Presentation by Doug Scott, LCSW to the Building 4th Community
[Notes from a Building 4th gathering, where I offer a speculation about what happened when two orders of magnitude fell in love with each other — and why Earth, of all places, is where it had to happen.]
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Vertical Oneing: Terra, the Solar Logos, and the Jesus Christ Event – The Building 4th Podcast
The pattern underneath everything
Start with something small enough to hold.
Two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom exist as three separate things. They come together and become one water molecule — and the whole universe is now increased by one molecule. Two people exist as two. They marry, and there is one couple where before there were none, and the civilization is increased by one family. Alfred North Whitehead gave this its name: concrescence, growing together. His formulation is the one I keep returning to — the many become one, and are increased by one.
Science shows this. Process philosophy shows this. And the Law of One has it plainly: the billions on Terra seek to become one social memory complex, and when that happens, the Confederation is increased by one member — a Terran planetary entity in fourth density.
Here is where I want to push. We tend to think about this horizontally. The galaxy as a horizontal community of beings. The solar Logoi as a horizontal community. Mind/body/spirit complexes as a horizontal community. I affirm all of that. I also think it goes vertically — across orders of magnitude — and that the Jesus Christ event was a oneing of two such orders: the sub-sub-Logoic level, which is us, which is Terra, and the sub-Logoic level, which is our sun.
HORIZONTAL CONCRESCENCE
VERTICAL CONCRESCENCE
Why any of this complexity in the first place
I made a chart to hold the Law of Three: two contrasting forces generate a tension, and that tension resolves either at the status quo level or at a higher grade, which inaugurates a new arising. The many become one and are increased by one, and the spiral turns.
Underneath and before everything sits the Creator’s constant desire — to know the self, to know the self more, to know the self better. That desire precedes the Creator’s own self-knowledge in a sense. It is the cosmic thrust.
Billions of years ago, that thrust ran into a problem. Third-density beings existed without the veil. They remembered they were the Creator. No fear was too great, no love too great. Everything in monochrome. Ra’s description of what that produced is unsparing: “such conditions created the situation of a most pallid experiential nexus in which lessons were garnered with the relative speed of the turtle to the cheetah” (Ra, 82.18). Those societies could be highly advanced technologically, because manifestation is easy in a state of constant potential inspiration. What they lacked, Ra says, was “will or, to use a more plebeian term, gusto, or élan vital” (Ra, 82.19).
Were they free? Genuine free will requires real uncertainty. Without the possibility of misunderstanding, there isn’t much evolution. So the Creator’s push kept pressing through beings who had no reason to move. Why go to university when the trust fund is already yours?
The status quo resolution was to keep recycling entities and extending the timelines. Turtle speed. And then one Logos — Ra doesn’t specify which, and I won’t pretend to know — imagined a veil placed between the conscious and unconscious mind, semi-permeable, each held in mystery relative to the other. Third density immediately intensified. Polarization appeared where it had been latent and unimagined. It worked so well that the entire creation adopted it, and third density became the axis upon which the whole enterprise turns. Fourth, fifth, and sixth densities are refinements of the one choice made here, behind the veil.
That was the first breakthrough. Hold it, because the second one rhymes.
The second logjam, and why it is here
Run an experiment long enough and you eventually arrive at the far side of it.
Earth is a planet of third-density repeaters. Many, many times over. And the structures we’ve built here — including the spiritual institutions built in good faith — are largely mired inside what I’ve come to call the Great BASH: the collective thought form generated by our inefficient use of bellicosity. Every time a catalyst arrives and we respond by projecting anger outward, we feed it. The myth of redemptive violence — if we just eliminate those people over there — feeds it. And so does the intrapersonal version, the instinct to hate and repress the parts of myself I’d rather not process, forgive, or understand.
All of that accumulates into an energetic logjam. We created it, and now it creates us — the way we created social media and social media is busy creating us.
Here’s the trap in its most elegant form. I can attend church every Sunday, confess daily, feel entirely pure, and hate Muslims, or Jews, or Iranians. My institution affirms me while I reject universal love. Rising within the structure — to bishop, or to counselor, and I’ll pick on myself here — offers no exit. It can deepen the enmeshment while producing the sensation of freedom.
