Session 586

Seth Speaks, Session 586

Ideas of good and evil, gods and devils, salvation and damnation, are merely symbols of deeper religious values; cosmic values if you will, that cannot be translated into physical terms.

These ideas become the driving themes of these religious dramas of which I have spoken.  The actors may “return”, time and time again, in different roles.  In any given historic religious drama, therefore, the actors may have already appeared on the historic scene in your past, the prophet of today being the traitor of the past drama.

These psychic entities are real, however.  It is quite true to say that their reality consists no only of the core of their own identity, but also is reinforced by those projected thoughts and feelings of the earthly audience for whom the drama is enacted.

Psychic or psychological identification is of great import here and is indeed at the heart of all such dramas.  In one sense, you can say that man identifies with the gods he has himself created.  Man does not understand the magnificent quality of his own inventiveness and creative power, however.  Then, say that gods and men create each other, and you come even closer to the truth; but only if you are very careful in your definitions – for how, exactly, do gods and men differ?

The attributes of the gods are those inherent within man himself, magnified, brought into powerful activity.  Men believe that the gods live forever.  Men live forever, but having forgotten this, they remember only to endow their gods with this characteristic.  Obviously, then, beyond these earthly historic religious dramas, the seemingly recurring tales of gods and men, there are spiritual realities.

Behind the actors in the dramas, there are more powerful entities who are quite beyond role-playing.  The plays themselves, then, the religions that sweep across the ages – these are merely shadows, though helpful ones.  Behind the frame of good and evil is a far deeper spiritual value.  All religions, therefore, while trying to catch “truth” must to some large degree fear its ever eluding them.

The inner self alone, at rest, in meditation, can at times glimpse portions of these inner realities that cannot be physically expressed.  These values, intuitions, or insights are given each to each according to his understanding, and so the stories told about them will often vary.

For example, the main character in a religious historical drama may or may not consciously be aware of the ways in which such information is given to him.  And yet it may seem to him that he does know, for the nature of the dogma’s origin will be explained in terms that this main character can understand.  The historical Jesus knew who he was, but he also knew that he was one of the three personalities composing one entity.  To a large extent he shared in the memory of the other two.

The third personality mentioned many times by me, has not in your terms yet appeared, although his existence has been prophesied as the “Second Coming” (Matthew 24).  Now these prophecies were given in terms of the current culture at that time, and therefore, while the stage has been set, the distortions are deplorable, for this Christ will not come at the end of your world as the prophecies have been maintaining.

He will not come to reward the righteous and send evildoers to eternal doom.  He will, however, begin a new religious drama.  A certain historical continuity will be maintained.  As happened once before, however, he will not be generally known for who he is.  There will be no glorious proclamation to which the whole world will bow.  He will return to straighten out Christianity, which will be in a shambles at the time of his arrival, and to set up a new system of thought when the world is sorely in need of one.

By that time, all religions will be in severe crisis.  He will undermine religious organizations – not unite them.  His message will be that of the individual in relation to All That Is.  He will clearly state methods by which each individual can attain a state of intimate contact with his own entity; the entity to some extent being man’s mediator with All That Is.

By 2075, all of this will be already accomplished.

You may make a note here that Nostradamus saw the dissolution of the Roman Catholic Church as the end of the world.  He could not imagine civilization without it, hence many of his later predictions should be read with this in mind.

The third personality of Christ will indeed be known as a great psychic, for it is he who will teach humanity to use those inner senses that alone make true spirituality possible.  Slayers and victims will change roles as reincarnational memories rise to the surface of consciousness.  Through the development of these abilities, the sacredness of all life will be intimately recognized and appreciated.

Now there will be several born before that time who in various ways will rearouse man’s expectations.  One such man has already been born in India, in a small province near Calcutta, but his ministry will seem to remain comparatively local for his lifetime.

Another will be born in Africa, a black man whose main work will be done in Indonesia.  The expectations were set long ago in your terms, and will be fed by new prophets until the third personality of Christ does indeed emerge.

He will lead man behind the symbolism upon which religion has relied for so many centuries.  He will recognize the multitudinous aspects of his own reality.

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 not four personalities.

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 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.  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.

When the third personality reemerges historically, however, he will not be called the old Paul, but will carry within him the characteristics of all the three personalities.

Paul tried to deny knowing who he was, until his experience and conversion.  Allegorically, he represented a warring faction of the self that fights against his own knowledge and is oriented in a highly physical manner.  It seemed he went from one extreme to another, being against Christ and then for him.  But the inner vehemence was always present, the inner fire, and the recognition that he tried for so long to hide.

