Is meditation a STS act?

[zenmaster]

There is a book called "Eros and Magic in the Renaissance" which discusses Marsilio Ficino's understanding of 'love'. This is certainly 'love' as in the sense of intelligent-energy distortion. Here it's treated as a principle rather than being separated from the limited, personality satisfying expression we tend to give it when we apply our valuing judgements. Long ago, 'love' was understood to be 'the very force which holds the universe itself together'

"The whole power of Magic is founded on Eros. The way Magic works is to bring things together through their inherent similarity...In our body, the brain, the lungs, the heart, the liver and other organs interact, favor each other, intercommunicate and feel reciprocal pain. From this relationship is born Eros, which is common to them all; from this Eros is born their mutual rapprochement, wherein resides true Magic."

So love is basically an attractive or binding power. When we say 'like attracts like' we are talking about love in the 2nd distortion. Because we, ourselves, are strongly subject to this principle, we say that love is 'magical' because it influences at a transcendent level. 4th density 'love' or intelligent energy is this noumenal, or informational type of love. It's what provides the raw information or more primary principles for an object of the senses to become structured in experience. This is why it's often said that in 4D, what is not needed becomes more obvious or transparent. We start understanding more about the nature of these first principles, which were always there, but obscured by desire.

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So I'd say that it's not 'not loving self' which is STS polarized, but repression of love for self with regards to green ray.

Which may well be what the original poster was trying to say. Your clarity about the role and power of second-distortion love has been helpful, though, so thank you for that.

Just as it can be said that the STS ignores or lacks focus on green (and blue) disciplines of the personality, we can say that the STO lacks focus on orange and yellow disciplines of the personality. Each ray is an opportunity to experience the 2nd distortion, or to actualize oneself from the creator as co-creator. We can even say that the only reason that STS has power over the STO, in some circumstance, is due to the STO entity's lack of love (and vice-versa). Indeed the STO entity that is subject to the power of the STS entity is one that ignores and does not accept themselves with regards to what is offered.

STO does not necessarily neglect orange and yellow rays. Many who are attempting to be STO do neglect them, but it's not a necessary part of the path. Witness Ra's description of Carla's energy centers (38.5) and of Albert Schweitzer's (34.10).

Yes, it's not neglect - it's just not possible to continue on a balanced path of positive polarization and also deeply study that understanding of self as creator. So, in 4D we go to war with the opposite polarization. Self fighting self, due to misunderstanding of self.