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Will
Inferences are needed to define the will, as there is little in the way of explicit definition. That caveat aside, will is the faculty and power within each mind/body/spirit complex to direct, orient, and author their return journey to the One Infinite Creator. With the will awakened, carefully directed, and exercised in conjunction with faith, the entity may use catalyst to know itself, to accept itself, to polarize, and to become the Creator.
Never one to overstate anything, Ra said of this particular power:
  • Your faculty of will is that which is powerful within you as co-Creator. You cannot ascribe to this faculty too much importance. Thus it must be carefully used and directed in service to others for those upon the positively oriented path. – 52.7
  • The will of the entity as it evolves is the single measure of the rate and fastidiousness of the activation and balancing of the various energy centers. – 41.18
  • Each of the group may become aware of the will to a greater extent [in order to achieve desired aims]. We cannot instruct upon this but merely indicate, as we have previously, that [the will] is a vital key to the evolution of the mind/body/spirit complex. – 77.10
  • [The will is the] great conduit to the Creator. – 72.10
Q’uo echoes this:
  • The human desire has the strongest and highest electricity, metaphysically speaking, which is available upon the planet Earth in the third density at this time. Thus, the will, the heart, and the soul of humankind is far more powerful than any problem, any disease, or any natural phenomenon. – Q’uo, May 17, 1987
  • When desire has been disciplined and focused, it is the most powerful force in creation. It is that energy that moves the mountain. It is that energy that creates miracles, and it becomes more and more closely allied with those mysterious words of “faith” and “will.” – Q’uo, Sep 9, 2005
Will is called by Ra “pure desire” and is frequently used synonymously and even interchangeably with desire. These are not just energies of third-density entities, however; the universe is saturated with will and desire. These qualities so thoroughly permeate everything because they are present at the cosmological conception of the creation—everything arises out of the first impulse of the Infinity’s will or desire. These most primal of energies are perhaps those agents responsible for seeding and birthing the creation itself.
Strengthening the Will
Cultivating desire itself is a powerful way of developing the will. Desire is an energy that wants, that moves, that seeks its fulfillment. Whether in the desire to reach or the desire to be reached, the strength of any given desire will channel the will to fulfill itself and achieve its intended aim. This is why desire must be carefully, consciously cultivated and aimed toward serving others and seeking the One for those upon the positive path.
As with muscles in the body, will is a faculty that is strengthened by repeatedly using and invoking it. Following is one example of the way in which Carla strengthened her will by attempting to exceed her limitations, probably not too dissimilarly from the way one increases bodily strength by resistance training, or by stretching one’s endurance.
  • The instrument has the propensity for attempting to exceed its limits. If one considers the metaphysical or time/space aspect of an incarnation, this is a fortunate and efficient use of catalyst as the will is constantly being strengthened; and, further, if the limitations are exceeded in the service of others, the polarization is also most efficient.[150] – 100.3
To use and strengthen the will, one must focus it. When speaking of the possibility of re-programming during the course of the incarnation, Ra says:
  • There is but one technique for this growing or nurturing of will and faith, and that is the focusing of the attention. – 42.12
The will may be “focused at any object or goal,” they say, but it is concentration, and desire for concentration, that collects the will’s power to be directed toward the chosen aim. To continue the excerpt above:
  • The attention span of those you call children is considered short. The spiritual attention span of most of your peoples is that of the child. Thus it is a matter of wishing to become able to collect one’s attention and hold it upon the desired programming. This, when continued, strengthens the will.[151] The entire activity can only occur when there exists faith that an outcome of this discipline is possible. – 42.12
This may be why meditation and related activities of concentration are will-strengthening activities. In meditation one can seek to consciously focus and stabilize the attention upon a single point. It is thus a practicing of pure will by bringing the power of the will under the direction of the conscious mind. On the positive path this is done not for self-domination but with the heart opened in the steady, balanced, witnessing awareness of equanimity.
Ra notes the necessity of developing the will in order to successfully advance along the chosen path of evolution.
  • There is resistance at the edge, shall we say, of each density. The faculty of faith or will needs to be understood, nourished, and developed in order to have an entity which seeks past the boundary of third density. Those entities which do not do their homework, be they ever so amiable, shall not cross. – 82.29
  • Questioner: Is there any reason for some portions being much more efficient in learning?
