Introduction
The Confederation of Planets in the Service of the
Infinite Creator
The Confederation and Religion
The words mythology and religion should be far more interchangeable than they are. The difficulty is that in myth there is no judgment between one myth and another, whereas in religion, those of one religion square off with hostility against those religions which in some way contradict it. Thus we prefer to talk of all paths of spirituality as personal myths, including classical paths such as the path of mystical Christianity, the path of literal Christianity, the path of mystical Buddhism, the path of literal Buddhism and so forth.
Realize that the essence of myth is to move the seeking entity, by its own faith and its desire to know the truth, over a kind of rainbow bridge, a magical, covenantal span that links time and eternity; that which is known and that which is a mystery. Those who dwell in that which is known have a deadness inside them, though they live and their hearts beat. Those who dwell from time to time in eternity have a livingness that only crossing that span into eternity may offer.2
This report deals with the Confederation view of the world, which I have found helpful in getting a grip on who I am and why I am on Earth today.
I introduced the Confederation to you in the Preface as I introduced Don Elkins and the path of our research. This group of ET sources has spoken through several other groups as well as through our own. However the material is always changed by the channel through which it comes, and we will use quotations only from our own channeling. This is due to the fact that in our own sessions, we can guarantee that the utmost care has been taken to collect solid material.
The challenge in sharing this view with people is that the view of the world presented by the Confederation in general, and the Law of One sessions with the Ra group in particular, deals with material that is usually considered religious and “New Age.” However the Confederation handles that material differently than religions and New Age writers generally do.
The Confederation sources suggest, like the major Western religions, that there is one infinite Creator and that we are all His beloved children. However, those religions state that a person only lives for one lifetime. The Confederation suggests that we reincarnate many times, over thousands of years, building up our learning and our gifts in our “soul stream,” which is eternal.
Whereas the Western religions assume that the Earth is the only repository of human life, the Confederation sources describe a universe in which we on Earth are one of many races of humankind which dwell on many planets in the starry vastness of our galactic ocean.
Whereas the Western religions suggest that all of the drama of our soul is enacted in this one lifetime and that the curriculum of the school of life is all contained in this one small incarnation, the Confederation suggests that we are in the third grade of a seven-grade school of cosmic learning and service, moving to a completion called an “octave” of creation, where the whole process begins again from the harvest of the old, like the phoenix rising from the ashes. In this Confederation scheme, each octave contains seven “densities” or schools for learning and progression. We will discuss the densities in detail later in this book.
Completing the grades of this school takes millions of years. This present grade, which the Confederation calls the Density of Choice or third density, lasts about 76,000 years. We are in the last decade of this long period, heading rapidly toward a planet-wide Harvest in 2012. It is to be emphasized that this is not a “doomsday” date. It is the date at which the fourth density, the Density of Love, has its onset.
Whether or not 2012 includes the literal end of life as we know it on planet Earth is unknown to me, of course. However, the Confederation suggests that we have plenty of time to finish out our natural lives here on Earth. The time that is short, and rapidly streaming past, is the time to make The Choice for ourselves. We have only the years between now and 2012 in which to make that choice.
The Confederation and Worship
Spirituality can be seen as what remains after religion is rejected. We would only suggest in this wise that it is helpful to look at the structures of outer paths as what they are: buildings for the seeking spirit, places to sit and look in a certain way at a certain pattern of concepts. Any myth that is so constructed that you begin to see a way to live a life in faith is a good match for you. And if you do not find such a match, then you must turn within and leave the outer world behind, for at that level you are not finding resonance. The peace and the power of the devotional or spiritual path lies not in how happy it makes one, although it often makes one happy. Rather it lies in the satisfaction of an inner surrender, a surrender to the Creator within.3
The Confederation does not suggest that if you are already a person of faith, you must give up your current beliefs and accept their worldview. Rather, it suggests that all religious practice is a very personal, intimate choice for each of us. They find no problem with our having personal beliefs. To the Confederation, our belief systems, whatever they are, are acceptable and are entirely personal to us. Their world view is philosophical rather than religious.
