“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, the personalities that are reached under ordinary seance quote “conditions”, are not personalities such as mine. They are personalities recently dead, in your terms, with strong connections to your environment, and not aware as yet generally of their own larger existence. In other words, this is not what I am.

In the past I did indeed avoid using the word God. It has appeared in our sessions of late because it was the term Ruburt thought should be used, and on occasion because it was the word most comfortable for his students. The word itself hardly approximates the true reality it tries to portray however.

I have avoided it in order to steer clear of a stereotyped image. It was when Ruburt began reading other people’s material that the word began to appear. This does not mean that a God did not exist. It means that use of the term automatically limits the reality of All That Is by its very connotations.

Because Ruburt is at times so literal, he then did become bothered by thoughts of setting himself up, or thoughts of misrepresentation; and all of this because of the interpretation of the word spirit, or spiritual, and highly colored interpretations at that. Then he felt guilty because he was not living up to other people’s interpretation of the word.

His work with the material can and should weld his emotions and intellect together in a strong powerful force, but not when he attempts to copy others, or on his own uses words that personally annoy him, to express or interpret the material to others.

He was outraged by A A, because he persisted in considering him as a “spirit”, in quotes, with all the connotations the word arouses in him. A A is no longer a physical personality, and that is all. He is not a personality fully developed in those larger terms of which I speak. He is a personality however, and he is not Ruburt’s.