APPENDIX C

A Godhead Creation Story

excerpted from

The Seth Material, by Jane Roberts, p. 264-269.

"The purpose is, quite simply, being as opposed to nonbeing. I
am telling you what I know, and there is much I do not know. I know that
help must be given on to the other, and that extension and expansion are
aids to being.

"Now--and this will seem like a contradiction in terms--there is
nonbeing. It is a state, not of nothingness, but a state in which
probabilities and possibilities are known and anticipated but blocked from
expression.

"Dimly, through what you would call history, hardly remembered,
there was such a state. It was a state of agony in which the powers of
creativity and existence were known, but the ways to produce them were not
known.

"This is the lesson that All That Is had to learn, and that
could not be taught. This is the agony from which creativity originally was
drawn, and its reflection is still seen.

[Jane Roberts comments.] Seth uses the word "God" sparingly,
usually when speaking to students who are used to thinking in theological
terms. As a rule, he speaks of "All That Is" or "Primary Energy Gestalts."

"Some of this discussion is bound to be distorted, because I
must explain it to you in terms of time as you understand it. So I will
speak, for your benefit, of some indescribably distant past in which these
events occured.

"All That Is" retains memory of that state, and it serves as a
constant impetus--in your terms--toward renewed creativity. Each self, as a
part of All That Is, therefore also retains memory of that state. It is for
this reason that each minute consciousness is endowed with the impetus
toward survival, change, development, and creativity. It is not enough that
All That Is, as a primary consciousness gestalt, desires further being, but
that each portion of It also carries this determination.

"Yet the agony itself was used as a means, and the agony itself
served as an impetus, strong enough so that All That Is initiated within
Itself the means to be.

"If--and this is impossible--all portions but the most minute
last 'unit' of All That Is were destroyed, All That Is would continue, for
within the smallest portion is the innate knowledge of the whole. All That
Is protects Itself, therefore, and all that It has and is and will create.

"When I speak of All That Is, you must understand my position
within it. All That Is knows no other. This does not mean that there may
not be more to know. It does not know whether or not other psychic gestalts
like It may exist. It is not aware of them if they do exist. It is
constantly searching. It knows that something else existed before Its own
primary dilemma when It could not express Itself.

"It is conceivable, then that It has evolved, in your terms, so
long ago that It has forgotten Its origin, that It has developed from still
another Primary which has--again, in your terms--long since gone Its way. So
there are answers that I cannot give you, for they are not known anywhere in
the system in which we have our existence. We do know that within this
system of our All That Is, creation continues and developments are never
still. We can deduce that on still other layers of which we are unaware,
the same is true.

"The first state of agonized search for expression may have
represented the birth throes of All That Is as we know It. Pretend, then,
that you possessed within yourself the knowledge of all the world's
masterpieces in sculpture and art, that they pulsed as realities within you,
but that you had no physical apparatus, no knowledge of how to achieve them,
that there was neither
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" rock nor pigment nor source of any of these, and you ached with the
yearning to produce them. This, on an infinitesimally small scale, will
perhaps give you, as an artist [this addressed to Rob , Jane's husband who
is an artist and who is transcribing the channeling], some idea of the agony
and impetus that was felt.

"Desire, wish, and expectation rule all actions and are the
basis for all realities. Within All That Is, therefore, the wish, desire,
and expectation of creativity existed before all other actuality. The
strength and vitality of these desires and expectations then became in your
terms so insupportable that All That Is was driven to find the means to
produce them.

"In other words, All That Is existed in a state of being,
without the means to find expression for Its being. This was the state of
agony of which I spoke. Yet it is doubtful that without this 'period' of
contracted yearning, All That Is could concentrate Its energy sufficiently
enough to create the realities that existed in probable suspension within
It.

"The agony and the desire to create represent Its proof of Its
own reality. The feelings, in other words, were adequate proof to All That
Is that It was.

"At first, in your terms all of probably reality existed as
nebulous dreams within the consciousness of All That Is. Later, the
unspecific nature of these 'dreams' grew more particular and vivid. The
dreams became recognizable on from the other until they drew the conscious
notice of All That Is. And with curiosity and yearning, All That Is paid
more attention to Its own dreams.

"It then purposely gave them more and more detail, and yearned
toward this diversity and grew to love that which was not yet separate from
itself. It gave consciousness and imagination to personalities while they
still were but within Its dreams. They also yearned to be actual.

"Potential individuals
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, in your terms, had consciousness before the beginning or any beginning as
you know it, then. They clamored to be release into actuality, and All That
Is, in unspeakable sympathy, sought within Itself for the means.

"In Its massive imagination, It understood the cosmic
multiplication of consciousness that could not occur within that framework.
Actuality was necessary if these probabilities were to be given birth. All
That Is saw, then, an infinity of probable, conscious individuals, and
foresaw all possible developments, but they were locked within It until It
found the means.

