“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, mankind builds civilizations. He has gone beyond the child’s game. The toys are real, and yet basically the analogy holds. I am not condoning those violences that occur. The fact is that they can never be condoned, and yet they must be understood for what they are: man, learning through his own errors. He also learns by his successes, and there are times when he holds his hand, moments of deliberation, periods of creativity. (Pause.) Identities take many roles in many lives.

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.

In those days neither did a sane, reasonable man give thought to sharing his wealth, or even consider the plight of the poorer classes. Not only was charity not given, its practical nature was not even considered. The archaic concept of God (at that time) nicely covered such matters. The poor were obviously sinful. Poverty was their penance, and it was considered a sacrilege to try to help those whom God had cursed. Animals were tortured in sport. Compassion for living things in males was regarded as a weakness to be plucked out. Women were scarcely thought of as human, except in very select circles.

There is a reason why these lessons must be learned in just this way. Elementally there is only creativity. Destruction is merely the changing of form. A cloudburst or a tornado knows nothing of destruction. This same energy encased within a human form is something else. There are different kinds of creativity, then, that must be learned, and a specialization in energy’s focus and feelings that emerges—elemental energy becoming conscious of itself and aware of issues that did not exist for it “earlier;” millions of molecules momentarily united with living consciousness, filled with primal energy, now learning love and forming highly sensitive psychic patterns; electrical charges that now form emotions instead of clouds; the innocent chaos of undifferentiated personality that exists behind the highly specified and truly sophisticated mechanism of one thought. And all of this before an individual is born within your system! In terms of time, this is behind us all.

This is some of the most important material that I have given you, for you have wondered about the purpose (of consciousness within this system), and have been able often only to see one small speck of time and space.

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.

Many of the participators have never known that they had access to such energy; therefore, the notion that it could be used creatively never entered their heads. Many of them felt tiny, alone, and powerless. Now the energy itself was exhilarating. For the first time, many of the participators realized intuitively that such energy was also the source of creativity. A good number of them will try various methods of reexperiencing this energy in order to release creative feelings they did not know they possessed. The energy, of course, was neutral. It was their use of it at the time that caused the destructive elements.

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.

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.

(Jane paused again. Her pace was slow in here and she used many gestures, drawing pictures in the air, frowning at times.)