Seth: In your time, you may smile indulgently at the Gods of Olympus and see clearly that they were mythical characters.
There are natural Gods, come and gone, whose names do not even remain, buried fantasies you might say, precious folklore lost.
Yet, those Gods were no more real or no more false or no more facts or no less facts and no more powerful or less powerful than your own.
All of these Gods are the result of earthly interpretations of deeper truths, interpreted according to man’s beliefs at the time, changing their faces and names and forms but always reflecting man’s relationship with the source of his own being.
To some extent each man and woman alive is a god and godmaker, and it is one of your natural characteristics quite ignored by your psychologists and a mark of your species.
Men do not make gods just because they are frightened.
They do not make gods just because they are looking for answers.
They make gods because they instinctively feel the strength and energy of their own greater being, and because they are intuitively aware of other dimensions in which they also have their existence.
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Seth: “In certain terms, the spirit of All-That-Is shown down upon the people, illuminating them in a time of need, and spoke out through the lives, words, and deeds of several men. And, mankind creatively merged these messages and spirit into a myth that contained, however, the great energy and power of its source.
In your time, you may smile indulgently at the Gods of Olympus and see clearly that they were mythical characters. There are natural Gods, come and gone, whose names do not even remain, buried fantasies you might say, precious folklore lost. Yet, those Gods were no more real or no more false or no more facts or no less facts and no more powerful or less powerful than your own. They also reigned and molded civilizations. Men and women prayed to them at dusk and dawn. And, their prayers were answered, as yours are when you when you believe that they will be.
All of these Gods are the result of earthly interpretations of deeper truths, interpreted according to man’s beliefs at the time, changing their faces and names and forms but always reflecting man’s relationship with the source of his own being. For, that being, while physical, springs from sources that can not be completely expressed in physical terms. So, the Gods have had earthly faces. And, the legends have always been larger than the lives upon which they were based.
The Buddha and the Christ Spirit have the same source, then, interpreted through different cultures and different times. To some extent, each man and woman alive is involved in God making. And, it is one of your natural characteristics and a mark of your species.
Men do not make Gods just because they are frightened. They do not make Gods just because they are looking for answers. They make Gods because they instinctively feel the strength and energy of their own greater being and because they are intuitively aware of other dimensions in which they also have their existence.
Men make Gods to explore the nature of their inner reality. And, this is as natural a part of the species as it is for man to explore his physical planet. He builds cities in the world, increasing commerce and communication, storing his art treasures. And, he builds Gods in the image environment of his psyche in the same way. In your terms, his evolutionary progress follows the progress of the Gods.
Those Gods tantalizingly lead him forward, like the carrot before the donkey. And, they represent the great unknown potential that is inherent in the species. They represent the source reality from which the “fact” of man’s individual life springs. And, therefore, they are larger than any fact.”
The Seth Multiverse Book 1. Session 746
