Distortion, Primal

Everything in creation from the birth to the death of the universe—everything lived, imagined, thought, or experienced—is a distortion of the pure, undistorted, undifferentiated intelligent infinity. Ra reports that among the infinite possible distortions, there are three foundational Primal Distortions from which every subsequent distortion springs. The three Primal Distortions emerge from the potential of intelligent infinity to form the kinetic of intelligent energy in the following sequence, each one birthing the next:

0. Intelligent Infinity

1. First Distortion: Free Will
(Law of Free Will, Law of Confusion)

2. Second Distortion: Love
(Law of Love, Logos, Creative Principle, Primal Co-Creator.)

3. Third Distortion: Light
(Law of Light)

From these three distortions come many, many hierarchies of distortions, i.e., everything. Ra says that each distortion (or level of distortion) has its own paradoxes to be synthesized and that no one is more important than another.

The Primal Distortions are also called Laws or Ways with the recognition that there is only one Law or Way: the Law of One. Other so-called laws are distortions of this law, some of them, like the three in this entry, are primal and most important for progress to be understood. However, Ra advises that each “so-called law,” be understood as a distortion rather than a law because there is no multiplicity to the Law of One—it is the only true Law.[28]

Author’s Note: Creation Story

The Primal Distortions constitute the creation story: the cosmic genesis of the universe; the birth of all that there is; the One becoming the many. However, these “first” or “primal” distortions of intelligent infinity are not ultimately located in an ancient beginning, far removed from third density; rather, the Primal distortions exist within the heart of the self at all times. As the entity raises the locus of awareness into the indigo ray and awakens the Logoic identity (the self as the Logos), the self moves ever more purely into work with the Primal Distortions, abiding by these laws and becoming a conscious instrument for their activity.

In the sense of the activity of Unity in its free will, Love uses Light and has the power to direct light in its distortions. – 27.13
In the vibratory sense, love comes into light. […] Thus vibratory complexes [aka: entities] recapitulate in reverse the creation in its unity, thus showing the rhythm or flow of the great heartbeat, if you will use this analogy. – 27.13

The One becoming the many (first quote) is that action of the heartbeat that sends the, shall we say, pure lifeblood outward into creation and manifestation where it becomes distorted in infinite ways by infinite expressions of free will.

The many becoming the One (second quote) is the return of that lifeblood to its origins, replete with experience, gradually undistorted in the perception or understanding of the conscious seeker on its journey home, where the heart may absorb that which has been gained, and beat once more.

So what does Ra mean when they say in the quote above that “vibratory complexes recapitulate in reverse the creation in its unity”? In the first action of the heartbeat, the outward movement, the Primal Distortions create the infinite universe in the sequence of 1, 2, 3 and, bang!, creation.

In the second action of the heartbeat, the “vibratory complexes” (aka: creation) move in reverse from 3, 2, 1, as (3) light, the material of the universe, seeks (2) consciousness, the Logos, seeks (1) spirit, the free will distortion, seeks (0) unity.

The term “upward spiraling light” is an indication, not of your up and down concept, but an indication of the concept of that which reaches towards the source of love and light. – 59.11

Author’s Note: The Rhythm of Reality

In the following, Ra explores this macrocosmic heartbeat or, as they profoundly describe it, the rhythm of reality:

