“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] It is a universe endowed with male characteristics as these appear in the male-female orientations of your history. [...]

[...] You have in your history then a male god of power and vengeance, who killed your enemies for you. [...]

Ruburt’s idea did come from me, about your reincarnational episodes, and your personal experience illustrates what I am saying in the book—the individual’s history is written in the psyche, and can indeed be uncovered. [...]

“There were three men whose lives became confused in history and merged, and whose composite history became known as the life of Christ. [...]

“Dimly, through what you would call history, hardly remembered, there was such a state. [...]

“In the dawn of physical existence, in the dawn before history began, men knew that death was merely a change of form. [...]

[...] The whole thing seems to me to be a symbolic turning point in world history, full of danger in the terms of Framework 1. To me, all the parties involved in the dispute seem helpless and frightened; it echoes similar conscious-mind threats that I think the species has created for itself throughout recorded history.)

[...] Yet I come to your reality by a strange route — one that does not involve roads or highways but psychological dramas that wind backward like paths into the “psychological history” of your species. [...]

[...] Yet they are very responsive to the psychic needs of the people, and so they “appear” at various times in history with certain messages, in the same way that certain dreams might reoccur in a private mind.

(Long pause.) Despite himself, and despite his followers, Hitler brought to flower (long pause) a very important idea, and one that changed your history. [...]

1. Hitler’s espousal of a German-Aryan superrace is an excellent example of how a leader can subvert history to his own ends. [...]

[...] You will interpret the private events of your lives, and the spectacular range of history, in the light of those assumptions about reality. [...]

[...] They become a part of history to whatever extent. [...]

[...] Their roles became blended and distorted in history. [...]

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. [...]

[...] But there is a long history of the conflicts between creative thought, heresy, excommunication, or worse, death. [...]

[...] The true history of the world is the history of man’s dreams, for they have been responsible in one way or another for all historic developments.

[...] The most famous and the most anonymous person are connected through such a fabric, and an action seemingly small and innocuous can end up changing history as you understand it.

[...] At still other levels of reality, activities that you now consciously claim as your own have — in those same terms and from another viewpoint — become unconscious, providing a psychic history from which other identities emerge, as it seems that your own identities emerge from unconscious bodily activity.

You can know what happened in the past and have histories, because according to the rules of the game that you accepted, you believe that the past, but not the future, can be perceived. You could have histories of the future in the present, if the rules of the game were different. [...]

[...] There were three separate individuals whose history blended, and they became known collectively as Christ — hence many discrepancies in your records. [...]

(Long pause at 9:52.) The events as they are recorded, however, did not occur in history. [...]

[...] When Christ spoke he did so in the context of his times, using the symbolism and vocabulary that made sense to a particular people in a particular period of history, in your terms.

[...] Jerusalem’s arid environment, coupled with its incredibly complex and active history, led us to speculate anew about the mysterious forces of religious creativity that seemingly had always emanated from there, and were still doing so.

(Pause.) At the time, Christ united man’s consciousness in ways that reached out into history. [...]

[...] As a result, for example, your archeological evidence usually presents a picture quite in keeping with your ideas of history, geological eras, and so forth.

I have a purpose in this book—for this is dictation—and that purpose is to change your ideas of yourselves, by showing you a truer picture of your history both in terms of your immortal consciousness and your physical heritage.

[...] (Pause.) Your beliefs have directed who should go to war and who should not, who should live and who should die, who should be educated and who should not, who should be isolated from society and who should not—all matters directly touching upon the survival of certain families throughout history, and therefore affecting the species as a whole.

[...] The physical part of [such an] event in history is actually minimal in contrast to its effects … and something about master events touching the worlds of imagination and reason in different ways.

[...] You did not arrive at birth without a history. Your individuality was always latent within your soul, and the “history” that is a part of you is written within unconscious memory that resides not only within your psyche, but is faithfully decoded in your genes and chromosomes,¹ and fulfilled in the blood that rushes through your veins.

[...] In terms of history as you understand it, the species could not withstand such misapplied energy, nor could it have withstood such constant antagonism.

[...] You project your present beliefs backward into history, and you misinterpret many of the conditions that you observe in the natural world. [...]

Now, give us a moment … In one way or another throughout this book, we will be dealing with history as you know it and as you do not know it. [...]

In many ways history is your built-in past, the obvious events that are significant. [...]

[...] This has all kinds of implications biologically as far as the species is concerned; you can perhaps understand, then, that there are also probable histories beneath your lives, individually and en masse.

[...] People do not understand that their dreams become reality, and that the greater dramas of history and myth often bear little resemblance to the actual occurrences, but are greater than the physical events.

[...] According to history, Christ was crucified, and the other two members of Seth’s Christ entity, John the Baptist and St. Paul, were beheaded. [...]

[...] You interpret the past history of your species in the same manner. [...]

[...] A human child, true; but an offspring in which the entire history of the earth is involved — a new creation arising not just from two parents, but from the entire gestalt of nature, from which the parents themselves once emerged; a private yet public affair in which the physical elements of earth become individualized; in which psyche and earth cooperate in a birth that is human, and in other terms, divine.