The Law of One, Book I, Session by Session

The Law of One, Book I is also called The Ra Material. A channel is a person who speaks for another claimed source. Carla L. Rueckert is the channel in this book.

Don Elkins asks the questions. James Allen McCarty, called Jim in the introduction, takes part in the group and is named with them on the copyright leaf.

I read this as a channeled record. Ra is the name the voice gives itself. The title page calls Ra an humble messenger of the Law of One. I do not treat that voice as checked testimony from a being outside Earth.

This review stays inside Book I. The body is the introduction, the photographs, and sessions 1 to 26. Those sessions run from 15 January 1981 to 17 February 1981. Session 26 also prints a marked excerpt from Session 53, dated 25 May 1981.

The full Ra contact later reached 106 sessions. A 2018 retranscription is a different book, The Ra Contact. I am not reviewing that book.

The edition I read

I read the official PDF from L/L Research, The Law of One, Book I. The library page that offers it is The Law of One.

This file has 233 pages. The printed page numbers run through 233. The contents page is numbered iii.

The copyright leaf names James Allen McCarty, Don Elkins, and Carla Rueckert, dates the notice 1984, and reserves all rights. It prints ISBN 0-945007-01-9. The 13-digit form of that ISBN is 978-0-945007-01-2. The publisher line is L/L Research, Louisville, Kentucky. The same leaf prints a Library of Congress line that includes the year 1984 and the number 82-12967.

The introduction is signed in Louisville on 7 July 1983 by Don Elkins, Carla L. Rueckert, and Jim McCarty. A books-by-isbn listing and a Kinokuniya listing for 978-0-945007-01-2 give 1981, and the Kinokuniya line says June 1981. I have not held a physical first printing.

I leave the first year of issue open. The 1984 notice, the 1983 signature, the 82 catalog number, and the 1981 listings can all sit on the page together.

The L/L library page says the transcripts in these books were produced in the 1980s during the Ra contact. It also says that in 2018 a new listening of the tapes was published as The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One. This review follows the Book I PDF linked above. I have not compared it line by line with the 2018 text.

The book is in copyright. The free PDF is still a copyrighted file. I use one short sentence below, from printed page 123, as an excerpt for review and study. The rest of this page is my paraphrase.

A note before session 1 says the pages are an exact transcript of the first twenty-six sessions, edited only to remove some personal material. Several questions in the transcript are marked as lost, or a name is left as “(name)”. I do not fill those gaps.

Introduction

Don Elkins opens the introduction. He calls the book an exact transcript of twenty-six tape-recorded sessions. He calls the work an experiment meant to communicate with an extraterrestrial being.

He says the experiment started in 1962 and was refined for nineteen years. He says the results changed in quality in 1981. He presents this book as the start of that later phase.

He says he wants the group to publish data, and he leaves the reader to judge it. He warns that psychic fields attract hoaxes. He names the method “tuned trance telepathy”.

He describes Ra as a sixth-density social memory complex. In this book a density is a stage of evolution, and a social memory complex is a group that shares one memory. He says Earth is near the end of a third-density cycle, so Ra is three cycles ahead.

He also says Ra landed about 11,000 years ago, failed as a missionary, and then watched the planet. That summary is Elkins speaking in his own voice. The sessions later give their own dates, and they do not match this summary in every figure.

At the time of the introduction the group had already passed 100 sessions, about 300,000 words by his count. Book I still prints only sessions 1 to 26. The introduction looks back on a longer contact than the sessions in this volume.

Carla L. Rueckert then tells the group story. She met Don in 1962. He had already done more than 200 hypnotic age regressions.

With Harold Price, an engineer, he had met claimed extraterrestrial material from a Detroit group. Don tested whether students could reproduce that contact. Carla was the member who did not speak in those early months.

A Detroit contactee, Walter Rogers, told them to speak the thoughts and to judge the words afterward. By 1970 she had left library work to research with Don full time. L/L Research became their partnership name that year.

The introduction then spends many pages on UFOs, metal bending, Uri Geller, Dewey B. Larson’s six-dimension physics, reincarnation, and psychic surgery in the Philippines and in Mexico with Pachita. I read that block as the researchers’ own case for why they trust unusual data. I do not treat Larson, Geller, or psychic surgery as proved by this book. Since 1980, Carla says, L/L Research has been a subsidiary of the Rock Creek Research and Development Laboratories.

A long part of the introduction quotes an earlier claimed source named Hatonn, from the Confederation of Planets in the Service of the Infinite Creator. Those quotations are not Ra sessions. They set out ideas the group already held: a calling rather than a landing, free will, meditation, and love as what they call the original thought. Free will, in this frame, is the rule that a more powerful teacher must not force a proof on people who do not ask.

Carla says her kidneys were damaged by illness from the age of thirteen, and that by 1976 she could no longer do the typing. In 1978 James Allen McCarty heard of the Louisville group. He began the weekly trip in the spring of 1980.

He had started Rock Creek on land in central Kentucky. He arrived in Louisville on 23 December 1980, after a short stay with a group in Oregon. About three weeks later the Ra contact in this book began.

Carla had channeled in a conscious way for years, clothing concepts in her own words. She describes a first deep trance after the death of her friend Elaine Flaherty, when Tom Flaherty asked her to reach Elaine. Days later, with a student named Leonard Cecil, a new contact remained after she challenged it in the name of Christ.

She says that voice called itself Ra. Session 1, on 15 January 1981, opens with Ra saying, through her, that Ra had not spoken through this instrument before. I leave both statements as the book’s own account of the start.

She asks the reader to separate the words from the channel. Jim describes the working. Don prepares most of the questions.

Jim massages Carla’s back, because she must lie still for about an hour to an hour and forty-five minutes. They meditate, cleanse the room, cover her eyes, and use three tape recorders. Don aligns a Bible opened to the Gospel of John, chapter 1, with a candle, incense, and a chalice of water.

Jim sends light and turns the tapes. Carla says she remembers nothing of the session until she hears the tape. The introduction is dated 7 July 1983.

Photographs

The photograph section runs from printed page 52 to printed page 69. Most of the pictures are dated 9 June 1982 or 26 June 1982. One portrait is dated after Session 92, on 8 July 1982.

Jim is shown transcribing Session 89. These dates sit outside the January and February 1981 sessions.

The captions quote later sessions as well as Session 2. A block at the start is marked Session 88, 29 May 1982. In that block Ra, through Carla, asks that photographs show a real working, and asks that the instrument not be photographed in trance.

Another caption quotes Session 69, 29 August 1981, on combing Carla’s hair before a working. I do not fold those later lines back into February 1981.

The pictures show the room, the aligned objects, Don as questioner, Jim as scribe, and Carla speaking while awake so that trance will not begin during the photography. They are evidence of how the group staged the working in 1982. They are not an archaeological record of Egypt or Atlantis.