Ra: I am Ra. Is there any reason for some to learn more quickly than others? Look, if you wish, to the function of the will—the, shall we say, attraction to the upward spiraling line of light. – 28.14
The more that the will is exercised over time in a consistent and conscious way, the more it reflects discipline, an activity necessary for the path of the adept. (See 74.11.) However, it is to be noted that, like electricity, will is a conduit of power, and Ra advocates strongly for its careful use and direction.
  • Your faculty of will is that which is powerful within you as co-Creator. You cannot ascribe to this faculty too much importance. Thus it must be carefully used and directed in service to others for those upon the positively oriented path. There is great danger in the use of the will as the personality becomes stronger, for it may be used even subconsciously in ways reducing the polarity of the entity. – 52.7
There is much that one can unpack here, starting with the personality becoming stronger. To polarize, an entity must consciously exercise its will and faith. Thus the self literally grows more powerful (able to embody and channel love/light) as it recognizes and taps its own capacity. This happens in tandem with the raising of the locus northward through the chakras (a process also known as the movement of kundalini). This raising of the locus, or unblocking of energy, brings more upward spiraling energy into the system. This energy, or power, may be called upon and directed toward “any object or goal.”
Who or what, then, is doing that calling and directing? Within each self is a composite of energies, memories, and voices. Each energy center, each desire, each portion of the being may call upon power available to the self. So, if the entity lacks self-awareness and self-acceptance in particular areas, those un-integrated voices within the self may, shall we say, hijack the will for their own purposes. As an example, if someone lacks forgiveness, they may harm others with expressions of unconscious resentment as they grow in power.[152]
Sometimes unconscious use of the will is depolarizing, but it can also be self-sabotaging. Ra describes the subconscious will of Carla (the instrument) being utterly dedicated to serving the Creator. Carla’s dedication, when not balanced with wisdom and discernment, invoked and used the will in ways which were deleterious to her and to the longevity of the contact.
In Carla’s case, her tendency toward martyrdom (unwise use of will) was at least in part fueled by her own difficulties with self-worth. This may be why Ra couples the use of will with acceptance and forgiveness of self:
  • Acceptance of self, forgiveness of self, and the direction of the will: this is the path towards the disciplined personality. – 52.7
The process that leads to an integrated self is captured magnificently in 18.5.
  • Questioner: Thank you. I have a question here from Jim that I will read verbatim: “Much of the mystic tradition of seeking on Earth holds that belief that the individual self must be erased or obliterated and the material world ignored for an entity to reach ‘nirvana,’ as it’s called, or enlightenment. What is the proper role of the individual self and its worldly activities in aiding an entity to grow more into the Law of One?”
Ra: I am Ra. The proper role of the entity is, in this density, to experience all things desired, to then analyze, understand, and accept these experiences, distilling from them the love/light within them. Nothing shall be overcome. That which is not needed falls away.
The orientation develops due to analysis of desire. These desires become more and more distorted towards conscious application of love/light as the entity furnishes itself with distilled experience.
We have found it to be inappropriate in the extreme to encourage the overcoming of any desires, except to suggest the imagination rather than the carrying out in the physical plane, as you call it, of those desires not consonant with the Law of One—this preserving the primal distortion of Free Will.
The reason it is unwise to overcome is that overcoming is an unbalanced action creating difficulties in balancing in the time/space continuum. Overcoming thus creates the further environment for holding onto that which apparently has been overcome.
All things are acceptable in the proper time for each entity, and in experiencing, in understanding, in accepting, in then sharing with other-selves, the appropriate description shall be moving away from distortions of one kind to distortions of another which may be more consonant with the Law of One.
It is, shall we say, a shortcut to simply ignore or overcome any desire. It must instead be understood and accepted. This takes patience and experience which can be analyzed with care, with compassion for self and for other-self. – 18.5
Through that process, the self accepts, forgives, and knows itself. The loving will, then, is wielded by a whole entity, conscious of its aims, mindful of the uses to which it puts the will, aware of its own power. This is the will that seeks alignment with, and eventually merges into, the divine will, an activity which sacred texts call surrender.
This final act of will is an expression of a being-wide desire to work with and not against the divine order of the universe. The positive being recognizes, in faith, that the divine order does not need ordering or controlling by the individual will; it needs only the open heart, acceptance, and surrender to make harmony and beauty between self and universe.
