I am Ra. The path of our learning is graven in the present moment. There is no history, as we understand your concept. Picture, if you will, a circle of being. We know the alpha and omega as infinite intelligence. The circle never ceases. It is present. The densities we have traversed at various points in the circle correspond to the characteristics of cycles: first, the cycle of awareness; second, the cycle of growth; third, the cycle of self-awareness; fourth, the cycle of love or understanding; fifth, the cycle of light or wisdom; sixth, the cycle of light/love, love/light or unity; seventh, the gateway cycle; eighth, the octave which moves into a mystery we do not plumb. Questioner: Thank you very much. I have a statement here that I will have you comment on for accuracy or inaccuracy. In general, the archetypical mind is a representation of facets of the One Infinite Creation. The Father archetype corresponds to the male or positive aspect of electromagnetic energy and is active, creative, and radiant as is our local sun. The Mother archetype corresponds to the female or negative aspect of electromagnetic energy and is receptive or magnetic as is our Earth as it receives the sun’s rays and brings forth life via third-density fertility. The Prodigal Son or the Fool archetype corresponds to every entity who seems to have strayed from unity and seeks to return to the one infinite Creator. The Devil archetype represents the illusion of the material world and the appearance of evil but is more accurately the provider of catalyst for the growth of each entity within the third-density illusion. The Magician, Saint, Healer, or Adept corresponds to the higher self and, because of the balance within its energy centers, pierces the illusion to contact intelligent infinity and thereby demonstrates mastery of the catalyst of third-density. The archetype of Death symbolizes the transition of an entity from the yellow-ray body to the green-ray body either temporarily between incarnations or, more permanently, at harvest. Each archetype presents an aspect of the One Infinite Creation to teach the individual mind/body/spirit complex according to the calling or the electromagnetic configuration of mind of the entity. Teaching is done via the intuition. With the proper seeking or mind configuration, the power of will uses the spirit as a shuttle to contact the appropriate archetypical aspect necessary for the teach/learning. In the same way each of the other informers of intuition are contacted. They are hierarchical and proceed from the entity’s own subconscious mind to group or planetary mind, to guides, to higher self, to archetypical mind, to cosmic mind or intelligent infinity. Each is contacted by the spirit serving as shuttle according to the harmonized electromagnetic configuration of the seeker’s mind and the information sought. Questioner: I am interested as to how the first distortion applies to the negatively polarized entity misplacing the mind/body/spirit complex. Why is the negatively polarized entity followed to the place of negative time/space? Why would one of us freely follow the entity? Ra: I am Ra. The positive polarity sees love in all things. The negative polarity is clever. Questioner: What I am trying to understand here is more about the higher self and its relationship with the mind/body/spirit complex. Does the higher self have a sixth-density mind/body/spirit complex that is a separate unit from the mind/body/spirit complex that is, in this case, displaced to negative time/space? Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. The higher self is the entity of mid-sixth- density which, turning back, offers this service to its self. Ra: I am Ra. You are existing at all levels simultaneously. It is specifically correct that your higher self is you in mid-sixth-density and, in your way of measuring what you know of as time, your higher self is your self in your future. Ra: I am Ra. The higher self does not manipulate its past selves. It protects when possible and guides when asked, but the force of free will is paramount. The seeming contradictions of determinism and free will melt when it is accepted that there is such a thing as true simultaneity. The higher self is the end result of all the development experienced by the mind/body/spirit complex to that point. Ra: I am Ra. We may see that you wish to pursue the deeper strata of information. We shall, therefore, answer in a certain way which does not exhaust the query but is designed to move beneath the outer teachings somewhat. The unmanifested being is, as we have said, that being which exists and does its work without reference to or aid from other-selves. To move into this concept you may see the inevitable connection between the unmanifested self and the metaphysical or time/space analog of the space/time self. The activities of meditation, contemplation, and what may be called the internal balancing of thoughts and reactions are those activities of the unmanifested self more closely aligned with the metaphysical self. The decisions then are made to set up