Service to others: Doing and Being

[NedC]

Dear Gary,

Your remarks have provided me with perfect catalyst to delve more deeply into areas that have been "on my list" for some time. I thank you for having done so.

And now to the first passage, from Session#34,Question#9:

RA: I am Ra. The unmanifested self may find its lessons those which develop any of the energy influx centers of the mind/body/spirit complex. The societal and self interactions most often concentrate upon the second and third energy centers. Thus those most active in attempting to remake or alter the society are those working from feelings of being correct personally or of having answers which will put power in a more correct configuration. This may be seen to be of a full travel from negative to positive in orientation. Either will activate these energy ray centers.

There are some few whose desires to aid society are of a green ray nature or above. These entities, however, are few due to the understanding, may we say, of fourth ray that universal love freely given is more to be desired than principalities or even the rearrangement of peoples or political structures.

I am indeed one of those few of whom Ra speaks in this passage, and I have definitely verified that Ra is correct: there are indeed but very few of us.

Ra says here that there are but few because the “understanding” of fourth ray is that universal love freely given is more to be desired than … the rearrangement of political structures. Those manifesting from this fourth ray “understanding” will be motivated to freely give universal love, and will not be motivated to rearrange political structures. Again, looking around, we see that Ra is right: the meditation circles that are engaged in freely giving universal love are composed of individuals who have no interest in rearranging political structures. (sigh.)

The question to which Ra is responding in this passage is one of a series that started at

Session#33,Question#14:

Question #14: What I would like for you to do is list all the major mechanisms designed to provide catalytic experience that do not include interaction with other-self. That is the first part of the question.

Ra is giving examples of mechanisms designed to provide catalytic experience to the “unmanifested self”. In this passage Ra is saying that very few (green ray and above) are provided “unmanifested self” catalyst through desiring to aid society by rearranging political structures. There are few attempting to rearrange political structures because the desire to do so is just not there in most green ray and above individuals. They are exactly right about this. Ra is not saying that it is a bad thing to be provided catalyst in this way, nor are they saying that it is better to be provided catalyst through desiring to aid society by freely giving universal love, nor are they suggesting that it is impossible to do both. It is possible to utilize catalyst from either source (indeed, from any source) to develop being.

Next passage (Session#17,Question#2):

Question #2: Is it possible by the use of some technique or other to help an entity to reach fourth-density level in these last days?

Ra: I am Ra. It is impossible to help another being directly. It is only possible to make catalyst available in whatever form, the most important being the radiation of realization of oneness with the Creator from the self, less important being information such as we share with you.

Great passage (as are they all). Ra understands (and you understand) that when “A” is more important than “B”, that does not mean that “B” is not worth doing. Ra (knowing full well that “radiation of realization of oneness with the Creator from the self” was more important than passing through the Ra Material) nevertheless went ahead and passed through the Ra Material. Ra understood that it is altogether possible to do both, that it is not in any way necessary to choose between.

Passing through the material was a very “activist” thing to do, even to the point of endangering lives. Thus, I’m not quite sure I see how this passage bears upon achieving the “acceptance/activism” balance. (That’s actually a question: How have you found this passage of use in seeking the acceptance/activist balance?)

(Session#17,Question#29)

Question #29: If an entity wants learn ways, wants to be of service to others rather than service to self while he is in this third density, are there "best ways" of being of service to others, or is any way just as good as any other way?

Ra: I am Ra. The best way to be of service to others has been explicitly covered in previous material. We will iterate briefly.

The best way of service to others is the constant attempt to seek to share the love of the Creator as it is known to the inner self. This involves self knowledge and the ability to open the self to the other-self without hesitation. This involves, shall we say, radiating that which is the essence or the heart of the mind/body/spirit complex.

Speaking to the intention of your question, the best way for each seeker in third density to be of service to others is unique to that mind/body/spirit complex. This means that the mind/body/spirit complex must then seek within itself the intelligence of its own discernment as to the way it may best serve other-selves. This will be different for each. There is no best. There is no generalization. Nothing is known.