Intelligent infinity has a rhythm, or flow, as of a giant heart beginning with the Central Sun, as you would think or conceive of this; the presence of the flow inevitable as a tide of beingness without polarity, without finity; the vast and silent all beating outward, outward, focusing outward, and inward, until the focuses are complete. The intelligence or consciousness of foci have reached a state where their, shall we say, spiritual nature or mass calls them inward, inward, inward until all is coalesced. This is the rhythm of reality as you spoke. – 27.6
The basic rhythms of intelligent infinity are totally without distortion of any kind. The rhythms are clothed in mystery, for they are being itself. – 27.7
In the understanding which we have of the universe, or creation, as one infinite being—its heart beating as alive in its own intelligent energy—it merely is one beat of the heart of this intelligence from creation to creation. In this context each and every entity of consciousness has/is/will experienced/experiencing/experience each and every density. – 19.1
When all of creation, in its infinity, has reached a spiritual gravitational mass of sufficient nature, the entire creation infinitely coalesces: the light seeking and finding its source and thusly ending the creation and beginning a new creation much as you consider the black hole, as you call it, with its conditions of infinitely great mass at the zero point from which no light may be seen as it has been absorbed. – 29.18 (This quote’s preceding paragraph is remarkable in expressing Ra’s limitations of understanding, near omniscient though they otherwise seem to us.)
Questioner: Then the black hole would be a point […] at which the environmental material had succeeded in uniting with unity or the Creator? Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. The black hole which manifests [or appears to us in] third density is the physical complex manifestation of this spiritual or metaphysical state. This is correct. – 29.19

This octave density of which we have spoken is both omega and alpha, the spiritual mass of the infinite universes becoming one Central Sun, or Creator, once again. Then is born a new universe, a new infinity, a new Logos which incorporates all that the Creator has experienced of Itself. – 52.12

In my linear-patterned, space/time-wired brain, I see a universe with a clear beginning, middle, and conclusion (at least in a given cycle), where time, or at least sequence, moves only irreversibly forward. In that sense, it would seem that the outward-bound half of the octave-sized heartbeat would need first to complete its action before the Great Central Sun could perform the inward-bound half of the universe-sized heartbeat. A single heartbeat would constitute both the birth and death, as it were, of a universe, or octave; the next heartbeat birthing the next octave, and so forth.

However, if you look at a human heart, every heartbeat is simultaneously sending oxygen-rich blood into and through the system, and receiving deoxygenated blood back from the body. Presuming that the human heart may serve as an analog or conceptual model to some degree, I think that the inward and the outward are happening more or less simultaneously.

There are continually emerging first-density entities just as there are continually graduating seventh-density entities. Consider that even now our own third-density instrumentation can observe black holes that are, according to Ra’s metaphysics, places of infinite density and gravity, which are performing the universe’s systematic reabsorption of all that has been learned and experienced, all which seemed to have become separate in the play of light and shadow.

In 13.12, Ra indicates that “due to the infinite possibilities of intelligent infinity, there is no ending to many-ness. The exploration, thus, is free to continue infinitely in an eternal present.” Maybe the infinite chain of octaves is constantly present, entities graduating one octave to flow into the next, on and on forever. Though maybe a given octave does eventually come to a close, or perhaps the Creator even occasionally reboots the entire enchilada:

We wish to establish that we are truly humble messengers of the Law of One. We can speak to you of our experiences and our understandings and teach/learn in limited ways. However, we cannot speak in firm knowledge of all the creations. We know only that they are infinite. We assume an infinite number of octaves.

However, it has been impressed upon us by our own teachers that there is a mystery-clad unity of creation in which all consciousness periodically coalesces and, again, begins. Thus we can only say we assume an infinite progression, though we understand it to be cyclical in nature and, as we have said, clad in mystery. – 28.16

Here is as synopsis of that heartbeat captured in one fascinating Q&A:

The concept of the white light of the sub-Logos being prismatically separated and later, at the final chapter, being absorbed again is basically correct. However, there are subtleties involved which are more than semantic.

The white light which emanates and forms the articulated sub-Logos has its beginning in what may be metaphysically seen as darkness. The light comes into that darkness and transfigures it, causing the chaos to organize and become reflective or radiant. Thus the dimensions come into being.

