🗞️ About This Series (brief)
Each entry walks question-by-question through a single session of The Ra Contact, offering clear summaries, careful commentary, and practical “how to use it” reflections.
Primary text (clickable):
🧭 Session Snapshot
Date: May 12, 1982 (lawofone.info)
Big Themes:
The 5D STS “companion” withdraws to restore polarity.
A clean explanation of negative polarity mechanics: power, hierarchy, “obedience without question,” and how polarity is gained through successful temptation/harvest.
The battery analogy for post-veil blockages: “batteries reversed” → no light; root cause = inability to see other-self as Creator (lack of love).
A deep dive into sex differences across red/yellow-ray body vs mind/body/spirit complex.
Post-veil sexual transfer as a vibratory bridge between space/time and time/space; male/female energy storage differences.
A key archetypal mapping: Matrix/Potentiator assignments to male/female regarding Mind and Body.
🌟 Key Takeaways
Negative and positive share a high-level “purpose” above 3D: to welcome more and more less distorted love/light—but negative does it through refining “power over.” (lawofone.info)
Negative polarity has a built-in vulnerability: if it cannot control a force it tries to dominate, it risks depolarization. (lawofone.info)
Hierarchy is not incidental to STS; it is a method: obedience demanded by relative power is explicitly framed as the negative “plan.” (lawofone.info)
Post-veil “blockage” isn’t mainly ignorance; it’s lovelessness: the root cause is inability to see other-self as Creator. (lawofone.info)
Sexuality has two layers: the chemical yellow-ray body has reproductive drives; the deeper body complex (as part of mind/body/spirit) follows the ways of energy transfer and service. (lawofone.info)
Orgasms shift with polarization: in 4D+ positive, “true sharing” becomes nearly universal; in 4D negative, “true blockage” becomes nearly universal. (lawofone.info)
Male/female differences are framed archetypally post-veil: Ra links male polarity to the Matrix of Mind and Potentiator of Body, female polarity to Potentiator of Mind and Matrix of Body. (lawofone.info)
🧩 Full Q&A with Commentary
87.1 — Instrument condition
Summary. Physical distortions unchanged; vital energy greatly enhanced. (lawofone.info)
Commentary. This matters because later answers explicitly credit the group’s harmony, mutual love, and calling for aid as their real shield (not their technical prowess). (lawofone.info)
87.2–87.4 — Censer geometry: stabilizing the working
Summary. A censer with a stable horizontal smoking position would be helpful if “virgin.” The chalice and candle are optimal; the censer is best placed behind the Bible and centered at the spine of its open configuration (roughly between chalice and candle). (lawofone.info)
Commentary. A subtle lesson: deep metaphysics rides on stable ritual conditions. “Small” variables matter.
Visualization:
Front: Candle 🕯️ | Open book 📖 | Chalice 🏺
Behind book: Censer 🌫️ (centered at the open spine)
87.5 — Status of the 5D negative companion
Summary. The entity has withdrawn to restore polarity. (lawofone.info)
Commentary. This connects directly to Session 85–86: repeated failure to dominate can cost a negative entity polarity—so withdrawal is a strategic retreat.
87.6 — What does the negative entity “want” beyond harvest?
Summary. Ra expands: above 3D, a purpose is shared by positive and negative: the ability to welcome more and more less distorted love/light. On the negative path, 5D is the wisdom density where power over others is refined toward near-absolute control. Any force that cannot be controlled then depolarizes the negative entity. The group’s “shield” has been harmony, mutual love, and honest calling for aid from the light. (lawofone.info)
Commentary. This is one of the most important late-arc clarifications:
Same destination word (“welcome love/light”)
Different method: positive = surrender into unity; negative = mastery through separation.
Why it matters practically. You can measure your own orientation by what you do under stress:
Do you seek control, domination, and certainty at any cost?
Or do you seek harmony, honesty, and help from the light?
87.7–87.8 — The negative environment & the hierarchy model
Summary. Ra describes the negative 5D environment as rock/cave/barrenness (wisdom density). Little is needed physically; consciousness is spent largely in time/space learning wisdom via utmost use of self. The relationship to 4D negative entities is one of more powerful and less powerful; the negative path posits slavery of the less powerful as a means of learning to serve the self; 4D entities are willing slaves of a 5D entity, with no doubt of relative power. Don reflects this resembles warlike leaders with convinced followers; Ra generalizes: any organization demanding obedience without question on the basis of relative power is functioning according to the negative plan. (lawofone.info)
Commentary. This is not “political analysis” so much as energetic anatomy:
The key marker is obedience without question grounded in power disparity.
