You can not blame the government for anything
Seth: “You cannot blame the government for anything…You are not at [society’s] mercy…”
Seth: You form your society. Your society is not some thing, regardless of what you have been taught. You form society. You are born into a given set of circumstances. But, within those circumstances you are individual. And, from the time you learn how to speak and relate with others, you are a part of what you call your society.
Your form your society. Your individual beliefs and reactions to others form your society. Your society does not change by itself. You change society. Your ideas about society change it. When you think about society and then react, you change that society. You add to a given set of circumstances. Or, you change that given set of circumstances.
Society simply represents a point of tension in exterior terms, between inner groups of individuals and their exterior relationship. Society is not like a block of cement into which you are born and that then holds you. You are born into a given set of circumstances, which you then act upon. You change society. Or, you do not change society. But, the individual is the beginning and the cause. And, there is no society without individuals.
You are very actively, this evening, examining your society. And, that is creative and vital and good. You add to society. You are not at its mercy. It is not something outside of yourselves. You are a part of it. Every time you speak or agree or disagree, you are a part of society. And, you are contributing to change or to lack of change.
The same applies, of course, in political terms. You can not blame “the government” for anything, for that “government” is a term that is meaningless. It applies to individuals. The individuals in your nation are reflecting your private behavior. You find it shocking? You cheat in your own ways. The leaders have greater opportunity. You use self-justification in your small cheating. And, they simply use a more gigantic self-justification in their cheating. And, in their activities you see, spread across the newspaper for the world to see, your own private acts, only this time, magnified.
You cheat at your income taxes. You think it is funny? So, you have a president who is a cheat and a liar! Then look to yourselves, for he is the reflection of what your nation has become – one reflection, one reflection only. There are other better reflections, thank heaven!
For you are not all liars. And, you are not all cheaters. And, you may lie in one area of your life and be truthful in another. But, until you learn to recognize your own individuality and to realize that you form your own reality, you will place the blame upon others. At the same time, you will not be able to accept your own joy or your own creativity…
…Honesty of emotion is not only a spiritual concept, it is a bodily concept. Your cells have supreme honesty and integrity that only hopefully, in the future, your minds may learn. Let your souls, therefore, yearn after the integrity and honesty of the cells. For, they do not justify. And, they do not cheat. They are aware of their own glorious vitality. They are themselves. And yet, they cooperate in the society of your body. And, your body represents the most beautiful society that you will ever know, for it is composed of individual consciousness, each unique and yet each cooperating in a supreme venture.
Seth Audio Collection #33, March 5, 1974, © Laurel Davies
