The Function of the Spirit Archetypes

[ricdaw]

what is the spirit? what does it do?

I propose that Spirit is identity. The fundamental "I am" of me.

Mind is personality. Card 5 is the amalgam of past life learnings and biases put into the present incarnation.

but when we come to the spirit complex, we are dealing with something so much more nebulous and not able to be pinned down. If one's physical face is something individuated and able to be recognised quickly and easily by others, then our mind would have an order of magnitude more greater uniqueness and flavor, and then the spirit is something that is even more bizarre and once-off as an aspect of Self.

Spirit is most recognizable after we are dead and existing in Time/Space. I think we are able to perceive spirit then. And it is that perception of spirit that motivates us to have another round in the Earth Life School (ELS). I imagine spirit looks like a faceted diamond (this is purely a thought experiment and not literal) and the many facets show the qualities of our then-Self. Many facets = lots of growth and experience. Shiniy brightness = more polarity. Clear color = more development. Etc. When we go back into Time/Space we remember why we come down here to ELS in the first place. Maybe there was this dark smudge on a facet that we wanted to "rebalance" and "correct" (aka "karma"). Rather than simply accepting the smudge (an action we can always take here or in Time/Space) we were instead motivated to correct it. So we planned a life with some catalyst that offered us the opportunity to "make a better choice." Or to experience for ourself what we done to someone else. There are a million variations. But the goal is to advance or progress the shiny Spirity diamond of Who We Really Are. This is the task of spiritual evolution. We (recursively) work on ourselves.

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When we look at second density animals, their graduation into 3d involves one important factor: the individuation of consciousness from the group animal mind.

I'm not sure there is textual support for "group animal mind" in the Ra Material. Group Mind is a 5D experience. Perhaps it is better to say that the animal mind does not yet have an essential "self" consciousness?

the spirit complex, from what I believe in my interpretation of what Ra offered us, is a shuttle or conduit that moves back and forth between the localised 3d mind, and 3d time/space.

The Spirit exists both in 3D and outside of it at the same time. (see Card 2 and the "veil") It communicates with itself, but that is not necessarily a primary function of its existence. I see this as collateral to its fundamental nature of essential Beingness. The "I AM" of each of us.

it is this ongoing interplay between the Devil and the Lightning (or darkness/confusion and illumination/clarity) which generates all the activity of the cards that follow in the chain of Spirit Archetypes. That is, the action of the Star, the Moon, and the Sun, which culminate in the paired functioning of the Judgement and the Cosmos cards..

The cards are not a progression sequence. Ra stated that a number of times to Don, who really held to that concept a lot in his questioning. They are stand-alone archetypes which could be accessed in any order.

but rather that the Spirit is the thing which influences the overall direction and life sculpting of the mind...

I need to disagree. It is the Mind, activated in 3D, housed in a living Body, that seeks to polish and sculpt AND ACT UPON the Spirit. We are here to work ON Spirit. Spirit is not coming down here to improve the Mind.

(The Spirit) is the thing which motivates, satisfies, is rewarding beyond a moment, and is not as transient as the other two complexes. The spirit, in a way, speaks to accumulated polarity, or the ability to work with the stuff of the universe - that is light.

Polarity is only important for graduation from 3D. It is not an ultimate Spiritual End, in and of itself. Nor is the ability to work with light. We ARE light and we are seeking to make ourselves the Very Best Light that We Can Imagine Ourselves To Be.

Before true spiritual work can be done, however, there is a certain order in play. The foundation of the archetypes are cards 1-7, those of the mind, which are followed by 7 more archetypes of the body, before we reach the elucidation and the illumination of the Spirit Archetypes.

Again, the cards are not a progression. There is no order in the sequencing.

so in short, the Spirit Archetypes function to give our overall life meaning and purpose; beyond the daily activities of the mind and the body. They keep us on track on what is truly important, and what we truly value, even if some of those things get lost in the distraction and the busyness of a working-day life.

I think the Spirit Archetypes describe the state of Spirit, or basic Spiritual characteristics, but they do not guide or give any purpose intrinsically. They are no more or less important than the other 15 cards and their Archetypes. Probably the most important cards from a "purpose" point of view would be the Lovers (card 6), Chariot (card 7) and Temperance (Card 14). These exhort choice and action.

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