the possibility/probabilities of correcting these imbalances in what you call future space/time experiences. The advantage of time/space is that of the fluidity of the grand overview. The advantage of space/time is that, working in darkness with a tiny candle, one may correct imbalances. Ra: I am Ra. The heart of the discipline of the personality is threefold. One, know your self. Two, accept your self. Three, become the Creator. The third step is that step which, when accomplished, renders one the most humble servant of all, transparent in personality and completely able to know and accept other-selves. In relation to the pursuit of the magical working the continuing discipline of the personality involves the adept in knowing its self, accepting its self, and thus clearing the path towards the great indigo gateway to the Creator. To become the Creator is to become all that there is. There is, then, no personality in the sense with which the adept begins its learn/teaching. As the consciousness of the indigo ray becomes more crystalline, more work may be done; more may be expressed from intelligent infinity. In reality there is no law of heredity.  It is only a manifestation.  It is not necessary to deny something that does not exist.  You will find it far better to put perfection in the place of denial.  You will get quicker results.  Usually a denial holds it closer to the individual, whereas, by putting Perfection in the place of the denial, you realize that condition far more quickly.  And it does not matter what the condition is.  It has been shown by repeated experiments that it is far better to simply release the condition.  Free it entirely through non-attention.  Dismiss it.  That was evidently Jesus' meaning when He said, loose him and let him go. As a guide in individual progress the Masters suggest reading the Mahabharata, the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Gita.  This reading is suggested as preparation for one who desires to take the real inner work and for concentration.  A few verses at a time are best.  They never suggest reading a whole book through.  They often read but one sentence in a whole day.  The instructions given in the Gita are steps toward the accomplishment of individual perception of what God really is and to really bring the individual into the consciousness of what it means. If God is the sum of all things visible and invisible, the Infinite One, the image of God embraces all time and space for there is nothing but God.  Man could only be created in or within His image for there could be no outside where man could be created.  He subsists within the very image of God, as your thoughts exist within and live as an integral part of your mind.  Not only is man created within this image of God or contained within the allness of God but he is made of the very essence of the God nature, like unto it.  If the cause is God, the effect is God in manifestation.  Cause and effect must be one.  Can there be thought without mind and can there be mind without thought? The statement, I am God, accompanied by the realization of what is truly involved in it will heal any condition instantly.  If you realize it and see nothing but that Truth, only that Truth can manifest.  In treating yourself or another you see and declare only the eternal Unity with God.  That Light comes forth instantly for it is the true light and then we know that unity is in existence within ourselves and within everybody else.  It is all accomplished.  That is the Christ Light, the Christ Principle. This eliminates the theory that it is necessary to do any specific work on the glands, on body centers, upon the body itself, or to treat disease, as you state it.  The physical will fall into line as soon as we realize that fundamental Unity.  When this state is reached the glands and all bodily functions are stimulated until they become harmonious.  Every atom of the body is stimulated and aroused to action in perfect coordination with the Spirit.  It is the Spirit that quickens.  You cannot raise the bodily action into accord with spirit by the processes of mind for the Spirit is above the mind as the heavens are high above the earth. The ten commandments are not the objectified law of God at all.  In them Moses tried to lay down a law for mental and moral conduct but there is no such conduct outside the law of the Spirit and the consciousness of the activity of Spirit must be discerned as the only governing law.  The statement, As you stand one with Law, you will not do these things, was the original intent, but has been translated, Thou shalt not.  If you are within the law of harmony you will not produce discords but to merely refrain from producing discords does not place you within the law of harmony.  To refrain from discord merely involves doing nothing at all and surely this never would produce a musician nor would it express harmony.  The active doing of the law produces effects commensurate with the law.  Life is active, dynamic and not static.  It is DOING TRUTH, not merely refraining from that which is not truth.