Adept
Ra offers much information about the positive path of an adept, and somewhat less about the negative. Often, they refer generally to “the adept” without specifying its polarity. It therefore takes some work to decipher which qualities and actions likely belong to positive adepts only, which to negative, and which to both. The following descriptions will do their best to navigate the distinctions.
Most on planet Earth are non-adepts attempting use the lessons of this density to make the Choice and polarize. “Adept” is a term used to denote someone with advanced skill and proficiency beyond the norm. The adept is continually polarizing, too, but is much more aware of the possibilities of using the illusion for spiritual evolution. Thus the adept intentionally moves into higher energy centers in order to do work in consciousness, seek hidden understanding, and offer service therefrom. Ra says of themselves that they continue to walk the “many, many steps of adepthood” where there are “many things which fall away” at each transformation.
The seeker who is ready for adepthood has achieved a certain minimal balance of the red, orange, yellow, and blue energy centers which is unique to that entity, with the addition of green for the positive seeker. The seeker then moves into working consciously and consistently within the indigo ray, or gateway to intelligent infinity. The adept uses this gateway to bring through intelligent energy from violet-ray intelligent infinity in order to do work in its chosen polarity.
The chief difference between positive and negative adepts lies in the use or non-use of the green ray, or heart center. A negative adept will bypass, or block, the green ray and will springboard from the triad of red/orange/yellow activity directly into self-serving spiritual work. The negative polarity views itself as the Creator but does not view other-selves as equal to the self. In this way, the negative adept knowingly embraces falsity (or the illusion) that one portion of the creation can be separate from, or more worthy than, another.
A positive adept, on the other hand, will choose to let energy flow into its heart, seeking to view not only itself but all other-selves and all of creation as the Creator before proceeding into the upper energy centers to attempt to serve others by use of its indigo ray. A positive adept therefore strives to embrace that which is true: the complete unity of all things.
Discipline of the Personality in Adepthood
An adept must practice knowing the self, accepting the self, and, ultimately, becoming the Creator. These three things constitute what Ra calls the discipline of the personality. To work to know and accept the self is to “clear a path toward the great indigo gateway to the Creator.” To become the Creator is to “become all that there is.”
As this entity awakens further, it frees itself more and more from the thoughts, opinions, and bonds of other-selves. This disassociation, as Ra calls it, can be a positively or negatively oriented pursuit; but even when positive, it is often misconstrued as being “evil.” However, for the positively-oriented entity, this is disassociation only from the “illusory husks” of identity (the costumes and personas of the separate self). This opens the way for association with the true heart of other-selves, thereby correctly perceiving the self and other-self as one.
The Work of the Adept
The positive adept may bring intelligent energy through the indigo gateway in order to heal, teach, and work for the Creator in ways that are both balanced and radiant. Whatever the outer service, though, the positive adept’s primary work is not that of doing, but of being.
Meaning that adepthood may not be visible by any particular outward manifestation. Instead, humility, simplicity, and radiance of being are the deeper markers of the positive adept. Part of that work, known as the work of being, is to live more authentically as the true self, moment by moment, without pretense of any kind. This authenticity deepens into becoming the Creator, for:
Among the tools and resources of the adept are dreaming, visualization, ritual, use of the magical personality, white magical workings, and the study of the archetypical mind. (The negative adept may use all these tools and resources as well, except that their magic will not be of the white variety.)
While the goal of the third-density entity is to make the choice of service to others or service to self, the positive adept can go beyond the pursuit of its own harvestability and to tap intelligent energy and intelligent infinity for the purpose of transmuting planetary harvestability and consciousness. A positive adept here on Earth therefore seeks to influence the polarity of the planet. They do this by becoming a living channel for love and light, channeling that radiance directly into the planetary energy web. Ra goes so far as to say that the positive adept may help to literally manifest fourth density. (See 50.9)
Faith and Will of the Adept
The discipline of the personality can be accomplished in many ways, but the faculty of faith is essential. Faith, as Ra defines it, is “the ability to allow and accept changes through the violet ray into the gateway of intelligent energy” (the indigo ray). An adept aims to penetrate its violet-ray configuration in order to accept energy from intelligent infinity, and to use this energy in positive or negative service.
