# Light (Third Distortion) *Canonical page: https://ra.contact/concepts/light-third-distortion* *Last updated: 2026-06-25* *The Third Distortion of the Law of One: the manifesting principle that arises when Love impresses pattern upon potential, producing the photon and all form.* ## What Ra means Light is the third shape the One takes. After free will finds focus as Love, Love generates Light — the first moment in which the formless becomes something structured and countable (15.21.4-6). Light is the substance of the physical creation, the photon underlying all matter, and the medium through which a Logos builds its densities. Ra pairs it constantly with Love because the two are inseparable creative partners, not independent forces. Ra distinguishes two compound terms built from this pairing. Love/light is the enabler — the power streaming into a creation. Light/love is what results when light has been impressed with love: the manifested, shaped substance (15.22.3-5). The sun's white light begins in metaphysical darkness, then transfigures that chaos, organizing it into the reflective, radiant structure that becomes the dimensions (40.1.5-7). Every density, from first through seventh, is a different intensity of this same light/love; entities grow by being able to tolerate and enjoy increasingly glaring light. Light is also the ladder of harvest. At the end of a cycle, the spirit complex of a harvested entity moves along the line of light, stopping where the light becomes too intense — and that stopping point determines the density of the next incarnation (6.14.6-10). The gradations of light thus form not only the architecture of the creation but the precise measure of an entity's consciousness. ## In Ra's words Ra states where Light falls in the sequence of primary distortions: > The First Distortion, Free Will, finds focus. This is the Second Distortion known to you as Logos, the Creative Principle, or Love. This intelligent energy thus creates a distortion known as Light. > > — [15.21.4-6](https://ra.contact/sessions/15#15.21) Ra distinguishes the directional pairing of love/light and light/love: > There is the same difference between love/light and light/love as there is between teach/learning and learn/teaching. Love/light is the enabler, the power, the energy giver. Light/love is the manifestation which occurs when Light has been impressed with Love. > > — [15.22.3-5](https://ra.contact/sessions/15#15.22) Ra describes how white light emanating from a sub-Logos organizes the creation: > The white light which emanates and forms the articulated sub-Logos has its beginning in what may be metaphysically seen as darkness. The light comes into that darkness and transfigures it, causing the chaos to organize and become reflective or radiant. Thus the dimensions come into being. > > — [40.1.5-7](https://ra.contact/sessions/40#40.1) ## Every use Every line where Ra uses this term, in its own context, chronologically. 546 uses, first at 1.0. - [1.0](https://ra.contact/sessions/1#1.0) — …narrow-band vibration. We greet you in the love and in the **light** of our Infinite Creator. We have watched your group. We… - [1.0](https://ra.contact/sessions/1#1.0) — …I am Ra. We greet you once more in the love and the **light** of our Infinite Creator. We ask that you be patient with… - [1.1](https://ra.contact/sessions/1#1.1) — …place. 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… - [1.7](https://ra.contact/sessions/1#1.7) — …situation. You are unity. You are infinity. You are love/**light**, light/love. You are. This is the Law of One. May we… - [1.7](https://ra.contact/sessions/1#1.7) — …You are unity. You are infinity. You are love/light, **light**/love. You are. This is the Law of One. May we enunciate… - [1.10](https://ra.contact/sessions/1#1.10) — …The few whom you will illuminate by sharing your **light** are far more than enough reason for the greatest possible… - [2.0](https://ra.contact/sessions/2#2.0) — I am Ra. I greet you in the love and the **light** of our Infinite Creator. I am with this mind/body/spirit… - [2.3](https://ra.contact/sessions/2#2.3) — …be used by a purified channel who is filled with the love/**light** of One in almost any application. This, of course, takes… - [2.6](https://ra.contact/sessions/2#2.6) — …from which the newer, or New Age, distortions of love/**light**, which are less distorted, are emanating from, and this… - [2.6](https://ra.contact/sessions/2#2.6) — …held during time/space during which your sun-body does not **light** your room that it is best to call the instrument before… - [2.6](https://ra.contact/sessions/2#2.6) — …and the peace of the One Creator. Rejoice in the love/**light**, and go forth in the power of the One Creator. In joy, we… - [3.0](https://ra.contact/sessions/3#3.0) — I am Ra. I greet you in the love and the **light** of the One Infinite Creator. I communicate with you now. - [3.4](https://ra.contact/sessions/3#3.4) — …Bible, balanced