Personal mirror: Where do you ask for unquestioning compliance (even subtly)? Where do you give it away?
87.9–87.12 — First distortion (free will) and negative “recruitment”
Summary. Don asks how 4D negative uses the first distortion to conquer/absorb 3D entities.
Ra: the plan of direct absorption isn’t one 4D negative SMCs can do; 4D negative offers temptations and energizes pre-existing distortions; it lacks 5D subtlety and magical practice. (lawofone.info)
Don reframes: how can 4D negative, being un-veiled, understand free will and still remain separated?
Ra: 4D negative knows the array of possible views and is convinced that ignoring green ray is most efficient for harvestability. Operations among 3D aim to offer each entity the opportunity to consider self-serving polarity and its attractiveness. (lawofone.info)
Don: isn’t that “service-to-others”? Ra answers with a military hierarchy analogy: each successful temptation and each harvestable entity strengthens the polarity/power of the 4D negative complex. (lawofone.info)
Commentary. A subtle teaching about “service” language:
Offering a temptation can look like “giving choice,” yet it functions as power-accumulation in a hierarchy.
Practical takeaway. Beware of “choice-offers” that are actually engineered to funnel you into dependency, shame, or domination.
87.13–87.14 — “Law of Doubling” and negative group power
Summary. Don asks if adding one harvested entity doubles the SMC’s power. Ra: no. If one entity is responsible for recruiting, it absorbs the recruit’s power linearly; if a subgroup recruits, that subgroup gains. Only rarely can a negative SMC act totally as one being. (lawofone.info)
Commentary. This is a structural contrast:
Positive unity tends toward true group coherence.
Negative unity strains under internal hierarchy and control, so “acting as one” is rare.
87.15–87.21 — The battery analogy: why “no light” after the veil
Summary. Ra uses the flashlight battery analogy: two working batteries in series can illuminate a bulb; after veiling, many complexes place batteries “wrong” through blockages—like reversing a battery—so no illumination. Don asks the root cause: Ra says the root cause is lack of ability to see other-self as Creator—lack of love. (lawofone.info)
Commentary. This is one of Ra’s simplest “diagnostic truths”:
When spiritual energy doesn’t “light,” check for lovelessness disguised as strategy.
Micro-visualization:
✅ Batteries aligned → 💡 “light” (energy transfer / polarity gain)
❌ One reversed → 💡 dark (blockage)
The elegant reframe. Blockage is not primarily “not knowing techniques.” It’s failing (even temporarily) to perceive the Creator in the other-self.
87.22–87.25 — Sexual drive, orgasm ratios, and pre-veil clarity
Summary. Don asks why male sexual potential peaks earlier than female.
Ra distinguishes the chemical yellow-ray body from the deeper body complex.
Male yellow-ray desire peaks when sperm viability is highest; the red-ray drive seeks reproduction when the body can fulfill it.
Female yellow-ray desire continues/increases because conception is limited and pregnancy/nursing drain yellow-ray body vitality, so desire predisposes continued intercourse to fulfill red-ray reproduction.
Deeper sexuality (mind/body/spirit complex) follows energy transfer and service, not merely yellow-ray manifestations.
Don asks why male orgasms are more frequent: male orgasm is essential for propulsion of spermata; female orgasm is unnecessary chemically, though its metaphysical value becomes clear when sexuality is used for learning/service/glorification.
Before the veil, ratio was closer to 1:1 because metaphysical value was clear “without shadow.” In 4D+, orgasm becomes more a unified M/B/S function; in 4D positive, true sharing is almost universal; in 4D negative, conqueror orgasm and conquered near-never is almost universal; sexual experience is efficient polarization. (lawofone.info)
Commentary. This is a sensitive section. Two stabilizers help read it well:
Ra repeatedly separates chemical reproduction from metaphysical transfer.
The “post-veil shadow” is the key: when metaphysical value is hidden, imbalance and confusion grow.
Ethical lens. When sexuality becomes conquest, it polarizes negatively; when it becomes sharing, it polarizes positively.
