“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The process could or could not have developed, according to the probabilities and the circumstances. Even the early environment, so abhorred by the ego, were chosen in order to deepen the desire for truth and to force the personality to face the issues of life and death, evil and goodness, full face. Ruburt’s ego would have avoided the questions and taken the easy road, and this easy road would not have developed the full potentials that were necessary if the personality were to use its creative and intuitional abilities in any important manner.

(Amused:) If you want to be that picayune, it will come through Joseph, but since you are Joseph you should hardly quibble. Like Ruburt, only more so, you have avoided religious symbolism, strictly avoided it, and for many years you did not see beneath the obvious hypocrisy and distortions inherent in religious organizations. The hypocrisy of the organizations blinded you to the inner truth of the symbols.

Now. The search for answers, and this passionate yearning toward truth, has driven Ruburt’s personality, and he became ill only when he was afraid to continue the search, because it led him into byways that he had not planned upon; or rather, upon which the ego had not planned.

It understands quite well that I am more than a subconscious extension of the personality. I would not be satisfied, either, with a highly simplified version of my existence, accepting me as a long-gowned spirit in those terms known to it, and knows that I am far more than that, that the truth is deeper, and it will work with the intuitive self to search for answers. (A bit jumbled, Seth!)