Conversely, the blackness of the black hole, metaphysically speaking, is a concentration of white light being systematically absorbed once again into the One Creator. Finally, this absorption into the One Creator continues until all the infinity of creations have attained sufficient spiritual mass in order that all form once again the Great Central Sun, if you would so imagine it, of the intelligent infinity awaiting potentiation by Free Will. Thus the transition of the octave is a process which may be seen to enter into timelessness of unimaginable nature. To attempt to measure it by your time measures would be useless.[29]

Therefore, the concept of moving through the black hole of the ultimate spiritual gravity well and coming immediately into the next octave misses the subconcept or corollary of the portion of this process which is timeless. – 40.1

In the quote at the start of this section, 27.6, Ra describes the out and inflow of the heartbeat saying that “Intelligent infinity has a rhythm, or flow, as of a giant heart beginning with the Central Sun, […] the vast and silent all beating outward, outward, focusing outward, and inward, until the focuses are complete.”

It would seem that the journey of light at the start of the octave is almost entirely outward-focused without much of an interior dimension or focus. But when does the outward focus begin to transform into the inward focus? While the inward focus may develop incrementally in the latter half of the second density, my guess would be that the inward journey really begins at the dawn of self-consciousness at the cusp of third density. The entity, having awakened its spirit complex, is ready to transition from that purely outward, instinctual reaching for the light characteristic of second-density life into the baby steps of the inward or conscious portion of its journey.

But not immediately. As it graduates and commences the third-density portion of its journey as a mind/body/spirit complex possessed of free will, the entity is still, I would imagine, predominantly focused upon the outward experience. But as it evolves through lifetimes and activates its higher centers, the entity gradually feels a greater call for cultivating the interior dimension and work in consciousness.

This trajectory of outward/inward becoming inward/outward continues in the succeeding densities until, probably sometime in latter half of the sixth density, the spiritual gravity is such it becomes almost entirely inward as “the intelligence or consciousness of foci have reached a state where their, shall we say, spiritual nature or mass calls them inward, inward, inward until all is coalesced,” and all is reunited with the One.

Spiritual mass is that which begins to attract the out-moving and ongoing vibratory oscillations of beingness into the [spiritually speaking] gravity well of the great central sun, core, or Creator of the infinite universes. – 37.8

Outward and inward, outward and inward. We “vibratory complexes” in third density are on the return side of that U-turn back to Source, exemplifying in a new light why our mythologies and philosophies portray our kind as existing in a tension of two natures: animal and spirit, earth and divine, mortal and eternal.

Author’s Note: Systematic Reabsorption

I have a theory that the “systematic reabsorption” of the Primal Logos (mentioned above) at the end of the octave is begun much earlier. For instance, here Ra describes the rejection or non-integration of love and light into the self, and the resulting reduction of the life span and necessity for healing:

The shortened life span is due to the necessity for removing an entity from the intensity of experience which ensues when wisdom and love are, having been rejected, reflected back into the consciousness of the Creator without being accepted as part of the self, this then causing the entity to have the need for healing and for much evaluation of the incarnation. – 22.6

When we in third density love and accept what is, when we accept more and more of the creation as self, we integrate or reabsorb the material into our beings. We are agents of the Primal Logos in that regard. As we merge self with self, with other self, and with the Creator, we synthesize and integrate the fragments of the manyness into the One, of which we are microcosm. We embark upon the “flight towards that great Logos which is that which is sought by the adept.” (93.10)

The understanding, experiencing, accepting, and merging of self with self and with other-self and, finally, with the Creator, is the path to the heart of self. In each infinitesimal part of your self resides the One in all of Its power. Therefore, we can only encourage these lines of contemplation, always stating the prerequisite of meditation, contemplation, or prayer as a means of subjectively/objectively using or combining various understandings to enhance the seeking process. Without such a method of reversing the analytical process, one could not integrate into unity the many understandings gained in such seeking. – 15.4

From the daily contemplations of our catalyst, to the reviews and re-reviews of lifetimes between incarnations, to the reflection upon the journey over eons of time that transpires in the higher densities—all along we are data crunching our experience for the Creator as agents of the Creator and Its Great Experiment.

