Seth -- Some exploits of Paul's in his earlier life have been attributed to Christ

 

The third historical personage, already born in your terms, and a portion

of the entire Christ personality, took upon himself the role of a zealot.

This person had superior energy and power and great organizing

abilities, but it was the errors that he made unwittingly that perpetuated

some dangerous distortions. The records of that historical period are

scattered and contradictory.

The man, historically now, was Paul or Saul. It was given to him to set

up a framework. But it was to be a framework of ideas, not of

regulations; of men, not of groups. Here he fell down, and he will return

as the third personality, just mentioned, in your future.

In that respect, however, there are not four personalities.

("I understand. ")

Now Saul went to great lengths to set himself as a separate identity.

His characteristics, for example, were seemingly quite" different from

those of the historical Christ. He was "converted" in an intense personal

experience - a fact that was meant to impress upon him the personal and

not organizational aspects. Yet some exploits of his in his earlier life

have been attributed to Christ -- not as a young man, but earlier.

All personalities have free will and work out their own challenges. The

same applied to Saul. The organizational "distortions," however, were

also necessary within the framework of history as events are understood.

Saul's tendencies were known, therefore, at another level. They served a 404

purpose. It is for this reason, however, that he will emerge once again,

this time to destroy those distortions.

Now he did not create them on his own, and thrust them upon historical

reality. (Jane paused, a hand to her eyes.) He created them in so far as

he found himself forced to admit certain facts: In that world at that time,

earthly power was needed to hold Christian ideas apart from numberless

other theories and religions, to maintain them in the middle of warring

factions. It was his job to form a physical framework; and even then he

was afraid that the framework would strangle the ideas, but he saw no

other way.

("Why the two names, Paul and Saul?")

He was called both. (Pause) When the third personality re-emerges

historically, however, he will not be called the old Paul, but will carry

within him the characteristics of all the three personalities.

--Seth, Seth Speaks, SESSION 586, JULY 24, 1971, 9:01 P.M. SATURDAY