"Time" as An 'Illusion' of 3rd Density Experience

The Law of One, Book I, Session 16

Questioner: Thank you very much.

In previous material, before we communicated with you, it was stated by the Confederation that there is actually no past or future … that all is present.

Would this be a good analogy?

Ra: I am Ra. There is past, present, and future in third density.

In an overview such as an entity may have, removed from the space/time continuum, it may be seen that in the cycle of completion there exists only the present.

We, ourselves, seek to learn this understanding.

At the seventh level or dimension, we shall, if our humble efforts are sufficient, become one with all, thus having no memory, no identity, no past or future, but existing in the all.

Questioner: Does this mean that you would have awareness of all that is?

Ra: I am Ra. This is partially correct.

It is our understanding that it would not be our awareness, but simply awareness of the Creator.

In the Creator is all that there is.

Therefore, this knowledge would be available.

The Law of One, Book II, Session 29

Questioner: Thank you. 

Yesterday you stated that planets in first density are in a timeless state to begin with. 

Can you tell me how the effect that we appreciate as time comes into being?

Ra: I am Ra. We have just described to you the state of beingness of each Logos. 

The process by which space/time comes into continuum form is a function of the careful building, shall we say, of an entire or whole plan of vibratory rates, densities, and potentials. 

When this plan has coalesced in the thought complexes of Love, then the physical manifestations begin to appear; this first manifestation stage being awareness or consciousness.

At the point at which this coalescence is at the living-ness or being-ness point, the point or fountainhead of beginning, space/time then begins to unroll its scroll of living-ness.

The Law of One, Book III, Session 70

Questioner: I think I have an erroneous concept of the mind/body/spirit complex that, for instance, I represent here in this density and my higher self.

This probably comes from my concept of space and time.

I am going to try to unscramble this.

The way I see it right now is that I am existing in two different locations, here and in mid-sixth-density, simultaneously.

Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. You are existing at all levels simultaneously.

It is specifically correct that your higher self is you in mid-sixth-density and, in your way of measuring what you know of as time, your higher self is your self in your future.

Questioner: Am I correct in assuming that all of the mind/body/spirit complexes that exist below levels of mid-sixth-density have a higher self at the level of mid-sixth-density? Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is correct.

Questioner: Would an analogy for this situation be that an individual’s higher self is manipulating, to some extent shall I say, the mind/body/spirit complex that is its analog to move it through the lower densities for the purposes of gaining experience and finally transferring that experience or amalgamating it in mid-sixth-density with the higher self?

Ra: I am Ra. This is incorrect.

The higher self does not manipulate its past selves.

It protects when possible and guides when asked, but the force of free will is paramount.

The seeming contradictions of determinism and free will melt when it is accepted that there is such a thing as true simultaneity.

The higher self is the end result of all the development experienced by the mind/body/spirit complex to that point.

Questioner: Then what we are looking at is a long path of experience through the densities up to mid-sixth-density which is a function totally of free will and results in the awareness of the higher self in mid-sixth-density, but since time is illusory and there is a, shall I say, unification of time and space or an eradication of what we think of as time, then, all of this experience that results in the higher self, the cause of evolution through the densities, is existing while the evolution takes place.

It is all simultaneous. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. We refrain from speaking of correctness due to our understanding of the immense difficulty of absorbing the concepts of metaphysical existence.

In time/space, which is precisely as much of your self as is space/time, all times are simultaneous just as, in your geography, your cities and villages are all functioning, bustling, and alive with entities going about their business at once.

So it is in time/space with the self.

Questioner: The higher self existing in mid-sixth-density seems to be at the point where the negative and positive paths of experience merge into one.

Is there a reason for this?

Ra: I am Ra. We have covered this material previously.

Questioner: Oh yes. Sorry about that. It slipped my mind.

Now, if a positive entity is displaced to negative time/space I understand that the higher self is reluctant to enter the negative time/space.

