“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] Unfortunately, weight is attacked as ‘bad’ or ‘evil’; symbolic moral judgments enter the act. [...]

[...] No one is punished in one life for “evil” activities in a previous one.

[...] Millions of people therefore believed in a reality in which they were deprived of the idea of a soul, and burdened by the concept of a very unreliable, if not definitely evil, subconscious. [...]

You may feel that the flesh is inherently bad or evil, that its appetites are wrong. [...]

A cat playfully killing a mouse and eating it is not evil. [...]

[...] It would not attempt to cut off all blood, considering it evil. [...]

In the next chapter, let us consider more closely your ideas about good and evil, the morality of the self, and examine the ways in which your ideas are reflected in your lives.

The attitude even of doctors and nurses toward the handling of such patients shows only too clearly not only their fear of the disease itself, but their fear of homosexuality, which has been considered evil and forbidden by many religions. [...]

[...] Our friend might also be convinced that he himself is evil, unworthy, or even depraved, the lowest of men or women. [...]

[...] Your ideas of good and evil were highly polarized. [...]

[...] But when this is not spontaneously admitted and when out of fear of evil it is repressed this is when it gains additional charge. [...]

“By the time” that the Garden of Eden tale reached your biblical stories, the entire picture had already been seen in the light of concepts about good and evil that actually appeared, in those terms, a long time later in man’s development. [...]

I am not saying that man is being manipulated, but that in a larger framework, even his seemingly evil acts have constructive meaning. [...]

[...] They will see the world in black-and-white terms again, with good and evil clearly delineated in the most simplistic terms, and thus escape a slippery, thematic universe, in which man’s feelings seemed to give him no foothold at all.

(11:16 P.M. I’d say that much of Seth’s excellent delivery since break is related to some of his material in the 825th session, including this passage: “I put the word ‘good’ in quotes for now because of your misconceptions about the nature of good and evil, which we will discuss somewhat later.”)

Dictation: You are obsessed with sexual behavior when you proclaim it evil or distasteful or debasing, hide it, and pretend that it is primarily “animalistic.” [...]

[...] Your misunderstandings, your crimes, and your atrocities, real as they are, are seldom committed out of any intent to be evil, but because of severe misinterpretations about the nature of good, and the means that can be taken toward its actualization. [...]

[...] They were considered evil instead. [...]

[...] It can be told now what it yearned to be told then—that it was indeed good, and not bad or evil, that it could indeed use its curiosity without the threat of abandonment, and that it could trust its own creativity and love of play. [...]

The main issues with which the Sinful Self was concerned were focused most clearly in Mass Events and God of Jane, since more than the other books they represent a direct confrontation “attacking” the very legitimacy of the entire concept of sin and evil, insisting more dramatically on the good intent of man’s basic impulses. [...]

Ideas of good and evil, gods and devils, salvation and damnation, are merely symbols of deeper religious values; cosmic values if you will, that cannot be translated into physical terms.

[...] Behind the frame of good and evil is a far deeper spiritual value. [...]

[...] He still refuses to consider that his problem is a psychological one, instead of disembodied, outside evil voices picking on him. [...]

[...] If an individual sees only evil and desolation in the physical world, it is because he is obsessed with evil and desolation and projects them outward, and closes his eyes to all else. [...]

“If you are in poor physical shape, this does not mean that you are an evil person. [...]

[...] The story says that Eve tempted the male, having him eat of the tree of good and evil, or the tree of knowledge. [...]