“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

The king, for example, may be at one time the symbol of great inner wealth. He may be kingly but poor, signifying the idea that wealth does not necessarily involve physical goods. He might at another time appear as a dictator, cruel and overbearing, where he would represent an entirely different framework of feeling and belief He might show himself as a young monarch, signaling a belief that “youth is king.” At various times in history the same image has been used quite differently. When people are fighting dictatorial monarchs then often the king appears in dreams as a despicable character, to be booted and routed out.

The creativity of any given entity is endless, and yet all of the potentials for experience will be explored. The poor man may dream he is a king. A queen, weary of her role, may dream of being a peasant girl. In the physical time that you recognize, the king is still a king, and the queen a queen. Yet their dreams are not as uncharacteristic or apart from their experiences as it might appear. In greater terms, the king has been a pauper and the queen a peasant. You follow in terms of continuity one version of yourself at any given “time.”

If, for example, you believe that you are possessed of great inner wealth, you may have a dream about a king in a fine palace. The king actually need not look like you at all, nor need you identify with him in the dream. Symbolically, however, this would represent one way of expressing your feelings. Inner wealth would be interpreted here in the same terms as worldly luxury. The dream, once created, would go its own way. If you have conflicts over the ideas connected with good and evil, or wealth and poverty, then the king might lose his lands or goods, or some catastrophe might befall him.

If you suspect that abundance is somehow spiritually dangerous,⁴ then the king might be captured and punished. All kinds of other events might be involved: groups of people, for example, representing bands of “rampaging” desires. The entire drama would involve the “evolution” of an emotion or belief. In the dream state you set it free and see what will happen to it, how it will develop, where it will go.

[...] Think what you have in comparison to what many human beings on your planet have, and you are kings. [...]

You do to some extent identify with your mother, in terms of a husband rather than a son, now that the king, father, has been removed. [...]

[...] Your Dr. King is now precisely what he always was. [...] For Dr. King indeed exists. [...]

[...] We also had the privilege throughout the afternoon of watching a “holiday special” on TV—three Godzilla/King Kong movies in a row. [...]

[...] You age of communications has significantly altered public and private life, so that for example by mail Ruburt might receive as many petitions as the king of a country in times past. [...]

[...] A king could travel through his own lands and not be recognized if he wanted it that way, for no television screen flashed his image into the homes of his people. [...]

[...] … The assassin of Dr. King believes that he has blotted out a living consciousness for all eternity. … But your errors and mistakes, luckily enough, are not real and do not affect reality, for Dr. King still lives.”

After the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., my students in class were quite upset, and like many people throughout the country and probably the world, we began to discuss the meaning of violence. [...]

[...] We agreed on the location of the Crimson King red maple in the back yard; Frank is to plant it tomorrow afternoon, and bring the young fellow with him to mow the grass, which is some six inches high. [...]

(9:10.) In those annals there is legend after legend, tale after tale, history after history describing civilizations that have come and gone, kings risen and fallen, and those stories have always represented cultures (spelled) of the psyche, and described various approaches used by man’s psyche as it explored its intersection with earthly experience. [...]

Thus you deal often with events in which men are touched by great illumination, isolated from the masses of humanity, and endowed with great powers — periods of history that appear almost unnaturally brilliant in contrast with others; prophets, geniuses, and kings shown in greater-than-human proportion.

(3:34.) The species is filled with a powerful sense of curiosity and wonder, and the need for exploration and discovery, so that even a man born as a king through several lives would find himself bored and determined to seek out a different or opposite experience.

[...] The ego is a great king. [...]

[...] Certain individuals, therefore, in history, certain geniuses, kings, priests, prophets, are touched by this light. [...] The individuals then accept this projection upon themselves—the heroes, in other words, or the gods, or the prophets, or the kings. [...]

On your part the king is an unknown entity, but he will make a move. [...]

[...] In a manner of speaking, now, it would make little difference which man was finally given the kingly robes—for the greater reality of the dream was so encompassing that it would come to be, whether one or 10 or 20 men’s lives were historically joined together to form the Christ. [...]

Now, I have given you what you wanted, and some information that I thought you needed, and I will end the session: like Old King Cole, a merry old soul was he. [...]

[...] It had to do with a king, and the death of a queen, and belonged to a royal family, though they never missed it.

I cannot promise you that you have been a king, or that you will be one (humorously), nor a story reading in which you are a hero... [...]

[...] Because there were few ground rules, and because it takes time to develop a culture, this rambunctious group set out to tame the continent, to show Europe that Americans could do Europe one better, without a king and without pomp. [...]

You ended your classifications where you did, however, preferring to see man as the king of intelligence. [...]

[...] Kings and courts, chieftains, needed their soothsayers. [...]