“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

I will purposely avoid using the word “God” because of the connotations placed upon it by conventional religion. I will make an attempt to explain the characteristics of this divine process throughout this book. I call the process “All That Is.” All That Is is so much a part of its creations that it is almost impossible to separate the “creator from the creations,” for each creation also carries indelibly within it the characteristics of its source.

“Maybe between one and two thousand years after the Creation a worldwide flood destroyed practically everything, though some species, including man, survived. (No even approximate date for the flood is given in the book. Noah, the 10th male in descent from Adam—Noah and his family, and the divine command he received to build the Ark—aren’t even mentioned. But how could they be, in a book on scientific creationism?) There was no evolution. All species were created as they now appear. Oddly, if you postulate a god in that fashion, a personified one, then you wonder why he couldn’t—or didn’t choose to—maintain the perfection of his original creation. Why man’s sin, resulting in the catastrophic flood, to which all species fell victim? The regular theory of evolution doesn’t have to contend with such questions, of course, but in the book I just read no explanations for questions like that are given—I don’t even remember that they were raised.

(Jane was rather relaxed tonight—again—but decided to try for the session. She’s been reading the book on scientific creationism I suggested to her. Her feelings about it are both ambiguous and funny: “You’ve got to watch those guys,” she said more than once, meaning the creationists, “or they’ll lead you right where they want you to go. You’ve got to keep thinking. I can only read so many pages at a time….” Adding to the humor of the situation is the fact that we’ve had people write or say the same thing about the Seth material. But Jane didn’t mention any of those events.

However, aside from being in outright conflict with the theory of evolution [and the idea of an ancient universe], the beliefs of the creationists do pose a number of questions that are quite intriguing from our joint viewpoint. My statement doesn’t mean that Jane and I endorse creationism just because we question the doctrines of evolution. We think that either one of those belief systems is much too inadequate to explain reality in any sort of comprehensive way.

Art creation is a most basic creation then, not even a mimicking act but a genuine creation of another plane, done self-consciously from the perspective of an imprisoning camouflage pattern. [...] It should be simple as an analogy to consider the next point, where the figure in a painting would not only have a certain consciousness for example but would have other freedoms also; and this would give you a limited conception of what is involved in the creation of other planes of more varied scope.

The question has to do with the so-called creation of your universe, the introduction of entities upon it, and of course with the cause or causes behind such creation. You know by now that you create your own camouflage-patterned universe, and I have tried to cover some of the mechanisms involved in this continuous, seemingly automatic creation.

[...] In some respects art creations are a meeting of the dream world and the world of camouflage patterns, but in a deeper way art creations represent the appearance or materialization in the actual element of physical time of inner realities. [...]

Art creations represent such an awareness, but here the creation of another plane must be intertwined with the camouflage pattern with which you are involved. [...]

[...] So quickly however is the tension transformed into a distortive creation that the sensation of creation is mistakenly accepted as the tension itself, rather than seen for what it is. Creation is the result of tension, though instantly new tension is set up, since tension is a characteristic of action. And each creation, being action, will instantly set up new tension.

The act of creation occurs, itself, not at the peak of the wave of tension, but as the wave dissolves into the fulfillment of itself. [...] The sensation is usually mistakenly applied as if it accompanied the creation itself, but the creation is the final act, so to speak, of a given tension.

[...] 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.

The painting, therefore, is both a distortion of reality, and the creation of a new reality. [...]

Creation occurs, again, most often through value fulfillment, which exists in a dimension having nothing to do with your space and time; and in the deepest sense creation as a whole, originally, if you’ll excuse the term, had nothing to do with either your space or your time, and the so-called birth of your known outer universe came long after in the story of creation and value fulfillment.

This creation involves not merely the juggling of energy units and fields, from one form to another, but also involves the setting up of new fields. This is oftentimes the result of value fulfillment, in which case all the given possibilities are bound to emerge, but each emergence is in the truest sense a creation.

