First-ranking lessons

[Steppingfeet]

I've been contemplating one specific piece in the Ra material lately, and I have two questions about it. Here is this piece:

52.11 Questioner: Thank you. Just a little point that was bothering me of no real importance.

Well, is there then, from the point of view of an individual who wishes to follow the service-to-others path from our present position in third density, is there anything of importance other than disciplines of personality, knowledge of self, and strengthening of will?

Ra: I am Ra. This is technique. This is not the heart. Let us examine the heart of evolution.

Let us remember that we are all one. This is the great learning/teaching. In this unity lies love. This is a great learn/teaching. In this unity lies light. This is the fundamental teaching of all planes of existence in materialization. Unity, love, light, and joy; this is the heart of evolution of the spirit.

The second-ranking lessons are learn/taught in meditation and in service. At some point the mind/body/spirit complex is so smoothly activated and balanced by these central thoughts or distortions that the techniques you have mentioned become quite significant. However, the universe, its mystery unbroken, is one. Always begin and end in the Creator, not in technique.

As I understand the above piece, the disciplines of personality, knowledge of the self, strengthening of the will, and even service to others and meditation are *not* the first-ranking lessons; they are the second-ranking lessons. The first-ranking lessons are these central thoughts, as Ra called them:

"Let us remember that we are all one. This is the great learning/teaching. In this unity lies love. This is a great learn/teaching. In this unity lies light. This is the fundamental teaching of all planes of existence in materialization. Unity, love, light, and joy; this is the heart of evolution of the spirit."

So, at some point, when an entity has learned these lessons, it becomes so smoothly activated and balanced by these central thoughts, that it is only *then* that the second-ranking lessons (which are meditation, service, strengthening of the will, knowledge of the self, and the disciplines of personality) become significant.

So, my first question is: do you guys have any other interpretation of the above Ra piece, or am I correct in my understanding of it as I described it?

That Ra uses that particular sequence is confusing.

Firstly: smoothly activated.
Then: meditation/service/disciplined personality become important.
Then: profit.

To me, there is a reciprocal relationship between these things. (The first two groups. Ra didn't mention profit.) They both feed into, and give to, and strengthen each other.

But the gist of it, I think, is that orientation is of greater consequence.

By orientation, I mean the "direction" that you are pointed, the trajectory that you're headed, the aim of your movement is first and foremost centered on seeking the One - and the light, love, joy inherent in the One. (This orientation arises out of your awareness of the One, however dim it may seem to be.)

With the proper orientation, then the tools and means (strengthening of will, meditation, service, etc.) will be used appropriately. All movement, activity, and energy expenditure (tools and means) will be *aimed* in the direction of your orientation, and used toward that end, and empowered thereby.

Remember when Ra says that it is the being that informs the working, and not vice versa?

I think it is that logic that applies here. The being (aka: unity-love-light-joy) informs the working (meditation-service-will-discipline).

My second question is about one of these central thoughts:

"In this unity lies light. This is the fundamental teaching of all planes of existence in materialization."

What light did Ra mean in that piece, and why is this thought a *fundamental* learning?

I think that these are "fundamental teachings" because no matter what density you experience, no matter what octave, no matter the particular outer form you are manifesting as (i.e.: person, cat, angel, rock, house, dog bone, biscuits'n'gravy, super massive blackhole), you are *always* working with these dynamics/processes/energies/realities.

In fact, "you" are the result of the interplay between the first three primal distortions stemming from intelligent infinity.

I've loosely connected the Christian idea of "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and all these things will be added unto you" to the above.

Just like Ra describes the seeking of love within the moment being so "central an act of will" -- get yourself in alignment with the fundamentals, and all else will shape around it, accordingly.

About what Ra means by "light" specifically, Seph would be a good one to ask here. Visible light just represents a certain range on the electromagnetic spectrum. My idea about Ra's "light" is that it is what all outer manifestation is made of. Our bodies and planets and wind and gamma rays and ALL the material of all densities - all light.

Good questions Ms. Ankh!
Love, GLB