“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(The evening was again very hot and humid, and Jane had been bothered by such conditions all day; but she wanted to hold the session as usual. Shortly before nine she reported glimmerings from Seth.

(Her pace as Seth was slower than Monday’s, but still a good one. Pauses and eyes open, etc.)

So I will speak, for your benefit, of some indescribably distant past, in which these events occurred. The strength and vitality of these desires and expectations, in your terms then, became so insupportable that All That Is was driven to find the means to produce them.

Now when I say there was a state of nonbeing, and yet speak of All That Was, existing simultaneously in that state, I mean (pause), that All That Is did exist, itself, obviously in a state of being, but in a state in which it could not find expression for its own being. This was the state of agony of which I spoke. Yet it is doubtful that without this “period” in quotes, of contracted yearning, that All That Is could concentrate its energy sufficiently enough to create the realities that existed in probable suspension within it.

The agony itself and the stupendous desire to create represented its proof of its own reality. The feelings in other words were adequate proof to All That Is that it was. (Pause.)

He then purposely gave these more and more detail, and yearned toward this diversity and grew to love that which was not as yet created from himself. He gave consciousness and imagination to individuals while they still were but within his dreams. They also then yearned to be actual, so there was this final breaking-through that was still necessary.

In his massive imagination, he understood the cosmic multiplication of consciousness that could not occur within that framework. Actuality was a necessity if these probabilities were to be given birth. He saw then an infinity of probable, conscious individuals, and foresaw all possible developments, but they were locked within him unless he found the means.

This was indeed in your terms a primary cosmic dilemma (pause), and one with which he wrestled, until All That He Was was completely involved and enveloped within that cosmic problem.

To do so would give them actuality. However it also meant “losing”, in quotes, a portion of his own consciousness, for it was within that portion that they were held in bondage. All That Is had to let go. While he thought of these individuals as his creations, he held them as part of himself and refused their actuality.

To let them go was to lose that portion of himself that had created them. Already he could scarcely keep up with the myriad probabilities that began to emerge from each separate consciousness. With love and longing, he let go that portion of himself, and they were free. The psychic energy exploded in a flash of creation.

(See the 424th session of July 29, and the discarnate Van Elver’s suggestion that I not use sepia—Seth pronounces it say-pia—with too heavy a hand. This was one of the questions I asked tonight before the session.

On other levels Ruburt is doing well, and should experience more conscious projections on other levels also. There was something he did not catch last night, but he will have an opportunity to do so shortly.

(To me.) You have helped two people who were in school with you. This is in answer to one of your questions. One a short first name beginning with A, or strong A sounds, and a last name having to do with water. Wait. (Pointing at me.) You have helped Dave Lake on an astral level, during a recent illness of his. That was the sound and the water. Both of you have helped others you did not know.

(“Can you give me a clue as to the other person I helped, who was in school with me?”)

(10:23. Jane again had a deep trance but returned from it easily. But strangely, and for the first time after a session, she discovered she couldn’t operate her voice. She smiled and several times attempted to answer my questions. Later she said she wasn’t worried, that she knew her voice was okay. I suggested she clear her throat, making a noise that way. She did so, the sound being usual. Then she whispered the word “there.” When I asked her to repeat what she had said, she spoke the same word again, loudly and rather explosively. Her voice then operated as usual.

(Jane said she thought the other person I had helped astrally, from high-school days, was dead. She said the impressions seemed to come to her from another level, between that of Seth and herself— “sort of on a different radio signal,” but she couldn’t explain.)