Service to Self
In the course of third density there is a Choice to make regarding how one will love, how one will serve, and how one will relate to the free will of self and others. This choice determines whether one will absorb the energy of others for selfish gain or radiate to others in free giving. Of these two available choices, the Confederation calls the negative or left-hand path, service to self. This path and its counterpart, service to others, first diverge from one another on their respective…
Relationship to Free Will
Those of the negative polarity form a separation-based relationship to free will, concluding that the free will of the other-self need not be respected, honored, valued, or supported. The other-self, instead, is to be manipulated, exploited, controlled, and enslaved for the sole benefit of the self. The greater the enslavement, the more total the infringement, the more the negative entity moves forward upon its path of polarity. As the service-to-self entity progresses into higher densities, that orientation becomes even more pure, to the extent that they reject completely the concept of other-selves’ free will.
This polarized relationship to free will is seen in terms of that which prompts the service of each polarity. Positive entities await the call or request before offering their service; negative entities do not await the request but instead call themselves to service. The negative service, however, looks very different from the positive. Recall that Ra names the negative polarity service to self. The negative entity is not asking “What can I do to meet your need and contribute to your empowerment?” but is instead asking “How can I use you to enhance myself? How can I gain your power, or your money, property, status, or your obligated, obedient servitude?” This is a model of opportunism wherein those of the negative polarity will infringe whenever they feel it possible and to their benefit. In this model, all means, including gross deceit, are fair game.
Whereas Ra describes the positive polarity as energetically radiant, they describe the negative polarity as energetically absorptive. This is not an absorption that simply receives what is given; but one that seeks to take what is not (at least consciously or knowingly) offered.[132] What is taken? Principally, the power of other selves through infringement upon their free will—that infringement growing more powerful, skilled, and subtle as the negative being advances in the densities.
Despite the proclivity toward infringing upon free will, the higher-density negative entity still dances with and is bound by free will in ways that are not entirely clear to me. For instance, they may lose polarity by violating free will, so, if wise, they strive instead to deceive the targeted entity into surrendering their will through deception or trickery. See: 16.1–9, 24.8, 55.4–6, 68.16–18, 69.9, 71.14, & especially 72.8
Service to Self and the Veil
Both the positive and negative polarities awaken to their paths in a third-density environment of separation where the conscious mind is veiled (separated from) the subconscious mind. But whereas the positive polarity seeks to lessen and see through separation, the negative polarity seeks power through intensifying separation. The first separation, as Ra says, is of the self from the self. The negative polarity sees the conscious self[133] as separate, distinct from, and above all else, including its own subconscious resources. From this standpoint, no effort is made to seek guidance from the greater, or higher, self, much less other-selves who may be viewed as non-entities, slaves, personal possessions, or completely without status.
Separation and disregard for free will depend heavily upon the veil. In the veiled environment, the closing of the heart both causes and sustains the negative point of view.
  • If you see the energy centers in their various colors completing the spectrum you may see that the service-to-self choice is one which denies the very center of the spectrum; that being universal love. Therefore, all that is built upon the penetration of the light of harvestable quality by such entities is based upon an omission. This omission shall manifest in fourth density as the love of self: that is, the fullest expression of the orange and yellow energy centers which then are used to potentiate communication and adepthood.
