cordellas

From a Seth class in 1974:

SETH: All languages are built upon alphabets, and those alphabets are what is left over, for beneath those alphabets are, what in Sumari we call cordellas, which are the source of alphabets. The shapes of letters are indeed important, and on different levels they represent something else. In different ways, you are being told this in Sumari, and even in some of Ruburt’s poetry, when he hints at fossiling.

The symbols for cordellas and alphabets are not only written in ancient rock for your archeologists so nicely and neatly to discover, they are written in your blood. There is a connection, for example, between shape of viruses and of cells and those seemingly ancient symbols that you find written in the rocks. And that is my clue for you."

"In your work with me, various kinds of teaching methods will be provided. Steps and bridges will be used.

It is senseless to ask whether or not a bridge is true. It exists. It gets you somewhere. A bridge is a valid reality, regardless of its architecture to the type of symbols that maybe written upon it, or its color, or the material from which it is made. The Sumari language is a bridge and valid in those terms. it will lead you into the use of the inner senses, away from the confining nature of pet phrases and familiar language that is already loaded with its own connotations.

The Sumari language is a bridge, then, in those terms; a method of communication. It is the beginning of a logically unstructured vehicle that will carry you, hopefully, into the inner heart of perception. I hope that eventually it will allow you to experience more fully the inner cognizance that is beneath physical perception and physical translation.

A bridge serves both coming and going, and carries goods in both directions. The Sumari language in those terms will be used as a method of carrying you further into the nature of inner cognizance, and then allowing you to return again, retranslating what you have learned, but not automatically, into stereotyped verbal patterns. The language will effectively block the automatic translation of inner experience into stereotypes, therefore. ~ Seth

Adventures in Consciousness
Jane Roberts

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Eric's music dream reminded me of cordellas, which sounds kind of string-like (now Strings of Nines is the new Group Story, Circle of Eights is 'finished')

Thses pages are from Adventures in Consciousness by Jane Roberts. Coincidentally, the next chapter is about the writing of Oversoul Seven.

and these two pages are from Oversoul Seven by Jane Roberts