🗞️ About This Series (brief)
In each entry we walk, question-by-question, through a single session of The Ra Contact, offering clear summaries, careful commentary, and friendly signposts to related companion texts and official resources. This entry covers Session 28 (February 22, 1981) with cross‑links to LoO 28.x question numbers.
🧭 Session Snapshot
Date: February 22, 1981
Setting: Louisville, KY; tunable trance channeling with a dedicated support circle
Cast: Don Elkins (Questioner) • Carla L. Rueckert (Instrument) • Jim McCarty (Scribe)
Big Themes: Limits of physics at the level of unity; colors/rays as precise apportions of intelligent energy; Love orders light (rotation → condensation of matter); Logos → sub‑Logos hierarchy (who creates what); our galaxy (~250 billion stars) as the creation of one Logos; octaves (eight densities, cyclical/infinite); electrical & consciousness polarity available from the start; will and the “upward spiraling light.”
🌟 Key Takeaways
Unity isn’t modellable. Don proposes a Larsonian “balloon” model of intelligent infinity expanding at light speed. Ra: any physics of unity is a category error—such models can only describe a particular Logos’s ways of expressing law, not the undivided One. (LoO 28.1)
Love focuses, light obeys. Each ray/color is a specific, accurate apportion of intelligent energy. Love (the second distortion) is the ordering function that induces rotations in light so that it condenses into matter (elements, crystals). (LoO 28.2–28.5)
When does space/time begin? Individuation of Logos (focus of Love) occurs outside space/time; only after this “focusing” do suns coalesce, generating vortices that become planets. First density spends a long period in a timeless state before space/time is “learned.” (LoO 28.6)
Who builds a galaxy? A Logos may create one star system or billions. Our major galaxy (the lenticular system we inhabit) with ≈ 250 billion stars is the product of one Logos—hence Ra’s note that the term “galaxy” is used differently at different scales. (LoO 28.7–28.9)
Sub‑Logoi within a Logos. Within the guidelines of the primary Logos, sub‑Logoi individuate further (e.g., stars, planetary entities), diversifying experiences without altering the parent laws. (LoO 28.10–28.12, 28.20–28.21)
Beginnings, will, and hierarchy. At each beginning, free will catalyzes potentials that are fixed within intelligent energy. Differences in will and attraction to the upward spiraling light yield uneven learning efficiency, and hence an early hierarchical spread of consciousness. (LoO 28.13–28.16)
Octaves upon octaves. Eight densities are created with the galaxy; eighth also seeds the next octave. Ra assumes infinite octaves and a cyclical coalescing/renewal of creation—mystery‑clad unity remains. (LoO 28.15–28.16)
Polarity from the outset. With a galaxy’s formation there is both electrical polarity (in a broad, also metaphysical sense) and polarity of consciousness available; beings then use materials to polarize ethically. (LoO 28.18–28.19)
🧩 Full Q&A with Commentary
Notation: Each subsection lists the question number (e.g., 28.6), a brief Summary, and Commentary & Notes with links to LoO 28 passages. Primary transcript: LLR Session 28. Cross‑reference: LoO 28.
28.1 — Why physics can’t capture unity
Summary. Don offers Dewey Larson’s unit‑velocity expansion model of space/time as a picture of intelligent infinity. Ra: incorrect for the One, correct as a description for a Logos that has selected particular laws.
Commentary & Notes. Keep map vs. territory straight: metaphysical unity precedes and chooses law; physics charts chosen patterns, not the chooser. → LoO 28.1
28.2–28.5 — Rays as apportions; Love causes rotation → matter
Summary. Each color/ray is an apportion of intelligent energy. Love is the ordering focus that causes rotation in light, letting it condense into elements (hence the quantized angles/intervals observed by physics).
Commentary & Notes. The concept guide here: Love is not sentiment—it’s cosmic intentionality arranging light into countable behaviors. → LoO 28.2–28.5
28.6 — Before space/time: individuation of Logos
Summary. The focusing of free will into a Logos happens “without the space/time of which you are so aware.” Space/time emerges later, as suns coalesce and begin to “teach” time to first density.
Commentary & Notes. Creation’s inner decision precedes the outer stage. → LoO 28.6
28.7–28.9 — What a Logos can create; our 250B‑star galaxy
Summary. One Logos may create a single star or billions. Our major galaxy (≈ 250,000,000,000 stars) is one Logos’s work. The term “galaxy” is thus scale‑ambiguous in Ra’s usage.
Commentary & Notes. Language warning: galaxy can mean solar system or Milky Way depending on context; here it’s clearly the lenticular system. → LoO 28.7–28.9
28.10–28.12 — Sub‑Logoi: paradox resolved
Summary. Apparent paradox: if one Logos sets all laws, why further sub‑Logos? Ra: within limits, stars/planets further individualize to sculpt distinct experiential curricula without changing the parent set.
Commentary & Notes. Think federal vs. state—one constitution, many local expressions. → LoO 28.10–28.12
28.13–28.16 — Beginnings, will, and octaves
Summary. Free will catalyzes fixed potentials; differences in will/attraction to upward spiral generate learning efficiency differences. Octaves: eight densities per creation; 8th also begins the next; Ra assumes infinite octaves, cyclical unity.
Commentary & Notes. Spiritual initiative matters; cosmos is a school in nested semesters. → LoO 28.13–28.16
28.18–28.21 — Polarity “from the start” and continuing creation
Summary. At galaxy formation there is electrical and consciousness polarity available. Thereafter, further creation proceeds via sub‑Logoi differentiating experiences within the parent Logos’s guidelines.
Commentary & Notes. The raw materials and ethical potentials are set; your use of them polarizes. → LoO 28.18–28.21
🛠️ Practice Corner — From mystery to method
Love → Light → Action. Before a decision, ask: What’s the ordering intent (Love) here? Then name the pattern of light (facts, constraints). Choose one clean action that harmonizes both.
Map/territory check. When a model (science, astrology, typology) helps, use it—then release it. Unity is prior to maps.
Upward spiral nudge. Each morning, pick one will‑exercise (gratitude note, honest check‑in, 10 minutes of study/service) to strengthen your attraction to the upward spiraling light.
🔗 Companion Reading (why it helps here)
A Concept Guide — entries on Intelligent Infinity/Energy, Love, Light, Rays/Colors, Logos/Sub‑Logos, Octave.
Living the Law of One: The Choice — simple practices to translate cosmology into daily choices.
Tilting at Windmills — reflections on mystery vs. specifics and keeping orientation primary.
Unified Index — jump points: Logos, Sub‑Logoi, Octaves, Upward spiraling light.
🧠 Study Prompts
Where are you over‑trusting a map (model/belief) and under‑trusting unity? What would humility look like there?
Identify one choice today; articulate its Love‑ordering intent and its light‑facts. What’s the simplest action that honors both?
Which ray do you rely on most (survival, roles, compassion, truth…)? What’s one move that invites the next ray to participate?
🏁 Closing Note
Session 28 deepens Book Two’s foundation: unity eludes modeling, Love orders light, and Logos → sub‑Logos shapes everything from galaxies to daily choices. Let mystery steady your method—and let will meet the upward spiral in one clear act of service today.