“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(“Man was created by God, so that nature only had meaning in relationship to man—man was dominant. [...] The universe wasn’t created by God, and man and nature alike had no meaning, so that thematically man went from being the center of the universe, a special creature, created by God, to a meaningless conglomeration of atoms and molecules, and a meaningless universe, and that philosophical drop was shattering to man. [...]

(The day before yesterday we received the first copy from Prentice-Hall of God of Jane. Today I picked up at the office for her the new reading glasses Jim Adams prescribed for her. [...]

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. [...]

[...] Again, your world was not created, then, by some exteriorized, objectified God who created it from the outside, so to speak, and set it into motion. Many [religious] theorists believe, for example, that such a God created the world in such a fashion, and that the process of decay began at almost the same hypothetical moment that the creation ended.

The Olympic gods were perhaps the most amusing of man’s attempt to deify space travelers. Mixed in here strongly were the ideas of gods mating with earth women. [...]

[...] Some warnings were misunderstood, then, as punishment by the gods for (in quotes) “moral misdoing.”

Because of space travel a visitor might come as a young man, and return some 40 earth years later still appearing as a young man, leading to the idea of immortality and eternal youth of the gods.

(9:58) A note: Ruburt is making some important connections, as he is involved with his book now (The God of Jane). [...]

(This afternoon I mailed to Prentice-Hall the corrected page proofs for The God of Jane.

[...] I told her I was primarily interested in but two things, both personal: her reactions to Mass Events and God of Jane in connection with her symptoms, and what was going on in her backside and hips. [...]

[...] My book and his—that is, Mass Events and God of Jane—both do take public stands. [...]

[...] And the secret sins that you may think lie within you will not upset the gods one whit. [...]

[...] And your feelings toward love, and do not grimace at the term, it is not as bad as the word God, and you can stomach it. [...]

[...] The gods do not dwell in some nirvana innocent of everything that you know. [...]

There is a compassion, a jovial yet understanding one, that I can feel for such activities that is more difficult for you to experience, but in many cases the drama—the gods or devils who seem (underlined) to speak through the board, the sense of importance felt by the participators, the heightened emotional activity—all of these provide often, rich elements of experience otherwise lacking from a mundane daily existence.

[...] Free will is yours, however, and if you decide to ignore these inner realities you can destroy your planet and it will do you no good to cry to a God, for the God would not have destroyed your planet. [...]

[...] When you attempt to objectify All That Is into the nature of a God that exists somewhere outside you, then it seems to you that you must reach outward when instead you must listen inwardly. [...]

(Words lost) you experience—as you listen to my melodious tones and look upon my godly countenance, it is not myself. [...]

Obviously, the mind can use its reasoning abilities, for example, to come to the conclusion that there is a single god behind the functioning of the world, that there are many gods, that divinity is a fantasy, and that the world itself springs from no reasonable source. [...]

[...] (Pause.) There is a cleavage apparent in Ruburt’s distaste of the word God, for example.

In Catholic terms he consecrated himself to God as a child daily. [...]

As long as you believe that either good events or bad ones are meted out by a personified God as the reward or punishment for your actions, or on the other hand that events are largely meaningless, chaotic, subjective knots in the tangled web of an accidental Darwinian world, then you cannot consciously understand your own creativity, or play the role in the universe that you are capable of playing as individuals or as a species. You will instead live in a world where events happen to you, in which you must do sacrifice to the gods of one kind or another, or see yourselves as victims of an uncaring nature.

[...] My God, the whole morning changed when I got that idea. [...]

[...] Many, now — and I am speaking generally — are in the position they are because they so thoroughly believe what all of you believe to a large extent: that you are flawed creatures, spawned by a meaningless universe, or made by a vengeful God and damaged by original sin.

[...] I did grab hold several times, and with the God of Jane book, the new inspiration there—and stuff on following impulses, made some very good improvements. [...]

[...] In the mail for yesterday I found the new cover design for the trade paper edition of The God of Jane — a nice-looking job, we like it. [...]

Many churches are primarily devoted to the repression of high spirits rather than their promotion, and a fear of an almighty God is generated, so that God becomes the bestower of punishment rather than the giver of love. [...]

[...] In those terms, energy cannot be considered without bringing to the forefront questions concerning the nature of God or All That Is, for the terms are synonymous.

[...] “Once” the gods walked the earth, and waged battles in the skies and seas. [...]

[...] In certain terms each person is God, and each person is utterly anonymous, for God is completely personal and completely anonymous.

[...] You tell Ruburt to keep it a secret from Leonard that your rent was raised, or you might move—good God!—while your most intimate personal beliefs and inspirations are given to the world. [...]

[...] For what, dear God? [...]

Believe this all has to do with the above, plus with a strange session held the night before last, in which through me the voice said it was sort of ‘beyond Seth’; the message coming from a higher portion of that personality; tremendous energy seemed to flow through me and the definite, thank God, certainty, that this came from beyond me, and was automatically translated into words at my end. [...]