Session 1, 15 January 1981

Ra greets the group and says this is the first speech through this instrument. The voice says the group was calling, and that the Law of One is one teaching offered with a different slant. When Don asks the purpose, the answer is that polarities are harmonized in Ra’s vibration, and that the purpose is unity.

Don asks about the Egyptian name Ra. The answer claims congruency. Ra, as a social memory complex, claims contact with the people called Egyptians.

Others of the same density are said to have worked in South America, and the “lost cities” are called their attempt to contribute to the Law of One. The message is said to have lost its compassion once priests and people distorted it. Ra then claims to have withdrawn.

I keep this as a channeled origin story for the name. I do not treat it as Egyptian history.

A question is missing because Don sat too far from the recorder. The answer that follows is the book’s statement of the Law of One. In paraphrase, an infinite creation cannot be many, so it is one, and the hearer is told that he is every being, event, and situation.

Don also asks about coming Earth changes. Ra calls those changes trivial and declines to focus on the conditions of harvest. Harvest, in this book, is the claimed passage from one density to the next.

The close of the session is practical. Ra asks for silence, then Carla’s name repeated until she answers, then a hand at the neck, then water charged with the love of the people present. The instruction is not to touch her before she answers. The book is already worrying about the cost to the channel.

Session 2, 20 January 1981

Don asks whether a book of the communications would be welcome. Ra agrees, and calls teaching and learning one motion. Don then asks for history.

Ra asks that the history not be overstressed. The stated duty is philosophical. The history is given anyway, with that warning attached.

I take the warning seriously. The dates that follow are inside a teachable story, and the speaker has just called historical curiosity a weak use of the contact.

The story says the Confederation came to two cultures about 11,000 years before the session. The aim was direct teaching and crystal healing. A crystal, here, is a claimed tool for balancing the body, mind, and spirit, not only a stone in a museum.

The crystals page on this site gathers other claims about crystal power. The technology, Ra says, was kept by people who wanted power. Ra’s group left.

A related group in South America returned. Ra claims a later contact in the Eighteenth Dynasty with a young pharaoh described as a Wanderer. A Wanderer, in this book, is a being from a higher density who is born here.

The pharaoh is named Ikhnaton. He is said to have changed a name honoring Ammon into Aten, a sun disc, and to have decreed the Law of One. The priests are said to have given lip service only.

After his death the many gods returned, until the book credits Mohammed with a later change. I report that sequence as Ra’s account through Carla. I do not treat Atenism as explained by this session.

Don asks about the pyramids. Ra says the larger pyramids were built by the forces of One, that the stones are alive, and that the aims were initiation and healing of people and of the planet. The Great Pyramid page on this site is a separate study.

This session does not measure those stones. The capstone question and the question about moving blocks are postponed. The session ends with the ritual the group is told to walk.

The walking ritual asks what the Law is, answers that the Law is One, and asks that Ra come as a humble messenger. The head is to point twenty degrees north-by-northeast. The Bible, candle, incense, water, white robe, covered eyes, and a prone body are specified. Night sessions are to begin before the room light is switched on.

Session 3, 21 January 1981

The session opens on the furniture. The incense must stand perpendicular to that twenty-degree line. Ra’s reason is symbolic.

The smoke is the body, the Bible and candle are love and light, and the instrument should see them from one angle. People who do not wish to serve others are to be kept out of the circle, or the contact cannot blend.

Don then asks the postponed pyramid questions, and he says he knows they are unimportant to the Law of One. Ra refuses to choose Don’s questions for him, repeats that this kind of data is unimportant, and answers anyway. I see a pattern here.

The book will often rank a question as small and then give a detailed answer. Session 26 later says that the weight people put on specific information is what draws trouble, more than the information itself.

The Great Pyramid is said to have had two capstones. The first was granite, in small pieces, with a chimney for a mild flow of air. After Ra’s people left, a more precious capstone with gold is said to have replaced it, because some wanted a royal monument.

The properties are said not to have changed. The blocks are explained as living rock addressed by thought, so that the stone’s intelligence moves the physical stone by way of what Ra calls infinity. Don compares this to faith moving a mountain.

Ra accepts the likeness and separates the words. Faith is the spiritual term. Intelligent infinity is the term for people who want a measure.

Ra then corrects Don. One pure individual might move a mountain. A whole society that understands unity might do it while each person still has distortions.

Distortion is Ra’s usual word for a bias, a limit, or a change from pure unity. The pyramids Ra “thought/built” are called thought-forms. The Great Pyramid is “everlasting rock” of that kind.

Other pyramids used stone moved from place to place. The many blocks, rather than one single form, are blamed on the Law of Confusion, which Don is told to call the Law of Free Will. The builders did not want to be worshipped for a miracle, so the work was to look made.

Healing and initiation are one complex. The shape is only begun as a topic. The first use given here is sensory deprivation, a going down so that the body may seem to die and another life begin.

Session 4, 22 January 1981

Don returns to the shape. Ra describes each face divided into four equal triangles. A horizontal diamond at the first level is the place where streaming from infinite dimensions meets the person.

The initiate is to be on the center line at that height. Ra rejects the phrase “extra-dimensional” and prefers “multi-dimensional”. Size matters for the effect.

A small pyramid above or below a body has its own point of entry. The initiation pyramid had to be large enough that the whole resting body sat in the focused stream, and large enough that a healer and a patient could both rest there.

The Giza pyramid is said to be like a piano out of tune. A ghost of the stream remains. The causes given are a shift in the Earth’s electromagnetic field and the use of the place for less compassionate ends.

A new pyramid could be built from available materials if the ratios are right. The material is not the point. Use for initiation and healing would still depend on the inner discipline of the channels.

Ra says the pyramid age, as a needed form, has passed, because the incoming streamings now meet a different idea of purity. Some people are said to heal without a building.

Don asks to be trained. Ra agrees, then gives a synopsis. The mind must know itself.

Consciousness is called the microcosm of the Law of One. The body must be balanced in its natural functions between love and wisdom. The spirit is to join the upward yearning of the mind and body with the downward stream of infinite intelligence.

Ra cannot show this by example, because Ra is not incarnate among the group. Healing is one distortion of the law. Understanding does not require a public healing.

The law itself is restated. All things are one. There is no polarity, no right or wrong, no disharmony, only identity.

The healer is a catalyst. The person heals when he realizes, deep in himself, that there is no disharmony. Asking to learn healing is said to carry responsibility for that asking.

Don asks about two sessions a day. Ra says Carla can do two if she eats more than usual and if her activity is watched, because the contact equals a hard physical day. Jim’s introduction later says the early double days wore her down, and that the group moved to about one session every week or ten days. The dates in this volume still show several same-day pairs in late January.

