1 result for (book:ss AND session:587 AND stemmed:framework)

SS Part Two: Chapter 21: Session 587, July 28, 1971 2/58 (3%) Hebrews god dramas Mohammedanism religion
– Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Part Two
– Chapter 21: The Meaning of Religion
– Session 587, July 28, 1971, 9:17 P.M. Wednesday

[... 15 paragraphs ...]

Man desired in one way to step out of himself, out of the framework in which he had his psychological existence, to try new challenges, to step out of a mode of consciousness into another. He wanted to study the process of his own consciousness. In one way this meant a giant separation from the inner spontaneity that had given him both peace and security. On the other hand, it offered a new creativity, in his terms.

[... 19 paragraphs ...]

(10:38.) So the concept of God began to change as the ego recognized its reliance upon inner reality, but the drama had to be worked out within the current framework. Mohammedanism was basically so violent precisely because Christianity was basically so gentle. Not that Christianity was not mixed with violence, or that Mohammedanism was devoid of love. But as the psyche went through its developments and battled with itself, denying some feelings and characteristics and stressing others, so the historic religious exterior dramas represented and followed these inner aspirations, struggles, and searches.

[... 21 paragraphs ...]

Similar sessions

SS Part Two: Chapter 21: Session 586, July 24, 1971 Christ Paul historical Saul zealot
SS Part Two: Chapter 14: Session 560, November 23, 1970 drama Christ twelve disciples God
NotP Chapter 7: Session 781, June 28, 1976 language unstated God archaic tenses
NotP Chapter 5: Session 772, April 19, 1976 sexual male female orientation deities