Dear Family,
Again a long period of silence on the Blog. But only in its publication, not in its preparation, which began with a first draft on September 22. The activity has been intense and revealing and has led me to multiple starts and modifications that necessarily require time but have provided me with a lot of light. I hope to be able to adequately summarize these experiences in order to learn from their lessons for mutual benefit, (mine and yours).
After the extensive meditations on the first three distortions mentioned in the previous Blog, I believed that the information thus gathered would quickly lead me to find answers to the questions raised about when and how we were created. As I meditate on it, I find that I first have to define who I think we are. And I can only do this from who am I? Ra, right from the start, at the beginning of the tape of Session 1, reveals:
You are not part of a material universe. You are part of a thought…… the concept (is) that you are part of the Original Thought.
And since Ra speaks of and for ‘everyone’ I can extend the concept to cover all humans, and “quickly” analogies came to mind with other beings of the creation, inert and alive, (an aircraft carrier and a tree) as I detail later; but I felt that I did not have a coherent link between the analogies and the concept of Original Thought. However, when I sought to expand the information on it, I found the 82nd Session of the Law and a new coincidence that, as we will see, has widely walked me through many more Sessions of Ra. As I progress in my reading, I begin to understand that this ‘all’ includes humans and non-humans, terrestrial and non-terrestrial, ‘this’ universe and ‘others’; that is to say that everyone is everything!
Eventually I was able to understand what was expressed in Session 10.14, when the questioner asks Ra to recommend exercises that will help to speed up (the study of) the Law, Ra warns:
The foundation or prerequisite of these exercises is a predilection towards what may be called meditation, contemplation, or prayer. With this attitude, these exercises can be processed. Without it, the data will not sink down into the roots of the tree of mind, thus enabling and ennobling the body and touching the spirit.
I will return to these exercises; For now I just want to point out that I deduce in this quote the clear need to combine the physical (data) with the metaphysical (contemplation/meditation/prayer) in order to perceive what we are.
So let’s keep meditating to fulfill this basic requirement and see my quick analogies and a summary of the ‘walk’.
In the first analogy I think of something concrete, let’s say the aircraft carrier Gerald R Ford that is now going to wage war in the Caribbean. If I think about its real origin, I have to admit that before its construction it was necessary to start from a concept. An idea. A plan. Going deeper, I have to accept that before the Ford there have been multiple other models that have evolved according to ‘the environment’ (knowledge, needs, etc.). And that eventually we arrive, in retrogression, at another concept: ship, and before that, boat, and before…… etc. So we need not be surprised that something physical really has its origin in an idea. Nor that one concept originates in another. Or seen another way, an original concept ‘evolves’ into others.
Perhaps another analogy, this time ‘alive’ will help us better. I think of a wonderful Sequoia (Californian Redwood); there are some up to three thousand years old, and let’s see how they reproduce:
Sequoias reproduce through seeds produced in cones that require fire to open and release the seeds. After pollination and a two-year maturation period, the cones may remain closed for decades, but the heat from forest fires dries them out, causing seed release. For successful germination, seeds need to be on mineral soil, which fires help create by clearing debris.
Reproduction process
- Flowering and fertilization:
- Giant sequoias are monoecious, meaning male and female cone buds are on the same tree.
- Male cones release pollen in the spring (April to May), which fertilizes the female cones.
- Fertilization typically occurs in August, and seeds mature by the end of the second growing season.
- Cone maturation and seed dormancy:
- Mature cones are about 2 to 4 inches long and contain approximately 200 viable seeds.
- Unlike most trees, the cones can remain closed and on the tree for up to 20 years without releasing seeds.
- Seed release:
- While some cones open naturally in hot, dry weather, the majority require a catalyst.
- Fire: The most crucial factor is fire, which dries the cones and causes a large-scale release of seeds.
- Insect damage: Wood-boring beetles can also cause the cones to open and release their seeds.
- Germination:
- For seeds to germinate successfully, they must land on bare, mineral soil.
- Fires clear away leaf litter and competing vegetation, preparing a seedbed.
- Winter storms often cover the seeds with snow, and when spring arrives, they are in an ideal position to germinate.
As we can see without any effort, this is quite a plan that something or someone had to have ‘thought of’; not a fortuitous event caused by a fire. But let’s start with the ‘seed’, isn’t this in itself a properly planned and ‘coded’ program? And as far as I know, no ‘brains’ have been found in trees, so we have to accept the existence of at least one thinking mind “outside” the tree itself.
And here is the unexpected coincidence: In Session 82 of the Law I found (82.6) that the ‘seed’ mechanism seems to have been used to ‘seed’ the entire universe!! (And this applies to us and virtually all living species. And here’s something else; I think it’s another kind of seed, the seed of the 5th Epiphany).
