# Density *Canonical page: https://ra.contact/concepts/density* *Last updated: 2026-06-25* *A level of consciousness or vibration, analogous to an octave in music; the great octave holds seven densities, each with seven sub-densities, infinitely.* ## What Ra means Density is Ra's word for a step on the ladder of being, and the governing image is musical: after the seven notes of a scale the eighth begins a new octave, and the great octave of existence holds seven densities, each in turn holding seven sub-densities, and so on without end (16.51). Each density takes the character of one of the seven rays — red the foundation of the first, orange the movement of the second, yellow the self-awareness of the third — with the next ray always drawing the density forward in evolution (40.3). First density is elemental awareness; second, growth and movement; third, self-awareness and the Choice; fourth, love and understanding; fifth, wisdom; sixth, the unity of love and wisdom, which is Ra's own; seventh, the gateway to the next octave. The ladder is continuous and renewing. Lower densities strive toward the higher — second density reaches toward third as its forms become self-aware (13.21) — and the octave closes back on itself, the eighth density serving also as the first of the next (28.15). Density therefore measures not place but vibration: how purely an entity expresses the one Creator. ## In Ra's words The octave of densities, by the analogy of music: > The term density is a, what you would call, mathematical one. The closest analogy is that of music, whereby after seven notes on your western type of scale, if you will, the eighth note begins a new octave. Within your great octave of existence which we share with you, there are seven octaves or densities. Within each density there are seven sub-densities. Within each sub-density, seven sub-sub-densities, and so on infinitely. > > — [16.51.2-6](https://ra.contact/sessions/16#16.51) Each density takes the character of its ray, and is drawn forward by the next: > Thus, in first density the red ray is the foundation for all that is to come. In second density the orange ray is that of movement and growth of the individual, this ray striving towards the yellow ray of self-conscious manifestations of a social nature as well as individual; third density being the equivalent, and so forth—each density being primarily its ray plus the attractions of the following ray pulling it forward in evolution and, to some extent, coloring, or shading, the chief color of that density. > > — [40.3.5-6](https://ra.contact/sessions/40#40.3) ## Every use Every line where Ra uses this term, in its own context, chronologically. 938 uses, first at 1.1. - [1.1](https://ra.contact/sessions/1#1.1) — …We, too, have our place. We are not those of the Love [**density**] or of the Light [density]. We are those who are of the… - [1.1](https://ra.contact/sessions/1#1.1) — …We are not those of the Love [density] or of the Light [**density**]. We are those who are of the Law of One. In our vibration… - [1.5](https://ra.contact/sessions/1#1.5) — …planetary kind which you call Egyptians. Others from our **density** made contact at the same time in South America, and the… - [1.12](https://ra.contact/sessions/1#1.12) — …of the instrument’s vibratory complex of sound in your **density** which you call name. Repeat until an answer is obtained.… - [2.2](https://ra.contact/sessions/2#2.2) — …in their beliefs. When this entity was no longer in this **density**, again the polarized beliefs in the many gods came into… - [3.6](https://ra.contact/sessions/3#3.6) — …“chimney.” At a time when we as a people had left your **density**, the original was taken away and a more precious one… - [6.6](https://ra.contact/sessions/6#6.6) — The third-**density** conditions are not hospitable to the life-forms of your… - [6.7](https://ra.contact/sessions/6#6.7) — …able to clothe ourselves in a replica visible in the third **density** of our mind/body/spirit complexes in the sixth density. We… - [6.7](https://ra.contact/sessions/6#6.7) — …density of our mind/body/spirit complexes in the sixth **density**. We were allowed this experiment by the Council which… - [6.10](https://ra.contact/sessions/6#6.10) — …in what is your past, there was a population of third-**density** beings upon a planet which dwelt within your solar system.