February 17, 1981
A blade of grass rises, flourishes, and withers. What we see is the life of that particular blade. What we might overlook is the life that keeps bringing forth another. In Session 26, Ra uses this image to bring a conversation about scripture, war, unusual encounters, and intimacy back to one question. How much of our attention goes to what passes, and how much goes to the love that gives it meaning?
Read scripture with discernment
Ra says that no source in third density can communicate the Law of One completely. Asked about the Bible, Ra sees portions of the teaching in both Testaments and considers those portions roughly equal, while describing more material in the Old Testament as negatively influenced. When pressed for a percentage, Ra leaves the judgment to the reader and recommends careful reading and inward reflection. The invitation is to consider what a passage cultivates in us. Does it deepen compassion and respect for another person’s freedom? Does it encourage fear, exclusion, or control? Those questions apply just as readily to the Ra material. Session 26.4–8
Knowledge takes its direction from the people who use it
In Ra’s account, some Wanderers first brought ideas that encouraged free will, preparing the ground for others to offer more specific knowledge. Ra identifies Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as examples and gives a separate account of Abraham Lincoln. The session then turns to a harder question. What happens when knowledge offered to help becomes a means of destruction? Ra connects this concern with nuclear weapons and the Confederation’s reported involvement in UFO phenomena. These are claims within the channeling. The ethical question reaches into ordinary life. Before asking what a new power makes possible, we can ask whose freedom and well-being its use will serve. Session 26.12–22
Healing asks something of the living
Speaking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Ra describes a spiritual effort to preserve the integrity of those killed and says their recovery takes time. In this account, once healing occurs, the trauma need not impede their spiritual progress. Ra also treats nuclear destruction as a wound to the planet itself. Healing involves acceptance, forgiveness, and restitution where possible. To accept is to face what happened. Forgiveness can coexist with accountability, and restitution asks what repair the living can still make. Ra describes directing love toward Earth and toward the scars left by human actions. Session 26.23–31
Give the mystery its proper place
When asked how many contact groups had been influenced by Orion, Ra turns the question around. The danger, in Ra’s view, lies in the importance we give extraordinary details. A message can hold our attention with names, predictions, and mysteries while leaving the way we treat other people untouched. Ra’s image of the grass that withers invites us to weigh a teaching by what it does in our lives. Does it make us more patient when challenged, more honest when afraid, or more willing to help when nobody is watching? Session 26.32–36
Intimacy as a practice of seeing the other person
Ra describes sexual energy through the color rays. Red ray concerns reproduction. At orange and yellow, the session explores how appetite and the desire for control can turn a partner into an object. Green ray brings the possibility of mutual strengthening through openhearted love. Ra describes possessiveness and fear of being possessed as obstacles, and explains that one person can offer love even when the other cannot meet them in it. Blue ray brings honest, unafraid expression. Indigo ray is described as a rare, sacred opening toward intelligent infinity. The transcript’s note clarifies that the mutual transfer initially called “third ray” here means green ray. Session 26.38
The session closes with concern for Carla, the instrument, and the group’s efforts to care for her. After so much discussion of unseen influences and spiritual energy, that small act of attention gives the reader something concrete to sit with. Love can begin by noticing when someone has given enough and needs rest. Session 26.39–40
Echoes in the teachings of Jesus
In John 13:34–35, Jesus gives his disciples a way for others to recognize them by how they love one another. That echoes Ra’s invitation to weigh spiritual teachings by the quality of life they foster. In Gospel of Thomas, Saying 113, Jesus describes the Father’s kingdom as already spread over the earth while people fail to see it. Read alongside Ra’s image of the grass, the saying invites us to look more closely at what is already present beneath the familiar surface of life.
The next time a mystery captures your attention, let it lead you back to someone you can love more freely. Listen a little longer. Speak honestly without taking away the other person’s room to choose. Repair what you can. In Ra’s image, the blade of grass passes, yet the life that brings it forth continues. The choice before us is how to express that life while we are here.
Source — The Law of One, Session 26, February 17, 1981. Home of The Law of One material — L/L Research.
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