Value fulfillment is very much like creation, and yet there is a difference, and creation exists first, if we must speak in terms of continuity, and for you we must. [...]

Nevertheless there is within the inner vitality and psychic value of the universe, constant creation, by which I mean the addition of something unique and new, and something that has not existed before. This creation arises from the vitality of the inner universe itself, and this vitality continually renews itself.

Creation is constant. Due to the nature of action creation cannot be anything but simultaneous. Each act of creation brings forth another, and opens up further dimensions of activity. [...]

[...] In so-called higher forms, the chemical process itself allows for the creation of an ordinary image. [...]

All it involves constant creativity, not only maintenance but entirely original and new creation.

[...] The growth of each (underlined) seed requires a separate act of creation. [...]

[...] Your source of energy is that first creation, in which consciousness focused, where before it had not. You also then know and develop yourselves through your own creations, and you automatically create and maintain your physical environment in the same manner that you breathe. [...]

This is constant creation. The initial creation provided the energy, the dimension, of possibility itself, but every particle of consciousness will always attempt to express itself within as many possibilities as possible. [...]

[...] The creation was just that. [...]

(“Number twenty: If everything exists now, or at once, how can it be added to through constant creation and expansion? [...]

[...] Ultimately a completed or finished God, or All That Is, would end up smothering His creation. [...]

[...] It endows all of its parts — or its creations — with its own abilities that then act as inspiration, impetus, guiding lines and principles, by which these parts then seek to further create themselves, their own worlds and systems. [...]

(Long pause at 9:37.) These powers and abilities will be used by these creations in various ways. [...]

(Pause.) All in all, however, we are speaking of a constant creation, even though I must explain it in serial terms. We are discussing a model of the universe in which creation is continuous, spontaneously occurring everywhere, and everywhere simultaneously, in a kind of spacious present, from which all experiences with time emerge. [...]

[...] A subjective divinity, then, that is within creation itself, a multidimensional creativity of such proportions that it is itself the creator and its creations at the same time.

[...] Many [religious] theorists believe, for example, that such a God created the world in such a fashion, and that the process of decay began at almost the same hypothetical moment that the creation ended.

[...] Both versions conceive of a finished creation, though one is a divine production and the other is a result of nothing more than happenstance.

Dictation: In connection with the creation of the universe, and with the creation of public and private events alike, let us for a moment consider a different kind of myth.

Children experiment with the creation of joyful and frightening events, trying to ascertain for themselves the nature of their control over their own experience. [...] If their thoughts can cause them to become ill, then there is no real reason for them to fear illness, for it is their own creation. [...]

[...] Surely it may seem that such a children’s tale has little to do with any serious adult discussion concerning anything so profound as the creation of the known world. [...]

[...] Children however know quite well, automatically, that they have a strong hand in the creation of the events that then seem to happen to them.

[...] What’s he trying to do, I asked Jane—combine something like science’s theoretical “big-bang” origin of the universe, all of those billions of years ago, with creationism’s theory of a recent spontaneous, divine creation of that same universe? [...]

[...] Nor can you prove scientifically that the creation of the world was the result of a chance occurrence—so you will not be able to prove what I am going to tell you either. [...]

All That Is, before the beginning contained within itself the infinite thrust of all possible creations. [...]

So beside this spontaneous creation, this simultaneous “stream” of divine rousing, All That Is began to watch the interactions that occurred among his own subjective progeny. [...]

You cannot copy a creation, you cannot repeat it. Each thought is a new creation. Each artistic endeavor is a new creation. You cannot, no matter how you try, reproduce an original creation. [...]

[...] You do not need to feel guilty of the creation of any probable selves. [...]

[...] You have given them a foundation and a history and an identity as a framework, but from this framework they will grow and learn and develop and without your creation of them they would not exist. [...]

[...] All That Is is vulnerable to All That Is and the possibilities and probabilities of creation that dwell deeply within it. [...]

[...] There are instead continuous, for now I will say continuous creations, of psychic energy into a physical pattern that appears to hold a more or less rigid appearance. [...] There is an infinite number or series of creations of matter. [...]

