Courting the maiden

[Jade]

I think one thing it might come down to is that a lot of people like to use the Law of One as a hedonistic philosophy ("experience all things desired"), which is obviously fine, but hedonism is not the end goal of the Law of One but merely a step along the way. We are supposed to "experience all things desired until they fall away", and, if we are consciously working with catalyst, we can peel away the layers of the onion ourselves that we no longer want at a more rapid pace, (while, of course, integrating more of all that is within us, which is the paradox - how do we choose to use our will?) - which is what I feel is the point of learning the archetype system. The Law of One isn't about zen nihilism either, but what Ra teaches is a specific lesson in how to integrate the mind/body/spirit complex into an STO configuration with increasing polarity. We incarnated in third density to experience polarity, to integrate the mind/BODY/spirit because it's a delicate game. Ra gave us a pretty detailed, yet cryptic, rulebook.

It's fine to say "but that's not how I use the transformation of the mind!" But, from my experience of using the transformation of the mind per Ra's instructions, it seems most of the explanations to "use the transformation in your own way" is just justification for ignoring any complex moral/ethical implications that the card implies. Yes, experience all things desired. Yes, there are no mistakes. However, there is a specific way to articulate our experience as an "honestation to the Creator" as Ra calls it, and that is understanding and using the archetypes, and singing the song of Creation along with the Logos. Of course, we all have free will to do as we please, but you can't use the right-hand Transformation of the Mind AND be hedonistic. They are incongruent. Hedonism is the path of viewing our resources as there to be plundered for our pleasure.

I think this conversation is important, because I think the Lovers card has a lot of similar themes to the Experience of the Spirit ("groping in the moonlight" - ah look, another sexual allusion). The Lovers analogy is easy to understand at its roots, but once we involve the spirit complex into the integration, intentions and desires can get muddled. So I think we're all talking about the Lovers card but in the context of the conversation I think we're all dealing with Experience of the Spirit. We have to somehow deal with what we perceive as the "black dog".

There's a part of the card that we haven't discussed, but I think it could be taken into consideration. If we look at the imp at the top, there is a common misinterpretation even though Ra says exactly what he's there for: He's there to protect the left hand transformation of the mind. Why? Because if you aren't "courting" everything, i.e. empathizing with everything and having compassion for it, which is what green-ray is about, then you are protected from the negative emotional experiences of other selves. If you are properly courting the maiden, you are actually opening yourself up to the rawest of emotions. I made the comment before that you cry with your maiden, but the prostitute's tears mean naught. That's what the genie implies. When you truly see everything as a part of you, you feel its pain as if it were your own, and feel compelled to do something about it, just as you would your own pain. The left-hand transformation avoids this experience.

14.18 Questioner: Then for the last 2,300 years you have been actively working to create as large a harvest as possible at the end of the total 75,000-year cycle. Can you state with respect to the Law of One why you do this, just as a statement of your reasons for this?

Ra: I am Ra. I speak for the social memory complex termed Ra. We came among you to aid you. Our efforts in service were perverted. Our desire then is to eliminate as far as possible the distortions caused by those misreading our information and guidance. The general cause of service such as the Confederation offers is that of the primal distortion of the Law of One, which is service. The One Being of the creation is like unto a body, if you will accept this third-density analogy. Would we ignore a pain in the leg? A bruise upon the skin? A cut which is festering? No. There is no ignoring a call. We, the entities of sorrow, choose as our service the attempt to heal the sorrow which we are calling analogous to the pains of a physical body complex distortion.

Ra: All things are acceptable in the proper time for each entity, and in experiencing, in understanding, in accepting, in then sharing with other-selves, the appropriate description shall be moving away from distortions of one kind to distortions of another which may be more consonant with the Law of One.