“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

This is in connection with the lectures you are being given having to do with time and identity. Though numbers are abstract they can serve our purposes well here. One number, for example 7, can be considered itself as an identity. Now, it may become a portion of other numbers in infinite varieties, and yet it is always itself.

It is as if each number represents not only the number itself, not only a unit to be added, subtracted, multiplied or divided, but also as if each number had infinite varieties of intensities that you do not perceive. I am not talking of smaller units within that number, but of the nature of the unit itself.

This sort of expansion and contraction has nothing to do with addition or subtraction, multiplication or division; but it is an inherent quality of all units.

You do not perceive the other intensity units to which it belongs. You perceive—in other terms—the 1, say, as a flat line on a flat surface, and are unable to imagine the existence (pause), the intensity, within that simple unit number.

(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.”

For this reason your ideas of time and identity remain limited. Now. Other dimensional realities do appear within your system but you do not recognize them. We can acquaint you with some of these. We can tell you what they appear like within your own reality. (Long pause.)

(Jane again had images while speaking. She had trouble putting them into words: “Something to do with angled shafts of light. I kept getting: ‘throwing your consciousness into angled shafts of light,’ it seems.”