Service to Self vs Karma

[APeacefulWarrior]

When I reflect on this, I find this passage most useful.  Although it's not really what those of Ra meant in that passage, my suspicion is that the service-to-self philosophy uses karma as a generator of conflict in order to "hone a blunt edge of hatred and anger so that it may polarize".

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However, negatively polarized entities are not seeking balance. Their polarity relies on the template of the separate illusion.  So it seems to me that they would use karma's turning wheel as a way to build up anger, discipline themselves with misfortune and pain, and continue to separate further from the rest of Creation.  It's not that, because they are negative, they get a free pass to harm others without consequence.  They use the consequences of karma to further polarize.

That's exactly how I think this works as well. I think it's all too common for people to see karma has having some kind of punishment\reward element, but I think karma is absolutely neutral on such things. One reaps the karma which one reaps. Period. Whether the results are good or bad are purely subjective.

If anything, though, I would be careful not to over-emphasize deliberate planning in all this. Some higher-level negative entities, particularly those relatively few brave enough to attempt wandering via incarnation, undoubtedly are doing it all deliberately. (Well, as deliberately as a veiled life can be, anyway.) But I think in a lot of cases, it's more a cyclic thing. Those who tend towards the negative thus simply tend to garner negative karma. And the opposite, obviously. That becomes the karmic cycle which a younger entity would then need to recognize, and reckon with, to awaken and start taking more deliberate control on their journey towards 4th Density.

Like, I would tend to think that most prisoners don't specifically view prison as an opportunity to become more nasty, but rather it's the result of the karmic circumstances they are thrown into. But those few who are self-aware enough to do discover they thrive in such circumstances undoubtedly take steps to keep themselves where they are.