“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now. Children build houses of cards and knock them down. You do not worry about the child’s development, for you realize that he will learn better.

You may even smile at the child’s utter sense of desolation until he finally connects the motion of his own hand with the destruction of the paper, cardboard house that is now gone, and in his eyes gone beyond repair.

Now, mankind builds civilizations. He has gone beyond the child’s game. The toys are real, and yet basically the analogy holds. I am not condoning those violences that occur. The fact is that they can never be condoned, and yet they must be understood for what they are: man learning through his own errors. He also learns by his successes, and there are times when he holds his hand, moments of deliberation, periods of creativity. (Pause.) Identities take many roles in many lives.

The poor were obviously sinful. Poverty was their penance, and it was considered a sacrilege to try to help those whom God had so cursed. Animals were tortured in sport. Compassion for living things in males was regarded as a weakness to be plucked out, to a degree that you can barely realize now.

Now the weapons and the destruction are the obvious things that you see. The counterparts are not so evident, and yet it is the counterparts that are important. The self-discipline learned, the control, the compassion that finally is aroused, and the final and last lesson learned, the positive desire for creativity and love over destruction and hatred. When this is learned the reincarnational cycle is finished.

Now there is a reason why these lessons must be learned in just this way. Elementally there is only creativity. Destruction is merely the changing of form. A cloudburst or a tornado knows nothing of destruction. This same energy encased within a human form is something else. There are different kinds of creativity, then, to learn, and a specialization in energy is focus and feelings that emerge; elemental energy becoming conscious of itself, and aware of issues that did not exist for it earlier; millions of molecules momentarily united with the living consciousness (pause), filled with primal energy, now learning love, and forming highly sensitive psychic patterns, electrical charges that now form emotions instead of clouds; the innocent chaos of undifferentiated personality that exists behind the highly specified and truly sophisticated mechanism of one thought. And all of this before an individual is born within your system. In terms of time this is behind us all.

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..?)

Many of the participators have never known that they had access to such energy, therefore the notion that such energy could be used creatively never entered their heads. Many of them felt tiny, alone and powerless. Now the energy alone was exhilarating. For the first time many of the participators realized intuitively that such energy was also the source of creativity.

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.

Now. Existence uses form. When a planetary system is disrupted, in some cases entities who are attracted to it or consider it their home, simply change their form, regroup their forces, and if they consider it worthwhile, put the house back in order.

Now. I will end the session unless you have questions.