“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now, you are not jolly enough. You are in the habit of carrying these hells and demons around with you, and if you do not watch it you will see them even in the faces of the flowers. These abilities are abilities that are your own. They are a part of the heritage of your consciousness. Use them in peace and joy. The spirit that is you forms your image. It is a live and vital part of your being. Now, I did not come through this evening for a long lecture but it behooved me to make a few comments to our friend (Stan) over here. Peace to you and forget your demons. If you believe in them you are letting yourself in for difficulties.

(To Stan.) The misunderstand[ing] was not between us. It is that the conscious mind does not understand the unconscious mind and that your conscious mind does not understand that it is frightened of demons and believes in their existence. His mind does not believe in demons, your unconscious mind does. You are not in touch with your own inner beliefs in that respect. Intellectually you have no use for those beliefs but emotionally they are still a part of you.

(Seth speaking to Stan after Stan had discussed spirits and demons:) ...Through merely the mental and physical contortions that you have forced yourself through this evening. You are a spirit. You are a spirit now; you are simply clothed in flesh. You do not suddenly become a spirit as is and all spirits are not long-faced and boastly [sic], although you could frighten me under certain circumstances.

(A one-minute pause at 9:29.) Devils and demons have no objective existence. [...] He isolates himself from that responsibility by imagining the existence of other forces—the devils or demons of the nether world.

[...] Yet the church must admit the separate reality of the devil and numerous demons, because their existences are given in the Gospels. [...]

[...] This applies to the “good” schizophrenic models and to the “bad” ones—that is, to the gods as well as to the demons.

[...] Many of these speak of lords or gods of the realm, or of demons. In a strange way these books do provide a service, for at certain levels you will find your own ideas materialized; and if you believe in demons then in those terms you will encounter them. [...] The demons simply represent a state of your own mind that is seemingly out there, objectified. Therefore, whatever methods the authors used to triumph over these demons is often given as proof not only of the demons’ reality, but of each method’s effectiveness.

[...] Demons may be chasing them. [...]

(10:16.) Now: In almost all instances, demons in dreams represent the dreamer’s belief in evil, instantly materialized. [...]

In the same fashion, the person who hallucinates the voice of God or a demon actually does so to preserve the idea of sanity in his own mind. As long as he or she believes that a god or demon is involved, then the person can consider the entire affair most extraordinary, decidedly apart from usual experience, but valid.

[...] When your species squatted in the cliff caves and when they ran in terror across the face of the earth pursued by wolves and imagined that demons lurked in the shadows, when with ghost memories were great contrast to the world that they saw and know, and so they weaved a story from their memories. [...]

([Joel Hess:]“Where do the demons come in?”)

([Lex:] “As we have nothing to really tangibly worry about on the ironic level from the past, then, so too, am I correct then that we don’t have to fear demons?”)

Now there are books programming out-of-body activity; millions of you are told that when you leave your body you will meet this demon or that demon, or this or that angry god. [...]

This distorted picture depicts a species of sinners innately driven by evil, sometimes demonic, forces. [...]

[...] To encourage expression of that self appears foolhardy, for it seems only too clear that if the lid of consciousness were opened, so to speak, all kinds of inner demons and enraged impulses would rush forth.

“MESSAGES” FROM GODS, DEMONS, HEROES,
AND OTHER PROMINENT PERSONS — OR,
MORE CONFLICTING BELIEFS

[...] In such circumstances an individual might then construct an artificial devil or demon who annoys him constantly, and even orders acts of a highly destructive nature.

The “demons,” your projections, are then placed upon a national enemy, or the leader of another race; sometimes whole masses of population will project upon other large groups the images of their own unfaced frustrations. [...]

Now, dictation: So, therefore, can a family be so divided, and one member always appear as a hero and one the villain or the demon.

[...] A belief in demons is highly disadvantageous after death, as it is during physical existence. [...]

[...] The god-versus-devil, angels-versus-demons — the gulf between animals and angels — all of these distortions are impediments. [...]

[...] After death it will release you from the belief in demons and hell, and enforced punishment. [...]

[...] And, if you open it, all sorts of demons will emerge. And if there are any angels, the demons will gobble them up before you get to see them. [...]

[...] And, if you open it, all sorts of demons will emerge. And if there are any angels, the demons will gobble them up before you ever get to see them. [...]

[...] So if you believe you will be met by a demon, you will create your own thought-form of one, not realizing that it is of your own creation.

[...] It is, of course, possible under such conditions to meet a thought-form belonging to someone else, but if you do not believe in demons to begin with, you will always recognize the nature of the phenomena and be unharmed.

[...] Some cultures have believed that illnesses were caused by demons. Medicine men, through certain ceremonies, would try to rid the body of the demons — and those methods worked also. [...]

If you call the demons “negative beliefs,” however, then you have taken strides forward. [...]

[...] If you believe in demons you will meet them — in this life as enemies, and in other realms of consciousness as devils or “evil spirits.”

[...] Your feelings, the repressed ones, will seem demonic. [...]

[...] It seems the sheerest nonsense, on the other hand, to believe that illnesses are caused by spirits or demons. [...]

You number viruses as people number demons. [...]

There is no danger of either so-called (in quotes) “unhealthy or evil or demon, or uncontrolled spirits,” (end of quote), finding access to the door in the subconscious which Ruburt has opened. Such demons, as a rule when they seem to–

Some ancient tales have come down through the centuries that tell of various gods and demons who guard the gates, so to speak, of other levels of reality and stages of consciousness. [...]

Let me take this moment to state again that there are no devils or demons, except as you create them out of your belief. [...]

[...] The writer of the other letter, while praising our work, is caught up in questions of conventional religion: “I keep wondering over and over again whether Seth is a demon or a deception. [...]

(Long pause at 9:25.) Some other civilizations have believed that illness was sent by demons or evil spirits, and that the world was full of good and bad spirits, invisible, intermixed with the elements of nature itself, and that man had to walk a careful line lest he upset the more dangerous or mischievous of those entities. [...]

[...] It is about as factual as the “fact” that God sends illness as punishment, or that illness is the unwanted gift of mischievous demons.