What is an Other-Self? Are 2D Entities Other-Selves?

[Steppingfeet]

Monica, great question! Godwide_Void, loved and agree with your response. And Confused, brilliant thought about the other-self nature of the Sun, acknowledging that the *all* manifestations of the Creator, regardless of their position along, or outside of, the evolutionary timeline, can, from the perspective of the third-density entity, be considered "other-selves".

I believe that second-density creatures are certainly and undeniably "other selves". However, in determining how to respond and in what way to serve, it is best to take into account *who* you are attempting to serve - i.e., what their particular needs and wants are, what their intentions and basic understandings are, what service they can receive and what service they can't.

This is touched upon in the following passage:

42.3 Questioner: I will attempt to make an analogy. If an animal, shall I say, a bull, in a pen attacks you because you have wandered into his pen, you get out of his way rapidly but you do not blame him. You do not have much of an emotional response other than the response that he might damage you. However, if you encounter another self in his territory and he attacks you, your response may be more of an emotional nature creating physical bodily responses. Am I correct in assuming that when your response to the animal and to the other-self is that of seeing both as Creator and loving both and understanding their action in attacking you is the action of their free will then you have balanced yourself correctly in this area? Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is basically correct. However, the balanced entity will see in the seeming attack of an other-self the causes of this action which are, in most cases, of a more complex nature than the cause of the attack of the second-density bull as was your example. Thus this balanced entity would be open to many more opportunities for service to a third-density other-self.

Though basic principles of the positive polarity ought to be present in all relationships with other selves, the "opportunities for service" are not equal among the various sorts of "other selves" that the self will encounter, whether those other selves reign from second density, third, fourth, or inner-plane beings, or entities outside of the densities, like the Logos (sun).

Also, it seems that the meat of our catalyst comes from dealing with other selves of a third-density nature. Take for instance:

19.13 Ra: Thus, the weakening of the physical vehicle, as you call it, was designed to distort entities towards a predisposition to deal with each other. Thus, the lessons which approach a knowing of love can be begun.

This catalyst then is shared between peoples as an important part of each self’s development as well as the experiences of the self in solitude and the synthesis of all experience through meditation. The quickest way to learn is to deal with other-selves. This is a much greater catalyst than dealing with the self. Dealing with the self without other-selves is akin to living without what you would call mirrors. Thus, the self cannot see the fruits of its beingness. Thus, each may aid each by reflection. This is also a primary reason for the weakening of the physical vehicle, as you call the physical complex.

And take this one into consideration. Ra says that their third-density experience was focused upon "relationships with other selves". As they go onto say "sexual energy transfers", I believe that by implication they mean, primarily, third-density other-selves. Unless their sexual activities extended into unconventional areas.

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Questioner: Was the concept given to or devised for a training tool for those inhabiting Venus at that time or was it devised by those of Venus as a training tool for those of Earth?

Ra: I am Ra. The tarot was devised by the third-density population of Venus a great measure of your space/time in your past. As we have noted the third-density experience of those of Venus dealt far more deeply and harmoniously with what you would call relationships with other-selves, sexual energy transfer work, and philosophical or metaphysical research. The product of many, many generations of work upon what we conceived to be the archetypical mind produced the tarot which was used by our peoples as a training aid in developing the magical personality.

GLB