What did Ra mean by...?

[Ankh]

What did you take away from it beyond utter confusion? What was your first intuited understanding?  It may be the best one to stick with.

That the need for Confederation contact is greater and greater, but then they put this "power upon power" in the middle of it, and no matter how I turn it around this sentence just really doesn't make any sense to me. If it at least wouldn't make any sense to English speaking people either, then we could say - fine, translate it as it is and it doesn't matter that it doesn't make sense in Swedish as it doesn't make sense in English either. But Gary said that it does make sense in English, and so here I am - confused and trying to understand this sentence.