(10-16-2017, 04:28 PM)GentleWanderer Wrote:(10-15-2017, 03:46 PM)Aion Wrote: ...
I do agree that it causes a energization of all of one's distortions. However, the question for me has never been 'good or bad' but rather, what is the dynamic that is taking place? Rather than viewing the material as a 'thing in itself', I view it as a collage of relationships and interactions, each which serves to potentially illustrate or illuminate some part of the Creation in that you SHOULD be able to find both positive and negative philosophy in it if it is truly relating to Unity. That might strike some people as strange, but I think that's actually fundamental to the whole concept of Free Will as espoused by the Law of Confusion. They need to make both philosophies available.
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Truth be told, I think it's 'unpolarized' and that is why it causes such an uproar. The reason I think you have to look at the concepts of polarity is actually to do the work of the mental exercises of the disciplines of the personality. To work towards unified thought you harmonize opposites and these must be realized in the self. A mirror can also aid in this task, such as the Ra Material.
Ra offering some basics metaphysical principle without encouraging neither the positive nor the negative path ? Kind of "these are the rules, now do what you want".
Yes, exactly which is supposed to be the primary point of Ra's respect for Free Will is that they don't 'promote' either path. This is why Ra freely offered the information on the negative as well, because they always have to offer the choice of personal assessment, at least how I see it. The fact is, is Ra claim themselves to be 'unpolarized' and while they did say their SMC developed along the lines of STO (although they had a few negative harvest as well) that means that in their currently unpolarized state they are BOTH. Ra is also self-serving and of service to others. It would not be be a message rooted in unpolarized unity if that wasn't the case.
Remember that Ra was trying to get something out of the contact as well. They wanted to attempt to alleviate the distortions they created in the past and despite them having no attachment to time this is clearly still a strong desire within their collective self, strong enough that they 'have not left [our] vibration'. During channeling Ra says that they accomodate Carla's distortions AS WELL as their own, which means that their desires also play a role in all communications.
So I guess I maybe have a more 'human' view of Ra than some. Also why I find it kind of interesting that people talk about it as 'pure' and 'positive', when if it's pure in terms of unity then it's not pure in terms of positive and vice versa. The positive at the point of unity embraces the negative, doesn't deny it.
Quote:We spoke to one who heard and understood and was in a position to decree the Law of One. However, the priests and peoples of that era quickly distorted our message, robbing it of the, shall we say, compassion with which unity is informed by its very nature. Since it contains all, it cannot abhor any.
This suggests to me that Ra is compassionate towards the negative rather than viewing it as an 'opposition'.