All three of the passages that you have recommended for my consideration (particularly the parts you highlighted) appear to have these features in common:

• Each suggests that “inner” activism is more important than “outer” activism.
• None suggest that therefore “outer” activism is not worthwhile.
• None suggest that there is any sort of conflict that precludes engaging in both.
• None address the acceptance/activism balance.


Here are some passages that do address the acceptance/activism balance:

Session#42 Question #4: Would a perfectly balanced entity feel an emotional response when being attacked by the other-self?

Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. The response is love.

Question #5: In the illusion that we now experience it is difficult to maintain this response especially if the entity's attack results in physical pain, but I assume that this response should be maintained even through physical loss of life or extreme pain. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is correct and further is of a major or principle importance in understanding, shall we say, the principle of balance. Balance is not indifference but rather the observer not blinded by any feelings of separation but rather fully imbued with love.

Clearly you feel that “inner” activism in relation to others is more important than “outer” activism. Ra agrees with you, as do I. Also clearly, you are very ambivalent about the worth / advisability / appropriateness of “outer” activism. (To express the distinction in another way, one might say that “outer” activism involves mundane service to others, whereas “inner” activism involves magical service to others.) You know far better than I what the sources of that ambivalence may be.

Session#42 Question #7: I would like to try to make an analogy for this in third-density. Many entities here feel great compassion toward relieving the physical problems of third-density other-selves by administering to them in many ways, bringing them food if there is hunger as there is in the African nations now, bringing them medicine if they believe they require administering to them medically, and being selfless in all of these services to a very great extent.

This is creating a polarization or a vibration that is in harmony with green-ray or fourth-density. However, it is not balanced with the understanding of fifth-density that these entities are experiencing catalyst and a more balanced administration to their needs would be to provide them with the learning necessary to reach the state of awareness of fourth-density than it would be to administer to their physical needs at this time. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is incorrect. To a mind/body/spirit complex which is starving, the appropriate response is the feeding of the body. You may extrapolate from this.

On the other hand, however, you are correct in your assumption that the green ray response is not as refined as that which has been imbued with wisdom. This wisdom enables the entity to appreciate its contributions to the planetary consciousness by the quality of its being without regard to activity or behavior which expects results upon visible planes.

Question #8: Then why do we have the extreme starvation problem in, generally, the area of Africa at this time? Is this, is there any metaphysical reason for this, or is it purely random occurrence?

Ra: I am Ra. Your previous assumption was correct as to the catalytic action of this starvation and ill health. However, it is within the free will of an entity to respond to this plight of otherselves, and the offering of the needed foodstuffs and substances is an appropriate response within the framework of your learn/teachings at this time which involve the growing sense of love for and service to other-selves.

Here Ra says that wisdom enables the entity to appreciate its “magical” contributions. Ra does not say that this appreciation will cause the wise entity to not make mundane contributions such as feeding those who are starving. There is nothing to prevent the wise entity from doing both. Moreover, the catalyst that follows from desiring to make magical contributions, as well as the catalyst that follows from desiring to make mundane contributions, can be utilized to develop being. One does not forego or obstruct the development of being by desiring or attempting to be of service to others in mundane ways.

Most of the people who are starving these days are starving because of social/political/economic arrangements, not because the earth cannot / does not produce enough food. My view is that feeding the starving one by one (through charity) is good, and that feeding the starving in big bunches by designing and implementing a better spesystem (http://home.earthlink.net/~npconner/index2all.html) would also be good.

Session#35 Question #8: Well in that case I would like to know the motivation for this use of Abraham Lincoln’s body at that time?

Ra: I am Ra. This shall be the last full query of this session as we find the instrument quite low in vital energies.

The one known as Abraham had an extreme difficulty in many ways and, due to physical, mental, and spiritual pain, was weary of life but without the orientation to self-destruction. In your time, 1853, this entity was contacted in sleep by a fourth-density being. This being was concerned with the battle between the forces of light and the forces of darkness which have been waged in fourth-density for many of your years.

