Courting the maiden

[Jade]

Most of us here weren't born with a silver spoon in our mouth. (Ra even says there's a reason why one polarity is born into a wealthy, healthy life, and I think this is why) We are born into a world that, for whatever reason, isn't cooperating with us. That is catalyst: The disharmonious interactions that we experience. As Wanderers, we program this experience. We can take that catalyst, and use it - and Ra says that the STO way to use it is similar to the efforts made when you are in love. You want to make the world fall in love with you. Not because you want to change it, though that is the end-game of the transformative power of love, but because it is giving you signals that it is displeased in one way or another, and you feel maybe the totality of your beingness can alleviate some of these feelings of lack. So slowly, we begin to shower affection and attention upon reality because we increasingly see its inherent worth, its need to be nutured. And even though we ourselves have moved on to a better place of being, we still see other selves crying out for help - these are calls from our own body complex. Someone is hungry? No, I am hungry. So, if I can hear the growling stomach, I can do something to address it.

It is so, so subtle, because the STS path sees love for themselves all around them, because they enchant their world with love for themselves. So the transformation leads to the same place: A transformation of the body which allows a more desirable configuration of manifest reality. But there are nuances in the paths, and one of them must be abandoned, so discussing it thoroughly is good I think. I am very much not trying to limit the idea of the transformation to "courting", I am trying to elucidate and widen the definition of "courting" that I am assuming that Ra means.