“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Long pause at 10:24.) Cordellas are invisible symbols that surface. As they surface they show the universe in a new light by the very nature of their relationships. In a very limited fashion alphabets do the same thing, for once you have accepted certain basic verbal symbols they impose their discipline even upon your thoughts, obviously since you think in words so often.

Their discipline and rigidity is considerable. Once you think of a “tree” (in quotes) as a tree, it takes great effort before you can see it freshly ever again, as a living individual entity. Cordellas do not have the same rigidity. Far greater, immensely greater fluidity operates. Inner invisible relationships are allowed to rise, the acknowledged recognized reality viewed through the lenses of these emerging relationships. Then the cordella changes its nature, becomes another new emerging group of relationships, another lens in other words. Do you follow the connections?

(10:35. Jane’s trance had been good, her pace mostly fast. She said she had felt Seth trying to get some “new concepts” across—trying very hard to make it clear to us. I said it was clear enough, but that I was so busy writing that eventually I lost all sense of the meaning of the words. Jane also had images, but Seth never vocalized what they meant. She knew they applied to cordellas and paintings.

In quite different terms however it is a language that is at the base of all languages, and from which all languages spring in your terms. Alphabets do not change, or you would consider them relatively useless. Cordellas, as I told you, do change. Alphabets are the physical aspect of cordellas. One very small aspect of a cordella is sized upon and (in quotes) “frozen,” so to speak, its ordinary motion and the rhythm of its changes therefore unrecognized. (Long pause at 11 PM.)

The living vitality of a cordella rises out of the universe’s need to express and understand itself, to form in ever-changing patterns and take itself by surprise. Patterned language allows for no such surprises. The Sumari language has been used in the dream state.

It builds up from feelings that are by their nature denied clear expression through the specific but therefore limiting alphabet systems. (Pause at 11:06.) It allows the perceiver to face experience much more closely, and once having done this to some extent he is free in other areas also. If you were an accomplished artist in many fields, you could translate a given feeling into a painting. A poem, a musical masterpiece, a sculpture, a novel, an opera, into a great piece of architecture. You would be able to perceive and feel the experience with greater dimension, for your expression would not be limited to translating it automatically, without choice, into any one specific area. Its dimensions would be greater to you then. So a cordella as opposed to an alphabet opens up greater varieties of experience and expression.

(11:11.) As basic creativeness is behind all art forms, so cordellas are behind and within alphabets. Cordellas represent the ever-changing unfinished relationships that can never be fully expressed, and that constantly seek expression.

Through this session and the last I have tried to show you through some examples the different ways in which the word cordella can be used, and by inference the ways in which the use of this method will enrich your understanding and perception. Your closer relationship will have its effects upon our sessions also, for your energies are at peace (louder:)—and now I bid you a fond good evening, cordella and all.