“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The dominant personality can be likened on your plane to the dominant entity. [...] As the personality on your plane actually changes, expands and grows according to its potentialities, as it presents at various times varied images to the world, such as—if you’ll excuse me for using clichés—a smiling face, a sorrowful face, but is still basically the same personality, so on another level does the entity present at various times a varied appearance and speak in a different voice. As the smiling and the sorrowful face also express and expand the personality, so too do the various reincarnated personalities express and expand the entity as a whole.

The entity is the sum of these layers, having all of this knowledge at conscious command at all times. [...] They are in all places, intertwined with paths leading from one to the other and with the echo of the entity’s voice resounding through each interconnecting corridor.

[...] The physical human form is extremely important to all entities, and they retain its idea shape for a long while. [...] The entity in itself may only be a part of something else.

The entity never dominates or tries to dominate a previous personality. Sometimes these personalities also travel divergent ways for their own benefit and with the entity’s full consent.

[...] When I say as I have that the overall entity is neither male or female, and yet refer to various entities such as Joseph and Ruburt, which are definitely male names, I merely mean that in the overall essence the entity refers or identifies itself more with male characteristics, or so-called male characteristics, than with the female.

[...] Then you said it was another entity we were seeing there, however dimly.”)

[...] The entity never was an earthling—completely different plane. [...]

(“How was it possible for an entity from such a different plane to intrude like that upon our plane?”

[...] The three men were part of one entity, gaining physical existence in one time. [...] There are reasons why the entity did not return as one person. For one thing the full consciousness of an entity would be too strong for one physical vehicle. For another the entity wanted a more diversified environment than could otherwise be provided. The entity was born once as John the Baptist, and then he was born in two other forms. [...]

[...] Generally speaking then, individual entities choose the system which suits their personalities and general leanings. [...]

It goes without saying that many entities have no experience with your physical reality, and never will. [...]

[...] There was constant conscious communication between these three portions of the one entity, though they were born and buried at different dates. [...]

[...] These personalities are a part of your particular entity. Entities are obviously subdivisions of the whole, or All That Is. You retain your individuality as part of an entity, and the entity retains its individuality as a part of an energy gestalt.

[...] You are your own entity. [...]

[...] They are very highly individualized psychological entities. [...]

[...] She started to feel or experience directly the concept concerning the advanced psychological entity realities, but fell somewhat short.

[...] While such situations as Peggy’s illness are chosen by the entity, the individual is always left to work out its own solution. Complete recovery, illness or early death, for example, are not preordained on the part of the entity. [...]

If the overall entity feels that the problem has been sufficiently solved, then it will end this life situation. But there is also a connection here with John, and the wife’s personality will not leave until John has also sufficiently achieved all benefits from the relationship that his entity hoped for.

The problem is a challenge set up by the entity for one of its personalities, but the outcome is left up to the individual. [...]

[...] No one save the individual entity knows in what directions weaknesses lie that need correction, and it sets about forming life dramas in which these can be faced.

[...] The entity, however, is not so bound. Naturally the subconscious is always linked with the entity, and merely attempts in these cases to imitate the powers of the entity itself. [...]

The entity, after all, does just this in creating the various personalities. What are they but projections or fragments from the entity itself? What the entity does however it does consciously and with purpose, since it is by definition beneath consciousness, and without consciousness there is no purpose.

It is obvious, however, that all these powers of the entity cannot be vested in its various personalities. [...]

This designation does not include the entity as a whole, however. The personality does have access to the entity, but the personality does not contain the entity. In other words the whole self as it exists on your plane does not contain the entity, although communication between the entity and the whole self can and does take place by means of the inner senses.

The present personality cannot travel to the complete entity, again because of these very real laws; that is, while caught in or under the influence of the field of your plane, the personality cannot travel to the entity. The personality can and should be aware of the whole self of which it is a part, and that part of the whole self which the ego ignores, is the one part which can enter into the field influence of the entity, though it cannot travel to the entity itself.

If you will think (I hope) for simplicity’s sake of the whole self as it exists on your plane with its physical body, conscious ego and inner self as one field unit, which is also part of the larger or more complete entity as one field unit within another, then perhaps it will not be too much for you to imagine the connection, or one of the connections, between the entity field and the whole-self field, which is on your plane as being the inner senses—that is, the inner senses are one of the connectives between these two fields.

[...] In this manner also the so-called whole self and entity are connected, in this case by many diverse patterns, the inner senses being composed of the same elements of which the entity itself is composed.

Actually, the dominant personality, in your terms, can be compared to the dominant entity. [...] As the personality on your plane actually changes, expands and grows to its potentialities, as it presents at various times varied images to the world (such as — if you’ll forgive me for using cliches — a smiling face, a sorrowful face), but is still basically the same personality, so on another level does the entity present at various times a varied appearance and speak in a different voice. As the smiling and sorrowful faces also express and expand the personality, so, too, do the various reincarnated personalities express and expand the entity as a whole.

[...] The entity never dominates a previous personality. Sometimes these personalities also travel divergent ways for their own benefit and with the entity’s full consent.

It is often practical that entities or their various personalities visit one plane before another. [...] … You could say also that an entity visits all planes simultaneously, as it is possible for you to visit one particular state, county and city at one time. [...]

Without the stages of childhood, adulthood and old age, the personality could not expand to its fullest degree, and without various incarnations, the entity cannot expand…

“Individual life, or rather the life of any present individual, could be legitimately compared to the dream of an entity. While the individual enjoys his given number of years, these are but a flash to the entity. The entity is concerned with these years in somewhat the same manner with which you are concerned with your dreams. As you give inner purpose and organization to your dreams, and obtain insight and satisfaction from them though they involve only a part of your life, so the entity to some extent directs and gives purpose and organization to his personalities.

