Law of One · Book I · 1981-01-29
Session 13
densities · octave · galaxies
Complete sitting — full Questioner and Ra text
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Book I · Sessions 1–26 · sitting 13 of 106
Where this sits in the contact
The octave in seed
Distortions, densities, energy centers introduced. Book II will open these. Book I already gives enough to live.
Comes after session 12 (wanderers). Opens into session 14 (second density).
In plain words
In this sitting
- Three distortions: free will (the first), Love (the second, the Logos), Light (the third, the creation you can see).
- A world happens because Love focuses, then Light becomes many. You are not furniture in someone else’s sky.
- The Course’s God creating is this session without the physics vocabulary.
How this sitting is misread
Treating the three distortions as a trivia ladder instead of the reason you can choose.
Deeper meaning
The cosmology in one session: the Creator knows itself through distortion. First distortion: free will. Second: Love, a Logos that designs an octave. Third: Light, Love in motion. Eight densities, an octave, then the turn. You are in third: the Choice. This is Source and Octave in seed. The Course does not need the diagram. It says God is, Love created you like itself, and light is how you see. Stack them. Do not let the diagram replace the fourth exercise.
Practice
Read Source once, or sit with: I have not left. Then do session 4’s first exercise.
The octave of densities from 1 to 8, love/light as stuff of creation. The most important cosmology session for a Course student: light is not a metaphor in either tradition.
Course
God is. Love created me like itself (61, 67). Light in which you see (44, 75).
Open streamSpalding
A diagram that does not make you gentler was something extra to collect. Be gentler.
Open streamRueckert
She could hold the cosmology and still ask, at dinner, who needed the salt. Both were the Law.
Open streamIn this library
Read with this
Read the transcript at lawofone.info/s/13. A numbered question is written 13.20 — type that in Study tools or Jump. These notes are not a reprint. Open the session. Then mark it studied and do the next ordinary kindness. That is the whole method.