by Doug Esse

The following is my own opinion.

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Baptism existed in Judaism prior to Christianity, but John the Baptist repurposed the Essenes version [1]. Christianity took the John’s approach and made into a sacrament of an initiation into a new life in Christ. Informed by the Law of One metaphysics and my graduate degree in theology, I think two things are going on.

The Sacrament of Baptism

The ritual celebrates in one place, at one time, the holiness of all things which is always and everywhere true. Second, the person is anointed to be a living exemplar of that universal holiness, in one person, from one event. The baptized is anointed (chosen) to be an example of embodied wholeness (holiness). Third, there are magical properties at play which operate at the astral level, time/space.

Something similar would be to see that clay is holy because it is the Creator experiencing Itself as clay. But if the clay is gathered by a sculptor and then made into an ornate clay pot, something new is happening. The clay that composes the pot is still the same holy clay, but now as a clay pot, it is a new type of expression of the holiness that was wrought through the investment of love by an incarnated intelligence. The clay pot is anointed clay and is somehow brought to a new order of being. 

In the case of a person who is baptized, their heart chakras have been opened in time/space. A new creation emerges from the kiln of trans-dimensional love. But this doesn’t mean that a baptized person will bring that love into manifestation in space/time. To live as anointed is a moment by moment choice to follow what Ra calls the Law of Responsibility [2].

Baptism is not the only way to create this time/space activation of the heart chakra, of course. Other initiation rituals of any type can do this if the ritual is aimed at energetically facilitating the needed density of love/light for green-ray center activation. In addition, one doesn’t need a magical ritual either since the law of doubling (according to Ra) exponentially increases the rate of polarization (pace of our psychospiritual journey) in accordance to the number of times and intensity of our desire to seek and faith that our seeking bears fruit. The more we seek, the more we find, and the more we find, the more we seek.

Christians honor this latter point by naming the sacrament of baptism by desire where one can so desire the activation of the heart center through the purity of the surrendering into the Creator, that the desire achieves the new order of being instantly, as experienced in space/time.

This kind of desire, which results in the activation of the heart, is also what it means when Christians say, “born from above.“ Furthermore, the phrase, “no one comes to the father, except through the son,” refers metaphysically to the idea that activation of the fifth and sixth chakras cannot take place until the heart chakra is activated to a certain threshold of balance in harmony. The “father“ is the higher centers, and the son is the seat of sacrificial love, the heart, the place of the great ankh.

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Notes:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_baptism

[2] 22.5 Questioner: Then can you give me a— Can I assume then that this drastic drop from 700-year life span to one— less than one hundred years in length during this second 25,000-year period was because of an intensification of a… of a condition of lack of service to others? Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is in part correct. By the end of the second cycle, the Law of Responsibility had begun to be effectuated by the increasing ability of entities to grasp those lessons which there are to be learned in this density. Thus, entities had discovered many ways to indicate a bellicose nature, not only as tribes or what you call nations but in personal relationships, each with the other, the concept of barter having given way in many cases to the concept of money; also, the concept of ownership having won ascendancy over the concept of non-ownership on an individual or group basis.

Each entity then was offered many more subtle ways of demonstrating either service towards others or service to self with the distortion of the manipulation of others. As each lesson was understood, those lessons of sharing, of giving, of receiving in free gratitude— each lesson could be rejected in practice.

Without demonstrating the fruits of such learn/teaching the life span became greatly reduced, for the ways of honor/duty were not being accepted.

Category: Earth History: Second Cycle

60.16 Questioner: The pyramid shape then, as I understand it, was deemed by your social memory complex at that time to be of paramount importance as, shall I say, a physical training aid for spiritual development. At this particular time in the evolution of our planet it seems that you place little or no emphasis on this shape. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. It is our honor/duty to attempt to remove the distortions that the use of this shape has caused in the thinking of your peoples and in the activities of some of your entities. We do not deny that such shapes are efficacious, nor do we withhold the general gist of this efficacy. However, we wish to offer our understanding, limited though it is, that contrary to our naïve beliefs many thousands of your years ago the optimum shape for initiation does not exist.

Let us expand upon this point. When we were aided by sixth-density entities during our own third-density experiences we, being less bellicose in the extreme, found this teaching to be of help. In our naïveté in third density we had not developed the interrelationships of your barter or money system and power. We were, in fact, a more philosophical third-density planet than your own and our choices of polarity were much more centered about the, shall we say, understanding of sexual energy transfers and the appropriate relationships between self and other-self.

We spent a much larger portion of our space/time working with the unmanifested being. In this less complex atmosphere it was quite instructive to have this learn/teaching device and we benefited without the distortions we found occurring among your peoples.

We have recorded these differences meticulously in the Great Record of Creation that such naïveté shall not be necessary again.

At this space/time we may best serve you, we believe, by stating that the pyramid for meditation along with other rounded and arched or pointed circular shapes is of help to you. However, it is our observation that due to the complexity of influences upon the unmanifested being at this space/time nexus among your planetary peoples it is best that the progress of the mind/body/spirit complex take place without, as you call them, training aids because when using a training aid an entity then takes upon itself the Law of Responsibility for the quickened or increased rate of learn/teaching. If this greater understanding, if we may use this misnomer, is not put into practice in the moment by moment experience of the entity, then the usefulness of the training aid becomes negative.

Category: Pyramids

101.8 Questioner: Thank you. Could Ra give information on any way that we could give information to Greta Woodrew as to how to alleviate her present condition of swelling?

Ra: I am Ra. We may only suggest that the honor of propinquity to light carries with it the Law of Responsibility. The duty to refrain from contumely, discord, and all things which, when unresolved within, make way for workings lies before the instrument of which you speak. This entity may, if it is desired by the scribe, share our comments upon the working of the latter entity.

The entity which is given constant and unremitting approval by those surrounding it suffers from the loss of the mirroring effect of those which reflect truthfully rather than unquestioningly. This is not a suggestion to reinstate judgment but merely a suggestion for all those supporting instruments; that is, support, be harmonious, share in love, joy, and thanksgiving, but find love within truth, for each instrument benefits from this support more than from the total admiration which overcomes discrimination.

• Cosmic Christ