# Calling *Canonical page: https://ra.contact/concepts/calling* *Last updated: 2026-06-25* *The free-will act by which entities or whole populations summon outside aid — the only lawful trigger for contact.* ## What Ra means Because free will is the foundational law, the Confederation cannot reach out uninvited. A calling is the mechanism that opens the door. Ra places the first calling from Earth at roughly 46,000 years ago, raised by entities from Maldek then incarnating on Earth who were consciously confused but unconsciously aware of their need for help — that interior split itself constituting the call (21.16). The Confederation's response was to send love and light. A calling carries the polarity of those who make it. A sincere, service-oriented call draws Confederation aid; a call oriented toward control and power draws the Orion group, which answers with its own form of "service" — the dissemination of service-to-self philosophy and the seeking to enslave (55.4). The Council of Saturn weighs not only the number calling but the resistance of the call before deciding how aid may be offered consonant with both the Law and the free will of those calling (7.9). The form aid takes changes as those who call evolve. What once required crystalline structures and carefully prepared initiates has shifted: Ra observes that some among Earth's current population have reached a purity that is already one with intelligent infinity, and that for such entities the healer and patient can work without external structure (4.8). The calling shapes the channel; the channel shapes what can come through. ## In Ra's words The first calling on Earth, its origin, and the Confederation's answer: > The first calling was approximately four six thousand, forty-six thousand [46,000] of your years ago. This calling was of those of Maldek. These entities were aware of their need for rectifying the consequences of their action and were in some confusion in an incarnate state as to the circumstances of their incarnation: the unconscious being aware, the conscious being quite confused. This created a calling. The Confederation sent love and light to these entities. > > — [21.16.1-5](https://ra.contact/sessions/21#21.16) The Council's process for weighing how to respond to a call: > In number, the Council that sits in constant session—though varying in its members by means of balancing which takes place, what you would call, irregularly—is nine. That is the Session Council. To back up this Council, there are twenty-four entities which offer their services as requested. These entities faithfully watch and have been called the Guardians. > > The Council operates by means of, what you would call, telepathic contact with the oneness or unity of the nine, the distortions blending harmoniously so that the Law of One prevails with ease. When a need for thought is present, the Council retains the distortion-complex of this need, balancing it as described, and then recommends what it considers as appropriate action. This includes: one, the duty of admitting social memory complexes to the Confederation; two, offering aid to those who are unsure how to aid the social memory complex requesting aid in a way consonant with both the call, the Law, and the number of those calling (that is to say, sometimes the resistance of the call); three, internal questions in the Council are determined. > > These are the prominent duties of the Council. They are, if in any doubt, able to contact the twenty-four who then offer consensus judgment/thinking to the Council. > > — [7.9.8-16](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.9) How the calling mechanism differs from the negative bidding process: > The calling mechanism is not congruent in the slightest degree with the bidding mechanism. In the calling, the entity which calls is a suppliant neophyte asking for aid in negative understanding, if you may excuse this misnomer. The Orion response increases its negative polarity as it is disseminating the negative philosophy, thereby enslaving, or bidding, the entity calling. > > There are instances, however, when the contact becomes a contest which is prototypical of negativity. In this contest, the caller will attempt not to ask for aid but to demand results. Since the third-density, negatively oriented, harvestable entity has at its disposal an incarnative experiential nexus, and since Orion Crusaders are, in a great extent, bound by the First Distortion in order to progress, the Orion entity is vulnerable to such bidding, if properly done. > > In this case, the third-density entity becomes master, and the Orion Crusader becomes entrapped and can be bid. This is rare. > > — [55.4.3-10](https://ra.contact/sessions/55#55.4) ## Every use Every line where Ra uses this term, in its own context, chronologically. 56 uses, first at 4.8. - [4.8](https://ra.contact/sessions/4#4.8) — …are people, as you call them, who are able to take this **calling** at this nexus. However, we wish to point out once again… - [7.1](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.1) — …is equivalent to the square of the distortion/need of that **calling** divided by, or integrated with, the basic Law of One in… - [7.5](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.5) — …who call are sometimes not totally unified in their **calling**, and thus the squaring is slightly less. Thus, there is a… - [7.7](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.7) — …are many, many digits. It, however, constitutes a great **calling** which we of all creation feel and hear as if our own… - [7.8](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.8) — …possibility of coming among your peoples by the numbers of **calling**, but by a consensus among an entire societal-memory… - [7.9](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.9) — …with both the call, the Law, and the number of those **calling** (that is to say, sometimes the resistance of the call);… - [8.12](https://ra.contact/sessions/8#8.12) — …Unlike those of the Confederation who wait for the **calling**, the so-called Orion group calls itself to conquest. - [12.26](https://ra.contact/sessions/12#12.26) — …call the Brothers and Sisters of Sorrow, move towards this **calling** of sorrow. These entities are from all reaches of the… - [14.2](https://ra.contact/sessions/14#14.2) — …investment which is the line of spiraling light **calling** distortion upward from density to density. The process… - [14.18](https://ra.contact/sessions/14#14.18) — …as our service the attempt to heal the sorrow which we are **calling** analogous to the pains of a physical body complex… - [14.24](https://ra.contact/sessions/14#14.24) — …not in every case able to understand the answer to their **calling**. Moreover, those who were not calling previously may, with… - [14.24](https://ra.contact/sessions/14#14.24) — …the answer to their calling. Moreover, those who were not **calling** previously may, with great trauma, discover the answers to… - [16.32](https://ra.contact/sessions/16#16.32) — …whereby each entity could work in its own service while **calling** upon any other understandings needed to enhance the… - [16.33](https://ra.contact/sessions/16#16.33) — …of your galaxies, if you will, and is responsible for the **callings** of the densities of these galaxies. - [21.14](https://ra.contact/sessions/21#21.14) — …taken except to remain aware of the possibility of a **calling** for help or understanding among the entities of this… - [21.16](https://ra.contact/sessions/21#21.16) — The first **calling** was approximately four six thousand, forty-six thousand… - [21.16](https://ra.contact/sessions/21#21.16) — …forty-six thousand [46,000] of your years ago. This **calling** was of those of Maldek. These entities were aware of their… - [21.16](https://ra.contact/sessions/21#21.16) — …aware, the conscious being quite confused. This created a **calling**. The Confederation sent love and light to these entities. - [22.19](https://ra.contact/sessions/22#22.19) — The **calling** was that of Atlanteans. This calling was for what you… - [22.19](https://ra.contact/sessions/22#22.19) — The calling was that of Atlanteans. This **calling** was for what you would call understanding with the… - [22.25](https://ra.contact/sessions/22#22.25) — I am Ra. The conditions were two: the **calling** of a group of people whose square overcame the integrated… - [23.1](https://ra.contact/sessions/23#23.1) — …beliefs, and, therefore, there was not an appropriate **calling** for our vibration. Thus, at that time, which you know of… - [23.6](https://ra.contact/sessions/23#23.6) — …was a decision upon our parts that there was a sufficient **calling** to attempt to walk among your peoples as brothers. We laid… - [23.8](https://ra.contact/sessions/23#23.8) — …entities upon your plane. We were responding to a general **calling** of sufficient energy in that particular location to merit… - [24.8](https://ra.contact/sessions/24#24.8) — …that time this was not entirely so as there was a proper **calling** for this information. When there is a mixed calling, the… - [24.8](https://ra.contact/sessions/24#24.8) — …proper calling for this information. When there is a mixed **calling**, the window effect is much more put into motion by the… - [24.8](https://ra.contact/sessions/24#24.8) — …Orion have the working only according to their call. This **calling** is in actuality not nearly as great. Thus, due to the Way… - [25.4](https://ra.contact/sessions/25#25.4) — …a great deal of call. There were isolated instances of **callings**, one such taking place beginning approximately two six… - [27.1](https://ra.contact/sessions/27#27.1) — …what you now call Egypt, that they were able to offer the **calling** that enabled those of our social memory complex to walk… - [43.28](https://ra.contact/sessions/43#43.28) — …it is also true that just as we speak to you due to the **calling**, so the information called is always available. It is… - [43.29](https://ra.contact/sessions/43#43.29) — …However, it is correct that the same mechanism of **calling** predisposes the information received in a way consonant… - [55.4](https://ra.contact/sessions/55#55.4) — I am Ra. This is incorrect. The **calling** mechanism is not congruent in the slightest degree with… - [55.4](https://ra.contact/sessions/55#55.4) — …in the slightest degree with the bidding mechanism. In the **calling**, the entity which calls is a suppliant neophyte asking for… - [55.4](https://ra.contact/sessions/55#55.4) — …philosophy, thereby enslaving, or bidding, the entity **calling**. There are instances, however, when the contact becomes a… - [55.7](https://ra.contact/sessions/55#55.7) — …purity, such as was described in the bidding process. The **calling** group may have many distortions and be working with much… - [65.7](https://ra.contact/sessions/65#65.7) — …of the Brothers and Sisters of Sorrow which remember their **calling** upon this sphere. - [68.5](https://ra.contact/sessions/68#68.5) — I am Ra. We have instructed this instrument to refrain from **calling** us unless it is within this set of circumscribed… - [68.5](https://ra.contact/sessions/68#68.5) — …was asked a question which pertained to what you have been **calling** The Ra Material. This instrument was providing the voice… - [72.8](https://ra.contact/sessions/72#72.8) — …of time/space distortion only insofar as there is some **calling** to balance the positive calling. Once they are here, their… - [72.8](https://ra.contact/sessions/72#72.8) — …insofar as there is some calling to balance the positive **calling**. Once they are here, their desire is conquest. Thirdly, in… The first 40 of 56 are listed here; all 56 are on https://ra.contact/concepts/calling. --- 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`.