When fifth-density refinement has been achieved, that which is not is carried further, the wisdom density being explored by entities which have no compassion, no universal love. They experience that which they wish by free choice, being of the earnest opinion that green-ray energy is folly. – 85.11
As there is a heavy reliance upon the veil in third density to make the choice of service to self, it begs the question: what happens when the veil is lifted in fourth density? Does not the negative entity then see and understand the unified nature of reality? How, then, can they continue upon a path of separation? The above excerpt speaks to that, saying those of the negative path in higher densities continue their journey by free choice in total conviction that love is folly. Ra also shares:
  • The polarization process, as it enters fourth density, is one which occurs with full knowledge of the veiling process which has taken place in third density. This veiling process is that which is a portion of the third-density experience. The knowledge and memory of the outcome of this, and all portions of the third-density experience, informs the higher-density polarized entity. It, however, does not influence the choice which has been made and which is the basis for further work past third density in polarization. Those which have chosen the service-to-self path have simply used the veiling process in order to potentiate that which is not. This is an entirely acceptable method of self-knowledge of and by the Creator. – 85.9
The fourth-density negative entity has made the choice available to each at third-density harvest. It is aware of the full array of possible methods of viewing the universe of the One Creator and it is convinced that the ignoring and non-use of the green-ray energy center will be the method most efficient in providing harvestability of fourth density. – 87.11 (See also 77.14)
Service to Self in Practice: Control vs. Acceptance
If there are two words that most concisely describe the polarities in their attempts to promote either separation or unification, they are control in the former and acceptance in the latter. How these two energies diverge is a subject that seekers of both paths will explore through many lifetimes. We will only briefly examine how control on the service-to-self path is the diametrical opposite of acceptance.
The positive path, the path of acceptance, is also called the path of that which is. The journey, then, is a progressive discovery of what is, which is also to say, a progressive releasing of resistance (removing blockage) to what is. To (re)discover what is, each facet of the self and the creation is seen, is brought into the heart, and is deeply accepted.
This circle of acceptance grows to include discomfort, pain, and the many cruelties of human beings. It grows to include your whole self as you are, in your totality, the light and the dark. It is from this perspective that judgment of self and others dissolves. The vision then lifts to behold the Creator who had always been fully present, just hidden by non-acceptance. Only through acceptance does the Creator begin to reveal its Self from beneath the mirages of illusion. Only through acceptance can the third-density game be won:
  • This game can only be won by those who lose their cards in the melting influence of love; can only be won by those who lay their pleasures, their limitations, their all upon the table face up and say inwardly: “All, all of you players, each other-self, whatever your hand, I love you.” This is the game: to know, to accept, to forgive, to balance, and to open the self in love. – 50.7
Acceptance is not opposed to the word “no.” A service may be rejected. [134] An encroachment or free-will violation may be resisted—in some cases, even with force. But underneath there is an inner non-resistance of these dynamics and a lack of bellicose attitude. This accepting heart understands the inherent perfection of the other-self, and of the other-self’s validity as an essential portion of infinite variety. There is love.
To understand acceptance is to understand the unconditional nature or quality of the Creator’s love. So radically deep does acceptance go that discovering the heart of true acceptance approaches enlightenment itself: all energies of life are brought into the heart to be realized as distortions of the Creator, in trust of the Creator. This integration and balance is the path of unity. Thus is acceptance the roadway to the end of separation and illusion.
Upon the path of acceptance, control is also necessary. One wishes to control their bowels, if possible, and their financial spending. Ra certainly wished to control their narrow-band transmission. Control as the negative polarity wields it, however, is fundamentally opposed to acceptance. Control in the negative sense is active, deep resistance to what is (i.e. blockage).[135] This ties into why Ra call this the path of That Which Is Not.
The negative entity does not accept the present as it manifests, and therefore desires literally to control the creation, to rule, to manipulate, to bend all people and all things to its individual will. This is exercised not with the intention to empower, serve, and heal others by honoring their own divinity, but to dominate, enslave, and strip the status of others, thereby acquiring their power for the individual self.
Insofar as is possible, acceptance attempts to accept the free will of all things. Control, insofar as is possible, attempts to commandeer the free will of all things.
  • The negatively oriented entity will program for maximal separation from and control over all those things and conscious entities which it perceives as being other than the self. – 54.19
  • The negative will use the three lower centers for separation from and control over others by sexual means, by personal assertion, and by action in your societies. – 54.25
  • Upon the negative path, the wisdom density [the fifth density] is one in which power over others has been refined until it is approaching absolute power. Any force such as the force your group and those of Ra offer which cannot be controlled by the power of such a negative fifth-density mind/body/spirit complex then depolarizes the entity which has not controlled other-selves.[136] – 87.6
It is a careful dance for both polarities to determine where acceptance ends and control begins. There is spectrum and ratio to both energies, seldom purely one or the other in this world. Much relies upon the intention of the doer, their depth of empathy, and their relationship with free will.
