First-ranking lessons

[Ankh]

I've been contemplating one specific piece in the Ra material lately, and I have two questions about it. Here is this piece:

52.11 Questioner: Thank you. Just a little point that was bothering me of no real importance.

Well, is there then, from the point of view of an individual who wishes to follow the service-to-others path from our present position in third density, is there anything of importance other than disciplines of personality, knowledge of self, and strengthening of will?

Ra: I am Ra. This is technique. This is not the heart. Let us examine the heart of evolution.

Let us remember that we are all one. This is the great learning/teaching. In this unity lies love. This is a great learn/teaching. In this unity lies light. This is the fundamental teaching of all planes of existence in materialization. Unity, love, light, and joy; this is the heart of evolution of the spirit.

The second-ranking lessons are learn/taught in meditation and in service. At some point the mind/body/spirit complex is so smoothly activated and balanced by these central thoughts or distortions that the techniques you have mentioned become quite significant. However, the universe, its mystery unbroken, is one. Always begin and end in the Creator, not in technique.

As I understand the above piece, the disciplines of personality, knowledge of the self, strengthening of the will, and even service to others and meditation are *not* the first-ranking lessons; they are the second-ranking lessons. The first-ranking lessons are these central thoughts, as Ra called them:

"Let us remember that we are all one. This is the great learning/teaching. In this unity lies love. This is a great learn/teaching. In this unity lies light. This is the fundamental teaching of all planes of existence in materialization. Unity, love, light, and joy; this is the heart of evolution of the spirit."

So, at some point, when an entity has learned these lessons, it becomes so smoothly activated and balanced by these central thoughts, that it is only *then* that the second-ranking lessons (which are meditation, service, strengthening of the will, knowledge of the self, and the disciplines of personality) become significant.

So, my first question is: do you guys have any other interpretation of the above Ra piece, or am I correct in my understanding of it as I described it?

My second question is about one of these central thoughts:

"In this unity lies light. This is the fundamental teaching of all planes of existence in materialization."

What light did Ra mean in that piece, and why is this thought a *fundamental* learning?

Light can be metaphysical, or can't it be? Light is also physical, a photon, and all materialization is made of that photon, right? Light has also sometimes been synonymously used with wisdom, as in - fifth density has sometimes been called both the density of Light and the density of Wisdom? So, what sort of light did Ra mean in this piece, and why is this light so fundamental to learn/understand? Why is this a central thought, or a first-ranking lesson? I hope I make sense with this my second question, cause I am quite confused about this.