Ra says the Confederation sees us as one being: the planetary entity Terra, of which our self-aware layer is one membrane among the biosphere, atmosphere, and geosphere. We sit inside a region bathed in green-ray energy, and we’re supposed to be harvesting into fourth density. Instead, they observe an orange-ray overlay on a green-ray entity. Ra’s mechanism for this is precise: entities feeling true-color green respond by rejecting societal activity and seeking the self again, but “not having developed the yellow ray properly so that it balances the personal vibratory rates of the entity, the entity then is faced with the task of further activation and balancing of the self in relation to the self, thus the orange-ray manifestations at this space/time nexus” (Ra, 41.14).
Orange ray is the seat of self-identity — for a person, and for a planetary entity. We haven’t yet said, collectively, this is who we are and this is what we want. We should be graduating high school. We keep repeating first grade.
From the fourth-density perspective, this is a problem. From the perspective of the solar Logos, which has its own lifespan and its own mind, body, and spirit to develop — it is exactly what was required.
Yahweh, and a Logos learning to be a parent
Ra tells us that Yahweh was a Guardian, and describes the transfer of the Martian population here after their atmosphere failed: “a combination of the mind/body/spirit complexes of those of your so-called Red Planet and a careful series of genetical adjustments made by the Guardians of that time” (Ra, 9.7). Yahweh took those souls into itself — into a social memory complex — and felt an affinity toward them, then set them down here in more capable human bodies.
Later came the genetic work with the Anak, roughly 3,600 years ago, entities made “larger and stronger” (Ra, 18.20). Ra’s assessment of the outcome is blunt: “The ones of Yahweh were attempting to create an understanding of the Law of One by creating mind/body/spirit complexes capable of grasping the Law of One. The experiment was a decided failure from the view of the desired distortions” — because rather than assimilating the Law of One, the group was tempted to see itself as elite (Ra, 18.21). That opening was precisely what the Orion group needed.
My speculation — and I want to be clear that this is my interpretive synthesis, not something Ra states — is that Yahweh is our solar Logos. A mind/body/spirit complex at stellar scale, growing up. We are its creatures. We are also its creators. Whitehead said the same thing from a different direction: God creates us, and we create God.
Look at the sequence as a curriculum. Venus first — so overwhelmingly positive that Ra describes them acting almost as though there were no veil at all. The positive path is the path of wholeness, and wholeness is how a solar Logos already knows itself: I am one, I am unity. Then Maldek — total self-destruction. There’s the other pole, delivered as catalyst. Then Mars, where Yahweh moves from environmental provision into something like personal guardianship, taking wounded children into its own body. That’s parental love waking up.
And then Earth, where every previous thread converges, and where Yahweh’s naïveté runs out of road. The attempts to strengthen and manipulate came from genuine love. They also came from a being that has never known life behind a veil, applying structural solutions to an experiential problem.
Ra gives us the reason this limitation exists, and it’s the passage that reorganizes everything for me: “The sub-Logos offers the catalyst at the lower levels of energy, the first triad; these have to do with the survival of the physical complex. The higher centers gain catalyst from the biases of the mind/body/spirit complex itself in response to all random and directed experiences” (Ra, 54.17).
Red, orange, yellow. That’s the extent of what a solar Logos can provide. Once a third-density being activates the heart center and begins working from the higher chakras, the direction of teaching reverses. Our local god is like white light — all things, with no experience of being white light, because there is no contrast. We are its capacity to feel contrast. We are, at that point, its parent.
This is why Ra’s framing of the relationship matters so much: the connection between a solar Logos and a mind/body/spirit complex is “not the relationship of parent to child but of Creator, that is Logos, to Creator that is the mind/body/spirit complex, as Logos” (Ra, 65.16). Creator to Creator. The way up is down. By incarnating more fully, we ascend.
Ra then describes Yahweh taking stock of its own vibratory patterns and becoming, in effect, a more eloquently effective sound vibration complex. The name changes. YHWH becomes YHSVH — the letter Shin, fire and transformation, inserted into the divine name. One way to hold that transformation, and I offer it as one way among several: I am that I am, now incarnating as you.
