“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now as men wonder about what was Mona Lisa thinking, so let them be so intrigued and so involved that they want to hear your prophet’s unspoken words. Put yourself in his place, and with all of his capacities, and with his wisdom, and what would you be saying, and what emotion would move the muscles of your face?

(She was on the whole quieter than usual at break, as though not quite all the way out of trance. Resume at 10:02.)

Do his words go back into the background from which he himself emerged, and does the answer emerge also? Or is there any clear answer to his question? (Smile; pause, eyes closed.) Or is the question itself the important thing, whether or not there is any answer to it in the terms in which it is asked? All of these issues are a part of your painting, implied in every line of its conception, but I want you to see consciously the implications of the figure, and the overall implications of the figure in context with the background.

You identify with the prophet, not only as yourself but as the representative of your kind. Therefore the question is yours with all the intense yearning to know within it. But it is also every man’s question, and herein lies its strength.

(“Well, I’ll get them all together...” I didn’t ask any questions here because I knew Jane was tired. “Have you been in touch with Van Elver lately?” See the 414th session.)

(Jane said she was “little and tiny inside the voice,” which always means that Seth’s presence is strong and immediate. To Jane while in trance, the voice seemed “to be booming all around, with me inside.”)