The law of Responsibility is in effect at all times?

[Plenum]

I have to admit, this has been a tough one for me to totally assimilate.

basically, what Ra says is that as soon as one becomes conscious of 'self' in this incarnation, then the law of responsbility is in effect. This 'awareness' might be at 15 months old or maybe 2.5 years old. I am thinking it is the point of the earliest conscious memories.

18.7 Questioner: As an entity in this density grows from childhood, he becomes more aware of his responsibilities. Is there an age below which an entity is not responsible for his actions, or is he responsible from the time of birth?

Ra: I am Ra. An entity incarnating upon the Earth plane becomes conscious of self at a varying point in its time/space progress through the continuum. This may have a median, shall we say, of approximately fifteen of your months.

Some entities become conscious of self at a period closer to incarnation, some at a period farther from this event.

In all cases responsibility then becomes retroactive from that point backwards in the continuum so that distortions are to be understood by the entity and dissolved as the entity learns.

18.8 Questioner: Then an entity, say, four years old would be totally responsible for any actions that were against or inharmonious with the Law of One. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. It may be noted that it has been arranged by your social complex structures that the newer entities to incarnation are to be provided with guides of a physical mind/body/spirit complex, thus being able to learn quickly what is consonant with the Law of One.

this amazed me somewhat, that karma could begin to be accumulated at such an early age (acting against the Law of One).

previously, I had been inculturated with the notion that there are 'children' who are unknowing, and therefore in 'the eyes of the law' are subject to a different standard of ruling from an 'adult'; and that the rites of adulthood (getting a drivers licence, reaching voting age, reaching drinking age) then delineate certain 'responsibilities' of a growing individual.

but such 'social standards' do not seem to apply to karmic law (law of responsbiliity).

Jesus got mad as a child, and killed a fellow child, Ra says; and this was karmic.

I mean, when people are tried or drunk, they make the excuse - well, I wasn't in my right mind, I can't be responsible for what I did or said, even if it was something really silly or stupid.

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or I was stoned or in a bad mood ... 'I'm not responsible for what I said or did'.

such an attitude does not seem to acknowledge that karma is in effect at all times. And what is karma?

acting, full well, knowing that it is unloving (ie being deliberately hurtful, desiring to injure the other with words, sarcasm, or blunt fists, or any other manner of being 'unloving')

12.29 Questioner: What could one of these entities do to become karmically involved? [Inaudible] example.

Ra: I am Ra. An entity which acts in a consciously unloving manner in action with other beings can become karmically involved.

so yeah, I've made any number of excuses for myself in the past. Especially for my younger years. Oh, I was bullied, that's why I behaved the way that I did to my brother and sister. Oh, I had a physically debilitating ailment that sapped me of energy, and I was justified in being grumpy and attacking towards my best friend. Oh, I had financial pressures, and so I was justified in taking the actions that I did.

that just doesn't cut it. It seems spiritual law (responsibility) is in effect at all times. And it takes a fair bit of forgiveness to say, hey, I screwed up plenty in the past. And to own what you did.

peace guys,

plenum