I feel like i'm raining on the parade a bit with this, but i feel we've all gotten more comfortable with each other lately and that includes whether we're agreeing or disagreeing. And something would be wrong around here if nexus didn't pipe up once in a while and dissagree wouldn't it? Come to think of it, something would be wrong if i piped up and agreed too often. You'd be wondering if someone had dispatched me by foul means and stole my handle. So here goes again. And Zenden i am going to reply to you on the other ascension thread. I got waylaid around the place but i did get your own 'monumental' reply to me, thanks... soon.
Tom Paine, I wouldn't be too concerned about the "Ra" prescription for "ascension" because it is all over the shop the way i see it. It is, as Ra would say, a distortion. Ra / Schma on this particular issue. Many facets of the Ra "scheme" are demonstrably wrong and to my mind, it is for one of two reasons. Ra is not who Ra says Ra is and Ra knows it. Or Ra is a being / group with valid scientific information about the creation and physics of matter, but is all confused about the fundamental nature of deeper cosmic truths that "fit" that information into the greater scheme of soul evolution. The science is great. The theoretical application of that science to the greater scheme (God; the soul; evolution; ascension and hierarchy's dispensations relating to it) is erroneous.
While i believe there are far worse things you can tell a man than to adopt a STO orientation, the idea that 51% STO will facilitate a density graduation at death, is not credible. It is also erroneous to characterise that so called "graduation" at death, as the "ascension". I have not heard Don Elkin's voice, but judging by the transcript of his lecture (linked above in post #182) the man seems very sincere to me. At least as sincere as David Wilcock and both Dan B and yourself TP for that matter. But i believe that whoever Ra actually is, he/ she/ they/ have got real problems with reality on at least two crucial counts. (and several less crucial).
For a start, your soul already occupies an earth body and a subtle body in each of the 3 more subtle material planes.... astral, mental and etheric. That's 4 material bodies. Beyond that is the spiritual planes where you also have a christ- Self, a causal body and an I AM Presence. Thats 3 more manifestations of yourself. That totals 7 levels of your being spanning both material and spiritual planes. Descriptions of these levels have been recorded in the esoterica of the past 130 years or so, and they also go by different names in different cultures where they are allegorically represented in the scriptures of east and west. For example the "Euphrates river" (the flow of consciousness from spiritual planes) branches into 4 tributaries (4 lower bodies in the material planes). or... the man, the calf, the lion and the ox (the 4 lower bodies).
So as you would know, you are already occupying "higher density" planes in your current "higher density" bodies. And although you can't readily see these subtle bodies , you are already using them everyday. You "feel" through the astral body, you "think" through the mental body and your "memories" are impressed on your etheric body (a tiny part of your memory is also recorded in your brain). These bodies are integrated through the chakra system and provide a continuity of self- expression while the soul is incarnate in the material planes. When your physical body dies (whether you are a 'saint' or a 'sinner') you will be standing outside your dead body in the subtle material bodies you already occupy. Depending on the karmic state of your subtle bodies you may be conscious of standing there in the astral body, or a higher subtle body. Hopefully it will be higher ones. But the fact is, only if you have realised (to some degree) your spiritual consciousness while incarnate in your physical body, will you have raised the vibration of all bodies sufficiently to be conscious of yourself in the higher subtle planes in life and in 'death'. If some degree of spiritual integration is not forged while incarnate in the earth body, then the soul , at death (of the earth body), will most likely be magnetised to the astral plane. This is not a graduation of any kind. One can only graduate in personal vibration. That spiritual 'work' of self- transformation must be accomplished in this body.
We are not 3rd density beings on our evolutionary way to becoming 4th density beings. That is a simplistic confusion (deliberate i believe) of the simple reality that we are already 7dimentional beings and that we are evolving to the realisation of self at all 7 levels of being. The only sense that we could even be called "3rd density" beings is that we are incarnate in a 3 dimentional level of reality. We are not "3rd density" ... Rather, we are aware that a part of ourselves (the physical body) lives in 3 dimentional reality.... height, width, length. (and any other scientific description of the earth plane that describes it .... ie. a vibrational spectrum or space-time or...)
If we are going to use numerals to describe our densities, then why omit any? So far we haven't transcended any.
1st density = physical earth body in 3d physical plane.
2nd density = astral body in astral plane
3rd density = mental body in mental plane MATERIAL
4th density = etheric body in etheric plane
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5th density = white light consciousness of christos / boddhi
higher
6th density = causal body in plane of first cause SPIRITUAL
7th density = I AM Presence / Atman / Father
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This is not merely an alternative scheme which says basically the same thing as Ra. It is very different. It is a dimentional description of your divine reality and so far, none of these 7 densities have been left behind in a prior stage of evolution. As you can see, they are all still indispensable. The 4 lower vehicles for the soul's experience in the material planes have not yet been dispensed with by ourselves, but millions of souls who have incarnated on earth have already ascended and they have transcended the 4 lower- bodies. And not just pre- 75000 years ago either. Ascension has been happening to a number of souls in every century.
We may have transcended grosser, less refined bodies in the past to now inhabit more refined bodies. But both types of bodies are (in the above scheme) physical. Both have been utilised for our soul's incarnation in 3d physical plane. ie... 1st density. It might surprise some (it shouldn't) that we've been incarnating in the earth plane (1st density) for far, far longer than 75,000 years in refined bodies like we now have and that some souls on earth did not evolve UP to where we are now but first fell (in consciousness and vibration) from higher planes. Some "fell" from spiritual planes and some from the etheric. Many of these are the souls who are ready to asend.
So ascension is this. When the soul has balanced 51% of her karma, then one qualification for the ascension has been fulfilled. This is very different than the concept found in the Ra material. Spending 51% of one's life in 'Service To Others' will not necessarilly balance 51% of one's karma. The karmic energy is all the personal energy which has been misqualified by the soul in all incarnations (in the 4 lower bodies) in matter. That energy has been flowing into the soul and 4 lower bodies from the higher- Self in spiritual planes during each incarnation. It is our stream of consciousness, and as it flowed through us, it has been stamped with our personal vibration and identity. It is identifiably our own. We are karmically responsible for that energy and, one with the spiritual Self, we must redeem it from the lower planes where it has become vibrationally 'trapped'. That 'dead body' of karmic energy must be 'resurrected' by transmutation.(The resurrection must come before the ascension.) The 'dead' karmic self is literally a part of ourselves 'crucified' on the 'cross' of matter. We must take it from the cross and tend it's wounds. SPIRIT WITHIN US can accomplish this by transmutation. The vibration of that energy can be raised and the vibration of our soul with it. There are ways to do this.
51% of karma can be balanced by loving service to others and by meditation, affirmations, contemplation, singing, prayer to the higher- Self etc . The flow of spiritual love can be opened in these ways and wash away the sin / karma of the ages, and vibrationally raise our soul (and the 4 lower bodies) into a high spiritual state. We have then truly become "born again". That spiritual state prepares us for vibrational resonance with the etheric plane after physical death. ie... By doing that we can ascend to the highest density material plane --- the etheric plane--- because we have transmuted the etheric body during our life on earth. If we accomplish that, then we will not be karmically compelled to re-incarnate into the earth plane (1st density) again. But we will have to balance the remaining 49% of misqualified energy from the etheric level before our soul can be permanantly fused to the higher- Self in the ritual of the ascension.
I didn't get to discuss the other major topic on which i believe the Ra material is gravely mistaken. That is, the idea that dedicated "Service to Selfers" are on a path to ascension. They are not. i'll write that up over the next few days.
