“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(My drawing contains lines that are horizontal and straight. There are two sets of these horizontal lines, across the top and the bottom of the words Key Value, and when one turns the drawing over on the back—not shown here—is seen the dark smudges of my pencil as I prepared the drawing for tracing onto paper. Jane said these lines and the dark smudges beneath them are what she believes she was referring to, more so than the other two horizontal sets of lines below the end of the key.

(When she saw the smudges on the back of the tracing-paper drawing, Jane said this was what gave her the idea of “ribbonlike shapes.” The “dark color” and “dark red” references were her attempts to further refine this data.

(“Somehow cluttered, or full, and empty toward the outsides.” On the original tracing-paper drawing my pencil smudging on the back shows through easily, and gives the drawing a cluttered or crowded look in the center. By contrast it looks bare toward the edge of the circle. This is an effect I noticed at work while making the tracing, but the illusion disappeared on the finished art.

(“Dark and shadowy in the center”, Jane said, is another reference to my smudges on the back of the drawing, and refer back to the ribbonlike shapes on page 321. She had a fairly good image of this darkened area, and its horizontal disposition.

(“with suggestions of motion”, again refers to my drawing rather than the actual envelope object; the motion, Jane said, of my pencil smudges across the back of the drawing, and to the slant of the words This Week’s above the key and star.

(“and late afternoon.” Jane said this is another impression taken from the smudges on the back of my drawing. Note that this pencil smudging on the back of the tracing affected Jane probably more than anything else. This late afternoon impression stemmed from the feeling of dusk or evening falling, as suggested by the dark smudges. Jane was quite aware of this feeling subjectively.