“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

There is one commandment above all, in practical terms — a Christian commandment that can be used as a yardstick. It is good because it is something you can understand practically: “Thou shalt not kill.” That is clear enough. Under most conditions you know when you have killed. That [commandment] is a much better road to follow, for example than: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” for many of you do not love yourselves to begin with, and can scarcely love your neighbor as well. The idea is that if you love your neighbor you will not treat him poorly, much less kill him — but the commandment: “Thou shalt not kill,” says you shall not kill your neighbor no matter how you feel about him. So let us say in a new commandment: “Thou shalt not kill even in the pursuit of your ideals.”²

(Jane’s delivery had been good, almost driving, throughout the session; just about as fast as I could write most of the time. “I’m so glad to get back on the book,” she said. “I know I’ve done it with every Seth book — wondering what he’ll talk about, how he’ll handle this or that…. I remember those examples about the idealists, and the new commandment he gave. I didn’t have any of that in mind before the session — but at my table tonight I did get some things from him that he never mentioned….”)

[...] Do not take what I say as commandments or there will be hell to pay. [...]

[...] If you follow physical reality as a commandment then you will place your guilts in physical reality instead of getting rid of them as you should. [...]

[...] He was a compact, dark-skinned and dark-haired person with soft brown large eyes that were kept half closed when he was being a psychologist, and turned larger, commanding and yet inviting when he was being a magician. [...]

[...] Then at his command, four silver dollars disappeared through the tabletop and he caught them underneath in the palm of his hands. [...]

[...] The inner self has at its command complete knowledge, but only portions are used by an organism. [...]

[...] When you find yourself facing such negative images in your mind and projecting them into the future, you should at once mentally wipe out that image and replace it with a constructive image, seeing yourself, for example, sitting in command of a well-ordered room.

You will not become a doormat, at the utter command of others. [...]

[...] He glowered at our friend Ruburt with great vehemency, projecting all of the energy at his command to show that he would not be cowed, and that if anyone took over the situation he would be the one to do so. He spoke of another personality far more powerful than he — though, he said, he could force a roomful of a hundred-and-fifty people to follow his commands. [...]

[...] And I demand that, furthermore, that discipline operate and that the soil shall follow my command, but I do not allow the soil any spontaneity of its own—and I do not allow the sun any spontaneity of its own—and I do not agree that the sun knows what it is doing. [...]

[...] And in the spontaneous playing of the bees from flower to flower there is a discipline beyond any that you know, and the laws that follow their own knowledge—and joy that is beyond command. [...]

[...] If Ruburt were under hypnosis you would then command him to let me speak. You could try the permissive request first, and if this failed use the command technique.

[...] There is always an unending reservoir of energy at the command of each person, however, regardless of circumstances, and we will also discuss the ways in which you can learn to tap that source and better your own health situation.

[...] They present a kind of chain of command—one that is not usually permanent for any long period, however.

Such (pause) “communications” with the gods or demons, St. Pauls or Hitlers, represent in such instances dramatized, exaggerated personifications of the portion of the personality that is at the head of the chain of command at the moment.

[...] When they are young, the offspring will accept some such suggestions uncritically, coming as they do from a revered adult, so that the suggestions are almost interpreted as commands.

You each have literally incredible power at your command—as each individual does. [...]

[...] For some odd reason I had a greater command of the muscles in my scalp. [...]

(Loud:) The energy that sweeps down through this frame is but a small shadow of the energy that is at my command and at your command. [...]

[...] The more you use your inner senses, the more data you have at your command.

[...] In the dream state the personality actually has at its command a stupendous amount of subconscious information of which the ego is not aware. [...]

The subconscious in sleep has great freedom, and has at its command information gained through past experience in this life and in other lives. [...]

[...] The subconscious will then break the physical data given to it down into its psychic components, translate it into symbols; and the inner self, at the request of the subconscious, will then focus all of the energies at its command to deliver the most acceptable solution, taking the entire needs of the whole self into consideration.

[...] The best he can do is create a distortion of the original landscape—a creation of an approximation that can comfortably exist within the limited perspectives with which he can work, and using the materials that are at his own command.

[...] He could not create an identical landscape because he did not have at his command the perspectives or materials necessary.

[...] It was a command, and I knew Seth was with us. [...]

[...] Now Seth rather imperiously commanded us to move our little table over a few feet so that it faced the doorway to our bathroom. [...]

[...] The ego is then in command after some struggle of generic frameworks, in a way not possible to it earlier.

[...] Otherwise they rebel—not against motion, but against the exterior commands that do not come from within. [...]

[...] In many cases however you do not ask, but have a tendency to command her. [...]