Unpublished Seth session 744--Christ, Gods, etc.
From: William B <themightywoodsmen@...>
To: m.mk@...
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 09:26:09 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Gday Mark - Unpublished Seth session 744
Hello to you, Mark.
Hope your doing well :-)
I don't think you are a
member of Ron Card's Facebook page: "SETH FORCE - The Adventure in Consciousness
Continues."
Ron posted an unpublished session that he obtained from
Laurel and it contains a few references to Christ that I thought you may be
interested in, I have pasted it below in case you have not yet read it.
Cheers,
William.
As promised, here's
"never-before-published" Seth session 744, for May 7, 1975. No book reference.
It is dripping with eye-opening Christ insights, actually in my opinion, a
"mini" Christ booklet and much more...from Rob's transcript volume #18...from
ron...
Seth: Good Evening.
Rob: Good Evening, Seth.
Seth: Dictation: In certain terms Christ was
an INVENTION, but then ALL of the "Gods" as they have been known WERE
inventions, creative interpretations that were projected outward, catching first
this man or that woman with the brilliance of divine fire.
In certain terms then religions are myths, but
to say that is to speak but half the truth, and the least important part. For
myths stand for a reality that defies literal "factual" translation. Because of
this religions will always basically imply contradictions, but so far none has
been strong enough to accept those contradictions, or to look into their basic
cause.
The Christ spirit IS quite valid. Its validity
is seven-fold more amazing precisely because it does not really rest upon the
historical reality of one man, but shaped the great pageantry of history,
affected and directed events, brought about a particular kind of world order,
led artists to the point of their finest power - with all this development based
upon a fabulous myth. Myths indeed then must be very powerful, and carry within
them their own dimension of actuality and thrust.
Christianity has long stated that Christ's
importance lay precisely in the FACT that he was born as a physical being, and
it has stressed his historical existence in whatever way it could. It seemed
that if Christ were not one particular man, then the entire framework would fall
away. He was, after all, human and divine at the same time. The early strength
of Christianity lay precisely in its historical nebulousness - a loose but
powerful framework that reflected the explosive need of the mass psyche. That
need, like a giant spotlight, searched and shone its light in all directions,
and touched many. Some turned away, and were frightened of such a sense of
destiny. They hid. Others felt the power of the light as it touched their
contemporaries and shouted, "THAT IS THE MAN."
Gods-to-be vied for birth until finally
various events coalesced...a MANUFACTURED history of Christ exists, made up of
DISTORTED memories, actual experiences, and creative drama. Many tales were
written long after any of the source-Christs lived. The miracle is the "fact"
that such a seemingly nonfactual group of events altered the face of the planet,
and directed its energies for centuries.
The idea of one Christ gave a focus point for
identification, an image that could be referred to. The process of this image
forming was a natural one as men and women dealt with innuendo, legend, and the
renditions of personal experience, until altogether you had an ever-changing
religious drama, a framework into which man could throw his aspirations.
The Christ spirit was valid precisely because
it managed to survive such a framework. The Christ spirit is larger than any
so-called physical fact - but unless this is understood then the validity of
that spirit seems dependent upon the historical reality of one man, part human,
part divine, named Christ.
When you are in that framework then the Christ
messages must also be interpreted literally, as they were at the time. Man often
wants to use religion as another tool to solve its problems. The messages are
interpreted in the most practical way possibly by minds that have a VERY LIMITED
knowledge of the nature of practicality.
Christ's message then was picked up, used,
ALTERED to fit a thousand different purposes, and yet it survived and still led
whole groups of people through the ages. People pour revelationary information
into the current bowl of known facts, and when those so-called facts are proved
outdated later then they are in a turmoil.
Man's state of consciousness at the time,
historically given as Christ's birth, was such that the ego was strongly
emerging; it felt its strength but was also afraid of its own daring, and
identified strongly with the mortality of the body. It needed a new creative
forward-thrusting impetus that would enable it to realize its existence after
death, and to reinforce that intuitive knowledge. As in (Psychic ?) Politics,
the Jewish prophets had foreseen such a state, and there was a built-in psychic
framework ready. The MALE God was still used, however, for the race had chosen
to identify the ego with the male characteristics, and the FEMALE with the
intuitive ones.
