What is polarity?

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I think in order to approach this concept as presented by Ra you have to look at the concept of 'spiritual mass' which is what happens when one finally unifies with their body/mind/spirit totality.

27.6 Questioner: I’d like to expand a little on the concept of work. In Newtonian physics [the] concept of work is what we call a force which moves through space, it’s the product of force and distance as we measure it. I’m assuming that the work of which you speak is a much broader term including possibly work in consciousness. Am I correct?

Ra: I am Ra. As we use this term it is universal in application. Intelligent infinity has a rhythm or flow as of a giant heart beginning with the central sun as you would think or conceive of this, the presence of the flow inevitable as a tide of beingness without polarity, without finity; the vast and silent all beating outward, outward, focusing outward and inward until the focuses are complete. The intelligence or consciousness of foci have reached a state where their, shall we say, spiritual nature or mass calls them inward, inward, inward until all is coalesced. This is the rhythm of reality as you spoke.

Noting the "silence" of this rhythm.

36.1 Questioner: In previous communications you have spoken of the mind/body/spirit complex totality. Would you please give us a definition of the mind/body/spirit complex totality?

Ra: I am Ra. There is a dimension in which time does not have sway. In this dimension, the mind/body/spirit in its eternal dance of the present may be seen in totality, and before the mind/body/spirit complex which then becomes a part of the social memory complex is willingly absorbed into the allness of the One Creator, the entity knows itself in its totality.
This mind/body/spirit complex totality functions as, shall we say, a resource for what you perhaps would call the Higher Self. The Higher Self, in turn, is a resource for examining the distillations of third-density experience and programming further experience. This is also true of densities four, five, and six with the mind/body/spirit complex totality coming into consciousness in the course of seventh density.

36.2 Questioner: Then would the mind/body/spirit complex totality be responsible for programming changes in catalyst during, say, a third-density experience of the mind/body/spirit complex so that the proper catalyst would be added, shall we say, as conditions for that complex changed during third-density experience? Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is incorrect. The Higher Self, as you call it, that is, that self which exists with full understanding of the accumulation of experiences of the entity, aids the entity in achieving healing of the experiences which have not been learned properly and assists as you have indicated in further life experience programming, as you may call it.
The mind/body/spirit complex totality is that which may be called upon by the Higher Self aspect just as the mind/body/spirit complex calls upon the Higher Self. In the one case you have a structured situation within the space/time continuum with the Higher Self having available to it the totality of experiences which have been collected by an entity and a very firm grasp of the lessons to be learned in this density.

The mind/body/spirit complex totality is as the shifting sands and is in some part a collection of parallel developments of the same entity. This information is made available to the Higher Self aspect. This aspect may then use these projected probability/possibility vortices in order to better aid in what you would call future life programming.

So what we have is a simple fractal of B/M/S Totality > Higher Self > M/B/S Complex.

And here we have a critical point about what Ra actually means by polarity:

29.10 Questioner: Okay. Do the sub-Logos, such as our sun, do any of them— in our major galaxy— do they have a metaphysical polarity, shall we say, positive or negative as we’ve been using the term?

Ra: I am Ra. As you use the term, this is not so. Entities through the level of planetary have the strength of intelligent infinity through the use of free will, going through the actions of beingness. The polarity is not, thusly, as you understand polarity. It is only when the planetary sphere begins harmonically interacting with mind/body complexes, and more especially mind/body/spirit complexes, that planetary spheres take on distortions due to the thought complexes of entities interacting with the planetary entity. The creation of the One Infinite Creator does not have the polarity you speak of.

The bolded part here is very interesting and I think the key to understanding the nature of the polarity as Ra expresses it.

First of all, it says the planetary sphere begins 'harmonically interacting' with M/B complexes (2nd Density) or more especially with M/B/S complexes (3rd density).
This is a pretty vague idea, but what my take away is basically that polarity is something that comes with sentient development. A planet locked in 1st Density will only be composed of minerals and chemicals, so there are no 'thought complexes' which can interact with the planetary sphere.

19.2 Questioner: Let’s take the point at which an individualized entity of second density is ready for transition to third. Is this second-density being what we would call animal?

Ra: I am Ra. There are three types of second-density entities which become, shall we say, enspirited. The first is the animal. This is the most predominant. The second is the vegetable, most especially that which you call sound vibration complex “tree.” These entities are capable of giving and receiving enough love to become individualized. The third category is mineral. Occasionally a certain location, place as you may call it, becomes energized to individuality through the love it receives and gives in relationship to a third-density entity which is in relationship to it. This is the least common transition.

19.3 Questioner: When this transition from second to third density takes place, how does the entity, whether it be animal, tree, or mineral, become enspirited?

