The Choice

[JustLikeYou]

Forgive my lack of clarity. My objection is to the way in which the concept of the archetype The Choice is construed as it relates to STS and STO.

Or perhaps your objection is with the graphic? If so, please provide supporting quotes from the Ra material which contradicts the offered interpretation.

This is one part of my objection. Consider:

7.15

service to others results in service to self

11.31

To serve the self is to serve all.

7.17

The distortion lies in the fact that those who seek to serve the self are seen by the Law of One as precisely the same as those who seek to serve others, for are all not one? To serve yourself and to serve other is a dual method of saying the same thing, if you can understand the essence of the Law of One.

Therefore, I would redraw the diagram as follows: The greater circle would be titled "Service to All". Within this greater circle there would be two lesser circles titled "Service to Self" and "Service to Others". These circles would not overlap. It should not be thought that the absence of overlap means that an STO entity never engages in STS actions and vice-versa. We know that absolute purity is not the goal of walking either path. Rather, the purpose of the absence of overlap is to depict that a choice must be made between two paths, and in making this choice, one path must be abandoned.

Alternatively, the two lesser circles could be drawn with overlap, where the overlap is understood to be the "sinkhole of indifference" (17.33) between the two paths.

Then, in 6D, we graduate beyond the two smaller circles into the larger circle of Service to All, which includes both.

Aside from your opinion that "The Choice" (with a capital "C") is between STS and STO, I would agree with the remainder of your comments. I submit: the selection of STS or STO is the path by which one arrives at The Choice.

This is the other part of my objection. You are right, it would have been wise for me to include the quotation I had in mind here. This is it:

77.16

Questioner: What I am really attempting to understand, since all of these twenty-one philosophical bases result in the twenty-second which is The Choice, is why this choice is so important, why the Logos seems to put so much emphasis on this choice, and what function this choice of polarity has, precisely, in the evolution or the experience of that which is created by the Logos?

Ra: I am Ra. The polarization or choosing of each mind/body/spirit is necessary for harvestability from third density. The higher densities do their work due to the polarity gained in this choice.

Here, Ra equates polarizing to choosing in response to a question about the archetype The Choice. Therefore, we may conclude that the choice which leads to polarizing is the same as the choice named in the archetype. As can be seen from the context of Ra's reference to the "polarity gained," this refers to the choice between STO and STS.

And yes, the choosing does occur between the two possible paths, however, to choose a path is to steadily more toward one and away from the other. This is what it means to polarize.

Therefore, I conclude that the moment to moment choice of STO or STS is The Choice in microcosm, while the story of 3D as a whole is The Choice in macrocosm.