The Christ myth arose triumphantly from the
shoulders, figuratively speaking, of several lives. The air was ripe. There were
a large number of splintered religious sects, and self-proclaimed messiahs
EVERYWHERE. But the self-proclaimed messiahs stood for an INNER messiah, and for
man's need to rise above the conditions of time and consciousness. The people
ask what truth is, and when they do so they question from a certain LIMITED view
point, and deal with a limited order of events. It is as if someone asks you, "I
want to know if a violet is a truth." You answer, "yes," and the individual
(louder) then goes shouting to all his fellows, Ah-ha - all roses are lies
because violets are truth."
In certain terms the spirit of ALL THAT IS
shone down upon the people, illuminated them in a time of need, and spoke out
through the lives, words, and deeds of several men - and mankind creatively
merged these messages and spirit into a MYTH that contained however the great
energy and power of its source.
In your time you may smile indulgently at the
Gods of Olympus, and see clearly that they were mythical characters. There are
nature Gods, come and gone, whose names do not even remain, buried fantasies YOU
might say, precious folklore lost. Yet those Gods were no more real or no more
false, or no more facts or no less facts, and no more powerful or less powerful
THAN YOUR OWN. They also reigned, and molded civilizations. Men and women prayed
to them at dusk and dawn, and their prayers WERE ANSWERED, as yours are when you
BELIEVE that they will be. All of these Gods are the result of earthly
interpretations of deeper truths, interpreted according to man's beliefs at the
time, changing their faces and names and forms, but always reflecting man's
relationship with the source of his own being. For that being, while physical,
springs from sources that CANNOT be completely expressed in physical terms, so
the Gods have had earthly faces, and the legends have always been larger than
the lives upon which they were bases.
The Buddha and Christ spirit HAVE THE SAME
SOURCE, then, interpreted through different cultures and different times. To
some extent each man and woman alive is involved in God making, and it is one of
your NATURAL characteristics, quite IGNORED by your psychologists, and a mark of
your species.
Men do not make Gods just because they are
frightened. They do not make Gods just because they are looking for answers.
They make Gods because they instinctively feel the strength and energy of their
greater being, and because they are intuitively aware of other dimensions in
which they also have their existence. Men make Gods to explore the nature of
their INNER reality, and this is as natural a part of the species as it is for
man to explore his physical planet. He builds cities in the world, increasing
commerce and communication, storing his art treasures, and he builds Gods in the
image environment of his psyche in the same way. In your terms his evolutionary
progress follows the progress of the Gods. Those Gods tantalizingly lead him
toward life like the carrot before the donkey, and they represent the great
unknown potential that is inherent in the species. They represent the source
reality from which the "fact" of man's individual life springs, and therefore
they are larger than any fact. So when that reality is forged into the
ever-changing world of fact, there will always be contradictions, until you
realize that the contradictions themselves are invaluable clues.
Take your break.
( Jane's trance had been excellent, her manner
and the material inspired. Yet she'd told me before the session that she didn't
care whether we had a session of not.) (Resume)
Now: if you look at the religious and cultural
"underground" at any given time of great change, you will find opposing
factions. One, an extremist, almost hysterical version of the old or established
religious concepts, and on the other side a countering force of ideas that have
been building, often for a century, appearing here and there but without
capturing the imagination of the masses.
Often these will appear colored by the "old"
established religious culture, or couched in its terms while carrying many ideas
and beliefs that are definitely unacceptable to mainline thought. There will
also be tumultuous areas in between, where the new and the old ideas meet with
EXPLOSIVE variations. New Gods rise from the ashes of the old ones. So in your
time Christian fundamentalists militantly bear the swords of many extremist
doctrines not accepted any more by the general Christian community. They arouse
old fears and superstitions, on the other hand the religious concepts that point
toward your future also exist in the same underground of the culture, yet often
couched in conventional Christian terms. So Edgar Cayce interpreted his
revelations so as to make them FIT IN WITH his conventional Christian
beliefs.