Session 5, 23 January 1981

This is a short session. Don thinks the healer must first purify himself and then, by example, set the patient’s mind so the patient can heal. Ra corrects the second half.

The healing exists in itself. The healer is the catalyst, as Carla is the catalyst for the words and does not invent them by an exercise in the moment.

The first teaching is mental. The prerequisite is the ability to hold a steady silence of self when one asks it of oneself. The mind is to be examined until each approved trait is met with its opposite, patience with impatience and the reverse.

The mind is said to contain all things. The next steps are acceptance of that completeness in oneself, the same seeing in other people, acceptance of their polarities, and then a study of the ratios among one’s mind, another mind, the mass mind, and the infinite mind. Only then does the session turn to the body, as a creature of the mind’s biases.

The session is brief because the work asked is long. I do not copy the exercises. The point I take is that healing, in this book, starts as a discipline of attention, and the body work is second.

Session 6, 24 January 1981

Don asks where Ra was before Earth. Ra says the social memory complex voyaged from another planet in this solar system, the one called Venus. At sixth density the bodies were golden, tall, and delicate.

They did not mix with the people of Earth and were hailed as other than fellows. The visit is called relatively short. The structures Don cares about are placed in that visit.

The journey is said to have been by thought. A third-density human body would not have survived Venus. Fifth and sixth density there are called fit for growth. The Council that allowed the clothing of a third-density replica is placed in the octave, or eighth dimension, of Saturn, in the region we call the rings.

Don asks about other human peoples in the solar system. Ra names Maldek, a former planet whose people destroyed their sphere and had to incarnate on Earth, the only third-density world then hospitable to their lesson. Session 6 dates that coming at about 500,000 years before the session.

Session 10, two days later, gives a longer Maldek sequence and the same rough date for the start of the move to Earth. I keep Maldek apart from Atlantis and from Mu. It is a claimed destroyed world, not a lost continent on Earth.

Harvest is explained as a walk along a line of light. Each being stops where the light grows too glaring. A major cycle is about 25,000 years.

Three of them make about 75,000 to 76,000 years. At the end of that span everyone is harvested, because the planet itself has moved on. Earth is said to be already in fourth-dimension vibration, confused by the society memory complexes in its consciousness, and due for about thirty years of disharmony that had already begun.

Don’s guess that the planet would then be fourth density is accepted. The percentage of people who would inhabit it is refused, because the harvest is not yet.

Ra says the disc-shaped craft of the present are not theirs. They claim crystals and a bell shape in the past, a visit 18,000 years before the session without landing, and again 11,000 years before it. Recent Venusian bell-craft reports are blamed on thought-forms in the mass memory, and the present people of Venus are said to be no longer sixth density.

The Confederation is numbered at about fifty-three civilizations and about five hundred planetary consciousness complexes, including beings from Earth who have gone past third density. Ra says the Law of One is the real subject, and that some questions will be marked unimportant and still answered, unless the answer would infringe free will.

Session 7, 25 January 1981

Don asks how the Confederation serves. The answer is a proportion. Service is the square of the calling, integrated with the free will of people who do not know the unity.

Don’s simple “ten squared is one hundred” is rejected. The square is sequential. Ten callers are squared ten times in a row.

Ra’s transmitted result for that example is about 1,012, with some loss when the call is not unified. Ra claims a personal call from 352,000, and a Confederation call from 632,000,000, both numbers simplified. The squared total is called too large to be meaningful as a finite figure, and still a real call.

Open appearance is not tied to a head count. It would need a whole societal memory complex aware of infinite consciousness. A project that can only be done among the people goes to the Council of Saturn.

If the Council approves, quarantine is lifted. Quarantine, in this book, is the limit on open contact. The Council in constant session is nine, with twenty-four guardians behind it.

Names are said not to matter. Don points at the book Uri and asks if this nine is that nine. Ra, through Carla, says the Council of Nine was kept in partly undistorted form by two sources, then accepts the names Mark Probert and Henry Puharich.

That is a channeled identification, not a check of those books. In the same session the Council of Saturn is the body that deals with quarantine. I keep those two councils as two names in this text.

The Orion group enters here as a service-to-self empire that lands and recruits. Don asks how a self-serving group could move from third density to fourth. The session leaves the mechanism as a real path in the book’s cosmology, with its own harvest, and not as a metaphor I can verify.

The Orion material grows in the next sessions. I treat it as Ra’s map of opposition, spoken through Carla, and not as an identified air force.

Session 8, 26 January 1981

Don presses the free-will problem of “advertising”. Some landings are allowed. Proof is limited so that people who do not want the contact are not forced.

Ra places some current landings with the Orion group. Don asks about the 1973 Pascagoula case and the man the transcript calls Charlie Hixson. The book’s spelling is Hixson.

Ra’s answers put that landing with the Orion group and discuss the use of his war experience. I do not retell the alleged examination. The session’s point is that a famous close encounter is sorted, inside this book, onto the service-to-self side of the ledger.

Direct contact for the Louisville group is discussed and limited. The censer angle is corrected again. The early sessions keep returning to the body of the instrument and the objects at her head.

The philosophy is not separate from the working conditions. When the alignment is off, Ra says the contact narrows.

Session 9, 27 January 1981

Don asks which healing exercise to use that night, then turns to origins. The first people like us are traced to a red planet, Mars. They were trying to learn what Ra calls the Laws of Love, one of the primal distortions of the Law of One.

Their bellicose action is said to have made the atmosphere unfit for third density before the cycle ended. They were unharvested and were moved to Earth to go on with that lesson. The transfer is dated about 75,000 years before the session. Ra accepts “75,000 years ago” as approximately correct.

Before that, Earth is said not to have been a third-density environment. Visitors over about four million years did not start the cycle. Second-density life, plants and animals without the upward drive, was already here.

The higher second-density forms had a two-legged shape but still leaned toward a quadruped posture. Earth’s own rise into third density was interrupted by the Martian influx. Session 14 will add that those bodies were genetically adjusted, so the change in form was sharp. This Mars story is not the Atlantis story and not the Mu story.

Don also asks about large bipeds and about bodies prepared in case of nuclear war. Ra’s answer distinguishes kinds of those beings and ties one reserve of bodies to that war. I mention it only to show how far the 27 January session ranges. It is a channeled claim about bodies, not a field report.

Session 10, 27 January 1981

The same day continues with Maldek, then turns to Atlantis and Mu. This is the session I slow down for. Maldek’s people are said to have had a technical civilization like Atlantis in one respect only.

They used power without care for the planet, mostly in a sincere belief that they were serving others. War wrecked the biosphere. That time is given as about 705,000 years before the session.

