"There is greatness in all of us. Don't ever snicker when someone tells you that they want to be great, or you want to be great, and you
know what that means, in the terms of your culture. For to be great in those terms is always to go beyond, to challenge even the self that you know, to become familiar with other portions of yourself that you sense, and to manifest
them within your own experience now. |
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There was once a god who was not a god, for you are dealing with legends. There was a god in ancient Egypt, and his name was Seth,
and he was disreputable. And he threw aside establishments, and whenever other gods rose up and said, We are the truth, we are pure and we are holy, this disreputable god stood up, and with a voice like thunder, said; You are
nincompoops! And the other gods did not like him, and whenever they set up their altars, he came like thunder, but playfully, and tossed the altars as under, and he said Storms are natural, and good, and a part of the earth, even
as placid skies are. Winds are good, questions are good. Males and females are good. Even gods and demons are good, if you must believe in demons. But structures are limited! And so this god, who was not a
god, called Seth, went about kicking apart the structures, and he gathered about him others who kicked apart the structures. And they were themselves, whether they were male or female. Whether they thought of themselves as
good or bad, or summer or winter, or as old or as young, they were creators. They were questioners. And whenever another personality set itself up and said I am the god before you, and my word is law, then Seth
went about saying, You are a nincompoop and began again to kick apart the structures. And so you are yourselves, in your way, all Seths, for you kick apart the structures, and you are the black sheep of the religions, and the black
sheep of the scientists, and the black sheep of the physicians, and the black sheep of your mothers and your fathers, and your sisters and your brothers. And yet, the mothers and the fathers and the sisters and the brothers
listen, for they do not have the courage to be the black sheep, and they quail in the voice of the thunder that is so playful, though they do not understand it because they equate loudness with violence, and they think that female
is passive, and the male is aggressive; and that war and violence must then erupt from the reality of mankind. And so you are, indeed, all black sheep of the universe, and Sethites have always been the black
sheep of the universe! Now, to be a Sethite, you do not have to follow this Seth, You simply follow the Seth in yourself, and that Seth in yourself is a questioner, and an explorer, and a creator. And the
Seth in yourself knows when to passively flow with the wind that blows through the window above a summer town, and when to go against the force of your environment. You were Sethites before you met me, and there was a Seth before I
was Seth, and the spirit follows through the ages as you know them. |
The Sethite
From The Unknown Reality Vol.1 A Seth book by Jane Roberts The concepts of God that you have, have gone hand-in-hand with the development of your
consciousness. The ego, emerging, needed to feel its dominance and control, and so it imagined a dominant god apart from nature. Often nations acted as group egos each with its own god-picturing, its own concepts of power.
Whenever a tribe or a group or a nation decided to embark upon a war, it always used the concept of its god to lead it on. The god concept then was an aid, and an important one, to man's emerging ego. To develop its
sense of specialization, the ego forgot the great cooperative venture of the earth. If a hunter literally knows his relationship with an animal, he cannot kill it. On deeper levels both animal and man understand the connections.
