(02-17-2016, 02:57 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: I totally understand your confusion, Rolci. I hope I can attempt to lessen it instead of increase it.
Ra says that most people are far along their polarity bias before they consciously recognize which polarity they are. It is only when one wants to do high magical work in consciousness that consciously developing polarity becomes important, and when learning the tarot becomes important. Referring to the Two Paths card, the Transformation of the Mind, it is about the point where one does consciously choose their catalyst in a desire to progress further along their path, because the two paths most certainly diverge before the re-coalesce. You can have your cake and eat it too, by retaining the hand of both girls, the prostitute and the maiden, but you will not progress along either path and therefore not receive any benefits or 'magical powers' that are associated with polarity.
As one continues to make their choice of polarity, with dedication, then they can start developing the use of the magical personality with regularity. This takes will and practice, as to make it a habit like anything else. At this point, when acts of will towards love become more of a habit than a forced response, the "choice" of polarity in the moment again becomes less and less conscious (though still an act of will/choice), as when you ingrain your bias more thoroughly the interpretation of catalyst as positive becomes more the norm.
I do think if this is your area that you desire to study, that you should begin a patient study of the archetypes.
Thanks, that helped a bit. You said "As one continues to make their choice of polarity, with dedication, then they can start developing the use of the magical personality with regularity." I've always been wondering about magick and alchemy, and their widespread use in the old days. I sort of assumed that they are part of what we here call magical work (possibly "lower"). And it always seemed to me that anyone can obtain these abilities, without necessarily making a conscious choice of polarity. If anything, I would expect the newly gained "abilities" and "power" to be a catalyst for a choice, as you really must decide what to do with such power, as it would be hard staying neutral in that situation. You would very quickly realize how you want to use the power, for manipulation or service. Not to say you can't arrive at these abilities from a previous desire to further polarize on an already chosen path, but I think that while the existence of magick was general knowledge those days, at least in the forms of superstition, a Choice was probably never such general knowledge. It's probably not even meant to be in 3D.
Another thought about what you said about the Choice and the subsequent pursuing, what bothers my mind is this: "As one continues to make their choice of polarity, with dedication" sounds to me something like you know about polarity, and you keep CHOOSING along that path. I have a problem with choosing as opposed to doing always what feels RIGHT, even if it would be in a situation the bad" thing. It would seem appropriate to let what comes (let go and let God, that includes all "polarities) and see how the result feels, just as Quo says to take something "bad" we're done into meditation and take it to its extreme. To override choosing the bad that feels right just because you are aware of polarities, maybe even aware of your "chosen" path (or a path you forced yourself upon?) feels to me like lying to yourself, denying yourself, suppressing a part of you rather than embracing it lovingly, and letting it be expressed and accepted. Overriding a "bad" that feels right in that moment seems to me coming from a fear like "oh no, this is not who I want to be, I don't want to be this" and I do not accept this as part of me (where me should be whole). Yes that also always bothered me. We are in 3D, aware of the merging of polarities in 6D and the illusory nature of polarities. Yet here we are trying to make a choice and gain more of this polarity that we know doesn't even exist in ultimate reality. And then we try not to do "bad", for fear of depolarizing, denying our own knowledge that we are the Creator and that Creator is ALL that is (the "good" and the "bad", as viewed from a 3D duality-controlled mind). Why are we expected to kid ourselves?
One last thing about one eternal moment ad simultaneity. Yes I have also always grasped what it "wants" to mean. Yet everything I read, sometimes in the same or next sentence as the one emphasizing it, tells the opposite, and I do not readily accept this as the usual metaphysical paradox. Possibly the best example would be "after death." Once you're out of body, there is no veil, right? So you know that all your incarnations exist simultaneously as tentacles of your higher self. (Heck we know this INSIDE 3D incarnation.) So why would you want to go and be healed from incarnative trauma, AFTER which you go on and plan a "next" life. Why would you plan something that's already done and dusted?
My only resolution would be something that is not mentioned in the Ra material, and would be this: Similarly to what Ra says about how "young"souls reincarnate without planning (guides do the planning, and you only start planning once you have come to the realization that you can), maybe you keep planning your "next" incarnations, until you realize yo don't have to. Why play along after death and have all these discussions with the guides when you can simply visualize merging back into the higher self (or even the ALL) and thus do it? Indeed, in some sessions in the Convoluted Universe books there are these souls who confirm this is their last incarnation on Earth, while others, mostly first-timers on earth, "wanderers" straight from source, protected (sometimes by some kind of etheric shield) from the accumulation of karma, say that they only came for this one incarnation to help Earth with the ascension and then they're back to the source. That reminds me, maybe the concept of karma is also only functional as long as the soul (probably more unknowingly than knowingly - there MUST be some kind of veil after death) readily accepts it. Once you realize it's not a MUST and you don't HAVE TO return for more """lessons""", you can opt out. Yes lessons is funny, first they (or you) have you experience being a murderer, next you are either murdered or you are a carer of your victim. No lessons, only experiencing ALL sides.
So if the soul doesn't realize that the life it would plan already exists, how would you say the veil had been removed? If the soul knows fully again who they are and what ultimate reality is, how much sense does it take to plan what already exists?? So where is the eternal moment of now in all that?
(02-17-2016, 03:28 PM)IndigoGeminiWolf Wrote: I wonder if it's true that a negative shaman can fire etheric poisoned darts at an enemy and kill them.
I would assume that a negative adept that is so far along the path that it has so much magickal power would've come to the realization of the importance of the respect of free will. I would expect it to know that infringement depolarizes regardless of the chosen path, as the skill is in either control and manipulation as ALLOWED by the victim's free will, or in accepting other self as self. Which is why 4th and 5th D negatives do not just come and kill (not that they don't have the power to) but rather use psychic attack. Killing would be too "easy" and be no challenge, and further polarization stems from passing more and more challanging "tests". Killing, at such levels of "development", would be equal to seeing a challenge, and instead of conquering it, you get rid of it, essentially telling the Universe (yourself) that you're not ready/able to handle it.So you aren't. Just my untrained thoughts.