Ra: I am Ra. Entities do not become enspirited. They become aware of the intelligent energy within each portion, cell, or atom, as you may call it, of its beingness.
This awareness is that which is awareness of that already given. From the infinite come all densities. The self-awareness comes from within given the catalyst of certain experiences understanding, as we may call this particular energy, the upward spiraling of the cell or atom or consciousness.
You may then see that there is an inevitable pull towards the, what you may call, eventual realization of self.

I love these two answers together because they reveal the fumbling that Ra sometimes goes through. In 19.2 they used the phrase 'become enspirited' seemingly because it was the best they could think of, but then immediately in the next quote they have to correct the thinking because the language lead to confusion. This seems to me to be a difficulty of the English language and that of the word 'becoming'.

However, we can see that this awareness that comes with enspiriting is parallel to the development of polarity.

Thus, I would describe polarity as the tension of the individuated consciousness' awareness of itself as the Creator.

The two 'paths' that Ra defined by 'control' and 'acceptance', and this easily applies to the idea of gradually increasing awareness of the self as the All, whereby this awareness is either grasped as 'inwards' (I am God, the Creator, etc) or 'outwards' (We are God, the Creator, etc}.

Now, why this is important is because this all revolves around the concept of ourselves as M/B/S complexes experiencing catalyst, and catalyst is what inspires or motivates us towards one or the other path. However, this is why I brought up the point of the Higher Self and Totality because as entities develop and 'become' (there's that word again) closer to their Higher Self they are able to have more conscious direction in their catalyst, but before that it is simply provided either by the higher beings or simply 'random catalyst'.

In this, we see the process of 'recapitulation' or recapping on the creative emergence.

13.16 Questioner: Could you tell me about this first density of planetary entities?

Ra: I am Ra. Each step recapitulates intelligent infinity in its discovery of awareness. In a planetary environment all begins in what you would call chaos, energy undirected and random in its infinity. Slowly, in your terms of understanding, there forms a focus of self-awareness. Thus the Logos moves. Light comes to form the darkness, according to the co-Creator’s patterns and vibratory rhythms, so constructing a certain type of experience. This begins with first density which is the density of consciousness, the mineral and water life upon the planet learning from fire and wind the awareness of being. This is the first density.

So our experience is a fractalized echo of this original process of discovery of self awareness.

30.5 Questioner: I would like to know how the mind/body/spirit complexes originate. How, going back as far as necessary, does the— Do they originate by spirit forming mind and mind forming body? Can you tell me this?

Ra: I am Ra. We ask you to consider that you are attempting to trace evolution. This evolution is as we have previously described, the consciousness being first, in first density, without movement, a random thing. Whether you may call this mind or body complex is a semantic problem. We call it mind/body complex recognizing always that in the simplest iota of this complex exists in its entirety the One Infinite Creator; this mind/body complex then in second density discovering the growing and turning towards the light, thus awakening what you may call the spirit complex, that which intensifies the upward spiraling towards the love and light of the Infinite Creator.

The addition of this spirit complex, though apparent rather than real, it having existed potentially from the beginning of space/time, perfects itself by graduation into third density. When the mind/body/spirit complex becomes aware of the possibility of service to self or other-self, then the mind/body/spirit complex is activated.

Thus, this 'tension' as I described is actually the 'upwards spiraling light' which is that fundamental impetus from the creative rhythm to move towards total self awareness. This tension is produced by the awareness of 'other-self' which are just all the other parts of the self as the creator manifest.

By that notion, I think service would be defined by Ra as that which most supports the upwards spiraling light, whether in the self or in the other. When people are neither becoming aware, not interacting with life consciously, they have not yet been stimulated in to seeking towards that upwards spiraling light.

I think the hard think for a lot of people to digest might be that both the 'positive' and 'negative' path are both 'upwards spiraling' and ultimately tending towards the same unity, just one going clockwise, one going counterclockwise up the spiral.

Yet, there could be no 'straight and narrow' path without the two polarities around it.

17.33 Questioner: Why is the negative path so much more difficult a path to attain harvestability upon than the positive?

Ra: I am Ra. This is due to a distortion of the Law of One which indicates that the gateway to intelligent infinity be a gateway at the end of a strait and narrow path as you may call it. To attain fifty-one percent dedication to the welfare of other-selves is as difficult as attaining a grade of five percent dedication to other-selves. The, shall we say, sinkhole of indifference is between those two.

There is no upwards movement without the spiral, and the spiral is born out of duality. Yet, while you ride this spiral, you must strike true like an arrow loosed from a bow, for it is not the motion created by the polarities in themselves that is important but the greater direction that they carry us towards as they dance around eachother. Each spin takes us closer to home.