# IX. The Potentiator of the Body *Canonical page: https://ra.contact/archetypes/potentiator-of-the-body* Wisdom as the body knows it — the judgment that turns constant activity into something useful. Tarot name: The Hermit. Cycle: body. Station: Potentiator. The Potentiator of the Body is the tarot's Hermit. Ra calls this station Wisdom, since only judgment can turn the body's unceasing activity into something useful (78.11). Where the mind's Potentiator is a reservoir waited upon, the body's Potentiator acts on what it is given, regulating the Matrix's motion once informed by it (79.20). After the veiling, this station took on the male polarity and its Matrix counterpart the female, the reverse of the mind cycle's pairing (87.28). Ra gives the card only these terse definitions; no image-by-image work survives for it. > When the veiling process was accomplished, to the male polarity was attracted the Matrix of the Mind and to the female, the Potentiator of the Mind; to the male the Potentiator of the Body, to the female the Matrix of the Body. > > — [87.28](https://ra.contact/sessions/87#87.28) *Ra never took up this card's picture; what survives the body cycle's opening is a pair of terse definitions and one line on polarity, not the sustained image-work given to the mind.* ## The concept The body cycle occupies the tarot's second seven, cards eight through fourteen, following directly on the mind cycle's foundation (77.12). Its Matrix is a reflection in opposites of the mind's Matrix: where consciousness is unmoving, the body's Matrix is unrestricted motion (79.20). It is always active, with no means of being inactive (78.11). The Potentiator of the Body is what meets that restlessness: informed, it regulates the activity the Matrix supplies without pause (79.20). Ra gives this station a name that doubles as its function: the Potentiator of the body complex may be called Wisdom, since it is only through judgment that the body's unceasing activities and proclivities can be experienced in useful modes (78.11). Where the mind's Potentiator is a resource waited upon, the body's Potentiator acts on what it is given — the difference between a sea to dip into and a governor set upon a wheel already turning (79.20). The veiling gives the pair its polarity. Once the veil was in place, the Potentiator of the Body was attracted to the male polarity and the Matrix of the Body to the female (87.28). That is the mirror image of the mind cycle, where the same exchange assigns the Matrix to the male and the Potentiator to the female (87.28). ## Working with the archetype Ra's general instruction still governs a station this thinly described: take up the concept complex on its own first, then paired with its Matrix, attending to the polarity each carries (89.19). What there is to work with is the pairing itself — ceaseless motion set against the judgment that renders it useful, a relationship Ra elsewhere generalizes to the whole body cycle by calling the body the creature of the mind, the instrument through which the fruits of mind and spirit are manifested (81.14). ## In Ra's words Wisdom, named as the Potentiator of the body complex: > In the body the Matrix may be seen as Balanced Working or Even Functioning. Note that here the Matrix is always active with no means of being inactive. The Potentiator of the body complex, then, may be called Wisdom, for it is only through judgment that the unceasing activities and proclivities of the body complex may be experienced in useful modes. > > — [78.11.7-9](https://ra.contact/sessions/78#78.11) The body's Matrix as unrestricted motion, its Potentiator as what regulates activity once informed: > The Matrix of the Body may be seen to be a reflection in opposites of the mind; that is, unrestricted motion. The Potentiator of the Body then is that which, being informed, regulates activity. > > — [79.20.6-7](https://ra.contact/sessions/79#79.20) The veiling's polarity, reversed from the mind cycle: Potentiator of the Body to the male, Matrix of the Body to the female: > When the veiling process was accomplished, to the male polarity was attracted the Matrix of the Mind and to the female, the Potentiator of the Mind; to the male the Potentiator of the Body, to the female the Matrix of the Body. > > — [87.28.2](https://ra.contact/sessions/87#87.28) ## Study set - [78.11](https://ra.contact/sessions/78#78.11) - [79.20](https://ra.contact/sessions/79#79.20) - [87.28](https://ra.contact/sessions/87#87.28) --- 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`.