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DREAMS. “EVOLUTION: AND VALUE FULFILLMENT<\/strong> Vol 1, Pg 127 Dictated by Seth, a non-physical entity, to Jane Roberts, with notes by Robert F. Butts<\/p>\n

Chapter 1 – BEFORE THE BEGINNING – \u00a0 <\/strong>(Audio: Below Text from Ch. One<\/a>)
\n(“Good evening, Seth.”)<\/em>
\nDictation. The heading of the chapter-v-I forgot to give it to
\nyou-is: “Before the Beginning.”
\nNow: You cannot prove scientifically that [your] world was
\ncreated (pause) by a god who set it into motion, but remained
\noutside of its dominion. Nor can you prove scientifically that the
\ncreation of the world was the result of a chance occurrence-so
\nyou will not be able to prove what I am\u00a0going to tell you either.
\nNot in usual terms.
\nI hope however to present, along with my explanations, cer-
\ntain hints and clues that will show you where to look for subjec-
\ntive evidence. Period.
\nYou live your lives through your own subjective knowing, to
\nbegin with, and I will try to arouse within your own conscious-
\nnesses memories of events with which your own inner psyches
\nwere intimately involved as the world was formed-and though
\nthese may appear to be past events, they are even now occurring.
\nBefore the beginning of the universe, we will postulate the
\nexistence of an omnipotent, creative source. (Pause.) We will
\nhope to show that this divine subjectivity is as present in the
\nworld of your experience as it was before the beginning of the
\nuniverse. Again, I refer to this original subjectivity as All That
\nIs. I am making an attempt to verbalize concepts that almost
\ndefy the edges of the intellect, unless that intellect is thoroughly
\nreinforced by the intuition’s strength. So you will need to use
\nyour mind and your own intuitions as you read this book.
\nAll That Is, before the beginning contained within itself the
\ninfinite thrust of all possible creations. All That Is possessed<\/p>\n

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(pause) a creativity of such magnificence that its slightest imag-
\ninings, dreams, thoughts, feelings or moods attained a kind of
\nreality, a vividness, an intensity, that almost demanded freedom.
\nFreedom from what? Freedom to do what? Freedom to be what?
\nThe experience, the subjective universe, the “mind” of All
\nThat Is, was so brilliant, so distinct, that All That Is almost be-
\ncame lost, mentally wandering within this ever-flourishing, ever-
\ngrowing interior landscape. Each thought, feeling, dream, or
\nmood was itself indelibly marked with all of the attributes of this
\ninfinite subjectivity. Each glowed and quivered with its own crea-
\ntivity, its own desire to create as it had been created.
\nBefore the beginning there existed an interior universe that
\nhad no beginning or ending, for I am using the term “before
\nthe beginning” to make matters easier for you to assimilate. In
\nparentheses: (That same infinite interior universe exists now, for
\nexample.) —
\n(Pause at 9:31.) All That Is contained within itself the knowl-
\nedge of all existences, with their infinite probabilities, and “as
\nsoon as” All That Is imagined those numberless circumstances,
\nthey existed in what I will call divine fact.
\nAll That Is knew of itself only. It was engrossed with its own
\nsubjective experiences, even divinely astonished as its own
\nthoughts and imaginings attained their own vitality, and inher-
\nited the creativity of their subjective creator. [Those thoughts
\nand imaginings] began to have a dialogue with their “Maker” (all
\nvery emphatically).
\nThoughts of such magnificent vigor began to think their own
\nthoughts-and their thoughts thought thoughts. As if in divine
\nastonishment and surprise, All That Is began to listen, and
\nbegan to respond to these “generations” of thoughts and
\ndreams, for the thoughts and dreams related to each other also.
\nThere was no time, so all of this “was happening” simulta-
\nneously. The order of events is being simplified. In the mean-
\ntime, then, in your terms, All That Is spontaneously thought
\nnew thoughts and dreamed new dreams, and became involved
\nin new imaginings-and all of these also related to those now-
\ninfinite generations of interweaving and interrelating thoughts
\nand dreams that “already” existed (with many gestures and much
\nemphasis). . .
\nSo beside this spontaneous creation, this simultaneous
\n“stream” of divine rousing, All That Is began to watch the inter-
\nactions that occurred among his own subjective progeny. (Pause.)
\nHe listened, began to respond and to answer a thought or a
\ndream. He began to purposefully bring about those mental con-
\nditions that were requested by these generations of mental prog-
\neny. If he had been lonely before, he was no longer.
\nYour language causes some difficulty here, so please accept
\nthe pronoun “he” as innocuously as possible. “It” sounds too
\nneutral for my purpose, and I want to reserve the pronoun “she”
\nfor some later differentiations. In basic terms, of course, All
\nThat Is is quite beyond any designations having to do with any
\none species or sex. All That Is, then, began to feel a growing
\nsense of pressure as it realized that its own ever-multiplying
\nthoughts and dreams themselves yearned to enjoy those greater
\ngifts of creativity with which they were innately endowed.
\nIt is very difficult to try to assign anything like human moti-
\nvation to All That Is. I can only say that it is possessed by “the
\nneed” to lovingly create from its own being; to lovingly trans-
\nform its own reality in such a way that each most slight probable
\nconsciousness can come to be (long pause); and with the need to
\nsee that any and all possible orchestrations of consciousness have
\nthe chance to emerge, to perceive and to love.
\nWe will later discuss the fuller connotations of the word “love”
\nas it is meant here, but this chapter is a kind of outline of other
\nmaterial to come.
\nAll That Is, then, became aware of a kind of creative tumult
\nas each of its superlative thoughts and dreams, moods and feel-
\nings, strained at the very edges of their beings, looking for some
\nthen-unknown, undiscovered, as of then unthought-of release.
\nI am saying that this mental progeny included all of the con-
\nsciousnesses that [have] ever appeared or will appear upon your
\nearth-all tenderly couched: the first human being, the first
\ninsect-each with an inner knowledge of the possibilities of its
\ndevelopment. All That Is, loving its own progeny, sought within
\nitself the answer to this divine dilemma (all very intently, with eyes
\nwide and dark, and with numerous gestures).
\n(Pause at 9:57.) When that answer came, it involved previously
\nunimaginable leaps of divine inspiration, and it occurred thusly:
\nAll That Is searched through the truly infinite assortment of its
\nincredible progeny to see what conditions were needed for this<\/p>\n

