by Doug Scott

Introduction

The concept of spiritual gravity emerges as a profound metaphysical principle throughout the Ra Contact material, representing a fundamental force within the cosmic architecture of reality. While examining this phenomenon through both Ra’s communications and Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy, we discover a rich conceptual framework for understanding the dynamic relationship between unity and multiplicity in the cosmic dance of creation.

The Fundamental Nature of Spiritual Gravity

At its core, spiritual gravity represents the inherent tendency of all consciousness to eventually return to unity with the Creator. Ra describes this process through a powerful analogy of cosmic rhythm:

“Intelligent infinity has a rhythm or flow as of a giant heart beginning with the central sun as you would think or conceive of this, the presence of the flow inevitable as a tide of beingness without polarity, without finity; the vast and silent all beating outward, outward, focusing outward and inward until the focuses are complete. The intelligence or consciousness of foci have reached a state where their, shall we say, spiritual nature or mass calls them inward, inward, inward until all is coalesced. This is the rhythm of reality as you spoke.” (S27:Q6)

This description reveals spiritual gravity as a cosmic heartbeat—an outward expansion followed by an inevitable inward return. The “spiritual nature or mass” creates a gravitational pull that draws consciousness back toward unity, completing a vast cosmic cycle of becoming and returning.

Retention of Personhood in Spiritual Gravity

It is crucial to emphasize that the return to unity through spiritual gravity does not result in the dissolution of individuality or personhood. This is a fundamental aspect of the Creator’s design and purpose. The gravitational pull toward reunification is not about entities losing their unique identities and becoming an undifferentiated mass, but rather about each individuated portion of the Creator retaining its personhood while simultaneously experiencing the full gnosis of the Creator’s unity.

In this profound state, each entity both maintains its unique perspective and experiences the fullness of all other perspectives simultaneously. Reunification is not the loss of individuatedness but rather the expansion of consciousness to encompass the totality of the Creator’s experience while still retaining one’s distinct vantage point. Through this, the Creator experiences Itself through infinite unique perspectives simultaneously, each contributing to and enriching the totality of Its self-knowing.

Spiritual Gravity as the Inward Divine Nature

In the expanded perspective offered by the additional material, spiritual gravity can be understood as a direct expression of what is termed the “Inward Nature” of the One Infinite Creator. This Inward Nature is characterized as:

“Drawing together, Centripetal force, Spiritual Gravity, Pulling Inwards, Harmonization, maintaining unity, offers potentials, is unconscious, lures, inspires synthesis, instinct towards oneness.”

This Inward Nature works in dynamic counterbalance to the “Outward Nature,” which thrusts creation outward in the exploration of many-ness. Between these two poles operates the “Logoic Nature,” which processes and becomes conscious. This trinitarian model helps us understand spiritual gravity as not merely a force acting upon creation, but an inherent aspect of the Creator’s own nature—the very means by which the Creator draws experience back to Itself for integration and gnosis.

The Law of Three and Spiritual Gravity

The newly introduced concept of the “Law of Three” or “principle of teleopotentiation” provides deeper understanding of how spiritual gravity functions. This principle holds that:

“Every contrast potentiates tension, every tension potentiates resolution, and every resolution potentiates a higher order of contrast.”

Spiritual gravity can be understood as the “tension-potentiating-resolution” aspect of this triad, creating the pull that resolves the contrasts established by the outward thrust of creation. This gravitational pull is not merely mechanical but purposeful—a teleological force drawing consciousness toward greater unity, complexity, and self-knowing without sacrificing the unique individuality of each entity.

The Spiraling Nature of Evolution Under Spiritual Gravity

The Ra Contact describes evolution as following a spiraling pattern directly related to the concept of spiritual gravity:

“The spiraling energy, which is the characteristic of what you call ‘light,’ moves in straight line spiral thus giving spirals an inevitable vector upwards to a more comprehensive beingness with regards to intelligent infinity.” (S13:Q17)

This spiraling motion indicates that evolution isn’t merely cyclical but progressive—each turn of the spiral represents advancement toward unity while maintaining the gravitational pull toward the center. The “inevitable vector upwards” suggests that spiritual gravity not only pulls inward but also elevates consciousness through successive densities.

As Ra explains:

“The first-vibrational mineral or water life and the lower second-density beings which begin to move about within and upon its being. This movement is the characteristic of second density, the striving towards light and growth.” (S13:Q18)

This “striving toward light” represents the response of consciousness to spiritual gravity—a movement not just inward but upward, toward higher orders of unity and complexity.