Service to Self in Hierarchy
Hierarchy is inherent and inescapable in the design of the universe, from orders of magnitude greater to lesser, larger to smaller, and reverse, including the structure of our minds and our energy bodies. Indeed, intelligent energy itself is hierarchical in both nature and manifestation.
  • You must picture the activity within all that is created. The energy is, though finite, quite large compared to the understanding-distortion of your peoples. […] This energy is intelligent. It is hierarchical. Much as your mind/body/spirit complex dwells within an hierarchy of vehicles and retains, therefore, the shell, or shape, or field, and the intelligence of each ascendingly intelligent or balanced body, so does each atom of such a material as rock. – 3.8
  • We begin with the mental learn/teachings necessary for contact with intelligent infinity. The prerequisite of mental work is the ability to retain silence of self at a steady state when required by the self. The mind must be opened like a door. The key is silence. Within the door lies an hierarchical construction you may liken unto geography and in some ways geometry, for the hierarchy is quite regular, bearing inner relationships. – 5.2
  • It is necessary to consider the enabling function of the focus known as Love. This energy is of an ordering nature. It orders in a cumulative way from greater to lesser so that when Its universe, as you may call it, is complete, the manner of development of each detail is inherent in the living light, and thus will develop in such and such a way. – 28.5 (See also: 15.21, 28.13, 41.4, 2.3, 67.28)
But the hierarchy is also holographic, meaning that in:
  • …each infinitesimal part of your self resides the One in all of Its power. – 15.14
  • …any portion, no matter how small, of any density or illusory pattern contains, as in an holographic picture, the One Creator which is infinity. – 13.13
  • You are every thing, every being, every emotion, every event, every situation. You are unity. You are infinity. You are love/light, light/love. You are. This is the Law of One. – 1.7
Entities may be at different stations along the evolutionary line, but upon the positive path this is balanced in the consciousness of love which sees that each is simultaneously the entire One Infinite Creator. Within such a hierarchical-holographic reality, entities upon that path may work with this system; they may love, accept, and serve one another at whatever level of the hierarchy so that the free will of each finds space to blossom and contribute to the whole. And harmony results.
The negative worldview, however, has a different take on hierarchy. It beholds the universe, other-selves included, as that which shall be put in order—not an order which seeks to understand and cooperate with the inherent order of intelligent energy, but one envisioned and imposed by the individual. The negative construct is elitist. It is a dominator hierarchy in which those on the upper rungs suppress the free will of every rung below, bending, manipulating, and enslaving others to serve the self. And disharmony results.
  • The relationship of [the fifth-density negative entity] to fourth-density negative entities is one of the more powerful and the less powerful. The negative path posits slavery of the less powerful as a means of learning the desire to serve the self to the extent that the will is brought to bear. It is in this way that polarity is increased in the negative sense. Thus fourth-density entities are willing slaves of such a fifth-density entity, there being no doubt whatsoever of the relative power of each. – 87.7
  • The early fourth density is one of the most intensive struggle. When the order of authority has been established and all have fought until convinced that each is in the proper placement for power structure, the social memory complex begins. Always the fourth-density effects of telepathy and the transparency of thought are attempted to be used for the sake of those at the apex of the power structure. – 38.14
Service to Self in Groups & Conquest
In our own density, those polarizing service-to-self can and do operate in groups and in control of groups. These groups may have a service-to-self membership in the majority or totality; or the membership may have various ratios of mixed polarity. (One need not look far to locate examples of all types.) The service-to-self groups of higher densities, however, offer a more purified view into exactly what it means to polarize upon the negative path. This is examined more fully in the Orion Empire entry. In the following section we will explore these higher density groups with focus upon the energetics of absorption.
