08-15-2021, 03:09 AM
What Barry Long said about power vs force is actually easy to understand as the unity compass and personal separation compasses Ra talked about. Power comes with the unity compass while our personal separation compasses can only produce force which inevitable leads to conflict and friction.
From an alchemy perspective what we need to do in order to gain power is to toast our personal separation compasses to ashes. This is the blackening stage in alchemy. And even though easy to understand it's an extraordinary difficult process since it basically means melting down one's personal self, which from the force perspective appears as an insane choice.
Here is the compass analogy again and I have abbreviated the quote since I have already posted it several times before:
From an alchemy perspective what we need to do in order to gain power is to toast our personal separation compasses to ashes. This is the blackening stage in alchemy. And even though easy to understand it's an extraordinary difficult process since it basically means melting down one's personal self, which from the force perspective appears as an insane choice.
Here is the compass analogy again and I have abbreviated the quote since I have already posted it several times before:
Quote:"Ra: I am Ra. ... the thought-forms of your people during this transition period are such that the mind/body/spirit complexes of both individual and societies are scattered throughout the spectrum instead of becoming able to grasp the needle, shall we say, and point the compass in one direction.
Thus, the entry into the vibration of love, sometimes called by your people the vibration of understanding, is not effective with the present societal complex." - Law of One 13.23