:The methods, the secret methods behind all of the religions, were meant to lead man into a realm of understanding that existed apart from the symbols and the stories, into inner realizations that would take him both within and without the physical world that he knew. There are many manuscripts still not discovered, from old monasteries particularly in Spain, that tell of underground groups within religious orders who kept these secrets alive when other monks were copying old Latin manuscripts. There were tribes who never learned to write in Africa and Australia who also knew these secrets, and men called `Speakers' who memorized them and spread them upward, even throughout northern portions of Europe, before the time of Christ. The world was far more ripe for Christianity than people suppose, because of these groups. The ideas were `buried' already throughout Europe. Many important concepts were lost, however. The emphasis was on practical methods of living – quite simply – rules that could be understood, but the reasons for them were forgotten. The Druids obtained some of their concepts from Speakers. So did theEgyptians. The Speakers predated the emergence of any religions thatyou know, and the religions of the Speakers arose spontaneously inmany scattered areas, then grew like wildfire from the heart ofAfrica and Australia. There was one separate group in an area wherethe Aztecs dwelled at a later date, though the land mass wassomewhat different then, and some of the lower cave dwellings attimes were under water.Various bands of the Speakers continued through the centuries.Because they were trained so well, the messages retained theirauthenticity. They believed, however, that it was wrong to set wordsinto written form, and so did not record them. They also usednatural earth symbols, but clearly understood the reasons for this.The Speakers, singly, existed in your Stone Age period, and wereleaders. Their abilities helped the cavemen survive. There waslittle physical communication, however, In those days between thevarious Speakers, and some were unaware of the existence of theothers.Their message was as `pure' and undistorted as possible. It was forthis reason however, through the centuries, that many who heard ittranslated it into parables and tales. Now, strong portions ofJewish scriptures carry traces of the message of these earlySpeakers, but even here, distortions have hidden the messages.Since consciousness forms matter, and not the other way around, thenthought exists before the brain and after it. A child can thinkcoherently before he learns vocabulary -- but he cannot impress thephysical universe in its terms. So this inner knowledge has alwaysbeen available, but is to become physically manifest -- literallymade flesh. The Speakers were the first to impress this innerknowledge upon the physical system, to make it physically known.Sometimes only one or two Speakers were alive in several centuries.Sometimes there were many. They looked around them and knew thatthe world sprang from their interior reality. They told others.They knew that the seemingly solid natural objects about them werecomposed of many minute consciousnesses.They realized that from their own creativity they formed ideas intomatter, and that the stuff of matter was itself conscious andalive. They were intimately familiar with the natural rapportexisting between themselves and their environment, therefore, andknew that they could alter their environment through their ownacts.("Was Ruburt, or Jane, ever a Speaker?")Ruburt was.("Were you?")I was indeed. There were two others that you know of. The onementioned in class material, and the other yourself.Now the Speakers themselves in the reincarnational process can also use or not use their abilities in any given life, or be aware of them. You must remember, as a postscript, that there have been millions of Speakers."

Seth Speaks,

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