The Early Sessions: Book 1 of The Seth Material

by Jane Roberts

blueprints for your spirits to follow.

You existed as j and r spiritually, but you must be fully j and r on earthly plane.

How? You made the blueprint yourself, and your various incarnated selves are not consciously aware of the blueprint. They have free will. You gave it to them. That’s the challenge.

Must realize though that whole entities are neither male nor female in your terms.

Brain is mechanism and mind is spirit.

Old attempt to close out world,

Hay fever symptom of rejection of world also, earlier.

Illness result of partial failure to materialize spirit faithfully. Lose control of matter when spirit is fatigued.

Perfection is good, but so is faith.

Seth, can you give us a poem a few lines long?”) I am no poet, and I know it, and I show it, da de da de da.

Death is death.

Shock not as bad as birth.

Jane asked:] “Will Robbie and I have a nice Christmas?”) Yes, you silly. ([Jane:] “You’re being condescending.”) No, I like you very much.

Sometimes. I am more than a question and answer service, however.

Why is Jane rather reserved about our contacts with you? I can tell that at times she isn’t too enthusiastic.”) She is concerned because she receives my messages before they are spelled out. It would make you cautious too.

and your two attitudes give excellent ballance.

I don’t know everything. Many varients. Book sell.

Even thoughts, for instance, are fragments, though on a different plane.

We’ll be back after break.”) Yes, have one for me. (“One what?”) One whatever.

(“Will I make a sale?”) Now cut that out.

It is toward this that evolution on the earthly plane is headed, though of course with its usual donkey-slow rate.

sour selves,

The knowledge of the mother lingers in the mental genes,

That which is, is never blotted out.

Naturally the subconscious is always linked with the entity,

The consciousness of a part of the whole could not bear the weight of the consciousness of the whole.

For a first attempt I’m doing beautifully”, Seth said.

replied, “We make light from darkness.”

I did not mind because I did so well.

Sex, regardless of all your fleshy tales, is a psychic phenomenon,

They are opposites which are nevertheless complementary and which merge into one.

The basis however is very strongly female, since without the giving quality the aggressiveness would be but a stationary closed fist, incapable of motion

aggressiveness is a thrust for life and action against inertia,

You understand that I can only use concepts with which you are somewhat familiar.

I will have to try to build up the image of a structure to help you understand, but then I must rip out the structure because there is none there.

We construct images consistent with the senses we happen to have at a particular time.

him. He is like a child begging for a piece of frosty cake, and I must admit I was tempted to shove his head in the frosting.

but after all I insist on even mental manners.

class. At one time or another all of us on my plane give such lessons, but psychic bonds between teacher and pupils are necessary, which means that we must wait until personalities on your plane have progressed sufficiently

Nevertheless what you call emotion or feeling is the connective between us,

it is the connective that most clearly represents the life force on any plane and under any circumstances.

If you consider the wires again, then you could view them as solidified emotion, woven together, however with a strong cohesive and stiffening power of the intellect.

With feeling alone, although it is the basis, you would have an inconsistent, very precarious framework. Reason is the form that disciplines and upholds these frameworks.

these wires are also mobile, constantly trembling, and also live, in that they not only carry the stuff of the universe but are themselves projections of this stuff,

For my own purposes I prefer the hour of 9.

At the end of a session I think it would be most cordial merely to touch your hands briefly to the board. You’re lucky that I don’t request you wear full dress clothing.

Were the people happy? That’s a silly question. They were as happy as anybody else.

(They didn’t have water to drink.

But they didn’t think it was healthy to drink water.

The fish were always available. So they were a lot healthier than other communities that actually had more water.