87.26–87.27 — What “energy” is being transferred?
Summary. Don intuits the energy is “pure vibration,” a bridge between space/time and time/space. Ra affirms: sexual transfer energy is a vibratory bridge between space/time and time/space, and then adds: due to veiling, male→female transfer differs from female→male. Male polarity stores physical energy; female stores mental and mental/emotional energy. In completed third-density transfer, the male offers discharge of physical energy; the female is refreshed, having less physical vitality. Ra asks for one more full query. (lawofone.info)
Commentary. This “storage difference” is often misread as value-judgment. Ra presents it as a polarity-biased energetic architecture, not a hierarchy of worth.
Practical translation. Post-veil intimacy can replenish different layers of each partner—physical, mental, emotional—when approached with awareness.
87.28 — Why male/female nature differs (archetypal assignment)
Summary. Ra: after veiling, the Matrix of the Mind was attracted to the male polarity and the Potentiator of the Mind to the female; the Potentiator of the Body to the male and the Matrix of the Body to the female. (lawofone.info)
Commentary. This is a hinge point connecting the Ra Contact’s later archetypal work.
Very careful reading suggestion. Treat this as archetypal polarity dynamics, not rigid sociology. Ra speaks in broad polarity language. Many individuals will experience these dynamics in nuanced ways.
Mini-visualization (archetypal mapping):
Mind: Male → Matrix (active/conscious) | Female → Potentiator (deep/unconscious)
Body: Male → Potentiator | Female → Matrix
If you’re studying the archetypical mind, this is one of the sessions where the “Tarot language” starts to explicitly touch gender/polarity.
87.29 — Comfort / improve contact
Summary. The censer readjustment will help. Alignments good. The group is conscientious. Ra closes with a joyful blessing and “Adonai.” (lawofone.info)
Commentary. Notice the closing tone: after intense metaphysics, Ra returns to rejoicing.
🛠️ Practice Corner — Living Session 87
Obedience audit (3 minutes). Where do you demand compliance “because I said so,” or accept it “because they’re powerful”? Choose one place to add questions + dignity.
Battery check. When energy drops in conflict, ask: “Where did I stop seeing the Creator in the other-self?” Restore one compassionate perception—even if you still set a boundary.
Sexuality as polarity mirror (gentle). Ask privately: “Do I seek sharing or conquest? Do I seek honesty or leverage?” One small shift toward truth can change the whole field.
Archetypal contemplation. If you study the Matrix/Potentiator pairs, sit with: “Where do I experience my ‘Matrix of Mind’ as active? Where do I experience ‘Potentiator of Mind’ as deep currents?” Let it be experiential, not ideological.
📚 Extended Notes & Context
Archetypes cross-link. Session 87’s Matrix/Potentiator assignment is a doorway into Ra’s archetypal curriculum (Sessions 76–103). For interpretive scaffolding, many readers use A Concept Guide (definitions + orientation) and Claire Dartez’s The Tarot According to Ra (a modern commentary lens). (Official library hubs: https://www.llresearch.org/library/the-ra-contact-resource-series)
Channeling “gear” and tuning. The censer/bible/chalice/candle geometry is a tiny window into the meticulous tuning discipline described in L/L’s teaching materials. If you want the “how we did it” ethos behind these ritual notes, the L/L library page for A Channeling Handbook is a helpful anchor: https://www.llresearch.org/library/channeling-handbook
Negative polarity as hierarchy. Ra’s description of 4D negative as willing slavery under 5D mirrors earlier discussions of STS social structures: power consolidates upward, and “choice” is offered as temptation. This is best read as a metaphysical pattern rather than a single political label.
Sexual energy transfer: chemical vs metaphysical. Session 87 clarifies the earlier Session 84–86 emphasis: don’t collapse sexuality into biology or into metaphysics alone. Ra keeps both layers in view.
🧠 Study Prompts
Where in your life is “obedience without question” present—at work, in family roles, in inner self-talk?
If blockage is “lack of love,” what is one specific act of seeing-the-Creator you can practice in a difficult relationship?
In what ways do you experience “male/female polarity” archetypally within yourself (active vs deep), independent of gender identity?
Note: This material reflects Ra’s metaphysical perspective and is offered for study—not as dogma. Use your discernment.