This session has a lot of interesting elements; first, the troublesome ones. There are two passages that strike me as out of band with the Confederation corpus taken as a whole.

There will be, on this density of this planet, another cycle of third density following the conclusion of that which even now is occurring, having to do with the end of the cycle.

Obviously, this is not the story from Ra and others; Earth is moving to fourth density, and any future third density master cycle will not immediately follow the coming harvest.

In the sixth dimension, which is a light dimension, and from which our brothers and sisters of Latuii come, there…

Again, we know that Latuii is fifth density, although this is an accurate description of the sixth density body complex.

With that out of the way, there’s a wonderful opening segment of Hatonn’s message dealing with our relationships to the natural world. It starts with a little story, and I may dive in on it later. Another notable segment at the end addresses habits of mind and negative thinking. However, today I’m interested in sharing an exchange right smack in the middle stemming from questions about the body complex (the Latuii quote above is from this).

Here the circle is trying to understand the different bodies available to mind/body/spirit complexes in higher densities. It is natural from our incarnate point of view to think of evolution as driven by a kind of bodily mutation of phenotypes based on survival. This is a second density understanding of the chemical vehicle as a mind/body complex with spirit potentiated. Because we are in a kind of liminal density between that consciousness and the fully unveiled awareness of fourth density social memory, humans represent a special case here.

Hatonn is quick to assert the primacy of consciousness in this evolution; the body follows suit as the vehicle for that consciousness’s lessons. The mind and spirit are the subjects of transformation, while the body seems to follow suit, perhaps as some kind of inflection point for the influx of the Creator’s exploration of self (in fact, here’s a Q’uo discussing just that idea from an archetypal mind perspective). If we accept desire as the prime mover of this evolutionary telos, then we can understand the body and the need to care for and love it as both an embrace of that animating desire and a charge to achieve increasingly more honest, more foundational levels of self-awareness and acceptance.

Questioner: Is our evolution to become a ball of light and lose the body altogether?

Hatonn: We are aware of your question, my sister. The goal of spiritual evolution is the transformation of consciousness. The Creator has given a proper shape and configuration to each level of consciousness, so that each transformation is accompanied by a transformation of the vehicle, so that the consciousness may be housed in the most appropriate vehicle for further learning and growth. To attempt to grow spiritually in order to become a ball of light would be like attempting to, shall we say, become a flower or a cloud. The form of consciousness is not within the power or provenance of an evolving entity. It is not anything for that entity to be concerned with. The only concern of the seeker is that he seek. To be a seeker is the basic drive of the nature of all mankind. The basic question of your life is, “What do you seek?” When you understand what your most basic desire is, the priorities of your existence arrange themselves accordingly and you set about your path, seeking as you go, using each minute as a vehicle for learning about that which you seek.

Thus, instead of nullifying desire in removing oneself from acts of will and desire and longing, we ask that you become intimately familiar and totally honest with all of your desires on whatever level they may be, denying none of them, understanding them, and appreciating that the Creator has made you with these desires. The question is in how you order them, and how you moderate them according to your most basic desire. In this way, you begin, and continue, on the road of spiritual transformation. You are attempting a mutation of the mind and spirit. You can do this only by opening yourself to that which is true. If you call it “good,” if you call it “God,” if you call it “love,” if you call it “Buddha,” if you call it “Jesus,” we do not object. You may call it the unnamable. Whatever it is, we ask you to seek it and to know yourself as a seeker.

The prize goes not to any form or design, but to the man with the greatest heart and the greatest will to know. We are not speaking of true believers who attempt to win the world to their ways. We are speaking instead of people who realize, finally, that their greatest single endeavor in life is to be themselves. This we offer you from what knowledge we have. Seek not any form, seek not to become a ball of light. Seek to be yourself, seek to know yourself, seek to share yourself, for it is you yourself who contain the essence of all that there is.

It is written, “As above, so below,” and we say to you, each cell of your body knows the body. If you take a cell from your arm, will it produce an arm? No. We say to you it will produce a body. If you take a cell from your leg will it produce a leg? No, my friends, it will produce a body. Thus, know yourself in all your parts. Know all of your thoughts: those which are basic, those which have to do with existence, with security, with power, with things with which you may not approve. Know all the good things. Know all the things that you had forgotten about yourself that are quite lovely. And to know most of all your inner true and perfect self, that self that changes only very slowly and through many life experiences, growing ever closer to the Creator, sparked by the Creator and returning to the Creator.

- Hatonn via Unknown: March 30, 1980