My research of Session 82 was to expand on the revelations about the Original Thought, for here Ra tells us, in 82.10, what it consists of: it is the harvest of all the Creator’s previous experience of the Creator. In the full paragraph, Ra reveals the Creator’s Plan, but I promised to avoid ‘bricks’ in this Blog, so today I won’t go into this in depth and along with 82.6, let’s postpone the brick part to a next opportunity and limit ourselves for now to the Original Thought, when we were created. However, we still need more context to find it. And here the walk begins:
Ra is speaking of ‘octaves’ (i.e., Creations or Universes) and in 82.4 he confirms that before ours, the Intelligent Infinite had already experienced several; he had told us in 28.16 that…..We cannot speak with firm knowledge of all creations. We only know that they are infinite. We assume an infinite number of octaves. He also says that his teachers have assured him that… All consciousness periodically merges and again begins….. we assume an infinite progression, …………. cyclical in nature and…… covered in mystery.
And now in 82.7 he reveals to us that
…..There is a center to infinity. From this center all spreads. Therefore, there are centers to the creation, to the galaxies, to star systems, to planetary systems, and to consciousness. In each case you may see growth from the center outward……..
This may help us to understand what was revealed in 13:12-15 where he told us that when Infinite Intelligence discerned the concept of ‘finitude’, it embarked on an exploration of its manifold possibilities and that galaxies and all material things we see are the product of individualized portions of Itself. Each exploration finds its focus and becomes Co-Creator, each portion (Logos) creating a Universe with its own natural laws.
Each universe in turn repeats the process and creates sub Logos for each solar system. the creative process goes from the largest to the smallest and the progression is from universe to galaxy, to star, to planet to experiential circumstance (God to Logos to sub logos to sub-sub-logos) and in 29.7 he makes it clear to us that the mind/body/spirit complex (we) is an example of a sub-sub-logos
There are several other clues that I have found scattered throughout various sessions of the Law:
. In 81.12 Ra says that the system of densities (8, as in the musical scale, hence the name octave) was found to be efficient in creating the conditions in which a conscious sub-logos can exist. This system is then a fixed feature in all creations. (This implies that the concept of a conscious sub-logos (us) seems to be a purpose of creation.)
In 78.10 he reveals that the efficiency of the association of mind, body, and spirit in producing the conditions conducive to the experimentation of oneself had already been proven in previous octaves. And in 82:11 he reveals to us that the harvest of the previous octave was the Creator of Love manifested in mind, body, and spirit.
In 28.6 Ra reveals that the process of individuation of the Logos was completed before imposing the condition of the Veil to incarnate in 3rd density and in 28.13 he clarifies that each exploration begins with the action of a Logos who establishes the potentials of experience before the experiment begins.
In 82.12 we learn that the first beings of mind, body, spirit, before this octave (ours), were not complex and their experience was singular. There was no forgetting. There was no Veil. Finally, in 36.4 Ra he informs us that our Higher Self, who is the programmer of our incarnations and experiences, does not program parallel existences in the same octave but can do so in different universes, if he deems it necessary.
All these clues lead me to conclude that the basic concept of our being had to be conceived simultaneously with that of Logos and sub-Logos at the “beginning” of the Original Creation. The Original Thought is eternally refined as the knowledge of Itself increases. This is what originated the Veil about six or seven billion of “our” years ago. (This data is a deduction from revelations made in 76:13.) In fact, in 28.16 Ra explains:
Thus we have difficulty answering your questions with regard to time and space and their relationship to the, what you would call, original creation which is not a part of space/time as you can understand it.
These revelations, combined with those of the distortions (from the previous Blog), give me a perception (entirely personal and unfortunately I do not have access to Ra for ratification or correction), that we have an Original Thought that is periodically modified and that is also in constant refinement, which produces a series of Universes. And then, as in any computer program, we have Universe 1.0 and 2.0 and 3.0 and 3.1 and so on ad infinitum.
I can think that in version 1.0 there was no distortion at all, while in version 2.0 only the first distortion, free will, operated. And in 3.0 the second distortion was added, that of Love, and in the middle of the way it was modified to 3.1 through the institution of the Veil. (But this modification only affects the Physical Creation, not the Metaphysical; that is why it is 3.1 and not 4.0 and that is why the Course insists that ‘you are as God created you’, referring to your metaphysical self (your True Self).
I can also perceive that God, the Infinite Experiencer, can and could realize many other intermediate versions such as 1.1,2,3,,,,,n before Universe 2.0 and the same between 2.0 and 3.0. As Ra repeats several times, the possibilities of exploration are infinite and are not subject to space/time.
