Comparing "The Work" of Gurdjieff to The Ra Material

[herald]

Yes, This is a good point. If you notice in what you call the "Ra summary", I note in the area you quote with bold that it is a question raised by the Ra Material..
Certainly though we can allow that the concept of "Graduation" implies acceptability to some form of standard. Would the gardener harvest the un-acceptable fruits?
Your question though, seems to imply that graduation is a function of time, or learning and growing. I will boldly state here my perspective on The Material: there is only one standard for the graduation from 3 D and that is polarizing.
May you sense the goodwill I send your way . Thank you for responding to my post.

Surely but polarity is a natural aspect of the self as beings of love/light light/love. Free will is the sole thing that limits or allows harvestability, the Higher Self accepted/chose the parameters within which it will move through the densities to move back to itself but knows not the way or manner it will take to do so.

More than learning, it is a matter of finding yourself. You either allow yourself to gravitate back to yourself, or you resist doing so until you do anyway.

36.7 Questioner: In that case my higher self would, shall we say, have a very large advantage in knowing precisely what was needed since it would know what… as far as I am concerned, what was going to happen. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is incorrect, in that this would be an abrogation of free will. The higher self aspect is aware of the lessons learned through the sixth density. The progress rate is fairly well understood. The choices which must be made to achieve the higher self as it is are in the provenance of the mind/body/spirit complex itself.

Thus the higher self is like the map in which the destination is known; the roads are very well known, these roads being designed by intelligent infinity working through intelligent energy. However, the higher self aspect can program only for the lessons and certain predisposing limitations if it wishes. The remainder is completely the free choice of each entity. There is the perfect balance between the known and the unknown.

Oh yeah!  Here I agree with your statements entirely.  It is an aspect worthy of investigation, however, that " polarity is a natural aspect of the self as beings of love/light light/love "... Consider this: is it not natural for a salmon to swim upstream to mate? Yet for each hundred salmon only two will survive the journey...