“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] To some important extent he denied his heritage, for spirit is born into nature and the soul, and for a time resides in flesh.

(A spirited conversation sprang up now between the four of us. [...]

[...] Without exception, all of the horrors connected with Christianity’s name came from “following the letter rather than the spirit of the law,” or by insistence upon literal interpretations — while the spiritual, imaginative concepts beneath were ignored.

[...] I do not grow weary of speaking to Joseph but it is good to have an audience, particularly when one is a Jesuit in spirit, although I believe he does not follow certain Jesuit rules.

[...] In the beginning, I took it for granted that Seth was a subconscious fantasy, personified, because I simply couldn’t accept the possibility of “spirits” or, for that matter, life after death. [...]

[...] When that period arrives the person knows it, and the great vitality of the spirit no longer wants to be encased by a suffering physical body.

[...] Our good Ruburt has amazed his new director by his sudden bubbling good spirits, and bewildering exuberance.

[...] If you were, or if Ruburt was, a conventional Philip Roth, a novelist, safely within that framework, or if he were willing to set himself up as an “occult” mistress of the spirit, then you would have publicity galore.

[...] Jane and I wouldn’t be surprised if ultimately, as a result of mankind’s restless search for meaning, we didn’t end up returning in a new official way to our ancient concepts of spirit within everything, animate and inanimate. [...]

[...] The dignity of a spirited life demands that a certain quality of experience be maintained.

[...] The clear lines of communication between spirit and body become cluttered. [...]

In reference to the second pair, or set of fingers, for example, these were not so-called spirit hands. [...]

[...] There was also of course the event of St. Vincent’s. Also numerous small abandonments when Ruburt was still younger—but with your help he can indeed clear both mind, body and spirit, for he senses that relief, and knows it is at least within his grasp. [...]

[...] At the same time Seth stated he was not a spirit, although if he materialized in the middle of the floor we would pay more attention and not take him for granted.

[...] There is no blending or merging, willy-nilly, into a gigantic ever-rushing-on spirit of life. And the spirit of life in these terms cannot be considered as something apart and separate from, and outside of, those consciousnesses which illuminate it, and through which they are illuminated. [...]

[...] Priestley’s vision of the birds and the life spirit is not too much different from nirvana. [...]

“I have said this often—I am no misty-eyed ghostly spirit, materializing in the middle of the night. [...]

[...] (Long pause.) Always the spirit forms the flesh.

I have said this often, but I meet you for the first time: I am indeed no misty-eyed ghostly spirit, materializing in the middle of the night. [...]

If, for example, our tree bark grew fearful of stormy weather and began to harden itself against the elements, in a well-meaning but distorted protective spirit, then the tree would die. [...]

[...] She remarked quite spiritedly that I asked a lot of questions, but added that she liked us because we didn’t make fun of her.