“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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 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 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.

I have told no secrets. I am very afraid to tell you that I have forgotten what I considered secrets through the lives that I have lived. I certainly know that, like any of you in the past, I have not always been charitable. I know that I have hated one parent or another. I know, certainly, once that I plundered in the wages of war. I do not come to you as someone who does not know what it is like to be human. And in those personality characteristics that I use when I speak to you, I show you that the emotional life continues.

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, 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.