“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Consider again, for the sake of analogy, the Sumari language as compared to impressionism. At its best (underlined) impressionism achieved a certain focus unknown to Western art up to that time, in your terms, offering a breakthrough from cohesive objective form into the moving vitality that gives objects, say, their durability and shapes their images.

Now the Sumari language will avoid specific, indelible, rigid pattern in much the same way. (Pause.) By changing the names of objects you automatically look at them in a new fashion, yet certainly all objects will not be given names, for this would defeat our purpose.

The sounds used in the language have their own importance, and will be in their own way representative or suggestive of feelings that have been largely unconscious, generally speaking. The feelings however are the tail end of inner cognizance, and we will use the sounds to carry us further and further into those inner landscapes where both objects and their representatives must finally desert us.

We will initially be using the language so that we can finally cease using it, in other words. These will be the beginnings of somewhat more profound methods of working through the inner senses.

Now. Our use of the language will not be heavy-handed. Use of it however will allow you to more clearly perceived your own inner reality, your physical and psychic experience. You will no longer translate inner experience with the same automatic glibness into stereotyped verbal patterns of images, but will be far better able to experience it for itself.

The language will be a necessary aid in the physical statement that must of course finally be made, but the final statement then, or physical interpretation, will be far truer to your original experience.

Use of the language, utilizing sound but not recognizable word symbols, will allow you to understand and express some of these. Doing so will enable you to express far more physically also. There are, to say the least, multitudinous levels of feelings that merge to form what you would call a given experience.

(10:11. Pause.) As I have said often, language is used as often to distort as it is to clearly communicate. There is a structure within the Sumari language, but it is not one based upon logic. Some of its effectiveness has to do with the synchronization of its rhythms with bodily rhythm. The sounds themselves activate portions of the brain not usually used in any conscious manner. It is a disciplined language in that spontaneity has a far greater order than any you recognize.

Shambalina garapharti (spelled), or the changing faces of the soul, smile and laugh at each other. Now all of that is in one phrase. By saying the words and opening your perception the meaning becomes clear in a way that cannot be stated in verbal terms, using your recognizable but rigid language pattern; so we will be dealing then with concepts as well as feelings, but seeking them through the use of a new method, and sometimes translating them back and forth for practice.

It is as if, then, you had alphabets that worked for the other senses, for touch, and smell. Meanings are allowed to rise and fall where, when using your established ideas of language, meanings are instead rigidly attached to given experiences so that perception must be held within certain well-defined limits.

Now. In your terms the Sumari language is not a language, since it was not spoken verbally by any particular group of people living in your history.

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.

The language itself seeks out meanings. It is hidden within all languages, whether or not they sound at all similar, for it is based upon the immaculate integrity of feeling, for which sound is only a dim representation.