Then, at the conclusion of the octave cycle, the “looking backwards” finished, we arrive at the event horizon, the macrocosm, delivering unto unity all of our experience and lessons, all of the creation that we re-absorbed into ourselves as a gift to the Creator.

After the seventh has been well entered, the mind/body/spirit complex becomes so totally a mind/body/spirit complex totality that it begins to gather spiritual mass and approach the octave density. Thus the looking backwards is finished at that point. – 33.20

This process of integrating and containing within ourselves more and more of the creation as self is also the process of gaining spiritual mass; this coinciding with the increasing density of light in each succeeding density.

You may conveniently consider each density of being to have a greater and greater spiritual mass. The mass increases, shall we say, significantly, but not greatly, until the gateway density. In this density the summing up, the looking backwards—in short, all the useful functions of polarity have been used. – 39.4
The seventh-density being, the completed being, the Creator who knows Itself, accumulates mass and compacts into the One Creator once again. – 39.4

Author’s Note: On Universes and Galaxies

Ra’s use of the term “universe” seems to be dual-purposed. On one hand it denotes the whole, indivisible burrito at the macrocosmic level, particularly when they say “one infinite universe,” “the universe is one being,” “the universe or creation as one infinite being,” and “the universe, its mystery unbroken, is one.”

But in its other meaning, Ra seems to use the term to refer to, what we call, a galaxy. For example:

The experience or existence of space/time comes into being after the individuation process of Logos or Love has been completed and the physical universe, as you would call it, has coalesced or begun to draw inward while moving outward to the extent that that which you call your sun bodies have, in their turn, created timeless chaos coalescing into what you call planets, these vortices of intelligent energy spending a large amount of what you would call first density in a timeless state, the space/time realization being one of the learn/teachings of this density of beingness. – 28.6

I would read this quote as describing the formation of what we would call a “galaxy.” This can be further deduced by considering the system of Logoi as described by Ra. They refer to the entity responsible for designing and building a galaxy as a “Logos,” around which form offspring, or planets as sub-Logos (like our Sun). And for that being which is responsible for the octave itself, Ra refers to it as the Primal Logos, One Logos, One Central Sun, and One Great Heart of Creation. So we have:

Primal Logos: Octave

Logos: Galaxy

Sub-Logos: Star system with planetary bodies

Sub-Sub-Logos: Third-density beings, etc.

Thus in the quote above, it looks like Ra is speaking of a galaxy as a particular universe created by a Logos. Further reinforced in the following:

Questioner: Do all of the individualized portions of the Logos, then, in our— I’ll call the lenticular galaxy that we are in, 250 billion suns, or stars, I will call that the major galaxy just so we will not get mixed up in our terms. Does all the consciousness, then, in this individualized form that goes into what we are calling the major galaxy start out and go through all of the densities in order, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven or— then to eighth— or is there, shall I say, some who start higher up the rank and go in a— so that there is always a mixture of intelligent consciousness in the galaxy?

Ra: I am Ra. The latter is more nearly correct. In each beginning there is the beginning from infinite strength. Free will acts as a catalyst. Beings begin to form the universes. Consciousness then begins to have the potential to experience. The potentials of experience are created as a part of intelligent energy and are fixed before experience begins. – 28.13

In the passage above, Don is clearly talking about the formation of galaxies. In their response, the noun that Ra uses is the plural universes to reference these very same individuated portions of the Logoic being, aka: galaxies.

Questioner: Thank you. Thank you for that explanation of the mathematics, too. That was bothering me. Could you define spiritual mass?

