There isnt that much freedom it seems...and INFINITY

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The Creator is the focusing of infinity as an aware or conscious principle called by us as closely as we can create understanding/learning in your language, intelligent infinity.

Hmm. OK, so how is this relevant, given that Ra also equates unity with intelligent infinity (27.7) and with infinity (1.5)? A focusing doesn't mean that intelligent infinity is any less than infinity or a subset of it. Think about a beam of light shined at a magnifying glass. That which was diffuse before it hit the glass is intensified on the other side of it. There's not less of it, it's just concentrated.

My interpretation of "You are infinite" is that infinity is contained in us. How else could we be all of unity (undistorted) and yet distorted?

Again, it was "you are infinity," not "you are infinite." But I don't disagree that infinity is contained within us.

But no one has answered my question: What is illusion?

I tried to do that in my last post. I think it's anything that gives the idea that we are separate or finite.

Is illusion not distortion itself? And yet, also included in infinity? If infinity is unity of all, then infinity must include illusion. Therefore, it doesn't seem accurate to say that infinity is all there is, and anything less than that is 'just illusion' as though illusion were somehow outside of infinity, as though they were competing.

I'm not sure if you're saying that I used the term "just illusion," but I don't believe I did. My point throughout this thread has been that the infinite is contained within and available within the illusion. I understood unity100 to be arguing the opposite, that we weren't infinite and did not have access to it.

So, I contend that we cannot simultaneously be undistorted and "adopt the finite viewpoint" ...HOWEVER we CAN simultaneously be infinite and distorted.

What's the difference? Undistorted = infinite; adopting a finite viewpoint = distorted.

It shall be understood that any portion, no matter how small, of any density or illusory pattern contains, as in an holographic picture, the One Creator which is infinity. Thus all begins and ends in mystery.

Note that we contain infinity...we contain the One Infinite Creator. And yet, we are distorted. We are holographic pieces of the whole, containing a pattern of the whole, but we are not the whole.

How can we contain the whole and not be the whole? The point is there is only one, the one infinite Creator. That means that you are the one infinite Creator. You have to be; it's all there is.

Ra said, "look into a mirror; see the Creator" and "look at another; see the Creator." They didn't say see part of the Creator or a distorted reflection of the Creator. They said see the Creator.

Similarly, when they said "when one is enlightened are not all enlightened?" how else could all be enlightened other than if all were one and one were all?