“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, remember: in one way your reality is a probable system. In some other realities mankind has taken different roads.

The progression in that system incidentally was not swift or certain. Individual development suffered in many ways. The problem of how to handle energy constructively was put in far simpler terms. There was less free will involved. The inhabitants of the system were far more fearful—so fearful that little change was allowed for.

The problem of aggression is simply the problem of using your own energy constructively. When you are forced to use it constructively you learn little. It is true that in this system of which I am speaking, there was a stronger focus upon the arts, and yet there were fewer great artists.

The only way to avoid facing the problem you see was to limit the amount of free energy allotted to the individual, and available en masse. Also safeguards were automatically built into the physical structure so that accumulations of energy could not be repressed—so no buildup could then emerge with violent overtones. Those in this system take further steps very slowly, and it will be more difficult for them to learn to handle large amounts of energy constructively. Those in your own system are more venturesome, more daring. Consciousness is far too varied. No one system could contain it or satisfy it. Generally speaking then, individual entities choose the system which suits their personalities and general leanings. Your system presents a rather abrupt, explosive entrance into largely organized consciousness, but on an individual basis.

Those in your system are relatively impatient, have decided to work with large amounts of energy. Your physical system itself rapidly responds and mirrors the use of this energy. Results are seen quickly. Large groupings and regroupings occur within the mass psyche, huge waves of energy as the race makes important decisions. All of this is done on an unconscious basis, but as a teaching method the results must be seen physically.

Because you respond as physical creatures you respond best of all to tangible physical results. You do not know how far you can go in any given waves of activity until you see it objectified, or nearly so. If you knew how to handle energy effectively, if you fully realized that your thoughts were the motivating factor, were the realities, then you would not need a physical existence, for that is the reason for the physical environment.

Quite frankly, your earth is expendable, for it will be created again as often as it is needed. I use the term again, speaking in terms of time again for you. But understand (smile) that others are forming their own clay of realities simultaneously. If they do not like what they have created often they throw it away; but always with the idea of learning from their errors, and forming another from the knowledge they have gained.

This does not mean that they will not have to progress, that they will not have to learn, but it does mean that they will not be allowed to pass through without helping others regardless of their own intent. In some cases such a situation may be set up by a portion of the personality itself, though this is not usual.

Now you must understand that this continues throughout the entire system—animal and plant life. Change is gradual. In many ways it is a sleeping system, change taking place so slowly and nonviolently that the danger is in a constant status quo. The mental associative patterns are completely different from your own. Even abruptness of thought, you see, carries implications of violence, of abrupt change—the breaking of one pattern for another.

It is not necessary that you know what is going on in these other systems of reality. Some are so alien that you would not recognize them, nor would I, as any indication of conscious life.

There are purposes beyond those that I can tell you. Their meanings unfold as your own development does. Within consciousness all things are incipient, and all creations are lovingly nurtured. You cannot step out of existence or reality even if you try.

It goes without saying that many entities have no experience with your physical reality, and never will. The information gained in each probable system is known, however, and correlated. You must also realize the advantages, challenges and peculiar beauties that your own system provides, and that many of your accomplishments as a race are unique.

Now. Accepting the problem of aggression and of the use of strong energy necessitates rather quick reactions, strong unconscious mass communication, quick abilities to transform energy from one kind to another.

When the race is in deepest stress and faced with great problems, it will call up someone like Christ. It will seek out and indeed from itself produce the very personalities necessary to give it the strength it needs. It makes little difference what circumstances are involved. The myth will grow to a reality, and the reality is far stronger than any purely physical event could be.

I will tell you about the other personality at another time. There was constant conscious communication between these three portions of the one entity, though they were born and buried at different dates. Yet the race called up these personalities, so to speak, from its own psychic bank, from the pool of individualized consciousness that was available to it.