02-17-2015, 04:09 PM
(02-16-2015, 11:09 AM)Monica Wrote: Furthermore, they're choosing to focus on what Ra said about Carla's particular dietary choices, given her particular situation, while ignoring what Ra said about the ideal diet for humans in general, which was plant foods and 'animal products only to the extent necessary for individual metabolism.'
Wow... You made me do a double take on this concept. In my memory, Ra was referring to Carla's diet, not everyone's.
40.14 Wrote:Questioner: In dietary matters, what would be the foods that one would include and what would be the foods that one would exclude in a general way for the most or the greatest care of one’s bodily complex?
Ra: I am Ra. Firstly, we underline and emphasize that this information is not to be understood literally but as a link or psychological nudge for the body and the mind and spirit. Thus it is the care and respect for the self that is the true thing of importance. In this light we may iterate the basic information given for this instrument’s diet. The vegetables, the fruits, the grains, and to the extent necessary for the individual metabolism, the animal products. These are those substances showing respect for the self. In addition, though this has not been mentioned, for this instrument is not in need of purification, those entities in need of purging the self of a poison thought-form or emotion complex do well to take care in following a program of careful fasting until the destructive thought-form has been purged analogously with the by-products of ridding the physical vehicle of excess material. Again you see the value not to the body complex but used as a link for the mind and spirit. Thus self reveals self to self.
Firstly, Ra says not to take the information literally, which you are clearly doing.
Secondly, Don may have intended to ask about everyone in general, but Ra inarguably answered about Carla "this instrument".
I may have said before that your signature "could be interpreted" as dogma, but now I am saying that IS pure dogma. If you simply read that quote verbatim, its about "this instrument" only (Carla). If you twist the quote into something that was clearly not said, you get a totally dogmatic interpretation that Ra was speaking about the entire world population.
And that perfectly ties into the the OP. You are creating your own dogma then attempting to control this community through moral guilt (you said it was "wrong" to eat meat). JUST LIKE RELIGIONS DO.