“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Seth says that even in this life, each of us has various egos; we only accept the idea of one ego as a sort of shorthand symbolism. [...]

[...] This is an actual re-creation, not a symbolic one. [...]

[...] Once more, the only reality that can be assigned to the past is that granted to the symbols and associations and images that exist electromagnetically within the physical brain and nonphysical mind.

[...] Again, I am not speaking symbolically, and I realize that I am leaving myself open to strong criticisms that certainly cannot be answered in this one evening.

[...] It may be symbolic. [...] Here, the symbolic interpretation can be the fact that page 3 of the object states that the Art Shop is “Continuing under new management.”

[...] (Pause.) It may be symbolic. [...]

[...] There can also be a symbolic interpretation, and Seth raises this possibility in answer to the first question.

[...] This applies to anyone, so if I look at you consider yourself the symbol of everyman. [...]

My symbolic impression is of twins. [...]

[...] Symbolically in your case, and opposed to our Jesuit’s case, the retention of fluids has to do with the fear for your position, of refusal to give up, or the fear of giving up, prerogatives. [...]

[...] To some extent there has been a weaving in and out, so that at times Ruburt’s symptoms were personal, and at times they were symbols for both of your attitudes.

His symptoms would become then at times symbols of your joint lack of perfection, mainly in your works. [...]

[...] Symbolically, the malady is expressing her attitude perfectly. [...]

But there is also another triangle, and this is the meaning of the symbol. [...] In your present there is also a triangle symbolizing those now at the top of the structure, and there is movement there also, and a man will fall. [...]

Power and control and direction over the organization, which is a symbol for something else; and you will not accept it unless you can change it, and indeed in changing it you will make it better.

The Christian concept of heaven with its riches, God and his bounty, the source of nature itself—all of this in our terms was a symbolic structure describing in storybook terms the attributes and characteristics of Framework 2.

When this happens you actually symbolically say “Let thy will be done,” meaning “Let my greater nature, my spontaneous nature, flow through me without impediment, and without quibbling.” [...]

[...] He did not symbolically rage with the storms, for example, but quite consciously identified with them to such a degree that he and his tribesmen merged with the wind and lightning, and became a part of the storms’ forces. [...]

[...] I must stress again that the identification was not symbolic, but practical, daily expression. [...]

[...] Instantly a white light came from the floor up through the ceiling, door width, with some symbols in or on it. [...]

[...] The white light is characteristically a symbol in such cases. [...]

[...] One has something to do with a female, and has a symbol; and the date may be ascertained from it.

The symbol has to do with the moon rather than the sun. [...]

[...] You speak to each other in symbols and writing and poetry. You are using the symbols to escape normal human give and take. They are not symbols to aid in communication; they are symbols behind which you hide from communicating.

[...] The symbolism here is obvious. [...]

[...] Symbolically, however, the attitude itself is highly therapeutic, since it “stands for and represents” many important issues in his life—and in settling one you settle all in this regard. [...]

[...] She doesn’t know whether the death impression was symbolic or literal. [...]

He was also however symbolic of evil to Ruburt, and to some extent then conquered simply through the natural passage of events. [...]

Now imagine anything that you choose but have a line or a platform that represents Alpha I. Have it in your mind as a symbol of adjacent consciousness at the same level, perhaps, as your eyes. [...]

(Monday, May 11, 9:50 PM, after Monday’s brief session: I had brief glimpses of many things, including this symbol, drawn in wet dark sand at water’s edge. [...]

[...] Now I tell you this because there is a connection in your mind and illness becomes to you the symbol of something far different and far more profound. It becomes in your mind the symbol of evil which attacks you in your mind in small ways to small illnesses. [...]

And so, in this children’s tale, that is given to you in parable and in symbol, you came to have your being and yet when this universe, as you know it, was then brought into existence, you had to forget momentarily where you came from and you had to be created in flesh so that you could experience, in flesh, this new portion of creativity and so that you could, in your turn, create from that of which you were physically made and so you forgot your heritage, on purpose in a way. [...]

The power of words has to do initially with the sound and symbols. [...]

[...] The symbolism in holding the potato, you see, is that tensions and poisons pass from the fingers into the potato, which is a root vegetable. It is symbolism, but highly effective for that reason, and for that reason it does indeed draw out tensions and poisons.

[...] Now again I am not speaking symbolically. [...]

[...] The personality is not yet willing to face the problems even to that extent and the symptom itself is shielded from physical sight, quite rightly symbolically speaking. [...]

[...] The dreams represented your symbolic understanding that he was “a loner” in the probability in which you knew him—and in that guise you saw your father.

[...] He could not break through your own symbols. [...]