Those who are learning to alter the focus of
their consciousness interpret their information also often in the same manner,
so you have again the good spirits or the angels of the light, or whatever; for
to THRIVE the altered religious concepts must have SOME cultural
coloration.
The populace in your country is experimenting
more and more with altered perception, yet these states are still considered
somewhat suspect, and will be interpreted by the individual usually through his
own belief system. A fundamentalist, frightened of evil and convinced of its
power, WILL encounter a demon. A spiritualist will ask for a protective Christ
circle, perhaps, or otherwise seek protection from the "evil spirits."
There will be Tibetan masters, as there have
been, or Indian guides - or whatever format serves as a framework. Earlier, God
or the Virgin or one of the saints might speak, but throughout the ages the
great development of the psyche found its voice by whatever names. Thus far, in
your terms, there always had to be good spirits and bad spirits, or a Christ and
Antichrist, a God and a devil, because man's consciousness has not yet been able
to rise above such SEEMING realities. In the past the mechanisms, the myths and
the pageantry served in one way or another to express the deeper realities for
which they stand. Now man's consciousness is ready for another quantum leap, in
which it must begin to throw away those disguises, for they serve NOW to hide
rather than to reveal.
Man thought that by making his Gods "real," he
proved their validity, for a while the process meant something. For truly the
Gods ARE living. ( long pause ) The native man knew that the Gods lived, thrived
in each rock, stone, animal and person. As the species developed man became less
democratic. His Gods were super examples of the species, and finally represented
only half of that species. Then Christ was seen as born into a specific time,
imprisoned in a few earthly years. Even though he was supposed to have ascended
after death, this still presented a WATERED-DOWN version, since he could not be
encountered in the SAME WAY again.
( long pause ) Christ served nevertheless as a
beacon to consciousness as it traveled a certain road; but once more and in a
different fashion, that road now branches out, for the species is beginning to
use its consciousness more freely again, and after having experiences it did not
have before.
In the old frame of reference there HAD to be
ONE God or NONE. There could not be many, for the idea of many Gods smacked not
only of Paganism, but of primitive superstition. If the ideas of one God was
correct, then the concept of many Gods had to be wrong. The person who said,
"There is no God," was an atheist from BOTH standpoints. The greater reality
comfortably holds all three beliefs, WITHOUT contradiction, for there is no God
if you are thinking of simply a crowned king of your own species. There are many
Gods if you realize that each of you is a portion of ALL THAT IS.
There is one God above all, if you think of
ALL THAT IS as it exists, being more than its infinite manifestations. Its
manifestations however include rocks and trees, animals, atoms and molecules -
and they are not inferior versions of what you are. They are simply other
versions of ALL THAT IS.
Now Ruburt, in stripping away myth, helps put
EACH individual who reads this material in touch with the creator. More sacred
reality from which those myths spring. The true nature of mysticism CAN NEVER BE
MADE LITERAL, and the Christ spirit can only show more clearly when it is NOT
confined to a fact system to which IT DOES NOT BELONG.
Then the Christ story can be CLEARLY RELATED
TO YOU, as an example of a sublime fantasy based on a truth that is a source OF
ALL LIFE.
Take a break.
Rob notes here...This turned out to be the end
of the session; I was too tired to continue. There was MORE available from Seth,
Jane told me. She described what was to come next - about class, money, books,
TV, sessions, material, etc., we decided to wait until Monday next to get it
all. I asked her to write up a summary of the data tomorrow morning, though, so
she'd have something to refer to in the
meantime.
Thank you for sharing this. I am going to add it to my SETH CLIFF NOTES documents. I would like to offer them to you. They are free PDF files on a totally safe Google Drive platform. What makes them unique is that I illustrated all the Seth quotes. Give it a try. No salesman will call. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Xb_uDN3CMaDI27oBnzZyiDGVzjXRe5ug
ReplyDeleteVery interesting. Thank you.
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