Biologically the man knows he has come from the earth. Some of his cells have been the cells of animals, and the animal knows he will look out through a man' eyes. The earth venture is
cooperative. The slain beast is tomorrow's hunter. In terms of ego consciousness, however, there were stages of growth; and the god concepts that spoke of oneness with nature were not those that served the ego's purposes
in the line of development as you understand it. For a while such techniques worked. Always, however, there was the undeniable inner self in the background: man's dreams, his biological and spiritual integrity, and
these in one way or another were always before him. In your probability you did allow the inner self some freedom. Therefore, the so-called egotistical consciousness was not given complete sway. It remained flexible
enough so that even hidden in its god concepts there were symbols of greater reality. Your system deals with physical manipulability again, and the translation of creativity into physical form. An exterior
separation had to occur for a while, in which consciousness forgot, egotistically speaking, that it was a part of nature, and pretended to be apart. It was known, however and unconsciously written in the cell
and mind and heart that this procedure would only go so far. When man's consciousness was sure of itself it would not need to be so narrowly focused. Then the true flowering of humanity's consciousness could begin. Then the
ego would expand and become aware of realities it had earlier ignored. You have put yourselves in a position where your consciousness must now become aware of the probable pasts and probable futures, in order to form
for yourselves a sane, fulfilling, and creative present. Ego consciousness must now be familiarized with its roots, or it will turn into something else. You are in a position where your private experience
of yourself does not correlate with what you are told by your societies, churches, sciences, archaeology's, or other disciplines. Man's unconscious knowledge is
becoming more and more consciously apparent. This will be done under and with the direction of an enlightened and expanding egotistical awareness that can organize the hereto neglected knowledge or it will be done
at the expense of the reasoning intellect, leading to a rebirth of superstition, chaos, and the unnecessary war between reason and intuitive knowledge. When, at this point now, of mankind's
development, his emerging unconscious knowledge is denied by his institutions, then it will rise up despite those institutions and annihilate them. Cult after cult will emerge, each unrestrained by the use of reason, because reason
will have denied the existence of rampant unconscious knowledge, disorganized and feeling only its own ancient force. If this happens, all kinds of old and new religious denominations will war, and all kinds of
ideologies surface. This need not take place, for the conscious mind basically, now having learned to focus in physical terms, is meant
to expand, to accept unconscious intuitions and knowledge, and to organize these deeply creative principles into cultural patterns. The great emotion of love has been thus far poorly used, yet it represents even the
biological impetus of your Being. Your religions in a large measure have taught you to hate yourselves and physical existence. They have told you to love God, but rarely taught you to experience the gods in yourselves. In one way or another religions have always followed again, the development of your consciousness, and so they have served its purposes and yours; and they have always reflected, though distorted, those
greater inner realities of your being. In historic terms, as you understand them, the progression of religion gives you a perfect picture of the development of human consciousness, the differentiation of peoples and nations, and
the growth of the ideas of the individual. There is nothing wrong with the concept of and egotistically based individual being: I am not suggesting, therefore, that your individuality is something to be lost, thrown
aside, or superseded. Nor am I saying that it should be buried, submerged, or dissolved in a superself. I am not suggesting that its edges be blurred by a powerful unconscious. I am
saying that the individual self must become consciously aware of far more reality; that it must allow its recognition of identity to expand so that it includes previously unconscious knowledge. To do this you must
understand, again, that man must move beyond the concepts of one god, one self, one body, one world, as these ideas are currently understood. You are now poised, in your terms, upon a threshold from which the race can go many ways.
There are species of consciousness. Your species is in a time of change. There are potentials within the body's mechanisms, in your terms, not as yet used. Developed, they can immeasurably enrich the race, and bring it to levels of
spiritual and psychic and physical fulfillment. If some changes are not made, the race as such will not endure. Seth |
Seth in asession of Jane Roberts ESP class Excellence! There are no standards but your own! You cannot compare yourself against others. For your own abilities
are like no others, and dimensions of your own greatness cannot fit in the standards of others. But you know what excellence means within yourself, and it means truth to the heart of yourself. There are some things
that you know it means. It means not lying. It means not lying to yourself; not being afraid to use your own abilities; not being afraid to be the excellent self that you are. Excellence does not mean false humility. It does not
mean inflated, artificial pride that sets you apart from all others, for you cannot set yourselves apart from all others. You are, because of your nature, apart from all others, and everlastingly unique while everlastingly a part
of all others. Excellence means that in your relationships, you face each other honestly, and do not pretend. It means that you do not use excuses. It means that you do not hide your abilities from yourself. It means