Another essential faculty to be developed by the adept is that of will. An entity’s strength and single-pointedness of its will is synonymous with its power. Those who are upon the service-to-others path may call upon, or alert, the light strength in direct proportion to the strength and purity of their will to serve others. Conversely, those upon the service-to-self path may call upon, or alert, the dark strength in direct proportion to the strength and purity of their will to serve the self. According to Ra, visualization is one way for the adept to exercise its will and call upon the strength of its chosen polarity.
Pitfalls and Joys of the Positive Adept
There are many adept wanderers who do no conscious work in the present incarnation. And for the great majority of adepts on this planet, the journey becomes a confused one during which, unable to successfully grasp the light of the sun, these entities remain “groping in the moonlight.” Insufficient faith likely plays a prominent role in this groping.
For those successful positive adepts, joy of union with the Creator radiates throughout the life experience.
Author’s Note: The Moonlight
A note about Ra’s phrase, “groping in the moonlight.” The adept works in the realm of spirit, which appears to the conscious mind as a darkness illuminated only by reflected moonlight. This moonlit environment is made possible by the veil that conceals and makes mysterious the contents of the unconscious mind.
It is lit so dimly by reflected light that Ra calls our life behind the veil in space/time as a “working in darkness with a tiny candle.” As the candlelight flickers against the environment around oneself, hardly anything or anyone is actually truly revealed and understood. That is, it is very difficult to see all things as the One Creator. As Ra said: “The missteps in the night are oh! so easy.”
What is the source of the moonlight? I theorize that it is the conscious mind which has been veiled from the resources and knowledge of its own deep mind. The seeker is left to navigate a darkened landscape using the dim (and often fragmented) reflections of its intellectual mind operating by the light of reason, combined with the intuitive mind that is sensing itself and its environment according to vague subconscious data shuttled upward from the roots of mind.
Thus, the adept “gropes in the moonlight.” This is a rich phrase. To grope is to feel about with the hands searching blindly or uncertainly. From this term one can draw many connecting lines to the way the self typically operates in this illusion: reaching externally for satisfaction, meaning, and identity; seeking truth in time and not the present moment; finding innumerable reasons to fear and close the heart, etc. It is the countless ways we identify with and blindly seek to preserve the separate identity. It is an armoring of oneself against living in the vulnerability of faith. This perhaps sheds some light on why Ra says that in such an environment “the progress chosen by many adepts becomes a confused path.”
But however enveloped in the darkness the self may be, however confused the path and dim the light, illumination remains ever possible through the disciplined exercise of will and faith. The self may, as Ra describes, “grasp the light of the sun.” This may simply be the experience of the self-luminous, Logoic nature of Self, full of joy and oneness with all things that radiates effortlessly in an eternal present moment. Instead of seeking revelation and meaning from the reflected light of the conscious mind, the entity is Self-sourcing who it really is. Faith and its associated qualities of surrender, trust, and radical acceptance may be the key to the end of groping and the beginning of illumination.
We then begin “living day by day and moment by moment, for the true adept lives more and more as it is.” (75.23) We become as the lilies of the field.
And now, a word from my other Ra, the great Indian sage, Ramana Maharshi:
When the mind is illumined it is aware of the world. When it is not itself so illumined, it is not aware of the world. If the mind is turned in towards the source of light, objective knowledge ceases and Self alone shines forth as the heart.
The moon shines by the reflected light of the sun. When the sun has set, the moon is useful for revealing objects. When the sun has risen, no one needs the moon, although the pale disc of the moon is visible in the sky. So it is with the mind and the heart. The mind is useful because of its reflected light. It is used for seeing objects. When it is turned inwards, the source of illumination shines forth by itself, and the mind remains dim and useless. – Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talk 98
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- It would seem the negative entity moves from the red/orange/yellow energy centers directly to indigo. 32.2, 33.19, 34.16, 38.14, and 47.3–4 indicate that the blue ray is not used by the negative polarizing entity to contact intelligent infinity. Though, interpreted in a certain light, 48.10, 75.23, and 85.11 may indicate the presence of the blue-ray in the negative entity’s contact with intelligent infinity. Ra does say “blue” in 39.12, but some students, self included, believe that was a mistake.
- In this guide: Discipline of the Personality | Crystallization | Will | Faith