(02-01-2009, 09:40 AM)βαθμιαίος Wrote: It's not that STO entities are any less likely to suffer negative catalyst, just that they are much more likely than STS entities to seek to find the love and the light in their experiences, however difficult.
Here is the relevant Ra quote, from Session 95:
Quote:Questioner: From that statement I interpret the following. If the Experience of the Mind has sufficiently chosen the right-hand path, and as total purity is approached in the choosing of the right-hand path, then total imperviousness from the effect of the left-hand catalyst is also approached. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is exquisitely perceptive. The seeker which has purely chosen the service-to-others path shall certainly not have a variant apparent incarnational experience. There is no outward shelter in your illusion from the gusts, flurries, and blizzards of quick and cruel catalyst.
However, to the pure, all that is encountered speaks of the love and the light of the One Infinite Creator. The cruelest blow is seen with an ambiance of challenges offered and opportunities to come. Thusly, the great pitch of light is held high above such an one so that all interpretation may be seen to be protected by light.
Agreed. More on this:
92.33 Questioner: The protection here seems to be depicted as being on the right-hand side but not the left. Would this indicate that there is protection for the positive path but not for the negative?
Ra: I am Ra. You perceive correctly an inborn bias offering to the seeing eye and listing ear information concerning the choice of the more efficient polarity.
There is also another angle to this, regarding group catalyst. It had to do with 'being in the wrong place at the wrong time' and something about STS entities not having the protection against large-scale catastrophes as do STO entities; hence their interest in finding 'safe zones.'
Book IV, Session 99
Questioner: The wings above Card Five, I am
guessing, have to do with a protection over the
Significator of the Mind. I am guessing that they are
a symbol of protection. Is this in any way correct?
Ra: I am Ra. Let us say that you are not incorrect
but rather less than correct. The Significator owns a
covenant with the spirit which it shall in some cases
manifest through the thought and action of the
adept. If there is protection in a promise, then you
have chosen the correct sound vibration, for the
outstretched wings of spirit, high above
manifestation, yet draw the caged mind onward.
Questioner: Thank you. In Card Number Six I see
the Transformation of the Mind, the male with
crossed arms, representing transformation. The
transformation is possible either toward the left or
the right-hand path. The path is beckoned or led by
the female, the Potentiator. The one on the right has
the serpent of wisdom at the brow and is fully
clothed, the one on the left having less clothing and
indicating that the Potentiator is more concerned or
attracted to the physical as the left-hand path is
chosen and more concerned and attracted to the
mental as the right-hand path is chosen.
The creature above points an arrow at the left-hand
path indicating that if this path is chosen the chips,
shall we say, will fall where they may, the path being
unprotected as far as the activity of catalyst. The
intellectual abilities of the chooser of the left-hand
path would be the main guardian rather than the
designed or built-in protection of the Logos for the
right-hand path. The entity firing the arrow seems to
be a second density entity which indicates that this
catalyst could be produced by a lesser evolved source,
you might say. Would Ra comment on these
observations?
Ra: I am Ra. We shall speak upon several aspects
seriatim. Firstly, let us examine the crossed arms of
the male who is to be transformed. What, O
student, do you make of the crossing? What see you
in this tangle? There is a creative point to be found
in this element which was not discussed overmuch
by the questioner.
Let us now observe the evaluation of the two
females. The observation that to the left-hand path
moves the roughly physical and to the right-hand
path the mental has a shallow correctness. There are
deeper observations to be made concerning the
relationship of the great sea of the unconscious mind
to the conscious mind which may fruitfully be
pursued. Remember, O student, that these images
are not literal. They haunt rather than explicate.
Many use the trunk and roots of mind as if that
portion of mind were a badly used, prostituted
entity. Then this entity gains from this great
storehouse that which is rough, prostituted, and
without great virtue. Those who turn to the deep
mind, seeing it in the guise of the maiden, go forth
to court it. The courtship has nothing of plunder in
its semblance and may be protracted, yet the treasure
gained by such careful courtship is great. The right-
hand and left-hand transformations of the mind may
be seen to differ by the attitude of the conscious
mind towards its own resources as well as the
resources of other-selves.
We now speak of that genie, or elemental, or mythic
figure, culturally determined, which sends the arrow
to the left-hand transformation. This arrow is not
the arrow which kills but rather that which, in its
own way, protects. Those who choose separation,
that being the quality most indicative of the left-
hand path, are protected from other-selves by a
strength and sharpness equivalent to the degree of
transformation which the mind has experienced in
the negative sense. Those upon the right-hand path
have no such protection against other-selves for
upon that path the doughty seeker shall find many
mirrors for reflection in each other-self it encounters.
There is yet another quote I am still looking for, which further elucidates this topic, and mentions a built-in protection against group catalyst...I'll post that when I find it. It might have been in a Q'uo session.
I had forgotten about the STO's not having that sharpness which seems inherent in STS entities. This is very revealing! It explains the adage "Why do the bad guys always take advantage of the good guys?"