What is Ra's LOO?

[Nicholas]

Nicholas 



I hope you can find the time to do this.

I do apologise 4Dsunrise for the time lapse. This is one weird version of "tomorrow"! I did spend nearly the entire following evening scanning the radio archives in order to find the one I mentioned, then realised it would take me another whole evening to transcribe it. Given my slow typing and home/seasonal distractions, "tomorrow" turned out to be a well meaning but hasty commitment. 

Bring4th_GLB ((his correct username, who likes to think himself as some lofty director dude maneuvering us all with "little or no effort") joke btw   ) kindly dug out the original essay for me, which saved me from using the play/pause/play/pause/play/pause (recurring) method. 

So here it is 

Ra called themselves messengers. Messengers of the Law of One. Their message was about the ultimate nature of things, which is another way to say, a message about who and what you are.

About the ultimate nature of things: they said that it, the Law of One, could not be put into words. Only approximated by words. But Ra nevertheless utilized words and concepts. The words and concepts they chose to approximate the ultimate nature of things include:
Perfect. Whole. Complete.
They said that: All is well. Nothing is lost. All is One. All is unified. Infinite. Eternal.
So what do the words and concepts represent? What is their function? Indeed, what is the cosmology itself?
In one word, it all constitutes a map. Ra’s cosmology is not the terrain itself, it is only a map. And, it is important to note, one map among many many other maps.
It is the seeker who must exercise their discernment, find a map or three that works for them, and then USE the map to discover, walk and navigate the actual terrain for themselves. The seeker must test the map against their own experience, and indeed form their own map.
Some maps are better than others, of course, and some maps suit different temperaments better than others. This is why each seeker is drawn to different philosophies, religions, and worldviews, and there will probably never be a one-size-fits-all, in third density at least.
Now, about Ra’s particular map, we received a call to the show last week from a seeker who takes issue with certain aspects of that map. Including Ra’s use of the word “perfect” to describe the ultimate nature of things. This seeker felt the word shouldn’t be used because, in his mind, a seemingly evolving and changing illusion that seems to make so-called “improvements” is not, by definition, “perfect.”
This is where I would like to address paradox.
What is the greatest paradox? The paradox of the One and the Many. How are things simultaneously both One and Many?
Ra says that all is ultimately one, yet every conceivable piece of data that assaults our senses tells us precisely the opposite.
In the exploration of this paradox, one can amass infinite quantities of data to show and explain how things are NOT one. Indeed, one can do that with all of the fundamental descriptions about reality.

• [font=Calibri]The seeker can look at the illusion and say that things are obviously fragmented, partial, and divisible. Clearly it is not, to use one of Ra’s words, “whole”.
  
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• [font=Calibri]The seeker can gaze at the physical realm and see that, obviously, things are always in a state of becoming, and growing, rising and falling – how could this ongoing, ever changing process be already, to use another of Ra’s words, “complete”?
  
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• [font=Calibri]The same seeker can look at the human state of affairs on this planet and reliably conclude that things are obviously not, to use another of Ra’s words, “well.”
  
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• [font=Calibri]And again the seeker can look at everything they know about life itself and determine that there is obviously space, and obviously time. Therefore, that seeker might conclude, the true nature of things is obviously not infinite or eternal. [/font]
  

Such a seeker can paint the most convincing picture that the mystical truth of unity is a fancy idea and nothing more. Indeed, such is the design of the veiled third-density existence: to absolutely convince the entity of the reality of an individual self in a finite work of manyness.


Yet, Ra says not that one fine day things will be complete, or whole, or perfect; or that eventually the universe will be one; but rather Ra says that things are already whole, complete, perfect, and one. No matter how things may seem to appear to our vision; no matter at what point we find our attention in the circuit of densities and octaves.
This is the heart of paradox. We have truths that seem completely contradictory to one another that cannot possibly mutually co-exist, yet they do.


Now, were Ra the sole voice in all of human history promulgating the position of a unified, love-and-light-filled, perfect reality, one might be less inclined to give Ra ear.
BUT the amazing thing is that the mystical core of the Law of One’s message has been with us on this planet in every age and from the most diverse corners of the globe – in all manner of religious, cultural, and historical backgrounds – in the form of the perennial philosophy.
There have been those third-density entities who have awakened to the ultimate nature of things from a multiplicity of starting points. And what do all these proponents of the perennial philosophy say? Each one who awakens has the same basic report to offer: there is only right now; reality is infinite; it is ineffable and beyond the reach of our words, but if we are to employ these poor tools, then words such as “perfect, whole, and complete” are among the best we have to point to the actual nature of the situation.
This is really the situation: ALL who have truly seen and experienced unanimously say to us from the seeming other shore that there is only ever-ending perfection, no matter what seems to be happening on the surface.
But genuine spirituality isn’t about taking the mapmakers at their word. (Though their consistency and consensus across the ages does, in my mind, lend veracity to their report.) Rather, genuine spirituality is about using the map and discovering the truth for yourself through the laboratory of the incarnation, and through the portal of your own experience.
Some of Ra’s claims we cannot verify—say regarding whether the asteroid belt was once a planet that blew itself to smithereens. But we are in a position to discover and verify whether reality is indeed unified, whole, complete, and perfect. Indeed, we are in that position because WE are the reality, WE are the truth, we are already whole, complete, and perfect. But nobody can tell you that. You must find out for yourself.
So while there is value in parsing out the meanings of words—because our beliefs about reality have an enormous influence on the paths that we create—in the end we have to use the words about reality only as metaphorical signs pointing to the ocean, and then, through will and faith alone, make our own way to the ocean.
No sign can ever give us the actual experience of the ocean. We must dive into that mystery ourselves in order to know.  -  GLB

Personally I would rather hang with the mystics, preserve the mystery for those that have ears to hear and say something like - It's a pathless path that neither ends nor begins, no body loses and no body wins, everyone arrives, yet nobody leaves, the trail that we blaze lies right up our sleeves, there are paths in the light, there are paths in the dark. Whatever the choice, its a path with no mark.

But then again, I think the time for mystical poetry is over. The time is NOW (((   )))