"I have a problem with this positive/negative business, Michael", Colonel Stevens was to remark as the subject veered toward that inevitable pass (cf. our interview with
Wendelle Stevens begun in issue 3, VoL 2 TNTC).
"It seems to me that the subject bogs down at this point in just the kind of ambiguous 'moralism' that characterizes standard religious attitude on the subject, and which therefore inevitably leads to types of intolerances-of-interpretation that brook no opposition—you know?"
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1 The following is an expanded version of a much briefer conversation actually held with
Col. Stevens, who suggested during Ike course of the conversation that the explanations given him re Positive and Negative beings, spiritual development etc ought to be written and published in detail since to him it clarified the subject more deeply than anything he'd heard previously. The conversational format has therefore been retained, as it loans itself to the kinds of comprehension drawn out through dialog.
"Well,"
MT said, "it certainly can if there's a component of self-righteous identification involved; that however is precisely why true spiritual development in the esoteric sense of higher mind/body integration and alignment is absolutely necessary to a balanced undemanding of these things, and why it can't be left in the hands of standard low-level ego consciousness now backed by 'godly" justifications—certainly, that just leads to the Inquisition."
"Right! I've heard the more 'new age' attempts to explain the distinction, you know, like '
service-to-self' and 'service-to-others'; those categories are even supposed to be given by higher-dimensional beings for our further clarification, but it seems to me it just replaces one dualistic formula with an equivalent that begs the question rather than answers it!"
"Of course you have a point insofar as 'self' and 'others' aren't absolute categories; I've had early difficulty off-and-on myself in accepting them as adequate explanatory tools. But I think it's simply resolved if we accept them not as absolute but as 'rough-and-ready' categories; certainly the 'dividing-line' between self and other is ambiguous and shifting, more a function of the elastic flow of Identity than rigid real borders.
"But when you think of it, the categories retain their functional validity. For instance, when we think of what might be required to authenticate a 'service-to-self' orientation, we see that an easy means of accepting the distinction revolves around the degree to which any given psyche is willing to attain its end by any means; in practical fact, it takes a very distinct type to persist in the pursuit of its self-aggrandizing object regardless what must be raped, plundered, pillaged and destroyed in the process."
"I see what you mean."
"When we get to the higher-dimensional levels of distinct polarization, that kind of no-quarter commitment to the survivalist and self-aggrandizing end simply receives the imprimatur of fully-conscious dedication. It becomes an authentic ongoing decision, rather than inclination or tendency. In its own way it requires as much single-minded devotion, strict relentless dedication and unwavering commitment as does any positive counterpart committed to mutual progress, and it entails the same ultimate degree of mind/body coherence, ego-integration and coordinate alignment of each part with every other part resulting in a kind of similar, cerebrospinal homogeneity, and that congruence, internal consonance or aware self-agreement commands the same automatic alignment with the accelerated resources of Intelligent Infinity as is granted the resultant 'structure' of positive-polarization.
The only critical difference that we've determined by experience, is that the
negative polarization to higher-density alignment divorces itself, necessarily, from
the Over-soul totality ultimately superintending all personality-projections and incarnative phases through the levels and dimensions."
"What does the negative polarity align with, then, in terms of Intelligent Infinity?"
Colonel Stevens asked, clearly readjusted and gathered up in the explanation.
"It polarizes into basic congruence with the higher-dimensional energy-fields, through which the programming of Intelligent Infinity flows but no longer—in the negative case—through which the Self-reflective intelligence of Oversoul-consciousness directly functions and communicates. The higher-density energy field is open to entrance, then, as a result of congruent polarization, constituting a kind of 'indifferent' matrix of potential that may be used, incorporated and exploited according to 'personal' ingenuity, practically speaking, the soul which has newly polarized negatively finds itself in functional subordination to a deeply individuated ego-soul Intelligence of even higher-density development,
having in effect substituted itself for multidimensional Oversoul Intelligence as inevitable consequence of the isolating or self-nucleating requirement of the Negative realm.
"It is this
surrogate oversoul quality, in fact, which the newly-polarized negative being is implicitly moving toward; for all such negatively-polarized beings are ultimately attempting to substitute themselves for
God, to wholly replace and in effect override the all-accommodating Individuality of Oversoul consciousness harmoniously coordinating all its projective components and angular 'selves'. Owing to progressive learning and development through the higher-density energy fields, and in 'tutelage' from higher-density Negative overlords, the Negatively-polarized being in fact picks up many faculties, manages to solve many of the mechanical knots making certain superpowers and extraordinary forces directly available in amplification of the overall repertoire; over 'time' in terms of the densities of negative development, the astute negative being manages to commandeer a range of multidimensional abilities that seems superficially the 'rival' of that belonging to Oversoul consciousness on the corresponding, positive side of the ledger.
"Of course the deeply independent and self-isolating ego nucleation which serves to practically organize the negative mind/body/spirit alignment, sets a real upper limit to the total range and power at the negatives' disposal. There is an inbuilt factor of attrition resulting from inevitable ego-friction, and a net value of continuous inanition or unrecoverable energy-loss due to imperfect assimilation at the higher levels, which prevents attainment of
the true magnitude of Oversoul consciousness and keeps it at a merely imitative, proximal level; for there's an innate contradiction between the unitive values and deeply integral states of the higher-dimensional energy domains, and the supernumerary encysting of self-isolated ego consciousness marking the minimum requirement of that class of polarization.