that you take advantage of your abilities, and do not deny them, and that you expect things of yourself, and do not look to others for their answers; that you do not dribble away your energy. It means that you know your own
footing and do not lean upon another, and do not accept shifting grounds, but make your own integrity. It means that you accept the responsibility for yourself and that you go your way and use your abilities, trusting
that others will do the same. It means that when you have the ability to create, you use those abilities; and do not judge according to other peoples concepts of what you create, but according to your own ideas, and the
intuitive knowledge of your being, that what you create and what comes from you is good. It means that you do not allow yourself to be used by others, and then use that as an excuse. You are your own being. Luxuriate
in that! It means that you don't over pamper your children; that you allow yourself spontaneity. It means that you try to separate your beliefs from the beliefs of others and of your culture, and that with all
your sense of adventureness and humor, you nevertheless question your ideas of what is practical and what is not. There is greatness in each of you. Don't ever snicker when someone tells you that they want to be
great, or you want to be great, and you know what that means, in the terms of your culture. For to be great in those terms is always to go beyond, to challenge even the self that you know, to become familiar with other portions of
yourself that you sense, and to manifest them within your own experience now. |
Impulses provide specifications, methods,
meanings, definitions. They point toward definite avenues of expression, avenues that will provide the individual with a sense of actualization, natural power, and that will automatically provide feedback, so that the person knows
he is impressing his environment for the better. Those natural impulses, followed, will automatically lead to political and social organizations that become both tools for the individual development and implements for
the fulfillment of the society. Impulses then would follow easily, in a smooth motion from private action to social import. When you are taught to block your impulses, and to distrust them, then your organizations become clogged.
you are left with vague idealized feelings of wanting to change the world for the better, for example, but you are denied the personal power of your own impulses that would otherwise help direct that idealism by
developing your personal abilities. You are left with an undefined, persisting, even tormenting desire to do good, to change events, but without having any means at your disposal to do so. This leads to lingering frustration, and
if your ideals are strong the situation can cause you to feel quite desperate. You may begin to exaggerate the gulf between this generalized ideal and the specific evidences of mans greed and corruption that you see so obviously
about you. You may begin to concentrate upon your own lacks, and in your growing sense of dissatisfaction it may seem to you that most men are driven by a complete lack of good intent. You may become outraged,
scandalized or worse, filled with self-righteousness, so that you begin to attack all those with whom you do not agree, because you do not know how else to respond to your own ideals, or to your own good intent.
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Excerpts from Seth, as channeled by Jane Roberts - Psychologists often speak of the needs of man. Here I would like to speak instead of the pleasures of man, for one of the distinguishing characteristics of value fulfillment is its pleasurable effect. It is not
so much that man or nature seeks to satisfy needs, but to exuberantly, rambunctiously seek pleasureand through following its pleasure each organism finds and satisfies its needs as well. Far more is involved in the experience of
life, however, than the satisfaction of bare needs, for life is everywhere possessed with a desire toward quality, a quality that acknowledges the affirming characteristics of pleasure itself. The pleasure principle can probably
be likened most to the latent appreciation of beauty that is everywhere apparent if you look
for it; the ecstasy of each for life, for the wonders of its own existence, in which love's values go beyond themselves, and yet a condition in which each species or life form realizes; that its own fulfillment adds immeasurably to the existence of all other forms.
You are a part of life's meaning and purpose, but those purposes, coming from the source of your own being, are too great to be expressed or described within the structure of your personhood as you understand it. Such
understanding is often experienced or sensed, however, sometimes as you are listening to music or when you are deeply stirred by emotion, and when you do not place a great distance between it and yourself. Attending to the life
that you have with love, beginning where you are, will best allow you such a feeling for your own meaning.What do I mean by such attention? Attention to the moment as it is presented. Attention to the table of rich reality as it
appears before you. Attention to the kind of person you are, and to the loving appreciation of your own uniqueness. To attend to your life in such a fashion brings you into a clearer communication with the inner action of your own
existence... Each person is born with his or her uniquely individual set of characteristics and abilities, likes and dislikes. Those serve to organize individual action in a world where an infinite number of probable
roads are open and here again, private impulses
are basically meant to guide each individual toward avenues of expression and probable activities suited best to his or her development. They are meant, therefore, as aids to help organize action, and to set free will more effectively into motion. Otherwise, free will would be almost inoperable in practical terms; Individuals would be faced by so many choices that any decisions would be nearly impossible. Essentially, the individual would have no particular leaning toward any one action over any other.