This entity accepted the honor/duty of completing the one known as Abraham’s karmic patterns and the one known as Abraham discovered that this entity would attempt those things which the one known as Abraham desired to do but felt it could not. Thus the exchange was made.

The entity, Abraham, was taken to a plane of suspension until the cessation of its physical vehicle much as though we of Ra would arrange with this instrument to remain in the vehicle, come out of the trance state, and function as this instrument, leaving this instrument’s mind and spirit complex in its suspended state.

The planetary energies at this time were at what seemed to this entity to be at a critical point, for that which you know as freedom had gained in acceptance as a possibility among many peoples. This entity saw the work done by those beginning the democratic concept of freedom, as you call it, in danger of being abridged or abrogated by the rising belief and use of the principle of the enslavement of entities. This is a negative concept of a fairly serious nature in your density. This entity, therefore, went forward into what it saw as the battle for the light, for healing of a rupture in the concept of freedom.

This entity did not gain or lose karma by these activities due to its detachment from any outcome. Its attitude throughout was one of service to others, more especially to the downtrodden or enslaved. The polarity of the individual was somewhat, but not severely, lessened by the cumulative feelings and thought forms which were created due to large numbers of entities leaving the physical plane due to trauma of battle.

Two of the aims in my work have been to design a social/political/economic system (“spesystem”) that would preclude large-scale war, and to find a way to implement it without fighting. The Lincoln entity saw the concept of freedom as worth fighting for. Both of us (myself and the Lincoln entity) see “outer” activism (mundane service to others) as preferable to passive acceptance, at the level of populations. Both myself and -- I am guessing – the Lincoln entity see “freely giving universal love” and “radiating realization of oneness with the Creator” and “sharing the love of the Creator as it is known to the inner self” as more important than the work of defending the concept of freedom or the work of designing new spesystems. For that reason, we seek to be active both mundanely and magically. (You also, obviously, attempt to be active both mundanely and magically: your excellent email went far above and beyond the call of duty – writing that email was mundane activism: you were attempting to be of service through writing, in addition to radiating.)

Session#25 Question #5: You spoke of an Orion Confederation and of a battle being fought between the Confederation and the Orion Confederation. Is it possible to convey any concept of how this battle is fought?

Ra: I am Ra. Picture, if you will, your mind. Picture it then in total unity with all other minds of your society. You are then single-minded and that which is a weak electrical charge in your physical illusion is now an enormously powerful machine whereby thoughts may be projected as things.

In this endeavor the Orion group charges or attacks the Confederation arms with light. The result, a stand-off, as you would call it, both energies being somewhat depleted by this and needing to regroup; the negative depleted through failure to manipulate, the positive depleted through failure to accept that which is given.

Question #6: Could you amplify the meaning of what you said by the "failure to accept that which is given"?

Ra: I am Ra. At the level of time/space at which this takes place in the form of what you may call thought-war, the most accepting and loving energy would be to so love those who wished to manipulate that those entities were surrounded, engulfed, and transformed by positive energies.

This, however, being a battle of equals, the Confederation is aware that it cannot, on equal footing, allow itself to be manipulated in order to remain purely positive, for then though pure it would not be of any consequence, having been placed by the so-called powers of darkness under the heel, as you may say.

It is thus that those who deal with this thought-war must be defensive rather than accepting in order to preserve their usefulness in service to others. Thusly, they cannot accept fully what the Orion Confederation wishes to give, that being enslavement. Thusly, some polarity is lost due to this friction and both sides, if you will, must then regroup.

It has not been fruitful for either side. The only consequence which has been helpful is a balancing of the energies available to this planet so that these energies have less necessity to be balanced in this space/time, thus lessening the chances of planetary annihilation.

Question #7: Very important point, I believe. Does a portion of the Confederation then engage in this thought-battle? What percentage engages?

