Inner balance, and what it means to the adept.
My first point I would like to share is that inner balance does not necessarily mean that all of your chakras are completely unblocked...
So we are presented with 2 approaches to keep in mind when balancing our inner selves. It seems to me that working to harmonize the chakras while knowing there is a current blockage, is a useful approach for certain situations.
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Next point...the influences that we are not aware of, and how much impact they have upon our magical workings, as well as our day to day life. The impact of the outside world becomes negligible it seems, the closer you come to true inner balance.
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My final point is about walking the path of STO as an adept, in a generalized, day to day perspective.
I think if we were to be able to fully remember/actualize the adeptness we had before life in 3d, we would not only be messing with the free-will of people here too dramatically but would be too distracted from the main missions we came here for. This next quote is a very clear description of the limitation of our magical ability.
Kinda sucks, because I'd love to be able to simply levitate/fly everywhere and not have to rely on mechanical transportation!
And lastly, Ra describes how a seeker becomes an adept...
That last sentence seems mysterious doesn't it? Anyway, all of these quotes were taken from Book 3...I confess I did not go through all of the books for this post, mainly because the points I wanted to share are all there. Enjoy, discuss, or disregard! lol
My first point I would like to share is that inner balance does not necessarily mean that all of your chakras are completely unblocked...
Quote:Book 3, session 54
Ra: I am Ra. While it is a primary priority to activate or unblock each energy center, it is also a primary priority at that point to begin to refine the balances between the energies so that each tone of the chord of total vibratory being-ness resonates in clarity, tune, and harmony with each other energy. This balancing, tuning, and harmonizing of the self is most central to the more advanced or adept mind/body/spirit complex. Each energy may be activated without the beauty that is possible through the disciplines and appreciations of personal energies or what you might call the deeper personality or soul identity.
Questioner: Let me make an analogy that I have just thought of. A seven-stringed musical instrument may be played by deflecting each string a full deflection and releasing it producing notes. instead of producing the notes this way the individual creative personality could deflect each string the proper amount in the proper sequence producing music. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. In the balanced individual the energies lie waiting for the hand of the Creator to pluck harmony.
So we are presented with 2 approaches to keep in mind when balancing our inner selves. It seems to me that working to harmonize the chakras while knowing there is a current blockage, is a useful approach for certain situations.
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Next point...the influences that we are not aware of, and how much impact they have upon our magical workings, as well as our day to day life. The impact of the outside world becomes negligible it seems, the closer you come to true inner balance.
Quote:Book 3, session 64
Questioner: In a previous session you mentioned the gateway of magic for the adept occurring in eighteen-day cycles. Could you expand on that information please?
Ra: I am Ra. The mind/body/spirit complex is born under a series of influences, both lunar, planetary, cosmic, and in some cases, karmic. The moment of the birthing into this illusion begins the cycles we have mentioned. The spiritual or adept’s cycle is an eighteen-day cycle and operates with the qualities of the sine wave. Thus there are a few excellent days on the positive side of the curve, that being the first nine days of the cycle—precisely the fourth, the fifth, and the sixth—when workings are most appropriately undertaken, given that the entity is still without total conscious control of its mind/body/spirit distortion/reality. The most interesting portion of this information, like that of each cycle, is the noting of the critical point wherein passing from the ninth to the tenth and from the eighteenth to the first days the adept will experience some difficulty especially when there is a transition occurring in another cycle at the same time. At the nadir of each cycle the adept will be at its least powerful but will not be open to difficulties in nearly the degree that it experiences at critical times.
Questioner: Then to find the cycles we would take the instant of birth and the emerging of the infant from the mother into this density and start the cycle at that instant and continue it through the life. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is mostly correct. It is not necessary to identify the instant of birthing. The diurnal cycle upon which this event occurs is satisfactory for all but the most fine workings.
Questioner: Am I correct in assuming that whatever magic the adept would perform at this time would be more successful or, shall we say, more to his design than that performed at less opportune times in the cycle?
Ra: I am Ra. This cycle is an helpful tool to the adept but as we said, as the adept becomes more balanced the workings designed will be dependent less and less upon these cycles of opportunity and more and more even in their efficacy.
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My final point is about walking the path of STO as an adept, in a generalized, day to day perspective.
Quote:Book 3, session 73
Questioner: It seems to me that the primary thing of importance for those on the service-to-others path is the development of an attitude which I can only describe as a vibration. This attitude would be developed through meditation, ritual, and the developing appreciation for the creation or Creator which results in a state of mind that can only be expressed by me as an increase in vibration or oneness with all. Could you expand and correct that statement?
Ra: I am Ra. We shall not correct this statement but shall expand upon it by suggesting that to those qualities you may add the living day by day and moment by moment, for the true adept lives more and more as it is.
I think if we were to be able to fully remember/actualize the adeptness we had before life in 3d, we would not only be messing with the free-will of people here too dramatically but would be too distracted from the main missions we came here for. This next quote is a very clear description of the limitation of our magical ability.
Quote:Book 3, session 75
Questioner: I am sorry for my confusion. Sometimes, as you say, sound vibration complexes are not very adequate. The answer to this next question probably has to do with our distorted view of time, but as I see it, Wanderers in this density who come from the fifth-density or sixth-density should already be of a relatively high degree of adeptness and they must follow a slightly different path back to the adeptness that they once had in a higher density and get as close to it as they can in the third-density. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. Your query is less than perfectly focused. We shall address the subject in general. There are many Wanderers whom you may call adepts who do no conscious work in the present incarnation. It is a matter of attention. One may be a fine catcher of your game sphere, but if the eye is not turned as this sphere is tossed then perchance it will pass the entity by. If it turned its eyes upon the sphere, catching would be easy. In the case of Wanderers which seek to recapitulate the degree of adeptness which each had acquired previous to this life experience, we may note that even after the forgetting process has been penetrated there is still the yellow activated body which does not respond as does the adept which is of a green- or blue-ray activated body. Thusly, you may see the inevitability of frustrations and confusion due to the inherent difficulties of manipulating the finer forces of consciousness through the chemical apparatus of the yellow-ray activated body.
Kinda sucks, because I'd love to be able to simply levitate/fly everywhere and not have to rely on mechanical transportation!
And lastly, Ra describes how a seeker becomes an adept...
Quote:Book 3, session 75
Questioner: You made the statement in a previous session that the true adept lives more and more as it is. Will you explain and expand more upon that statement?
Ra: I am Ra. Each entity is the Creator. The entity, as it becomes more and more conscious of its self, gradually comes to the turning point at which it determines to seek either in service to others or in service to self. The seeker becomes the adept when it has balanced with minimal adequacy the energy centers red, orange, yellow, and blue with the addition of the green for the positive, thus moving into indigo work. The adept then begins to do less of the preliminary or outer work, having to do with function, and begins to effect the inner work which has to do with being. As the adept becomes a more and more consciously crystallized entity it gradually manifests more and more of that which it always has been since before time; that is, the one infinite Creator.
That last sentence seems mysterious doesn't it? Anyway, all of these quotes were taken from Book 3...I confess I did not go through all of the books for this post, mainly because the points I wanted to share are all there. Enjoy, discuss, or disregard! lol