“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Begin, Sadat, and Carter are each “God-fearing” men, sincere believers in their causes. How can “God” be for the Jews and against their enemies, the Arabs, as the Jews suppose, and how can God be for the Arabs and against the Jews, as the Arabs suppose? “Decent” God-fearing men, then, must indeed question how the same God can have such different views, and at least wonder if their own nationalistic histories and prejudices may not have distorted the interpretation of God’s word somewhere along the way.

Your communication system is indeed bringing such issues to light more and more. People are faced with beliefs other than their own, and discover that the “enemy” or the “infidel,” or the terrorist or the respected head of state, while having completely different views, are each convinced of their own uprightness and virtue.

Since this “one God” of Carter’s, however, can obviously have such different ideas, saying one thing to one nation and the opposite to another, then men will begin to check their nationalistic lists of divine instructions, discovering that to one extent or another this God would seem to have told several different groups of people that they were chosen above others, that their enemies would be vanquished, and that they might indeed defend their divine rights through whatever unfortunate but necessary means.

Men have indeed done more harm in the name of God than they have ever done when pursuing their own greedy or ignorant ways. In the name of God, of course, the artifacts of civilizations have been destroyed, libraries ruined—and when such harm is done, in the name of God, then men are trained to feel no guilt. Indeed, their holy sense of righteousness rises in proportion to the harm they have perpetrated against God’s enemy, no matter who or what this might be.

Your ideas about foreign countries, allies and enemies, also have a vital role to play in how you handle your own bodily defenses. People who are afraid that their nation will be invaded by an enemy will often also consider viruses or diseases to be enemies, ever about to threaten their personal survival. [...]

(“Will Continental accept her novel, Enemies and Beloved Ones?”)

(“What publisher should Jane send Enemies to next?”)

[...] Divinely inspired crimes could only be acceptable against the enemies of organized Christendom, or against its own subservients. [...]

[...] Revelation and reason seemed to be enemies. [...]

[...] He decided to think of his symptoms as an enemy, and to give them form in another plane of reality where he could do battle with them. [...]

[...] Now evil does not exist in those terms, and even illness or fear is not necessarily an enemy, as much as an aid to understanding and the means to a greater end.

Now in the first place the symptoms are not evil nor his enemies, but methods of instruction that he has himself chosen; and if ever he imagines them isolated in such a fashion, they should be imagined instead as being projected out from him into the whole of the universe where they are absorbed harmlessly, and their energy used to the greater good.

[...] At the same time your own physical being knows better, and basically cannot accept such a concept.² So in daily life you may project this idea of unworth outward onto another person, who seems then to be your enemy; or upon another nation. In general, you might select animals to play the part of the enemy, or members of another religion, or political parties.

[...] You will not realize that you actually consider yourself the enemy. You will be so convinced that your projection (onto others) is the enemy that there will be no slack to take up, for all of your feelings of self-hate or self-fear will be directed outward.

The best way to protect yourselves from an enemy, for example, is to exaggerate your enemy’s power and evil qualities, and this is somehow supposed to bring about peace. [...]

All that was not Aryan, really, became the enemy. [...]

[...] Politically, many today believe that Russia is “the enemy,” and that therefore any means may be taken to destroy that country. [...]

The enemy is obvious. [...] You must out-think the enemy nation before you yourself are destroyed. [...]

On a national basis the characteristics or qualities will be projected outward onto an enemy. [...]

[...] At the same time all of those flamboyant, creative, spontaneous, emotional surges that emerge normally from the unconscious become feared and projected outward, then, upon enemies, other races and creeds.

[...] Will I be greeted by gods or demons, enemies, or beloved ones? [...]

You may find that someone you considered merely an enemy actually deserved your love and respect, for example, and you will then treat him accordingly. [...]

[...] Those who did not agree with him, he saw as moral enemies. [...]

He was as paranoid as any poor deluded man or woman is who feels, without evidence, that he or she is being pursued by creatures from space, earthly or terrestrial enemies, or evil psychic powers. [...]

[...] They are not enemies. [...]

[...] You cannot kick an “enemy” who does not live in your village or country; an enemy, furthermore, whom you do not even know personally. (Intently:) Again, to that extent instant physical action in time is not the same kind of life-and-death factor that it was when a man was faced with an enraged animal, or enemy, in close combat.

[...] God behaved exactly as an enraged child would, had he those powers, sending thunder and lightning and fire against his enemies, destroying them. [...]

[...] In many ancient, now-forgotten tribal religions, recourse was also made to the gods to turn nature against the enemy. [...]

[...] These denied emotional states may be projected outward upon others — an enemy in a war, a neighbor. Even if you find yourself hating the symbolic enemy, you will also be aware of a deep attraction.

[...] This same man, however, who would not purposely entertain fantasies of such nature under normal conditions, may in time of war imagine himself killing the enemy with the greatest feelings of holy joy and righteousness.

[...] According to your own belief system, you may trust the integrity of your body and instead project this guilt out upon others — onto a personal enemy, or a particular race, creed or color.

[...] They were immediate allies, not enemies.

It feels the concentration of energy that has collected to form the rejected action patterns, and indeed it may feel that this unified rejection pattern is then even an enemy to its own superiority. [...]

[...] You believe that the intuitions and the intellect are natural enemies, and they are not so there need be no battleground between with you in the middle. [...]