“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I am pacing these sessions now, granting the four or so a week, according to his own experiences, so that the material can also be assimilated along the way. The last few sessions are highly important. (Long pause.) Some of that material is now being used by the so-called Sinful Self itself—which is now open to new information. It is quite earnest in its own desire to “be good,” or to feel a sense of grace in its being, so it does understand that kind of purpose.

In the framework of the Sinful Self’s points of reference and in the Catholic philosophy in which it is based, suffering for a good purpose, toward a good end, toward a good goal for the sake of the soul, is a virtue. (Pause.) The entire Catholic dogma is built about Christ’s agony and death. Now to a portion of the personality believing in that system, Ruburt’s position makes hardly a ripple. That system regards the body as highly distracting, disruptive, heir to the lusts of the flesh, and so forth. Its discipline through suffering is one of Christianity’s most appalling effects.

Again, it is capable of such understanding, however, and it can change. Its motivation is to feel at one with a state of grace, at one with its place in the universe. That purpose is the same as Ruburt’s own, but its methods and understanding are still at a certain level, a level that can indeed be changed and reeducated.