L/L 资料库
Law of Responsibility
This particular law (or way) goes into effect in proportion to the increasing ability of entities to grasp the lessons of this density. It requires that all newly gained understanding be put into practice in the moment-to-moment experience of the entity, meaning that each is responsible for what they learn.
The closer to the light one seeks to stand, the more the Law of Responsibility goes into effect. Thus when the entity takes responsibility for the totality of its life experiences, it may empower its progress much as the empowering of the call. In the empowering of the call, the second call doubles the first; the third call doubles the second; and so forth. Ra indicates that this is at work in each instance that the self truly takes responsibility for itself and its creation.
This also speaks to why one must be careful when using training aids like a pyramid—or, it may be surmised, consciousness-changing chemical agents (e.g. psychedelics)—because one then becomes responsible for the quickened or increased rate of learning.
Our planet offers a case study in the denial of the Law of Responsibility. Ra reports that in earlier cycles of this third-density experience, the catalyst went unused, the lessons were not learned, and the fruits of learning were not demonstrated. The result, devastating by our standards, was a drastic reduction in the life span. As Ra said, the ways of honor/duty were not being accepted.
  • By the end of the second cycle, the Law of Responsibility had begun to be effectuated by the increasing ability of entities to grasp those lessons which there are to be learned in this density. Thus, entities had discovered many ways to indicate a bellicose nature, not only as tribes or what you call nations but in personal relationships, each with the other; the concept of barter having given way in many cases to the concept of money; also, the concept of ownership having won ascendancy over the concept of non-ownership on an individual or group basis.
Each entity, then, was offered many more subtle ways of demonstrating either service towards others or service to self[55] with the distortion of the manipulation of others. As each lesson was understood—those lessons of sharing, of giving, of receiving in free gratitude—each lesson could be rejected in practice.
Without demonstrating the fruits of such learn/teaching the life span became greatly reduced, for the ways of honor/duty were not being accepted. – 22.5
  • The lessening of the life span was due primarily to the lack of the building up of positive orientation. When there is no progress those conditions which grant progress are gradually lost. This is one of the difficulties of remaining unpolarized. The chances, shall we say, of progress become steadily less. – 20.17
  • The root cause in this particular society [of disease, and relatedly, the reduction in life span] was not so much a bellicose action, although there were […] tendencies, but rather the formation of a money system and a very active trading and development of those tendencies towards greed and power; thus, the enslaving of entities by other entities and the misapprehension of the Creator within each entity. – 23.15
  • The causes of this shortening are always an ineuphonious, or inharmonious, relational vibration between other-selves. – 20.16
Questioner: Yes, Q’uo, could you describe please the Law of Responsibility?
Q’uo: I am Q’uo, and I am aware of your query, my brother. Each seeker in the process of seeking will find those resources that are of assistance in the revealing of the heart of love and the nature of truth to the seeker. As the seeker becomes aware of more principles, shall we say, that are applicable to the life pattern, the seeker has the responsibility of utilizing these resources in the service to others and in the enhancing of the life pattern. If the seeker is unable or unwilling to use that which it has learned, then it will find greater difficulty in its future seeking in discovering further principles and resources that will assist in this process. Thus, the Law of Responsibility simply asks each seeker to use that which is learned to the best of its ability in the life pattern, in revealing love to self, love for self, love to others, love for others. – Apr 7, 1996
Author’s Note: The Great Pitch of Light
The concept of responsibility is empowering, reminding us of the self-authored nature of our spiritual journey. As with the concept of catalyst, an appreciation of this ideas helps to flip the script, to move from seeing the self as an entity which is done unto, and to seeing the self as an entity which always has a choice of response. In truth, the self is fully responsible for all its experience, and is not the victim of wayward circumstance. Meanwhile, the positive polarity grasps that true power comes not via control, but through acceptance.
This degree of accountability is well-articulated in Dr. Scott Mandelker’s book Universal Vision. Describing a difficult personal experience, he wrote:
"I even started to feel some gratitude for the [difficult] situations, as I realized that all the so-called trouble I experienced was wholly a product of my own blockages. My desires, my expectations, my hopes and fears, my assumptions and ideas of success and failure—all these gave birth to the quality of my personal experience, regardless of the actions of others involved in the situation. Outside parties are as they are, but our feelings are ours alone. I learned to take responsibility for my anger, blame, impatience, frustration. These were totally self-generated—from me, to me, for me. Fully owning our personal process is the first step in learning to love the self, just as it is." – Scott Mandelker[56]
The more fully someone takes responsibility, the less they place blame or project their own shadows onto others. Other-selves become mirrors as we look to our external difficulties in order to discover what calls for healing within us.
A powerful testament to the sovereign nature of the spirit comes from Victor Frankl, survivor of a Nazi concentration camp. In his book Man’s Search for Meaning, [57] he writes:
Is there no spiritual freedom in regard to behavior and reaction to any given surroundings? Is that theory true which would have us believe that man is no more than a product of many conditional and environmental factors—be they of biological, psychological or sociological nature? Is man but an accidental product of these? Most important, do the prisoners’ reactions to the singular world of the concentration camp prove that man cannot escape the influences of his surroundings? Does man have no choice of action in the face of such circumstances?
We can answer these questions from experience as well as on principle. The experiences of camp life show that man does have a choice of action. There were enough examples, often of a heroic nature, which proved that apathy could be overcome, irritability suppressed. Man can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom, of independence of mind, even in such terrible conditions of psychic and physical stress.
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
And there were always choices to make. Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom; which determined whether or not you would become the plaything of circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity to become molded into the form of the tyrannical inmate.
If ever there was a testing ground for the immutable resilience of the human heart, it was Dr. Frankl’s soul-rending experience. His response is staggering evidence of the self’s power to orient the soul in the face of unimaginable difficulty.
The Law of Responsibility plumbs even deeper metaphysical depths. It sees the operation of free will as paramount in any given circumstance, and it traces that free will right up the chain of consciousness from its operation in the oft-confused conscious mind, to the subconscious mind (and its transpersonal layers), to the pre-incarnational programming, to the will of the Logos, to the will of the One. But in the understanding of Victor Frankl and the teaching of the Confederation, there is no defeat or failure, loss or limitation, trauma or suffering that is final; there is only opportunity:
  • The seeker which has purely chosen the service-to-others path shall certainly not have a variant apparent incarnational experience. There is no outward shelter in your illusion from the gusts, flurries, and blizzards of quick and cruel catalyst.
However, to the pure, all that is encountered speaks of the love and the light of the One Infinite Creator. The cruelest blow is seen with an ambiance of challenges offered and opportunities to come. Thusly, the great pitch of light is held high above such an one so that all interpretation may be seen to be protected by light. – 95.24
“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.” – Eckhart Tolle
Citations:
For further exploration, see also:
  • More about shortening the lifespan: 14.7–11, 15.5, 20.12–25, 22.3–8
  • More opportunity offered for disease by the Logos to preserve the “proper rhythm and increment” in accordance with the shortened lifespan: 76.21
  • In the shortened lifespan, you gotta hustle: “Those entities which have, in some way, learned/taught themselves the appropriate distortions for rapid growth can now work within the confines of the shorter life span.” 20.25
  • In this guide: Calling | Catalyst | Honor/Responsibility. And 10.13.