“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“Seth, when the three of us sat before the mirror last night, you caused Jane’s reflection to change shape. Then you said it was another entity we were seeing there, however dimly.”)

Oh yes. I was surprised. The entity never was an earthling—completely different plane. No point of reference for you at all.

(“How was it possible for an entity from such a different plane to intrude like that upon our plane?”

Had I materialized my creature from outer space—I believe that is a current term, scoffed at and ridiculed—however, if I had materialized this image you would have really opened your eyes. Lines of communication were open and the entity merely slipped through, or partially through, momentarily. Even the shape of the features, never clearly glimpsed, were space distortions necessary to come through on this plane at all. As a stick thrown into the water seems distorted to those who watch, so this image thrown into your plane seemed distorted to you. But the distortions were what gave it any features at all. Without them, the distortions that is, you would have seen nothing.

The house was tall and narrow with three windows on the top floor, with two and a door at the bottom. Very seldom were the windows open. For diphtheria they closed all the windows and the doors. The boy might have lived without the dubious assistance of the doctor. The doctor meant so well, but did so poorly. This time you know him well. Already you must suspect your Doctor Stedge, who has also been connected with your entity on various occasions, though never as a relative. I presume his trade has advanced in stature and proficiency through the ages. I certainly hope so.

It is difficult for me to tell you too much about Loren. Your Jane sets up barriers. He is not, I’m afraid, her favorite relative. I’m well aware there is no blood relation between Loren and Jane. Nevertheless I’ve managed, as I always do, to speak with some clarity through your collective reluctance, prejudices and barriers. You both mean very well, and part of your own entities aids me in making contact with your present personalities.

An excess of male lives will turn a personality sour in a feminine manner, without the inner understanding and compassion that is usually associated with the female sex. In like manner consistent female personalities will turn harsh without the inner strength usually associated with the male sex. For this reason most entities live lives as male and female.

Loren was 3 times a man. The overall impression of the 3 existing personalities is nevertheless female, for the reasons that I have explained. Sex, regardless of all your fleshy tales, is a psychic phenomenon, merely certain qualities which you called male and female. The qualities however are real, and permeate other planes as well as your own. They are opposites which are nevertheless complementary and which merge into one. When I say as I have that the overall entity is neither male or female, and yet refer to various entities such as Joseph and Ruburt, which are definitely male names, I merely mean that in the overall essence the entity refers or identifies itself more with male characteristics, or so-called male characteristics, than with the female.

I hope you see what I have done here. I have initiated the idea of motion, for true transparency is not the ability to see through but to move through. This is what I mean by fifth dimension. Now, remove the structure of the wires and cubes. Things behave as though the wires and cubes were there, but these were only constructions necessary even to those on my plane in order to make things comprehensible to our faculties, the faculties of any entity. We construct images consistent with the senses we happen to have at a particular time. I have more senses, so to speak, in operating use that is, than you have, because not only am I aware of my own plane but of yours and other parallel planes, even though I myself have not existed in some of those parallel planes.

In any case I wish you the best of luck in whatever experiments you would like to try. You can of course train your abilities to some extent in this manner. I will meet with you then Monday at 9 if that meets with your convenience. Regardless of what you may think I do have your convenience in mind. In some way I have not yet explained to you, your friend Mark is of a younger entity than yours—frisky like a colt.