A critical part of that careful wielding of the will is the release of attachment to outcome. The Confederation encourages the use and strengthening of will—the attempting to give one’s all and do one’s best—but also the release of dedication to the outcome of the effort, for the outcome is never ultimately under conscious control. In that vein Ra speaks to the crystallized healer’s lack of attachment to outcome in 66.15.
Catalyst & Uses of the Will
As Ra indicates, the will can be used for anything lawful (i.e. possible) within creation. This includes purifying and refining the energy centers, reprogramming the self, processing catalyst, calling for aid, and receiving inspiration.
  • Each energy center has a wide range of rotational speed or as you may see it more clearly in relation to color, brilliance. The more strongly the will of the entity concentrates upon and refines or purifies each energy center, the more brilliant or rotationally active each energy center will be. – 41.19
  • Thus the most fragile entity may be more balanced than one with extreme energy and activity in service to others due to the fastidiousness with which the will is focused upon the use of experience in knowing the self. – 43.8
  • The self, if conscious to a great enough extent of the workings of this catalyst and the techniques of programming, may, through concentration of the will and the faculty of faith alone, cause reprogramming without the analogy of the fasting, the diet, or other analogous body complex disciplines. – 41.22
  • Positive orientation then provides the will and faith to continue this mentally intense experience of letting the anger be understood, accepted, and integrated with the mind/body/spirit complex. The other-self which is the object of anger is thus transformed into an object of acceptance, understanding, and accommodation, all being reintegrated using the great energy which anger began. – 46.9
  • Those who are upon the service-to-others path may call upon the light strength in direct proportion to the strength and purity of their will to serve. Those upon the service-to-self path may call upon the dark strength in direct proportion to the strength and purity of their will to serve. – 73.4 (See also 72.7, 74.12–13.)
  • The mechanism of inspiration involves an extraordinary faculty of desire or will to know, or to receive in a certain area, accompanied by the ability to open to and trust in what you may call intuition. – 38.4
Below, Ra seems to indicate that some uses of will are more in line with evolutionary progress than others. In the following example, even if a part of the self resists or is insincere about using will to seek love, the power of love itself (or the power of the dedication to seeking love) will be the greater factor.
  • The moment contains love. That is the lesson/goal of this illusion or density. The exercise is to consciously seek that love in awareness and understanding distortions. The first attempt is the cornerstone. Upon this choosing rests the remainder of the life-experience of an entity. The second seeking of love within the moment begins the addition. The third seeking powers the second, the fourth powering or doubling the third.
As with the previous type of empowerment, there will be some loss of power due to flaws within the seeking in the distortion of insincerity. However, the conscious statement of self to self of the desire to seek love is so central an act of will that, as before, the loss of power due to this friction is inconsequential. – 10.14
In the following excerpt, Ra reminds the group that the will is not strengthened for its own sake, but as a means to an end. What is that end?
  • Questioner: Is there then, from the point of view of an individual who wishes to follow the service-to-others path from our present position in third density, is there anything of importance other than disciplines of personality, knowledge of self, and strengthening of will?
Ra: I am Ra. This is technique. This is not the heart. Let us examine the heart of evolution.
Let us remember that we are all one. This is the great learning/teaching. In this unity lies love. This is a great learn/teaching. In this unity lies light. This is the fundamental teaching of all planes of existence in materialization. Unity, love, light, and joy; this is the heart of evolution of the spirit.
The second-ranking lessons are learn/taught in meditation and in service. At some point the mind/body/spirit complex is so smoothly activated and balanced by these central thoughts or distortions that the techniques you have mentioned become quite significant. However, the universe, its mystery unbroken, is one. Always begin and end in the Creator, not in technique. – 52.11
Metaphysics of the Will: The Inner Light
As mentioned, the universe is saturated with will on every level, from the birth of the universe onward. Will exists at multiple depths in our own being as well, from the incarnate will, the pre-incarnational will, the Logoic will, the will of the higher self, and so forth. While all of this is One Will, ultimately, there is use and skill in differentiating the personal, incarnate will, from the greater, pre-incarnational will, and in understanding at what level the will is operating.
The following passage about Jesus vividly brings to life this dynamic relationship of the will of the incarnate actor in its dance with the will of its destiny—i.e., its own preincarnational plan or mission. By deep listening, Jesus could differentiate his personal will and desires from the greater will to which he had sensitized and surrendered himself. So well calibrated was he to the deeper will that he neither met his destiny prematurely nor, though the temptation must have been immense, avoided his coming crucifixion entirely.
