"see the creator"

[Steppingfeet]

I would be very interested in hearing what exactly do you visualize or conceptualize, or exactly how you go about perceiving this abstract concept of a 'Creator' in all others, and exactly what comes to your mind when you hear the phrase "All is One" or "You are Creator/I am Creator" or "One Infinite Creator", and how you go about seeing this in others or others as this concept.

This has proved a really fruitful question to contemplate, Godwide. You ask how the reader goes about "seeing" the Creator in the other self.

Personally, when I'm conscious enough to remember the need for and benefit of the exercise, I invoke the idea that the other is the Creator. I bring to mind the words that "all is one" and rest my focus upon this... concept.

The results and the process is different each time; some times I'm too hurried and/or my mind too frenetic to sustain the needed focus on the exercise. But when I can let the mind dwell on this thought, I find firstly that it begins to lift from usual modes of consciousness.

The "other" in my purview begins to change, or rather, my relationship to them begins to change as certain mind-activities fall away. I am no longer seeing them as an object; no longer judging their qualities of appearance or character for better or worse; no longer relating to them as a means to an end or something fundamentally different from me; no longer feeling the emotions and complexes of thought that the fiction of separation breeds, including fear, anger, resentment, defense, etc.

My analysis of this portion of the process is that that by invoking the *idea* of oneness with the other and the Creator inherent in everything they are, the mind begins to shift from its typical, conditioned tendencies. It may not be a spiritual, experiential realization at this point, but the mind has at minimum removed some of the mental clutter that chronically eclipses and obscures realization of the One.

Where before the seeker was previously relating to the other-self in any number of fictitious permutations of energy arrangement stemming from the illusion of separation, there now flows into that empty space the green-ray energies of universal love and compassion, the blue-ray energy of seeing/knowing the other self clearly without judgment, and finally the possibility of beginning to feel, experience, know, and become non-separate with this other-self.

I think that’s the basic outline for me. Shift the mind from its habitual, non-unity-inclined patterns and, with continual focus, begin to recognize/become aware of the oneness *already present* until the heart swells with love and tender thoughts, and the eyes see what might variously be called perfection, oneness, divinity, cosmic identity, truth, beauty.

I think that ones blockages, whether of the moment or carrying the burden of long stretches of time, will somewhat “impede” this process, so to speak. (Said in the acknowledgement that catalyst by definition is, if properly used, the opposite of impediment.) But the simple act of orienting the mind in this direction is a type of calling so basic, so fundamental to the base code of the creation that it both attracts to it universal forces *and* aligns the self with its own power and purpose.

As described in 10.13:
“The call begins with one. This call is equal to infinity and is not, as you would say, counted. It is the cornerstone. The second call is added. The third call empowers or doubles the second, and so forth, each additional calling doubling or granting power to all the preceding calls. Thus, the call of many of your peoples is many, many-powered and overwhelmingly heard to the infinite reaches of the One Creation.”

And then in 10.14 Ra says:
“As with the previous type of empowerment, there will be some loss of power due to flaws within the seeking in the distortion of insincerity. However, the conscious statement of self to self of the desire to seek love is so central an act of will that, as before, the loss of power due to this friction is inconsequential.”

Among the many things in the Law of One that fascinate me, I’ve long been intrigued by the idea of “central act of will”. This has drawn me because the idea of seeing the “Creator” is, by the standards and perceptions of the ordinary, time-and-space-bound mind, so outside of the daily experience that it begs the question, “What am I seeking when I set my sight upon the “Creator”? How do I know I’m even aiming in the “right” direction? How can I see something which, as far as my conscious memory is concerned, I’ve never quite seen before?”

In my limited understanding of this situation, I reference Ra’s two quotes above, with emphasis on “central act of will”, to illustrate the possibility of orienting oneself in the most powerful, aligned, and centered manner simply by invoking and focusing upon these key, eternal concepts.

In consciously choosing to see the “Creator”, what, as you mentioned in your post, is a rather abstract thought, something primal or primary is called forth in my being.

The lonely, drifting, orientation-less ship of the conscious, separate mind upon darkened waters, blindly pursuing this fantasy and that, finally turns to ask, “Who am I?” and calls forth its own deepest identity. In so doing the ship receives the needed winds of destiny, so to speak, that will guide it to the harbor it seeks, that being, its Self.

The conscious mind (symbolized by the ship on dark waters with only the moon for navigation) may not know to what “destination” it is headed when it consciously seeks the Creator as, of itself, the conscious mind has never perceived or known this destination in its own experience, but in exercising this “central act of will” which repeatedly attempts to see the Creator in conscious awareness, the ship calls upon those intelligent winds that will, with the ships cooperation, guide the ship of the conscious mind to its intended destination.

At any rate, that’s my crude attempt to illuminate the relationship between the seeking conscious mind working in the darkness without map and without clear knowledge of the many steps to come upon the path of releasing distortions, and the power and direction given to that seeking mind by the “universe”, you might say, when the mind consciously invokes the fundamental teachings of all planes of existence: unity, love, light, and joy.

GLB