“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Now these eyes were actually means of telling not only the time but also the circumference of the earth. The idol used to be placed in the center of a circle, and carefully watched. The rays in the eyes were uplifted. Sticks were placed on the ground in those approximate locations as extensions of the rays in the eyes. And as the shadows fell past these sticks, the time of the day was deduced. Eyelashes were clearly shown on the face of the idol, and small sticks were placed outward as extensions of these eyelashes.

You adopted a female form in your next life. And in that life you learned the meaning of love, and the false necessity of sacrifice. In this life you hoped to learn further answers of science, but in the eyes of the molecule you found yourself staring symbolically into the eye of that long-forgotten idol. And so you have begun your search again. (Long pause.)

[...] Far be it from me to shatter idols.

([Gene]: “There are no idols to shatter.”)

You are after all not idols automatically given cosmic knowledge, and the rest of struggling humanity is not to be treated as imbecilic, whether it is imbecilic or not.

[...] In the meantime she was dreadfully lonely, for she would refuse dates with “ordinary” men, since they seemed so inferior compared to the new idol.