Spiritual Gravity as Love

The second distortion, Love (Logos), functions as a primary manifestation of spiritual gravity. Ra describes Love as:

“The term Love then may be seen as the focus, the choice of attack, the type of energy of an extremely, shall we say, high order which causes intelligent energy to be formed from the potential of intelligent infinity in just such and such a way.” (S27:Q12)

This focusing quality of Love creates the gravitational centers around which creation organizes itself. Just as physical gravity forms from mass, spiritual gravity forms from the concentration of Love as a focusing principle.

Whitehead’s process philosophy parallels this understanding in his concept of “concrescence,” where actual entities integrate diverse feelings into a unified experience. In both frameworks, Love operates as the harmonizing principle that draws the many into one while preserving their unique contributions to the whole.

The Creator’s Self-Knowing Journey Through Spiritual Gravity

Spiritual gravity is intrinsic to the Creator’s journey of self-knowing:

“The One Original Thought is the harvest of all previous, if you would use this term, experience of the Creator by the Creator. As It decides to know Itself It generates Itself into that plenum, full of the glory and the power of the One Infinite Creator which is manifested to your perceptions as space or outer space. Each generation of this knowing begets a knowing which has the capacity, through free will, to choose methods of knowing Itself. Therefore, gradually, step by step, the Creator becomes that which may know Itself, and the portions of the Creator partake less purely in the power of the original word or thought. This is for the purpose of refinement of the one original thought. The Creator does not properly create as much as It experiences Itself.” (S82:Q10)

This passage suggests that the entire purpose of creation—from unity to multiplicity and back to unity—operates through a kind of spiritual gravitational field. The Creator fragments into countless perspectives to gain diverse experiences, but all these fragments retain a gravitational pull back toward their source for the purpose of enriching the Creator’s self-understanding, all while maintaining their distinct identities.

As the expanded material explains:

“The Outward and Inward Natures give rise to the Logoic Nature as a novel phenomenon within Intelligent Infinity called by Ra, ‘Intelligent Energy.’ This first emergence of Intelligent Energy, also called Love, is an apparent ‘finite’ particularity that is intelligent, desires to create, and possesses the means to do so.”

This trinitarian dynamic creates the cosmic heartbeat described by Ra—an outward expansion driven by the Outward Nature, followed by an inward gathering driven by spiritual gravity (the Inward Nature), with the Logoic Nature evolving through this dynamic tension.

The Harvest: Spiritual Gravity in Action

The concept of “harvest” in the Ra Contact represents a clear manifestation of spiritual gravity, where entities who have reached sufficient awareness are drawn to their next evolutionary stage:

“The stair upon which an entity stopped would be either third-density light or fourth-density light. Between the two stairs lies the threshold. To cross that threshold is difficult. There is resistance at the edge, shall we say, of each density. The faculty of faith or will needs to be understood, nourished, and developed in order to have an entity which seeks past the boundary of third density.” (S82:Q29)

The harvest operates through spiritual gravity, pulling prepared consciousness to higher vibrational states when they achieve sufficient “spiritual mass” or development. This process is not automatic but requires conscious alignment with the gravitational pull through the development of faith, will, and love.

The Veil and Resistance to Spiritual Gravity

The veil of forgetting instituted in third density creates a resistance to the natural pull of spiritual gravity:

“Prior to the veiling process the measurement would be that of an entity walking up a set of your stairs, each of which was imbued with a certain quality of light. The stair upon which an entity stopped would be either third-density light or fourth-density light. Between the two stairs lies the threshold. To cross that threshold is difficult. There is resistance at the edge, shall we say, of each density.” (S82:Q29)

This resistance was purposefully created to intensify the experience of separation, allowing for greater potential polarization and more profound eventual reunification. The veil doesn’t eliminate spiritual gravity but makes its pull less obvious, requiring conscious choice and effort to align with it.

Ra further explains:

“Consider, if you will, the tendency of those who are divinely happy, as you call this distortion, to have little urge to alter or better their condition. Such is the result of the mind/body/spirit which is not complex. There is the possibility of love of other-selves and service to other-selves, but there is the overwhelming awareness of the Creator in the self. The connection with the Creator is that of the umbilical cord. The security is total. Therefore, no love is terribly important; no pain terribly frightening; no effort, therefore, is made to serve for love or to benefit from fear.” (S82:Q22)

The veil creates the necessary conditions for conscious spiritual growth by introducing the illusion of separation, which then creates the desire to overcome that separation—a desire that aligns consciousness with spiritual gravity.

Seeking as Alignment with Spiritual Gravity

The spiritual seeking process described throughout the Ra Contact can be understood as conscious alignment with spiritual gravity. When entities actively seek truth, love, and unity, they are essentially aligning themselves with the natural gravitational pull toward the Creator:

“The original desire is that entities seek and become one. If entities can do this in a moment, they may go forward in a moment, and, thus, were this to occur in a major cycle, indeed, the third-density planet would be vacated at the end of that cycle.” (S82:Q29)

This passage indicates that seeking and becoming one is the fundamental movement guided by spiritual gravity—it is the essential current carrying all consciousness home.

