“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You know that a star may light a dark universe, a dark landscape, and help a wayfarer on his way. It will serve a purpose and be a reality in your time. In a like manner can personality structures be of assistance and be realities to you within your time, although they have long since entered other dimensions.

There is one difference of course. The star does not know upon whom its light falls. It is blind to the landscape that it brightens. It cannot see that which it illuminates. In the case of these psychological structures however, because of the multidimensional aspects, there is understanding and purpose. A portion of that kind of personality structure knows well that while its main focus of consciousness has gone into other dimensions, it will nevertheless be perceived by others at any given point.

It allows the light of its personality to shine purposely down those paths from which it has come, in order to help others who will follow; but the light is the light of vitality, and carries with it traces of the personality who lets it shine.

They come to understand then their basic oneness, while still retaining their own identity, since change is never still. In quotes: “By the time” this realization comes, inner value fulfillment has already created new realities. The answer, as closely as I can approximate it for you, is this: the purpose is being. This is something different than your idea (underlined) of brute survival.

Life and consciousness, without the means to express them, are not meaningless, for life and consciousness have their own purposes; and of these purposes I am not prepared now to tell you.

In your state of development you cannot easily understand the meaning of the word “purpose,” for to you the term itself implies an eventual rigidity, a goal with an end, a progression, literally, toward a nothingness that it would have to follow once a goal in those terms was achieved.

The word purpose implies limited dimension. Value fulfillment has no such implications, and the purposes of which I have spoken are multidimensional. This is all I will tell you now in that regard.

Both of us are obviously then portions of a larger self, and manifestations of it, but one does not end in the other, and one’s purpose is not to become the other. We all, quite simply, are. Keep this sort of thing in mind when you think in terms of purposes. For the word can distract you, and lead you into narrowing concepts.