# Potentiator *Canonical page: https://ra.contact/concepts/potentiator* *Last updated: 2026-06-25* *An archetype of the archetypal mind: the unconscious faculty that gives the conscious self something to reach toward and potentiates all experience, offering both positive and negative potential to the Matrix.* ## What Ra means Ra calls the Potentiator one of the two pieces of beginning knowledge of this Logos — the fundamental starting pair, Matrix and Potentiator (78.34). The same pairing then recurs for the body and the spirit, each with its own potentiator. For the mind, the Potentiator is the unconscious: an immense reservoir of potential that the conscious Matrix dips into ever more deeply in order to create, ideate, and become more self-conscious (79.20). The body's Potentiator is wisdom — the judgment that regulates the body's otherwise ceaseless activities. The spirit's Potentiator is lightning: sudden, fiery, illuminating (78.11). The principle that potentiates all experience is near at hand in all manifestation but does not itself enter manifestation; it is immanent and available, a wellspring rather than an actor (92.27). What the Matrix reaches for is recorded in the Matrix and experienced by the Significator — but the reaching itself is made possible because the Potentiator stands there, offering the depth of its sea (92.34, 79.20). The deep mind's architecture — including the potential for the incarnation's catalog of experience — is carried in what the Potentiator archetype describes, and evoking it deliberately can serve the student's understanding of its own evolution (92.11). After the veiling process, the Potentiator of the Mind was associated with the female polarity, as the Matrix was associated with the male (87.28). In the tarot the Potentiator of the Mind is rendered, poetically, as the High Priestess — the unconscious that potentiates all experience (78.34). ## In Ra's words Matrix and Potentiator as the beginning knowledge — the High Priestess as the principle that potentiates all: > This is correct. You see here the recapitulation of the beginning knowledge of this Logos; that is, Matrix and Potentiator. The unconscious is, indeed, what may be poetically described as High Priestess, for it is the Potentiator of the Mind, and as potentiator for the mind is that principle which potentiates all experience. > > — [78.34.2-4](https://ra.contact/sessions/78#78.34) Mind's Potentiator as the sea of potential; the spirit's Potentiator as lightning: > In the mind complex the Matrix may be described as consciousness. It has been called the Magician. It is to be noted that, of itself, consciousness is unmoved. The Potentiator of consciousness is the unconscious. This encompasses a vast realm of potential in the mind. > > — [78.11.2-6](https://ra.contact/sessions/78#78.11) The Potentiator as immanent, near at hand, yet not entering manifestation: > Let us say, rather, that this figure is immanent, near at hand, shall we say, within all manifestation. The opportunities for the reaching to the Potentiator are numerous. However, of itself the Potentiator does not enter manifestation. > > — [92.27.2-4](https://ra.contact/sessions/92#92.27) After the veil — polarity attracted to Matrix and Potentiator: > When the veiling process was accomplished, to the male polarity was attracted the Matrix of the Mind and to the female, the Potentiator of the Mind; to the male the Potentiator of the Body, to the female the Matrix of the Body. > > — [87.28.2](https://ra.contact/sessions/87#87.28) ## Every use Every line where Ra uses this term, in its own context, chronologically. 29 uses, first at 78.10. - [78.10](https://ra.contact/sessions/78#78.10) — …all catalyst. You may call these two the Matrix and the **Potentiator**. - [78.11](https://ra.contact/sessions/78#78.11) — …to be noted that, of itself, consciousness is unmoved. The **Potentiator** of consciousness is the unconscious. This encompasses a… - [78.11](https://ra.contact/sessions/78#78.11) — …is always active with no means of being inactive. The **Potentiator** of the body complex, then, may be called Wisdom, for it is… - [78.11](https://ra.contact/sessions/78#78.11) — …power of this extremely receptive Matrix is such that the **Potentiator** may be seen as Lightning. In your archetypical system… - [78.11](https://ra.contact/sessions/78#78.11) — …of