And on the veiled side of things, at roughly the same period, a people is developing the Emmanuel thought form. God with us. Two yearnings reaching toward each other across orders of magnitude. And what do two beings do when they yearn? They move toward consummation.
The Christ event as vertical concrescence
Ra describes the entity we call Jesus as a wanderer of no name, of Confederation origins, of the highest sub-octave of fourth density — one who could have gone on to fifth and chose instead to return to third for this mission, to share the love vibration as purely as possible (Ra, 17.11–17.12). And later: this entity “became aware that it was not an entity of itself but operated as a messenger of the One Creator, whom this entity saw as Love” (Ra, 17.22).
A messenger, not an entity of itself. An emptied vessel — and here is the part that matters — one whose personality did not dissolve.
That’s the new thing. A co-presencing. The Logos and the entity Jesus occupying one body in a dynamic dance of love, sustained by a yes given moment by moment. This was no walk-in, where one personality steps aside so another can occupy the vehicle. It was constant co-participation. The Greek fathers had a word for mutual indwelling of this kind: perichoresis, the divine dance. Chalcedon later gave us the formula — fully divine and fully human. Both are pointing at the same event from different angles: the fullness of the solar Logos inhabiting a third-density vessel that remained awake, sentient, and choosing.
Richard Rohr, my spiritual father, wrote a line his friend Bono loved so much he thought it should have been the book’s title: God loves things by becoming them. That’s a process statement, whether or not either of them framed it that way. Love unites, and the union produces a new one. The many become one and are increased by one — and it was always going to happen vertically as well as horizontally.
Ra’s teaching on the crux ansata gives this its shape: “The crux ansata is to be seen as an image of the eternal in and through manifestation, and beyond manifestation, through the sacrifice and transformation of that which is manifest” (Ra, 93.24). And in the following session: “There is no experience which is not purchased by effort of some kind — no act of service to self or others which does not bear a price to the entity manifesting, commensurate with its purity. All things in manifestation may be seen in one way or another to be offering themselves in order that transformations may take place” (Ra, 94.26).
Loss and renewal. Loss and renewal. Every renewal increased by one. The two hydrogen atoms and the one oxygen atom die to their individuation and rise as a molecule — a unity that preserves diversity rather than erasing it into uniformity.
So: don’t think of Jesus as a person cleaning up a mess. Think of the Jesus Christ event — in my book I count twelve components that had to converge, including the veil itself, including the accumulated Terran complexity, including a solar Logos ready to receive what it had never known. Conventional Christianity gives us a mop-up operation. What I’m describing is a consummation.
The seed inside the eye
Picture the Great BASH as something like the eye of Sauron. And picture, planted right in the middle of it at a higher level, an emerald-green seed form: the forgiveness thought form.
Ra’s teaching on this is direct — Jesus was karmically absolved of an early destruction of an other-self in his last hours, speaking from the cross: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. “In forgiveness lies the stoppage of the wheel of action, or what you call karma” (Ra, 17.20). And forgiveness of the other-self is forgiveness of self; a full forgiveness is impossible without including the self (Ra, 18.12).
Every time any of us works to understand ourselves and one another — through acceptance, forgiveness, balancing, opening to more love — that seed grows as one corpus. And eventually the Great BASH, which we made and which has been our bane, takes its bow. My job is done. I catalyzed you enough. You finally stopped pointing the finger and saying: you are not me. The accuser belongs to the design. Having grappled with it rather than projected it, we can move.
What becomes available on the far side of that isn’t philosophy. This material is extremely esoteric, and almost nobody needs it. The fullness of the One Infinite Creator becomes accessible through chosen relationship — through co-presencing, co-participating, co-creating. Pan-sacramentalism: God in us and us in God, all of it, everywhere. Ra places the sacramental nature at the violet ray, the sum of the whole complex. We become co-creators with God, in God, through God, as God — intentionally. Some call this the Christification of the universe.
Something new happened through the complexity of Terra. It reached the solar Logos, and through the solar Logos the galactic Logoi, and through them the primal Logos, and through that, the Creator. Our unblocking unblocks the Creator’s process. That’s the claim.
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