2022-06-06

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Ra quote comes from 92.8:

Questioner: Then you are saying that the cards that we have here are the best available cards in our present illusion at this date?

Ra: I am Ra. Your statement is correct in that we consider the so-called Egyptian tarot the most undistorted version of the images which Ra offered. This is not to intimate that other systems may not, in their own way, form an helpful architecture for the adept’s consideration of the archetypical mind.”

By the time this question was asked we had just completed our questioning on Card #1, The Matrix of the Mind, which is commonly called the Magician. In the question previous to this question Don asked Ra if there were any distortions in the tarot cards that we were using to question Ra about the archetypical mind. Ra said that there were astrological portions in each card that were distortions, and there were also some facets of each image that were distortions that came from the Egyptian culture of that time. In 93.17, Ra said that the astrological images came from the Chaldees:

Questioner: I was specifically thinking of the fact that Ra, in an earlier session, spoke of the tarot as a system of divination. Could you tell me what you meant by that?

Ra: I am Ra. Due to the influence of the Chaldees, the system of archetypical images was incorporated by the priests of that period into a system of astrologically based study, learning, and divination. This was not a purpose for which Ra developed the tarot.

And in 103.15, Ra spoke to some of the Egyptian cultural images on the tarot cards:

We might also note that we, in forming the original images for your peoples, were using the cultural commonplaces of artistic expression of those in Egypt. The face is drawn to the side most often, as are the feet turned. We made use of this and, thus, wish to soften the significance of the side-long look. In no case thus far in these deliberations, however, has any misinterpretation or unsuitable interpretation been drawn.

So in this question asked Ra if the cards we were using were the best available for studying the archetypical mind. Ra said that this was basically correct although they did say that other decks could also be helpful to anyone who wanted to study the archetypical mind. We decided to use the Egyptian tarot deck created by C.C. Zain in 1918, and first published by the Church of Light in 1937. This deck had more details in the drawings than most other decks we investigated, and definitely more than the George Fathman-created deck that we eventually published since it was in the public domain. We could not get permission from the Church of Light to publish their deck, but we had the first seven cards for the mind re-drawn to match Ra’s description of the images. In these drawings we removed all astrological portions as per Ra’s suggestions, and we published them at the end of Book IV of THE LAW OF ONE. In 99.6, Ra commented on both decks of cards:

Questioner: We now have an additional set of tarot images. We will refer to them as the Royal Road images, since that’s the name of the book they came from. They are similar to, but in some instances different from, the C.C. Zain images. Which of these two sets are closer to Ra’s original intention? And if they are mixed, let me know that.

Ra: I am Ra. The principle which moves in accordance with the dynamics of teach/learning with most efficiency is constancy. We could explore the archetypical mind using that set of images produced by the one known as Fathman, or we could use those which have been used.

In point of fact, those which are being used have some subtleties which enrich the questioning. As we have said, this set of images is not that which we gave. This is not material. We could use any of a multitude of devised tarot sets. Although this must be at the discretion of the questioner, we suggest the maintaining of one and only one set of distorted images to be used for the querying and note that the images you now use are good.

This morning I pumped out a quarter of the water in the fish pond. While the water was being pumped out I cleaned the filters and then began planting three more of the small Drift Roses in the two flower beds in front of the fish pond. While the pond was refilling I finished planting the Drift Roses and began hauling away the excess dirt to the pet cemetery. Then I went back into the garage and got 8 more 5-gal. buckets of dirt and also dumped it into the corner of the pet cemetery next to the driveway.

This afternoon I took a garbage can, my limb loppers, and my hand snippers along the border with my neighbors on the south and trimmed away any limbs from the surrounding bushes that were obstructing being able to walk on the brick walkway there. I also cleaned out honeysuckle and multiflora rose stalks from the forsythia bushes.

From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:

June 6

The Consciousness Of Love

I am the Holy Spirit to which this child prays; that principle of love which greets you in the name of Jesus the Christ.

We of the principle of the consciousness known as love are many, for there are many perceptions of love and each vibration requires its own Comforter. And so we speak in many tongues, whether it be in language or in emotions.

Indeed, the consciousness of love is a feeling more than a word, since feelings are pictures brought forth from deep places, their complex bouquet undisturbed by the prying fingers of small words.

May that principle which you seek and which you offer be all in all to you as you extend your legs in running the race of life experience during this day. May you turn not to the small and petty concerns which are so easily spelled out in words to the exclusion of the glorious remembrance of love.

Peace be with you. Amen.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

We come in the name of Love and open our hearts, our minds, and our souls to send love, light, and healing energies to Mother Earth as she brings forth a New Earth in fourth density. We ask that the infinite love, light, and healing energies of the One Infinite Creator heal the heart of each soul in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our love, light, and healing energies in their hearts, in their minds, and in their souls. Amen.