11-04-2012, 11:08 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-04-2012, 11:16 AM by Tenet Nosce.)
(11-03-2012, 02:02 AM)Pickle Wrote: Of course.
But that's not the quite the same thing as Ra is talking about.
Quote:You should be able to see a correlation between harvestable and polarity. I said should.
There is a correlation, but they are not identical concepts.
Quote:light of harvestable quality
The "light of harvestable quality" is what can be perceived, and this is a function of the degree of polarization. It says nothing, however, about which path the polarization occurred. The light is the same light, whether it was attracted through negative or positive polarization. There isn't a "positive" and "negative" light. Just light.
Therefore- Even if I could perceive that a being had sufficient light to be harvested, that would tell me nothing about how they attracted that light.
Let's go back to the magnet analogy. Here is a diagram of a bar magnet:
![[Image: mag2.gif]](http://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/electromagnetism/mag2.gif)
If we were to construct a permeable barrier, or veil, and pass this magnet through such that exactly one-half of it was poking through to the other side, there would be no way to tell from the other side, if it were the south or the north pole of the magnet. They are identical, and the naming of each side is completely arbitrary.
It's not like the molecules on the south pole are arranged a certain way, and the molecules on the north pole are arranged another way. The molecules which confer the polarity (positive or negative) to the magnet are all aligned in exactly the same way.
It is, however, possible to measure the degree of polarization of the magnet. This can be done directly if we are able to see all the way down to the molecular level, and actually count the number of molecules that are in alignment.
Or this can be done indirectly, by placing the magnet in the vicinity of unpolarized metal filings. By measuring the amount of filings which are attracted to the magnet, we can infer the degree of polarization. The more that are attracted, the higher the degree.
Harvestability refers to the degree of polarization. Past a certain threshold of polarization, which represents the degree of alignment of an entity, there is a sufficient amount of unpolarized light attracted to the entity to be harvested. However, this says nothing about how the entity became polarized.
Due to the nature of the bias of our Logos, it is more difficult to polarize on the negative path. We could envision this bias as being represented by a field of consciousness with counter-rotating spirals. Let's say, arbitrarily, clockwise is positive, and counterclockwise is negative.
There is much more of the field of consciousness with a positive clockwise rotation (other as self), rather than a negative counterclockwise rotation (self as other). Thus, in order to polarize on the positive path, an entity need only "go with the flow", or seek to accept catalyst encountered. To polarize on the negative path, an entity must "go against the grain", or seek to control the catalyst offered.
So we can see that Ra's statements are not contradictory. It is impossible to judge the polarity (i.e. path of polarization) of an entity. It is, however, possible to judge an entity's degree of polarization, and therefore ascertain harvestability.