality, is experience. It is this upon which you must base your life.

Now, consciousness is a quality of the soul. You can turn your consciousness in many directions. It is like a tool that belongs to you, but you are more than your consciousness is. It is a quality inherent in the nature of the spirit or soul, but it is far more.

([Gert:] “Are spirit and soul equitable?”)

When I speak to you, then spirit and soul are equitable.

([Gert:] “Then a consciousness of a person may leave before death, but the soul would be the last thing that leaves the body?”)

(Rachel asked Seth to define the soul, if it exists.)

I am writing a book called, The Eternal Validity of the Soul. Now, top that one.

([Rachel:] “Are the soul and the entity the same thing?”)

The soul is the breath of the entity.

([Theodore:] “The soul was, before the entity is.”)

The soul composes that of which the entity is made. The soul is the portion of All That Is of which the entity is made.

([Rachel:]“Then consciousness is the feeling of the soul, the light, the understanding of the soul. The consciousness for everything that is around that exists.”)

In certain terms. I agree with what you have said so far, but you have not said enough. The soul uses consciousness. Consciousness is a characteristic of the soul. Consciousness is a method by which the soul understands what it is.