The cycles there had started earlier because the sphere could hold first-density life sooner. The survivors were in a knot of fear. About 600,000 years before the session, a Confederation social memory complex is said to have untied that knot.

The group then chose what Ra calls a karma alleviation. Karma, here, is the book’s name for a burden carried from a prior act into a new incarnation.

They incarnated on Earth in forms that were not acceptable human bodies. The transition began about 500,000 years before the session. Don asks if the available body was the ape body.

Ra says yes. Their consciousness is said to have stayed third density, while the body was second density and poorly suited to third-density manipulation. This is why I do not call the Maldek story a date for Atlantis.

The likeness Ra draws is moral and technical, a people who misused power. The places and the times are different.

Don then asks when the civilizations of Atlantis and Lemuria occurred, and where they came from. Ra says they were two, and takes Mu first. Mu’s people are called somewhat primitive in material life and very advanced in spiritual distortion.

The civilization belongs to this cycle, early in it, at about 53,000 years before the session. It is called helpful and harmless. It was washed under the ocean by a readjustment of tectonic plates, through no action of its own.

Survivors reached Russia, North America, and South America. The peoples Don feels sympathy for as Indians are called descendants of these entities. Like others in this cycle they came from elsewhere, largely from a second-density planet with a dying sun, in the galaxy Deneb.

I keep every one of those claims inside the channel. Tectonic loss, in this paragraph, is Ra’s explanation. It is not a geological paper.

Only after that answer does the Atlantis sentence come. It is printed on page 123. I give it once, as a short excerpt for review and study.

The Atlantean race was a very conglomerate social complex which began to form approximately 31,000 years in the past of your space/time continuum illusion.

Ra, through Carla L. Rueckert, The Law of One, Book I, Session 10, 27 January 1981, printed p. 123. Short excerpt for review and study.

The sentence claims a beginning, a mixed people, and a date counted backward from the 1981 session. It does not say where the island sat, and it does not say the people were one race in the ordinary sense. “Conglomerate social complex” means, in the book’s vocabulary, a society made of unlike parts.

The next lines, which I paraphrase, say the culture grew slowly and stayed agrarian until about 15,000 years before the session. It then reached a high technology, used intelligent infinity, and manipulated the indigo or pineal ray. They could create life forms.

They began to do that instead of healing themselves, and the distortion turned negative. About 11,000 years before the session, the first of the wars caused about forty percent of the population to leave the density by the disintegration of the body. The second and most devastating conflict was about 10,821 years before the session.

It changed the Earth, and the large part of Atlantis was inundated. Three positively oriented groups left before that devastation, for the mountain areas of Tibet, Peru, and Turkey.

I do not subtract these figures from 2026, and I do not turn them into a BCE date. They are counts of years before the session, inside what the sentence calls a space and time illusion, spoken in 1981. Session 14 will warn that Ra’s time measurements are approximate.

Session 24 will use 10,821 again for a second Atlantean catastrophe, and then a further loss of land about 9,600 years before the session. Those are later claims. They are not this sentence.

The session ends on a wording problem that matters for the whole book. Don asks what Ra means by galaxy. Ra says some galaxies have one solar system and some have several, and that the word is accepted with its ambiguity.

Our sun and nine planets are not, in that answer, a galaxy. Don says Ra has sometimes used galaxy for what we call a planetary system. The clarification is unfinished here.

Session 16 will say more plainly that Ra has been using galaxy for a local star system, and that our science uses it for a lenticular system of millions of stars. When this book says “galaxy”, I check which sense the question was in.

Session 11, 28 January 1981

Don asks whether the calling ritual should go into the book. Ra says the suggestion was for this group, and the matter is of small importance. The number of people in the room is discussed.

Then Maldek returns. If Maldek had not destroyed itself, Don asks, would it have become a service-to-self planet. The ruined world is again a moral example, not a map of the Pacific or the Atlantic.

Don asks about Adolf Hitler and about named people who might graduate into a negative fourth density. Ra allows that such a graduation exists in this system and speaks of crusaders, mind control, and the passing of technical information. Nuclear energy is called a mixture.

The scientists who received the first information are called mostly positive. Later scientists are called mixed, including one extremely negative person still incarnate, whom Ra will not name. Nikola Tesla is said to have received Confederation information because he was, in Ra’s phrase, angelically positive.

Like many Wanderers he was then distorted by third-density life, and the mission was hindered. The desired gift was the planet’s energy for lighting and power. I do not take this as a history of patents or of weapons laboratories. It is the book’s way of saying that a service-to-others gift can be turned.

The Orion crusaders’ aim is asked and left hanging, because the question is too long for the end of the session. A second session the same day is allowed.

Session 12, 28 January 1981

The second session of 28 January describes the chariots of the Orion crusaders and the quarantine. The Confederation is said to hail craft that break the net. Refusal has consequences for the craft.

Don asks whether this explains a flap such as 1973. Most UFOs in the sky are placed with Orion. Non-technical information is tied to what Don calls black magic. A person can call both sides in turn.

Fourth-density beings are normally invisible. Some Confederation and Orion entities are said to live on Earth in visible society. A robot is identified, in Don’s question, with the Men in Black, and Ra discusses who uses them.

I keep that in the UFO layer of the book. It is not the Atlantis layer.

Wanderers are defined more fully here. They come from elsewhere, many from fourth density and some from higher, and they can take on karma or illness by the way they live the incarnation. Don asks how many are incarnate.

I do not repeat a number I would be treating as a census. The point is that the book expects higher-density volunteers inside ordinary human lives, and it expects them to forget enough to be bound by the same world as everyone else.

Session 13, 29 January 1981

Don apologizes for poor questions and asks to start at creation. He also asks to title the book The Law of One, by Ra. Ra accepts the title and discusses who should be named as author.

The creation sequence runs from infinity, to a focusing that the book calls intelligent infinity, to intelligent energy, to the forming of galaxies and planets, and then through densities. First density is the elements becoming aware. Growth is a striving toward light.

Second density can be seen beside first density as physical, in Ra’s answer to that question. Third density is self-awareness. Earth is still in third density for the people, even though Session 6 has already said the planet’s vibration is entering fourth density. I hold those two statements as the book’s own tension between a world and its inhabitants.

Don notices that the session has run long and offers to stop. Ra agrees that another session the same day is a poor idea, then the group does hold Session 14 on 29 January anyway. The care for Carla and the wish to continue are both in the record.

Session 14, 29 January 1981

This session gives the contact list I use as a check on Session 10. Don asks for the points of aid across 75,000 years. Ra answers with approximations, and says the reason out loud.

The measurements of our space and time are not fully workable for the speaker. I let that sentence govern every date in the book.

The first attempt to aid is at 75,000 years before the session, the Mars transfer already told. The next attempt is about 58,000 years before the session, for a long period, with those of Mu. That figure is not the 53,000 of Session 10.

