One of the downsides of reading the printed channeling archives is that there are certain sessions that just go missing. I used to try to report these omissions to LLR administration, but it seems like it wasn’t a big deal to them. As such, I need to remind myself to double check for sessions that might have slipped by my paper reading. Here is an example of one that I happened to notice, and there’s a connection to the first printed session in volume 3 that is worth highlighting as a theme of the circle’s in the middle of 1980. Contact with Ra is about six months away.

At issue is the nature of the intellect. In what sense does it help, and in what sense does it obscure truth? In the first session, those of Latuii tell a story of trees, fruits, and the juxtaposition of the intellect with the simplicity of being:

There was once, my friends, a young tree. And this tree was a very intelligent tree. And it decided that it wished to become the best fruit tree of its kind that had ever been made in all of creation. And so, my friends, it began to plot how to grow its blossoms and its fruit, and to calculate just when its leaves should fall and when each leaf should turn to get the greatest amount of fruit from the vine. And it spent a great deal of time in attempting to fruit.

In time, the tree was very widely noted, for no two pieces of fruit were just the same but were different from each other. However, the tree was much less capable of caring for the itself than the other trees. And this it could not understand because it was, after all, a very, very intelligent tree and capable of complex and vast abstract thinking. In time, my friends, this tree withered and perished, while the other fruit trees in the orchard, who had never given a thought to who they were or how to become better, flourished as was their nature.

- Latuii via Rueckert: June 15, 1980

Now, this session has lots of inaudible sections, so I don’t want to quote too much from it or it will be confusing and incoherent. This excerpt explaining the import of the fable should suffice:

When the Creator, in His infinite wisdom, sent us all into the void upon the great circle of becoming, He gave each entity the power of co-Creator. That is, my friends, He gave each of you free will. You can become whatever you desire, spiritually speaking. Thus, you can cause your world to become very complex. And the fruits that you bear to the many [inaudible]. However, my friends, do consciously attempt to control the flow of love from the Central Sun of your existence, which is love. If you do not let love speak to love, you then begin to distort the love from which [inaudible]. The more you calculate, my friends, the more opportunity there is for distortion.

You must understand that we do not suggest that you go through life without using the tool of your mind, for it is an excellent tool and well-suited to serving. But you must be sure that you do not serve it [inaudible], for if you attempt to design and calculate your being, you will surely begin to falter. Each of you has his or her own path. Each of you needs a different meditative or prayer life for work in service to others. In order to maintain that link, the love of the Creator that speaks to the love [inaudible], each of you will find a different instinctual pattern that you must adhere to. To deviate from your instincts once you are upon the path towards the seeking of the truth, you have to some extent distorted your perception of the truth.

- Latuii via Rueckert: June 15, 1980

I’m gratified by Latuii’s use of the word “calculate,” because it puts into focus exactly what about the intelletct is so distorting: this mentally driven reduction of the Creator’s love and light to the subset of the Creation to which we happen to be paying attention at any given moment. Indeed, I’ve often found that the mind’s core faculty is not one of creation so much as filtering, limitation: the mind complex in particular deals in concepts that, by their very nature, introduce boundaries into the plenum of thought, limitation and constraint that make thoughts tractable and identifiable.

This is why I’ve often posited that mind is at the root of creation/separation/illusion, and that the complexes of body and spirit are branches off of this “original thought,” e.g. the very reality of thought itself as a limiting, focusing agency that creates the possibility of perception and thereby illusion. Indeed, Latuii even acknowledges that “your intellect… are part of the physical material” of this illusion. Is it likely we can think our way out of a problem thought created?

At issue, then, is the use of free will to either further cling to separation and limitation, with its false promise of certainty and grounding in reason, or to expand the apeture of perception to see more unity and completeness. And it strikes me in Latuii’s words that faith is bound up in this expansive faculty: the ability to let the heart’s love dilate our focus and acknowledge the reality of oneness even when our minds do not deliver that certainty as a matter of evidence:

Thus, if you seek the kingdom of heaven, you cannot reason yourself then. You cannot contemplate or encapsulate or understand that which you seek.

There is another thing which is called faith, and this also is a very misunderstood word. But, my friends, that quality of the human heart comes closer to providing some insight into the process by which you may seek the truth than any other would.

- Latuii via Rueckert: June 15, 1980

The key is the invocation of will to have this faith, affirming the truth that is the true ground of existence, rather than putting our backs into the endless intellectual piecing together of a map that will never, ever give us the same picture as the territory it attempts to describe. This is an idea that Auxhall actually expands on a week later in another session, and highlights a key function of contact as an awakening, enlightening agent:

We hope that we may say those things which you may need at this time to hear with your outer ears in order that your inner ears, the ears of your spirit, may be awakened to those vibrations which you have the most need of at this time. For although we speak through these instruments in intellectual patterns, the truth that we bring to you is so simple that it is difficult for your intellectual mind to accept it. Therefore, we attempt to find many different methods by which we may present this simple truth.

- Auxhall via Rueckert: June 22, 1980

Paradoxically, it is not through narrowing down ideas but through presenting various examples that the Confederation points to the grounds of truth. I think there’s something epistemologically crucial at work here: the confusion of the simplicity of truth with the precision of intellect. They are not the same thing, and when they are confused we think ourselves to death as a matter of our own free will.