His was the portion that was to deal with physical reality and manipulation, and so these qualities were strong in him.  To some extent they overruled him.  When the historical Christ “died”, Paul was to implement the spiritual ideas in physical terms, to carry on.  In so doing, however, he grew the seeds of an organization that would smother the ideas.  He lingered after Christ, as John the Baptist came before.  Together the three spanned some time period, you see.

John and the historical Christ each performed their roles and were satisfied that they had done so.  Paul alone was left at the end unsatisfied, and so it is about his personality that the future Christ will form.

The entity of which these personalities are part, that entity which you may call the Christ entity, was aware of these issues.  The earthly personalities were not aware of them, although in periods of trance and exaltation much was made known to them.

Paul also represented the militant nature of man, that had to be taken into consideration in line with man’s development at the time.  That militant quality in man will completely change its nature, and be dispensed with as you know it, when the next Christ personality emerges.  It is therefore appropriate that Paul be present.

In the next century, the inner nature of man, with these developments, will free itself from many constraints that have bound it.  A new era will indeed begin – not, now, a heaven on earth, but a far more sane and just world, in which man is far more aware of his relationship with his planet and of his freedom within time.

I would like to make certain points clear.  The “new religion” following the Second Coming will not be Christian in your terms, although the third personality of Christ will initiate it.

This personality will refer to the historical Christ, will recognize his relationship with that personality; but within him the three personality groupings will form a new psychic entity, a different personality gestalt.  As this metamorphosis takes place, it will initiate a metamorphosis on a human level also, as man’s inner abilities are accepted and developed.

The results will be a different kind of existence.  Many of your problems now result from spiritual ignorance.  No man will look down upon an individual from another race when he himself recognizes that his own existence includes such membership also.

No sex will be considered better than the other, or any role in society, when each individual is aware of his own or her own experience at many levels of society and in many roles.  An open-ended consciousness will feel its connections with all other living beings.  The continuity of consciousness will become apparent.  As a result of all this the social and governmental structures will change, for they are based upon your current beliefs.

Human personality will reap benefits that now would seem unbelievable.  An open-ended consciousness will imply far greater freedom.  From birth, children will be taught that basic identity is not dependent upon the body, and that time as you know it is an illusion.  The child will be aware of many of its past existences, and will be able to identify with the old man or woman that in your terms it will become.

Many of the lessons “that come with age” will then be available to the young, but the old will not lose the spiritual elasticity of their youth.  This itself is important.  But for some time, future incarnations will still be hidden for practical reasons.

As these changes come about, new areas will be activated in the brain to physically take care of them.  Physically then, brain mappings will be possible in which past-life memories are evoked.  All of these alterations are spiritual changes in which the meaning of religion will escape organizational bounds, become a living part of individual existence, and where psychic frameworks rather than physical ones form the foundations for civilization.

Man’s experience will be so extended that to you the species will seem to have changed into another.  This does not mean there will not be problems.  It does mean that man will have far greater resources at his command.  It also presupposes a richer and far more diverse social framework.  Men and women will find themselves relating to their brethren, not only as the people that they are, but as the people that they were.

Family relationships will show perhaps the greatest changes.  There will be room for emotional interactions within the family that are now impossible.  The conscious mind will be more aware of unconscious material.

I am including this information in this chapter on religion because it is important that you realize that spiritual ignorance is at the basis of so many of your problems, and that indeed your only limitations are spiritual ones.

The metamorphosis mentioned earlier on the part of the third personality, will have such strength and power that it will call out from mankind these same qualities from within itself.  The qualities have always been present.  They will finally break through the veils of physical perception, extending that perception in new ways.

Now, mankind lacks such a focus.  The third personality will represent that focus.  There will be, incidentally, no crucifixion in that drama.  That personality will indeed be multidimensional, aware of all of its incarnations.  It will not be oriented in terms of one sex, one color, or one race.

For the first time, therefore, it will break through the earthly concepts of personality, liberating personality.  It will have the ability to show these diverse effects as it chooses.  There will be many who will be afraid to accept the nature of their own reality, or to be shown the dimensions of true identity.

For several reasons, as mentioned by Ruburt, I do not want to give any more detailed information as to the name that will be used, or the land of birth.  Too many might be tempted to jump into that image prematurely.

Events are not predestined.  The framework for this emergence has already been set, however, within your system of probabilities.  The emergence of this third personality will directly affect the original historical drama of Christ as it is now known.  There is and must be interactions between them.