One number dates an aid attempt. The other dates a civilization early in the cycle, lost by tectonic change. I do not average them. Both are called approximate in the neighborhood of this list.

The next attempt is about 13,000 years before the session, intelligent information to Atlantis, of the healing and crystal kind already discussed. The next is 11,000 years before the session, in Egypt. The same beings returned about 3,500 years after that to try again in South America, and the pyramids of those cities were not used rightly, so the effort stopped.

Another landing in South America is placed about 3,000 years before the session. A few attempts about 2,300 years before the session are placed in Egypt. For the rest of the cycle Ra claims to have remained in the fifth dimension, preparing harvest.

Ra says the walk on Earth was only at that Egyptian time. Other pyramid cultures are other selves, not Ra walking.

Six balancing pyramids and fifty-two others are claimed. The balancing pyramids sit on a geometric energy web and were meant to steady the planet’s incoming force and also to lengthen life so that one incarnation could hold more learning. The other pyramids are for healing of mind, body, and spirit, and for training healers.

Don mentions George Van Tassel’s Integratron. Ra says the machine is unfinished and will not serve that longevity aim. The information is said to have come from both the Confederation and the Orion group.

Van Tassel is described as devoted in his heart to service to others, so the worst result was discredit. Ra then says the harvest is now, and that longevity projects are no longer the work. The work is to seek the heart of the self.

The harvest 50,000 years before the session was none. About 25,000 years before the session a few entities reached the gateway and could have left, and they stayed to serve. Ra is sixth density, seeking seventh, with its own harvest about two and one-half million years ahead, on a cycle of 75 million years.

Ra works only with Earth at this time. The 352,000 who call are not a prediction of how many will understand. People who never called may call late, under trauma.

For about 2,300 years the usual method has been dreams and visions, with the channel often unaware of Ra’s name. This group was trained to notice the source. Other books are handled one by one, because a list would bias the reader. Oahspe is, on this site, the book John Ballou Newbrough published from what he called automatic writing.

In this session Ra claims a Confederation social memory complex as the transmitter, using known religious history as a veil over teachings of love and light. I set the two accounts side by side and do not merge them. The Urantia Book is attributed to discarnate beings of Earth’s inner planes, not passed by the Council.

Edgar Cayce, Ra says, was not spoken through by an entity. The information is said to come by way of intelligent infinity, from a potential social memory of the planet, which people call the Akashic Record. On this site the phrase “Children of the Law of One” belongs to the Cayce readings, where it names a party inside Atlantis. That phrase is not this book’s title, and it is not this session.

Session 15, 30 January 1981

Don worries about wasting the hour. Ra says the length of the contact depends on Carla’s vital energy, and that the speech has a set pace. Fast questions can buy more answers.

Hasty questions have often needed a second pass. The group is told to spend the time the question needs.

Rapid aging is blamed on an imbalance in the planet’s etheric energy web, caused by the thought-forms of the people. One attempt at service was to slow that aging by a fuller practice of the Law of One. The greatest service is still the offering of the self to the Creator.

A perfectly balanced person would not undergo the aging process, in this answer. Balancing is explained as a work on blockages, including what Don calls the ego, by holding a worthiness and an unworthiness together until neither runs the mind. The Elder Race is named, distinguished from a book Don cites, Road in the Sky by George Hunt Williamson, and described as old in the cycle rather than as a simple synonym for Wanderers.

Don asks for the sequence of distortions of the Law of One. Free will is the first. Ra also speaks of love and of light as further primal distortions, and of the balance of love/light with light/love.

The two phrases are not interchangeable slang. In this book they name the direction of a flow. A second session the same day is refused. Carla needs the physical manipulation of a walk or a back rub, and then rest.

Session 16, 31 January 1981

This is the long session on quarantine. Don asks how a guardian can block Orion and still honor free will. Ra’s answer is that the shield cannot be perfect.

Windows open by a random factor, so that the guardians do not lose their own positive polarity by a total ban, and so that people can still choose service to others or service to self. A Confederation landing would be taken as the arrival of gods and would break that balance. An Orion landing would also polarize the witnesses. The book prefers influence that can be refused.

Don asks whether Star Wars is an allegory of the Orion empire. I do not need the film to follow the point. The empire in this session is a service-to-self harvest, parallel to the service-to-others harvest, and the two are said to split as fourth density begins.

The Ten Commandments are attributed to an Orion impression on a recipient who could still be positively oriented. Ra’s view is that a being fully aware of the Law of One would not issue a prohibition of that kind. I read that as a comment on command as a method. I do not edit the Bible from it.

Ra’s own history is asked. The Confederation’s formation is asked. The word galaxy is finally split.

In Ra’s local sense, our sun is the center of a galaxy. In Don’s scientific sense, a galaxy is a lenticular system of millions of stars. There are many confederations.

This one works with the planetary spheres of seven galaxies in Ra’s sense. Life elsewhere is said to progress in nearly the same way, with small differences from free choice. The Law of One is said to lead toward eighth density in all of them.

Conscious knowledge of the Law of One is not required to pass from third density to fourth. It becomes necessary at fifth density, where honor and responsibility are the same thing. Fourth density is described as a place without heavy chemical bodies, without the usual inner war, and with awareness of one another’s thoughts.

Density itself is defined as a vibration, a location in a scale, and also as a set of lessons. Don’s nested sevens, and the question of whether a daydream becomes real in another density, extend the same idea. Wanderers are called likely targets of Orion thought.

A Wanderer who is successfully turned is said to meet that consequence at harvest. The session runs past an hour, and Ra still answers while Carla’s condition is checked.

Session 17, 3 February 1981

Three days have passed. Don asks whether any technique can lift a person into fourth density in these last days. The answer stays with the choice of service, not with a method I would repeat as instruction.

Jesus of Nazareth is asked about by name. Ra says he came from the Confederation before this incarnation, and the session discusses his density, his learning of healing during the life, an aggressive act toward a playmate, and the claim that Orion tried to cause his downfall. I report the existence of that narrative. I do not harmonize it with the Gospels, and I do not call it a historical life of Jesus.

Earth is said to be heading for a positive fourth density even though negativity is obvious, because the harvestable negative group is smaller. Taras Bulba, Genghis Khan, and Rasputin are named as cases of an early negative harvest. The harvest year Don suggests, 2011, is answered in a way that spreads the event rather than pinning it to one New Year.

I do not use this session as a calendar. The percentages for harvest are given as a grade of service, a little over half toward others for the positive path, and a harder grade for the negative path. The negative path is harder, in this account, because it must control rather than accept.

Seven astral and seven devachanic levels are discussed, and seven sub-planes of the physical. Reincarnation near the end of the cycle is said to follow a seniority of vibration. People who can use the time are placed first.

