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

[anagogy]

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.

That is an excellent point.

My view of this is that the option, or distortion, was peripherally "visible" on the fringes of the awareness of infinity prior to "fully" exploring it. Sort of like a hill you can see in the distance. But you are not fully "in", or over, the distortion until you deliberately go over that hill and into the valley beyond. Thus, the first distortion was there on the fringes of nirvana, and at some point the intelligent infinity chose to go over that hill and see what was beyond it which was the first distortion: the action/choice of moving over the threshold by choosing to explore the illusion of limits (finity).

And then when it was over the hill it had to take stock of what finity "meant", and had to reference itself as an object, forming into the self aware Logos, the second distortion.

In sanskrit there is a term "sat-chit-ananda" (pure existence-consciousness-bliss). I see this as absolute emanation.

I do as well. That's a good way of describing it.