“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

You (this seemed directed to Rachel) have cultivated other gardens. There are joys that can lighten your burden. It is not your ego that you fight, although you have a model of an ego. You fight a memory that lingers on the outskirts of your mind. A transgression already forgiven—a storm already passed—a dark cloud already punctured. Now, you are naturally as free as air. The rest is a facade to hide the memory. Now, consciously you will not understand what I am telling you but unconsciously you will. The transgression has already been paid for. The penance is finished. When you realize that you are free you will be able to enjoy your freedom.

Now that was a fine sermon and I shall take it to heart. The barriers that you erect are no longer needed. The dangers have long since passed. They have been conquered. The transgressions were not as severe as your strong conscious supposed and the time of penance is over.

[...] That is, I simply would not be attuned myself to social situations or social transgressions, or what might seem social transgressions to you.

[...] You could admit failings, transgressions of one kind or another without identifying yourself, say, with failure. [...]

[...] Others may insist that because of their transgressions they will be cast into hell, and because of the force of such belief, they may for some time actually encounter such conditions. [...]

[...] Normal aggressiveness is basically a natural kind of communication, particularly in social orders; a way of letting another person know that in your terms they have transgressed, and therefore a method of preventing violence — not of causing it.

(12:02.) Many in the religious community said that the flood was the will of God at that level, or that people were being punished for their transgressions. [...]

This could happen as a result of the smallest transgression, if the mother was in a particularly unstable condition. [...]

[...] That society could then accept his journeys, and the individuals could allow themselves to follow his adventures, and forgive him for his cultural transgression because he brought home goodies.

His present mother, remembering subconsciously past transgressions of his, now counts upon his impulsive nature and sensitivity to pay him back, this of course representing a mistake on her part, for which she will have to suffer the consequences in still another existence.

[...] We are not “punished” in one life for the “transgressions” of a past one. [...]

[...] One, resentment against the world in general, hence you listened to the news and picked out purposely the most blatant of your fellow mans’ transgressions, deriving from them perverse pleasure.

[...] In the background, as a child under the organization of the Welfare Department, self-indulgence, small luxuries or too-unconventional behavior, were all dangerous in the framework chosen — the neighbors could report any transgressions to Welfare. [...]