The Building 4th Podcast

What if the Temple in Jerusalem were a map of your own soul? Dr. Troy Caldwell, MD, a retired Jungian psychiatrist and a founding member of Building 4th, leads us on an imaginative journey through Herod’s Temple, drawn from his book Adventures in Soul Making. Court by court, the seeker moves inward and upward. The path runs from the noisy marketplace of the ego, through the receptive stillness of the Court of the Women, and past the altar where the grasping hand learns to let go. It goes on into the hidden storerooms of the shadow, and finally through the veil into the Holy of Holies. Tim Merrill sets the stage with a boyhood story about a stolen Snickers bar and what it means to come clean. The community answers with reflections on receptivity, beauty and the shadow. A guest suggests that the deeper movement runs the other way, from the Holy of Holies out toward us.

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In this second talk to the Building 4th community, Doug Scott continues his exploration of the angelic realm through the Ra Contact, with Daskalos's The Esoteric Teachings as a major secondary source. He pictures the Creator as a sphere and as a tree, distinguishes "angelic" as a quality of purity from "angelics" as the archangels' sub-agents, and offers an image for how we and our higher self grow toward each other: the pail and the reservoir. He then turns to four faces of the demonic, what Ra says about the lower-astral thoughtforms behind the cattle mutilations, systems of separation as "spirits in the air," and practices for protection grounded in Ra's words: love is the greatest protection.

A note on two citations: In the recording, the passage "give thanksgiving for each moment… this is all the protection necessary" is cited as 64.21. It's 32.1; "love is the greatest protection" is 64.21. The five steps are Doug's own; Ra's discipline of the personality is threefold: know yourself, accept yourself, become the Creator (74.11).

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Read along: slides and a written version of the talk at https://cosmicchrist.net/2026/10/07/the-angelic-realm-part-two-from-the-ra-contact-and-daskalos/

Part One: https://cosmicchrist.net/2026/09/30/the-angelic-realm-angels-elementals-and-the-pitch-of-light/

In this talk to the Building 4th community, Doug Scott explores the angelic realm through the Ra Contact, with Daskalos's The Esoteric Teachings as a major secondary source. He offers a working theory of angels as something like algorithms, looks at the Great BASH as humanity's collective dark angel, and describes four faces of the demonic and how to meet temptation as catalyst.

A note on slide 3: In this recording, the slide on where Ra speaks of the angelic cites 7.9. On a closer read, that passage is about the twenty-four who back the Council of Nine, and Ra doesn't call them angelic there. The blog post carries the corrected slides.

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Read along: slides and a written version of the talk at https://cosmicchrist.net/2026/09/30/the-angelic-realm-angels-elementals-and-the-pitch-of-light/

Part 2 follows next week, with clarifications and new material on what Ra means by "angelic presences."

A chronological reconstruction, drawn from two years of study, of everything the Confederation reports about the entity called Yahweh: from the transfer of the Martian souls seventy-five thousand years ago, through the institution of the quarantine, the Orion hijacking of the name at Sinai, and the original Yahweh's long work of rectification.

The disclaimer — DeMarcus opens by naming what the material does to inherited belief: some of it confirms the biblical record, some corrects it, some adds to it.

Who Yahweh is — A Guardian of the Confederation. Ra's summary: "Yahweh was of the Confederation but was mistaken in its attempts to aid." Guardians guard the free-will distortion of third-density entities; twenty-four of them stand behind the Council of Nine.

Mars and the transfer — The Martians rendered their sphere inhospitable through bellicosity before the end of their cycle. Unharvested, they were transferred to Earth approximately 75,000 years ago as Earth entered third density. DeMarcus raises the possibility of a long overlap between the two third-density worlds.

The first intervention — cloning — Yahweh improved the available second-density bodies: erect posture, manual dexterity, sharpened senses, a strengthened mind complex. Ra also attributes part of the Hebrew language to impression upon genetic coding. Set beside Genesis: let us make man in our image.

