Ra's Adventures in Wonderland

[Tenet Nosce]

Ok so you are saying that archetype number 22 (The Choice) is not the choice of polarities ?

Correct. If it were, why would Ra have placed it at the end of the deck?

Ra did say that this is how it was prior to the veiling.

Where did Ra say this?

But now that we have the veil, on top of choosing to polarize or not, we also have the choice of the polarity, don't you think ?

Perhaps. Probably we do. And most of the those here. But this is because we are already polarized enough to have acquired that choice. Yes, you or I can sit here and contemplate what it means to polarize negatively. We can comprehend the differences of the two paths, and make some sort of conscious decision about them.

But we must realize, those who are embarking on the path of polarization have -no idea- what they are doing. They're pretty much totally unconscious. How is this making a choice, much less a grand exercise of free will?

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What does this mean? Think about it closely. Because according to the schema you are positing, and which has become generally accepted, our free will is gradually reduced from the moment we embark down a path of polarity, to the point that we are harvested...

You've lost me here. I don't understand how you reached that conclusion? (even with what you said in the rest of your post)

If "The Choice" occurs at the beginning of the path, then the experiences which follow contain progressively less free will. If we've already made "The Choice", then our entire path of polarization has merely been the inevitable result of this.

If this were true, then how could one switch polarity? It doesn't make any sense. Which is why so many are confused.

I get the idea. It says we make "The Choice" to polarize either positively or negatively. But then "The Choice" is meaningless. Because we keep having to make it over and over and over and over again.

I understand the response is... well making "The Choice" over and over and over again is what builds polarization. Yes... but then what?

If we have already made "The Choice" then what is the point of going through the experience? If it works that way, then at the moment we made "The Choice" we should have popped out of time/space in the realization that this distortion is not in any case necessary.

Finally, if all this deductive logic fails at convincing anybody, or if all the quotes are just adding to the confusion, then just go back to the picture.

Look at the image of "The Choice" and tell me where you see this story about deciding between the polarities over and over again in the picture. Because I just don't see it. Which means, I am blinder than I thought.

I thought it was our awareness of the spiritual nature of our reality (or illusion) that unlocked our ability to decide things prior to incarnation.

Sure. But we don't get to just willy-nilly decide to change what was decided prior to incarnation. Thus our free will is limited by these constraints.