(04-07-2013, 04:28 PM)Adonai-1 Wrote: [ -> ]Let's say in the present you are being viciously attacked by another whether it be torture, being shot at or something one would consider horrible.
How would these very things contain love? I know they are love but how are they love? Why are they love?
I very much liked this post from you, Adonai-1.
Very salient questions, albeit, deeply troublesome ones, in my opinion. In order to try attempting some form of answers to these questions, we need to understand what exactly 'love' is. Of course, we all know that this is much easier said than done, given the clumsiness of our languages, the profoundly abstract nature of such concepts, and the fact that this third density is not a density of knowing, even subjectively (like Ra put it). However, they still are important questions for meditation and pondering, in my opinion.
In an indirect way, in my opinion, Ra first offered a 'definition' of love, that is tangible, in 16.21 --
Quote:16.21 Questioner: Can you give me some kind of history of your social memory complex and how you became aware of the Law of One?
Ra: I am Ra. The path of our learning is graven in the present moment. There is no history, as we understand your concept. Picture, if you will, a circle of being. We know the alpha and omega as infinite intelligence. The circle never ceases. It is present. The densities we have traversed at various points in the circle correspond to the characteristics of cycles: first, the cycle of awareness; second, the cycle of growth; third, the cycle of self-awareness; fourth, the cycle of love or understanding; fifth, the cycle of light or wisdom; sixth, the cycle of light/love, love/light, or unity; seventh, the gateway cycle; eighth, the octave which moves into a mystery we do not plumb.
There, love can simply be classified as understanding. And what is understanding? In my opinion, understanding is a deeper insight into what motivates certain thoughts and actions, which on the surface may seem inexplicable, unwarranted, or even purely evil. Of course, there is another definition of love, which is more archetypal in nature and belongs to the realm of universal creative faculties --
Quote:27.13 Questioner: Is Love— is there a manifestation of love that we could call vibration?
Ra: I am Ra. Again we reach semantic difficulties. The vibration or density of love or understanding is not a term used in the same sense as the second distortion, Love; the distortion Love being the great activator and primal co-Creator of various creations using intelligent infinity; the vibration love being that density in which those who have learned to do an activity called “loving” without significant distortion, then seek the ways of light or wisdom. Thus in vibratory sense love comes into light in the sense of the activity of unity in its free will. Love uses light and has the power to direct light in its distortions. Thus vibratory complexes recapitulate in reverse the creation in its unity, thus showing the rhythm or flow of the great heartbeat, if you will use this analogy.
However, we are more concerned here with the
activity called "loving"! Now, when we classify love as simply a sense of understanding, can we have a more tangible formulation of that in real life scenarios? I think that is where this illustration from the LOO might help --
Quote:42.3 Questioner: I will attempt to make an analogy. If an animal, shall I say a bull in a pen, attacks you because you have wandered into his pen, you get out of his way rapidly but you do not blame him. Or, you do not have much of an emotional response other than the fear response that he might damage you. However, if you encounter another self in his territory and he attacks you, your response may be more of an emotional nature creating physical bodily responses. Am I correct in assuming that when your response to the animal and to the other-self seeing both as the Creator and loving both and understanding their action in attacking you is the action of their free will then you have balanced yourself correctly in this area? Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is basically correct. However, the balanced entity will see in the seeming attack of an other-self the causes of this action which are, in most cases, of a more complex nature than the cause of the attack of the second-density bull as was your example. Thus this balanced entity would be open to many more opportunities for service to a third-density other-self.
