Faith or Will

[anagogy]

Prior to the veiling process the measurement would be that of an entity walking up a set of your stairs, each of which was imbued with a certain quality of light. The stair upon which an entity stopped would be either third-density light or fourth-density light. Between the two stairs lies the threshold. To cross that threshold is difficult. There is resistance at the edge, shall we say, of each density. The faculty of faith or will needs to be understood, nourished, and developed in order to have an entity which seeks past the boundary of third density. Those entities which do not do their homework, be they ever so amiable, shall not cross. It was this situation which faced the Logoi prior to the veiling process being introduced into the experiential continuum of third density.

I have actually never considered "faith" and "will" to be synonymous before, what do any of you have to consider on this?

I agree that, in principal, will and faith are essentially the same in nature. Allow me to share my understanding of the relationship between consciousness, faith/belief, thought, and will. Believe it or not, they are all manifestations of the same fundamental thing, different only in degree:

What is a thought, my friends? What can be thought about? What is the scope of this thing we call "thought"? The answer is virtually anything. A cognitive object (that is to say, a mental object) can be anything. You can think of ducks, baseballs, vases, math problems, relationships, sunsets, particles, or even the cosmos itself.

So we can see, from these examples, more clearly what thought really is. What we call "thought" is simply a gathering of attention on whatever is the object of that attention. It is, in other-words, simply a focus of attention.

When you think a thought, you see things in a certain way -- the way you have painted things in your mind through the direction of your focus. So a thought is kind of like an affirmation of how things are -- a statement about reality in other-words. Or, at least if you are thinking about "what is", in any-case. As Ra says, if you think about something in a general contemplative sense, it manifests else where, having no particular attachment to the energy field of the creator of said thought-form (16.14 if anyone is curious).

So we can further see what thought really is. Isn't it essentially just a statement about reality? Even when it is a "what if" thought, it is still a statement about a reality. You say, "What if (X) occurred? What would that reality look like?"

Now, what is a belief? Isn't it just a more consistent statement about reality? Could it be just a deeper and more habitual thought you keep thinking? And, what is will, if not just a more *conscious* statement/intention about reality?

When you "will" something, do you not intend that it be so? So will is more like making a conscious and deep statement about reality.

So when Ra talks about nurturing ones will, we can see its relationship to what we call "faith". Will *IS* faith. Faith *IS* belief. A belief is just a thought you keep thinking consistently and habitually. Belief is when thought has become a very definite and habitual vibrational offering. A thought is just a focus of attention. Will, faith, and intention, are the conscious focusing of attention. All these items we've discussed are only different in degree.

As Ra says:

42.11 Ra: I am Ra. There is but one technique for this growing or nurturing of will and faith, and that is the focusing of the attention. The attention span of those you call children is considered short. The spiritual attention span of most of your peoples is that of the child. Thus it is a matter of wishing to become able to collect one’s attention and hold it upon the desired programming.

This, when continued, strengthens the will. The entire activity can only occur when there exists faith that an outcome of this discipline is possible.

Do you see the relationship? They are all the focus of consciousness -- the focus of attention. Pure faith, or pure will, is simply the non-contradicted focus of consciousness. In the absence of contradiction, the statement about reality is NOT negated, and if the faith is pure the manifestation is also pure. The reason thoughts don't always manifest is particularly do to the fact that they are not as intense or defined as beliefs are. They aren't as "sure" of themselves, in a sense.

This is why pure faith moves mountains. It is a pure focusing of intelligent energy.