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Practices

The things Ra tells you to do — the corpus read as a manual, not a reference.

Core

The cornerstone exercises Ra names as the most usable within this illusion.

Seek the love in the moment

Ra's Exercise One — the cornerstone practice, named as the most usable within this illusion.

In any ordinary moment, consciously look for the love already present in it. The first attempt is the cornerstone; each repetition powers the next. Sincerity matters more than success.

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See the Creator in another

Ra's Exercise Two — the unity practice applied to other-selves.

When you look at another person, deliberately see the Creator in them. The universe is one being; this is training the eye to read that fact.

Unity Creator Law of One

Gaze in the mirror; see the Creator

Ra's Exercise Three — the unity practice turned on the self.

Look at your own reflection and see the Creator there, exactly as in another.

Creator Unity The Choice

See the Creator in the creation

Ra's Exercise Four — the unity practice widened to everything around you.

Look at the world around you — anything at all — and see the Creator in it.

Creation Creator Unity

Meditation

Ways of sitting — passive, active, and contemplative.

Passive meditation — clear the mind

Ra's most generally recommended meditation: emptying the mental jumble to reach inner silence.

Sit and let the mental chatter run down until the mind is silent — an inner stillness from which you can listen to the Creator. Ra calls this by far the most generally useful type of meditation.

Meditation

Visualization — the tool of the adept

Active meditation: holding a steady image to build concentrative power.

Hold a single visual image steadily in mind. The goal is not the image but the concentrative power it builds — the discipline that lets an adept polarize in consciousness without outward action.

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Contemplation — sit with a text or image

Considering an inspiring image or passage in a meditative state — the practice this whole reader is built for.

Take one inspiring image or short text and hold it in a meditative state, letting the faculty of will engage with it.

Meditation

Balancing

Working a catalyst all the way through, and the silence beneath it.

Balance a catalyst (the evening work)

Ra's method for working a strong emotion all the way through, using anger as the worked example.

Take a strong emotion — Ra's example is anger. First bless and love it in yourself rather than suppress it. Then, in the mind alone, intensify it consciously until its folly is seen — not as folly itself, but as raw energy that can be accepted and re-directed upward. Then balance it with its opposite.

Balancing Catalyst Red ray Energy centers

Open the mind like a door — the key is silence

The prerequisite for all mental work toward intelligent infinity.

Cultivate the ability to hold silence of self at will. Ra gives this as the prerequisite of all mental work — the open door through which the deeper hierarchy of mind becomes reachable.

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Adept

The lifelong discipline of the personality, and its working stance.

Know, accept, become

The threefold heart of the discipline of the personality — the corpus's most quotable practice.

The lifelong adept's work in three steps: know yourself; accept yourself; become the Creator. The third clears the indigo gateway and renders one the most humble servant of all.

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Assume the magical personality — with rigorous honesty

The adept's working stance, gated by self-honesty about one's own readiness.

For magical working, consciously assume the magical personality — but only with the most rigorous honesty about whether you can sustain it. Any genuine doubt means it is inadvisable; self-deception here is dangerous.

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