# Love (Second Distortion) *Canonical page: https://ra.contact/concepts/love-second-distortion* *Last updated: 2026-06-25* *The Second Distortion of the Law of One — the Creative Principle, also called Logos, by which free will finds focus and produces Light.* ## What Ra means Love is what free will becomes when it focuses. In Ra's ordered emanation of the Law of One, the First Distortion (free will) narrows into the Second Distortion — Love, also called the Creative Principle or Logos — and this Love then generates the Third Distortion, Light (15.21.4-6). Love is therefore not primarily an emotion but the great co-Creator: the intelligent energy that, using the potential of intelligent infinity, builds a creation and produces all form. Ra draws a careful distinction between the Second Distortion Love and the *vibration* of love that characterizes fourth density. The Second Distortion is the galactic-scale creative power — the great activator and primal co-Creator using intelligent infinity, with the power to direct light in its distortions; the vibration of love is the lesson learned by fourth-density entities who have mastered an activity called loving (27.13.3-5). Collapsing this distinction makes Love seem to refer only to an emotion, when Ra is primarily naming the force by which a Logos structures its entire creation. Love and Light are inseparable in practice, but Ra's paired terms distinguish their roles. Love/light is the enabler, the power that streams into a creation; light/love is what results when Light has been impressed with Love — the manifested, shaped substance (15.22.3-5). The entity in third density who seeks love in each moment is, in Ra's view, aligned with the very principle by which creation itself is built. ## In Ra's words Ra states the sequence of the three 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 clarifies the difference between Love as a distortion and love as a density vibration: > The vibration, or density, of love, or understanding, is not a term used in the same sense as the Second Distortion, Love; the distortion Love being the great activator and primal co-Creator of various creations using intelligent infinity; the vibration love being that density in which those who have learned to do an activity called “loving” without significant distortion, then seek the Ways of Light or Wisdom. > > Thus in vibratory sense love comes into light. In the sense of the activity of unity in its free will, love uses light and has the power to direct light in its distortions. > > — [27.13.3-5](https://ra.contact/sessions/27#27.13) Ra distinguishes the two paired forms of the same creative force: > 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) ## Every use Every line where Ra uses this term, in its own context, chronologically. 531 uses, first at 1.0. - [1.0](https://ra.contact/sessions/1#1.0) — …as we send a narrow-band vibration. We greet you in the **love** and in the light of our Infinite Creator. We have watched… - [1.0](https://ra.contact/sessions/1#1.0) — …In how many of your thoughts did the creation abide? Was **love** contained? And was service freely given? You are not part… - [1.0](https://ra.contact/sessions/1#1.0) — …pause.] I am Ra. We greet you once more in the **love** and the light of our Infinite Creator. We ask that you be… - [1.1](https://ra.contact/sessions/1#1.1) — …now. We, too, have our place. We are not those of the **Love** [density] or of the Light [density]. We are those who are… - [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… - [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 this… - [1.12](https://ra.contact/sessions/1#1.12) — …at this time. And finally, a gift of water into which the **love** of all present has been given. This will restore this… - [1.12](https://ra.contact/sessions/1#1.12) — …contain great sensitivity towards the vibrations of **love**, and the charged water will effect comfort. Do you now… - [1.13](https://ra.contact/sessions/1#1.13) — …which contains the largest amount of what you would call **love**. Others would call this entity “Carla.” The charging of… - [1.13](https://ra.contact/sessions/1#1.13) — …their hands over the glass and visualizing the power of **love** entering the water. This will charge that very effective… - [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… - [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,… - [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… - [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… - [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… - [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… - [3.4](https://ra.contact/sessions/3#3.4) — …by the lighted candle signify[ing] love/light and light/**love** and, therefore, give the mental and emotional, shall we… - [3.10](https://ra.contact/sessions/3#3.10) — …of understanding which is governed by the Laws of **Love**, and which seeks the Laws of Light. Those who are… - [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… - [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… - [3.18](https://ra.contact/sessions/3#3.18) — …in the chalice accepts, retains, and responds to the **love** vibration activated by your beingness. I am Ra. I will now… - [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. - [4.17](https://ra.contact/sessions/4#4.17) — …and disciplines have to do with the balance between **love** and wisdom in the use of the body in its natural… - [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… - [4.20](https://ra.contact/sessions/4#4.20) — …identity. All is one, and that one is love/light, light/**love**, the Infinite Creator. One of the primal distortions of… - [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… - [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) — …not of importance. I am Ra. I leave this instrument in the **love** and light of the One Infinite Creator. Go forth rejoicing… - [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… - [6.14](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) — …very, very close to the ending of the third-density light/**love** distortion vibratory complex. Nevertheless, those who fall… - [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) — …vibratory sound complex, Tom. I am Ra. I leave you in the **love** and the light of the One Infinite Creator. Go forth… - [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. - [7.17](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.17) — …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) — …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) — …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) — …Law of Free Will, have the right to the use of that light/**love** for whatever purpose. Also, it may be inserted that there… - [7.19](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.19) — I am Ra. I leave you in the **love** and the light of the One Infinite Creator. Go forth then… The first 40 of 531 are listed here; all 531 are on https://ra.contact/concepts/love-second-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/). 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`.