Harvest, General (Graduation)
Within an octave there are seven cycles of evolution known as densities. A planetary body transitions from one density to the next according to a precise design that might be visualized as a three-dimensional clock face stretched across the entire galaxy. As the galaxy revolves (or, more technically, spirals), each constituent solar system and planet moves through the scheduled density of experience.
The cycles move precisely as a clock strikes the hour. The gateway from intelligent energy to intelligent infinity opens, as Ra says, regardless of circumstances on the striking of that hour.[38]
The ending of a density (or a sub-cycle within a density) is known as the time of harvest—meaning that, upon completing a density, or cycle therein, those who have successfully learned the lesson of that cycle are harvested in order that they may ascertain whether they are ready to graduate to the next density. This is perhaps somewhat analogous to passing a final exam at the end of a grade in school in order to move onto the next grade.
In the graduation process, the spirit of each harvested entity moves along the line of light until the light grows too glaring, at which time the entity stops at whatever density of experience matches their own vibratory level, choosing the most appropriate new environment for either a repetition of their present cycle or advancement into the next cycle.
This process is entirely self-governed, though there is an enormous amount of assistance from guides, guardians, and the higher self.
Author’s Note: The Ripening of the Soul
It seems obvious that Ra chose the term harvest as a metaphor. As a farmer’s crops are cultivated and eventually harvested, likewise do souls ripen in the soil of a given density and bear fruit for the Creator. That is to say, if the soul has learned the lessons of that particular density, they are ready to be harvested in order to move on to the next.
Harvest, as a metaphor, need not be connected strictly to the tilled fields and cultivated orchards of agriculture, however. Harvest can simply be the product or result of an action. Ra mentions, for instance, that the “harvest” of the previous octave yielded to this octave the male/female polarities and the mind/body/spirit complex. We as co-Creators may also reap the fruits of our labor.
Ultimately all that is harvested in this or any universe is a harvest of experience offered to the Creator.
Citations:
- 6.14, 9.4, 10.9, 14.19, 16.11, 51.1, 63.29, 78.10
- The entity who moves through the death process moves through a specific and routine procedure involving transfer into the indigo-ray body (47.11, 47.15 and elsewhere). That process is modified significantly and anomalously at the time of harvest: “Here we have the anomaly of harvest. In harvest the entity will then transfer its indigo body into violet-ray manifestation as seen in true-color yellow. This is for the purpose of gauging the harvestability of the entity. After this anomalous activity has been carefully completed, the entity will move into indigo body again and be placed in the correct true-color locus in space/time and time/space, at which time the healings and learn/teachings necessary shall be completed and further incarnation needs determined.” – 48.7