# Archetypes

*Canonical page: https://ra.contact/archetypes*

The architecture of the deep mind in twenty-two archetypes — mind, body, and spirit, and the Choice.

## The Mind

- [I. The Matrix of the Mind](https://ra.contact/archetypes/matrix-of-the-mind.md) — The conscious mind before experience writes on it — that which reaches.
- [II. The Potentiator of the Mind](https://ra.contact/archetypes/potentiator-of-the-mind.md) — The unconscious sea the mind dips into — the reservoir that potentiates all experience without itself acting.
- [III. The Catalyst of the Mind](https://ra.contact/archetypes/catalyst-of-the-mind.md) — Whatever assaults the senses, unprocessed and unmet — the raw material the mind has yet to work.
- [IV. The Experience of the Mind](https://ra.contact/archetypes/experience-of-the-mind.md) — Not reaching but grasping — what the mind does, firmly, with the catalyst it is given.
- [V. The Significator of the Mind](https://ra.contact/archetypes/significator-of-the-mind.md) — The mind made complex and willful — the actor that must decide what to do with what it knows.
- [VI. The Transformation of the Mind](https://ra.contact/archetypes/transformation-of-the-mind.md) — The forced choice between light and dark that transforms the mind — what Ra calls Archetype Six, standing in for the traditional Lovers.
- [VII. The Great Way of the Mind](https://ra.contact/archetypes/great-way-of-the-mind.md) — The summary and vehicle of the first six archetypes — the mind's own majestic movement through what it has become.

## The Body

- [VIII. The Matrix of the Body](https://ra.contact/archetypes/matrix-of-the-body.md) — The body's ceaseless, unchoosable activity — balanced working with no capacity to rest.
- [IX. The Potentiator of the Body](https://ra.contact/archetypes/potentiator-of-the-body.md) — Wisdom as the body knows it — the judgment that turns constant activity into something useful.
- [X. The Catalyst of the Body](https://ra.contact/archetypes/catalyst-of-the-body.md) — Whatever the body meets from outside, indifferent to preference — a wheel that offers both fortune and its opposite.
- [XI. The Experience of the Body](https://ra.contact/archetypes/experience-of-the-body.md) — Catalyst taken up by the body and made into something unique to it — called the Enchantress in the sessions, standing in for Strength, seed cast for further growth.
- [XII. The Significator of the Body](https://ra.contact/archetypes/significator-of-the-body.md) — The self that actually lives the body's catalyst — its experience set by how sharply that catalyst is felt and used.
- [XIII. The Transformation of the Body](https://ra.contact/archetypes/transformation-of-the-body.md) — Every moment, and certainly every day, a small death and rebirth — the body remade by what it manages to use.
- [XIV. The Great Way of the Body](https://ra.contact/archetypes/great-way-of-the-body.md) — The body as the instrument that manifests the fruits of mind and spirit — called the Alchemist in the sessions, a naming Ra called "less than completely correct," standing in for Temperance, turning work into gold.

## The Spirit

- [XV. The Matrix of the Spirit](https://ra.contact/archetypes/matrix-of-the-spirit.md) — The primeval darkness before illumination — spirit's night, mistaken for evil only because it cannot yet be seen.
- [XVI. The Potentiator of the Spirit](https://ra.contact/archetypes/potentiator-of-the-spirit.md) — Sudden fire in the dark — the lightning that potentiates spirit before it takes any other shape.
- [XVII. The Catalyst of the Spirit](https://ra.contact/archetypes/catalyst-of-the-spirit.md) — What the adept meets once disassociation has begun — catalyst that starts to reshape a seeker's view, called Faith.
- [XVIII. The Experience of the Spirit](https://ra.contact/archetypes/experience-of-the-spirit.md) — Shadow and moonlight, true and false at once — the most decisive influence on which way an adept finally polarizes.
- [XIX. The Significator of the Spirit](https://ra.contact/archetypes/significator-of-the-spirit.md) — The self as pure channel — radiating love and light to others, or absorbing it for the self alone.
- [XX. The Transformation of the Spirit](https://ra.contact/archetypes/transformation-of-the-spirit.md) — The material world remade into the infinite and eternal — called the Sarcophagus in the questioner's system, among the spirit cards, standing in for Judgment.
- [XXI. The Great Way of the Spirit](https://ra.contact/archetypes/great-way-of-the-spirit.md) — Contact with intelligent infinity itself — the unspeakable joy at the end of the spirit's long road.

## The Choice

- [XXII. The Choice](https://ra.contact/archetypes/the-choice.md) — The one great breakthrough — the work of a moment, the axis of the creation.

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Source: *The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One* — Don Elkins, Carla Rueckert, Jim McCarty, published by L/L Research (https://www.llresearch.org/). The transcript is quoted verbatim; Catalyst contributes the navigation, the lexicon and the guides.

Citations are `session.question` — `14.7` is the seventh exchange of session 14, and reads at https://ra.contact/sessions/14#14.7. Any page's markdown twin is its URL plus `.md`.