“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

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.

It is the clay which you form so that you can see the results of your mental work. You become extremely engrossed in the activity, but you also know in deeper layers of your personality that your existence and the existence of the race will continue.

There are many roads leading to that goal however. Various personalities will find various ways. You help others whether or not you realize that you do, whether or not others realize that you do, whether or not you plan to help. You help others even when your intentions are precisely the opposite.

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.

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.

It made no difference to your history. The three men were part of one entity, gaining physical existence in one time. They were not born at the same date however. There are reasons why the entity did not return as one person. For one thing the full consciousness of an entity would be too strong for one physical vehicle. For another the entity wanted a more diversified environment than could otherwise be provided. The entity was born once as John the Baptist, and then he was born in two other forms. One of these is a personality that most stories of Christ refer to.

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.