"Such a basic contradiction can't be reconciled within the negative framework; it's for this reason that sources such as
the Ra material rightly affirm that at a certain 'degree' the only chance of real progression in the resolution of conscious Being lies in the
wisdom-conversion of the negative being to positive polarization alignment."
"How 'far' then can the 'negative' being ultimately advance?"
"Since it can never attain to real Oversoul congruity under negatively-aligned stress, the negative-density progress necessarily stops at mid-6th density, just before the dividing line of real resolution with oversoul consciousness (presiding as the
Macroprosopus or
Higher Countenance of 6th density)."
"So the 'negative' beings can decide to switch polarities? What happens when that decision is made?"
"Theoretically such a decision can be made by any negative entity at any degree of development of the higher densities. As a practical matter though, it isn't likely to be a seriously-entertained option until the perceivable limits of the higher-density levels are met in experience and understood on an immediate basis. Also on a practical level, such a 'choice' is—while an expression of the conserved value of volition and therefore of innate freedom—not bilaterally free to implement itself any time;
the negative realms are highly regimented, monitored, jealously guarded since their conscious 'resources' are scarcer in terms of competition with the
positive, so 'defection' at the level of the subaltern ranks is not viewed indifferently. It's a punishable offense; therefore on a purely practical basis such a choice generally can't be made and implemented except by
a whole group psyche, a social/memory/complex of the negative densities taking its point of leverage from the decision of its very Commander. Therefore such polarization-switch is not, for both reasons cited, a common occurrence and seldom takes place sooner than the approach of mid-6th density."
"And then what happens?" the Colonel asked. "Do the 'reformed' negatives have to incarnate in the lower dimensions again and pay for all the karma they've incurred before they can move up once more on the positive side of the ladder?"
"Actually not—or they'd never make the decision to polarize positively! No, the polarization, once assumed, is virtually
instantaneous and involves a direct exchange for its equivalent on the 'positive' side of the ledger. It's the product of cumulative wisdom, in keeping with the general 6th density level, so it understands the sort of yielding that's required and performs it."
"Oh oh. That's not going to sit well with those who're bound to feel—me, for one—that all the negative suffering such beings have inflicted doesn't have to be paid back!."
"Oh but it does,
Mr. Stevens,"
AAA explained. "It's paid back through the works that are performed once in higher-density positive alignment. And they are able to be paid off more effectively because of the superior powers at their disposal on the 'positive' or whole-being side."
"Yet they don't seem to have to 'pay back' in terms of 'their' own suffering—maybe that's just a punitive thought generated from this eye-for-an-eye level of consciousness however, a kind of
Judeo-Christian hangover that isn't relevant in the higher planes..."
"In a sense that's true,"
AAA continued. "At the same time though, you have to understand that the matter of 'karma' is basically different at the higher-density levels beyond 3rd. '
Karma' is indeed instantaneous in higher-dimensional terms—not so much in the sense of the mirroring mechanics of experience, as in the essence that's ultimately relevant as a conscious value.
"You know we think of 'karma', in this plane of focus, as suffering the identical experience that we inflicted on another. But the 'object' of any such experiential pendulum is always the impression it makes on consciousness in any case. The only reason it takes the form of experiential kick-back in our 3rd density frame of reference is because
here,
consciousness is largely asleep. It can't experience the essence of a thing, the distilled value, directly; so it has to be 'shocked' out of its slumber by some mirroring mechanism of experience.
"In the higher, unveiled levels or densities, however, consciousness isn't asleep, neither in the positive or negative realms. Therefore the negative choice of alignment itself is its own karma. While it inflicts pain and suffering on others, this is direct expression of its immediate and conscious condition—which is acutely that of unlove. The negative being polarizes that way in the first place because the-decision's been made to take the shortcut of bypassing the heart. So it shrinks the
anahata to the proportions of a real fly-heart; but in so doing, it suffers the very conscious and definitive lack of love. And this is crucial even to the dedicatedly negative being, because
love is one of the indivisible Divine attributes along with
Selfness and
Void.
"The negative being can appropriate the Selfness of absolute-being to its own self-aggrandizing ego version; and it can appropriate the Void-value of absolute being to its functional repertoire so as to glide diabolically between the spaces of filtrate screening etc. But it can't, constitutionally, profit by the value of
Love which it has explicitly excluded as a condition of its particular polarization. Love eludes it; it does the negative being 'no good', so it becomes
the despised aspect of the Divine reality. But since the negative being necessarily participates in the Divine reality the same as everything else, it suffers an acute deprivation of a very integral factor of its own nature. Because it is by definition a Conscious being at this level, its suffering remains acute.
"That
suffering is itself the instantaneous 'karma' of its choice, as well as the propelling motivator of its malevolent 'compensator/ activity; for, participating in and through the very Being of Love nonetheless, the negative entity evokes a distortion of that principle (in that it comes to 'love', and takes great pleasure from, inflicting that same suffering—and haunting deprivation, 'lack' or nothingness—upon others)."
"I see," the Colonel said. "This is very fascinating. I must admit this is the best discussion of the problem of 'evil' I've yet heard, and makes the subject much more plausible than its usual
Judeo-Christian context. You planning on writing this out, putting it in book form or something?"
"Maybe,"
MT smiled, instantly conceiving the conversational format in which the communication now resides.