… - [6.10](https://ra.contact/sessions/6#6.10) — …were forced to find room for themselves upon this third **density**, which is the only one in your solar system at their… - [6.11](https://ra.contact/sessions/6#6.11) — …of incarnation from your higher spheres within this **density**. - [6.14](https://ra.contact/sessions/6#6.14) — …entity stops. This entity may have barely reached third **density** or may be very, very close to the ending of the… - [6.14](https://ra.contact/sessions/6#6.14) — …or may be very, very close to the ending of the third-**density** light/love distortion vibratory complex. Nevertheless,… - [6.15](https://ra.contact/sessions/6#6.15) — …being useful for the lower levels of vibration within that **density**. - [6.23](https://ra.contact/sessions/6#6.23) — …The present Venus population is no longer sixth-**density**. - [6.25](https://ra.contact/sessions/6#6.25) — …there are seven which are operating with craft in your **density**. Their purposes are very simple: to allow those entities… - [7.9](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.9) — …of your inner planes bearing responsibility for your third **density**. The names are not important because there are no names.… - [7.15](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.15) — I am Ra. Like the Confederation, the **densities** of the mass consciousnesses which comprise that group are… - [7.15](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.15) — …comprise that group are varied. There are a very few third **density**, a larger number of fourth density, a similarly large… - [7.15](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.15) — …are a very few third density, a larger number of fourth **density**, a similarly large number of fifth density, and very few… - [7.15](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.15) — …of fourth density, a similarly large number of fifth **density**, and very few sixth-density entities comprising this… - [7.15](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.15) — …large number of fifth density, and very few sixth-**density** entities comprising this organization. Their numbers are… - [7.16](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.16) — I am Ra. The progress through **densities** is sequential. A fifth-density social memory complex would… - [7.16](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.16) — …Ra. The progress through densities is sequential. A fifth-**density** social memory complex would be comprised of… - [7.16](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.16) — …of mind/body/spirit complexes harvested from fourth **density**. Then the conglomerate or mass mind/body/spirit complex… - [7.17](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.17) — …the gateway to intelligent infinity. This is true at all **densities** in our octave. We cannot speak for those above us, as you… - [7.17](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.17) — …of beingness. This is, however, true of this octave of **densities**. The beings are harvested because they can see and enjoy… - [7.17](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.17) — …they can see and enjoy the light/love of the appropriate **density**. Those who have found this light/love, love/light without… - [8.3](https://ra.contact/sessions/8#8.3) — I am Ra. These of which we spoke are of third **density** and are part of the so-called military complex of various… - [8.21](https://ra.contact/sessions/8#8.21) — …Ra. The entities in whom you show such interest are third-**density** beings of a fairly high order. We should express the… - [9.6](https://ra.contact/sessions/9#9.6) — I am Ra. You speak of third-**density** experience. The first of those to come here were brought… - [9.6](https://ra.contact/sessions/9#9.6) — …This planet’s environment became inhospitable to third-**density** beings. The first entities, therefore, were of this race,… - [9.10](https://ra.contact/sessions/9#9.10) — …of their planet that it became inhospitable for third-**density** experience before the end of its cycle. Thus, the Red… - [9.13](https://ra.contact/sessions/9#9.13) — …the cycling of the planetary sphere. It was not third-**density** in its environment until the time previously mentioned. - [9.14](https://ra.contact/sessions/9#9.14) — The second **density** is the density of the higher plant life and animal life… - [9.14](https://ra.contact/sessions/9#9.14) — The second density is the **density** of the higher plant life and animal life which exists… - [9.14](https://ra.contact/sessions/9#9.14) — …the upward drive towards the infinite. These second-**density** beings are of an octave of consciousness just as you find… - [9.15](https://ra.contact/sessions/9#9.15) — …Ra. The two higher of the sub-vibrational levels of second-**density** beings had the configuration of the biped, as you… - [9.17](https://ra.contact/sessions/9#9.17) — …of self which are the prerequisite for transition to third **density**. The first 40 of 938 are listed here; all 938 are on https://ra.contact/concepts/density. --- 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`.