Hypothesis: All dimensions provide protection uniquely

[Jade]

The archetypes tell us there are two types of protection, different for each polarity.




In the Lovers card (The Two Paths, The Transformation of the Mind), the left-hand path is protected by the genie in the corner, with his sharp arrow. Ra says as the negative path transforms further, it is further protected BY the separation it causes between itself and others. The right-hand path doesn't get this type of protection, because we see everything as mirrors and a part of us instead of "what we are not".




In the Emperor (The Hierophant, The Experience of the Mind), the right-hand path is guarded by a white cat. Again, the cat guards more increasingly as one move along through the polarizing - guarding one from the more harsher catalyst of the material illusion. I think this is representative of how once one achieves harvest levels of green-ray (51%) they are subject to less and less random catalyst.

So, there is definitely protection in 3D for both polarities, the protection for the positive path being in the Experience of the Mind, where one "chooses the positive/magical interpretation" with more frequency and ease. The protection for the negative path is involved in the Transformation of the Mind, where as one separates themselves from the thoughts of others they become more of an island, so to speak. In the Transformation of the Mind, the positive path still diverges further from the "social norm", but this can be less desirable and more painful. Also, we recognize more and more that the perceived ugliness within others is actually within ourselves - which can also be quite painful.

So, Ra very clearly says that protection for both paths increases with polarity.



Re: Experience of the Mind

95.23 Questioner: What I meant to say was that the entity is guarded along the right-hand path, once it is chosen, from effects of the material illusion that are of a negative polarity. Would Ra comment on that?

Ra: I am Ra. This is an accurate perception of our intent, O student. We may note that the great cat guards in direct proportion to the purity of the manifestations of intention and the purity of inner work done along this path.

Re: Transformation of the Mind

We now speak of that genie, or elemental, or mythic figure, culturally determined, which sends the arrow to the left-hand transformation. This arrow is not the arrow which kills but rather that which, in its own way, protects. Those who choose separation, that being the quality most indicative of the left-hand path, are protected from other-selves by a strength and sharpness equivalent to the degree of transformation which the mind has experienced in the negative sense. Those upon the right-hand path have no such protection against other-selves for upon that path the doughty seeker shall find many mirrors for reflection in each other-self it encounters.