“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Long pause at 9:55.) The Christ story in the beginning was not nearly as singular and neat as it might now seem, for the finally established official Christ figure was one settled upon from endless versions of a god-man, with which man’s psyche has long been involved: He was the psychic composite, the official Christ, carrying within his psychological personage echoes of old and new gods alike—a figure barely begun, comma, to be filled out in time, although originating outside of it (again, all very intently).

[...] The archaic concept of God nicely covered such matters. [...]

[...] Poverty was their penance, and it was considered a sacrilege to try to help those whom God had so cursed. [...]

(Jane continued: “But that devil image comes from a long pagan line of earth gods, and always represented the innate knowledge inherent even in the earth itself. [...] Religion tried to make the devil into a black shadow of God, His counterpoint and yet opposite, but man forgot what counterpoint meant. [...]

[...] It stands in man’s dreams as belonging to God: the power of the universe (intently). [...]

Fundamentalists think of nuclear power as a force that God might use, say, to destroy the world. [...]

“This may be the kind of play in which the ‘gods’ indulge, from which creations grow, sprawling out in all directions. We may be responding to the gods in ourselves — those inner sparks of knowing that defy our own three-dimensional knowledge.

[...] We call it the Seth material, and it deals with such topics as the nature of physical matter, time, and reality, the god concept, probable universes, health, and reincarnation. [...]

There will be a chapter on probable gods and probable systems.

[...] Jane still has on hand the contracts for Mass Events and God of Jane waiting for these to be straightened out: amended with Tam’s promised “superamendment” that’s supposed to protect us in the rights departments, paperback covers, and all the rest; jacket copy, etc. Prentice-Hall even wanted to have Jane sign contracts giving them the right to take money from Mass Events to pay for God of Jane. [...]

[...] “Thank God for relaxation,” I told myself again and again as I fell asleep, hoping the effects would rejuvenate me. [...]

[...] Your music was your god and your purpose for living. [...]

(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. [...]

[...] And out of their great creativity and from themselves because, in your terms, in your terms, they were a race of gods. [...]

[...] Old ideas of the survival of the fittest, conventional evolutionary processes, gods and goddesses, cannot hope to explain the “mystery of the universe”—but when we use our own abilities gladly and freely, we come so close to being what we are that sometimes we come close to being what the universe is. [...]

[...] I’m positive, I said, that she became worse because of that book’s publication, along with the forthcoming publication of God of Jane, probably later this week. I for one am holding my breath in the hope and trust that God of Jane’s issuance doesn’t also contribute to a worsening of her symptoms. [...]

[...] The archaic concept of God (at that time) nicely covered such matters. [...] Poverty was their penance, and it was considered a sacrilege to try to help those whom God had cursed. [...]

[...] Very briefly: The creationists believe that God created the universe (including the earth, obviously) around 10,000 years ago. [...]

[...] He will finish his book (God of Jane), and do beautifully with it. [...]

(To Arnold.) And my congratulations here to our African God for the dream which was indeed quite significant. [...]

1. In recent weeks Jane herself has been quite intrigued by the idea of “personal centering,” as she put it in her notes for God of Jane. [...] It’ll probably end up in God of Jane, but I’d like to present it here, too:

If this were fully understood you see, then there would not be the necessity of looking for some god. I am certainly not going into the God concept at this time, though you can be certain that I will cover it thoroughly, since it is itself an idea camouflage covering something much different.

[...] You are familiar I am sure with the old religious Christian dictum that God always was and always will be, and this is considered a religious mystery. [...]

[...] You cannot divorce philosophy from action, and the cruelty in slaughterhouses would not be perpetrated if it were not for distorted philosophies dealing with the survival of the fittest on the one hand, and the egotistical assumption that God gave man animals to do with as man wished.

[...] The gods have fun, and if you listen you can hear their laughter. [...]

[...] Now it has been said often that there is a god, so there must be a devil — or if there is good, there must be evil. [...]

[...] In some ways, men in those times could not understand the concept of a god without the concept of a devil.

[...] Judy said the latest now is that six patients—including Jane—are to stay where they are in Surgical 3. “Thank God,” Jane said. [...]

[...] She’s been using it ever since, though — until late last night, that is, when she finally agreed that she did have the definitive and very original title that she’d been searching for all along: The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto. [...]

There was at the time a secret group called “Followers of the Motherhood of God.” [...]