The societies that higher-density negative beings form always include the “pecking order.” As described above, those with more power enslave and demand obedience of those with less. Everyone is pitted against everyone in the desire to rise up to the apex of the power structure and dominate those below. This creates a “spiritual entropy” which causes constant disintegration of their social memory complexes. Only very rarely can they act a unified group.
  • Those seeking intelligent infinity through the use of service to self create the same amount of power [as those of the positive path] but, as we said, have constant difficulty because of the concept of separation which is implicit in the manifestations of the service to self which involve power over others. This weakens and eventually disintegrates the energy collected by such mind/body/spirit complexes. – 7.15
Whereas in the positive model, beings synergistically share power as each seeks to support each in creating something greater than the sum of the parts, in the negative model, all power is funneled upward to those at the top of the power structure. There is active recruitment of others into their ranks. This they do by spreading service-to-self philosophy to those of third density,[137] among other means.
  • The [negative] philosophy[138] concerns the service of manipulating others that they may experience [service to self], thus, through this experience becoming able to appreciate service to self. These entities thus would become oriented towards service to self and in turn manipulate yet others so that they in turn might experience [service to self]. – 12.13 (and 26.34)
This is a program of conquest. Those of negative polarity gain polarity by more or less converting others to the negative path. Their desire with regard to a third-density planet such as our own is to increase the negative harvest for this reason.
  • Questioner: I’ll make this statement and you correct me. The Orion group has as an objective the bringing of service-to-self polarized entities to harvest, as great a harvest as possible. This harvest will build their potential or their ability to do work in consciousness as given by the distortion of the Law of One called the Law of Squares or Doubling. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. – 62.15
  • Questioner: It seems to me that this is a service-to-others action in offering the possibility of the self-serving path. What is the relative effect of polarization of this? I don’t understand that point.
Ra: I am Ra. In your armed bands a large group marauds and pillages successfully. The success of the privates is claimed by the corporals, the success of corporals by sergeants, then lieutenants, captains, majors, and finally the commanding general. Each successful temptation, each successful harvestable entity is a strengthener of the power and polarity of the fourth-density social memory complex which has had this success. – 87.12
As negative beings intentionally block portions of their own energetic spectrum, they require the power of other-selves to enhance, augment, and strengthen their own. This, says Ra, requires an “ever-expanding use of the energies of others for manipulation to the benefit of the self with distortion towards power.” (11.31) This ever-expanding need for others’ power may contribute to their predicament of spiritual entropy as well.
What happens if a single negative entity of higher density is successful in recruiting a third-density entity into negative harvest?
  • Questioner: Then assuming that a single negatively polarized entity is responsible for the recruiting of a harvested third-density entity and adds this polarity to his negative polarity and power, what type of ability or what type of benefit is this and how is it used by the entity?
Ra: I am Ra. The so-called pecking order is immediately challenged and the entity with increased power exercises that power to control more other-selves and to advance within the social memory complex structure. – 87.15
  • Questioner: How is this power measured? How is it obvious that this entity has gained this additional power?
Ra: I am Ra. In some cases there is a kind of battle. This is a battle of wills and the weapons consist of the light that can be formed by each contender. In most cases where the shift of power has been obvious it simply is acknowledged and those seeing benefit from associating with this newly more-powerful entity aid it in rising within the structure
– 87.16
Failure to succeed in this plan—which is to say, failure to control, manipulate, or enslave other selves—causes a loss of polarity. Wanting to avoid a loss of polarity, Orion troops attempt to target the “weaker-minded,” less polarized third-density entities.
But recruitment isn’t always the goal. Their broader strategy includes controlling and/or disrupting the light itself. Thus, wherever they perceive a positive light radiating from an individual or a group—especially in the case of magical work, or in the event the individual or group has the potential to empower others—they may seek to control, attack, and psychically “greet” that light.
  • Questioner: Well how does the fifth-density entity go about this working from the very start of his being alerted to the fact that we exist. How does that occur? Can you please trace the steps that he involves himself in? Please.
