Seth Two On Knowledge (3)

Seth Early Sessions, Vol 8, Session 412

Seth Two On Knowledge (3)

Now.  Knowledge exists as realizations, and realizations presuppose personalities.

Knowledge does not exist, ideally, in abstract terms.  It is true it must be interpreted in many cases so that it may seem to you that it exists as some sort of isolated principle, ultimately.  This is not the case.

Knowledge automatically changes the personality and the camouflage structure through with it flows.  Knowledge, in other words is action.  There is of course such action taking place in these sessions.

(Looking at me.)  You act as a transmitter, Joseph.  This has not always been the case.  Now, you strengthen the transmission of these communications.  Ruburt and you together provide the necessary channels.  He is more directly the receiver, but the communications pass through you also.

In your life as a minister (in Boston, early last century) you were a receiver in the terms that Ruburt is now, and your congregation acted as a transmitting agency.

You can ask your fond Seth questions concerning that episode.  In that case your own personality structure was altered by the information that flowed through you, and it became a part of your earth life heritage.  It was yours when you began this present lifetime.

Because of that experience you are now able to help bring in a strong signal.  As one individual you serve now in the place of the congregation that was necessary to help you in the past.

Both you and Ruburt therefore had the possibility of such experience already prepared in your personality structures.  It was this innate ability and knowledge, your fond Seth tells me, that prevented you from marrying until you met someone who would be able to help you along these lines.

You and Ruburt had of course been in close relationships in past life existences in the physical system.  It was hardly any coincidence that you met.  This follows the nature of action beautifully.  Patterns in your personalities had already been activated and were ready for use and development.

There is nothing, neither knowledge nor beauty nor truth, that exists independently of consciousness or personality.  My personality is such that it is not intimate or understandable to you, now, simply because it is a personality based upon different root assumptions than your own, and has its prime existence in dimensions that are composed of personality structures and gestalts based on alien psychological activities.

I am not giving you some kind of disembodied knowledge, however.  Knowledge itself is conscious.  It is not a dead thing transmitted, since it has no meaning without personality and realization, and since it changes the personalities through whom it seems to flow.  In changing them it of necessity is part of the awareness of the very cells it alters.

It is not like a liquid that flows through a bowl.  It becomes a part of that which contains it, and therefore a part of the consciousness, in your case, of the cells and all of your structures.  Words on a printed page for example are not dead, nor are they merely inert symbols.  They share the consciousness of the material upon which they are printed and the various individual letters themselves, by their position and reality, make each unique piece of paper upon which they are written original from all others.

The newsprint to this degree, you see, has a consciousness, even in this regard.  The least information is not inert.  All symbols have a meaning therefore in themselves also, and a reality apart from that which they are meant to display.  You can see this easily.  The painting of a tree, while a symbol for the tree, nevertheless has its own consciousness and reality.

The consciousness is composed of the individual consciousness that make up the material that is within the painting, and yet there is also a gestalt consciousness that is the result of the artist’s overall conception.  Anything that an observer learns from looking at the painting is always living knowledge, that alters his own makeup.

Your Seth has helped me out here.  You could say that you are merely symbols of your own greater reality, since your own greater reality exists in as many other dimensions as the tree exists from a rendering of it.  Yet you are conscious and aware.  Therefore behind every actuality in each dimension there are always other actualities and dimensions.

Consciousness so varies in degree that as yet you have little real idea of its basic unity and of its endless diversity.