Now, let us take the above example and extrapolate it into a more identifiable real-world human scenario. An individual (named ABC), say a deeply spiritual and law abiding person, gets attacked for no reason by a stranger (named XYZ) on the road. Let us say, hypothetically, that the attack was extremely brutal. The attacker and the attacked are unknown to each other and on the surface, it makes no sense, apart from the fact that the poor victim was in the wrong place at the wrong time. XYZ is now charged, arraigned and imprisoned for the brutal and unacceptable attack. Let us say that ABC reflects on the entire situation in his hospital bed, replays the scenes several times in his head, feels rage enveloping him due to the senseless nature of the attack, which has put him and his family on the line, due to the fact that he is a single parent for three children and the sole bread winner! Let us also assume that ABC is left disabled for life, due to the attack. There, you have all the ingredients of what we would generally call unfair and evil, especially if we look at XYZ's photos published across the media and find it loathsome, which is exacerbated due to the fact that he is not what we would call good looking, but fairly ugly.
As ABC's body heals in the hospital, like he has done for many months after the attack, he reflects on the attack and suddenly finds himself looking into the eyes of XYZ during the attack. ABC gets a sense that though XYZ's eyes were filled with fearsome violent rage; somehow now, reflecting back on them in hindsight, they also seemed to contain a deep sense of pain and longing. ABC is now intrigued. After getting discharged from hospital and having rehabilitated himself back into family and community life (following the disability, as well), ABC decides to go meet XYZ in prison, in order to find an answer to the haunting question of why XYZ chose to attack him, while there was absolutely no rhyme or reason. Out of curiosity, let us say that ABC also decides to research the background of XYZ, before going to meet him.
As ABC wades into the background of XYZ from various sources, he finds a picture developing, before him, of a sweet and promising little child, who at one stage started being repeatedly brutalized and sodomized by his beast of a father. Those early, deep and indelible scars meant that XYZ never grew up into a 'normal' adolescent or adult, as he developed various serious mental conditions along the way, like probably hallucinations, nightmares with flashbacks, etc. Due to all this, a pattern emerged that suggested strongly that as a result of unspeakable abuse, lack of a support ecology (that could have otherwise bailed him out from the situation of parental abuse), and a sense of deep abandonment, XYZ was never able to develop life skills, lacked any proper education, did not hold down a stable job, nor was he able to develop meaningful relationships, especially with the opposite sex. All this left XYZ further isolated and he drifted deeper and deeper into the abyss of mental illness, and began to slide in and out of mental institutions. Also, XYZ's unemployment benefits were running out and he was facing severe rejection on the job front, with his profile being ridiculed due to inconsistency and lack of skills.
Now, let us assume that on the morning of the attack, XYZ happened to meet one of his old school friends, who has gone on to make it really big in life. Now, XYZ may begin attributing all that to the stable family life that his friend enjoyed and may form certain unspoken connections in his head, seething and frothing at his father for his wretched state in the world. Moreover, XYZ is also under heavy medication for his dangerous mental conditions. After accidentally bumping into his friend and finding out about his great state of affairs, XYZ is bursting inside with envy and with resentment against what he perceives as unfair fate. And in that state, walks down the road. Now, on the road, he sees ABC, who resembles XYZ's father in a very uncanny and profound way. On seeing ABC, XYZ becomes completely impulsive and gives in to the raging fire of revenge and resentment, as he now, in a delusive and hallucinatory manner, sees his father, the tormentor of his life and dreams, in the outer resemblance of ABC.
Now, with those twin backgrounds, let us consider the situation wherein ABC decides to go meet XYZ in prison. XYZ finally reveals to him his side of the story of that fateful morning. Now, ABC realizes the facts behind the intense rage evident in XYZ's eyes, but moreover, ABC also realizes that the feeling of longing, evident simultaneously in those eyes, were due to the thought, perhaps, that -- 'Father, if only you had been loving and normal to me, like everybody else?'.
Now, what does ABC do, mentally?
Quote:46.16 Questioner: What is the plan for use of the catalyst of cancer?
Ra: I am Ra. The catalyst, and all catalyst, is designed to offer experience. This experience in your density may be loved and accepted or it may be controlled. These are the two paths. When neither path is chosen the catalyst fails in its design and the entity proceeds until catalyst strikes it which causes it to form a bias towards acceptance and love or separation and control. There is no lack of space/time in which this catalyst may work.
