Acceptance and Will

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Acceptance is a core tenet of the Law of One.

But, what exactly is acceptance?

52.7 Questioner: Am I correct, then, in assuming that discipline of the personality, knowledge of self, and control in strengthening of the will would be what any fifth-density entity would see as those things of importance?
Ra: I am Ra. In actuality these things are of importance in third through early seventh densities. The only correction in nuance that we would make is your use of the word, control. It is paramount that it be understood that it is not desirable or helpful to the growth of the understanding, may we say, of an entity by itself to control thought processes or impulses except where they may result in actions not consonant with the Law of One. Control may seem to be a short-cut to discipline, peace, and illumination. However, this very control potentiates and necessitates the further incarnative experience in order to balance this control or repression of that self which is perfect.

Instead, we appreciate and recommend the use of your second verb in regard to the use of the will. Acceptance of self, forgiveness of self, and the direction of the will; this is the path towards the disciplined personality. Your faculty of will is that which is powerful within you as co-Creator. You cannot ascribe to this faculty too much importance. Thus it must be carefully used and directed in service-to-others for those upon the positively oriented path.

There is great danger in the use of the will as the personality becomes stronger, for it may be used even subconsciously in ways reducing the polarity of the entity.

Meditating on this Ra quote really helped me to clarify some things about the self, but even about existence in general.

I first started making a list of what I needed to accept about myself. But going to bed helped give me the chance to think a little bit more deeply about it. I asked myself, what is at the root of acceptance and forgiveness of self? And I came to realize that the self, with all of its supposed flaws, is perfect in its own way. In other words, that the self is not imperfect, just different.

And then I started to realize that, well if self and other-self are the same, then everything, and everyone, is perfect in its own way. This can even be applied to 3rd density. To the average person here in 3rd density, we see a lot of things that are wrong here, such as pain, cruelty and even boredom. But if we realize that these things are merely lessons to be learned from, then we see that even 3rd density is perfect in its own way.

This was a major realization for me. I'm glad for this thread.