Ra: I am Ra. The entity becomes aware of power. This power has the capacity of energizing those which may be available for harvest. This entity is desirous of disabling this power source. It sends its legions. Temptations are offered. – 68.16
Nearly all of the legwork of the above-described system is completed by negative fourth-density beings. The fifth-density entity no longer perceives any virtue in other-selves and has become “extraordinarily compacted” and separate from all else, simply ordering fourth-density minions to do its bidding, having “ceased activity except by thought.” However, there are instances—such as the magical, positively-polarized work that Don, Carla, and Jim undertook—where the fifth-density negative entity may take a more personal interest and work to control the light for its direct benefit, or extinguish it altogether.
  • Questioner: What would our fifth-density visitor hope to gain for himself if he were to be successful in terminating this contact?
Ra: I am Ra. As we have previously stated, the entity hopes to gain a portion of that light; that is, the mind/body/spirit complex of the instrument. Barring this, the entity intends to put out the light. – 80.6
  • Questioner: [If] the entity were successful in either of these attempts, of what value would this be to him? Would it increase his ability? Would it increase his polarity? By what mechanism would it do whatever it does?
Ra: The gain for triumph [in the event the negative entity terminated the contact, including through ending the instrument’s life] is an increase in negative polarity to the entity in that it has removed a source of radiance and thereby offered to this space/time the opportunity of darkness where there once was light. In the [other] event that it succeeded in enslaving the mind/body/spirit complex of the instrument it would have enslaved a fairly powerful entity, thus adding to its power. – 80.7 (See also 80.8–9.)
Service to Self Using Catalyst
  • The catalyst, and all catalyst, is designed to offer experience. This experience in your density may be loved and accepted or it may be controlled. These are the two paths. When neither path is chosen the catalyst fails in its design and the entity proceeds until catalyst strikes it which causes it to form a bias towards acceptance and love or separation and control. There is no lack of space/time in which this catalyst may work. – 46.16
The ability to polarize negatively requires an enormously strong will and self-discipline, for the negative entity is omitting the springboard of the green-ray and using the deepest negative manifestations of red/orange/yellow rays to contact intelligent infinity. That determination is vividly manifested in the negative entity’s desire and ability to use their own catalyst. The key to the use of catalyst on the negative path lies in control.[139] For instance, when working with the catalyst of anger (with regard to its link to cancer):
  • The negatively oriented mind/body/spirit complex will use this anger in a similarly conscious fashion, refusing to accept the undirected or random energy of anger and instead, through will and faith, funneling this energy into a practical means of venting the negative aspect of this emotion so as to obtain control over other-self, or otherwise control the situation causing anger.
Control is the key to negatively polarized use of catalyst. Acceptance is the key to positively polarized use of catalyst. Between these polarities lies the potential for this random and undirected energy creating a bodily complex analog of what you call the cancerous growth of tissue. – 46.9
  • Questioner: Then as I understand it you are saying that if the positively polarizing entity fails to accept the other-self or if the negatively polarizing entity fails to control the other-self, either of these conditions will cause cancer, possibly. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is partially correct. The first acceptance or control, depending upon polarity, is of the self. Anger is one of many things to be accepted and loved as a part of self or controlled as a part of self, if the entity is to do work. – 46.10
  • Questioner: Then are you saying that if a negatively polarized or polarizing entity is unable to control his own anger or unable to control himself in anger that he may cause cancer? Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is quite correct. The negative polarization contains a great requirement for control and repression. – 46.11
  • Questioner: A repression of what?
