“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

In some for example he never was a meat eater. In others the aggressive instincts, as they are called, were almost automatically channeled toward what you would call constructive areas.

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.

Each epoch that ever existed within your planet in one way you see still does exist, and any consciousness that was involved with it still exists. Each consciousness retains memory of all its experiences, of each gestalt of which it has been part, and of the errors and of the successes in which it has been involved.

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.

(10:55. This was the end of the session, rather abruptly. I was tired from writing at such a constant rapid pace, or would have continued the session though it was getting late. Jane was well-out, etc.; indeed after the session she said she was “still getting stuff.”)