“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Some ancient religions put the existence of gods there, and saw the spirits of each living thing as existing primarily in that invisible medium of reality. [...] Christianity saw it as heaven, inhabited by God the Father, His angels, the saints, and [the] deceased faithful.

[...] Christ’s “father” was, however, the God who was indeed aware of every sparrow that fell, who knew of every creature’s existence, whatever its species or kind. [...]

[...] You may, on the other hand, see the vengeful hand of an angry God in such instances, where the deity once again uses nature to bring man to his knees. [...]

2. I underlined the word story (like this) in Seth’s material just to remind the reader that the Christ figure symbolizes our idea of God and his relationships. [...]

I equate this with three events: a movie I saw on TV the night before last where Sean Connery sees through the god of his people after reading The Wizard of Oz; a Raggedy Ann doll Rob found in the yard and brought in that reminded me of my old Suzie; and a part of a review I read yesterday on a book about death. [...]

[...] There were many details given—but overall the woman felt that she herself had made a bargain with God, offering her own life instead of her mother’s. The mother recovered under the most unexpected circumstances, and a short time later the daughter came down with the same symptoms. [...]

[...] Ruburt wrote that one did not have to bargain with God for one’s life—an excellent point. [...]

1. Yesterday Jane finished typing the final draft of Chapter 2 for God of Jane. All of her work on the book is still plastic, however. As she wrote in her journal today: “Great day … began typing Chapter Three of God of Jane and the book really started taking off; I’m just tickled; I did great, and added lots of on-the-spot stuff as I typed. [...]

[...] To the child a parent seems like God and, therefore, a child feels guilty, feels afraid that the parent will cast him out, particularly the mother, so the child then feels he will be completely abandoned. [...]

[...] In learning what you are you will discover what reality is, and again what the nature of God is. [...]

[...] We do not have a static god, recreating himself as he is in various guises. Using those terms, we have a god constantly in the process of creation, action acting upon itself, always with new possibilities, each existence bringing forth new varieties. [...]

[...] It was considered a blight of the gods, for example, to ever return as a woman.

[...] In this life you concentrated upon the search for knowledge—and even in that particular past life, power was important only because it was considered the gift to believers from God, and therefore the natural result of knowledge.

[...] You had no belief in the conventional gods, yet you were supposed to be conquering lands in their name. [...]

[...] No god in a giant ivory tower says, “This will happen February 15 at 8:05.” And if no god predicts, then I do not see the point of doing so myself.

Ruburt once received a few interesting pages from a world view, in which the author spoke, in archaic terms, of being a person who was a “life-taster,” sent by God to taste the quality of man’s experience, so that God might know what new ingredients might be added.

You are as empty, symbolically, open and vacant, as a newborn child, ready now only to partake of God’s pure foods, determined to avoid technology’s poisonous effects. [...]

[...] So in certain terms God’s fruits and vegetables are not entirely pure in spiritual terms, as many food faddists imply.

[...] Along with Dreams, Jane is back working on If We Live Again and God of Jane. [...]

(This afternoon and evening, and somewhat to my surprise, Jane has been talking about discussing her physical symptoms in her new book, God of Jane. I thought her changed attitude stemmed from her long phone conversation with Tristine Rainer, of Dan Curtis Associates, a television production company that wants to option her life story. [...]

It was the trigger that led to his decision to reveal himself more fully in his book (God of Jane). [...]

[...] In quiet moments of your existence… (faster here) you will know your part in creation… uniqueness, and your own individuality (now slower), for through your own individuality what you call God expresses himself and is known.

[...] uniqueness, and your own individuality (now slower), for through your own individuality what you call God expresses himself and is known. [...]

[...] You see within yourselves the spirit of eternal vitality, and you honor it and you treat yourselves in that manner as gods. [...]

[...] Those events are too complicated to go into here, but Jane is devoting considerable space to them in her own God of Jane.

[...] Disastrous events thought to originate in a god’s wrath could at least be understood in that context, but many of you live in a subjective world in which the events of your lives appear to have no particular reason — or indeed sometimes seem to happen in direct opposition to your wishes….

Over the weekend we’d signed the contracts with our publisher, Prentice-Hall, for Mass Events and God of Jane, and I mailed them this morning. [...]

This tale, I admit, is far more difficult to understand than a simple story of God’s creation of the world, or its actual production in a meaningless universe through the slippery hands of chance—and yet my story is more magnificent because elements of its truth will find resonance in the minds and hearts of those open enough to listen. [...]

[...] No god in a giant ivory tower says ‘This will happen February 15 at 8:05.’; and if no god predicts, then I do not see the point of doing so myself.”