Ra: I am Ra. Any mind complex distortion which you may call emotional which is of itself disorganized, needs, in order to be useful to the negatively oriented entity, to be repressed and then brought to the surface in an organized use. Thus you may find, for instance, negatively polarized entities controlling and repressing such basic bodily complex needs as the sexual desire in order that in the practice thereof the will may be used to enforce itself upon the other-self with greater efficiency when the sexual behavior is allowed. – 46.12
  • Questioner: Then the positively oriented entity, rather than attempting repression of emotion, would balance the emotion as stated in an earlier contact. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is correct and illustrates the path of unity. – 46.13
The negative polarity illustrates the path of separation: instead of surrendering the personal will to the intelligent order of the universe, it aims to impose order through control, first and foremost upon the self. This creates a situation whereby, as the service-to-self entity polarizes more purely, it is not seeking external help or guidance from its higher self or other guides.[140]
  • We remind you that the negative path is one of separation. What is the first separation: the self from the self. The one known as Himmler did not choose to use its abilities of will and polarization to seek guidance from any source but its conscious drives, self-chosen in the life experience and nourished by previous biases created in other life experiences. – 36.14
In separating the self from guidance and the natural order of the universe, the negative entity also separates itself from synchronicity, support, and the intelligent patterns of the incarnation that move in protection. The negative being must rely upon the will as its only protection.
  • Those who choose separation, that being the quality most indicative of the left-hand path, are protected from other-selves [only] by a strength and sharpness equivalent to the degree of transformation which the mind has experienced in the negative sense. – 99.8
  • Questioner: Am I to understand, then, that there is no protection at all if the Experience of the Mind has become negative and the negative path is traveled? All random catalyst may affect the negatively polarized individual as a function of the statistical nature of the random catalyst. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. You may note some of those of your peoples which, at this space/time nexus, seek places of survival. This is due to the lack of protection when service to self is invoked. – 95.26
The more purely one chooses the service-to-self path, the more that catalyst is interpreted in a negative light, and vice versa.[141] The polarities offer a bifurcated view of the world, which is to say, a positive and negative entity may experience the same moment, but the negative entity will have a very different interpretation than the positive. The service-to-self-oriented entity will look to the situation for a path that offers the increase of personal power. Truth and honesty are valued only insofar as they serve this end.
  • [When making a decision,] if the entity is polarized towards service to others, analysis properly proceeds along the lines of consideration of which path offers the most opportunity for service to others. For the negatively polarized entity the antithesis is the case.
For the unpolarized entity the considerations are random and most likely in the direction of the distortion towards comfort. – 64.16
Eventually, service to self, as with service to others, will abandon its polarity to embrace the balance of love/light, light/love, in the unity of sixth density.
Ra: Even the most unhappy of experiences, shall we say, which seem to occur in the Catalyst of the adept, seen from the viewpoint of the spirit, may, with the discrimination possible in shadow, be worked with until light equaling the light of brightest noon descends upon the adept and positive or service-to-others illumination has occurred. The service-to-self adept will satisfy itself with the shadows and, grasping the light of day, will toss back the head in grim laughter, preferring the darkness. – 80.15
Ra: That which is not may be seen as a self-imposed darkness in which harmony is turned into an eternal disharmony. However, that which is not cannot endure throughout the octave […] and, as darkness eventually calls the light, so does that which is not eventually call that which is. – 85.11 (See also 78.25)
Author’s Note: The Taking of Power
In the “Relationship to Free Will” section, I describe how the absorption of the negative polarity is one which takes power that was not consciously or knowingly offered to it. But do they really “take” that which is not given? Or, because free will is inviolable, does the target of the negative entity’s service surrender that free will on some level? Or is it a semantics question about the meaning of “to take” and “to infringe”? Diana writes:
“I sense that free will is ultimately inviolable. And that if others are taking our power away, it is because we are giving it at some level—albeit not necessarily consciously. Some aspect of our being has drawn this experience toward the self as catalyst. I don’t think it could work any other way, as free will is law. Otherwise, it would be akin to saying that someone could violate the Law of One by taking away someone’s oneness. Certainly one could appear to do this by perpetuating the illusion of separation, but ultimately the law is fixed.
