“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(I had only part of the last session typed, so I read the rest of it to Jane from my notes. Just before tonight’s session began she said with unwitting humor, “I’m starting to get stuff from Seth, but it’s about us. I don’t want that, I want material on the book —” But Seth did come through with a couple of pages relative to a discussion we’d had today. After a pause at 9:50, he resumed dictation on Chapter Twelve.)

(Pause.) Hence you have the majestic elements given to Satan, and the power. The earthly characteristics often appear as he is depicted in animal form, for he was also of course connected with the intuitive terrestrial attributes from which the new human consciousness would spring.

(10:55. Seth referred to the personal material he’d given for us before book work, so I read it to Jane now. It concerned ways by which we could increase our feelings of freedom on a daily basis, and, I thought, was excellent. Resume at 11:23.)

The individual therefore deprives himself of the use of much of his ability. He does not consider it his own, and is astounded when any others of his race display such superior qualities.

The people alive within the world come into it with their own problems and challenges, and this will have much to do with the kind of national and worldwide beliefs that are generated and that dominate. The beliefs, of course, are frameworks in which various kinds of experience are tested. This also applies to religions, and political and social situations as well. There is always a give and take between the individual and the mass system of beliefs in which he has chosen his environment.