There is no best single way to meditate, only the way that a person can actually practice. The session ends on Carla’s cold feet and heavier clothing. The cosmic plot and the blanket are in the same hour.

Session 18, 4 February 1981

Don asks the question I use as a check on the whole transcript. If he were Ra, would free will make him mix errors into the data. Ra says the mixing is not intentional.

There will still be confusion, because the work is to say the infinite in a narrow language. I read the dates, the names, and the weapon claims under that rule. They are attempts in English, spoken in trance, and the speaker has allowed for confusion without calling it a plan to deceive.

A written question asks whether the self and the world must be erased to reach enlightenment. Ra says no. The role in this density is to experience what one desires, then to analyze, understand, and accept it, and to distill the love and light in it.

Nothing is to be overcome. Overcoming is called an unbalanced act that makes the rejected thing stick harder. Desires that do not fit the Law of One may be imagined rather than acted out, so that free will remains.

Forgiveness of others and of oneself is the eradicator of karma. Guides are discussed. A child is responsible, in this answer, as the self develops, and Don’s example of a four-year-old is taken up as a real responsibility, not as a legal rule I would carry into a courtroom.

Yahweh is the name this session uses for a Confederation member who communicated with people of Earth and attempted genetic changes. Jehovih is the God of Oahspe on this site. I do not use the Oahspe name for this figure.

Ra says Yahweh was of the Confederation and was mistaken. The aim, in the answer, was to form bodies more able to grasp the Law of One, and in isolated cases to resist the Orion group. The result was mixed.

Strong and intelligent people were tempted to feel elite. Orion used that temptation. Don’s guess that Orion produced the larger bodies is corrected.

The procedure is attributed to Yahweh. The outcome, an elite, is attributed to the use Orion made of it. I keep this as theology inside the channel. It is not a finding about ancient DNA, and it is not a description I would repeat as a method.

Session 19, 8 February 1981

Four days later the topic is the step from second density to third. A second-density being may be an animal, and the book also allows the question to touch a tree or a mineral. Enspiriting is not a soul dropped into empty matter from outside, in Ra’s wording.

The entity becomes aware of the intelligent energy already in each cell. On Earth the human form of the first third-density beings is tied both to the Mars transfer and to help given to second-density beings already here. The change of body is said to have been short, on the order of a generation and a half, with loss of body hair and a new structure. The lessons are self-awareness, a choice toward others or toward self, and the use of the body as a tool for that choice.

The plan is not called an accident. Don’s picture of a steady physical catalyst is accepted in outline. New third-density beings still lean toward the self, with a little care for the near family.

The split in the path can be unconscious at first and conscious later. A being may change paths, and the change is harder the farther one has gone. Polarization is compared with an electrical charge.

Astrology is raised as a possible root of that likeness between cosmos and consciousness. I leave astrology, in this session, as Don’s question and Ra’s cosmological answer. I do not cast a chart from it.

Session 20, 9 February 1981

Second-density beings who missed the first harvest into third density are still on the planet, and some are said to be crossing even in recent time. Don asks for an example of a person just arrived from second density. The answer is a human of our form at the start of third-density lessons.

The rapid body change of a generation and a half is recalled. Dewey Larson’s physics, which filled the introduction, is asked about directly. Ra treats that work as material brought through for a later density as well as for this one.

I still read Larson as Elkins’s preferred theory in the introduction, and as a channeled endorsement in this session. Endorsement inside the contact is not a proof of the physics.

Life span is now given numbers. At the start of the 75,000-year third-density period the average life is about nine hundred years, and nine hundred is called optimum for the lessons. By the end of the first 25,000-year cycle about two hundred years of that span had been lost.

The cause is a turn toward negative polarization, war between groups that did not stay mixed, and the shortening that war brings. The first cycle’s people were a mixture of Martian incomers and beings harvested from Earth’s own second density. The Confederation watched for a harvest and did not get one, positive or negative.

Orion’s method of information in that period includes the stone heads of Easter Island, dated in the session, said to push service to self by their presence, and built by fourth-density Orion action rather than by a simple landing story. In South America the Nazca lines are included. They are explained as traces of structures that once stood where a walker could see them from nearby heights, not as marks whose only meaning is an aerial view.

I have not checked those ruins against this telling. I mark the telling as channeled.

Session 21, 10 February 1981

Don asks whether Carla’s reading of the material would change the later text. He asks whether Ra uses her vocabulary. The answer matters for the style of the whole book.

The words are strained through the instrument. Session 18’s admission of confusion belongs with that fact. When a phrase sounds like Carla’s reading, it may be the instrument’s language carrying Ra’s intended sense. I cannot separate those layers from the outside.

At the start of the 75,000-year cycle the quarantine is already in place, because the guardians expect infringements if they leave the planet open. Life is about nine hundred years. Incarnation is automatic at first.

Later the entity chooses the time and the parents. Near the end of our cycle, only a portion of people make their own choice. The first 25,000 years have no industrial machinery.

The end of that minor cycle is an indexing time for harvest, not a sudden physical jump like the end of the 75,000-year master cycle. There was no harvest. The Confederation gardeners waited.

They did not act until a call came. The first call and the sending of love and light are described. A self-service group would have been owed equal time under free will, but if the message was not perceived, the balance was not required.

Don asks whether any great civilization arose in the second 25,000 years. The question is the doorway into Session 22. He apologizes for blurring the cycles. The book is often clearer after he restates a muddle.

Session 22, 10 February 1981

The second session of 10 February is the one that sets Atlantis inside a call, a teaching, and a misuse. At the end of the second major cycle the average life span has fallen from about seven hundred years to under one hundred. Ra allows Don’s idea that a lack of service to others intensified, and discusses whether the shorter life helps by giving more time between lives or hinders by cutting the lesson short.

A South American group was harvestable. Their life span was not cut in the same way. The whole incarnate population is given as a modest number, and the harvestable portion as a small part of it.

About 150 stayed to work on the planet. The Confederation visited them. Not all of those 150 remained through the next cycle, and Don’s hope for famous historical names is not granted as a list I would publish as biography.

The Confederation’s reaction to the missed harvest was to wait for a call. The call came from Atlanteans, for understanding, with a distortion toward helping others. It came before Atlantis was technologically advanced.

The first answer was the same kind of channeled impression the Louisville group is receiving. At about the time Ra first appeared in the skies over Egypt, other Confederation beings met Atlanteans who had reached a philosophical level fit for communication. They encouraged study of the unity. Requests for healing then brought information about crystals, about buildings in the pyramid shape, and about temples used for training.

The training was not the Egyptian pattern. The society is called more sophisticated and less contradictory, so the temples were schools rather than a pedestal for healers set apart. The priests were not priests by celibacy, obedience, and poverty.

