“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Pretend then that behind or within but unseen by you, behind or within the number 1, for example, there are an infinite number of other 1’s, lined up so to speak behind the one that you see. (Jane leaned forward, gesturing:) The one that you see is the self that you see or recognize within your system. The 1’s behind are not serial, nor identical, nor duplicates.

Behind 1 then imagine the infinite other 1’s, literally for the analogy’s sake one behind the other. Now this long line of 1’s may seem to stretch out indefinitely (Jane spread her arms wide), or may seem (Jane clapped her hands together) to snap together into one. There is expansion and contraction within this simple number 1 then, within any number or unit.

Now imagine number 2 placed beside number 1, number 2 also having behind it infinite variations. These variations incidentally should be thought of in terms of intensities. The intensities are themselves individual. Take the two main numbers, 1 and 2; as they stand beside themselves they become 12, and yet the 1 and 2 remain unchanged.

In the same manner any of the unit intensities behind each number may change position while still remaining itself, and retaining its individuality as a unit. If you use x and y rather than 1 and 2, basically the same is true. Now this analogy applies to identity. You are in a world where you see one particular intensity unit—belonging say to number 1.

(Jane said she “came down” easily though. She felt the pyramid effect a little during break. She knows nothing about math, and said the personality was pushing her “like mad” to try to get her to do it right. She had an image while speaking of a row of numbers, with others behind each number in the front row. Jane said that each number in the front row was in the middle of an endless row, from left to right. She also felt that the numbers lined up behind could expand and contract and assume various variations and endless combinations. “Things we couldn’t conceive of in terms of math.”