Session 082

[Sacred Fool]

  
Welcome, Tesse, to these forums, and thanks for pointing to this interesting passage.

Just looking at the page, I prefer your punctuation.  It makes more sense to me that "in order to be of more..." would begin a sentence.  And yet, I don't think much is obscured the way it is currently edited.

It's a rookie move, I would say, to want to skip the preliminary work and just hop into the advanced stuff.  I say this with great self-assuredness, having done so many, many times, myself.  Ra's point seems to be that acceptance is learned in small steps, beginning with self.  Doing so thuswise is doubly useful because as you balance personal distortions, you purify your own instrument of perception and understanding.

Thirdly, there's a bit of an echo here of something in Session 5 or 6 about the ratios of the personal mind, mass mind and universal mind.  When dealing with these, again, it's probably best to cut your teeth on the personal element for the reasons stated above.