"This was in your terms a primary cosmic dilemma, and one with
which It wrestled until All That It Was was completely involved and
enveloped within that cosmic problem.

"Had It not solved it, All That Is would have faced insanity,
and there would have been, literally, a reality without reason and a
universe run wild.

"The pressure came from two sources: from the conscious but
still probable individual selves who found themselves alive in a God's
dream, and from the God who yearned to release them.

"On the other hand, you could say that the pressure existed
simply on the part of the God since the creation existed within Its dream,
but such tremendous power resides in such primary pyramid gestalts that even
their dreams are endowed with vitality and reality.

"This, then, is the dilemma of any primary pyramid gestalt: It
creates reality. It also recognized within each consciousness the massive
potential that existed. The means, then, came to It. It must release the
creatures and probabilities from Its dream.

"To do so would give them actuality. However, it also meant
'losing' a portion of Its own consciousness, for it was within that portion
that they were held in bondage. All That Is had to let go. While It
thought of these individuals as Its creations, It held them as a part of
Itself and refused them actuality.

"To let them go was to 'lose' that portion of Itself that had
created them. Already It could scarcely keep up with the myriad
probabilities that began to emerge from each separate consciousness. With
love and longing It let go that portion of Itself, and they were free. The
psychic energy exploded in a flash of creation.

"All That Is, therefore,'lost' a portion of Itself in that
creative endeavor. All That Is loves all that It has created down to the
least, for It realizes that dearness and uniqueness of each consciousness
which has been wrest from such a state and at such a price. It is
triumphant and joyful at each development taken by each consciousness, for
this is an added triumph against that first state, and It revels and takes
joy in the slightest creative act of each of Its issues.

"It, of Itself and from that state, has given life to infinities
of possibilities. From its agony, It found the way to burst forth in
freedom, through expression, and in so doing gave existence to
individualized consciousness. Therefore is It rightfully jubilant. Yet all
individuals remember their source, and now dream of All That Is as All That
Is once dreamed of them. And they yearn toward that immense source...and
yearn to set It free and give It actuality through their own creations.

"The motivating force is still All That Is, but individuality is
no illusion. Now in the same way do you give freedom to the personality
fragments within your own dreams and for the same reason. And you create
for the same reason, and within each of you is the memory of that primal
agony--that urge to created and free all probably consciousness into
actuality.

"I have been sent to help you, and others have been sent through
the centuries of your time, for as you develop you also form new dimensions,
and you will help others.

"These connections between you and All That Is can never be
severed, and Its awareness is so delicate and focused that It's attention is
indeed directed with a prime creator's love to each consciousness.

"This session needs reading many times, for there are
implications not at first obvious."

Appendix D

The Woman Who Fell from the Sky,

The Iroquois Story of Creation,

retold by John Bierhorst

(New York: William Morrow and Co., 1993)

Before the world was new, sky people lived on a floating island
high in the air. The sun had not yet been created, but light shone from the
flowers of a tall tree.

The sky country was a quite place. No one ever wept. No one
ever died. No children were ever born.

This is the story.

In the sky country there lived a woman who had a husband. One
day, hearing voices under her heart, the sky woman knew that she would be
the mother of children.

But when she told her husband, he became jealous. In his anger
he uprooted the tree, and as the tree's flowers wilted, the sky country grew
dark.

Through the hole where the tree had stood, water could be seen
far below. Curious, the sky woman stepped to the edge of the hole. She
looked down, and at that moment her husband pushed her.

Then he straightened his thoughts and calmed down. But it was
too late. The sky woman was already falling.

Birds and animals had not yet been created. But as the woman
fell through the air, sky people changed into ducks and locked their wings
to cushion her fall.

Below there was only water, no earth. But sky people changed
into water animals, and the mudrat dived to the bottom. When it came back
up, it had mud in its claws, which the others spread on the back of the
turtle.

"Now we will be lucky," said the water animals, "because doesn't
the sky woman have the power of creation?"

As the woman landed on the turtle's back, the mud began to grow.
Then she walked around this tiny earth, around and around, throwing her
power ahead of her. When she stopped, the earth was as large as it is
today.

She threw a handful of earth into the sky, and it quickly became
sprinkled with stars.

"Now something bright will appear," she said. "It will be a
helper. It will be called the sun." Then morning came, and the sun rose
for the first time.

The sky woman felt something stirring under her heart. Two
lives were coming, one called Sapling, born to be gentle, and one called
Flint, whose mind was hard as stone.

Sapling and Flint grew rapidly. Soon they knew their mother's
thoughts.

When Sapling ran over the earth, fresh soil was formed beneath
his feet, and maple trees and all the other plants sprang up in his
footprints.

"The earth is alive," he said. Then he threw up a handful of
soil, and birds and animals flew off in all directions."