Basic impulses guide you toward choices that best fulfill your potentials for development while adding to the overall good of the entire world consciousness. Your thoughts
do form your reality. |
Seth from one of Jane Roberts ESP classes You are all looking for esoteric spirituality. Know thy bodies! Honor thy flesh! Feel the joy of thy
corporal being! Know that thou came naked into the world! The clothes are added. The stances are added. Love thy corporeal being, and deny not the integrity of the flesh. Then you will know what spirituality is. Then will you find
the miracle of the marriage of flesh and soul in one, and you will not be ashamed of your bodies, nor afraid to show yourselves. What facades do you erect to hide your own reality from yourselves, simply because you do
not understand your own beauty, your own validity; because you are not sympathetic with yourselves; because you do not think of yourselves as lovely women or lovely men, but as errant children to be hidden away from yourselves and
from others? I challenge you then to face and meet the spirituality of your corporeal being! Then you will not need to look to others for truth, but, looking at yourselves in the mirror, you will find the validity of your being
and see the expression of All-That-Is as it is expressed through your individuality. What joy there is within you that you hide from yourselves and others and what comradeship that you deny! Question your
relationship with your personal body, and its relationship with others. I make indeed this statement of great heresy, When you are having fun, you are helping others. When you are not having fun, and telling yourself that you are
helping others, you are not helping them or yourself! o when you think in terms of responsibility, and when you make a division in your mind between responsibility and joyful fulfillment, then you are denying
yourself and the world much pleasure, and hiding from yourself and the world the great, joyful symphony that is yourself! When you are fulfilling the joyful nature of your being, you are helping yourself, and you are helping
others. When you follow your own nature, you automatically and naturally feel for the needs of others. When you are joyful and free, and when you are having fun, you automatically feel... your one-ness with all
other creatures of the universe, and you know your place in All-That-Is. And when you are yourself, others look upon you with awe and joy and understanding, and you look the same upon them. And you help every other creature that
shares with you the framework of this Earth.When you recognize the joy of your own being, you give joy to others. All I ask from you is that you acknowledge the joyful right of your being to existence, and follow its great joyous
nature, and that is fulfilling any responsibility that any god or self could put upon you. You think of your bodies as you think of responsibilities! You think that vulnerability is wrong. Your freedom lies in
your vulnerability to life, sensation, experience, song and being. Being is vulnerable. It reacts. It lives. It feels. You cannot deny feelings without denying portions of your soul. Your attitudes toward your bodies are like your
attitudes toward responsibility! Think of the correlation! When responsibility means doing what you do not want to do because you think that you should do it, then responsibility is not fun. Neither is it true responsibility,
because you are not responding as an alive individual being, you are, instead blindly following. You are not giving when you think that you are giving because you must be responsible, when you do not want to be. You do
not help anyone when you help them but do not want to, in your terms... When you say, I love you because you think you have a responsibility to say, I love you, when you do not feel the emotion behind the words, then you are a
liar, and the other person knows it. Naked! Think of it in a different way! Think of it as being joyfully free of those fortresses that you have that you do not recognize. In the most vernacular of terms, You
are beautiful people. There is nothing about yourselves that you must fear or be ashamed of. Your bodies on his earth serve as a representative of your soul... When you realize that there is nothing you need to hide, you are free
to hide anything you want, out of your own desire or your own intent, but not because you are forced by your own fears to stand clearly before yourself or others. Now, you may look at pictures of animals, old animals,
skinny animals, fat animals, wounded animals, beautiful animals, ugly animals. You may look at them... and think, What uniqueness! And you see the integrity and uniqueness of the animals as you perceive them. Yet, you look at your
own body images blindly, and if they do not live up to some ideal that you have set for yourselves, then you refuse... them what you would gladly give to any animal. You do not admit your own beauty in flesh. If you
see a wounded animal, you may still enjoy its beauty, or see it in its environment. You do not judge a twig as to which direction it grows in, up or down or straight or crooked. You can meditate over a twig, and yet you look at
your own bodies and will not admit their validity, and when you do not admit their validity you are putting your inner self down in a most vernacular of terms. If you are forty, you want your body to be twenty; if you
are fat you want it to be skinny; if you are skinny you want it to be fat. You want a body that is not individualistic; a body that is not you. But your body is you and speaks your being and no one elses.