The key to being the Creator’s instruments lies in the use of that will, I’d argue, to surrender our veiled, yellow-ray selves to this love. In submission we find freedom: freedom to serve the Creator, freedom from the illusion of a secure physical illusion, freedom to express love in all its facets without needing to know the right mode of expression at any given time. It is tied up in the responsibility of self-consciousness I’ve been pondering, because one would think taking responsibility means accounting for each discrete, intellect-driven decision. But this isn’t the responsibility with which we are charged as instruments. Instead, it is a responsibility to keep our connection to this love, to trust in this Creator by planting seeds of love that bear fruit on the Creator’s terms, not ours.

In doing so, we maintain all of our abilities as a sentient co-Creator without being limited by the veil, without needing to understand the entire situation reducitvely and intellectually. We need only bear witness as the Creator’s eyes casting It’s gaze on Itself, responding always with a love we discover is not ours but the Creator’s:

We speak of a simple truth and we would express it to you by saying that to serve the Creator is perfect freedom. This, my friends, is a universe of love. The entities upon your sphere, being co-creators, have distorted that love in many ways. But if you can look about you to see the world the Creator has made for you, you can learn the lessons of love, of service to others that we bring to you.

The sun that rules your daytime and shines upon you so abundantly at this time of your planet’s travel about that sun offers its nearly infinite supply of light in service to all who dwell upon this planet that you call Earth. Without it your ability to survive would be negative for you are creatures developed in your physical vehicles to be adapted to that which the sun can give, its warmth and the life that it brings to plants, the evaporation that it gives to water so that there may be rain.

Yes, my friends, even your nights are illuminated by the reflection of the light of the sun. There is a darkness that exists in your density in order that you may understand the light. As it has been written in one of your holy works, light may come into a dark world and the world may not comprehend it, but still, my friends, it exists. The light of which we speak is love. For when we of the Confederation greet you in light and love we are saying the two manifestations of the one thing that animates all of creation.

And what is your role as you bear witness to a world of duality, darkness and light? For those of you who seek to know the truth, your role is one of seeking the light. For in the light is unity. In the light is love. And these things speak to the inner self of a deeper reality. Yes, my friends, it is true that some seek the dark and separate themselves from the rest of your kind and attempt to gain power over others of their kind. There is indeed power in darkness. The power that is in love, the power that is in light, is like the flaming wheel that moves eternally, unifying all those who seek its wisdom and its warmth. It is necessary that you gain firsthand knowledge of this light and this love through meditation or prayer. It is not enough, my friends, that you study, for study will not bear fruit without the catalyst of understanding. And spiritual understanding comes in silence.

Seek, then, within yourself that spark of the infinite love and light of the Creator and then, my friends, we ask you to make the giant step, to cease being observers of your own light, and to speak, when asked, of those things in which you may believe. We do not ask you to volunteer information or to press thoughts and ideas upon people who may not request these concepts, for each student is ready in his own time. But when you are asked, be courageous and speak of those things which are within you, bearing witness to the light in your own way and with your own words. For the kingdom which is called heaven by many on your planet is within you. And as you manifest it in your love, light begins to shine from you, and your being begins to touch those who may need you.

This, my friends, is the kindliest service that you can perform for your fellow beings. So be aware when someone asks for your aid, and plant the seed of thought where you may. It does not matter whether or not you may think that they have borne fruit for that is not within your provenance. It matters only that you have been true to the understanding that you now possess, just as we are true to the understanding that we now possess in sharing our thoughts with you.

- Auxhall via Rueckert: June 22, 1980

In this June 22 session, Latuii actually takes over from those of Auxhall to put a fine point on the connection of free will to intellect and surrender, prompted by a question from one of Latuii’s future instruments, Jim McCarty, and we’ll close on their answer to his question about the connection between mind, brain, and will. It is actually quite fundamental to many of my theories about the specific character of third density, bridging our evolution between mind/body complexes of second density merely reacting to stimuli and mind/body/spirit complexes that respond as co-Creators.

Third density, it seems, is about emerging from an awareness of self as a homeostatic biological entity scrounging for survival through the mystery of self consciousness in third density into the networked intelligence of fourth density social memory, when our awareness of self as co-Creator is fully recognized in our other selves along with our own selves:

Ah, my brother Jim, you ask a difficult question. However, we are aware of the question and will attempt to answer it. The brain is a type of computer with various stages of programming. The deepest programs which have been termed metaprograms by some of your authors are those involving your survival, the reproduction of your species, your social position, and other items that are very big on the agenda of third-density living.

The mind is a function of the spirit which is an amalgam of the effects that a wealth of experiences in various incarnations have had upon the basic spiritual personality. This mind is a collection of biases, emotions and feelings. Depending upon the uses to which the mind has been put in prior incarnations, it may consist of [a] large intellectual factor or little intellect. It is, however, a mind function rather than a brain function. However, standing between mind and brain is that which you call the will. If a person does not use the faculty of his will there will go into effect an automatic metaprogram which will cause that person’s mind to become linked to his brain in a fashion predetermined by his circumstances.

Thus, native intellect, native biases, native emotions, which are brought in from the immortal spirit may be completely buried in the personality of the brain due to lack of will. However, in some instances the faculty of will is developed in the individual and in those cases the mind is able to impress its own metaprogramming much more carefully over the basic metaprogramming of third-density survival mechanisms. Any changes in metaprogramming will be developed and successfully completed by the use of the will.

As you sit here this evening you are exercising the faculty of will. It has been written, “Seek and ye shall find, ask and it shall be opened unto you.” The will is that faculty of seeking, desiring and wishing. When it is developed to perfection, the will of the individual becomes the will of the Creator and you become a clear channel so that you may function through your mind and not through the lower programmings.

- Latuii via Rueckert: June 22, 1980