基本上，每一位第一次參加這「賽斯早期課」討論的朋友，無論他們有沒有接觸過「賽斯資料」、從甚麼途徑和人生的那階段得知、又或者已閱讀了多少時間，我也會問他們這條問題 -- 「賽斯」和「賽斯資料」對他們來說是甚麼？在繼續閱讀之前，請認真的想想這個問題。
The basis and firm groundwork of the material, and its primary contribution, lies in the concept that consciousness itself indeed creates matter, that consciousness is not imprisoned by matter but forms it, and that consciousness is not limited or bound by time or space; time and space in your terms being nessary distortions, or adopted conditions, forming a strata for physical existence.
Once this is understood, all the rest of our material can be seen in the light of both logic and intuition. It is, indeed, time that suck a book be complied, and I do suggest that when it is complied you ask Mr. Wollheim to write an introduction. We will go into this more thoroughly as we progress.
The basic idea of the material should be stressed, however, and strongly, since it is from this that our other concepts emerge. The mechanism by which psychic energy or consciousness forms matter should also be included, and naturally the concept that matter does not have duration.
The difference between value fulfillment and growth, the fifth dimension, and the expanding universe portions should also be stressed. When man realizes that he himself creates his personal and universal environment in concrete terms, then he can begin to create a private and universal envronment much superior to the one that is the result of haphazard and unenlightened constructions.
This is our main message to the word, and this is the next line in man's conceptual development, which will make itself felt in all fields, and in psychicatry perhaps as much as any.
When man realizes that he creates his own image now, he will not find it so startling to believe that he creates other images in other times. Only after such a basis will idea of reincarnation achieve its natural validity, and only when it is understood that the subconscious, certain layers of it, is a link between the present personality and tpast ones, will the theory of reincarnation be accepted as fact.
I have been prepare to give you this present information but a suitable opportunity did not seem to present itself. And I do feel a responsibilty in helping you prepare a book from material.
以上是早期課內的節錄。