The soul in flesh shows its individuality through its bone structure, the expression in its eyes, the tip of its ear, the tiniest joint in the smallest toe, the crook of its elbow, in the the vagina and in the penis, and the hair
and the fingernails, and all portions of the physical
image.
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Seth, from The Way Toward Health.
It may sound very simplistic to tell you that you must have sunny thoughts as well as rays of the physical sun in order to be healthy but sunny thoughts are as biologically
necessary to your well-being as are the rays of the sun that shines in the sky. Even as infants, then, you are predisposed naturally toward certain feelings, thoughts and attitudes that are meant to insure your healthy survival and
emergence into adulthood. These are actually composed of inbred psychological information as necessary and vital to your life as the data transmitted by your genes and chromosomes. Indeed, these inbred, inner psychological
predispositions are all-important if the information carried by your genes and chromosomes is to be faithfully followed. .... These inborn leanings or attitudes can 1. I am an excellent creature, a valuable 2. My existence enriches all other portions of life, even 3. It is good, natural, and safe for me to grow and develop and use my abilities, and by so doing I also enrich all other portions of life.
4. I am eternally couched and supported by the universe 5. By nature I am a good deserving creature, and 6. All of my imperfections, and all of the Those attitudes are inbred in the smallest microscopic portions of the body, a part of each atom and cell and organ, and they serve to
trigger all of the body's responses that promote growth and fulfillment. Infants are not born with an inbred fear
of their environment, or of other creatures. They are instead immersed in feelings of well-being, vitality, and exuberance, They take it for granted that their needs will be met, and that the universe is well-disposed toward them. They feel a part of their environment.
They do not come into life with feelings of rage, or anger, and basically they do not experience doubts or fears. Birth is experienced in terms of self-discovery, and includes the sensation of selfhood gently rising and
unfolding from the secret heart of the universe. .... The inborn leanings and attitudes that we have been discussing should ideally
remain with you for the rest of your life, leading you to express your abilities, and finding fulfillment as your knowledge expands through experience.The same feelings and beliefs should also ideally help you die
with a sense of safety, support and assurance. While these inbred psychological supports never leave you entirely, they are often diminished by beliefs encountered later in life, that serve to undermine the individual's sense of
safety and well-being. |
From "The Way Toward Health" a Seth book by Jane Roberts
If you do have If you are concerned about any given problems, mental, emotional or physical, there are certain facts you should hold in mind. You must realize that you do create your own reality because of your beliefs about it.
Therefore, try to understand that the particular dilemma of illness is not an event forced upon you by some other agency. Realize that to some extent or another your dilemma or your illness has been chosen by you
, and that this choosing has been done in bits and pieces of small, seemingly inconsequential choices. Each choice, however, has led up to your current predicament, whatever its nature. If you realize that your beliefs form your
experience, then you do indeed have an excellent chance of changing your beliefs, and hence your experience. You can discover what your own reasons are for choosing the dilemma or illness by being very honest with yourself.
There is not need to feel guilty since you meant very well as you made each choice, only the choices were built upon beliefs that were beliefs and not facts.
Also from "The Way Toward Health" You may have
overall reasons for a particular illness, however, that has nothing to do with crime or punishment, but may instead involve an extraordinary sense of curiosity, and the desire for experience that is somewhat un
conventional usually not sought for exotic, or in certain terms even grotesque. Each life, regardless of its nature, possesses its own unique vantage point, and an individual may sometimes take
an obscure or a long lasting disease simply to present him or herself with experience that most others would shun. An individual might seek such a vantage point in order to look at the universe in a different fashion, asking
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