10-18-2011, 06:49 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-18-2011, 06:51 PM by JustLikeYou.)
I don't think the Significator begins with nothing. In fact, in 92.18 , Ra says:
Thus, the Significator always begins with something and the incarnation refines and expands that with which the Significator begins. I would guess that the exception to this rule is the Significator of the Spirit in a newly created 3-D soul (recall that 2-D has no spirit complex). This Significator would be without experience until it has undergone at least one incarnation.
Good question. I'll suggest considering two Ra quotations:
78.35 :
78.36:
In their act of sacred marriage, the Matrix and Potentiator ennoble each other, changing each other into an ennobled version of its previous self. So your supposition would be correct: The union of the Matrix and Potentiator in your experience begets the Catalyst and Experience in your experience. The Catalyst is produced without any conscious effort beyond the mere will to experience (which comes from the Matrix), but the Experience is not produced until the conscious mind chooses to grant meaning to the Catalyst. This is why it may seem that the Experience is not produced by the union of Matrix and Potentiator the way the Catalyst is.
Quote:The mind/body/spirit complex which is an infant has one highly developed portion which may be best studied by viewing the Significators of Mind and Body... [T]he infant’s significant self, which is the harvest of biases of all previous incarnational experiences, offers to this infant biases with which to meet new experience.
Thus, the Significator always begins with something and the incarnation refines and expands that with which the Significator begins. I would guess that the exception to this rule is the Significator of the Spirit in a newly created 3-D soul (recall that 2-D has no spirit complex). This Significator would be without experience until it has undergone at least one incarnation.
Quote:You also seem to be suggesting that the Matrix/Potentiator duality, when it unites, produces not simply Catalyst, but the duality Catalyst/Experience. Is that something you are suggesting?
Good question. I'll suggest considering two Ra quotations:
78.35 :
Quote:The Archetype, Three, is perhaps confusedly called Empress although the intention of this number is the understanding that it represents the unconscious or female portion of the mind complex being first, shall we say, used or ennobled by the male or conscious portion of the mind.
78.36:
Quote:The broad name for Archetype Four may be the Experience of the Mind. In the tarot you find the name of Emperor. Again this implies nobility and in this case we may see the suggestion that it is only through the catalyst which has been processed by the potentiated consciousness that experience may ensue. Thusly is the conscious mind ennobled by the use of the vast resources of the unconscious mind.
In their act of sacred marriage, the Matrix and Potentiator ennoble each other, changing each other into an ennobled version of its previous self. So your supposition would be correct: The union of the Matrix and Potentiator in your experience begets the Catalyst and Experience in your experience. The Catalyst is produced without any conscious effort beyond the mere will to experience (which comes from the Matrix), but the Experience is not produced until the conscious mind chooses to grant meaning to the Catalyst. This is why it may seem that the Experience is not produced by the union of Matrix and Potentiator the way the Catalyst is.