(02-01-2009, 06:01 PM)βαθμιαίος Wrote: Yay!
(02-01-2009, 06:01 PM)βαθμιαίος Wrote: The "events falling in a protective manner" Ra is talking about in that quote refers to protection against taking the life of others. Unfortunately for us as STO, there's no other protection from catalyst mentioned there. We do have protection (thank you great cat!) in our interpretations of catalyst.
Neither STO nor STS has any intrinsic protection from outward catalyst; it's just that STO entities find the love and the light in whatever happens to them while STS entities seek places of survival to protect themselves from the outward catalyst.
If by 'outward catalyst' you mean what we might consider random or 'group-karma' based incidents such as catastrophic events such as earthquakes, etc., then I would respectfully disagree.
I think there are 2 layers of meanings here: the one you mentioned (protection from being forced to engage in the harming of other selves; ie., participating in wars) and which I agree with, and the one I mentioned (protection from random or group karma-based catalyst; ie. earthquakes or other natural disasters).
The questioner stated:
The creature above points an arrow at the left-hand
path indicating that if this path is chosen the chips,
shall we say, will fall where they may, the path being
unprotected as far as the activity of catalyst. The
intellectual abilities of the chooser of the left-hand
path would be the main guardian rather than the
designed or built-in protection of the Logos for the
right-hand path.
...and no mention was made by Ra as to any error in this statement, so I perceived Ra to be in agreement with the statement. (Since Ra is usually pretty good about correcting errors.) Further confirmation came from the following statement:
You may note some of those of your peoples which, at this space/time nexus, seek places of survival. This is due to the lack of protection when service to self is invoked.
The seeking of 'safe zones' would reasonably seem to refer to surviving natural disasters, not fleeing from military service. The clear (imho) implication here is that STO's do have some protection and therefore do not need to seek places of survival, unless personally guided to do so. Hence, my interpretation that there is indeed some protection from natural disasters given to STO's.
That is not to say that an STO entity won't ever be harmed in a natural disaster. But if s/he is harmed or killed, it will be because it was his/her own karmic pattern, rather than just being caught in a random event; ie., being in the 'wrong place at the wrong time.'