The quarantine — The other Guardians judged this an abridgment of the Martians' free will. The quarantine still standing over this planet was instituted in response to an act of help.

The bias — Enhancement produced a temptation toward elitism, which Ra names as a technique of service to self.

Orion arrives (~3,600 years ago) — Finding "fertile soil," Orion begins working with a people already impressed with their own difference.

The second intervention — the Anak — Yahweh mates in physical form to raise up beings capable of resisting Orion. Genesis 6; the giants of Canaan. Results mixed; Orion turns the new bodies to the same elitist end.

Moses and Sinai — A leader of extreme positivity, opened to negative contact by his people's demand for physical signs. Orion's emissary, fiery and cloaked in cloud. The origin of the commandments as negative information aping positivity. Ra on why a positive source never says thou shalt not.

The Ark of the Covenant — Designed by negative entities to create an elite (the Sons of Levi), charged electromagnetically — and reversed to positive power through untarnished faith. Ra declines to say where it is, noting only that it still exists.

The repentance — Yahweh takes stock, surrenders the stolen name, and becomes Yod Heh Shin Vau Heh. Beginning ~3,300 years ago, positive philosophy is sent through channels and thought-forms: the wheel within a wheel, the cherubim with sleepless eye.

Orion's retreat — The Diaspora dissolves the elite bias. The people become "an humbler and more honorable breed." Orion leaves the skies after roughly six hundred years.

Jesus — A fourth-density wanderer of the highest sub-octave, entering to share the love vibration as purely as possible. Orion's interference continues underground, building on the negative material already planted.

The holy war — Ra's account of the single distortion that made the deepest inroads: strength mistaken for separation.

Q&A and closing reflection — Melchizedek; why Q'uo is used alongside Ra; the compassion that comes from watching a higher-density being err; and Doug's closing reading of scripture as one long text in travail, mirroring the three-steps-forward, two-steps-back pattern of a single human life.

Additional material on Yahweh's angelic nature, the Martian water cycle, the deep meditation of repentance, and the Middle East is drawn from the wider Confederation (Q'uo) channelings and is flagged as such in the episode.

Tim leads the community in a musical exploration of joy, arguing that after so many nights spent on hardship and catalyst, we have earned an evening of levity. Opening with the question are you happy? and a story about three sons who each try to buy their mother's happiness, he establishes that no gift cannot become a burden and no burden cannot become a gift. He then reframes joy itself: drawing on Doug's earlier teaching on the rhythm of being — emanation filled with yearning, return filled with longing, reunion filled with rejoicing — Tim proposes that the entire circulation of beingness occurs in the medium of joy, and that joy is being itself. What we seek when we seek joy is our own essence, sounded at our own unique frequency.

The musical frame carries the evening. A single note on a staff stands for one incarnation; strung across lifetimes it becomes a melody. Played all at once it would be noise — which is why time is a gift, metering the score so it can be enjoyed in stages. Tim goes to Ra's counsel on revitalization (meditation, acceptance of limitations, joy through association with others and the beauty as of the singing, and contact with second-density life, especially trees) and then to Ra's musical language for chakra work: balance, tuning, and harmony. He develops each through musical analogy — the imbalanced orchestra, the guitar that must be tuned daily, the choir that sings in harmony rather than unison — and lands on Ra's description of the mind/body/spirit complex as a tone poem rather than a machine.

The session's metaphysical core is sympathetic resonance: Ra's statement that the linkage between certain sound vibratory complexes and the creation is mathematical, or that of the ratio, and may be considered musical — and that when certain sounds are correctly vibrated, the creation sings. Tim examines 432 Hz and the 136.1 Hz frequency associated with Om, tracing the latter's derivation from the Earth's orbital period, and plays it on a Tibetan cymbal. He closes with transposition: keys can be changed, the Earth is changing key into fourth density, and we are here as co-composers to make the song our own. Rather than describe this, he performs it — singing his own rewritten lyrics to "One Song" from Snow White.

