“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] The dream (last night) reflected and updated old Sumari traditions that honored God as a god of festivals, of celebration, traditions, that built upon the idea of life itself as a celebration. [...]

[...] Laurel pointed out a number of forceful passages Jane wrote on cultural acceptance in The God of Jane in 1980 — the same year in which she dictated The Magical Approach for Seth. (Prentice-Hall published The God of Jane in 1981.)

April 12 have a “dream” that a man is talking to me about Mass Events primarily, saying that he’s seen a copy and there is nothing about the disclaimer to anger me, that it’s ok, and then mentioning God of Jane. [...]

[...] You may literally perceive certain elements of consciousness in a personified form, as spirit guides, angels, or even as gods and goddesses. [...]

Now, in politics and religion, (Prime Minister) Begin believes it much more practical to deal with the Sinful Self and its “evil prerogatives” than he does with the better self that may indeed represent “the Son of God in man.” [...]

[...] (Long pause.) God helps those who help themselves, may I say sardonically, is the belief behind such actions. [...]

(We’re still in the process of checking the copyedited manuscript for God of Jane, although we’re nearing the end of that job. [...]

[...] Jane had been tempted to pass up the session and continue work on God of Jane, but I reminded her that I could use Seth’s information on the disclaimer in our reply to the legal department at Prentice-Hall. [...]

Ruburt’s own passages (in God of Jane) about the television preacher are a case in point. [...]

(9:30.) The symbolism of the gods, the idea of the gods on Olympus, for example, the crossing-over point at the River Styx — that kind of phenomenon was originated by the Speakers. [...]

[...] For example, conventional images of the Christian God and the saints may be utilized by the Speakers, with all of this highly vivid. [...]

The pressure, in one way, came from two sources; from the conscious (underlined) but still probable individual selves who found themselves alive in a God’s dream, and from the God who yearned to release them. On the other hand you could say that the pressure existed simply on the part of the God, since the creation existed within his dream. [...]

[...] Then on April 14 Ethel Waters calls from Production at Tam’s insistence saying that after Events was delayed till May 14 because of the disclaimer problems; so it would come out the same month as God of Jane.... [...]

(“I became a priest of God to learn what sin is,” she also wrote. [...]

[...] Then, I said, “You can write your own book about all of this, like God of Jane.”

Now, if he is worried about a recurrence (pause), I suggest that he say quite simply: “God’s peace be with me,” before he sleeps, without worrying or arguing with the meaning of the term God.

[...] She resented the authoritative tone of the dream book as she first saw it, thinking again: “Now my God, this Jane Roberts imagines herself an authority.” [...]

God himself did not create reality easily. [...]

[...] You wanted to wring his neck but you said, “God bless you, my fine young fellow. [...]

[...] God bless your life.” [...]

[...] Again, it behooves you to deny your true feelings in order to be spiritual — which is not true spirituality — and you say again, “God bless you, may you go in peace.”

(To Art O.): Even our African god over there can remember his past lives if he will only allow himself to do so.

between the gods and man,

[...] Your gods became masculine then; competitive. [...]

[...] There were gods and goddesses galore, and deities in whose natures the feminine and masculine characteristics merged. [...]

[...] As the species divorced itself from nature, so the animal gods began to vanish. [...]

We will initiate a thorough study of the God concept, which will be begun the next time these friends are present, and will be continued when they visit us at other sessions. That is, whenever they attend a session for a while we will concern ourselves with the God concept and all of its implications.

[...] I am always glad to see our Jesuit, and we shall certainly discuss the God concept for him, tonight or during another session.

(Seth has actually dealt with the God concept fairly often. [...]

[...] This is not human, and it is far less than godly.

[...] Your hearing the voice of God dream (this morning), and your fast car dream (of the morning before) were, then, related. The beginning of our sessions represents to you your own version of hearing the voice of God, in that you felt that it was the first time in your life that in whatever guise, some portion of the universe “had a message for you”—or that you were in contact with anything beyond the ordinary, that at least held hopes for a glimpse of any real knowledge beyond the known.

(Pause.) The trooper, elevated from the ground in the car dream, was another dream version carrying the theme further, though it actually occurred, I believe, before the God dream (the morning before). [...]

[...] “Oh God,” Jane said, using an expression that’s become one of her favorites. [...]

[...] It’s very hard, oh God …”)

[...] Satan represents — in the terms of the story — the part of All That Is, or God, who stepped outside of Himself, so to speak, and became earthbound with His creatures, offering them the free will and choice that “previously” had not been available.

They may find it easy to cluck their tongues at obvious fanatics who cry out for God’s vengeance, and speak about the world’s end in brimstone and ashes. [...]

[...] In some such cases, all of the desirable human attributes are magnified and projected outward into a god or superconsciousness, while all the less admirable characteristics are left to the race and the individual.

[...] This afternoon she finished typing her final version of Chapter 5 for God of Jane.

[...] In that early experience it seemed, surely, that the snake was a living portion of the earth, rising from the bowels of the earth, rising from the hidden source of all earth gods. [...]

[...] Therefore, it possessed an almost magical quality, and the “word” was seen as coming directly from God.

[...] I did believe implicitly in the God in which I was brought up, and in that belief. It was only later that I wondered how such a God would choose me for such a position and then I began to wonder. [...]

[...] Again, in your terms, these are your problems, and no god or devil put them upon you, and there is no one to blame but yourselves. [...]

[...] The truth behind such relationships is inherent in all God-Man, God-Woman, Animal-Man, or Animal-Woman legends and mythology. There are connections, then, between man and the animals and the so-called gods (in small letters), that hint at psychological and natural realities.