“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

One of the reasons, Joseph, for your own lack of festive spirit in the past has been the result of your realization that this gap between idealism and action is great. You could not therefore enter into what you felt to be the hypocrisy of the season. All the more since you have no particular conviction, anymore than Ruburt has, concerning the historic existence of a Christ.

Now. There was no historic Virgin Birth, and no historic Crucifixion. This does not mean that these do not represent symbolic realities.

Now we shall see, again, what we can do. Give us a moment. A connection with water. One, two, three, or three of a kind. A connection with a commercial venture. A connection again, with an afternoon and two people, yourself and Ruburt.

(We do not see a connection with “Light and dark, with shadow shapes” particularly. Jane’s father, who addressed the envelope, can be “A connection with another individual, a male.” Jane’s father is of course “someone who visited here,” but we do not know what “A photograph” means, particularly, in the test data, since Seth did not elaborate.

(Usually now we do not ask Seth to explain every reference made in a test if we do not see any connection. We list what we see as connections, and have noted that if we are really puzzled about any test data, Seth will say something about the problem after break.

I wanted to have a test, and what I said regarding tests in the last session still holds.