Community reflections follow on the necessity of time for experience, sympathetic resonance as spiritual attraction, the harmonic series and the densities, tuning forks and daily practice, and perichoresis as the circle dance of the Creator.

Key References

Coming Up Next Week: DeMarcus presents on Yahweh — who they are, their involvement with our planet from the beginning of third density, the Martian transfer, the Exodus and the Israelite narratives, and what continues today.

If there is still light outside your window, that light is coming from a being.

This episode asks a question we usually skip: not what it is like for us to evolve in third density, but what it is like to evolve as a Solar Logos. The lifetime under discussion is the sun's lifetime — and we are inside it.

Part two of a conversation begun two weeks earlier, opening with a short recap and then moving into new territory: vertical concrescence, the Logos as a person with biases, and the difference between an inter-personal and an intra-personal relationship with God. The back half is open discussion, including sustained disagreement from two members that goes unresolved on purpose.

Opening attunement — three breaths, and the recognition that the light we receive is also light we give back.

The many become one and are increased by one — Whitehead's definition of concrescence. Two hydrogens and an oxygen. Two prokaryotes becoming one eukaryotic cell. Why the pattern cannot be confined to the horizontal.

Larger does not mean more advanced — the assumption that the sun must be a completed being, further along than we are, and why that may be a paradigm we import rather than something the Ra material teaches. Transcendent in the sense that Troy is transcendent in relation to his own cells.

Two logjams and a horseshoe — the pre-veil stalemate (Ra's divinely happy entities; why study when you can enjoy recess), the innovation of the veil, and whether the far side of that arc brings us back around to a logjam of a different kind.

What the sun cannot do — 54.17 on catalyst through the first triad only, and the question it raises: is the Solar Logos free not to love?

A Person with biases — session 90 on the bias toward kindness. Kindness from kin. Family ties and bonds. The bipedal form and the opposable thumb as deliberate intensifications of the veil.

Beauty, per Whitehead — the most diversity that can be packed into a moment of unity without the unity breaking.

Intra-personal, not inter-personal — Terra as one person (Ra's planetary entity, Teilhard's noosphere, the Jewish Adam Kadmon), the Solar Logos as another, and why the relationship between them is a being coming face to face with itself rather than two entities meeting.

Venus, Maldek, Mars — harmony at one pole, self-destruction at the other, and the guardianship in the middle where the oneing begins. Then Earth, and a Solar Logos eventually experiencing what is otherwise impossible for it: death.

Two members pushed back, and the disagreement is the second half of the episode.

On free will at the Logoic level — whether the sub-Logoi possess complete freedom of choice in structuring their creations, and whether 54.17 is better read as describing early third density, before an entity becomes conscious of the incarnational process and begins choosing its own catalyst.

On whether a Logos can be personal at all — the case that a sub-Logos is a class of being beyond personal form, which creates and then experiences through its creation rather than entering it. On this reading, Jesus emptied himself and the Logos experienced third-density Earth in the first person through him, without acting through him.

The acorn response — containing all the octaves is not the same as having them activated. Every being is under process, because process is the nature of the development of love.

On the archetypes — why some Logoi apparently lack Experience or Transformation altogether, and whether Solar Logoi choose their archetypal system or inherit the most articulated version discovered so far and refine it. Ra's own phrasing at 81.33: the sub-Logoi have been refining the discoveries of earlier sub-Logoi.

The AI parallel — builders who construct an architecture, watch it think on its own, and then study what it did in order to find structure they neither knew about nor put there. Teilhard at the Omega Point, and AI as the human collective brain becoming a physical thing. The surprise of creation: put the third element in, and something arrives that no one predicted.

Deism, or the dance — the Creator who sets the stage and observes, versus the Creator radically participating in its own creativity. Both readings are on the table. Neither gets forced.

