06-12-2017, 09:19 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-12-2017, 09:19 PM by Steppingfeet.)
Fulfilling the request of the thread title, a compilation of Ra's words, some paraphrased, some verbatim, distilling what I think are some of the essential qualities of the definition, the function, and the work of the adept.
(1) One who devotes the self to seeking the Creator using the disciplines of the personality and does their work in indigo ray: the center of the adept, the center of faith, and the gateway to intelligent infinity.
(2) Making contact with intelligent infinity and using the intelligent energy of indigo ray, the adept may heal, teach, and work for the creator in ways which are both radiant and balanced. Whatever his or her outer service, though, the adept’s primary work is not that of doing, but of being.
(3) Among his or her methods and resources, the adept may work with dreams, visualization, ritual, the magical personality, white magical workings, and the archetypal mind in order to serve others in various ways, including:
a. becoming living channels for love and light through contact with intelligent infinity, then channeling this radiance directly into the planetary energy web
b. experiencing the joy of union with the Creator that radiates throughout the life experience of the positive adept.
(4) There are positive and negative adepts, and many adept wanderers who do no conscious work in the present incarnation. For the great majority of adepts on this planet, the path becomes a confused one in which, unable to successfully grasp the light of the sun, they remain groping in the moonlight.
(5) Ultimately the adept is one who offers itself without pretense of any kind, living more and more as he or she is. And as the adept becomes a more consciously crystallized entity, she gradually manifests more and more of that which she always has been since before time: the One Infinite Creator.
Citations:
• 3.16, 13.23, 39.10, 47.8, 49.8, 50.8, 50.9, 54.15, 54.31, 57.24, 71.7, 73.20, 74.6, 74.11, 74.13, 75.23, 75.24, 75.23, 80.10, 80.12, 80.18, 83.18, 88.12
(1) One who devotes the self to seeking the Creator using the disciplines of the personality and does their work in indigo ray: the center of the adept, the center of faith, and the gateway to intelligent infinity.
(2) Making contact with intelligent infinity and using the intelligent energy of indigo ray, the adept may heal, teach, and work for the creator in ways which are both radiant and balanced. Whatever his or her outer service, though, the adept’s primary work is not that of doing, but of being.
(3) Among his or her methods and resources, the adept may work with dreams, visualization, ritual, the magical personality, white magical workings, and the archetypal mind in order to serve others in various ways, including:
a. becoming living channels for love and light through contact with intelligent infinity, then channeling this radiance directly into the planetary energy web
b. experiencing the joy of union with the Creator that radiates throughout the life experience of the positive adept.
(4) There are positive and negative adepts, and many adept wanderers who do no conscious work in the present incarnation. For the great majority of adepts on this planet, the path becomes a confused one in which, unable to successfully grasp the light of the sun, they remain groping in the moonlight.
(5) Ultimately the adept is one who offers itself without pretense of any kind, living more and more as he or she is. And as the adept becomes a more consciously crystallized entity, she gradually manifests more and more of that which she always has been since before time: the One Infinite Creator.
Citations:
• 3.16, 13.23, 39.10, 47.8, 49.8, 50.8, 50.9, 54.15, 54.31, 57.24, 71.7, 73.20, 74.6, 74.11, 74.13, 75.23, 75.24, 75.23, 80.10, 80.12, 80.18, 83.18, 88.12
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, but love unexplained is clearer. - Rumi
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