# Love/light

*Canonical page: https://ra.contact/concepts/love-light*

*Last updated: 2026-06-25*

*The outflowing, enabling aspect of creation — the power and energy giver — as distinct from light/love, which is the resulting manifested form.*

## What Ra means

Love/light and light/love form a matched dyad that Ra uses to name both the substance of the creation and the seeker's own deepest nature. The distinction between them is one of direction and function: love/light is the enabler, the power, the energy giver; light/love is what results when Light has been impressed with Love — the manifested form (15.22.3-5). The difference resembles that between teach/learning and learn/teaching: the same phenomenon named from its active rather than its receptive end.

Ra pictures the process of love creating light, and becoming love/light, as streaming into the planetary sphere through electromagnetic entry points — nexi — and then available to each individual, who is likewise a web of such entry points (15.9.4-6). At any given scale there is one energy; it may be understood as love/light, or light/love, or intelligent energy — the names shift depending on the direction of view (15.9.10-11). For healing work specifically, Ra describes the need for a purified and dedicated channel through which the love/light of the Infinite Creator flows (3.15.1-2); without the crystallization of the channel, the energy cannot move cleanly.

The dyad also appears at the level of cosmic identity. The Infinite Creator itself is named as love/light, light/love, and the seeker is told directly: you are love/light, light/love (1.7.18). This is not a poetic flourish but a statement of identity within the framework — the seeker is made of the same stuff as the creation, and the creation is made of the same stuff as the Creator.

## In Ra's words

The distinction between the two terms — and the single energy beneath them:

> 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)

Love creating light, becoming love/light, streaming into the planetary web:

> Thus, the process begins. Love creating Light, becoming love/light, streams into the planetary sphere according to the electromagnetic web of points, or nexi, of entrance. These streamings are then available to the individual who, like the planet, is a web of electromagnetic energy fields with points, or nexi, of entrance.
>
> In a balanced individual each energy center is balanced and functioning brightly and fully. The blockages of your planetary sphere cause some distortion of intelligent energy. The blockages of the mind/body/spirit complex further distort, or unbalance, this energy. There is one energy. It may be understood as love/light, or light/love, or intelligent energy.
>
> — [15.9.4-11](https://ra.contact/sessions/15#15.9)

The healing channel as a conduit for the love/light of the Infinite Creator:

> They are part of one complex of love/light intent/sharing. To use the healing aspects properly it was important to have a purified and dedicated channel, or energizer, for the love/light of the Infinite Creator to flow through; thus the initiatory method was necessary to prepare the mind, the body, and the spirit for service in the Creator’s work.
>
> — [3.15.1-2](https://ra.contact/sessions/3#3.15)

## Every use

Every line where Ra uses this term, in its own context, chronologically. 34 uses, first at 1.7.

- [1.7](https://ra.contact/sessions/1#1.7) — …every situation. You are unity. You are infinity. You are **love/light**, light/love. You are. This is the Law of One. May we…
- [2.3](https://ra.contact/sessions/2#2.3) — …can 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) — …direction 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) — …the glory 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…
- [3.4](https://ra.contact/sessions/3#3.4) — …opened Bible, balanced by the lighted candle signify[ing] **love/light** and light/love and, therefore, give the mental and…
- [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) — …a purified and dedicated channel, or energizer, for the **love/light** of the Infinite Creator to flow through; thus the…
- [4.20](https://ra.contact/sessions/4#4.20) — …disharmony, but only identity. All is one, and that one is **love/light**, light/love, the Infinite Creator. One of the primal…
- [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…
- [7.17](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.17) — …appropriate density. Those who have found this light/love, **love/light** without benefit of a desire for service nevertheless, by…
- [10.9](https://ra.contact/sessions/10#10.9) — …mind/body/spirit complex-distortion in the proper place of **love/light**. This is done to ensure proper healing of the complex and…
- [10.12](https://ra.contact/sessions/10#10.12) — …from the depths of its mind/body/spirit complex towards **love/light**—were then to accept responsibility for each moment of the…
- [12.5](https://ra.contact/sessions/12#12.5) — …of the One Creator. Any entity thus hailed is bathed in **love/light** and will of free will obey the quarantine due to the power…
- [12.7](https://ra.contact/sessions/12#12.7) — …the quarantine boundaries is such that, upon seeing the **love/light** net, it is impossible to break this Law. Therefore,…
- [13.13](https://ra.contact/sessions/13#13.13) — …of possibilities—each individualized portion channeled the **love/light** into what you might call intelligent energy, thus creating…
- [14.20](https://ra.contact/sessions/14#14.20) — …the Law of One, the solving of paradoxes, the balancing of **love/light** and light/love.
- [15.9](https://ra.contact/sessions/15#15.9) — …Thus, the process begins. Love creating Light, becoming **love/light**, streams into the planetary sphere according to the…
- [15.9](https://ra.contact/sessions/15#15.9) — …this energy. There is one energy. It may be understood as **love/light**, or light/love, or intelligent energy.
- [15.12](https://ra.contact/sessions/15#15.12) — …energy center receiving the least distorted outpourings of **love/light** from intelligent energy and having also the potential for…
- [15.22](https://ra.contact/sessions/15#15.22) — …of this time/space. There is the same difference between **love/light** and light/love as there is between teach/learning and…
- [15.22](https://ra.contact/sessions/15#15.22) — …as there is between teach/learning and learn/teaching. **Love/light** is the enabler, the power, the energy giver. Light/love is…
- [15.25](https://ra.contact/sessions/15#15.25) — …the density of five, that is, of light; one the density of **love/light**, or unity. To express the identity of which came from…
- [16.21](https://ra.contact/sessions/16#16.21) — …cycle of light or wisdom. Sixth, the cycle of light/love, **love/light**, or unity. Seventh, the gateway cycle. Eighth, the octave…
- [17.37](https://ra.contact/sessions/17#17.37) — …are even more close to the primal distortions of **love/light**. Beyond these planes there are others.
- [18.5](https://ra.contact/sessions/18#18.5) — …and accept these experiences, distilling from them the **love/light** within them. Nothing shall be overcome. That which is not…
- [18.5](https://ra.contact/sessions/18#18.5) — …more and more distorted towards conscious application of **love/light** as the entity furnishes itself with distilled experience.…
- [18.6](https://ra.contact/sessions/18#18.6) — …consideration the distortions of the focus of energy of **love/light**, or shall we say, the Logos of this particular sphere, or…
- [23.6](https://ra.contact/sessions/23#23.6) — …best to serve those to whom we had offered ourselves in **love/light**. The ones who were in contact with that geographical…
- [36.12](https://ra.contact/sessions/36#36.12) — …but must be matched with an equal amount of love. This **love/light** is very, very difficult to achieve in unity when following…
- [48.3](https://ra.contact/sessions/48#48.3) — …our physical presence was any more effective than that **love/light** we send your peoples and the treasure of this contact, we…
- [64.6](https://ra.contact/sessions/64#64.6) — …search has become internalized as we become light/love and **love/light**. These are the balances we seek, the balances between…
- [65.12](https://ra.contact/sessions/65#65.12) — …we say, passive radiators or broadcasters of love and **love/light** are immense. There are many others whose talents brought…
- [78.25](https://ra.contact/sessions/78#78.25) — …must needs take in each other, for all now must be seen as **love/light** and light/love. This is not difficult for the positive…
- [87.6](https://ra.contact/sessions/87#87.6) — …to welcome more and more the less and less distorted **love/light** and light/love of the One Infinite Creator. Upon the…

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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`.
