“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Ruburt directed his will in certain areas. Your will is your intent. All of the power of your being is mobilized by your will, and your will makes its deductions according to your beliefs about reality. Each of you use your will in your own way. Each of you has your own way of dealing with challenges. Ruburt used his will to solve one challenge: he was determined to find the kind of mate that would best suit him, and his own unique characteristics. That intent was in his mind.

When that challenge was met he used his will and mobilized all of his power to fulfill his abilities, and to bring about conditions in which he hoped Joseph could also fulfill his. The will, again, operates according to the personality’s beliefs about reality, so its desires are sometimes tempered as those beliefs change. Ruburt always concentrated in his own way upon one challenge at a time, boring in, so to speak, and ignoring anything else that might distract him.

To his way of thinking he cut out all excess baggage, so he had a spare diet, physically speaking. Because the body has its own sense there were always periods when it rebelled, when physical improvements showed. But the power of Ruburt’s will was not directed in those terms. The power of his will said “We are not ready yet. We are still working on one challenge,” so it seemed, finally, that he was powerless or helpless to alter the rigidity of his body.

Yet when he improved he felt that he did not want those “new distractions,” and so the power of his will still kept the body down. The power of his will is amazingly strong. He is not one to work in many areas at once. Each person lives by their intent, which brings about the force of their being. In all of this probabilities are involved, so in all points of the past he touched points of probable healings. No one can be healed against their will. There is no such coercion.

He did not until today connect up the idea of the power of the will and his body, for he has willed his body down. He sees that the challenge has been won, and now it is time to take up the next challenge, to apply the power of the will to the body.

Now many people never learn to apply the power of the will at all.

You were determined to find the kind of relationship you have with Ruburt, the kind of relationship your parents never had, and you applied the power of your will in that direction. You were at the same time determined to set yourself apart from the world to some extent, while still maintaining and developing an emotional contact with a mate that would be unlike any in your earlier experience.

In that respect, and in that respect alone, he felt helpless. He wanted to feel helpless there, for the reasons given. He has since realized at various times that the method has outlived its purpose—but the resulting feeling of helplessness has impeded his progress. The will and its power must therefore be inserted in that area. He is amazingly resilient. The cold to some extent restored the gums, by activating defensive mechanisms in the mouth and head regions.

Using the body then allows you to relax. When as last night it is sore, it is because it wants to move. It has not been used, and objects. So despite the habits built up at such times, he is to get up and move about. The power of his will is indeed awesome, but he is just beginning now to feel it. Then it can be used in a new directive. The altered directive is all that is necessary. The rest will unconsciously follow.

There are reasons why he “relapsed,” but the point of power is in the present, and this material and its understanding by Ruburt is more important than “past” causes. I have said this it seems literally thousands of times, but there must not be a concentration upon the problem. Instead there have been a series of challenges that Ruburt has met through using the power of his will, and this is simply the next one to be conquered.

Again, many people are not even familiar with that power. Ruburt does not need the extravagances of today’s statement, though it is a stepping stone, but he must now realize the importance of a balanced life. He has the body on his side, for it is only waiting for him to allow it to use its power.