Likewise with free will, you can make people think they are disempowered by manipulating their perceptions, but it is up to them to discover the subtle ways in which they are energetically giving away power. You can enslave someone’s body, for example, but the body is part of the illusion. You cannot enslave someone’s will. On the receiving end of negative behavior, enslavement, however subtle, actually serves as catalyst to become aware of one’s sovereignty. People do not always have freedom, but the will is eternally free.”
Ra’s statements on this subject are challenging to reconcile. On one hand they say that “those of negative polarity do not operate with respect to free will unless it is necessary—they call themselves and will infringe whenever they feel it possible,” (72.8) and “the negative polarization is one which does not accept the concept of the free will of other-selves” (71.14). But on the other hand we have:
  • Questioner: Then I am assuming if the negative polarity used any other approach that did not use the free will of the other-self he would lose magical polarization and power. This is correct, isn’t it?
Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. – 68.18
  • [The] Orion Crusaders are, in a great extent, bound by the First Distortion in order to progress – 55.4
  • The free will of the instrument is, indeed, a necessary part of the opportunity afforded the Orion group. However, this free will and the First Distortion applies only to the instrument. The entire hope of the Orion group is to infringe upon free will without losing polarity. Thus this group, if represented by a wise entity, attempts to be clever. – 69.9
This last quote is most interesting in this regard. The Orion group’s attempt to capture and enslave Carla’s soul had to be accomplished by Carla’s own deceived free will—they couldn’t simply abduct her through force.
For a more thorough consideration, visit: 16.1–9, 24.8, 55.4–6, 68.17–18, 69.9, 71.14, and 72.8.
Author’s Note: Benefiting from Fear
In describing third density before the implementation of the veil and the development of polarity in consciousness (STO and STS), Ra says:
  • No love is terribly important; no pain terribly frightening; no effort, therefore, is made to serve for love or to benefit from fear. – 82.22
To “benefit from fear” is a revealing phrase. Consider how we operate in climates of fear. “Fight or flight” comes to mind. A danger or threat is perceived. Fear arises. Drastic, perhaps immediate action needs taken. Fear is natural and can have a helpful evolutionary value, of course, (when the tiger draws near), but in human terms, fear-based fight or flight is not a response conducive to conflict resolution or the working toward harmony, particularly as it short-circuits the critical, holistic thinking of the prefrontal cortex, not to mention the capacity to consciously hold and direct one’s now captive attention.
Whether or not the fear is arising from an immediate sensed danger, fear is a distorter of the human moment. With fear present, the self tends not to be thinking about free giving or seeing the other as the Creator, as self. Instead the self is concerned for its own, narrowed interests of safety, and the other is thus to be battled, or defended against, or their resources taken, their rights and status, including their dignity, stripped. Fear, in other words, creates division and invites power dynamics of power over others. Fear closes the heart.
Fear is the negative entity’s home turf. What environment could be more ripe for exploitation by the service-to-self path than one distorted by fear? The positive entity will encourage the releasing of fear in directing the eyes to hope, self-resilience, and trust. The negative entity will find enemies.[142]
Thus those of the negative path seek not only to benefit from fear that may have naturally occurred, but also to manipulate situations in order to create fear. As the ageless teachings ever remind us, fear is our greatest vulnerability, or chink in the armor—the inroad for the negative path, as Yoda knew. Those vibrating a state of fear can be much more easily manipulated. It is why fear is the hallmark of a mixed contact, and why Ra suggests that universal love is the greatest protection.
