“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The cat awakened your love. You knew this was to happen and you chose the means. Now, in so doing, you also gave affection to the animal and awakened within it characteristics it did not have earlier. In other words, you stretched the extensions of its own awareness and consciousness. You brought it up, to put it very simply. The consciousness of the cat grew and developed. You taught it communication. Now I am not speaking in words of physical communication but you opened up its awareness. Now though it seems to you perhaps at this point tragic, the facts are that the real tragedy would have occurred had the cat lived, in your terms, and had you curled up in it, in your house on the corner, and turned your love inward to the animal rather than outward, for there are people who need it.

When you think in terms, for example, of remarriage or when your children urge it upon you, then you think in terms of yourself. You do not think in terms of those who need love and affection and who are more lonely than yourself, lacking children, and who are looking for not only affection but the simple courtesy that another individual can show by recognizing their existence. You were not able to translate or transform that love outward. At the same time you extended the consciousness of the animal, it became more than it was. Its consciousness was ready to leave and adapt another form.

There is nothing wrong and much good in loving animals. However, when you love any one thing so strongly that it begins to exclude others then you need to think.

Listen. You have also formed the reality of your children and it is a good reality. Listen. You have also helped many others. Many you are unaware of having helped. You also help the members of this class without knowing, but your love for the animal was becoming ingrown. Now, the animal went on as a youngster leaves the house and grows up. You aided in the evolution of its consciousness, then allow it its freedom. You will meet its consciousness again in another form.

You knew, and I am not implying, I am not implying guilt. You knew what was going to happen when you let the animal out at that corner. The animal felt no pain. It left its body immediately. You aided in the development of its consciousness and it helped you by renewing your love; but as the animal changed its form so also now this reawakened love must look outward.