Session 591

Seth Speaks, Session 591

I titled this chapter “A Goodbye and an Introduction”.  The good-bye is my own, since I am now finishing this book.  The introduction applies to each reader, for I hope that you will now be able to meet yourself face to face with a greater understanding of who and what you are.

I would like, therefore, to introduce you to yourself.

You will not find yourself by running from teacher to teacher, from book to book.  You will not meet yourself through following any particular specialized method of meditation.  Only by looking quietly within the self that you know can your own reality be experienced, with those connections that exist between the present or immediate self and the inner identity that is multidimensional.

There must be a willingness, an acquiescence, a desire.  If you do not take the time to examine your own subjective states, then you cannot complain if so many answers seem to elude you.  You cannot throw the burden of proof upon another, or expect a man or teacher to prove to you the validity of your own existence.  Such a procedure is bound to lead you into one subjective trap after another.

As you sit reading this book, the doorways within are open.  You have only to experience the moment as you know it as fully as possible – as it exists physically within the room, or outside in the streets of the city in which you live.  Imagine the experience present in one moment of time over the globe, then try to appreciate the subjective experience of your own that exists in the moment and yet escapes it – and this multiplied by each living individual.

This exercise alone will open your perceptions, increase your awareness and automatically expand your appreciation of your own nature.

The “you” who is capable of such expansion must be a far more creative and multidimensional personality than you earlier imagined.  Many of the suggested small exercises given earlier in the book will also help you become acquainted with your own reality, will give you direct experience with the nature of your own soul or entity, and will put you in contact with those portions of your being from which your own vitality springs.  You may or may not have your own encounters with past reincarnational selves or probable selves.  You may or may not catch yourselves in the act of changing levels of consciousness.

Certainly most of my readers, however, will have success with some of the suggested exercises.  They are not difficult, and they are within the capabilities of all.

Each reader, however, should in one way or another sense his own vitality in a way quite new to him, and find avenues of expansion opening within himself of which he was earlier unaware.  The very nature of this book, the method of its creation and delivery, in themselves should clearly point out the fact that human personality has far more abilities than those usually ascribed to it.  By now you should understand that all personalities are not physically materialized.  As this book was conceived and written by a nonphysical personality, and then made physical, so do each of you have access to greater abilities and methods of communication than those usually accepted.

I hope that in one way or another this book of mine has served to give each of you an introduction to the inner multidimensional identity that is your own.

And that, my dear friend, is the end of dictation, and the book is finished.

Addendum On The Historical Christ

Christ, the historical Christ, was not crucified.

He had no intention of dying in that manner; but others felt that to fulfill the prophecies in all ways, a crucifixion was a necessity.

Christ did not take part in it.  There was a conspiracy in which Judas played a role, an attempt to make a martyr out of Christ.  The man chosen was drugged – hence the necessity of helping him carry the cross (see Luke 23) – and he was told that he was the Christ.

He believed that he was.  He was one of those deluded, but he also himself believed that he, not the historical Christ, was to fulfill the prophecies.

Mary came because she was full of sorrow for the man who believed he was her son.  Out of compassion she was present.  The group responsible wanted it to appear that one particular portion of the Jews had crucified Christ, and never dreamed that the whole Jewish people would be “blamed”.

This is difficult to explain, and even for me to unravel … The tomb was empty because this same group carted the body away.  Mary Magdalene did see Christ, however, immediately after (see Matthew 28).  Christ was a great psychic.  He caused the wounds to appear then upon his own body, and appeared both physically and in out-of-body states to his followers.  He tried, however, to explain what had happened, and his position, but those who were not in on the conspiracy would not understand, and misread his statements.

Peter three times denied the Lord (Matthew 26), saying he did not know him, because he recognized that that person was not Christ.

The plea, “Peter, why has thou forsaken me?” came from the man who believed he was Christ – the drugged version.  Judas pointed out that man.  He knew of the conspiracy, and feared that the real Christ would be captured.  Therefore he handed over to the authorities a man known to be a self-styled messiah – to save, not destroy, the life of the historical Christ.

Symbolically, however, the crucifixion idea itself embodied deep dilemmas and meanings of the human psyche, and so the Crucifixion per se became a far greater reality than the actual physical events that occurred at the time.

Only the deluded are in danger of, or capable of, such self-sacrifice, you see, or find it necessary.  Only those still bound up in ideas of crime and punishment would be attracted to that kind of religious drama, and find within it deep echoes of their own subjective feelings.

Christ knew however, clairvoyantly, that these events in one way or another would occur, and the probable dramas that could result.  The man involved could not be swerved from his subjective decision.  He would be sacrificed to make the old Jewish prophecies come true, and he could not be dissuaded.

In the Last Supper when Christ said, “This is my body, and this is my blood”, He meant to show that the spirit was within all matter, interconnected, and yet apart – that his own spirit was independent of his body, and also in his own way to hint that he should no longer be identified with his body.  For he knew the dead body would not be his own.

This was all misunderstood.  Christ then changed his mode of behavior, appearing quite often in out-of-body states to his followers. (See John 20, 21; Matthew 28; Luke 24.)  Before, he had not done this to that degree.  He tried to tell them however that he was not dead, and they chose to take him symbolically.

His physical presence was no longer necessary, and was even an embarrassment under the circumstances.  He simply willed himself out of it.

He knew that without the wounds, they would not believe he was himself, because they were so convinced that he died with those wounds.  (See John 20.)  They were to be a method of identification, to be dispensed with when he explained the true circumstances.

He ate to prove he was still alive, for example (John 21, Luke 24, etc.), but they took this simply to mean that the spirit could partake of food.  They wanted to believe that he had been crucified and arisen.