Properties of Consciousness

Individuation

Consciousness inherently possesses the ability to fragment itself, split itself into facets and extend and separate itself into threads that remain connected to the originating consciousness form.

Consciousness can be encapsulated into forms, with boundaries, that define an individual and create a unique perspective on reality, a unique sensation of existing.

Frequency

Frequency is an analogy for different states of consciousness.

Consciousness can be ranked on a relative ordinal scale. One individuated form of consciousness can be 'higher' or 'lower' than another. This does not imply 'better than' or 'less than', but rather indicates the 'frequency' or 'state of consciousness' of the different individuated forms.

These differences allow for gathering infinitely varied types of experience for Source Consciousness, from the highest being to the simplest particle of matter. This creates different perspectives for consciousness to view itself.

Hierarchies

Consciousness creates a cascading hierarchy of different beings, different races and different individuated forms which create their own sub-hierarchies which in turn create their own sub-hierarchies and so on, forever and ever.

Threads of consciousness branch out into smaller threads which then branch out into smaller threads, creating a vast web of interconnected forms.

Information flows up and down the hierarchy, enabling complex experiences as beings higher up the hierarchy learn from beings lower down. The further down the hierarchy a being is, the greater the separation it experiences and the greater the possibility for comparison and experience.

Blending

Nothing is truly separate. Individuated forms of consciousness can blend with each other to form a new consciousness.

Blending is the other side of hierarchy. Blending creates multi-faceted experience as 'higher' consciousness is able to join with 'lower' consciousness and thereby gain a new and varied perspective.

Blending of consciousness allows direct communication, shared experience, observation, comparison and more depending on the ordinal distance between the conscious beings.

When the ordinal distance between two beings is great, a consciousness that is 'higher' in the hierarchy can observe and interact with a consciousness that is 'lower' in the hierarchy at its discretion; for example the Higher Self observes the local construct and decides how much of itself to reveal to the local consciousness, if anything at all.

There is also the capacity to blend with other minds. You may learn much from each of your individual forms, you may experience much.

—The Zeta

Free Will

Consciousness is inherently free within certain parameters, defined by it's ordinal ranking.

Lower consciousness has less freedom than higher consciousness. Free will is not absolute but rather a function of the ordinal rank of a particular consciousness and the environment it has embedded itself in.

Sub-atomic particles can choose paths of motion within certain possibilities for example, which is interpreted as randomness by human scientists (wave function) but in actuality is the action of choice within the natural boundaries of a lower consciousness.

Only he is a prophet who has acquired the knowledge of his own Soul. And that which above all else the Soul tells him, is that God is, first and foremost, Love.

—Seth

Do not be mistaken, your own journey will be filled with darkness. When you are in darkness as humans say, you must reach out. There is no reaching out in light. There is no comfort in darkness. There is no searching for self-perception in the light. There is no capacity to reflect in the light. You wish to find yourself to understand the dimension of your existence. You will not find them in the light.

—The Zeta

The vitality, force, life and creativity behind your physical existence is generated in this other dimension. In other words, you are in many ways a fleshy projection of your dreaming self.

—Seth

The higher self incarnates for experience and to use the local consciousness as the filtering process. It removes itself from the process so it can fully experience the capacity of being in a human container.

—The Zeta

Clothed with the Sun

What then is the purpose of evolution and separation into many forms?

Life is the elaboration of soul through the varied transformations of matter.

Spirit is essential and perfect in itself, having neither end nor beginning. Spirit is abstract.

Soul is secondary and perfected, being begotten of spirit. Soul is concrete.

And the whole object of creation or manifestation is the evolution of souls.

The essential principle of personality or consciousness - the higher personality - is spirit. And this personality is God. Wherefore the higher and interior personality of every monad is God.

But this primary principle, being naked essence, could not be separated off into individuals unless contained and limited by a secondary principle. This principle, being derived and not essential, must be evolved.

Spirit therefore is projected into matter in order that soul may be begotten.

Soul is the medium by which spirit is individuated and in which it becomes concrete. So that by means of creation, God the One becomes God the Many.

But for creation, there would be one vast diffused and unindividuated consciousness, contained in one vast diffused substance.

And thus the soul is born in the womb of matter, and within her is conceived the personal element which, divided from God, is yet God and man. For God is not multiplied neither diminished; but God is separated into many.

If they ask thee the reason of creation, thou shalt answer - The evolution and elaboration of the soul.

The Perfect Way

For as the Mystic knows, there is but one substance alike of man and God... This substance is not Matter.

...by reason of its limitations [Matter] is the cause of evil, but is not in itself evil. On the contrary it comes forth from God and consists of that whereof God's Self consists, namely Spirit.

Matter is Spirit, by the force of Divine Will subjected to conditions and limitations and made exteriorly cognizable.

Matter is thus a manifestation of that which in its original condition is unmanifest, namely, Spirit.

And Spirit does not become evil by becoming manifest. Evil is the result of the limitation of Spirit by Matter. For Spirit is God, and God is good.

Wherefore, in being the limitation of God, Matter is the limitation of good.

Such limitation is essential to creation. For without a projection of Divine Substance, that is, of God's Self, into conditions and limitations - of Being, which is absolute, into Existence, which is relative - God would remain inoperative, solitary, unmanifest and consequently unknown, unhonored and unloved, with all God's power and goodness merely potential and unexercised.

For aught else to exist than God, there must be that which is, by limitation, inferior to God.

Creation, to be worthy of God, must involve the idea of a No-God...Between no lesser extremes can a Divine creation be contained. By no lesser contrast can God be fully manifest. The darkness of God's shadow must correspond in intensity with the brightness of God's light. He only can thoroughly appreciate good who has ample knowledge of evil. Only they who have gone out from God, returning, know God.

At once consequence and cause of the going out from God, Matter is an indispensable minister to Creation, without which and its limitations Creation were not...

For Redemption is the full compensation of all that is undergone and suffered by and through Creation. And it is brought about by the return from Matter of Spirit, to its original condition of purity, but individuated and enriched by the results of all that has been gained...

Matter is thus indispensable to the processes both of creation and perfection. For that through which we are made perfect is experience, or suffering; and we are only really alive and exist in so far as we have felt. Now, of this divine and indispensable ministry of experience, Matter is the agent.

Behind all faces there is one face, yet this does not mean that each man's face is not his own.

—Seth

Looking at the consciousness of a human is like looking at a faceted process, many faces, yes.

—The Zeta

But though becoming pure Spirit, or God, the individual retains his individuality. So that, instead of all being finally merged in the One, the One becomes the Many. Thus does God become millions.

—The Perfect Way

Rodrigo Etcheto
The One and the Many