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Chapters (91)
  1. Cover
  2. BOOKS BY JANE ROBERTS
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Book One - The Education of Oversoul Seven
  6. Dedication
  7. Chapter One
  8. Chapter Two
  9. Chapter Three
  10. Chapter Four
  11. Chapter Five
  12. Chapter Six
  13. Chapter Seven
  14. Chapter Eight
  15. Chapter Nine
  16. Chapter Ten
  17. Chapter Eleven
  18. Chapter Twelve
  19. Chapter Thirteen
  20. Chapter Fourteen
  21. Chapter Fifteen
  22. Chapter Sixteen
  23. Chapter Seventeen
  24. Chapter Eighteen
  25. Chapter Nineteen
  26. Chapter Twenty
  27. Chapter Twenty-One
  28. Chapter Twenty-Two
  29. Chapter Twenty-Three
  30. Chapter Twenty-Four
  31. Chapter Twenty-Five
  32. The Final Chapter
  33. Epilogue
  34. Appendix
  35. Book Two - The Further Education of Oversoul Seven
  36. Dedication
  37. Prologue One
  38. Prologue Two
  39. Chapter One
  40. Chapter Two
  41. Chapter Three
  42. Chapter Four
  43. Chapter Five
  44. Chapter Six
  45. Chapter Seven
  46. Chapter Eight
  47. Chapter Nine
  48. Chapter Ten
  49. Chapter Eleven
  50. Chapter Twelve
  51. Chapter Thirteen
  52. Chapter Fourteen
  53. Chapter Fifteen
  54. Chapter Sixteen
  55. Chapter Seventeen
  56. Chapter Eighteen
  57. Chapter Nineteen
  58. Chapter Twenty
  59. Chapter Twenty-One
  60. Chapter Twenty-Two
  61. Chapter Twenty-Three
  62. Chapter Twenty-Four
  63. Chapter Twenty-Five
  64. Chapter Twenty-Six
  65. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  66. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  67. Afterword of the Gods
  68. Jeffery’s Closing Notes
  69. Epilogue
  70. Oversoul Seven’s Little Book
  71. Book Three - Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time
  72. Dedication
  73. Chapter One
  74. Chapter Two
  75. Chapter Three
  76. Chapter Four
  77. Chapter Five
  78. Chapter Six
  79. Chapter Seven
  80. Chapter Eight
  81. Chapter Nine
  82. Chapter Ten
  83. Chapter Eleven
  84. Chapter Twelve
  85. Chapter Thirteen
  86. Chapter Fourteen
  87. Chapter Fifteen
  88. Chapter Sixteen
  89. Chapter Seventeen
  90. NEW SETH BOOKS, ONLINE SETH COURSES, SETH CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
  91. ALSO FROM AMBER–ALLEN PUBLISHING

Epilogue to This Book and Prologue to “The Further Education of Oversoul Seven”

Cyprus said, “This is how the next book will begin:

Lydia was

Called Tweety,

Because

Bianka said

She was

Skinny and tiny

As a newborn

Bird.”

“Wait a second,” Oversoul Seven said. “I think your tenses are wrong. Even though Lydia died in the twentieth century, and is reborn in the seventeenth, shouldn’t you say, ‘Lydia will be called Tweety,’ because she hasn’t experienced that life yet? or is, ‘Lydia was called Tweety’ correct, because people think that the seventeenth century happened first? Or—”

They both burst out laughing.

Cyprus said, “You’ll just have to wait and see. That is, though all time is simultaneous, I’ll have to wait until writing the book catches up with my experience.”

Appendix

For Those Readers Who May Be Interested, the Following Information Is Provided:

Although all the Speakers in Ma-ah’s time were Sumari, the term refers to a type of consciousness, generally speaking—a grouping together of consciousness with certain characteristics. The Sumari are initiators, highly creative, playful, given to originating systems of reality and then going on. As a friend of Seven’s once said: “They don’t stay around to mow the grass, though.” A Sumari is a Sumari, in flesh or out of it.

Seven and Cyprus are both Sumari, as are all the main characters in this book.

Careful attention should be given to Sumpter’s explanation of the use of words in Chapter 12. The Sumari language is not a language in the ordinary sense. It’s importance lies in its sounds, not in its written patterns. The sounds do things. The meaning is apart from the power of the sounds, and rides on it as fish swim in water.

The meanings rise out of the sounds, then; and the sounds are channels through which the meanings come. The sounds can seem to have different meanings at different times, and yet always be expressing aspects of the same reality. Sometimes many words can come from one sound, sometimes only one will emerge. This is apparent when you study the same song in Sumari and in its translation as written by Lydia. The following examples will make this clear:

FIRST SONG FOR BEGINNERS