“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The race of man is far more than the physical race however. You see him in but one stage of development. When an individual leaves your system it is for other systems. He has learned his A B C’s, but that is all. There are some exceptions—identities that choose, then, to return and teach. They are not in the same league, so to speak, as those whose reincarnational cycles are not complete.

They may return, even enduring violence, as a man might set up a school amid a jungle of savages. And yet even with this there are advances made within the system itself. A nuclear weapon in the hands of the inhabitants of middle-age Europe would have been used almost immediately, and with nary a qualm, to wipe out all but Christendom.

Christendom may well have perished along with the rest of the world, but this possibility would not have been considered, so narrow and evilly self-righteous were the governing powers at the time.

Women were scarcely thought of as human creatures, but in very select circles. The progression through the centuries would be far more noticeable if you knew all the facts. There is one aspect here that I have not previously mentioned. Man was not allowed to play with the more dangerous toys until certain evidence was given that he had gained some control.

This is some of the most important material that I have given you, for you have wondered about the purpose, and have been able often to see but one small speck of time and space.

Now a storm at times will fascinate many, and so will such a violence, but a highly destructive storm will find few going abroad in it. Each participator sensed the chaos to which he had direct access (emphatic). He feared it then and afterward, even in his fascination, because he was bound to recognize that it would sweep he and his enemy into insanity or death.(...him and..?)

The energy that was liberated has already changed your national scene, and will continue to do so. Such massive liberations of energy will be used, but not in your lifetime, to begin to unify the whole planet, in peace. This will not happen before disasters also occur, but when it does happen it will represent the first such time within the planet’s history where there was peace with equality for all.

There have been various periods that were peaceful, but there was no equality. There have been countless other civilizations that have destroyed themselves in the planet’s past, and before this when another planet was approximately in earth’s position. There were however civilizations that endured, that outlasted their planet, and went elsewhere.

There were 9 planets once, grouped like jewels around the sun. They were evenly spaced one from the other, and they were evenly distributed outward from the sun. And this was the first system that knew the race of man. These were in your corner of the universe, but in your terms they would have seemed to have drifted off so far that none of your instruments could ever find them.

Your astronomers may receive a ghost image of it at the edges of your universe, but only a reflection from a reality that you cannot perceive. Now take your break.

(I made a quick mental count of the planets we now know to be in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Mars [not counting the asteroid belt], Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, for a total of 9; the same total mentioned above by Seth. Naturally Seth’s data gave rise to many questions, but tonight wouldn’t see them answered.

Again, this happened within your own system. Many entities have no need for form, in your terms, at all, but we will not be concerned with them this evening. (Pause.) This original system of which I have spoken will at least be theorized shortly, but the idea will not be taken seriously enough to cause any deep controversy.

It possessed creatures of consciousness, but not as you know creatures. (Pause.) Energy, entities... (long pause), continually transforming massive roytans...

There was a direct and instantaneous reaction between consciousness and matter. (Pause.) An outburst of electromagnetic power, strong enough to seed a universe. Your universe is but one of many, and you perceive but a small portion of the universe in which you do exist, for there are dimensions within it that you do not perceive. (Long pause.)

The evening’s material has come to a natural breaking-off point, but we have also reached some subjects that we have not discussed in sessions earlier, and this can serve as a preparation. My heartiest good wishes to you both, and a fond good evening.