“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The session began late this evening because Jane and I first attended a twenty-fifth wedding anniversary surprise party for a member of ESP class. The affair was a great success.

(At the supper table this evening we had been speculating about the times Seth had given in connection with his life as a pope, both in the ESP class session for May 25, 1971, and the 588th session in this chapter. When I wondered if I was right in thinking it likely that Seth’s papal incarnation took place in the fourth century, Jane said she “got” the year A.D. 325. This seemed like a confirmation. To our further surprise, Seth added to the data concerning that life in tonight’s session.)

It was in the 300’s.

The original man may have been assassinated, another taking his place, carrying on as if there had been no change as far as the populace was concerned. Poison was the usual method, and even those who suspected the truth would not dare speak out.

You must also understand that politics was a legitimate hand of the church in those days, and a churchman was expected to be an excellent politician. I seem to have spent some time in a place that sounds like Caprina, also during that lifetime.

(Long pause at 10:20.) A cousin or brother was important to me. He ended up in severe difficulties, caught in some smuggling business to the Spanish.

There was at the time a secret group called “Followers of the Motherhood of God.” They were considered heretics, and several times petitions were given to me against them. This concerned the position of “the Virgin” within the dogma of the church.

(10:25. “I knew he was doing that,” Jane said, then added that she just went along with it. Her pace had been rather slow, but picked up when she resumed at 10:32.)