“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Jane isn’t sure of the title, Heroics, yet, or how she’ll put the book together. “It’ll have a lot of poetry, though, stuff I’ve been saving for years. My God, the whole morning changed when I got that idea. Everything looks charged, or new or something….”

Fanatics always use ringing rhetoric, and speak in the highest terms of truth, good and evil, and particularly of retribution. To some extent capital punishment is the act of a fanatical society: The taking of the murderer’s life does not bring back the victim’s, and it does not prevent other men from [committing] such crimes. I am aware that the death penalty often seems to be a practical solution — and indeed many murderers want to die, and are caught because of their need for punishment. Many, now — and I am speaking generally — are in the position they are because they so thoroughly believe what all of you believe to a large extent: that you are flawed creatures, spawned by a meaningless universe, or made by a vengeful God and damaged by original sin.