Sapling created two-way rivers for swift travel back and forth.
But Flint, whose mind was hard, said, "That would be too easy," and he made
each river flow in one direction only, adding falls and ripples.

Sapling had created fish. But Fling threw small bones into
them, to make life more difficult for the people who were soon to come.

The Flint created monsters. But Sapling drove them
underground.

Flint created a great white man called snow, who couldn't move.
But Sapling breathed life into him and made him travel so spring could come.

Sapling took earth and made human beings. He took a portion of
his own life and put it into each body and a portion of his own mind an put
it into each head.

"Remember," he said, "that you are the children of the sky
woman, because she gave the mind and also the power." Then he showed them
how to make houses and build fires.

When their work was done, Sapling and Flint rose up from the
earth, traveling along the Milky Way. What was happening? Each one was
taking a separate path.

The divided pathway can still be seen, showing that there are
two minds in the universe, one that is hard like Flint and one that is
gentle like Sapling.

When Sapling and Flint had disappeared, the sky woman threw
herself into the fire and flew upward on the smoke.

"You cannot follow me," she said to the people, "only your
thoughts. When the smoke from your fire rises, then you will speak your
words."

"We give thanks to the earth, our mother, who supports our feet.

"We give thanks to the flowing rivers that pass by on the earth.

"We give thanks to the plants, our medicines.

"We give thanks to the animals, and to the birds whose voices
lift our minds.

"We give thanks to the stars that light our journeys.

"Our thoughts are carried upward.

"With our words and in our minds we give thanks for the world
that is always living."

Appendix E

"We [the gods] have not taken away any of your original
integrity because no one can do that. But we have badly distorted one part
of your reality. Since we journey so far, we are great warriors, and we are
very male. You are meant to Make Home and live in harmony with all species
on Earth. To resonate with Gaia, you need to be very female. We have
forced you to be too warlike, too compulsive, too focused in linear space
and time, too fearful. Now these incompatible tendencies are exploding your
cells. Luckily your genetic matrix also has stellar contributions, and now
this stellar-cellular matrix must awaken. You must interact with other
dimensions to heal."31

11. Footnotes

1 Jane Roberts, The Seth Material (New York: Bantam, 1970), pp. 264-269.
Also
see Appendix C.

2 Bentley Layton , The Gnostic Scriptures (New York: Doubleday, 1987),
p. 14.

3 The Nag Hammadi texts were hidden just before the year 350 AD in a sealed
clay jar near the site of ancient Pbou on the banks of the Nile river in
Egypt.

4 Layton, p. xv.

5 In the gnostic scriptures, there are many praises to the "parent of the
entirety." (Layton, p. 66) They sing the glories of how the "Great
Invisible Spirit" was the source from which the Emanation of Sophia sprang.
But nowhere in the original gn
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ostic scriptures have I found an explanation of the conditions that led up
to this explosive release of "the inexplicable and ineffable power".
(Layton,
p. 107).

6 Roberts.

7 Sue Woodruff, Meditations With Mechtild of Magdeburg, (Santa Fe: Bear and
Co., 1982), p. 73.

8 Layton, p. 107.

9 Layton, p. 95.

10 Anne Baring and Jules Cashford, The Myth of the Goddess,
(London: Penguin
Books, 1991), p. 613.

11 Baring and Cashford, p. 628.

12 Layton, p. 49.

13 Baring and Cashford, p. 609-658.

14 Marie-Louise von Franz, Alchemy (Toronto: Inner City Books, 1980), p.
200.

15 Layton, p. 9.

16 Layton, p. 5.

17 Layton, p. 8.

18 Layton, 9-12.

19 Layton, p. 267.

20 Layton, p. 217 and Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels (New York:
Vintage Books, 1979), p. 17-18.

21 Layton, p. xvii.

22 Layton, p. 13-14.

23 Layton, p. xv.

24 Roberts, p. 268.30.

25 Ioan P. Couliano, The Tree of Gnosic, Gnostic Mythology from Early
Christianity to Modern Nihilism, (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1992), p.
96.
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26 Denis de Rougemont, Love In The Western World, (New York: Pantheon,
1956), page number not available.

Love in western fworld

27 Baring and Cashford, p. 638.

28 Baring and Cashford, p. 642.

29 Franz, p. 252.

30 Franz, p. 270.

31 I am including in Appendix D and E two mythologies from two completely
different cultural arenas to offer the inquisitive some extra perspective on
the gnostic creation story of Sophia. Appendix D: John Bierhorst, (retold
by), The Woman Who Fell from the Sky, The Iroquois Story of Creation, (New
York: William Morrow and Co., 1993).

Appendix E: Barbara Hand Clow, The Pleiadian Agenda, A New Cosmology For The
Age of Light, (Santa Fe: Bear and Co., 1995) p. i.

32 Carl G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious.[1]
(Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1980), p. 96.

33 Appendix B.

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