Esoteric ancestry of the Ra Material

Hello fellow seekers,

I have a question for seekers who may be familiar with the parallels between Thelema and the Law of One.

While there is documentation of the respective magical links between the Golden Dawn/Thelema/O.T.O. and the Golden Dawn/Ra Material, I’m curious whether any direct connections between Thelema and the Law of One have been communicated, channeled, or discussed.

Additionally, are there any resources or perspectives that help explain why Thelemic philosophy and cosmology seem to resonate more with the Ra Material than with the more standard Confederation channelings?

I understand the transience of such historical linkages in the grand calculus of Cosmic Unity—but I would be grateful to fill in some of the gaps in my understanding of the Law, the Higher Self, and the Creator.

Many thanks, love, and light.

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I’m not a native English speaker, so it’s hard for me to formulate an answer, but I’ll try. Ra’s answers are indeed closer to the Western esoteric tradition than conscious channeling. To be honest, I’m puzzling over it myself, why is this so? :). I recently suggested that Ra is more like a philosopher from the heyday of Alexandria in Egypt. The teachings of this philosopher absorbed much of the knowledge that was circulating at that time. In this Alexandrian “cauldron” the teachings of both the East and the West were melting. The Academy of Plato merges through Ammonius Sakkas with the teachings of Vedanta, with the teachings of the magicians of Zoroaster and the priests of Egypt, merging with the nascent Christianity of Alexandria. I can’t list everything, this is a very large cultural stratum. Knowledge flows from this “melting pot” into both the Western Christian world and the eastern Arab world. There is information about all this in the relevant specialized literature on the history of Western esotericism. Golden Dawn was founded by theosophists, Rosicrucians, and Freemasons, educated people whose interests lay in the field of non-academic science…I can’t write it in short. This story requires a text the size of a book)

During the sessions with Ra, Don and Carla read Crowley’s books

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Much appreciated, Vasilisa. I will look into the Alexandran connection as that particularly sounds fascinating. Do you have any references as to what books of Crowley’s did the Ra Group came across in their journey?

I don’t remember exactly where Crowley’s books were mentioned, probably in Tilting at Windmills - L/L Research , but I can’t find the exact quote. Alexandria is described on wikipedia. Alexandria - Wikipedia

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Oh- this question is very interesting. I would love to know more of the parallels (and adjacencies?) too!

There’s certainly a fertile ground for comparative analysis. Take this with a grain of salt - as I am admittedly still a neophyte with respect to this material - but I have reason to believe a defensible thesis can be made that the teachings of Aleister Crowley - the 20th century occultist and ceremonial magic(k)ian - are deeply entangled with the telepathic transmissions of the Confederation of Planets, and vice versa. In fact, the writings of the self-proclaimed “Great Beast 666” contain fragments that use the same metaphysical grammar as Confederation Philosophy, albeit in a far less sanitized form. The similarities are so striking that one could reasonably claim that the Law of One is - among many things - a more refined and robust exposition of Thelemic dogma. This may or may not be a contentious point due to the general limitations and undesirable distortions found in Crowley’s teachings, so I emphasize once more: take this information with a grain of salt.

The most basic similarity is that both claim to have been sourced from non-human/praeterhuman intelligences through a Terran medium. But this is the most basic similarity - a common feature shared with other sacred texts such as the Corpus Hermeticum, Qur’an, Bhagavad Gita, and the Dee/Kelley transmissions, among other New Age channelings such as those of Edgar Cayce and Helena Blavatsky. It may or may not be noteworthy that the entities Crowley channeled have their origin in Ancient Egypt, the land where, according to Ra, their social memory complex built the pyramids and first came into contact with third-density Terrans 11,000 years ago.

There is a however a more striking common feature. In 1904, Crowley proclaimed in his channeled text “Liber al Vel Legis” the famous (or perhaps infamous) magical axiom: “Love is the Law. Love under Will.” In 1981, our 6th-Density cousins from Venus known by the name “Ra” described the primal motions of the Infinite Creation as being one beginning with the first distortion, Will, followed by the second distortion - the focusing of this Will - Love, and the subsequent generation of the third distortion, Light resulting from this focusing of Will upon Love (LOO 15.21). Thus has/is/will Love/Light, Light/Love come/coming/come into existence, followed by the Octave of Densities, according to Ra.

This Love/Light, Light/Love is also referred to by the Confederation of Planets as “Intelligent Energy” - the Kinetic aspect of Intelligent Infinity (LOO 15.9, LOO 27.5). This, according to the Confederation, is also the singular identity of the One Infinite Creator, full of Peace and Power (LOO 4.20). So in summary, we find here that the entirety of Confederation metaphysics as laid out by one of their most mature members is - according to it’s own internal logic - ultimately a more articulated variant of “Love is the Law. Love under Will”, the principal axiom of Thelema. It is worth noting too, that the word “Thelema” is derived from the Greek word for “Will”.

This is just one example of structural resonance between the metaphysics of Thelema and the Law of One teachings. Many others can be investigated, but in honor of free will and out of respect to the spirit of skeptical inquiry, the rest is best left to the discerning seeker. Feel free to DM me if you’re interested in pursuing this current of thought further and I will happily provide some references that I found illuminating.

Peace and Joy, LMichel.

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