  • Let us use as exemplar the one known as Jehoshua. This entity incarnated with the plan of martyrdom. There is no wisdom in this plan, but rather understanding and compassion extended to its fullest perfection.
The one known as Jehoshua would have been less-than-fully understanding of its course had it chosen to follow its will at any space/time during its teachings. Several times, as you call this measure, this entity had the possibility of moving towards the martyr’s place which was, for that martyr, Jerusalem. Yet in meditation this entity stated, time and again, “It is not yet the hour.”
The entity could also have, when the hour came, walked another path. Its incarnation would then have been prolonged but the path for which it incarnated somewhat confused. Thusly, one may observe the greatest amount of understanding, of which this entity was indeed capable, taking place as the entity in meditation felt, and knew, that the hour had come for that to be fulfilled which was its incarnation. [...]
We may encourage meditation upon the functions of the will. – 84.4
Ra touches on the subject of the transdimensional nature of will when speaking to the time/space, or metaphysical, dimension of the mind/body/spirit complex:
  • Healing is done in the time/space portion of the mind/body/spirit complex, is adopted by the form-making, or etheric, body and is then given to the space/time physical illusion for use in the activated yellow-ray mind/body/spirit complex. It is the adoption of the configuration which you call health by the etheric body in time/space which is the key to what you call health, not any event which occurs in space/time.
In this process you may see the transdimensional aspect of what you call will, for it is the will, the seeking, the desire of the entity which causes the indigo body to use the novel configuration and to reform the body which exists in space/time. This is done in an instant and may be said to operate without regard to time. – 66.14
Looking for operation of will in the chakras, there are two points at which spiraling energy enters the body: the south pole of the red-ray center, and the north pole of the violet-ray center. The energies of the north pole are called the inner light, inner nature, inward fire, the guiding star, and the Polaris of the self. This is the indwelling Creator, awaiting or abiding within. This is the birthright and true nature of all entities. To this inner light energy Ra links the will to seek the truth.
  • The inner light is that which is your heart of being. Its strength equals your strength of will to seek the light. – 57.14
Increasing the awareness of the inner light, and learning to more efficiently tap into the inner light, are those things which strengthen the will.
  • This point of ingress of the universal light energy [through the south pole] is undifferentiated until it begins its filtering process through the energy centers. The requirements of each center and the efficiency with which the individual has learned to tap into the inner light determine the nature of the use made by the entity of these instreamings. – 54.27
  • Incoming energies [through the south pole] are pulled upwards according to the distortions of each energy center and the strength of will or desire emanating from the awareness of inner light. – 54.29
  • …intensifies the amount of this will, the amount of awareness of the inner light. – 57.14
This work of tapping into and strengthening the inner light, then, attracts the upward spiraling light[153] through the south pole to meet and mate with the inner light, as discussed in the following three quotes. In the first, this is evidenced in the specialized case of the Queen’s Chamber in the Great Pyramid.
  • The [Queen’s Chamber] position…intensifies the amount of this will, the amount of awareness of the inner light necessary to attract the instreaming light upward spiraling from the south magnetic pole of being.
Thus this is the place of the initiate, for many extraneous items or distortions will leave the entity as it intensifies its seeking, so that it may become one with this centralized and purified in-coming light. – 57.14
  • The upward spiraling light developed in its path by the will, and ultimately reaching an high place of mating with the inward fire of the One Creator… – 73.10
  • The seeker seeks the One. This One is to be sought, as we have said, by the balanced and self-accepting self, aware both of its apparent distortions and its total perfection. Resting in this balanced awareness, the entity then opens the self to the universe which it is. The light energy of all things may then be attracted by this intense seeking, and wherever the inner seeking meets the attracted cosmic prana, realization of the One takes place.
The purpose of clearing each energy center is to allow that meeting place to occur at the indigo-ray vibration, thus making contact with intelligent infinity and dissolving all illusions. Service-to-others is automatic at the released energy generated by this state of consciousness. – 57.33
Seen from this perspective, the will has a very primordial connection to the Creator. Ra says that the strength of the inner light equals the strength of the will to seek. This “will to seek,” then, is a product of increasing one’s awareness of the inner light, which is to say, increasing awareness of the self’s connection to the Creator.
As the self becomes more aware of the inner light—more aware of the self as the Creator—the desire and will to seek the Creator grow ever stronger. Thus, this will may be seen as the attractive force between the incarnate self and the Creator. Or it may be seen as the Creator progressively awakening within the self.
