07-04-2012, 06:47 PM
(07-03-2012, 01:00 PM)Bring4th_Austin Wrote: Shin'Ar, does this particular passage bring the Ra material closer to your personal understanding of the Higher Self?
Quote:36.7
Questioner: In that case my Higher Self would have a very large advantage in knowing what was needed since it would know, as far as I am concerned, what was going to happen. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is incorrect, in that this would be an abrogation of free will. The higher self aspect is aware of the lessons learned through the sixth density. The progress rate is fairly well understood. The choices which must be made to achieve the higher self as it is are in the provenance of the mind/body/spirit complex itself.
Thus the higher self is like the map in which the destination is known; the roads are very well known, these roads being designed by intelligent infinity working through intelligent energy. However, the higher self aspect can program only for the lessons and certain predisposing limitations if it wishes. The remainder is completely the free choice of each entity. There is the perfect balance between the known and the unknown.
Sorry Austin, for some reason now and then the replies to these threads are not sent to my email like they usually are and I am not aware that they are being continued.
To answer your question, no. Actually I did read all of these quotes and this one was the one that causes me to wonder about what seems to be a contradiction of Ra.
I realize that they are saying that it is not a direct influence in a way where one might be misguided or deliberately directed against their will, but in my thinking it is still as much an influence to direct and lead as any other influence. Whether a map laid out for the sake of showing a person where to go, or a hand to take that person's hand and lead them in that direction, an influence is an influence, and it just seems that influencing of any sort is interference in the course of events.
However that is not the main problem I have. My main problem is the suggestion that the Higher Self is the future aspect of the lower self influencing the growth of that self toward an already established higher being. Now I understand that many here will say that it has to do with infinity and creation being a simultaneous event occurring on all levels.
So I guess that is where I part ways. I see infinity as a Mystery that continues to evolve, and therefore the Higher being is also continuing to evolve.
In that frame of mind the Higher Being of any individual fragment or field of consciousness does not exist simultaneously as it has not yet evolved into that Mystery.
Higher Being is what we become based upon our free will and direction of path. If that truly is based solely upon our own experience,direction and choices, than it has not yet happened if I have not yet made such choices, and if such choices are free for me to choose one way or another from this point.
I understand that the dynamics of infinity cause some to reach forward as though what is infinite must already be complete, but my field of consciousness does not relate this to me. My thinking is that the future remains and always will remain a Mystery awaiting the One to affect it.
The Higher Being falls into that same definition.
And therefore I cannot resonate with the Ra Material in this regard. And I am pretty sure that I have read in the Ra Material where it speaks more to what I am suggesting elsewhere which would be a contradiction. However I cannot point to a quote to validate that, and don't really see any value in opening that can of worms anyway.