How does Infinity simply 'become' aware.

[JustLikeYou]

The above statement is incorrect. The Creator created Light from Self, Love, upon the Original Thought. This was the first dichotomy. The second dichotomy was light interpenetrating darkness. By distorting love/light/darkness, exploration of Self is gained.

I agree with you. I knew even as I typed those lines that I was not getting it right, but I couldn't come up with a better phrasology at the time. Now I will make an effort.

From 13.16:

Each step recapitulates intelligent infinity in its discovery of awareness.

The first true dichotomy is Love and Light (also known as Yang and Yin); however, this dichotomy was borne, as all things are, of that first great event, the discovery of awareness. I don't think that calling this event a dichotomy is accurate and I also don't think that my description "part of Infinity is aware and the other part is that of which the first part is aware" is accurate. In truth, it is all of Infinity which becomes aware of all of Infinity through reflexion. This is actually a paradox and not a dichotomy. Anyone who visits his own awareness with an honesty willingness to accept what he finds will discover the inseparable nature of subject and object which, despite their unity, still remain distinct as the two halves of awareness, each of which contains the whole. The paradox of awareness comes (logically) before both Love and Light because this original paradox is precisely how the dichotomy of Love and Light were discovered within Infinity in the first place. Moreover, the creation of Light from Love is a microcosmic recapitualtion of Infinity's discovery of awareness, as is Light's filling the plenum and eventually returning to its source.

Edited to add: This original paradox is also referred to when Ra says that "unity has a potential and kinetic" (27.5). The potential and kinetic do not distinguish Love and Light from each other, but rather Intelligent Infinity and Intelligent Energy (which is both Love and Light).