When I was acting as a channel for the Ra group in the Law of One sessions in the early eighties, for instance, the Ra group went out of their way to make room for my Christian belief system. They had our research group set up an altar with a copy of the Holy Bible on it, opened to the Gospel of John, Chapter One, Verse One, which they noted as the passage most closely in harmony with their philosophy. They suggested that we light a candle and a stick of incense at the beginning of each session. These are the artifacts of my mystical Episcopalian Christianity. Although they asked us not to have any metal in the room we did not absolutely need during the sessions, they let me wear my little gold necklace with its pendant cross. I was much comforted by their consideration.
To their way of thinking, belief systems are for the purpose of arranging the subject matter of metaphysical, spiritual or religious belief in such a way that it makes sense to us, so that we can think about the concepts involved. If we already have a belief system going which works for us, they encourage us to keep that system.
What they do is to put that system into context by calling it a “personal myth” rather than “the truth.” This expresses their opinion, which is that all religious systems of belief are each person’s choice of resources to use when moving into the precincts of the archetypal mind. They see religious belief systems as structures through which we may look at the roots of our own deep mind.
Whatever our belief system, the Confederation encourages all seekers of the truth to act on those beliefs by forming a rule or pattern of living which supports the lengthy and time-consuming process of seeking the truth.
When I go to church, I am seeking the truth. I listen to Bible readings. I sing uplifting songs and psalms. I listen to the preaching. All of the time I am looking for resonance, that spark that says, “Listen to me!”
However the church is not the only place in which the Confederation suggests we seek the truth. To their way of thinking, the truth awaits the seeker everywhere: in conversations with our friends; in signs and symbols which pass our eyes; in the appearance of our totems or animal spirit guides and in serendipities of interesting coincidences. They suggest that the entire universe is one interactive system which responds to our seeking and desire. According to what you wish for most deeply, people and situations will be drawn to you. To the Confederation, all of life, in its rich detail, is alive with information.
What religions and the Confederation teachings have in common is that they believe it is important to worship the one Creator, not occasionally but every day. This worship can be very simple. Praying a prayer at the start and end of the day is a substantial beginning to offering daily worship. The basic goal of a life lived in faith is to retrain the mind from habits based in fear to habits based in love and from carelessness in living to responsible stewardship of one’s precious time in incarnation.
We are born into a secular world which does not know how to worship higher things. Our culture trains us to value and seek money, property, power, romantic love and security. Yet there remains within us an instinctual, deeply natural desire to live sacredly. If you look at the sweep and range of human societies on Earth, you will find that all of them have created a system of religious or spiritual belief and worship. Fortunate indeed is that person who is able to worship the Creator in the shape of the church of his childhood. Fortunate, also, is that seeker who finds a religious system which, though not native to his culture, nevertheless satisfies that desire for truth and gives him a way to live sacredly from day to day.
For most of us, however, a match is not available between the religious systems that are out there and the needs of our deeper nature to know the truth. Religion, as established organizations offer it, just does not work for many people these days.
The Confederation and the New Age
It is true that a new age has been born and your planet at this time is in labor with this new world. And so you, too, are in labor within yourself, birthing a new and hopefully more spiritually oriented entity, finding ways as you make choices to become more real.
How do you forge a road between the everyday of earning a living and the fourth density of love unconditionally given and received? Each of you has part of the answer to that, for each of you is at work paving that road now with your thoughts, with your faith and with your doubts.4
Just as religion has taken over some key concepts like life after death and good and evil and branded them as “religious,” so has New Age spirituality taken over other key concepts like reincarnation, the unity of all things and karma, and made them into dogma. I would like, in this report, to shake the religious and New Age ties off of these concepts and render them emotionally neutral and therefore more helpful concepts for us to consider in seeking the truth for ourselves.
The Confederation talks a lot about a New Age. Like the New Age of our cultural cliché, it is based upon a specific time: the winter solstice of 2012. That is the point at which the Age of Pisces in classical Western astrology ends and the Age of Aquarius begins. That date is our Earth’s graduation day. The Confederation suggests that by that date, it is necessary for each of us to have made the choice of how to live our lives. The following chapters of this book go into that choice.
In this report I will separate these various ideas from their surrounding dogma and give them back to you to think about simply as ideas. The ideas themselves are a part of this overall picture of how things work, which the Confederation teachings have put together into a systematic and internally consistent world picture. Please prepare to reconsider some old and familiar ideas! It will take some stretching! At least, it did for me at first. However the advantages of this world picture are great in that, once you get their “big picture,” what happens to you day by day starts to make a kind of sense that is very refreshing and sustaining.