They were people devoted to learning. The difficulty appeared when the trained people used crystal powers for things other than healing, and when they entered government. Visitations happened from time to time.

None of them is called important in the historical passage of events. The conditions for the visits were two. A group’s call, squared, had to overcome the resistance of those who would not learn. The Confederation members had to be naive enough to think that a direct transfer of information would help Atlanteans as it had helped them.

Ra includes Ra in that naivete. The duty that remains is to stay until the distortions of the teaching have been met by their opposite distortions and balance is reached. Don’s summary is accepted with one correction.

There is one law, the Law of One. Other so-called laws are distortions of it, some of them primal, and they should be called ways. Early Atlantean life spans ran from about 70 to 140 years.

In the later stages the desire for power shortened life quickly, and the healing and rejuvenating information was requested for that reason. I read the tragedy, in this session, as a change of use. The tools for healing became tools of rule. The teachers blame themselves for offering the tools to a people who would turn them.

Session 23, 11 February 1981

Egypt is a separate experiment, told the next day. At about 18,000 years before the session, Ra appeared in the skies over Egypt near the time of the Atlantean aid. People there worshipped the hawk-headed sun god whose sound vibration is Horus, and the sun disc under other names.

Ra scanned for a seeking that could be helped without infringement. The religious life was too self-contradictory. There was no appropriate call.

Ra departed without taking action. The people could see crystal-powered bell-shaped craft. The sight did not shake them, because wondrous events were already normal in a world of many gods. Visibility was allowed because it made no difference.

The next attempt was long. There was at last a sufficient call to walk among the people as brothers. The plan went to the Council of Saturn.

Ra offered to materialize without an ordinary incarnation, to look as close to their own nature as possible, and to teach the Law of One for a limited time. The sun religion seemed concordant with Ra’s own distortion. For each word spoken, about thirty impressions came from their mere presence, and those impressions confused the hearers. They withdrew and reconsidered.

Meanwhile the beings in contact with Atlantis had conceived healing by pyramid-shaped structures. Ra adjusted that idea to Egypt and took it back to the Council as a plan for healing, longevity, and philosophy. The Council approved.

Then the transcript corrects itself. Ra starts a figure of about 11,000 years before the session for an entry by thought-form, stops, and says the instrument’s vitality is low. The corrected figure is about 8,500 years before the session, for a return in thought-form to consider how to build.

The Great Pyramid was formed about 6,000 years before the session. Other pyramids followed for about 1,500 years, using local material rather than thought-form material. I keep this correction visible.

An 11,000-year Egyptian entry is what the sentence started to say. The sentence then replaces it. The 11,000-year figure remains in other sessions for other events, including the first Atlantean war in Session 10 and the Egyptian visit in the approximate list of Session 14.

I do not force one of those sentences to erase the others. I note which session is speaking, and I note that Session 23 caught itself.

Ikhnaton is said to have perceived the initiation and crystal-healing information with little distortion, and to have tried to order the priesthood by the Law of One. It did not last. At his death the teachings were perverted, and the structures went back to royal and powerful use.

Pyramid healing is only partly a healing of the mind. The spiritual channel has to be open, and the block may sit between spirit and mind, between mind and body, or in a purely physical trauma. The building of the Great Pyramid was not done in close contact with incarnate Egyptians.

Thoughts were sent to seekers. The appearance of the pyramid was a surprise, timed to the incarnation of a great architect later made a deity. The name given is Imhotep.

Success and failure are both accepted. The inspired few are the reason for the attempt. The sorrow and confusion of others are the responsibility Ra claims.

Average life at Ikhnaton’s time is about thirty-five to fifty years, with much disease. The river, the insects, the food, and the water are the mechanisms. The root, when Don asks for it, is the money system, trade, greed, power, and the enslaving of one person by another, with the Creator missed inside each entity.

South America is told as another contact, not as a colony of Atlantis and not as Mu. The people wanted to learn the manifestations of the sun. Light beings, not unlike Ra, were more accepted and less distorted than Ra had been in Egypt.

The people built underground and hidden cities, including pyramids that varied from Ra’s design. The added aim was meditation and rest for all people, not only for initiates and the sick. The teachers left when the plans were recorded and in motion.

About 3,500 years later the plans were near completion and also distorted. A second personal attempt was granted by the Council of Saturn to correct them. Later times turned healing into human sacrifice. That social memory complex, like Ra, remains responsible until the distortion is worked out.

Session 24, 15 February 1981

Four days pass. Carla has a slight congestion, and her vital energy is low, so the session is to be short. Don asks why the Confederation stayed away after Atlantis, Egypt, and South America, and what brought the next contact.

The Atlantis answer is the one I set beside Session 10 and Session 22. Enlargements of the information led to bellicosity. That produced what Ra calls the final second Atlantean catastrophe, 10,821 years before the session.

Many were displaced by societal action on Atlantis and in the North African deserts, where some Atlanteans had gone after the first conflict. Earth changes continued because of what Ra calls nuclear bombs and other crystal weapons. The last great land masses sank about 9,600 years before the session.

I do not collapse those sentences. Session 10 has a first war about 11,000 years before the session and a second, inundating conflict about 10,821 years before it, with departures to Tibet, Peru, and Turkey before the devastation. Session 24 calls 10,821 the final second catastrophe, adds a dispersal that includes North Africa, and then a further sinking of the last great land masses about 9,600 years before the session, tied to weapons.

A reader can treat the 9,600-year sinking as the same event told twice, or as a later event in the same decline. The book states them as continued Earth changes after the 10,821-year catastrophe. I leave that sequence standing. None of it is the Mu loss.

Egypt and South America were less devastating and still far from the intention. The Council and the guardians agreed that the methods did not fit this sphere. The attitude afterward was caution, observation, and a search for contact with less distortion and less risk of perversion.

The next contact condition is an Orion influx about 3,600 years before the session. Orion found people already taught, from old times, that they were special. Yahweh, many thousands of years earlier, is said to have set that bias by genetic cloning among peoples who came to live near Egypt and in many other places, dispersed after the sinking of the land mass Mu.

I keep that clause in the Mu column. It uses Mu’s loss as the reason a population scattered. It does not date Mu to 9,600 or to 10,821.

Orion planted elitism in that soil and attached Yahweh’s name to it. Yahweh, still of the Confederation, then tried a positive philosophy about 3,300 years before the session. The name left behind is said to mean he comes. The intense part of what became Armageddon is said to have joined at that point.

The quarantine was easier to cross then because the call was mixed and the polarity was weak. Near harvest the squares of the positive call resist penetration, while negative information still gets through to those who ask, by the window effect. Two further methods are named.

