🗞️ 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 7 (January 25, 1981).
🧭 Session Snapshot
Date: January 25, 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: Law of Squares (how a small, unified call amplifies service) • Council of Saturn & the Council of Nine references • Quarantine & appearances (thought‑form vs. landings) • Orion group (service‑to‑self path, densities, and entropy) • Service to others vs. service to self under the same Law • Care for the instrument
🌟 Key Takeaways
Calling amplifies non‑linearly. Confederation service is proportional to the Law of Squares—the sequential squaring of a unified call, not simple squaring of a head‑count. (LoO 7.1–7.5)
Numbers aren’t everything. In 1981, Ra reports ~352,000 calling Ra personally and ~632 million calling the Confederation; after squaring, the result is “many digits”—i.e., a great calling sensed as deep sorrow and duty. (LoO 7.6–7.7)
Open landings require consensus. Appearances aren’t by vote counts but by a societal‑memory‑complex consensus and Council of Saturn approval; quarantine can then be lifted. (LoO 7.8–7.9)
“Advertising” via mystery. Post‑nuclear‑age mystery appearances (often in thought‑form) are meant to suggest infinity, inviting seekers—not to coerce belief. (LoO 7.12)
Orion path exists under the same Law. The Orion group pursues service to self across multiple densities; its cohesion is hampered by separation/entropy. The Law of One is available to both polarities; all learn—some rapidly, some slowly. (LoO 7.14–7.17)
🧩 Full Q&A with Commentary
Notation: Each subsection lists the question number (e.g., 7.6), a brief Summary, and Commentary & Notes with links. Unless noted, references are to Ra, Session 7 (see also LoO 7).
7.0 — Opening
Summary. Ra greets in love/light and invites questions. (LoO 7.0)
7.1–7.5 — How the Law of Squares works
Summary. Service offered by the Confederation is governed by need and free will; the call is amplified by sequential squaring (1→2→3→… each squared by the next). Thus ten unified callers are not “10²” but 1 squared ten times; Ra offers an approximate result ~1,012, allowing for “statistical loss.” (LoO 7.1–7.5)
Commentary & Notes. This is less math lesson than metaphor for coherence: quality of unity matters more than raw numbers.
7.6–7.7 — How many are calling?
Summary. Circa 1981: ~352,000 call Ra personally; ~632,000,000 call the Confederation. After applying the Law of Squares the number of digits becomes “approximately meaningless,” yet constitutes a great calling felt as sorrow/duty. (LoO 7.6–7.7)
Commentary & Notes. This frames Confederation ethics: respond without infringing free will, even when the call is immense.
7.8–7.9 — Open landings & the Council of Saturn
Summary. Open appearances aren’t a function of head‑counts but of an aware consensus of a social memory complex; requests go to the Council of Saturn, which may lift quarantine. Council structure: nine always sitting; twenty‑four Guardians offering aid. (LoO 7.8–7.9)
Commentary & Notes. The Council balances calling, free will, and resistance—preserving the conditions for undistorted seeking.
7.10–7.12 — Council of Nine references & “advertising”
Summary. “Mark” and “Henry” = Mark Probert and Henry Puharich; Ra clarifies what is and isn’t permitted: some landings (our people & Orion), thought‑form appearances, and post‑nuclear mystery events meant to suggest infinity (not to prove). (LoO 7.10–7.12)
Commentary & Notes. Mystery is pedagogical: it invites inquiry without collapsing free will.
7.14–7.17 — Orion group purpose, densities, and progression
Summary. Purpose = empire via elite → enslaving others (Ra cites Adolf as an example). Densities within Orion span 3rd–6th; power parity with the Confederation but entropy from separation undermines cohesion. Both STS and STO can access intelligent infinity and be harvested—the Law treats them equally at the level of principle. (LoO 7.14–7.17)
Commentary & Notes. The Choice is real: polarity determines how power is used and what lessons follow, but all are One.
7.18–7.19 — Comfort & close
Summary. Only small adjustments are needed; the instrument is not depleted. Session closes. (LoO 7.18–7.19)
Commentary & Notes. Method‑care remains part of ethics.
🛠️ Practice Corner — Two small experiments
Why: Session 7 spotlights coherent calling and mystery as invitation.
Law‑of‑Squares circle. Invite 2–4 friends to a 5‑minute silent sit. Agree on one clear intention (e.g., “may our city be kinder”). Close by taking one tiny outward action. Reflect afterward: does shared intention feel different than solo?
Mystery hygiene. For one news headline today, practice “holding mystery”—avoid snap explanations; ask, “What choice would invite more light here?” Let the unknown nudge practice, not panic.
🔗 Companion Reading (why it helps here)
A Concept Guide — entries on Calling, Guardians/Councils, Service to Self/Service to Others, Quarantine, Free Will.
Living the Law of One: The Choice — practical orientation to The Choice and service‑to‑others.
A Channeling Handbook — why invitation, tuning, and non‑infringement matter in any spiritual work.
Tilting at Windmills — behind‑the‑scenes on quarantine/appearances and the team’s safeguards.
Unified Index — jump to Council of Saturn, Orion, Law of Squares, Calling.
🧠 Study Prompts
Where could coherent calling (two or three sincerely aligned people) help more than solo effort?
In your life, what’s one situation that would benefit from mystery as invitation rather than proof or argument?
Which polarity‑choice (service to others vs. service to self) is shaping your next decision—and how can you embody it more cleanly?
🏁 Closing Note
This session widens the lens: from personal practice to collective calling, councils & quarantine, and an evenhanded view of both paths under one Law. Next: Session 8—more on Orion mechanics, mixed contacts, and the ethics of discernment.