The Confederation and the Harvest
Ponder death, holding in the attention the principle of perfect love, and know that death is only a transformation. For perfect love does not destroy but only transforms and changes.5
At any time, death is a powerful transformation for us all. And it is coming for all of us! Being born is a death sentence. None of us knows the length of his life. We know only that, one day, we shall cease to breathe and shall pass from this mortal world, just as at one time, we first drew breath as we entered it, fresh from our mothers’ wombs.
The Confederation describes a normal process of the consciousness leaving the physical body in its soul-body after physical death and entering into a time of healing, where the soul-being that is you reviews the incarnation just past, forms a new plan for learning and service and comes back into incarnation to pursue its goals once again. The soul-body generally separates from the physical body at or near the time of physical death and moves on about its business without any break in its consciousness. Death is nothing to fear, according to the Confederation, but rather a time of liberation, healing and renewal.
However, at this time people have a special opportunity, immediately after their deaths, to be harvested. According to the Confederation, we humans reincarnate within this present world many times, preparing for a harvesting or graduation from this density to the next, from the Density of Choice or third density to the Density of Love or fourth density. We have the chance to move on now, as we pass through the gates of our natural time of death.
The Confederation describes a process of walking the steps of light to test our harvestability. If you like the concept of the Pearly Gates, place those gates, in your imagination, at a place along these steps of light which is between this present world of third density and the “heaven-world” of fourth density. Each of these steps of light has a somewhat more dense supply of light and love contained within the light falling on that step. Therefore each step is “hotter,” brighter, more piercing or fuller of light and love.
These gradations of light along the steps are guarded carefully so that we get a true walk into the thickening sunshine. When we are on the most comfortable of those steps in terms of the light, we stop. If that step where we stopped is still in third density, then we have not yet successfully made our choice, and so we will spend another cycle of 76,000 years working on those lessons which bring us to that defining choice.
If the step upon which we stopped is past those Pearly Gates, then we have made our choice successfully and crossed over into fourth density, also called the Density of Love. We have been harvested! We have graduated!
And indeed, the Confederation channelings say that density is a heaven compared to this world. The veil is lifted and we can remember the whole sweep of our experiences, all the lifetimes and all the learning. Our options increase greatly, so that we can go forward as disembodied spirits in order to teach within the inner planes or incarnate in a much-improved body and seek further learning and service. We can become guardians of Earths like this one. We can act as lighthouses, offering constant praise to the Creator as do angels.
Fourth density is a most creative and free place compared to our Earth world. We can start studying the ways of love and understanding as students in fourth-density light-bodies. We can also choose to come back to Earth as fourth-density wanderers or helpers of Earth, in order to help Earth shift into fourth-density love-consciousness. The so-called Indigo Children, in their various groupings, are such entities.
Whether or not 2012 includes the literal end of life as we know it on planet Earth or whether there is still plenty of time to finish our lives out naturally, the choices that we make between now and 2012 will be our last chances in this lifetime to prepare for graduation at this particular time of Harvest.
This book, and the two books that follow it, are short courses in how to prepare for the harvest. In this volume, The Choice 101, I will be focusing on the main details of making the choice. It’s “the bullet,” as emergency medical personnel call that packet of vital information about a patient’s health, which is given as a patient is rushed into the hospital from the ambulance.
All of our tribe of humankind on planet Earth is in an emergency situation. If we are to pass through Harvest and graduate successfully, we need to become informed about our situation and how we can most skillfully respond to it. We need to do this fairly quickly, before 2012. And happily for us all, we can do that. There is nothing holding us back. We simply need to form a desire to engage in the learning curve of reading this book, get a grasp of the situation that satisfies us and decide how we will choose to respond to it.
In a way, the picture which emerges is of a certain kind of game. I shall give you what I understand so far about the rules of this game in this book. The rules are simple.
In another way, the picture which comes forth is of a kind of cosmic school with a certain curriculum which is learned in a certain order. I shall share with you what I understand so far about that curriculum and how the school progresses.
My hope is that you will find this information useful and helpful.