First-ranking lessons

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Because that "light" is none other than consciousness of yourself, which is the creation or unique expression of yourself (our just "self"). Learning to love without a significant distortion refers to a level of consciousness which is able to work with and to express a certain amount of light which balances out to that provided by the next density. That light is a unique representation of intelligent infinity (which is also indicated as the overall balance in violet ray). Ra and Don provided an informative set of archetypal relationships which show how that same light, as consciousness, may be intelligently guided.

Do you equal this "light" with consciousness? If so, I don't know about that. In the area of the creation, the first step was that infinity became aware or conscious. Then the three primal distortions came. This awareness or consciousness is not said to be a distortion. So, I am leaning more towards the understanding that the "light" which Ra speak of in the above discussed piece is the light which is the third distortion. You also said: "Learning to love without a significant distortion refers to a level of consciousness which is able to work with and to express a certain amount of light..." Which I understand that there is some sort of light which an entity works with.

In regards to light/love or love/light - Ra said that in unity lies love, and then they said that in unity lies light. If it would be one and the same, maybe they would have said that in unity lies love/light, light/love... But I don't know. I am confused. I should drop this, but when Ra says "this is a fundamental teaching" and I don't understand what this teaching is about, I get frustrated, and also confused.

Anyways, what I also noticed is that Ra says that unity and love are great learn/teachings, while light is a fundamental teaching. Just teaching, not learning. Has this any significance? I don't understand this either.

What I believe (for now!) is that the "light" which Ra meant in that piece is the light which is the building block of all matter:

"The concept of light is instrumental in grasping this great leap of thought as this vibrational distortion of infinity is the building block of that which is known as matter, the light being intelligent and full of energy, thus being the first distortion of intelligent infinity which was called by the creative principle."

But as xise mentioned, we are not part of the material universe. And so, Ra says that this light is intelligent and full of energy. Since there is only one energy, the intelligent energy, it contains it, but also the intelligent infinity itself, as mentioned here:

"...the intelligent infinity present in each particle of light or distorted light..."

Maybe that is why grasping this concept of light is so important? They also say this:

"The seeker seeks the One. This One is to be sought, as we have said, by the balanced and self-accepting self, aware both of its apparent distortions and its total perfection. Resting in this balanced awareness, the entity then opens the self to the universe which it is. The light energy of all things may then be attracted by this intense seeking, and wherever the inner seeking meets the attracted cosmic prana, realization of the One takes place."

I also like this, where the light is likened to water:

"Questioner: Why is the spiraling light focused by something as open and simple as four wooden rods joined at an apex angle?

Ra: I am Ra. If you pictured light in the metaphysical sense, as water, and the pyramid shape as a funnel, this concept might become self-evident."

But again, is understanding this "light" so fundamental and important? People who have had these realizations of the One, where the light energy of all things meet the inner seeking, or light, do they all have had this conscious understanding of this light?

With all this being said, there is still something that I don't understand unfortunately...

Thank you all for answering, and keep writing your thoughts if you have any! Maybe I'll get it too some day. :p