“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Your guest this evening did not merely happen to come upon your acquaintance, though free will does operate, as I have maintained. Nevertheless Roarck, R-o-a-r-c-k, also has his subconscious memories, and he remembers the times when we were together.

Nor is it any coincidence that the picture which you drew as a result of your vision struck him so forcibly. Roarck is the name of your acquaintance; it is the name of Jim’s entity, and about this I will have more to say.

This session is outside of our regular sessions because I have known that Roarck would finally be drawn here, and it is for his benefit that I have called the session. There are others who will come. Do not, however, consider that you yourselves have truth in the palm of your hands.

All this involves training. It involves discipline, and then there is freedom. The esthetic nature inherent in Roarck’s personality will equip him to follow along very well. Let him also take to heart my little sermon on humility. Mark can forget it. His personality needs all the building up it can get.

I have said the universe, that is the inner universe, does expand, but does not expand in space. For Roarck’s benefit, ideas, theories, plans, capabilities expand, but do not take up more space. And so does the universe expand, but space is merely a camouflage, useful to you for a time, constructed through the use of mental enzymes, subconsciously and only for a brief span.

Roarck, in one of his past existences, was concerned with just such problems. However the society with which he was involved was of course seeped in its own ignorance, as your society is seeped in its now.

I am not going to hold a long session. This is merely in the lines of an introduction, and may I here welcome Roarck to the session. There will be more to come, and many will seem as accidental as Roarck’s happening into your household.

Since this is an unscheduled session I will not keep you, but I am extremely pleased, both because Mark finally made it to a session the other night, finally after knowing about the sessions for months, and also that Roarck has finally been drawn here. As a footnote, Roarck, you came too early the first time. I was not ready yet.

Your pussycat knew, or sensed, that I was here. You sensed it, hence the swelling of your hands, which is only a symptom of the workings of one particular inner sense. Roarck knew it when he saw your picture.

The picture is a composite of two images having to do with Roarck. You knew he was coming consciously, and in your inner vision you saw many things and made of them one image. The eyes brimming with tears represent his eyes as they have often been, esthetic, compassionate and overwhelmed. The laughing face, however, represents something else. It represents Roarck’s overall entity—

Here we have Roarck’s overall entity, laughing with mirth but also with compassion, for while the entity enjoys all that is, the personalities have often turned their backs upon very much, in order to pursue esthetic purpose. At another time we will go into this more deeply, but Roarck recognized the picture, and subconsciously saw himself. In many ways he and Mark have opposing personalities, and yet basically the entities are similar to some startling degree.

There is much more to be said here. Even now until the almost immediate present, Roarck has followed in this life his esthetic leaning. He chose to be born under rather poor circumstances, and until the near present made little real or rather effective attempts, but only halfhearted attempts, to seek better conditions for his present personality. He was not an only child, and yet he felt himself to be an only child.

Mark took the word nun for monk, because he knew Roarck when Roarck was a priest, and substituted monk really for priest.

The desire for discovery, and the ability to create are strong in all of you, and also in others who will come here. In various ways you have struggled with psychic realities; and Mark and Roarck are also involved with practical considerations involving women, as earlier Ruburt was involved with her Walter, and you, Joseph, were also involved.

You and Ruburt have solved those problems. Mark and Roarck still have to solve theirs. I suggest for politeness’ sake that you take a break or end the session, as you prefer. As always when I say I am going to end a session, I find it difficult to do so.