“The Crucifixion story represented, in your terms, now, the self-destructive aspect of the species at the time. And it represents the self-destructive elements of the species in this time for those who still accept it.”

—  Jane Roberts

Source: The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto (1981), p. 203

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