[...] Each re-creation after a certain point becomes from your standpoint, less perfect; and after many such complete re-creations, that have been completely unperceived by you, then you notice a difference and assume that a change in one object has occurred.

We have much yet to cover about various topics only lightly touched upon so far, including the nature of matter, the process involved in its continual creation and manipulation, and the truly astounding cooperation involved, as all living things contribute their energy to keep the physical universe in any kind of permanent, coherent form.

This process is carried out unconsciously, and yet if mankind follows through then he will become consciously aware of his own part in this continual creation of matter, and he will be able to continue in a much more intelligent manner.

[...] There are gradations in matter as there are gradations in your color, realities that blend one into the other, and probable systems in which various representations, reflections, shadows and echoes, all probable creations of any given self, mature.

Translated for you, the eye (spelled) is the symbol for this greater mind, for it sees through all systems, and looking outward sees infinities of itself dancing into its own eyes: the glances themselves vital creations and dimensions of consciousness.

[...] Creations are formed within your closed eye, in the dreaming wisdom, and thrust into actuality as the eye opens. [...]

At the risk of sounding childishly simple I will say, and I will not be understood, that each creation of idea or matter, physical matter, is a first creation.

[...] In this discussion on dreams we have indeed an excellent example of how creation is achieved.

[...] If a dream object or event does so straddle what you call not only time but space, and if as I say dream objects and creations maintain some independence from the dreamer, then you must see that although the dreamer creates his dreams for his own purposes, selecting only those symbols which have meaning to him, he nevertheless projects them outward in a value fulfillment and psychic expansion.

[...] And each individual knows that such a splendid creation as this then exists beyond the self that was its origin.

[...] On the other hand you could say that the pressure existed simply on the part of the God, since the creation existed within his dream. [...]

[...] While he thought of these individuals as his creations, he held them as part of himself and refused their actuality.

[...] The psychic energy exploded in a flash of creation.

[...] And they yearn toward that immense source, and yet to set it free, to give it actuality through their own creations.

You are so focused in your roles, however; so intrigued by the reality that you have created, so entranced by the problems, challenges, hopes, and sorrows of your particular roles that you have forgotten they are of your own creation. [...]

[...] The assumptions are that time is a series of moments one after another; that an objective world exists quite independently of your own creation and perception of it; that you are bound within the physical bodies that you have donned; and that you are limited by time and space.

[...] But it has yet to learn the means of actualization, and must find within itself ways to bring into existence those untold creations that are within it.

(10:32.) Therefore it creates varieties of conditions in which to operate, and sets itself challenges, some doomed to failure in your terms, at least initially, because it must first create the conditions which will bring new creations about. [...]

It is because of this instantaneous creation and projection of inner reality into form that you experience time within the physical system—to train you literally, to give you time to learn to handle your own creations. [...]

[...] The symbolic creation is the real creation. [...]

Now: All creation is constant, and physical reality is formed and maintained in mental realms, sparked by psychic (pause) experiences. [...]

[...] Creation, then, continues constantly and each consciousness has its part to play. [...]

[...] The intensity that first generated, say, a painting, continues to operate and there is new creation sparked in the interchange between such a painting and each observer of it.

[...] We do know that within this system of our All That Is, creation continues and developments are never still. [...]

“On the other hand, you could say that the pressure existed simply on the part of the God since the creation existed within Its dream, but such tremendous power resides in such primary pyramid gestalts that even their dreams are endowed with vitality and reality.

[...] While It thought of these individuals as Its creations, It held them as a part of Itself and refused them actuality.

[...] The psychic energy exploded in a flash of creation.

What you have instead is constant, new creation of material, as energy fills the patterns. [...]

I wanted to make this point, since matter is created by the subconscious, and since it exists simultaneously and instantaneously, and since its creation or arrival, and its departure or replacement, are instantaneous. [...]

[...] You do not perceive continuous creation of matter.