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\neven more magnificent dream, this dream of a freedom of objec-
\ntivity. What door could open to let physical reality emerge from
\nsuch an inner realm? When All That Is, in your terms, put all of
\nthose conditions together it saw, of course, in a flash, the mental
\ncreation of those objective worlds that would be needed-and as
\nit imagined those worlds, in your terms, they were physically
\ncreated,
\n[All That Is] did not separate itself from those worlds, how-
\never, for they were created from its thoughts, and each one has
\ndivine content. The worlds are all created by that divine content,
\nso that while they are on the one hand exterior, they are on the
\nother also made of divine stuff, and each hypothetical point in
\nyour universe (pause) is in direct contact with All That Is in the
\nmost basic terms, The knowledge of the whole is within all of its
\nparts-and yet All That Is is more than its parts,
\nDivine subjectivity is indeed infinite, It can never be entirely
\nobjectified, When the worlds, yours and others, were thus cre-
\nated, there was indeed an explosion of unimaginable propor-
\ntions, as the divine spark of inspiration exploded into objectivity.
\nThe first “object” was an almost unendurable mass, though it
\nhad no weight, and it exploded, instantaneously beginning pro-
\ncesses that formed the universe-but no time was involved, The
\nprocess that you might imagine took up eons occurred in the
\ntwinkling of an eye, and the initial objective materialization of
\nthe massive thought of All That Is burst into reality, In your
\nterms this was a physical explosion-but in the terms of the
\nconsciousnesses involved in that breakthrough, this was experi-
\nenced as a triumphant “first” inspirational frenzy, a break-
\nthrough into another kind of being (most intently),
\nThe earth then appeared as consciousness transformed itself
\ninto the many facets of nature, The atoms and molecules were
\nalive, aware-they were no longer simply a part of a divine syn-
\ntax, but they spoke themselves through the very nature of their
\nbeing (gesturing), They became the living, aware vowels and syl-
\nlables through which consciousness could form matter.
\nBut in your terms this was still largely a dream world, though
\nit was fully fashioned. It had, generally speaking, all of the spe-
\ncies that you now know, These all correlated with the multitudi-
\nnous kinds of consciousnesses that had clamored for release, and
\nthose consciousnesses were spontaneously endowed by All That
\nIs with those forms that fit their requirements, You had the birth<\/p>\n

of individualized consciousness as you think of it into physical
\ncontext. Those consciousnesses were individualized before the
\nbeginning, but not manifest. But individualized consciousness
\nwas not quite all that bold. It did not attach itself completely to
\nits earthly forms at the start, but rested often within its “ancient”
\ndivine heritage. In your terms, it is as if the earth and all of its
\ncreatures were partially dreaming, and not as focused within
\nphysical reality as they are now.
\n(10:08.) For one thing, while individualized consciousness was
\nwithin the massive subjectivity of All That Is, it enjoyed, beside
\nits own uniqueness, a feeling of supporting unity, a comforting
\nknowledge that it was one with its source, So in the beginning of
\n[your] world, consciousness fluctuated greatly, focusing ~
\nat the start, but not quite as willing to be as fully independent as
\nits first intent might seem,
\nYou had the sleepwalkers,” early members of your species,
\nwhose main concentration was still veiled in that earlier subjec-
\ntivity, and they were your true ancestors, in those terms,
\nAre you tired?
\n(“I’m okay.”)
\nFor one thing, early man needed to rely upon his great inner
\nknowledge. Take your break.
\n(l 0:23, Seth’s call for a break was abrupt. “Is one of the cats out?”
\nJane asked right away, looking around, Billy, our eight-month-old tiger
\ncat, was sleeping on a chair near us. A couple of minutes ago he’d started
\nmaking some odd high-pitched sounds I hadn’t heard him produce before.
\nI’d wondered if those noises might bother Jane in trance-and they had,
\nI didn’t know where Billy’s littermate Mitzi was, though, I found her
\nlocked out on the screened-in front porch,
\n(“I don’t want \/’0 lose it, ” Jane said, She went quickly back into trance,
\nPurring and rubbing, Mitzi began to climb all over me as I tried to take
\nnotes, Resume at 10:30.)
\nAll of the species began by emphasizing a great subjective
\norientation that was most necessary as they learned to manipu-
\nlate within the new physical environment.
\n(Jane paused, eyes closed, Mitzi was still loving me up, Then:)
\nEnd of session,
\n(10:31 P.M. “Oh,” I said in some surprise,
\n“I’ll tell you,” Jane said, “I was getting more. It was fun to do, and I
\nknew what was coming, but going back like that I couldn’t get it,”
\nI told Jane the session is brilliant, the best she’s ever given, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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