Ra's Adventures in Wonderland

[Patrick]

Precisely my point. You have apparently assumed that "The Choice" is making a decision between "STS" and "STO". I understand that many people here believe this, but I don't. Nor do I believe that's what the material actually says anywhere...

Well that is certainly interesting !

...Yet, that apparently doesn't stop some people from reading that into it over and over again.

76.16 Questioner: Third density, then, it appears, is, compared to the rest of the densities, all of them, nothing but a uniquely short period of what we consider to be time and is then for the purpose of this choice. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is precisely correct. The prelude to choice must encompass the laying of the foundation, the establishment of the illusion and the viability of that which can be made spiritually viable. The remainder of the densities is continuous refining of the choice. This also is greatly lengthened, as you would use the term. The choice is, as you put it, the work of a moment but is the axis upon which the creation turns.

The prelude to choice. What do you think they mean by this?

I believe the prelude means to setup the whole illusion that will result in a veiled experience that will permit such a Choice to be even possible.

So in my opinion, the prelude is the creation of so much confusion that such a concept as other becomes possible. Can you imagine how much confusion the Creator needs to be in before it can start to believe that anything could be other than the self.

...The Choice is the work of a moment. Not the work of a lifetime. The lifetime is the "laying of the foundation" and the "establishment of the illusion".

That is not how I understand it. I believe that Ra is speaking in terms of the whole Octave of experience and not just one 3d incarnation per se.

78.21 Questioner: You stated previously that The Choice that is made in this density, third density, is the axis upon which the creation turns. Could you expand on your reason for making that statement?

Ra: I am Ra. This is a statement of the nature of creation as we speak to you.

78.22 Questioner: I did not understand that. Could you say that in a different way?

Ra: I am Ra. As you have noted, the creation of which your Logos is a part is a protean entity which grows and learns upon a macrocosmic scale. The Logos is not a part of time. All that is learned from experience in an octave is, therefore, the harvest of that Logos and is further the nature of that Logos.

The original Logos’s experience was, viewed in space/time, small; Its experience now, more. Therefore we say, as we now speak to you at this space/time, the nature of creation is as we have described. This does not deny the process by which this nature has been achieved but merely ratifies the product.

Perhaps you haven't noticed, that none of the words...

1. Service
2. Self
3. Other

...appear in any of these quotes you have provided here to explain my surprise "that so many people would take the Law of One, and derive an entire philosophy from it based on the apparent distinction between self and other..."

Unless I am very much mistaken, the terms Service-to-Others and Service-to-Self are used by Ra directly, in the material, to simply name the two choices we have which constitutes The Choice referred to in these quotes.

Personally, I do not like these terms very much. I would prefer to call them.

Service-to-All and All-to-my-service