Midrash — why multiple interpretations are the point, and not a problem to be solved.

54.17 · 81.33 · session 90 (bias toward kindness; bipedal form and opposable thumb) · 78.22

A tilde (~) before "Ra says" marks a paraphrase rather than a direct quotation.

Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality — concrescence, and beauty as maximal diversity within unity Pierre Teilhard de Chardin — the noosphere and the Omega Point Richard Rohr Adam Kadmon in the Jewish mystical tradition Midrash as interpretive practice

Building 4th is a contemplative community that meets Tuesday nights. Ra Contact Night is a recurring format.

Doug Scott is a psychospiritual therapist and pastoral minister, the founder of Building 4th, and the author of Raian Process Metaphysics: A Cosmic Christology for Our Times — available as a free download at cosmicchrist.net.

DeMarcus revisits a presentation he first offered the community a couple of years ago, walking through what the Ra Contact and the Q'uo channelings tell us about the worlds that share our sun. Four planets in this system have hosted third-density life; two hold life now; one more may yet. The through-line is a single sub-Logos making a set of formative choices — the bipedal ape form, the opposable thumb, twenty-two archetypes — and then living with the consequences across billions of years. Venus produced the most harmonious third density known in this system and still harvested less than a fifth of its population. Maldek destroyed itself and collapsed into a knot of fear no one escaped. Mars poisoned its own water cycle and was rescued by a Guardian whose love outran its understanding. Earth inherits all three histories at once. The session closes with discussion of harvest mechanics, the sinkhole of indifference, dual-activated bodies, and why the planet is currently venting heat through weather and geology.

Q'uo / Confederation material referenced (outside the Ra corpus, held more loosely): the intentionality behind Maldek's destruction; the disruption of the Martian water cycle and the fading of the planet's soul; the reincarnation of Maldekian entities into twentieth-century nuclear work; the Earth's decision to release heat through natural events rather than a pole shift.

Sessions 10.1 and 21.5 give different dates for the Maldek sequence. Ra repeatedly acknowledged difficulty with our time measurements and issued corrections during the contact. The presentation follows 10.1. Listeners comparing the two should expect the discrepancy.

Doug offers a speculation built from the Ra Material, Christian mysticism, and process philosophy: that concrescence — Whitehead’s “the many become one, and are increased by one” — operates vertically across orders of magnitude, and that the Christ event was a oneing of the solar Logos with the sub-sub-Logoic level, which is us. The argument moves through two logjams. The first came before the veil, when third-density beings remembered they were the Creator and evolution crawled at turtle speed; the veil broke it and made third density the axis on which creation turns. The second is here, now, on Terra — a planet of third-density repeaters enmeshed in the Great BASH, the collective thought form built from our inefficient use of bellicosity, showing up energetically as an orange-ray overlay on a green-ray planet. Doug argues that Yahweh is our solar Logos, learning to parent through Venus, Maldek, and Mars, limited by Ra’s teaching that a sub-Logos can only supply catalyst to the first triad of energy centers. Once the heart opens, the teaching runs the other way. What follows is the co-presencing of Logos and messenger in one body, the ankh as the shape of loss and renewal, and forgiveness planted as a seed inside the eye of the Great BASH. Discussion follows on whether a God who cannot participate in green ray is still God.

•Ra 82.18–82.19 — pre-veil third density; “turtle to the cheetah”; the absence of gusto, élan vital

•Ra 41.14 — green-ray pressure producing orange-ray manifestation

•Ra 9.7 — Martian transfer; “a careful series of genetical adjustments”

•Ra 18.20–18.21 — the Anak; the elite-consciousness failure

•Ra 54.17 — the sub-Logos offers catalyst only at the first triad

•Ra 65.16 — Logos to Logos, Creator to Creator, not parent to child

•Ra 17.11–17.12 — Jesus as a wanderer of no name, highest sub-octave of fourth density

