Thoth Tarot & comparisons

The Qabalistic Thoth Tarot-Key 2- The Priestess & The Qabalistic Night Sun Tarot-Key 2-The High Priestess, are referred to the Hebrew letter Gimel, which means Camel. The letter Gimel, is shown on the upper right of the Night Sun Card and on the lower left of the Thoth Tarot card. Therefore the Path of the High Priestess represents the Camel; a Path of psychic forces that carry the Personality and safely traverses the Desert of the Abyss into the "Dark Night of the Soul". Here the High Priestess may seem very vengeful as she removes all that is not worthy of the "Truth of you". On the Path of Gimel She begins tearing apart our Soul's "personal belief systems", indoctrinations of the self-conscious; However, we haven't reached the end and have not seen the Whole Truth of Self as of yet, as this initiation is done through the auspices of the"Lower Chokmah", where Chokmah (Wisdom) expands outward; the seed of expansion carries its own limitations.

The High Priestess, is the virginal-most pure state of unconsciousness symbolized in the Tarot, as the very source of all Water. The Source of Water and/or Consciousness, is the idea of the idea behind form. She is the Pure Anima, or Divine Imagination. Since, imagination means, "image-making", here is where Creation begins to take form.

Dr. Paul Foster Case said it this way,"...no matter how many forms develop from it, the virgin substance is itself unchanged. Like water, which holds matter in suspension or solution, this substance remains over itself. Here is one key to the alchemical mystery of the First Matter. Here, too, one may find a clue to the inner significance of the Virgin Myths of all religions."

The same can be said for "mother's blood".

As you may see, this is a difficult idea to grasp for in this case, Sephiroth #2-Chokma (is a Feminine noun in Hebrew--as the word wisdom is the feminine Sophia in Greek) expresses itself as The High Priestess, or Priestess and is now feminine. The act of expression is ejaculation, and obvious male symbol, the act of suspending or encompassing an idea, is to begin Understanding---which is a feminine concept, for to understand, is to "give Birth" to its form. Therefore, the Orphic egg or egg of Akasha, is shown in the Night Sun's High Priestess's left hand; the " feminine-receptive hand". The Thoth Priestess is shown with hands spread wide in a crescent shape, invoking curved feminine lines of energy, that are oval or egg shaped.

Crowley put it this way," This first and most spiritual manifestation of the feminine takes to itself a masculine correlative, by formulating in itself any geometrical point from which to contemplate possibility." This point of contemplation is the invisible Sephiroth-Daath, Knowledge, which is at the "head" of the Path of the High Priestess. Therefore the Priestess part of the Unconscious is our first Mother whose "womb" is Knowledge, placing that womb/moon in her Hathor Crown. Here begins Time/Space and the vibratory seeds of form.

The Night Sun-High Priestess Tarot Card also displays a Hathor symbol as the tall staff behind her throne. Hathor, being one of the "cow" goddesses of ancient matriarch religions, was symbolized in Egypt as upright cow horns with a full moon between. The Egyptian Mother of the gods and Queen of Heaven, Hathor, was originally called Het-Hert-meaning- "the House (or Womb) Above"; later she was Hat-Hor-meaning- "the House (or Womb) of Horus". The Egyptian clergy, stated that She "brought forth in primeval time herself, never having been created." The red exposed undergarment of the Night Sun High Priestess is the Red of Menstrual and/or virginal blood and is likened to the above statement; as it displays the cross of the 4 elements.

According to the Sinai Tablets, the Hebrew workers in the mines of Sinai, about 1500 BC, worshiped Hathor, as Astarte.

Each of us is an entity which in the Physics of Thermodynamics is known as a Point in Time and we are also the Knowledge born of Understanding-Understanding being the All Mother Binah and Daath the Hebrew letter for knowledge, which is the Invisible Sephiroth on the Middle Pillar that is right on the Path of Gimel and therefore "the Womb of the All Mother". To me, the Sephiroth-Daäth represents the invisible Womb of Binah, The Qabalah's All Mother and is called the Priestess or High Priestess; invisible because it was before there was visible light and therefore hidden by the veils of light that she weaves into manifestation. What is simply stated here, is that we are all inheritors of the First State of Conscious (The Unconscious is: The First state of conscious) and it behooves us to return to that State, with our personality software, so that we can clean out the trash thought and "Know ourselves", i.e. our True Self.

The Priestess or High Priestess, Key 2, also refers to the Moon which is the general symbol for the feminine, of the second order corresponding to the Sun as the Yoni does to the Lingam. The Moon is universal, and goes from the highest to the lowest, but in this case, The High Priestess is the first card that connects the Supernal Triad (Supernal Triangle) with the Hexad; her Path-Gimel, directly connects the Father in his highest aspect (Kether) with the Son (Tiphareth-6th Sephiroth) in his most perfect manifestation. Thus the old axiom," Through Her shall ye know Him". This is the purest and most exulted conception of the Moon which controls the tides of the unconscious.

The Thoth Tarot card The Priestess, also represents the highest form of Isis the Eternal Virgin and is shown as Artemis of the Greeks, another "cow" or Moon Goddess.

GIMEL: The Path of the Priestess or The High Priestess-key 2:

Meaning: Camel From the root Ger-meaning stranger.

