“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Someone—I forgot who—once said, “unless you become like little children, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.”

[...] Christianity has believed in a heaven and a hell, a purgatory, and reckoning; and so, at death, to those who so believe in these symbols, another ceremony is enacted, and the guides take on the guises of those beloved figures of Christian saints and heroes.

Christian dogma speaks of the ascension of Christ, implying of course a vertical ascent into the heavens, and the development of the soul is often discussed in terms of direction. [...]

[...] For heaven’s sake, Ruburt, get yourself a match. [...]

[...] What a heavenly smile indeed! [...]

[...] To make ideals practical and to make them work, that is some job, and it is much better to face them and try to make them real and make some kind of pleasantness here than cry because you do not have heaven on earth. [...]

[...] The paintings themselves seemed to make the heavenly horde come alive. [...]

At about the same time many intelligent persons were realizing that organized religions’ ideas of God, and of heaven and hell, were distorted, unjust, and smacked of children’s fairy tales. [...]

[...] There is indeed as you conceive of it no hell or heaven. [...]

[...] For heaven’s sake, Ruburt, get yourself a match. [...]

[...] The rich would never attain heaven. [...]

[...] It can shoot into the heavens in great displays, or creep into the tiny crevices of earth, equally powerful.”

[...] The story sprang out of the hilarious way she’s taken to addressing Mitzi in regard to that cat’s gifts from heaven; I’ve been telling her that the affair would make a great children’s book.³ In the several pages she wrote this evening Jane presented her material quite humorously, in a manner reminiscent of, yet different from, her second Seven novel, The Further Education of Oversoul Seven, and her Emir.⁴

Dictation: You view the heavens and the universe, the planets and the stars, from your own focus — a highly limited one in certain terms.

[...] A new era will indeed begin — not, now, a heaven on earth, but a far more sane and just world, in which man is far more aware of his relationship with his planet and of his freedom within time.

[...] And what’s my role in all of this, for heaven’s sake (to make a pun)? [...]

[...] Hell, for example, could not exist unless you have the concept of a heaven. [...]

[...] In other words, a physical heaven and hell.

Return o my brother, counterpart of heaven,

The idea of heaven, for all of its distortions, has operated as a theoretical framework, assuring the intellect of its survival. [...]