Seth On Secular, Religious and Natural Law

Secular Law

“The law in your country says that you are innocent until proven guilty. In the eyes of that law, then, you are each innocent until a crime is proven against you. There usually must also be witnesses. There are other considerations. Often a spouse cannot testify against the other. Opportunity and motive must also be established.

Religious Law

“In the world of religion, however, you are already tainted by original sin: “The mark of Cain” is symbolically upon your foreheads. You come from a species that sinned against God. Automatically condemned, you must do good works, or be baptized, or believe in Christ, or perform other acts in order to be saved or redeemed.

“According to other religions, you may be “earthbound” by the “gross desires” of your nature, “bound to the wheel of life,” con­demned to endless reincarnations until you are “purified.” As I have said before, according to psychology and science, you are a living conglomeration of elements and chemicals, spawned by a universe without purpose, itself accidentally formed, and you are given a life in which all the “primitive and animalistic” drives of your evolution­ary past ever lurk within you, awaiting expression and undermining your control (Big Bang).

“So, dear reader, look at the law as it stands in this country (U.S.) with somewhat more kindly eyes than you have before — for it at least legally establishes a belief in your innocence, and for all of its fail­ings, it protects you from the far more fanatical aspects, say, of any religion’s laws.

“Religious laws deal with sin, whether or not a crime is committed, and religious concepts usually take it for granted that the individual is guilty until proven innocent. And if you have not committed a crime in fact, then you have at least sinned in your heart – for which, of course, you must be punished. A sin can be anything from playing cards to having a sexual fantasy. You are sinful creatures. How many of you believe that?

Natural Law

“You were born with an in-built recognition of your own goodness. You were born with an inner recognition of your right­ness in the universe. You were born with a desire to fulfill your abili­ties, to move and act in the world. Those assumptions are the basis of what I will call natural law.

“You are born loving. You are born compassionate. You are born curious about yourself and your world. Those attributes also belong to natural law. You are born knowing that you possess a unique, inti­mate sense of being that is itself, and that seeks its own fulfillment, and the fulfillment of others. You are born seeking the actualization of the ideal. You are born seeking to add value to the quality of life, to add characteristics, energies, abilities to life that only you can indi­vidually contribute to the world, and to attain a state of being that is uniquely yours, while adding to the value fulfillment of the world.

“All of these qualities and attributes are given you by nat­ural law. You are a cooperative species, and you are a loving one. Your misunderstandings, your crimes, and your atrocities, real as they are, are seldom committed out of any intent to be evil, but because of severe misinterpretations about the nature of good, and the means that can be taken toward its actualization. Most individual people know that in some inner portion of themselves. Your societies, gov­ernments, educational systems, are all built around a firm belief in the unreliability of human nature.

“You cannot change human nature.” Such a statement takes it for granted that man’s nature is to be greedy, a predator, a murderer at heart. You act in accordance with your own beliefs. You become the selves that you think you are. Your individual beliefs become the beliefs of your society, but that is always a give-and-take.”

Session 862 The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events Copyright © 1981 by Jane Roberts and Robert F. Butts. Reprinted with kind permission from current copyright holder, Laurel Davies-Butts.

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“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having (creating) a human experience.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“How you define yourself and the world around you, forms your intent, which, in turn, forms your reality.” – Seth

In other words, we create reality from what we choose to think and feel about ourselves and All That Is.

If we don’t consciously choose our beliefs, we unconsciously absorb them from our surroundings.

If our beliefs, attitudes, values and expectations create reality, can we afford not to question them?

What others will not or cannot do for us, we must do for ourselves.

The secrets of the universe lie hidden in the shadows of our experience. Look for them!

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