An Analogy for the Archetypes

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Please do not take this as an insult or presumption on my part Abby, but I would like to popi8nt out something that I observe from your post here.

And I am sure that it does not depict your true character, but it might give you something to ponder from someone else's perspective.

From what is written here, taking into consideration that you did have a specific topic you were addressing, and point to make, I hear you subconsciously suggesting that your students would be less evolved, not quite as intellectually able, as you the teacher.

And this is the natural stance for a teacher as they are there to teach children who require educating.

but have you considered, that in your very astute acknowledgement of the evolving state of these 'archetypes' as you call them, and the fact that many have gone on before us to return in a new incarnation, that some of those children may be reincarnating from an evolved state much higher than your own?

So by what you say here, there will be many cases where the archetype of your definition as teacher, will be much less evolved than many of those it will be teaching.

@ Shin'Ar - Thank you for your attempt to clarify my thinking, but I was not attempting to define a "teacher" archetype. I was just sharing the "ah-ha" moment I had while scoring that, for me, suddenly clarified a rather abstract process in nice concrete (but limited) terms with which I was familiar. I realize that this is the Ra forum, but the process connected to my analogy is given in part 2 of chapter 30 of Dion Fortune's Cosmic Doctrine. Book IV of the Ra Material mentions that at one point there were only "nine archetypes and many shadows." Then Don asks, "By shadows do you mean the, what I might refer to as, birthing of small archetypal biases?" and Ra states,"we would describe these shadows as the inchoate thoughts of helpful structures not yet fully conceived" (42).

I was just thinking about these "helpful structures."