“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The Greeks had a name for it. The mastery of the equation is not determined by predictability, but by the realization that unpredictability often occurs at a constant ratio. The ratio minus zero over one three seven, leaping back now to the other.

Unknowingly you disturb the integrity of 7. Group your forces again under the constant. (Pause.) Now turn the equation around and you will see that it is pure.

Do not work Euclidean violence. Be gentle in your manipulations. (Jane spelled out Euclidean. At break it developed that she did not consciously know about Euclid, the Greek mathematician and geometer.) Now I think this is, with the psi factor, too harsh or sudden; too hasty a movement here will knock 7 off balance. Now weigh your values. (Pause.) No known method can now disturb them. (Long pause.)

(Jane paused again. Her voice was abruptly somewhat weaker, trailing off at times. She appeared to be making an effort to keep it going. More emotion was now apparent, as though a personality was inserting itself into the data that, so far, had been quite objective and evenly given.)

(Jane was making many facial expressions now, along with her uneven strength of the voice effects. Her features had a different cast also, especially around the mouth; the lips were compressed and stiff, the chin knotted, the brow furrowed. Some of the effect I thought was due to an effort at concentration; the rest seemed to be reflecting the presence of another personality.)

Cron... It’s a Latin word—crontonomous (my phonetic interpretation), as applied to the inner minus spectrum. J U R I N I S (spelled out in a much stronger voice), S T A V O (also spelled, though quieter), one one five one eleven. (The facial difference was now quite marked; Jane looked older.) The symbol to help you identify a sphere with lines like rays. Juris, Edinburgh, 1831 (much louder), 1872 (softer), died. Tormented with the aspects, with the problems of the unknown constant, and the fallacy, the fallacy (puzzled; shakes head almost vehemently), of... I don’t know ... Robby, I think its Democritus (my phonetic interpretation.)

Edinburgh, papers ... Ground rules expelled me. Then, I was before my time. The little man found my theories. The one mentioned earlier. (Jane now sat with her head back, eyes closed; the position seemed to make it more difficult for her to speak.) Untold miseries over the authorship. (Long pause.) Greek speculation, and renaissance—popular(long pause; faint words:) ... Mind is ... Let it be therefore known, fragments shatter under the handiwork of the 9th power, and values redistribute under the leadership of 7.

(I asked Jane now to repeat an unintelligible word. She said softly, first:) Deminaria (then louder: ) Tominaria (both my phonetic interpretations).

The values are undermined (head down now), when the zero is sphered...sphered, you see (gesture), when the zero is like an apple with a stem. (Long pause.) Magnificent...

(Jane said she had felt her facial expression change, as described; at this time the data began to change, she said, from the abstract into an emotional personality who was responsible for it. Thus one of our questions was answered, if vaguely. The personality seemed quite upset, and would have gone on to become very emotional and vehement if my wife had chosen to let it continue in that direction. But having a little experience by now, Jane said she knew when to withdraw from the raw emotional encounter while in trance, and did so.

(She now drew for Carl and me the illustration at the left.“This is the apple with a stem,” she said, “that the personality was trying to get across.” Jane said she didn’t have the vocabulary for it; it was something “he” knew he couldn’t get her to say.

(To our surprise, Seth now came through when the session resumed. The change in Jane was remarkable. She brightened at once. As Seth her voice was strong and on the loud side; eyes open often and very dark, pace good, smiling often. 10:37.)

Now—

Now I will end the session, even though I did not begin it.

(A curiosity: Carl Watkins said he felt there was a definite mass change in Jane when she was speaking as Seth. When she rocked back and forth as Seth, Carl said, the floor beneath the rocker creaked. But the floor did not creak when Jane rocked as herself after 10:45 PM. Carl said he carefully watched to make sure the chair had not been moved. Jane weighs 105. Carl weighs 188. He sat in the chair now, without shifting its position; when he rocked back and forth the floor creaked.

(We thought the session was now over but this was not the case. As the three of us discussed it Jane began to get more impressions on her own again. At 11:05 she began to speak in the same quiet and controlled trance manner she had used at the start of the session.)

According to this guy, this bunch overrode, through their ignorance and stupidity, the true nature of the constants involved. This guy’s name was removed from the following two editions of the encyclopedia as a result... Oh, we’re going to break it right now.