Do you see consciousness as the Absolute, or as an emanation?

[Aion]

27.7 Questioner: Now I think I have extracted an important point from this in that in intelligent infinity we have work without polarity, or a potential difference does not have to exist. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. There is no difference, potential or kinetic, in unity. The basic rhythms of intelligent infinity are totally without distortion of any kind. The rhythms are clothed in mystery, for they are being itself. From this undistorted unity, however, appears a potential in relation to intelligent energy.

In this way you may observe the term to be somewhat two-sided, one use of the term, that being as the undistorted unity, being without any kinetic or potential side. The other application of this term, which we use undifferentiatedly for lack of other term in the sense of the vast potential tapped into by foci or focuses of energy, we call intelligent energy.

27.8 Questioner: Now, I understand that the first distortion of intelligent infinity is the distortion of what we call free will. Can you give me a definition of this distortion?

Ra: I am Ra. In this distortion of the Law of One it is recognized that the Creator will know Itself.

27.9 Questioner: Then am I correct then in assuming that the Creator will know Itself the Creator, then grants for this knowing the concept of freedom— total freedom of choice in the ways of knowing? Am I correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is quite correct.

27.10 Questioner: This then being the first distortion of the Law of One, which I [am] assuming is the Law of Intelligent Infinity, from all other— correction, all other distortions which are the total experience of the creation spring from this. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is both correct and incorrect. In your illusion all experience springs from the Law of Free Will or the Way of Confusion. In another sense, which we are learning, the experiences are this distortion.

The bolded part seems to get to the crux of Ra's use of the words. The idea of one phrase having multiple meanings is perhaps enlightening to consider here. If the "One Thought" is "One Word" and "One Phrase" then all of creation is the multiple meanings to be found in the One Thing. The knowing of self through an exploration of the tool of freedom is the emergent aspect of the One Thought. Properly though, they suggest there is an 'undistorted unity' as Anagogy pointed towards which is utterly mysterious and without any discernible statement to be said about it.

The most fundamental paradox I think the occultist comes across in the exploration of knowing oneself is this apparent duality of Perfection/Imperfection which seems impossible to have the two co-existent.

13.12 Questioner: Could you tell me how intelligent infinity became, shall we say (I’m having difficulty with some of the language), how intelligent infinity became individualized from itself?

Ra: I am Ra. This is an appropriate question.

The intelligent infinity discerned a concept. This concept was discerned due to freedom of will of awareness. This concept was finity. This was the first and primal paradox or distortion of the Law of One. Thus the one intelligent infinity invested itself in an exploration of many-ness. Due to the infinite possibilities of intelligent infinity there is no ending to many-ness. The exploration, thus, is free to continue infinitely in an eternal present.

It suggests here that Intelligent Infinity has the freedom of will of awareness 'before' it discerned the concept of finity which they say was the first distortion. This is where Ra gets sort of paradoxical because they both talk about II having freedom of will of awareness before discerning the concept of finity which is Free Will since they say that is the first distortion. So either 'freedom of will of awareness' is not considered a distortion by Ra or the 'Law of One' is referring to the whole of the Creator and not just the undistorted unity.