At this point in my study of Ra and its messages about the Law of One, I happened to ‘google’ what science says about the age of the universe and I came across the Trillion Theory (TT). These are several books published by Ed Lukowich, an author classified as science-fiction (I remember another science fiction author who in the eighteenth century wrote about a trip to the moon and a trip around the world in 80 days and 20,000 leagues under the sea; feats ‘totally’ impossible in his time).
In a nutshell, TT says that Creation originated from an original Universe a trillion years ago, (i.e. a million millions, which in the English system is called a trillion, but in Spanish it is just a Billon, which in English is a thousand millions. I hope it’s clear, even if it seems like a tongue twister). After 15,000 million years the Universe collapsed but not only was it reborn from its ashes (like the Phoenix?), but it doubled. And the TT says that it has continued to do so every 15,000 million years and that we are already in the 67th edition. ( 67 x 15000 gives the trillion). And thanks to the exponential doubling, the number of solar systems has progressed from one to 73 quintlllions (10 followed of 18 zeroes, in the Spanish system, trilliones).
For those who feel curious, I recommend reading the author’s own summary published in 2019 in the European Journal of Physics Education, Vol 11 Issue 4 1309 – 7202. (you can find it for free on Google without having to buy the books. I don’t know if there is a Spanish version).
This TT also explains many ‘inconsistencies’ of the famous Big Bang accepted by our current science and above all reverses the role of Black Holes from destroyers to builders. But as we will see in a future Blog, it is not the only thing that science has to reverse (and it is already beginning to do so). I also hope to comment on how this TT compares to the Law and this one to the Course.
For now, let’s go back to the Law and the exercises recommended by Ra in Session 10.14, to speed up the understanding of the Law:
Exercise One. The moment contains love. Consciously seek that love.
Exercise Two. When you look at your neighbor, see the Creator.
Exercise Three. Look yourself in a mirror, see the Creator.
Exercise Four. Look at everything around us, see the Creator.
Ra also explains that the most useful is the first one and that the chances of success of the search double with the frequency with which we practice it. (The magnitude of this kind of empowerment is clearly seen in the growth noted in the Trillion Theory.) But let’s repeat what I already quoted at the beginning of this Blog:
The foundation or prerequisite of these exercises is a predilection for what might be called meditation, contemplation, or prayer.
However, let us be careful in interpreting these requirements. The truth is that very few of us are given to contemplation or meditation but we believe ourselves to be firm practitioners of prayer, especially if we have been indoctrinated in one of our ‘religions’. The ‘but’ I find is that prayer not subject to thought and true Love, can lead to aberrations such as hitmen and thieves and jihadists praying for the success of their enterprises.
My personal experience can be descriptive of that of many. I began by ‘learning’ in their order, Catholicism, conservatism, and science (broadly speaking religion, politics, and school). Armed with these experiences, I proceeded to deny the reality of everything that could oppose what I had learned. (I have now come to the conclusion that this denial, this saying No, is a deceptive method of avoiding the exercise of free will and of seeking the Truth. I’ll explain myself in Future Blogs)
Eventually I read about paranormal phenomena (remote viewing, telepathy, telekinesis) and became curious. When these phenomena became formal studies at Stanford University, my contemplative stage (consciously observing) began.
Contemplation extended to other phenomena: scientific, religious, political, etc. And contemplation led to meditation (thinking consciously) and finally I’m learning to pray (consciously asking or offering, especially forgiveness).
I repeat, all this is strictly personal. We each have our individual experiences and motivations. Curiosity seems to be innate in human beings and activated for countless reasons. In many cases the influence of what has been ‘learned’ in the early years is such that there has been no room for activation, but the accumulation of experience, in the present life or in a future one, infallibly leads us to this search and eventually to the graduation of third density, either positively or negatively. (The difference seems to be the presence or absence of love for your neighbor, beyond your family environment or your close elite).
A review of Law 13.16 and 21.9 can enlighten us on our evolution in 3rd density that is completely different from Darwin’s that is extraordinary but essentially applicable to animal evolution in 2nd density. But since we already have enough material today to increase our confusion, let’s add this review to the next Blog, which promises to be revolutionary.
I began this project when I realized the imperative need to change the way of thinking, what I did not suspect in my beginner’s naivety, is that this change coincided with a change in density (3rd to 4th) and that it included the need to change Darwin, the Big Bang, and go beyond Schrodinger, Einstein and Bohr in the replacement of Isaac Newton. .
But all these changes refer to the physical and material. The transcendental, the eternal and the unchangeable refers to remembering God, our Creator and understanding that before the material is the Metaphysical Creation. The material ones are only experiments, temporary and finite, that God performs to know Himself.
And as the Course never tires of repeating to us, we are still as He created us with much Love. That is why,
I love you,
Alberto