Author’s Note: Positive vs. Negative Control
Most uses of the word “control” are associated in the Ra Contact with the negative path. In fact, Ra was quite clear: “Control is the key to negatively polarized use of catalyst. Acceptance is the key to positively polarized use of catalyst.” And 52.7 adds to this by elaborating in-depth on the difference between acceptance and forgiveness of the self vs. control of the self. Yet, there are instances when Ra uses “control” in a positive, or non-negative, context. They include:
  • The exploration and balancing of the spirit complex is indeed the longest and most subtle part of your learn/teaching. We have considered the mind as a tree. The mind controls the body. – 6.1
  • Most of those harvestable at this space/time nexus have partial control over the outer illusion and are using the outer catalyst to work upon some bias which is not yet in balance. – 54.18
  • [Making the instrument’s physical body cough] is accomplished through our understanding of dimensional fields of energy. The higher or more dense energy field will control the less dense. – 26.24
  • The function of the healer and crystal may not be over-emphasized, for this power of interruption [of the red/violet armoring of the entity to be healed] must needs be controlled, shall we say, with incarnate intelligence. – 56.3
  • When the character and personality that is the true identity of the mind has been discovered, the body then must be known in each and every way. Thus, the various functions of the body need understanding and control with detachment. – 3.16
  • The spiritual or adept’s cycle is an eighteen-day cycle and operates with the qualities of the sine wave. Thus there are a few excellent days on the positive side of the curve, that being the first nine days of the cycle—precisely the fourth, the fifth, and the sixth—when workings are most appropriately undertaken, given that the entity is still without total conscious control of its mind/body/spirit distortion/reality. – 64.10
One again runs into semantics when considering what role “control” plays upon the positive path. Is control exclusive to the negative path? Or are there two polarized uses of control?
Negative use of control is an activity of negative orange/yellow ray with closed (or mostly closed) green ray, arising from rejection, suppression, and desire to dominate. This is a control which abridges the free will of others and all things strictly for the benefit of the self.
As practiced on the negative path, control creates an illusory wall around the self that separates it from everything else. This control is likely rooted in a sense of fear, injury, and lack. Being disconnected from the infinite source of all life, and fearing being vulnerable and insecure, a separate entity is want to feel lack. Thus, among the various possible psychological origins, control may presumably begin as a desire to protect the self from that which is perceived to have cause hurt, but it presumably blossoms into true lust and love for manipulation and power absorption.
Insofar as positive entities engage in control or direction of things, it is probably centered on a highly activated green ray. This control would, paradoxical as it may sound, operate in a surrendered accepting and honoring of the person and the circumstance as an instance of the Creator knowing itself. However, as positive entities strive toward acceptance and allowance, any control of self and others which may abridge free will is avoided. (Though situations rarely so purely shake out in our world. One thinks of parenting, or helping an addict or someone of the cusp of suicide, or some situation where control, whatever its metaphysics, is just necessary.)
Perhaps what 52.7 is pointing to is visible in some of the basic attitudes we see in our own lives. For example, so many people diet, exercise, study, and train as ways to just bully themselves into a preferred state of existence—without any personal evolution in the targeted area, or acceptance of the self as the self already is, only a strengthening of the will. This may be a decidedly orange-ray approach. While it can be catalytic and can ultimately result in learning the lessons of love, it may not be inherently loving. Even consciously controlling the bowels or the bank account without love is ultimately incompatible with the positive path once one is aware of one’s polarity.
Citations:
For further exploration, see also:
  • 11.11, 31.14–15, 35.4, 38.14, 41.4, 46.14–15, 46.7, 73.4, 83.17
  • Other mentions of positive uses of control: 6.1, 88.17
  • Bidding: 53.16, 55.3–7
  • The 95% vibratory rate: 17.31–17.33, 47.3
  • Resources of the subconscious mind: 99.8
  • Negative pre-incarnational programming: 54.19, 54.22
  • The crusaders of the Orion group: 11.6-22
  • Wisdom’s dark side for the STO entity: 101.2
  • Polarization = more light = harvestability: 71.2
  • 4D battle exemplifying polarity in action: 25.4-10, 78.25
  • Q’uo channeling on hierarchy and patriarchy: Jan 18, 2020
  • 49.4: “It may seem that the rational or analytical mind might have more of a possibility of successfully pursuing the negative orientation due to the fact that, in our understanding, too much order is by its essence negative.” And, 87.7: “In some respects one may see a more lucid early attachment to wisdom from those of negative polarity as the nexus of positions of consciousness upon which wisdom is laid is simpler.”
  • In this guide: Service to Others | Harvest | Orion | Polarity | Veil.