“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The race of man is far more than the physical race, however. You see him in but one stage of development. When an individual leaves your system, it is for other systems. He has learned his ABC’s, but that is all. There are exceptions—identities who choose to return and teach. They are not in the same league, so to speak, as those whose reincarnational cycles are not complete. They may return, even enduring violence, as a man might set up a school amid a jungle of savages.

Yet with all of this, there are advances made within your system itself. A nuclear weapon in the hands of the inhabitants of Middle-Age Europe would have been used almost immediately, and with nary a qualm, to wipe out all but Christendom. Christendom may well have perished along with the rest of the world, but this possibility would not have been considered, so narrow and evilly self-righteous were the governing powers at the time.

Now a storm at times will fascinate many, and so will such a violence, but a highly destructive storm will find few going abroad in it. Each participator sensed the chaos to which he had direct access. (Emphatic.) He feared it even in his fascination, because he was bound to recognize that it would sweep him and his enemy into insanity or death.

The energy that was liberated, however, has already changed your national scene and will continue to do so. Such massive liberations of energy will be used, but not in your lifetimes, to begin to unify the whole planet in peace. This will not happen before disasters also occur, but when it does happen it will represent the first time within the planet’s history when there was peace with equality for all.

There have been various periods that were peaceful, but there was no equality. There have been countless other civilizations that have destroyed themselves in the planet’s past, and before this, when another planet was approximately in earth’s position. There were, however, civilizations that endured, that outlasted their planet, and went elsewhere.

There were nine planets once, grouped like jewels around the sun. They were evenly spaced, one from the other, and they were evenly distributed outward from the sun. And this was the first system that knew the race of man. These were in your corner of the universe, but in your terms they would have seemed to have drifted off so far that none of your instruments could ever find them.

They exploded and were re-created many times—disappeared and returned. They would seem to pulsate. To you, they would seem to disappear for eons. To them, their existence was continuous. As atoms and molecules give your chairs a reality within your system even though the atoms and molecules themselves come and go, so this planetary system still retains its identity. Your astronomers may perceive a ghost image of it at the edges of your universe, but only a reflection from a reality that you cannot perceive. Now take your break.

(I made a quick mental count of the planets we now know to be in our solar system, for a total of nine, the same total given by Seth. Naturally, Seth’s data gave rise to many questions, but tonight wouldn’t see them answered.)

Many entities have no need for form, in your terms. But we will not be concerned with them this evening. This original system of which I have spoken will at least be theorized shortly, but the idea will not be taken seriously enough to cause any deep controversy.

It possessed creatures of consciousness, but not as you know creatures. Energy, entities (long pause), continually transforming massive roytans …

There was a direct and instantaneous reaction between consciousness and matter, an outburst of electromagnetic power strong enough to seed a universe. Your universe is but one of many, and you perceive but a small portion of it. Now I will end the session unless you have questions.

The evening’s material has come to a natural breaking-off point, but we have also reached some subjects that we have not discussed in previous sessions, and tonight’s session can serve as a preparation for later information. My heartiest good wishes to you both, and a fond good evening.