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(Seth began by stating that he had been with us throughout the evening. He said we had chosen a poor method of experimentation, if we did not want to contact him, since Jane has been conditioned to respond through him when we sought contact with discarnate entities. My idea had been that Jane might speak for another personality, such as in the Sarah Wellington or the Malba Bronson instances. See Volume 1, page 64 for the former, and 103 and 127 for the latter.

(Seth expressed much pleasure at being able to speak in a natural manner, without dealing with the usual philosophical and complicated subjects that make up most of the sessions. My own thought, as soon as he began to speak, was that I had made a mistake in method, since his appearance was a complete surprise to our guests. Seth reinforced this by saying that in the future I should be careful if I did not want it to happen again. Jane and I now like to prepare witnesses beforehand, since the material has become so lengthy and complicated that it is increasingly difficult to explain briefly.

(Seth repeated several times that he felt in fine form, and Jane’s voice and manner so indicated. I asked some questions designed to keep the material on the level of reincarnational data, since our guests had done some reading on the subject. Seth said I had not known Lee Wright before, but that I had been “involved” with Judy in a past life. It was indeed in my Denmark existence, he said, “the life of which you are now so ashamed.” In that life Judy had been a man, and a sailor. This reminded me that Seth had given similar data for our friend Bill Macdonnel; he too had been a sailor in a Denmark contemporary existence, but as I recall I did not ask Seth whether Judy and Bill had known each other in that life. As it happens, Bill had been a guest also earlier tonight, leaving just before the session.

Our material has been excellent, but I have missed the emotional contact. Ruburt, because of the change in our practice, has been somewhat uneasy, and for this reason the more friendly atmosphere that he had enjoyed earlier had deserted us. The state which he has achieved this evening, with your help Joseph, allowed us to achieve that informality to some small degree.

We have everything in order now. He now, however, is a stiff old thing. I cannot make him move about as I would move now. We achieved this earlier but the conditions were different.

At one time these two were brother and sister. At this time, 1602, in England, the man committed an act which put him greatly in his sister’s debt. He was from a good family. He was however cruelly-natured in many respects. It was a time when such cruelty was indeed accepted, and sensitivity was hardly a way of life.

Manheuton. Part of the family had been from France. I am not clear on all of this. He owed gambling debts. It was because of these gambling debts that he wronged his sister, and it was because of that wrong that they now once more have come together at a different relationship.

As you should know here, I do not speak in terms of payment, I do not speak in terms of suffering, of making up. I do not speak in terms of his being forced to make up. I speak in terms of his own choice. For his own development he chose to make up, because of a past lack of sensitivity, because of a certain exhilaration felt in those days in cruelty, and because in those days his emotions held no sway, but what he considered cold reason led him on. But this reasoning, divorced from emotions led him into his own betrayal.

This time we see the development of the personality. We see that balances have been made here, we see the emotions having stronger bearing upon the personality. We also see, as I mentioned in your own case Joseph, we see an attempt to overcompensate. As once he would not trust the emotions and does not trust his reason, this being an attempt to compensate. Indeed its purpose is a good one, but any compensation of this sort must be balanced by the personality itself in all cases.

(Unfortunately, we are unable to distinguish here as to whether Jane pronounced the word forefinger, or the two words, fourth finger. Her diction was not quite clear enough on the tape for us to distinguish between the two. The question arises because after the session Lee Wright said that as a youngster he had injured the forefinger of his left hand. Indeed his finger bears even now a scar near the tip. Seth’s use of the phrase “at one time,” could refer, we suppose, to either a past life of Lee’s, or an earlier period in his present one.

(Lee said he didn’t recall any injury or trouble with his left foot in this life.

(February 5, Friday, While getting supper in the kitchen this evening, I heard Lee Wright’s voice, although I could not understand what he said. I heard his southern accent clearly. He was not visiting us.

(February 7, Sunday, 10:45 PM approx.: While trying our seance with Lee and Judy Wright, I had a quick impression that a man stood to one side of me. He wore I believe a dark suit of some kind. It was not Rob or Lee, and Judy sat opposite me on the divan. When I turned quickly to look there was no one there. No one else saw it, upon my questioning.