Random Ra Material Questions

[APeacefulWarrior]

In my opinion, while the negative polarity draws it's strength from deception it's not so much in the form of flat out lying, it's more a case of withholding information or speaking in half truths. This is done with the intention of shaping one's perceptions or expectations into a distorted form that still has roots in reality. It's a sort of selective editing of reality to get the results one prefers. That said, I think if you have set up an expectation to receive certain information (trying to get predictions, etc) they can give you false information because through your own free will you have opened yourself up to it.

Yeah, that's basically how I tend to see things as well.  Ra also talks quite a bit about them spreading a STS interpretation of the Law of One when they successfully make contact with someone, which would also tend to suggest a fundamental (if very polarized) honesty.  

I'm suddenly reminded of a book on chaos magick I was thumbing through out of philosophical curiosity awhile back where the author made certain to say over and over that the Self is the highest form, there is no reigning God, and nothing was restricted.  It even gave the advice that someone should deliberately do actions that would be abhorrent to them, just to reinforce the idea there are no actual limits and that they can act as God if they want.  Even the material written to appeal to 'white' magic users was phrased almost solely in terms of personal power and working their will.

In retrospect, this feels like exactly what a STS distortion of the Rule of One would look like.