Introduction to Seth’s Lecture on All-That-Is
Imagine this: the universe you live in, with its galaxies, stars, and all the amazing life forms, might not be the ultimate reality. It could just be one way for an infinite creative force to express itself. And guess what? Your consciousness isn’t just watching this grand design; it’s part of it! You’re woven into the very fabric of existence, with roots that go back beyond time and space.
Seth’s lecture is all about exploring this idea. In the words of Seth, it’s not just for your brain; it’s for your deeper feelings and intuition. You might remember things from a long time ago, but they feel familiar and right. This isn’t about the past; it’s about the present. Creation is happening right now, and you’re a part of it.
Seth introduces us to the concept of ‘All-That-Is.’ It’s not like a God or a deity; it’s the very essence of existence itself. It’s an infinite, self-aware being whose thoughts and imagination create reality. You’re one of those creations, not separate from this source, but a part of its endless creativity.
This lecture might challenge your thinking. Seth talks about things that happened before the beginning, but don’t worry, they’re not in the past. They’re happening right now because, in a way, there’s no past or future. There’s only the present. This might stretch your brain, but if you let your intuition guide you, you might feel a connection, a sense of understanding that goes beyond words.
As you read, try to step outside your usual ways of thinking. Don’t just see these words as ideas to analyze; see them as keys to unlock a deeper awareness. Let them remind you of your connection to All-That-Is—a connection that’s always been there, but we often forget amidst the chaos of everyday life.
This lecture isn’t just about ideas; it’s about experiencing the very essence of existence. It’s not a belief to be held; it’s an experience to be felt. It’s an invitation to remember who and what you truly are.
Prague, 2025
Seth’s Lecture on All-That-Is
Preface
You live your lives through your own subjective knowing, to begin with, and I will try to arouse within your own consciousnesses memories of events with which your own inner psyches were intimately involved as the world was formed— and though these may appear to be past events, they are even now occurring. Before the beginning of the universe, we will postulate the existence of an omnipotent, creative source. (Pause.) We will hope to show that this divine subjectivity is as present in the world of your experience as it was before the beginning of the universe. Again, I refer to this original subjectivity as All-That-Is. I am making an attempt to verbalize concepts that almost defy the edges of the intellect, unless that intellect is thoroughly reinforced by the intuition’s strength. So you will need to use your mind and your own intuition.
All-That-Is
All-That-Is, before the beginning, contained within itself the infinite thrust of all possible creations. All-That-Is possessed (pause) a creativity of such magnificence that its slightest imaginings, dreams, thoughts, feelings or moods attained a kind of reality, a vividness, an intensity, that almost demanded freedom. Freedom from what? Freedom to do what? Freedom to be what? The experience, the subjective universe, the “mind” of All-That-Is, was so brilliant, so distinct, that All-That-Is almost became lost, mentally wandering within this ever-flourishing, ever-growing interior landscape. Each thought, feeling, dream, or mood was itself indelibly marked with all of the attributes of this infinite subjectivity. Each glowed and quivered with its own creativity, its own desire to create as it had been created.
Before the beginning there existed an interior universe that had no beginning or ending, for I am using the term “before the beginning” to make matters easier for you to assimilate. In parentheses: (That same infinite interior universe exists now, for example.) All-That-Is contained within itself the knowledge of all existences, with their infinite probabilities, and “as soon as” All-That-Is imagined those numberless circumstances, they existed in what I will call divine fact.
All-That-Is knew of itself only. It was engrossed with its own subjective experiences, even divinely astonished as its own thoughts and imaginings attained their own vitality, and inherited the creativity of their subjective creator. [Those thoughts and imaginings] began to have a dialogue with their “Maker” (all very emphatically). Thoughts of such magnificent vigor began to think their own thoughts— and their thoughts thought thoughts.
As if in divine astonishment and surprise, All-That-Is began to listen, and began to respond to these “generations” of thoughts and dreams, for the thoughts and dreams related to each other also. There was no time, so all of this “was happening” simultaneously. The order of events is being simplified. In the meantime, then, in your terms, All-That-Is spontaneously thought new thoughts and dreamed new dreams, and became involved in new imaginings— and all of these also related to those now-infinite generations of interweaving and interrelating thoughts and dreams that “already” existed (with many gestures and much emphasis). So beside this spontaneous creation, this simultaneous “stream” of divine rousing, All-That-Is began to watch the interactions that occurred among his own subjective progeny.
He listened, began to respond and to answer a thought or a dream. He began to purposefully bring about those mental conditions that were requested by these generations of mental progeny. If he had been lonely before, he was no longer. Your language causes some difficulty here, so please accept the pronoun “he” as innocuously as possible. “It” sounds too neutral for my purpose, and I want to reserve the pronoun “she” for some later differentiations. In basic terms, of course, All-That-Is is quite beyond any designations having to do with any one species or sex.
All-That-Is, then, began to feel a growing sense of pressure as it realized that its own ever-multiplying thoughts and dreams themselves yearned to enjoy those greater gifts of creativity with which they were innately endowed. It is very difficult to try to assign anything like human motivation to All-That-Is. I can only say that it is possessed by “the need” to lovingly create from its own being; to lovingly transform its own reality in such a way that each most slight probable consciousness can come to be (long pause); and with the need to see that any and all possible orchestrations of consciousness have the chance to emerge, to perceive and to love.
Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment, Volume One, Session 883
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