09-08-2011, 11:44 AM
(09-08-2011, 10:58 AM)Tenet Nosce Wrote: This particular reference attributes them to Plato's theory of "three parts of the soul": there is the "soul of appetite" (the body), the "soul of reason" (the mind), and the "soul of will" (the spirit). It was right there in the second page and highlighted. But believe what you will, I have offered the information but have no need to defend it.
I saw the soul of appetite, etc, but didn't make the connection to body, mind, and spirit. I don't have time to read that book now. Does it link the first seven cards to mind, the second to body, and the third to spirit?
Other unique (to my knowledge) aspects of Ra's discussion of the archetypes are the notions of matrix, potentiator, etc and the suggestion that cards 1, 8, and 15; 2, 9, and 16; etc. are linked in an architectural way.
(09-08-2011, 10:58 AM)Tenet Nosce Wrote: What is so "stretchy" about higher order entities moving back and forth in time according to our perception?
It's a stretch in that it's not necessary. As a wanderer, Carla was already a target.
(09-08-2011, 10:58 AM)Tenet Nosce Wrote: What is the basis for this understanding? How does "no thought form pass" when there are people within the circle, thinking?
Pass from outside the circle to inside it. The phrase used in the ritual was "Let no thought-form enter the circle we have walked about this instrument, for the Law is One."
(09-08-2011, 10:58 AM)Tenet Nosce Wrote: What terminology would you use to describe an attempt by an Orion entity to amplify negative thoughts? If not "psychic attack" or "negative greeting", then...?
I'm not disagreeing that Carla came under psychic attack when she was thirteen. I don't think the reason she came under attack was necessarily that she was going to be the channel for the Ra contact 25 years later.
(09-08-2011, 10:58 AM)Tenet Nosce Wrote: That anybody involved in a magical working leaves their entire subconscious mind "at the door" once the circle closes seems a little over the top to me. Can you see why this would be a challenging idea for one to accept- especially on faith?
That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying the attack on Carla in session 62 was an attack by an external source and occurred when she was not present in her body. It was made possible by a misstep in the walking of the circle. You had said that the ritual was only effective to the extent that it reduced Carla's fear and was acceptable to her subconscious. I don't think that's the case.