“Infinities of diversity and opportunity are given to the personalities by the entity. … Your own dreams are fragments, even as in a larger sense you are fragments of your entity.” Seth also said that an inner part of each personality was aware of its relationship with its entity—and that this portion did man’s breathing for him and controlled those bodily processes that we consider involuntary.

[...] Then he went on to give us some information concerning entities and the various personalities that compose them. Rob was particularly curious about the differences between entities and personalities.

[...] I’m using the entity name that Seth gave him, since his family doesn’t understand his interest in psychic phenomena—a situation we’ve encountered more than once. [...]

Entity usually 1 at a time. Fragments not on earth plane at same time as entity. [...]

Took that long for (s no) entities to build human images.

[...] Entities coming and going.

[...] It is oftentimes practical that entities or their various personalities visit one plane before another. [...] A certain succession is merely more useful for the entity as a whole.

This sort of experience involves a sudden psychic awareness, straight from the entity, that all boundaries are for practical purposes only. [...]

[...] A plane is formed for entities as patterns for fulfillment on various levels. [...]

In other terms, you could say that an entity visits all planes simultaneously, as it is possible for you to visit a certain state, county, and city at one time. [...]

Fragment entity, uneasy with present personality. [...] He is a part of his last mother’s entity.

[...] Entity is split during incarnations. [...]

Part of same entity, or counterpart?

(“I think part of the same entity.”)

That probable self can become a whole entity if it so chooses. Now some selves do not choose to become entities. [...]

([Ned:] “That would create more entities to reincarnate? Instead of having a hundred entities to reincarnate, that hundred can multiply.”)

([Ned:] “That might be a reason why there are more entities around now, more are choosing to reincarnate?”)

Indeed, within each entity is the possibility for unlimited personalities. [...]

[...] Split entities. One whole entity may need several manifestations, even at simultaneous so-called times.

(“Are animals entities?”)

[...] Fragments of strong entity, broken off. [...]

(“Seth, why does such a thing happen to an entity?”)

[...] The vaster entity of which you are part follows your progress as easily as you follow your own through the days. [...] In those terms the entity wakes up as a different person each day, in a different century, each life seeming like a day in its level of experience. [...]

[...] So the entity in its own way possesses what you can think of as future neuronal structures. [...]

(Slowly at 10:03:) Each part is vital, and in one way or another there is instant communication between the smallest and the largest, the cobweb and the spider, the man, the entity, and the star — and each spins its own web of probabilities from which other universes continually spring.

A man was crucified, but he was not one who made up the Christ entity. [...] None of the men who made up that entity were crucified. [...]

[...] See Chapter 21 of Seth Speaks for more on the Christ entity. According to history, Christ was crucified, and the other two members of Seth’s Christ entity, John the Baptist and St. Paul, were beheaded. [...]

Now: the message of the Christ entity was, in religious terms “You are all children of God—the ‘sinner’ as well as the saint.” [...]

The Christ entity knew the vitality, power, and strength of myths. [...]

Ruburt and myself were offshoots of the same entity, as I have mentioned. [...] The entity was a particularly strong one, and many of its egos have made the decision to turn into entities.

It does therefore contain within it the knowledge of its experiences upon your plane, though such an entity can spring from any plane. This of course represents the most extraordinary possibility, and such an entity can, if it is so propelled by its own strength, exist upon a variety of planes, carrying along with it knowledge of all previous planes; and each of its outer egos have the same opportunities. [...]

[...] Yet an ego, an outer ego, cannot choose to be an entity in any case until its comprehension attains a certain degree. And now, my dear patient Joseph, may I tell you also that you are part of that same entity; and this is one of the main reasons why I am able to communicate with you both.

Other egos choose instead to become entities of their own, in which case this magnificent outer ego becomes in turn an inner ego, which then from its own unfulfilled desires, abilities and initiatives are formed new outer egos which once again seek fulfillment.

[...] Other entities might spread their creativity and focus more equally over many lives. But in all cases the entity is simply the part of the self that cannot fit into one life alone. [...] In physical life, you cannot take your entire entity with you—only the part of it that you call yourself. [...]

Each entity, for example, is different from any other, and will seek different kinds of focuses and intents. [...] One entity might focus its main energy, intent, and drive in one particular earth life, filled with incredible creativity, so that that “focus life” becomes a central core for all other existences, the foundation and the source of energy for all other lives.

[...] In a manner of speaking, future lives are not “there” as completed entities to be grasped, either. [...]

[...] It is, therefore, the focus of your attention that delineates your time period, and provides a psychological stance from which you will then view all other selves, or all other experiences of your entity. [...]

symbiosis—in which the survival and health of each microscopic entity is dependent upon its own identity and its relationship with others. The needs of any microscopic entity are its own. [...] Yet those needs, fulfilled, with seeming selfishness, are precisely those that are required by other entities as well. Nor does such an entity hold its own needs isolated, but “considered” them as a part of a cooperative venture.

He is a part of the overall entity that did become physical, although now in your terms that portion of his existence is finished. [...] This last sentence referred I believe to Seth’s entity itself, from inflections given.) In one way I am a whole that is more than the sum of its parts, while I am also a part of more than I am. [...]

[...] Just above us is Seth; above both is the new development that we have come to call Seth’s entity; this is the peak of the cone. [...]

(We wondered why Seth’s entity chose to give this data, since it seemed Seth could have done so. [...]

[...] His appearance was abrupt, although expected, and as usual was forthright, strong in comparison with that of his entity, and very emphatic and humorous. [...]