“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] And so you do not have to ask yourself questions and you do not, yourself, have to probe the nature of good and evil because you accept what has been told you. [...]

[...] Until you can honor and love yourselves you cannot honor nor love anything else or anyone else, and as long as you see yourselves as guilty, then you will see guilt in every other person you look at, and you will see evil in the nature of reality. [...]

[...] The mother had an absolute terror of cats, and considered them the personification of evil. [...] She was extremely unbalanced, the mother, emotionally, and considered her husband’s mother, who was a foolishly naive, good-natured and innocent thing, as a personification of evil.

[...] He has since grown to like all animals but at the moment of the attack, you see, the cat instantly became this personification of evil to him, and again his primary concern was to flee. [...]

This is entirely different from Ruburt’s attempt with his creature, for he was trying to form an evil creature, in those terms, to slay—a thing conscious of its own evil in those terms, and that is always dangerous. [...]

[...] His intentions are evil. [...]

[...] When you see evil everywhere in man’s intent — in your own actions and those of others — then you set yourself up against your own existence, and that of your kind. [...]

[...] In fact, that kind of rage is the mark of a perfectionist caught in what seems to be the grasp of a world not only imperfect, but evil.

[...] Your ideas of good and evil affect not only your behavior with others, but your activity in a community and in the world at large.

[...] The old are not granted characteristics of wisdom, but feared as evil, bad, undesirable or frightening. [...]

He was also however symbolic of evil to Ruburt, and to some extent then conquered simply through the natural passage of events. [...]

(To Nadine.) It often occurs that those who have strong healing abilities focus upon illness and sickness and are obsessed with it in the same way that many ministers, given to thoughts of good and God, are obsessed with the idea of the devil and evil. [...] If you will forgive me, it is somewhat like a woman with very earthly desires, but strong abilities in that line, who rigorously refuses to use them and dwells instead on thoughts of their evil, holding them back simply because she realizes they are so strong. [...]

[...] It becomes in your mind the symbol of evil which attacks you in your mind in small ways to small illnesses. [...]

[...] 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.”

(Pause at 11:00.) Trust no person who tells you that you are evil or guilty by reason of your nature or your physical existence, or any such dogma. [...]

[...] One emotion is not good and another one evil.

You may be convinced that human nature is evil, or that no one is safe from another’s aggression, or that people are motivated mainly by greed. [...]

[...] If you think that men are evil, however, you are often not able to examine that as a belief, but take it as a condition of reality.

“He tried to destroy the ‘animal of evil,’ and it bit him back. Now, evil does not exist in those terms, and even illness or fear are not necessarily enemies, as much as aids to understanding and means to a greater end. [...]

Seth went on to say: “The evil that Ruburt imagined he was projecting outward does not exist, but because he believed it did, he formed the materialization from his fears. [...] In larger terms, there is no evil, only your own lack of perception, but I know this is difficult for you to accept.

[...] … Ruburt tried to separate from himself all those elements he considers negative, and fight them at once, almost as if in so doing he could remove evil from the universe.

Ideas of good and evil are exaggerated, cut off from each other. [...]

What protection, then, but to effectively project these outside of the self — impulses of good as well as evil — and hence effectively block organized action?

[...] Like so many others they believe that self-expression is dangerous, evil, and bound to lead to suffering — self-inflicted or otherwise.

[...] The desire to die is considered cowardly, even evil, by some religions — and yet behind that desire lies all of the vitality of the will to life, which may already be seeking for new avenues of expression and meaning.

Forget ideas of good and evil for our discussion. For one thing, men who perform seemingly evil acts but who believe those acts to be right and justified, can be carried along in relative safety for some time before their errors catch up with them, because the power of their own self-approval is so strong.

[...] Again, what is the ideal, the good impulse, and why does it seem that your experience is so far from that ideal that it appears to be evil?

He often projected these onto his mother, so that she became the symbol of all evil, at various times in any case. [...]

[...] He was constantly told to slow down, to use discipline, and this reinforced the fear that what he was, was fearful, powerful, evil, and best hidden.

[...] When you begin trusting yourselves, you start by taking it for granted that to some extent at least you have not trusted yourself or your impulses in the past: You have thought that impulses were dangerous, disruptive, or even evil. [...]

[...] Many of you believe, moreover, that the physical self’s very nature is evil, that its impulses, left alone, will run in direct opposition to the good of the physical world and society, and fly in the face of the deeper spiritual truths of inner reality. [...]

[...] In doing some of these exercises, you might come across images of masturbation, homosexual or lesbian encounters, or simply old sexual fantasies, and immediately backtrack because your beliefs may tell you that these are evil.

[...] At the same time, such beliefs convince them that the self is evil. [...]