Love as a function of Acceptance

[Bring4th_Austin]

Do you see free will as an illusion, because there is only the One?

I do not know whether free will is an illusion or not. However, I think the concept of what we know as free will has a form of flexibility that works in correlation in terms of the distance away from the centers of consciousness, with the great central heart (One Infinite Creator?) being the highest form of the locus.

82.10 Questioner: Why does this partaking in the original thought have a gradient radially outward? That’s the way I understand your statement.

Ra: I am Ra. This is the plan of the One Infinite Creator. The One Original Thought is the harvest of all previous, if you would use this term, experience of the Creator by the Creator. As It decides to know Itself It generates Itself into that plenum, full of the glory and the power of the One Infinite Creator which is manifested to your perceptions as space or outer space. Each generation of this knowing begets a knowing which has the capacity, through free will, to choose methods of knowing Itself. Therefore, gradually, step by step, the Creator becomes that which may know Itself, and the portions of the Creator partake less purely in the power of the original word or thought. This is for the purpose of refinement of the one original thought. The Creator does not properly create as much as It experiences Itself.

In other words, free will allows refinement.

81.30 Questioner: You stated earlier that toward the center of this galaxy is what, to use a poor term, you could call the older portion where you would find no service-to-self polarization. Am I correct in assuming that this is true with the other galaxies with which Wanderers from Ra have experience? At the center of these galaxies only the service-to-others polarity exists and the experiment started farther out toward the rim of the galaxy?

Ra: I am Ra. Various Logoi and sub-Logoi had various methods of arriving at the discovery of the efficiency of free will in intensifying the experience of the Creator by the Creator. However, in each case this has been a pattern.

Thanks for these quotes Confused!

This might help me expound on my previous speculation of the presence of choice, and an automatic response of love not necessarily meaning absence of free will.

"Therefore, gradually, step by step, the Creator becomes that which may know Itself, and the portions of the Creator partake less purely in the power of the original word or thought."

"Various Logoi and sub-Logoi had various methods of arriving at the discovery of the efficiency of free will in intensifying the experience of the Creator by the Creator."

Portions of the Creator become more and more distorted from the original thought, which was a result of (or resulted in?) greater free will. The more distortions, the more choices. However, as distortions are removed, the purity of the Creator is restored, and the choices collapse into a single state of being. That state of being is recognized at our level of progression as the "emotional response of love" with which the perfectly balanced entity responds to his attacker with. Other choices were a result of distortion, which has been removed.