“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The stuff of the body should not be considered as some metaphysical result, then, but as a living gestalt of responsive flesh. Your body is composed of other living entities, in other words. Though you organize this living material it has its own right to fulfillment and existence. You are not a soul encased in inert clay.

The “house of clay” does not immediately deteriorate when you leave it. It disintegrates at its own rate. It is no longer organized by your own domain. The life of its atoms and molecules and cells is translated into other living natural forms. Your perception is merely that which you are aware of. Even the atoms and molecules have their own fine vision and appreciate their environment in their own way. The same power that moves your mind forms your body.

It is the clay which you form so that you can see the results of your mental work. [...]

[...] But understand (smile) that others are forming their own clay of realities simultaneously. [...]

[...] Why do you sneer so when politicians show their feet of clay?

You cannot accept it otherwise, and you are not willing to start over with a new organization, for those creative talents within you persist in using what clay you have, and then you want to turn the clay into gold. [...]

([Derek:] “Earlier today I was working on some clay work I was doing for someone else. [...]

[...] The self is not … (pause, eyes closed) … give us a moment; I am searching for a good analogy … the self is not like a clay figure coming from a potter’s oven, so that you can say: “Ah, here is a self, and nothing can be added to it.” [...]

[...] It travels to find certain herbs, or it lies in the mud or clay by certain rivers. [...]

[...] You are not simply an insignificant, innocuous clump of clay through which He decides to show Himself.

“Somehow, without being able to see them, I knew that stone or clay steps rose up the back of the tower, clear to the top where the soldier posed. [...]