08-04-2010, 11:09 PM
(08-04-2010, 10:20 PM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote: I find Book IV to be the most challenging. I've tried numerous times to read it from start to finish, but somehow some of the sessions towards the end get skimmed over and not fully absorbed. Anyone else experience this?
Yes, definitely.
(08-04-2010, 10:20 PM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote: Significator, matrix, potentiator. These terms are used throughout Book IV. Anyone want to offer some definitions?
I don't know if the terms are ever defined, but this quote has a pretty good explanation, I think, for the matrix and potentiator of mind, body, and spirit:
79.19 Wrote:79.19 Questioner: I would like to try to understand the archetypes of the mind of this Logos prior to the extension of the first distortion. In order to better understand that which we experience now I believe that this is a logical approach.
We have, as you have stated, the matrix, the potentiator, and the significator. I understand the matrix as being that which is what we call the conscious mind, but since it is also that from which the mind is made, I am at a loss to fully understand these three terms especially with respect to the time before there was a division in consciousness. Could you expand even more upon the Matrix of the Mind, the Potentiator of the Mind, and the Significator of the Mind, how they differ, and what their relationships are, please?
Ra: I am Ra. The Matrix of Mind is that from which all comes. It is unmoving yet is the activator in potentiation of all mind activity. The Potentiator of the Mind is that great resource which may be seen as the sea into which the consciousness dips ever deeper and more thoroughly in order to create, ideate, and become more self-conscious.
The Significator of each mind, body, and spirit may be seen as a simple and unified concept. The Matrix of the Body may be seen to be a reflection in opposites of the mind; that is, unrestricted motion. The Potentiator of the Body then is that which, being informed, regulates activity.
The Matrix of the Spirit is difficult to characterize since the nature of spirit is less motile. The energies and movements of the spirit are, by far, the most profound yet, having more close association with time/space, do not have the characteristics of dynamic motion. Thusly one may see the Matrix as the deepest darkness and the Potentiator of Spirit as the most sudden awakening, illuminating, and generative influence.
This is the description of Archetypes One through Nine before the onset of influence of the co-Creator or sub-Logos’ realization of free will.
That's a definition before the veil, but I think it applies after the veil for the matrix and potentiator. Ra says (79.16) that the significators are different before and after the veil.
Ra says (79.36) that the significator of the mind is "that dynamic entity which absorbs, seeks, and attempts to learn," and that (80.17) "the Significator of the Spirit is that living entity which either radiates or absorbs the love and the light of the One Infinite Creator, radiates it to others or absorbs it for the self." I don't believe they gave a definition of the significator of the body after the veil.
78.11 also has a definition of matrix and potentiator of mind, body, and spirit.