“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Seth goes on to say that illness can be a “healthy” reaction, though it always involves personality problems: “It must be understood by the personality that the illness is a hardship on the part of the whole structure, and . . . not basic to the original personality.

“The whole focus of the personality can shift from constructive areas to a concentration of main energies in the area of the impeding action, or illness. In such a case, the illness actually represents a new unifying system. Now, if the old unifying system of the personality is broken down, the illness serving as a makeshift temporary emergency measure may hold the integrity of the personality intact until a new, constructive unifying principle replaces the original.

“All illness is almost always the result of another action that cannot be followed through. When the lines to the original action are released and the channels opened, the illness will vanish. However, the thwarted action may be one with disastrous consequences which the illness may prevent. The personality has its own logic.”

The Seth “apparition” as seen and sketched by William Cameron Macdonnel. The original drawings were done in blue ballpoint on separate sheets of paper, and here have been superimposed and traced in black to facilitate reproduction. The first drawing is in the upper left; note the obvious improvement in the later sketch.