For some reason it makes it necessary for the mind/body/spirit complex to incarnate in negative space/time.

Why is it necessary for this incarnation in negative space/time?

Ra: I am Ra. Firstly, let us remove the concept of reluctance from the equation and then secondly, address your query more to the point.

Each time/space is an analog of a particular sort or vibration of space/time.

When a negative time/space is entered by an entity the next experience will be that of the appropriate space/time.

This is normally done by the form-making body of a mind/body/spirit complex which places the entity in the proper time/space for incarnation.

The Law of One, Book III, Session 71

Questioner: As an entity goes through the death process in third-density it finds itself in time/space. 

It finds itself in a different set of circumstances.

Would you please describe the circumstances or properties of time/space and then the process of healing of incarnative experiences that some entities encounter?

Ra: I am Ra. Although this query is difficult to answer adequately, due to the limitations of your space/time sound vibration complexes, we shall respond to the best of our ability.

The hallmark of time/space is the inequity between time and space. 

In your space/time
the spatial orientation of material causes a tangible framework for illusion. 

In time/space 
the inequity is upon the shoulders of that property known to you as time. 
This property renders entities and experiences intangible in a relative sense. 

In your framework each particle or core vibration moves at a velocity which approaches what you call the speed of light from the direction of supraluminal velocities.

Thus the time/space or metaphysical experience is that which is very finely tuned and, although an analog of space/time, lacking in its tangible characteristics. 

In these metaphysical planes 
there is a great deal of what you call time which is used to review and re-review the biases and learn/teachings of a prior, as you would call it, space/time incarnation.

The extreme fluidity of these regions makes it possible for much to be penetrated which must needs be absorbed before the process of healing of an entity may be accomplished. 

Each entity is located in a somewhat immobile state much as you are located in space/time in a somewhat immobile state in time. 

In this immobile space the entity has been placed by the form-maker and higher self so that it may be in the proper configuration for learn/teaching that which it has received in the space/time incarnation.

Depending upon this time/space locus there will be certain helpers which assist in this healing process. 

The process involves 
seeing in full the experience, 
seeing it against the backdrop of the mind/body/spirit complex total experience, 
forgiving the self for all missteps as regards the missed guideposts during the incarnation and, finally, 
the careful assessment of the next necessities for learning. 

This is done entirely by the higher self until an entity has become conscious in space/time of the process and means of spiritual evolution at which time the entity will consciously take part in all decisions.

Questioner: Is the process in positive time/space identical with the process in negative time/space for this healing?

Ra: I am Ra. The process in space/time of the forgiveness and acceptance is much like that in time/space in that the qualities of the process are analogous. 

However, 

while in space/time 
it is not possible to determine the course of events beyond the incarnation but only to correct present imbalances. 

In time/space, upon the other hand, 
it is not possible to correct any unbalanced actions but rather to perceive the imbalances and thusly forgive the self for that which is.

The decisions then are made to set up the possibility/probabilities of correcting these imbalances in what you call future space/time experiences.

The advantage of time/space 
is that of the fluidity of the grand overview.

The advantage of space/time 
is that, working in darkness with a tiny candle, one may correct imbalances.

The Law of One, Book V, Fragment 56
Session 106, March 15, 1984

May we ask for one more full query at this working and remind the instrument that it is appropriate to reserve some small portion of energy before a working?

Questioner: I would just ask if there is anything that we can do to make the instrument more comfortable or to help her and to improve the contact, and what would be the soonest that Ra would recommend the next contact? 

I would certainly appreciate the return of the golden hawk. 

It gave me great comfort.

Ra: I am Ra. You have complete freedom to schedule workings.

We suggest the nature of all manifestation to be illusory and functional only in so far as the entity turns from shape and shadow to the One.

I am Ra. 

We leave you, my friends, in the love and in the glorious light of the one infinite Creator. 

Go forth, then, rejoicing in the power and in the peace of the one infinite Creator. 

Adonai.