“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(4:00. Carla and Shannon took her vitals — temperature 98.3. Jane said she wanted to have a session. I mentioned to her my idea that Seth’s elders must predate by far the elders of the Bible, and she agreed.)

(I also told Jane about the entertaining time I’d had this morning checking Biblical genealogies, preparatory to the note I want to write for Chapter 5 of Dreams. Seth’s elders would have lived long before those in the Bible — or would they? For Adam was the first man, at least according to the Bible. It would depend upon what terms one chose within which to view the situation.

[...] Now, some tribes ate the elders. [...] They then killed and ate the wise elders. [...] They killed them mercifully, and then they ate them so that the wisdom could become a part of the brave and so that, in one way, immortality could be achieved, in that the elders would then feel that they were a part of the tribe and part of the flesh and blood of the tribe. And this was believed by all, and this was not feared by the elders. The elders preferred it rather than to be banished and left the prey of animals or to die of starvation and slow death outside of the tribe. [...]

[...] Both share also the possibility of accelerated creative vitality—activity that the elder great artists, or the elder great statesmen, have always picked up and used to magnify their own abilities. [...]

[...] For another thing, however, elders were highly necessary and respected for the information they had acquired about the world. [...]

[...] (Why isn’t Eve’s age given in the Bible?) Enoch, the fifth elder listed after Seth, lived for a mere 365 years, but sired Methuselah, who at 969 years is the oldest individual recorded in the Bible. [...]

(My first question about Van Elder shook her up a little, she said. [...] The next word, she now speculated, could have been either Elder or Older; Jane said now that she didn’t realize this until she voiced the idea.

[...] Van (pause) Elder. [...]

(The Van Elder name was not specifically familiar to me, although it could be said to have a familiar sound. [...]

[...] Looking backward in time, Plato heard the story of Atlantis from his maternal uncle, Critias the Younger, who was told about it by his father, Critias the Elder, who heard about it through the works of the Athenian statesman and lawgiver, Solon, who had lived two centuries earlier [c. 640–559 B.C.]; and Solon got the story of Atlantis from Egyptian priests, who got it from ———? [...]

[...] People lived in houses shared by their elders that had earlier been shared by their elders backward through family lines, so that daily experience and family incident was not nearly as restrained to the present in your terms. [...]

[...] He was called Marcus Porcius the Younger; his great grandfather, Marcus Porcius the Elder, was a Roman statesman who lived from 234—149 BC.

And then what a hue and cry you will set up against your elders. And how you will protest that the elder generation has ruined the world. [...]

[...] Some of you will face two generations from now problems that you do not now accept, and you will be the younger generation once more, out with fine, bright and gaudy banners to show your elders and fight for right, and I wish you luck! [...]

[...] Rochester or Winchester… Fairly elderly. [...]

[...] fairly elderly. [...]

[...] Even more unfortunate are the special policies for the elderly that detail in advance all of the most stereotyped and distorted concepts about health and age. [...]

The second health area I want to touch upon concerns the elderly. [...]

[...] You were taught how to construct sentences in school, and you learned how to speak from your elders. [...]

Your people learned them from their elders, and they were called Speakers. [...]

[...] An elderly couple recently moved from the second house to a home for the aged. [...] All of this is quite natural: Many homes are for sale because the elderly can care for them no longer.”

[...] The elderly widow fears living alone now, and hopes her children will take her in. [...]

[...] He sternly suggested that the elderly and those with certain diseases make appointments at once for flu shots.

Once again, the elderly were singled out. [...]

[...] Its very emotional vividness tells him he is not old and complacent, and its financial elements certainly make clear to him that he is not seeping in elderly security. [...]

[...] Often as a result of the conflict between the need for obedient behavior toward adults, and the need for independent growth and activity that might well be judged as rebellious by the elders.

[...] Another student mentioned an elderly father. [...]

[...] Miss Callahan is an elderly retired teacher who lives in the front apartment of our second floor here. [...]