White Magick

[Unbound]

It'd be an interesting thread. Yes it helps to take a break from this stuff. I feel that much of the Ra Material is distorted information as the group was working through their own catalyst, which was necessary and natural of course. Reading it serves as initiation since we all come to it with certain distortions. Certain ideas are bound to no longer be useful. "There are many things which fall away in the many, many steps of adepthood."

It is actually more apparent to me than ever how much the Ra Material is still a channel through an individual. Starting to reread it again yesterday and I realized that the information that is being given isn't actually particularly unique, it's just expressed with a unique set of terminology and wordplay. As they say, "a somewhat different slant on the information that is ever and always the same."

As I understand it, in the Golden Dawn (I think Adeptus Exemptus grade?) there is also the task of channeling and scribing communications from a higher entity or your higher self. I also have a pretty firm belief that Carla is a wanderer of Ra so I get the sense that her channeling Ra isn't as much of a "random encounter" as it is her channeling another level of consciousness she is tied to.

Needless to say, the most useful thing to me is that I have broken my attachment and exaltation of the Ra Material. I'm realizing now that the reason the Ra Material is so startling is it appears to be a very high level teaching coming through those who are by no means of the level to traditionally receive it. However, because of the unity of their group (Ra said the three of them combined were only equal to a Neophyte, not even an Adept) they were able to handle a higher level of work than would normally be possible as just an individual at that level.

That is why I think the language and expression in the Ra Material is so roundabout in some ways. It was meant to be an introduction to higher thought, of unity, for those who aren't necessarily at a point where it is "obvious". It's meant to get one's foot in the door and a chance to get through, but I absolutely think that Ra intended it to be a vehicle of seeking rather than any book of answers.