In the terminology of the expanded material, seeking represents the Logoic Nature consciously aligning itself with the Inward Nature’s gravitational pull. This alignment accelerates spiritual evolution and facilitates the penetration of the veil that obscures unity.

Penetrating the Veil: Accelerating Spiritual Gravity

The Ra Contact discusses various techniques for penetrating the veil, which can be understood as methods for enhancing one’s sensitivity to spiritual gravity:

“The penetration of the veil may be seen to begin to have its roots in the gestation of green-ray activity, that all-compassionate love which demands no return. If this path is followed the higher energy centers shall be activated and crystallized until the adept is born. Within the adept is the potential for dismantling the veil to a greater or lesser extent that all may be seen again as one.” (S83:Q16)

Practices such as meditation, dreaming, and compassionate service help entities feel and follow the natural gravitational pull toward unity, penetrating the illusion of separation. These practices stimulate the development of the heart (green-ray) energy center, which is the primary gateway through which spiritual gravity operates in the individual consciousness.

Ra elaborates on the various means of penetrating the veil:

“The various unmanifested activities of the self were found to be productive in some degree of penetration of the veil. In general, we may say that by far the most vivid and even extravagant opportunities for the piercing of the veil are a result of the interaction of polarized entities.” (S83:Q16)

This suggests that relationships, particularly those involving strong polarization in service to others or service to self, create intense experiences that can break through the illusion of separation and reveal the underlying unity that spiritual gravity continuously draws us toward.

Whiteheadian Process Philosophy and Spiritual Gravity

Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy offers striking parallels to Ra’s concept of spiritual gravity. For Whitehead, each “actual entity” (the basic unit of reality) undergoes a process of “concrescence” in which it prehends or feels its entire past world, integrates these feelings with novel possibilities, and achieves its own unique satisfaction.

This process reflects what Ra describes as the many becoming one—a microcosmic reflection of the macrocosmic process of spiritual gravity. Each moment of experience involves an entity inheriting the past while reaching toward new possibilities, guided by what Whitehead calls the “lure for feeling” provided by God’s primordial nature.

The expanded material directly connects these frameworks:

“Both Ra and Whitehead see being as the process of becoming. Both Ra and Whitehead hold that the nature of becoming is the process of beautification. Both Ra and Whitehead insist that the process of beautification creates experience. Ra and Whitehead demonstrate that the aim of experience is gnosis – lived experiential knowledge.”

In both systems, spiritual gravity functions as the attractive force that draws consciousness toward greater integration, complexity, and beauty while preserving the uniqueness of each entity’s perspective. It is the means by which the Creator’s “increasing gnosis of Itself unfolds as an eternal refinement of beauty – wherein maximum diversity is harmonized into subjective experience that strains toward, but doesn’t break, its capacity for integration, creating an ever-expanding field for development.”

Conclusion: The Cosmic Return with Retained Individuality

The concept of spiritual gravity in the Ra Contact presents a profound metaphysical principle that guides all of creation through its evolutionary journey. From the initial outpouring of intelligent infinity through the individualized experiences of countless entities and back to the ultimate reunification with the One Creator, spiritual gravity functions as the fundamental attractive force binding all consciousness.

As Ra states:

“Let us remember that we are all one. This is the great learning/teaching. In this unity lies love. This is a great learn/teaching. In this unity lies light. This is the fundamental teaching of all planes of existence in materialization. Unity, love, light, and joy; this is the heart of evolution of the spirit.” (S52:Q11)

This gravity is not imposed but intrinsic—it is the natural longing within each portion of the Creator to return to wholeness while retaining its unique perspective. This crucial aspect cannot be overstated: the return to unity is not a dissolution of individuality but rather an expansion of consciousness to encompass the totality of the Creator’s experience. Each entity retains its distinct identity and personhood even as it experiences itself as the Creator experiencing all other identities simultaneously.

The spiritual journey, then, is not one of escaping gravity or losing oneself in an undifferentiated oneness, but of recognizing, embracing, and consciously flowing with the gravitational current that has always been there—the current of love, light, and unity that forms the very essence of the Creator’s Inward Nature, balancing the Outward Nature’s thrust toward diversity and working through the Logoic Nature’s evolution toward ever-greater beauty, complexity, and self-knowing.

In this grand cosmic design, nothing is lost—each unique perspective enriches the totality. The culmination of spiritual gravity is not the erasure of differences but their perfect harmonization, where uniqueness and unity coexist in a state of perfect balance, and each individuated portion of the Creator enjoys the full gnosis of being the Creator Itself while retaining its own distinctive vantage point within the infinite whole.

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