“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(9:35.) At this level, messages literally flash through the centuries from one great man or woman to another. [...]

[...] Some to the Middle Ages, and some to the previous century—that is, to the century before this one. [...]

[...] The idea of the Sinful Self has served as a large portion of that definition for centuries, bringing with it innumerable difficulties, of course. [...]

[...] Now in that larger light, even the concept of the Sinful Self has its reasoning, for it is once again shared by millions of people for centuries. [...]

[...] Another idea—“It’s no big deal”—was that for centuries man thought the universe was created for man, and everything else revolved around man.

[...] Since time is simultaneous, at other levels your ancestors knew of your birth though they died centuries ago in recognized continuity. [...]

[...] They did not learn how to form dams through trial and error (humorously). They did not for untold centuries build faulty dams, for example. [...]

[...] You mentioned that when and if you become an entity, and send forth personalities, that they would gain existence in the first periods of another such cycle; in another newer, say, fourth or fifth century.

But why, I asked Jane, haven’t our best minds—at least those who have operated throughout the centuries of our recorded history—been able to arrive at some sort of reasonable consensus about the “origin” of our universe (if it had one), its processes, and our human place in it? [...]

Now, I have maintained psychological stability for centuries so I find it not too much to ask that our friend Ruburt maintain it for a mere 40 years. [...]

[...] Man for centuries attached faith, hope, and charity to the beliefs of established religions. [...]

[...] They had to grapple with it, and for several centuries.

[...] I realize you will find the statement, there is no beginning or end, almost incomprehensible, because of your own situation on your own plane, and yet this has been known for centuries; and your own Einstein’s theories will help to give the idea scientific respectability.

[...] Later, in a break, I received several impressions of a past life of Mrs. Lowe’s. While a general discussion was going on, I “saw” her near a riding academy in fourteenth-century France; and then I saw her and Rev. Lowe as twins in Greece, when he was an orator and she a soldier. [...]

[...] Another interesting point: a few years earlier the editor had written two plays—one featuring a monk who lived on the seacoast near Bordeaux, and the other also set in France in the thirteenth century. [...]

[...] The Iranian-Iraqi war promises to be the bloodiest one in centuries between the two countries; the West is working for a stalemate that over the years will degenerate into “harmless” border clashes. [...]

Privation theory has for many centuries been a main tenet of theology: Evil is not a power in itself, but only the absence of good; it is not-good. [...]

The belief in sin and in the sinful self has been for uncounted centuries embedded in man’s concepts about himself and God. [...]

[...] So if in the pursuit of such goals I overdid my cautions and overreacted, it certainly was not out of malice, but in a well-meaning attempt to protect the creative self—to keep a hand of caution on its course lest the centuries of man’s belief in sin carried a true weight that I shared but could not comprehend.

[...] Because of the psychological theories of the last century, many Western people believed that the primary purpose of the conscious mind was to inhibit “unconscious” material.

(3. On his life as a minor pope in the fourth century A.D.: “I was a petty, religious politician.” [...]

While in conventional terms you think of long centuries’ duration, in which finned creatures rose from the seas, some “becoming” reptiles and finally mammals, many did not make that journey but “fell” along the way. [...]

[...] After our rest period, Seth resumed, to answer some other questions, but he ended the last discussion with a smile for “the Dean”: “Now, the seasons come each year as they have come for centuries upon your planet, and they come with a magnificent spontaneity and with a creativity that bursts upon the world. [...]

Rob’s painting of the fourteenth-century artist from whom Seth gleans advice on painting techniques. [...]