“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Man thought once, historically speaking, that there was but one world. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Historically speaking, mankind chose a certain line of development. [...]

They visited another place with important historical connections, about 1437 or 1473. [...]

[...] Those involved have an excellent knowledge of their own backgrounds and histories, of course, but in this state possess also a much larger perspective, in which private and historical backgrounds are seen as a portion of a greater perceivable whole.

[...] Only the most exterior portions of their personalities bowed to the dictates of historical period.

[...] In this state also great vistas of historic pasts and futures may be seen. [...]

[...] When, in historic terms, the race was in the process of adopting a necessary artificial separation of itself from the rest of nature; when it needed to be assured of its abilities to do so; when it took upon itself the task of a particular kind of specialization and individual focus, it needed a religion that would assure it of its abilities.

Christ, as he is known historically, psychically represented man’s probabilities. [...]

[...] Christ, historically speaking, had altered that concept enough so that at least God the Father was not quite as capricious as Jehovah. [...]

[...] The same kind of situation occurred upon all of the other continents during various historical periods.

[...] The private consciousness is forced to contend with world events in a way that is completely new in historical terms. [...]

In the historical time of Christ, I was a man called Millenius, in Rome. [...]

I did not play the part of any towering personality of historical note, but became experienced in the homey and intimate details of daily life, the normal struggle for achievement, the need for love. [...]

Using your historical reference, I returned at the time of the cavemen, operating as a Speaker. [...]

We do not exist in your historical terms, nor have we known physical existence. [...]

According to your intent, your desire, and your beliefs, your ideas intersect with the reality that you know, with physical space and physical time — they become real, in historic terms. In other realities there are different historical terms. [...]

[...] As Warren made similar remarks about the development of individual consciousness through historical times to our point of civilization, Seth suddenly and unexpectedly came through loudly and forcefully:

The Christ drama is a case in point, where private and mass dreams were then projected outward into the historical context of time, and then reacted to in such a way that various people became exterior participants—but in a far larger mass dream that was then interpreted in the most literal of physical terms. Even while it was, it also got the message across, though the inner drama itself was not recalled, and as the dream merged with historical events, and as it was interpreted by so many, its message also became distorted—or rather, it mixed and merged with other such dreams, whose messages were far different.

The Christ drama did splash over into historical reality. [...]

I am speaking here in more or less historic terms for you. [...]

[...] Historically the characteristics of God changed as man’s ego changed. [...]

[...] But as the psyche went through its developments and battled with itself, denying some feelings and characteristics and stressing others, so the historic religious exterior dramas represented and followed these inner aspirations, struggles, and searches.

[...] What does it mean as applied to the question of the origins of your universe, and those events which you consider historical?

We must therefore apply the principles of which I have spoken outward from the individual to the environment and the historical sequence which he has himself formed. [...]

[...] Therefore if the individual can change his own past, then it must follow that a people can change its past, that a nation can change past events, that the future can influence the past historically, and even you see that a death can alter a birth.

Actions, even historic actions, within your system, have their reality you see in other systems also, though they will be perceived in quite a different manner. [...]

[...] When in historic terms mankind became aware of memory, and recalled his past as a past in your terms, it was possible for him to confuse past and present. [...]

[...] Again speaking historically, in the past the private person in any given hour was aware at once only of those events happening in his immediate environment. [...]

[...] In historic terms, early man, using here your theories about the race — early man — was in intimate contact with his family, clan, or tribe. [...]

I am speaking so far in historic terms, as you understand them. [...]

[...] In historic terms the changing nature of accepted events provides far more than, say, a history of civilization, but mirrors the ever-creative nature of the psyche.

[...] Historically speaking, early men dreamed of airplanes and rocket ships. [...]

Ruburt’s difficulties are based upon certain philosophical dilemmas, that are his own personally—dilemmas, however, that also belong to your time, and are therefore largely responsible for the difficulties in your historical period. [...]

[...] You are asked to bring those delicate understandings to practical flowering—a considerable task, and doubly so when the philosophical issues involved go so against the established grain of historically accepted knowledge.

In usual historic terms, humanity has been experimenting with its own unique kind of consciousness, and as I have mentioned many times, this necessitated an arbitrary division between the subject and the perceiver — nature and man — and brought about a situation in which the species came to consider itself apart from the rest of existence.

[...] There are some exceptions of note, but here I am speaking historically of the Western world with its Roman and Greek heritage. [...]

[...] That representation is then used as a model upon which your civilizations are organized, and also as a perceptual tool through whose lens you interpret the private events of your life in their historical context.

They cast their light over historical events because they are responsible for those events. [...]

I do not want to go into a history of culture here, but your organizations historically have largely been built upon your religious concepts, which have indeed been extremely rigid. [...]

(We speculated that Abelard is a famous name, historically and in the arts, though we couldn’t think of any specific connections. [...]

[...] It is, itself, the invisible universe that is everywhere implied within your world, but that becomes manifest to your perception only through historic time. [...]

[...] It can disappear for a time (underlined), become unmanifest for a while in historic events. [...]

Now: in a way the mystic’s goals are eternal—that is, they involve comprehensions sought for whose validity is in important ways independent of historical time, even though the comprehensions may be couched in certain frameworks.

[...] Both of you chose to do what you are doing, and accepted your historical period. [...]

[...] They were going to be married — and in terms of years, the same years are involved, historically. [...]

[...] She became an independent woman, and — again in your historical context — when it took some doing for a woman to distinguish herself.

[...] Historically, however, many probabilities exist at once. [...]

(In all the sessions Jane has given, this is but the third time that Seth has referred to past-life connections involving historical figures. [...]