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.

In this episode

• Tim’s introduction: the Snickers bar, the lies we tell ourselves, and a circle where no one needs fig leaves
• Troy’s diagram of the psyche: the ego, nous and sarx, the Still Point, and the archetypal Self (the biblical “human spirit”)
• The eight qualities of the Self from Richard Schwartz’s No Bad Parts
• An Ignatian-style meditation through the Court of the Gentiles, the Beautiful Gate, the Court of the Women, the Nicanor Gate, the Court of the Priests, the hidden storerooms, the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies
• The feminine and the masculine in every soul: presence and strength
• Shadow work as one gentle question: “Is this like you in any way?”
• Community responses: the inward journey, holding space, beauty as a voice of God, Teresa’s interior castle, and the movement from the Holy of Holies toward us

Timestamps

• 00:00 — Tim Merrill: coming clean, and the temple as the soul
• 08:26 — Troy’s diagram of the psyche
• 13:40 — The meditation begins: Jerusalem, 30 AD
• 21:31 — The Court of the Women and the gift of presence
• 25:00 — The Nicanor Gate
• 26:34 — The Court of the Priests: fire, blood and letting go
• 28:04 — The hidden storerooms: “Is this like you in any way, my son?”
• 32:58 — The threshold of the sanctuary and the pillars of Solomon’s porch
• 37:40 — The Holy Place: bread, lampstand and incense
• 42:54 — Through the veil into the Holy of Holies
• 46:51 — Returning
• 47:29 — Responses from the community
• 52:57 — Beauty as intensity held in unity
• 53:42 — The interior castle, and the movement from the Holy of Holies toward us
• 57:27 — Closing

Ra Material referenced

• Ra, Session 5.2 covers several points:
  • silence as the key to the mind’s door;
  • the mind’s “hierarchical construction”;
  • accepting the completeness within the self;
  • “each biological male is female; each biological female is male.”
• Ra, Session 92.20 — “that which reaches” and “that which awaits the reaching”
• Ra, Session 73.8 — the upward spiraling light drawn by the will to meet the inner light of the One Infinite Creator

Resources

• Troy Caldwell, Adventures in Soul Making — troycaldwell.com
• Richard Schwartz, No Bad Parts (Internal Family Systems)
• Teresa of Ávila, The Interior Castle
• The Mishnah, tractate Middot; Josephus, Antiquities 15 and Jewish War 5
• Interactive 3-D model of Herod’s Temple with Troy’s psyche mapping: https://doug31434.github.io/Raian-Process-Metaphysics/temple.html
• Walk Through Journey, which follows Troy’s meditation station by station at your own pace: https://doug31434.github.io/Raian-Process-Metaphysics/temple.html#walk
• Full blog post with images: https://cosmicchrist.net/2026/10/18/the-temple-of-the-soul/

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.

Topics 0:00 Opening and centering 1:29 Why this talk 3:22 Sources and key terms: theurgy, goetia, thought-forms, elementals, logismoi 7:33 Where Ra speaks of the angelic 8:29 Daskalos on archangels and their angels 11:07 A working theory: angels as algorithms 19:01 The higher self: the map and the journey 25:23 The angelic as a mode of being 27:44 The Great BASH: humanity's dark angel 30:16 Four faces of the demonic 36:00 Temptation is catalyst: accept, forgive, set boundaries 42:49 Case study: the Ra group under temptation 46:37 Discussion

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."

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).

Topics 0:00 Opening prayer 3:55 Sources and caveats 5:25 Where we left off, and a correction on 7.9 6:39 The Creator as a sphere: archangels and their angelics 8:54 Angelic and angelics: adjective and noun 11:13 The Creator as a Tree 12:59 The pail and the reservoir: Alphaic and Omegaic 15:38 Daskalos and the Prodigal Son 17:41 Four faces of the demonic 23:51 A friend's questions: moving forms, lower-astral thoughtforms, and cattle mutilations as a mirror 29:34 Who were the Desert Fathers? 30:25 Spirits in the air: oppression and systems of separation 33:36 Sin as violence: Crossan, bellicosity, and the Great BASH 36:09 The orb and the pitch of light (Card Four) 36:49 Love is the greatest protection 38:13 Tending our thoughts: watch and detach, five steps, boundaries 39:51 Golden light from the heart 42:17 Discussion 42:42 The eggshell technique, guided 50:56 A variation: an altar inside the egg 52:12 Self-knowledge as protection 54:30 Do these practices deepen with time? 58:33 Closing prayer

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/