The trueset form of Service to Others

[Jade]

I often see martyrdom and martyrdom imbued with wisdom as a similar set of actions, just a different frame of mind.

That being said, I don't think there is enough time spent considering the concept of sacrifice without martyrdom: the willing sacrifice for the greater good is not martyrdom. It is letting go of distortions of love and unity. Ra says that martyrdom is the literal giving of the life force unto death to serve. We associate many things that are actually part of the personality shell as too important to sacrifice, and feel like martyrs who are punishing ourselves, self-flagellating for perceived faults or failings. If we can find forgiveness for ourselves, the sacrifices no longer seem so difficult, and the parts of ourselves that we are attached to just fall away, if we are willing to let them go.  

93.24 Questioner: I am assuming that you mean one full question, and I’ll make that question: I’d like to know the significance of the shape of the crux ansata, and if that’s too much of an answer I will just ask if there is anything we can do to make the instrument more comfortable or improve the contact?

Ra: I am Ra. There are mathematical ratios within this image which may yield informative insights to one fond of riddles. We shall not untangle the riddle. We may indicate that the crux ansata is a part of the concept complexes of the archetypical mind, the circle indicating the magic of the spirit, the cross indicating that nature of manifestation which may only be valued by the losing. Thus the crux ansata is intended to be seen as an image of the eternal in and through manifestation and beyond manifestation through the sacrifice and transformation of that which is manifest.

94.26 Questioner: I’ll have to work on that.

Then I am guessing that the crossed legs of the entity in Card Four have a meaning similar to the cross of the crux ansata. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. The cross formed by the living limbs of the image signifies that which is the nature of mind/body/spirit complexes in manifestation within your illusion. There is no experience which is not purchased by effort of some kind, no act of service to self or others which does not bear a price, to the entity manifesting, commensurate with its purity. All things in manifestation may be seen in one way or another to be offering themselves in order that transformations may take place upon the level appropriate to the action.