Ra: I am Ra. This is the most difficult work of the Confederation. Only four planetary entities at any one time are asked to partake in this conflict.

Question #8: What density are these four planetary entities?

Ra: I am Ra. These entities are of the density of love, numbering four.

Question #9: Then I am assuming this is the most effective density for this work. Would this density -- an entity of this density -- be more effective for this work than, say, an entity of density five or six?

Ra: I am Ra. The fourth density is the only density besides your own which, lacking the wisdom to refrain from battle, sees the necessity of the battle. Thus it is necessary that fourth-density social memory complexes be used.

Question #10: Am I correct in assuming, then, that fourth density on both sides of the, of both the Orion and the Confederation sides are in this battle, and that the densities fifth and sixth on the Orion side do not engage in this? Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This will be the last full question as this entity's energies are low.

It is partially correct. Fifth- and sixth-density entities positive would not take part in this battle. Fifth-density negative would not take part in this battle. Thus, the fourth density of both orientations join in this conflict.

Ra is saying that he is wise enough to refrain from battle, while at the same time saying that he understands the fourth density understanding of the need for battle. Me, I tend to the view that living in a spesystem that mostly precludes the need for battle might be more conducive to spiritual evolution along the positive path than what we have now – warfare as a catalyst hasn’t worked out for us too well over the last 75,000 years.

Session#22:Question #5: And can you give me a -- Can I assume then that this drastic drop from seven hundred year life span to one -- less than one hundred years in length during this second 25,000 year period was caused with an intensification of a condition of a lack of service to others? Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is in part correct. By the end of the second cycle, the Law of Responsibility had begun to be effectuated by the increasing ability of entities to grasp those lessons which there are to be learned in this density. Thus, entities had discovered many ways to indicate a bellicose nature, not only as tribes or what you call nations but in personal relationships, each with the other, the concept of barter having given way in many cases to the concept of money; also, the concept of ownership having won ascendancy over the concept of nonownership on an individual or group basis.

Each entity then was offered many more subtle ways of demonstrating either service towards others or service to self with the distortion of the manipulation of others. As each lesson was understood, those lessons of sharing, of giving, of receiving in free gratitude -- each lesson could be rejected in practice.

Without demonstrating the fruits of such learn/teaching the life span became greatly reduced, for the ways of honor/duty were not being accepted.

This passage suggests that we (collectively) have been pretty much on our own all along in setting up social/political/economic arrangements. It further suggests (to me) that attempting to be wisely intentional in setting up such arrangements is not necessarily a bad idea. This then leads me to have a pretty strong bias toward “mundane activism” in that particular area. (I feel that I would be remiss not to attempt to demonstrate the fruits of my learn/teachings with respect to spesystems.)

GLB wrote:Passages such as these [the Ra passages above], along with information I have encountered elsewhere in my spiritual study, lead me to believe that silence in the face of service-to-self activity need not be a weak, passive, and ineffectual strategy. While – depending on the orientation and evolutionary position of the entity – it certainly can be, it also can be a position of incredible metaphysical power for the entity aware of the self as Creator and the unity which binds all things. From this standpoint, the entity may indeed effect profound and fundamental change without opening the mouth or lifting a finger.

Specifically at the level of social/political/economic systems (“spesystems”), the results produced by this approach have not (to my knowledge) been notable. If you can point me to instances in history where notable results have been achieved in this way, I would greatly appreciate it. (Most of the notable results that I am aware of have actually been in the other direction: very private and secretive service-to-self individuals have succeeded in conquering and controlling vast swatches of humanity.)

We are about to go through 2012 and arrive on the other side. Do we want to keep the spesystems we have now, or do we want to switch to something more in keeping with the energetic changes that will have occurred, or do we want to just ignore the choices and maybe they will go away?

The substance of my work is a set of answers to questions that have not (collectively) been asked yet (and may not be at all, depending on how things go). It may be better to put the focus on considering the questions, rather than (prematurely) on the answers. Until the questions are alive, the answers have no place to land.

In Friendship,
Ned Conner