“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

We do not have too many comments but one I am bound to make. You are here to develop abilities. You did not lose any status by adapting physical existence. There is an interpretation to the meaning of the fall, in Biblical terms, and on another occasion I will tell you what it is but do not expect the philosophy that tells you automatically that by becoming human you have degraded yourselves. This is another story fully as destructive as that of original sin, simply put in different terms.

Existence within this system involves creation indeed and creation involves development and new dimensions. Consciousness opened up new dimensions of activity, development and awareness. Physical existence became fact. There is no degradation involved. Anyone who tells you this is telling you that automatically by being human you are to some extent damned, even though the terms of salvation are open and available and such is not the case. The excerpts from the book that Ruburt read from in class earlier this evening were highly distorted but they were less damaging, the excerpts read in particular, than the excerpts you just described.

([Arnold:] “We have existed an infinitely long time and will continue for an infinitely long time. On a scale which extends infinitely in both directions the positions of individual points becomes rather meaningless. I suppose we are all pretty equal but each of us is a portion of a larger identity which may not be equal to others.”)

([Arnold:] “But we do advance don’t we?”)

(To Florence.) And I would like you, dear Lady of Florence, to be aware of the questions asked by your inner self and not follow the intellect around like a puppy following its tail from one circle without answer to another for you limit the extent of your imagination in such a way. You form circles about yourself. You do not use your intellect to lead you to freedom but often as a leash.

You are learning to adjust the leash and now and then with great caution you allow yourself to wander a fingertip away without it. The inner self keeps propelling you to class, however, even though your intellect becomes more frenzied. In one respect, you see, and in a very important respect, the basic answers cannot be given to you, they must be experienced by you. You will know them in the way that you know that you breathe, but you may find it very difficult to vocalize them.

([Florence:] “But Seth told me not to think in circles.”)

That is an example of using the intellect as a leash if I ever heard one. Now, you are all different aspects of whole selves or entities. You are different aspects. Now think you are different aspects. A whole puzzle exists, a crossword puzzle is on the table. Imagine it. It exists as a whole. You may have a large segment or small segments. Now, is a small segment less developed than a whole, larger segment of the same puzzle, and where is their placement in time? They exist as a whole. The various pieces are aspects of a whole but in this the puzzle is always changing and never the same. You have various aspects of consciousness.

Now, you all have access, quite literally, to the energy that rides the universe that you know. Not indirect access, not second-handed access, but immediate personal access. The portion of yourself that you think of as a higher self exists now only awaiting your recognition and while it seems to you that you are looking for it I tell you again it is within, and it is within the self that you already know.