What's the Point of Jim McCarty?

[Jade]

I just think the quote I posted implies that meditating on power, then love, then wisdom - appropriate as confirmed by Ra, even though it was quite specific - maps again the chakra body which Ra says must be opened seriatim. Jim was also instructed by Ra to work his body daily towards physical exhaustion (another third-ray centric task) as a means of balancing this power/abundance of physical energy. Before he met Don and Carla he had his own land where he hand built a log cabin all on his own, another manifestation of third density physical power. Ra also comments on Jim's overabundance towards wisdom during the contact, this tending towards the negative use, as evidenced by the catalyst of the spider bite. They also mention that Jim has a problem with discipline in meditation (obviously he has gotten past this) that the other two did not suffer from.

1.  Yours is an interesting interpretation of the power, love wisdom thing, but the context of the injunction to meditate on these has to do with Ra's desire that those exploring power maintain a balance with love and wisdom so as to not become intoxicated by their own fumes, if you will.  It has nothing to do with the energy centers, as I see it, because it is all about the adept working with numero 6. 

75.32 Questioner: The three aspects of the magical personality are stated to be power, love, and wisdom. Is this correct and are these the only primary aspects of the magical personality?

Ra: I am Ra. The three aspects of the magical personality, power, love, and wisdom, are so called in order that attention be paid to each aspect in developing the basic tool of the adept; that is, its self. It is by no means a personality of three aspects. It is a being of unity, being of sixth density and equivalent to what you call your higher self and, at the same time, is a personality enormously rich in variety of experience and subtlety of emotion.

The three aspects are given that the neophyte not abuse the tools of its trade but rather approach those tools balanced in the center of love and wisdom and thus seeking power in order to serve.

2.  Although some people identify the third chakra with power, that's a very limited view.  There's physical power, such as you mentioned, and there are also mental and spiritual power.  I was speaking of spiritual power, not the others, and this not in any way obvious to the outer eye.  I was claiming--without any evidence--that Jim has likely done much work prior to this incarnation understanding and balancing positive and negative power, and that this kind of work drops one right down the middle between love and wisdom, and--creating a run on sentence here--this is the pathway to resolving all paradoxes which, obviously--if true--balances these other two.

Moreover, in your quote earlier Ra appears to associate Jim with "archetypical power," but what is that?  I don't believe there is an archetype of power, per se, but that they were referring to an exponent of spiritual power, the very thing I'm attempting to describe here.

80.8 Questioner: I am sorry for my lack of penetration of these mechanisms and I apologize for some rather stupid questions, but I think we have here a point that is somewhat central to what we are presently attempting to understand, so even though my next questions may be almost unacceptably stupid, I will attempt to try to understand what this power that our visitor seeks is and how he uses it. For it seems to me that this is central to the mind and the evolution of it in which we are involved.


As this entity that is our visitor increases his power through these works, what is the power that he increases? Can you describe it?

Ra: I am Ra. The power of which you speak is a spiritual power. The powers of the mind, as such, do not encompass such works as these. You may, with some fruitfulness, consider the possibilities of moonlight. You are aware that we have described the Matrix of the Spirit as a night. The moonlight, then, offers either a true picture seen in shadow or chimera and falsity. The power of falsity is deep as is the power to discern truth from shadow. The shadow of hidden things is an infinite depth in which is stored the power of the One Infinite Creator.

The adept, then, is working with the power of hidden things illuminated by that which can be false or true. To embrace falsity, to know it, to seek it, and to use it gives a power that is most great. This is the nature of the power of your visitor and may shed some light upon the power of one who seeks in order to serve others as well, for the missteps in the night are oh! so easy.

   
3.  Jim's overbalance towards wisdom can be seen as a personality overlay on top of what I mentioned.

4.  Ra opined that Jim was bitten by a pit viper, specifically a cottonmouth, not by a spider.  (Transient information, but notable.)
  

Seems like we disagree on this one, peregrine. Ra mentions Jim's overabundance (imbalance) towards wisdom in multiple places. It might be an oversimplification to associate "power" with the yellow ray, but I do believe this is what Jim manifested. Jim is a very simple guy who basically always made choices that were rooted in what he sincerely wanted to do. The will is associated with the yellow ray, as there is no free will without the third density veiled incarnation. Carla and Don both had many, many idiosyncrasies rooted in their experiences as youth and therefore blockages achieving and understanding what they truly desired. Jim had a very simple, normal upbringing, without much if any trauma at all, which allowed him to actualize himself in ways that were fulfilling. Ra says that the most important function of the veiling was the development of the will, or "pure desire", and I think there is a power contained within that energy.

[85.19] Perhaps the most important and significant function that occurred due to the veiling of the mind from itself is not in itself a function of mind but rather is a product of the potential created by this veiling. This is the faculty of will or pure desire.

59.3 Questioner: I have a question from Jim that states: “I think I have penetrated the mystery of my lifelong anger at making mistakes. I think I have always been aware subconsciously of my abilities to master new learnings, but my desire to successfully complete my mission on Earth has been energized by the Orion group into irrational and destructive anger when I fail. Could you comment on this observation?”

Ra: I am Ra. We would suggest that as this entity is aware of its position as a Wanderer, it may also consider what pre-incarnative decisions it undertook to make regarding the personal or self-oriented portion of the choosing to be here at this particular time/space. This entity is aware, as stated, that it has great potential, but potential for what? This is the pre-incarnative question. The work of sixth density is to unify wisdom and compassion. This entity abounds in wisdom. The compassion it is desirous of balancing has, as its antithesis, lack of compassion. In the more conscious being this expresses or manifests itself as lack of compassion for self. We feel this is the sum of suggested concepts for thought which we may offer at this time without infringement.

Re: #4 Ra actually says that testing might conclude it was a cottonmouth, but says that it was an arachnid bite. I'm guessing Jim would have noticed if he had been bitten by a venomous snake and not had to ask Ra what was causing problems.

In this case the bite was no more than that of one of the arachnids, sometimes called the wood spider. However, it is possible that were enough work done to test the origin of the pathology of the entity, it is within possibility/probability limits that the testing would show the bite of the cottonmouth rather than the bite of the common wood spider.

From Tilting at Windmills:

JIM So what had happened there was that one night, before I had healed the rift between us, in my sleep I was bitten by a common wood spider on my arm, and within a week or so I’d gained 30 pounds of water weight, my kidneys had begun to malfunction . . .
Carla He’d gotten really round. And it was fleshy everywhere. You’d poke him and it would take a while to recover the—

JIM Everything I had except, maybe, my tongue. [laughs]

Carla Water! Water, water everywhere.

JIM And so, actually I did get bitten, and Ra suggested that the bite was intensified by our friend of negative polarity to approximately equal the bite of a cottonmouth snake, a poisonous snake.

GARY And that bite was linked to you . . .

JIM To me due to allowing the difficulty, the poor communication, and the disharmony to exist between me and Don. So the little spider was just the avenue through which the negative entity could intensify the lack of harmony between Don and me at that time