One is the entity Ra calls Yod-Heh-Shin-Vau-Heh, who came in incarnate form, mated in the ordinary way, and fathered a generation of larger beings called Anak. The other is the thought-form, including the wheel within a wheel and the cherubim with a sleepless eye. Orion’s emissary is a fiery object hidden by cloud in the day, with thought transfer and miraculous displays.

Prophets of that era are said to have been polluted by prophecies of doom. Orion left after what Don calculates as about six hundred years, and the reason is tied to the scattering of the people. Session 25 opens on that diaspora.

Session 25, 16 February 1981

Don asks whether the Confederation could progress again after Orion left about 3,000 years before the session. The answer moves to a battle of thought between the Confederation and the Orion group. The hinge is a failure to accept what is given.

A gift that is not taken does not land as a change of mind. A portion of the Confederation, four planetary entities, is engaged. Their density is discussed.

Fourth density is the density of this battle. Fifth and sixth densities of Orion do not join it, and Don asks why a fifth-density negative being would stand aside. The session is short, again for Carla’s sake.

I take the military language as metaphor inside the channel for a struggle over acceptance and refusal. I do not look for a war in the sky in 1981 to confirm it.

Session 26, 17 February 1981

The last session of Book I is dated 17 February 1981. The room arrangement is checked first. Don then asks whether the Law of One has been available in written or spoken form in the last 3,000 years.

The Bible is said to contain portions. Old Testament and New Testament are compared. An Orion percentage is asked.

Recent incarnate communication is asked, including the last eighty years, and other sources besides Ra. The Industrial Revolution is recalled from Session 11 as a possible increase in aid. Abraham Lincoln is discussed as a possible Wanderer, along with the question of which other inventors Don has in mind.

Ra’s answers treat some public figures as borrowed bodies or as missions. I do not adopt those identifications as biography.

The rise of UFO reports in the previous thirty or forty years is explained as a mystery that could carry telepathic messages people might accept or refuse. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the examples Don requests. Ra speaks of deaths there as a trauma dealt with by a planetary healing, and says, in substance, that a nuclear war would not in general be prevented, while the manner of death could be made less crushing to the passage onward.

I will not expand that answer into a policy, a weapon, or a prediction. It sits in the book as a channeled claim about free will and about the limit of intervention. Don asks whether such a death would block a harvestable person. The answer widens the harm to the whole planet and still leaves harvest as a question of the self’s orientation.

From a marked point in the printed session, the book inserts material from Session 53, 25 May 1981, “for clarity”. The insert runs through the discussion of close encounters and ends with an explicit line, “End of material from Session 53, May 25, 1981.” Those pages are not February 17. They describe Confederation methods of waking Wanderers, mostly without infringement, often in sleep or in ordinary activity, and less often as a landed thought-form.

Orion contacts are said to be the majority of close encounters. A physical examination, in the Orion telling, is meant to terrify. In the Confederation telling it follows the Wanderer’s own expectation.

The way to sort a contact is the fruit. Fear and doom lean negative. Hope, friendliness, and a wish to serve others are the marks given for Confederation contact.

An example in a footnote points to case 1 in Secrets of the UFO, the 1976 book by Don and Carla, pages 10 and 11. That footnote is part of the insert’s apparatus.

After the insert, the February 17 session resumes. Don asks what percentage of telepathic groups have been polluted by Orion, and whether any channel stayed pure. Ra refuses the percentage.

It would infringe the free will of living groups. Each group is told to weigh the effect of a philosophy against the effect of specific information. Negative influence is attracted by the importance placed on specific information, not by the detail itself.

Specific information is then compared with grass that withers, while the love and light of the one Creator continue. Don accepts the narrowness of the path and says the group has now made an introduction by crossing the high points of the 75,000-year cycle. He wants the next phase to be a direct study of evolution. Ra leaves the group in the love and the light of the one Creator.

I use that refusal as the rule for this review. The Atlantis material, the Mu material, the pyramids, and the wars are in the book, and they are specific. The same book says they pale beside the message.

I can study them as a researcher and still say what they are. They are answers given in trance, in a language the speaker calls too small, to questions Don chose.

The dates, kept apart

Mu, in Session 10, is a spiritually advanced and materially primitive people at about 53,000 years before the 1981 session. They are lost by a tectonic readjustment, without a war of their own, and survivors reach Russia and the Americas. Session 14 places an aid attempt with Mu at about 58,000 years before the session, and calls the whole list approximate.

Session 24 mentions the sinking of the land mass Mu only as the dispersal that later put certain peoples near Egypt and elsewhere. I do not give Mu the Atlantean war dates.

Atlantis, in the one sentence I quoted, begins to form about 31,000 years before the session, as a conglomerate society. The paraphrase around that sentence adds an agrarian period until about 15,000 years before the session, then technology and the creation of life forms, a war about 11,000 years before the session, and a second conflict about 10,821 years before the session, with departures to Tibet, Peru, and Turkey. Session 14 places crystal and healing information to Atlantis at about 13,000 years before the session.

Session 22 places the call for understanding before the technical leap, and places the misuse in government and in crystal power used for more than healing. Session 23 keeps Egypt as its own experiment, with a self-correction from a started figure of 11,000 years to about 8,500, and the Great Pyramid at about 6,000. Session 24 repeats 10,821 as the final second catastrophe, adds North Africa after the first conflict, and then a sinking of the last great land masses about 9,600 years before the session, with nuclear and crystal weapons named as the cause of the continued Earth changes.

Maldek is earlier and elsewhere: a wreck about 705,000 years before the session, a release from fear about 600,000 years before it, and a move into nonhuman bodies on Earth beginning about 500,000 years before it. Mars is the red planet transfer about 75,000 years before the session, at the opening of this third-density cycle. None of these counts is an archaeological date.

Ra says the clock is approximate. The introduction’s figure of about 11,000 years ago is Elkins’s summary, not a session transcript.

Sources and copyright

The human authors of this edition, as the copyright leaf names them, are James Allen McCarty, Don Elkins, and Carla Rueckert. The title page credits Ra. I cite the channel and the questioner in the body of this review so that a channeled claim is not mistaken for a finding.

This site already has a short page, The Confederation of Planets, drawn from the same material. That page is not this review. This site also has no separate source entry for Don Elkins.

Carla L. Rueckert and Jim McCarty already have source entries. I have not created a new one, and I have not attached this book to only two of the three people.

The copyright notice on the PDF is © 1984, all rights reserved, ISBN 0-945007-01-9, L/L Research, Louisville, Kentucky. The official PDF is https://assets.llresearch.org/books/the_law_of_one_book_1.pdf. The library page is https://www.llresearch.org/library/the-law-of-one. The same library page links a printed Book I at the L/L online store. I did not add a shop button on this page.

The one quotation above is a short excerpt for review and study. The paraphrase is mine. The cover image is not on this page.