by the lighted candle signify[ing] love/**light** and light/love and, therefore, give the mental and… - [3.4](https://ra.contact/sessions/3#3.4) — …balanced by the lighted candle signify[ing] love/light and **light**/love and, therefore, give the mental and emotional, shall… - [3.10](https://ra.contact/sessions/3#3.10) — …governed by the Laws of Love, and which seeks the Laws of **Light**. Those who are vibrating with the Law of Light seek the… - [3.10](https://ra.contact/sessions/3#3.10) — …the Laws of Light. Those who are vibrating with the Law of **Light** seek the Law of One. Those who vibrate with the Law of One… - [3.15](https://ra.contact/sessions/3#3.15) — They are part of one complex of love/**light** intent/sharing. To use the healing aspects properly it was… - [3.15](https://ra.contact/sessions/3#3.15) — …purified and dedicated channel, or energizer, for the love/**light** of the Infinite Creator to flow through; thus the… - [4.0](https://ra.contact/sessions/4#4.0) — I am Ra. I greet you in the love and the **light** of the Infinite Creator. I communicate now. - [4.20](https://ra.contact/sessions/4#4.20) — …but only identity. All is one, and that one is love/**light**, light/love, the Infinite Creator. One of the primal… - [4.20](https://ra.contact/sessions/4#4.20) — …but only identity. All is one, and that one is love/light, **light**/love, the Infinite Creator. One of the primal distortions… - [4.23](https://ra.contact/sessions/4#4.23) — I am Ra. I leave you in the love and the **light** of the One Infinite Intelligence which is the Creator. Go… - [5.0](https://ra.contact/sessions/5#5.0) — I am Ra. I greet you in the love and the **light** of the Infinite Creator. I communicate now. - [5.3](https://ra.contact/sessions/5#5.3) — …I am Ra. I leave this instrument in the love and **light** of the One Infinite Creator. Go forth rejoicing in the… - [6.0](https://ra.contact/sessions/6#6.0) — I am Ra. I greet you in the love and the **light** of the Infinite Creator. I communicate now. - [6.3](https://ra.contact/sessions/6#6.3) — …which trigger this instrument’s distortions towards love/**light**. The placement and loving acceptance of them by all… - [6.7](https://ra.contact/sessions/6#6.7) — …the intelligent infinity present in each particle of **light**, or distorted light, so that we were able to clothe… - [6.7](https://ra.contact/sessions/6#6.7) — …infinity present in each particle of light, or distorted **light**, so that we were able to clothe ourselves in a replica… - [6.14](https://ra.contact/sessions/6#6.14) — …towards active service. Thus, the illusion is created of **Light**, or more properly but less understandably, light/love.… - [6.14](https://ra.contact/sessions/6#6.14) — …of Light, or more properly but less understandably, **light**/love. This is in varying degrees of intensity. The spirit… - [6.14](https://ra.contact/sessions/6#6.14) — …complex of each harvested entity moves along the line of **light** until the light grows too glaring, at which time the… - [6.14](https://ra.contact/sessions/6#6.14) — …harvested entity moves along the line of light until the **light** grows too glaring, at which time the entity stops. This… - [6.14](https://ra.contact/sessions/6#6.14) — …may be very, very close to the ending of the third-density **light**/love distortion vibratory complex. Nevertheless, those who… - [6.14](https://ra.contact/sessions/6#6.14) — …those who fall within this octave of intensifying **light**/love then experience a major cycle during which the… - [6.29](https://ra.contact/sessions/6#6.29) — …complex, Tom. I am Ra. I leave you in the love and the **light** of the One Infinite Creator. Go forth rejoicing in the… - [7.0](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.0) — I am Ra. I greet you in the love and the **light** of our Infinite Creator. I communicate now. - [7.15](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.15) — …is the same as ours. The Law of One blinks neither at the **light** or the darkness but is available for service to others and… - [7.17](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.17) — …beings are harvested because they can see and enjoy the **light**/love of the appropriate density. Those who have found this… - [7.17](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.17) — …of the appropriate density. Those who have found this **light**/love, love/light without benefit of a desire for service… - [7.17](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.17) — …density. Those who have found this light/love, love/**light** without benefit of a desire for service nevertheless, by… The first 40 of 546 are listed here; all 546 are on https://ra.contact/concepts/light-third-distortion. --- Source: *The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One* — Don Elkins, Carla Rueckert, Jim McCarty, published by L/L Research (https://www.llresearch.org/). 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