the Lightning Struck Tower. However, the original **Potentiator** was light in its sudden and fiery form; that is, the… - [78.34](https://ra.contact/sessions/78#78.34) — …the beginning knowledge of this Logos; that is, Matrix and **Potentiator**. The unconscious is, indeed, what may be poetically… - [78.34](https://ra.contact/sessions/78#78.34) — …be poetically described as High Priestess, for it is the **Potentiator** of the Mind, and as potentiator for the mind is that… - [78.34](https://ra.contact/sessions/78#78.34) — …Priestess, for it is the Potentiator of the Mind, and as **potentiator** for the mind is that principle which potentiates all… - [79.17](https://ra.contact/sessions/79#79.17) — …and functioned under the aegis of the Matrix, the **Potentiator**, and the Significator. The Significator of the mind, body,… - [79.20](https://ra.contact/sessions/79#79.20) — …is the activator in potentiation of all mind activity. The **Potentiator** of the Mind is that great resource which may be seen as… - [79.20](https://ra.contact/sessions/79#79.20) — …opposites of the mind; that is, unrestricted motion. The **Potentiator** of the Body then is that which, being informed, regulates… - [79.20](https://ra.contact/sessions/79#79.20) — …one may see the Matrix as the deepest darkness and the **Potentiator** of Spirit as the most sudden awakening, illuminating, and… - [79.42](https://ra.contact/sessions/79#79.42) — …evolved rather than the simple melding of experience from **Potentiator** to Matrix. The mind itself became an actor possessed of… - [80.13](https://ra.contact/sessions/80#80.13) — …of the Spirit and, because of the illuminations of the **Potentiator** of the Spirit, will begin to cause these changes in the… - [80.15](https://ra.contact/sessions/80#80.15) — …whether positive or negative, has the same Matrix. The **Potentiator** is also identical. Due to the Catalyst of each adept, the… - [87.28](https://ra.contact/sessions/87#87.28) — …attracted the Matrix of the Mind and to the female, the **Potentiator** of the Mind; to the male the Potentiator of the Body, to… - [87.28](https://ra.contact/sessions/87#87.28) — …the female, the Potentiator of the Mind; to the male the **Potentiator** of the Body, to the female the Matrix of the Body. May we… - [89.19](https://ra.contact/sessions/89#89.19) — …to be studied as individual concept complexes—as Matrix, **Potentiator**, etc.—in viewing mind/body/spirit connections; and in… - [91.17](https://ra.contact/sessions/91#91.17) — …of all experience. Each, of course, used the Matrix, the **Potentiator**, and the Significator, for this is the harvest with which… - [92.11](https://ra.contact/sessions/92#92.11) — …as being represented by that concept complex known as the **Potentiator**. It is not in the archetypical mind of an entity that the… - [92.11](https://ra.contact/sessions/92#92.11) — …mind/body/spirit complex’s beingness, this archetype, the **Potentiator** of the Mind, may be evoked with profit to the student of… - [92.12](https://ra.contact/sessions/92#92.12) — I am Ra. No. We are suggesting that the **Potentiator** of the Mind is an archetype which may aid the adept in… - [92.18](https://ra.contact/sessions/92#92.18) — I am Ra. The **Potentiator** of Mind and of Body are both involved in the questing of… - [92.18](https://ra.contact/sessions/92#92.18) — …complex which may be articulated by consideration of the **Potentiators** of Mind and Body), through free will, chooses to make… - [92.20](https://ra.contact/sessions/92#92.20) — …of the Mind is attracted to the biological male and the **Potentiator** of the Mind to the biological female. Thusly in energy… - [92.22](https://ra.contact/sessions/92#92.22) — …design. We perceive an unclear statement. The polarity of **Potentiator** is there not for the Matrix to choose. It is there for the… - [92.25](https://ra.contact/sessions/92#92.25) — …dynamic tension, if you will, betwixt the Matrix and the **Potentiator** of the Mind. - [92.27](https://ra.contact/sessions/92#92.27) — …manifestation. The opportunities for the reaching to the **Potentiator** are numerous. However, of itself the Potentiator does not… - [92.27](https://ra.contact/sessions/92#92.27) — …to the Potentiator are numerous. However, of itself the **Potentiator** does not enter manifestation. --- 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`.