“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The arrival of two unexpected witnesses made Jane a little nervous, but the mood passed rather quickly, she told me later. At 8:59 she was in the kitchen making coffee. She began delivery on time in a voice pitched little lower than usual, and rather strong. Her pacing was slow. Once again her glasses were off, her eyes very dark.)

Ruburt, at the age of I believe seventeen, began a poem with the line, and if he will forgive me I will quote: “The end overshadows the beginning,” end of quote. In your terms, you are obligated because of certain present self-imposed limitations, and necessary ones, to think in terms of beginning and end.

Before any universe as you know it, or as I know it, existed, there was first a striving. To make this as simple as possible is difficult, since it has been simplified for me. In ultimate terms, there is and never was a beginning, Philip. This strains the intellect, and so I will say that in your practical terms, of which we have somewhat spoken in the past, there was what you may all refer to as a beginning, when strife and striving and a wish to be formed itself and gathered itself sufficiently together to form a contracted whole in which all possibilities were latent.

You will ask me, then, the source of the wish to be. You will of course ask me the source of the source, and I will say again that only within the framework of your intense but limited camouflage universe does such a question have meaning or validity.

Far be it from me to reinforce my little atheist’s early catechism lessons. I must however substitute the word God for energy, but still say that energy always was and always will be.