Ra interestingly describes a “yearning” that exists between the illusion of the individual and the Creator. They describe this when responding to a question Don asks about a particular principle.
  • The principle so veiled in that statement is but the simple principle of the constant (or Creator) and the transient (or the incarnate being) and the yearning existing between the two, one for the other, in love and light amidst the distortions of free will acting upon the illusion-bound entity. – 39.6
They also describe the will as an “attraction” to the upward spiraling light, that light which spirals upward seeking its Source.
  • Is there any reason for some to learn more quickly than others? Look, if you wish, to the function of the will—the, shall we say, attraction to the upward spiraling line of light. – 28.14
Might the will, then, in conjunction with faith, be the expression of that yearning? In 72.10, Ra calls the will “the great conduit to the Creator.” And here they describe what effect the implementation of the veil had upon the will.
  • Perhaps the most important and significant function that occurred due to the veiling of the mind from itself is not, in itself, a function of mind but rather is a product of the potential created by this veiling. This is the faculty of will or pure desire. – 85.19 (See also 82.19.)
When the conscious and subconscious minds were partitioned, the most significant result was the arising and the development of will or pure desire. It seems that the essence of this pure desire is the same as the Original Desire, “that entities seek and become One.”
This desire is a yearning, and it is also the seed idea or fundamental premise of the individual self: that it is separate and thus must find the Creator. When the conscious mind was set apart, the conscious self seemed to become displaced. When a self is displaced, alone, and cut off from its own resources and deeper self, there is the potential to yearn to come back home. In its higher forms this yearning expresses as the need to transcend the separate self and realize oneness with the Creator through healing and forgiveness.
All beings in existence carry this yearning and will be driven by it one way or another, though few on our planet are conscious of their true aim. Those who do awaken, harness, and center their beings on this pure desire are known as mystics. Mystics may perhaps be defined as those who, having become aware of their true desire, realize that it was this desire hiding at the center of every illusion pursued in the misguided attempt to find satisfaction. Thus, from groping in the moonlight they move closer to grasping the light of the sun.
The more awakened this desire, the greater the fire burns, the stronger the entity grows. For those who do resurrect this longing or attractive force, they tune the heart to love, or the denial of love, and exercise the will to chart their return journey home along one of the two available polarized pathways—until polarity is resolved and all again becomes One.
Ra: The gateway to intelligent infinity is born of, shall we say, the sympathetic vibration, in balanced state, accompanying the will to serve, the will to seek. – 29.29
Q’uo: Of greater importance is that you partake in this dance, illumined so mysteriously with a heart that seeks, that desires, that yearns for the Creator and for the Creator’s touch within the life pattern. This builds the bridge betwixt your illusion and the absolute reality of unity. This bridge—which shall hold your feet more surely than any street or ground within your illusion, this desire to know, to move into love, into unity, into harmony—fashions that which cannot be seen, but which cannot, in the metaphysical realms, be denied; for this quality of desire, fueling the faith and the will, is that portion of your being that is more real than any portion of your illusion, and more real than any error or miscalculation. – 1990.03.18
Q’uo: A great deal of faith is patience. A great deal of will is persistence.
– 1990.07.15
Citations:
For further exploration, see also:
  • Will and the ghost: 47.13 | Third spiral energizes the will: 66.22
  • Crystallized healer has no will: 66.15
  • Causing interdimensional light to flow through the crystal: 58.18
  • Strength of will creating a momentary healer: 75.35
  • Polarization enhances will and vice-versa: 36.11
  • Carla's will subconsciously creating opportunity for death as a teenager and then consciously rededicating herself to service and life: 63.2-3
  • Ra: “We may suggest that in order to progress, a state of some dissatisfaction will be present, thus giving the entity the stimulus for further seeking.” – 54.3 | In the same theme: 77.17, 82.22, 82.24
  • Ra: "If the polarized entities, by this same energy transfer experience, find that the faculties of will and faith have been stimulated, not for a brief while but for a great duration of what you call time, you may perceive the indigo-ray transfer." – 84.21
  • Ra: "Each entity has its ways of viewing and learning from the illusion, and each processes catalyst using unique circuitry. Thus all need not be the same to be equal in will and faith." – 101.2
  • Personal vs. divine will: 5.1, 54.8, 54.16, 66.10,66.15, 84.4
  • In this guide: Veil | Faith | Discipline of the Personality.