“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(To Florence.) It can always be remedied, and since you are a faithful member of this class, then it seems to me that you are using your abilities very well for you know precisely when to stay away. Now it seems that we should bring you up to date, and so we have two questions, or rather assignments, for you that other members of the class have already gotten past in their own way some with valor, some by the skin of their teeth. You know what this entails so in a way, you see, you are much more prepared than the others were for you know in advance what both questions are and what priorities operate. Now I will return the class to Ruburt.

I was, indeed, starting to talk and the word was now.

Now we have done several things this evening and as always our Lady of Florence had a good part to play. The inner gestalt of the group has been opened, for one thing, and a better group unity will result. For another thing, through listening to what others have said you should realize the vitality that is distorted in these deep charges that you often carry within you for these deny you the use of your own energy. They literally tie you up in knots.

Now I will let you all take a break and do not break up into pieces.

Now of all the others in the room, those two, in their relationship, have a simplicity and an integrity that speaks for itself and it is, indeed, highly unusual. The biggest secret that this one has over there, (Arnold), if you will forgive me, is a deep feeling of inferiority that is disguised sometimes as humbleness. This I know and this, intuitively, the other members of the group know, but your questions and the fact that you question it, this is good, here or in any other place or in any other group. But do not question yourself out of feeling or emotion and do not build up a barrier in your own mind for there are no barriers here.

Now as far as the group is concerned there is always a method in my madness, as there is a method in your own madness. The creative selves within you know what you are up to and I know what I hope this class will be up to and you must have faith in each other and trust if we are going to do the kind of group experiments that I have in mind. If you do not have faith in each other in the body you will have none out of it.

Now my relationship with you, brought up quite cleverly by our friend over here, is indeed a strange one since you do not relate to me as you do to each other. But you may tell our friend over here the effort I make precisely so that you do not set me up as a demigod and that you use your own abilities. Now if this were not the case you would be dealing with my friend, Seth II, all of the time so you had all better watch out.

Now some of this is, indeed, a translation or, again, you would be speaking with Seth II, yet what I am continues to exist. And the, I hope, the delightfully human egotistical characteristics that I show help calm your fears and show you that the self as you think of it, continues to exist. I have a reservoir of personality banks upon which I can draw, and as a teacher I use the one that is most effective in any given system of reality and this is the one that I use here. It is a portion of myself that is the most closely connected with earthly existence, and it is a self that I like very well, indeed.

Now I will help our good friend, but first I have a few remarks.

You will, indeed. You do so now all the time, but you are not aware of it.

Now, first of all, the dog is not a fragment out of nowhere. He is a simple stray. However, there is an imbalance, a lack of balance and of coordination, in the family, in the family relationship and with the children. The dog is an extremely psychic animal, in your terms. Therefore, he is aware of the emotional conditions that exist. He is also in need of love and care, and he knew, in his own way, that a bargain could be worked out. Simply by being there he can change, to some extent, the balance of the household and also have his own wants catered to. And so it is a bargain that this young tramp has made with you and a good one. Take him up on it.

You have all done more this evening than you realize you have done, and so I will now bid you a fond good evening. But remember there are differences in your own reality and in your own identity that are as great as the difference between my personality and that of Seth II. And there are journeys within yourselves that you can take that will lead you from selves that you know to selves with whom you are not yet acquainted. And so now I give you those blessings that are mine to give.

You will, indeed. You need the framework, but you do not need too tight a framework and you do not want, now. And do not project your conscience outward upon others and then react to them as authority figures.