“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

When you leave the physical system after reincarnations, you have learned the lessons, and you are literally no longer a member of the human race in those terms, for you elect to leave it. Only the conscious self dwells within it in any case, and it is other portions of your personality who simultaneously dwell within the other training systems. In other more advanced systems, thoughts and emotions are automatically and immediately translated into action, into camouflage, into whatever approximation of matter there exists. Therefore the lessons must be taught and learned well.

The ideals are like instructions on a blackboard that will not be erased. When you have learned the lesson you realize that the ideals were not necessary, but until you learn the lesson they are all you have as guidelines. The ideals are mere shadows of instructions. They are however your own translations of truths as nearly as you can comprehend them within the system.

You are being allowed freedom within limits. (Long pause.) The human race is a stage through which various forms of consciousness travel. The ideals keep the race pointed in beneficial directions. Thoughts and emotions form the basis. You learn by seeing these turn into physical reality. You may be killed by what you have created. If so the lesson is doubly learned.

[...] He taught himself a lesson, literally, this evening, and that is the way he learns.

[...] Sometimes the lesson is learned too well. [...]

[...] The lesson would be instantaneous and complete.

(“Well, you said once that we were your first lesson class. [...]

At one time or another all of us on my plane give such lessons, but psychic bonds between teacher and pupils are necessary, which means that we must wait until personalities on your plane have progressed sufficiently for lessons to begin. To explain more clearly, lessons are conducted with those who are psychically bound to us, although reason is extremely important and I do not mean to minimize its value. [...]

[...] This is my first lesson class.

But this lesson, learned, is a valuable achievement. [...] I have to a large degree kept my eye upon him, but you see the lesson had to be learned by him.

He has indeed now learned one of the most basic lessons of his life. [...]

[...] But as a peasant I walked with a heavy foot and great weight until I learned the lessons that I had to learn, as all of you will learn your own lessons. [...]

[...] And so that despite you and your concepts of value, creativity always emerges triumphant, and those that are killed in one war come back to fight against war the next time, and hopefully, you teach yourselves some lessons. [...]

(“All right, we’re ready for lesson number one, or a message.”)

(“Is there more to that, or are we ready for the next lesson now?”)

He has indeed learned, the hard way, lessons that he had to learn if he were to further develop. And yet these lessons all in all were self-given, and he is actually lucky, for they could have been far more difficult and the fruits of stubbornness could have been more bitter.

[...] The self teaches its own lessons. [...]

It uses illness as a teaching method, and discards the method when the lesson is learned. [...]

Here the lesson has been learned and the illness as a method discarded.

[...] The helpful hints are themselves lessons, reminding the personality that only a portion of it is involved in the maze.

[...] In the 12th session, for January 2, 1964, he informed us that we were his “first lesson class,” then added: “At one time or another all of us on my plane give such lessons, but psychic bonds between teacher and pupils are necessary. This means that we must wait until personalities in your reality have progressed sufficiently for lessons to begin … although reason is extremely important, and I do not mean to minimize its value, nevertheless what you call emotion or feeling is the connective between us, and it is the connective that most clearly represents the life force on any plane and under any circumstances.”

[...] Neither of us realized it at the time, but she was to soon embark upon one of the key episodes³ of her psychic life: “My later experiences that day were a practical lesson in how models work” she wrote after it was all over.

Later, we were to learn about the distortions that could happen as Jane relayed some of Seth’s material; given the open-ended nature of time, and considering the idea of probable realities, we came to realize that simultaneously we could and could not be Seth’s “first lesson class.” [...]

[...] It is even given lessons of a kind, but it is very much its own self.

This is a private system, the personality using lessons that it has learned from the immediately previous experience. If no lessons have been learned, then on some occasions there may be a psychic reliving of past experience for the individual involved. [...]

He knew only he could teach you this lesson, and no one else whose death would affect you so strongly. [...]

[...] Men and women in fact learned how to deal with daily life—daily waking life—by studying the lessons they received in the dream state. [...]

[...] Man tried out in waking life those lessons that he received in dreams. [...]

By comparing the two couples, therefore, she receives an object lesson both for herself and her husband. [...] The other couple, the probable couple, have also helped you and your friend, though quite unknowingly at conscious levels, by serving as such object lessons.

The experience was quite legitimate, and it was meant as a lesson on many levels. [...]

The affair is also a lesson to you when you think negatively, showing you the results of such negative thoughts, followed without letup — and, in fact, followed in spite of redeeming actions that would change events. [...]

[...] He has learned what happens when he does, and he has unlearned the false and distorted lesson that was put upon him in his early years.

[...] The conscious self had to learn to accept and welcome them, and to unlearn false lessons.

“When you leave the physical system after reincarnations, you have learned the lessons—and you are literally no longer a member of the human race, for you elect to leave it. [...] Therefore, the lessons must be taught and learned well.

[...] Hate creates destruction in that ‘room,’ and until the lessons are learned, destruction follows destruction. [...]

[...] If the sorrows and agonies within your system were not felt as real, the lessons would not be learned. [...]

He knew only he could teach you this lesson, and no one else whose death would affect you so strongly.

[...] He went on: “At one time or another, all of us on my plane give such lessons, but psychic bonds between teacher and pupils are necessary, which means that we must wait until personalities on your plane have progressed sufficiently for lessons to begin. Lessons then are conducted with those psychically bound to us.

[...] The self-discipline learned, the control, the compassion that finally is aroused, and the final and last lesson learned, the positive desire for creativity and love over destruction and hatred. [...]

Now there is a reason why these lessons must be learned in just this way. [...]