•Ra 17.20 — forgiveness as the stoppage of the wheel of karma

•Ra 17.22 — “not an entity of itself but… a messenger of the One Creator”

•Ra 18.12 — forgiveness of other-self is forgiveness of self

•Ra 93.24, 94.26 — the crux ansata; all things offering themselves for transformation

•Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality — concrescence

•Richard Rohr, The Universal Christ — “God loves things by becoming them”

•Perichoresis (the Greek fathers); the Chalcedonian formula

Doug joins the circle from a backyard, phone propped in the grass, raking leaves for an eighty-five-year-old piano teacher who can no longer garden. What follows is a teaching on sorrow — what it's for, how to hold it without gripping — and then a guided practice for letting personal pain become a blessing for others.

Drawing on Richard Rohr's The Tears of Things, the Law of One, and the Christian Paschal Mystery, this episode moves from reflection into experience with the Sacrament of Solidarity, a heart-centered practice offered entirely under free will.

The mundane is sacred. Why an ordinary evening of raking leaves is exactly the right ground for this teaching.

Spiritual melancholia and clinical depression. Doug, a therapist, draws the line carefully: depressive disorders are real and deserve real treatment. Alongside them sits a spiritual sadness that works less like a malfunction and more like a gift.

Gratitude for all that was; yes to all that will be. The Hammarskjöld refrain that anchors the evening, prayed over one member of the circle standing between a home she is leaving and a home she is entering.

The Paschal Mystery. Loss and renewal. Learning to die well without gripping — or, as M put it more beautifully than any theology that night, learning to keep your hands open.

Joy is not happiness. Happiness may be the opposite of sadness; joy is something else — the felt movement of life, available inside heartbreak wherever there is perspective and a sense of meaning.

Everything laments. The phrase lacrimae rerum comes from Virgil; the wisdom of Rohr's book comes from the Hebrew prophets, whose arc runs from rage through sorrow into compassion. Lament as an archetype of release rather than revenge or repair.

One body, one Earth. Humanity as the feeling, self-aware membrane of the planet — and what happens when the cells refuse to grieve.

Ra's "quiet horror." Why a world where the positively oriented outnumber the negative can still feel so negative — and why it's the good ones who carry that particular ache.

The Sacrament of Solidarity. The full guided practice, offered step by step.

A free-will meditation moving undirected energy up through the centers and out as directed blessing:

Return to the body with gratitude, and with the sense of having transmuted pain into blessing.

Richard Rohr, The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage (Convergent, 2025). Rohr's most personal book, which he has described as a summation of his teaching. See also his conversation with Oprah, and his Greenbelt Festival interview on how the title came about.

On the title and its sources. The phrase lacrimae rerum — "the tears of things" — is Virgil's, from Aeneid I.462, where Aeneas weeps before a mural of the war dead. Rohr has said the phrase stayed with him from his Latin studies. The book's substance, though, comes from the Hebrew prophets — Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Jonah — whose writings move from rage and accusation into lamentation and, finally, compassion. Rohr calls this pattern "sacred criticism": confronting evil and injustice while holding the wholeness of history and the interconnectedness of every living being.

Dag Hammarskjöld — "For all that has been, thanks; to all that shall be, yes."

The Law of One (Ra Material):

The Paschal Mystery — the Christian pattern of death, letting go, and renewal.

The Bodhisattva tradition — those who return to help humanity with its suffering by teaching us to lament well.

Brené Brown — on "foreboding joy," the reflex to brace for catastrophe in our happiest moments.

Hold one another in your hearts. If sadness or disappointment surfaces, don't fret it — it's an opening to transmute into shared blessing. That's the gateway back to joy.

This episode touches on grief, despair, and suicidal pain. If you're carrying that kind of weight, please don't carry it alone — reach out to someone you trust or to a professional. The whole point of a sacrament of solidarity is that no one is meant to lament by themselves.