“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Pause.) The Roman Catholic Church seized upon art, inserted its own strong symbolism, provided art with a recognizable religious, social, and political value. (Pause.) It became, however, a supercharged symbol itself of churchly opulence, and this applies also, for example, in the past to architecture. [...]

The conscious mind can, for instance, see a rose as a symbol of life or death, or joy or sadness, and under certain conditions its interpretation of a simple flower can trigger deep experiences that call up power and strength from the inner resources of being. [...]

[...] Your own knowledge of dream symbols and their personal meaning is so opaque simply because you are not used to examining them with your conscious mind. [...]

[...] In it, symbolically, you have “death” as your physically attuned consciousness comes to the end of the amount of stimuli it can comfortably handle without rest. [...]

(9:56.) Each day therefore is an incarnation, so to speak, but not only symbolically — for through soul’s intersection with the flesh, each self mirrors daily its “reincarnational” or simultaneous selves.

The pacing back and forth has always been a symbol and a manifestation of his insistence that he stay on his feet, this of course relating to his invalid mother; also a manifestation of control on his part as far as the sessions are concerned. [...]

[...] As no action is meaningless, so the dream universe and the physical universe constantly replenish each other, and mental actions are performed in both universes, being camouflage acting symbols for inner action.

[...] It is this inner director who chooses the dream symbols in such a way that they will be meaningful to all layers or areas of the subconscious, and who is responsible for the amount, rate and type of subconscious data which is given to the outer ego by means of the intuitions.

(Right after this I felt a most odd sensation, one I can describe only as a definite, strong cluttering motion, jumbled, inside my head; like angry or upset symbols not translated into specific information, with a sense of sound in it. [...]

[...] The window through which he ascended was a symbol necessary to him. [...]

[...] The symbol was a highly valuable one however, obviously. [...]

[...] The turnstile may simply be symbolic—you may have to pay to enter the building. [...]

[...] These include a kind of horizontal psychological extension, the translation of one kind of dream into another kind—the transference of information from one system to another, in which the symbols themselves come alive.

(11:25.) The vocabulary used in the regular class was interpreted in the psyche in that manner, and it was literally and symbolically true language. [...]

Because of Ruburt’s mixture of symbolic and literal natures, the gesture gave him an excellent, definite sense of self-approval in a way that he has not experienced in some time. [...]

[...] Now then: on the one hand you attempted to be virile by identifying with your father, yet he was also to you the symbol of a failure. [...]

The book became a sore point, and the focus in his work of the inner problem, a symbol. [...]

You as artist, symbolically speaking, should not step backward to see the landscape more clearly, but step into it so that you can feel it more clearly. [...]

[...] There is no dependence upon agreed ritualistic symbol, however. [...]

Now I am doing this to help Ruburt all the way down and also to give you some information for that symbol was a good one (to Joel). [...]

[...] Ill or not, I do still feel full of life, and I’m still kicking — at least symbolically!

[...] Regardless of what you think now, the idea of moving to Sayre should be considered as a very viable probability, for its symbolic content offers additional motive power and strength. [...]

[...] But you perceived the probable future that did exist as such; and I do not mean it only existed symbolically. [...]

[...] Generally speaking it means that the same symbols will have similar meanings to you both. [...]

[...] Symbolically, Seven (Oversoul) was important because the book showed Ruburt the wedding of psychic ability and creative ability, emerging as fiction and art form, and his baby.

His reading for Richard was also symbolic. [...]

[...] It is not just symbolically accepted, and I am not speaking in symbolic terms. [...]

[...] As the pictures and representations in a photograph are only dim, incomplete symbols for the people and objects they represent, so the physical universe is but a dim image of the reality for which it stands.

[...] And you learn little of basic reality by studying the physical universe as if it were more than a symbol of what it represents.

Easy enough to discard this or that symbol of evil, but suppose all such symbols hid some deep truth, and cast some restraining base of force that in my ignorance I still did not perceive? [...]

[...] Tremors appeared in it, as if the vowels and symbols had endless gaps—uneven edges—and some part of me was escaping like smoke even between my words.

[...] Going out in the yard (as Jane did this afternoon in a wheelchair, accompanied by her nurse) was an excellent case in point, important on practical and symbolic levels.

[...] You have glorified what orgasm is—the unattainable, and therefore, the symbol of all the other qualities you want to achieve or think you should achieve, but do not have. [...]

[...] I will have some other recommendations but I want you to become aware of the symbolism behind...(?).