Ra: I am Ra. This will be the last full question of this session. Spiritual mass is that which begins to attract the out-moving and ongoing vibratory oscillations of beingness into the gravity, speaking in a spiritual sense, well of the Great Central Sun, Core, or Creator of the infinite universes. – 37.8

In the above we again see the plural “universes” as interchangeable equivalents of “galaxies.” Ra points to the Primal Logos, or the Great Central Sun, or the “Creator of the infinite universes” absorbing all of its creation or infinite universes back into Itself at the close of the octave.[30] This is the same systematic absorption described in greater detail when they say:

The blackness of the black hole, metaphysically speaking, is a concentration of white light being systematically absorbed once again into the One Creator. Finally, this absorption into the One Creator continues until all the infinity of creations have attained sufficient spiritual mass in order that all form once again the Great Central Sun. – 40.1
This octave [eighth] density of which we have spoken is both omega and alpha, the spiritual mass of the infinite universes becoming One Central Sun or Creator once again. Then is born a new universe, a new infinity, a new Logos which incorporates all that the Creator has experienced of Itself. – 52.12

Understanding this, it is easier to discern how “universe” is used in the next passage to be synonymous with “galaxy.”

Questioner: Was the galaxy that we are in created by the infinite intelligence, or was it created by a portion of the individualized infinite intelligence?

Ra: I am Ra. The galaxy, and all other things of material of which you are aware, are products of individualized portions of intelligent infinity. As each exploration began, it, in turn, found its focus and became co-Creator. Using intelligent infinity, each portion created an universe, and—allowing the rhythms of free choice to flow, playing with the infinite spectrum of possibilities—each individualized portion channeled the love/light into what you might call intelligent energy, thus creating the so-called natural laws of any particular universe.

Each universe, in turn, individualized to a focus, becoming, in turn, co-Creator, and allowing further diversity, thus creating further intelligent energies, regularizing or causing natural laws to appear in the vibrational patterns of what you would call a solar system. Thus, each solar system has its own, shall we say, local coordinate system of illusory natural laws. – 13.13

The same would seem to hold true in 28.5 when Ra says that “your own universe having been well-studied in an empirical fashion by those you call your scientists….”, they refer to the study of our own galaxy.

36.4 presents a mind-bending possibility when they speak of “universe to universe and parallel existences,” but what they are saying there is well above my pay grade.

Author’s Note: Sequence and The Eternal Present Moment

The main entry includes the sentence, “The three Primal Distortions emerge from intelligent infinity in the following sequence, each one birthing the next.” The word “sequence”—a particular order in which events follow one another—seems to be the best term to apply here. Ra does indicate that there is a progression from a state of no distortion, to the First, to the Second, to the Third, and then…to the birth of a universe.

Yet, one must confront the paradox of simultaneity in the eternal present moment when considering these initial steps. Making a beautiful go at it, Diana writes: “The universe is one simultaneous present ‘moment.’ In reality, nothing ‘came before’ anything else; however, if we are to map the relationships that exist within the inherent structure of intelligent infinity’s experience, we must use terms that convey causality or sequence. It’s a bit like attempting to describe the rainbow that emerges when white light becomes distorted: the first wavelength appears to be red, then orange, then yellow, and so on. In truth, all the colors exist at once—and in the same “place”—despite their organized, or ordered, relationships, as we experience them. One did not cause the next, yet none could exist without the reality of the others’ unique configurations, or distortions, of the pure white light.

And, ultimately, for colors to seem to exist at all, they must be perceived by an observer who is itself distorted from the One into an illusory state of separateness—so that there may exist both the observer and the observed.”

Citations:

13.12, 14.10, 15.21, 22.27, 27.13, 59.11
Author’s Note: 15.4, 27.6-7, 27.13, 28.16, 29.18–19, 39.4, 40.1, 52.12, 59.11

For further exploration, see also:

Ra also uses the adjective “primal” when referring to service and healing. It is unknown, or unclear to me at least, how direct the connection is between service, healing, and the Primal Distortions. Except perhaps to say that in healing the mind/body/spirit complex, one is coming more purely into congruency with the Primal Distortions—eventually, as the entity progresses and awakens its Logoic identity, becoming an agent of their operation.
In this guide: Distortion | Intelligent Energy | Intelligent Infinity.