“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Our friend’s dream, in her own way, closely approximates our African God’s dream over here, for you are considering the same questions. In your case you used religious terms in which to couch it and ease the inner self. Legitimate—is the question of the validity of the soul legitimate? Is it legitimate whether spoken about in conventional terms through religion, or is it legitimate in the terms spoken about in this room, or is it legitimate in any terms at all?

Now in the back of your mind, and you may yell at me later, conventional religion is symbolized by the Catholic religion because of its fantastic organization. And in your mind the Pope represents that organization and he paid tribute. He gave to these hooded robbers that came in at the side door. He did not give much, but he gave, and he gave because any religion must pay tribute to the inner knowledge of the self and the true inner knowledge does not come in through the front door. It comes in through the side door when you are least looking for it.

Now in the same kind of a dream, say two years ago, you would not have opened the side door. The connection with your aunt simply has to do with present-life connections and the terms of the house to you. Now the house, to you, represents in one way, the seat of personality also, the inviolate place and you do not open the door to strangers or give them access into the secret self unless you feel that there is a good reason.

That is a portion also of your self that you do not admit. Fears that you have. Now the fears are natural enough. You do not need to be afraid of the fears, for example. Again, it is a division of labor, she acquiesces in all this far more than she knows, as you doubt it, far more than you know. She counts on you to go ahead and to break into these inroads and to make progress as you count on her to double check your every step along the way.