“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(For the 10th envelope test I used a label from a bottle of Ballantine Ale. See the tracing on page 289. Jane and I met the Gallaghers accidentally at a dancing establishment last Saturday evening. I absent-mindedly peeled the label from a bottle as we sat talking in the darkened room, then decided on the spur of the moment to use it for a test. I wondered if friendly impressions might attach themselves to the label. I took care to slip the wet label in a coat pocket when neither Jane or the Gallaghers were looking, and as it developed Jane had no idea of the test object for the session.

(The label contains a variety of shapes and designs. See the tracing on page 289. The connection with a fabric can be the coat pocket in which I carried the label home. Our table at the dancing establishment Saturday night had a top of simulated wood grain. The house can be our own, the several people of course Jane and me and Bill and Peggy Gallagher; the Gallaghers were with us Saturday night when I picked the label as a test object.

(Designs are repeated in the label, but no blocks appear. The journey by automobile can refer to our driving home Saturday evening. There is an 1840 date on the label, but not 1965. I was of course involved with the test object, and my initials are R.B., but this can apply to any test object. We don’t know which “another” Seth refers to. The label bears parallel oval lines which can suggest a road or a path.

(Neither Jane or I understand the reference to black and white. Having to do with a particular circumstance, initials and many designs, can apply to many things, including the test object. The label is fuzzy on the edges that were torn as I peeled it from the bottle, yet it is printed on a peculiarly smooth paper.

(The Christmas reference is an interesting one, and can be seen when one notes that the label is printed in red and green, on yellow stock. Jane said also that to her the XXX symbol on the label means Christmas. We do not know to what “something dark of rectangular shape” refers to, unless it’s the shape of the table we sat at in the dancing establishment.

(The label has a dark green border. Jane suggested that the “something shady” reference can be the dimly-lit room in which we sat Saturday evening. Jane also said the sky symbol, to her, is quite definitely the circles used in the Ballantine trademark, the three-ring sign. She relates these circles to symbols for the sun, moon, the planets, etc.