When a stranger dwells among you in your land, do not taunt him. The stranger who dwells with you shall be like a native among you and you shall love him like yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Leviticus 19:33-34

This old testament quote (there are many in the old testament) reminds us that we are "Strangers in a strange land". We are Spirit, who often feels "enslaved'' by the world of man made economics as well as by the very bodies we animate! We, as conscious micro-wave energy, know how it feels to be out of our element (The Supernal Triangle) and should remember to look kindly on the stranger in our midst....after all, they are just another way to be you!

This Hebrew letter also reminds us that although the Jews suffered, humiliation, enslavement and oppression in Egypt, they also had a sense of settlement there. So when the time came to journey to the "Promised Land" (Higher Self) there was resistance to motion, for the unknown is not as comfortable as the known discomfort!

The Path of Gimel, on the Tree of Life, reminds us that all the self-illusions are removed and on this Path the Supreme Mother has removed her smiling mask and reveals the cold, stern expressionless face of immortal beauty ...like a perfect black diamond. This is well illustrated in the Night Sun Tarot-High Priestess card, as she is all dark, with the menstrual red slash of color, reminding us that she is the Purifier. Behind her is a ribbon with the word SAPIENS, embellished on it: Sapiens is a Latin word for "wise".

In The Priestess, or High Priestess, all the maternal help of The Empress has vanished and we must face the crystalline reality of our own free-will....a most difficult task of the Mysteries related to the crossing of the Abyss. We must be as the camel, able to cross the most difficult of terrain that is the desert where reality is just dust, and the Real is Darkness of the Ancient Unconscious.

The 3 Paths of the Hermetic Qabalah, Gimel, Samekh, and Tau, are aspects of the same energy conscious which together make up the Middle Pillar of the Tree of Life. These 3 Paths are related to the Moon and are Paths to the "Dark Night of The Soul" where our personality is definitely a "stranger in a strange land". All this may seem terrifying and negative. But if you look at it from Qabalistic point of view, it makes positive sense: Sometimes you need to lose yourself in order to find yourself; to take the road less traveled to find the right path for you and sometimes you need the chaos of the Tower in order to free yourself from illusion so that you can travel the Path of Enlightenment, which reclaims your inheritance as a Supreme Spirit Self. Gimel (camel) is about being a Traveling Stranger....fearlessly enjoying the unknown!

The Wisdom of THE HIGH PRIESTESS or The Priestess, is in regulation, as Her fluctuation rates establish the direction for the "First Matter" as it descends in to greater and greater density. Thus she is THE MOON, that regulates the tides of the Waters of consciousness.

The four paths rising into the Supernal Triangle, each represent a Alchemical element, each a composite of the "Garden of Eden". THE PRIESTESS, is the Uniting Spirit, the Fifth element, symbolized as the top point of the Pentagram. THE HIEROPHANT= Earth, LOVERS= Air, THE CHARIOT= Water, THE EMPEROR =Fire and THE HIGH PRIESTESS= Spiritual Mother.

{Illustration from the Book{ THE QABALISTIC TAROT by, Robert Wang]

Overall, THE HIGH PRIESTESS or The Priestess, is the vessel

(womb-mind) for all operations of the Supernal Triangle, she is the crucible-womb where the alchemical activity of Mercury, Sulfur, and Salt take place. She is also the source of the Four Rivers of Paradise, The Pison (River of Fire-The Emperor), The Gibon (River of Water-The Chariot), The Hiddikel (River of Air-Lovers) and the Phrath (River of Earth-Hierophant). Which goes a long way in describing her fluctuating nature, as rivers are often "waves of serpentine flow".

As I have mentioned before, the journey up the Paths of the Tree of Life, is about Remembering our beginning, a critical part of "Above all things, Know thyself". THE HIGH PRIESTESS, conceals within Her Vibrations, all the knowledge/memories of the Race, as well as, those of the Cosmos.

Behind Her resides Daath (Knowledge), invisible, made visible as a book of knowledge in the Night Sun Card; However Daath is invisible as is all knowledge harbored in the Unconscious and also because of Vibratory Veils of the Electromagnetic Spectrum. These veils, are shown as Light in vibratory form, on the Thoth Deck Card. And a pattern of dissecting lines on the floor of the Night Sun High Priestess card. The Qabalist knows that it is Light that conceals the True Spirit---the one we've called "The Fiery Darkness", because Dark Energy is the True Light, as it is the substance of Supernal Potential.

To look upon the Light of the HIGH PRIESTESS, one must become Virginal in nature, for it is a dark- Light "so bright" one of mundane persona can not look upon it and will be shocked right back into there Malkuth realm of Race sponsored consciousness. If the desire conscious is conquered, the Light of the High Priestess is welcoming, and brilliantly beautiful...but without heat thus it is a cool light resembling the dazzling brightness of Ice in full Sun or Moon Light. Passing through the "light veil", one enters the Abyss of Dark Matter/Dark Energy where the only sense is the original "I" sight of the One.

Obviously, when considering light, the Qabalist must re-think the essence of light for only .4% of the Electromagnetic Spectrum of light is visible. It is apparent to the researcher that all religions that stress "the Light", are based on The Sun God of old religions and who is the 6th Sephiroth- Tiphareth on the Tree of Life-. For instance, religions based on the teachings of Christ, Buddha, Apollo, Osiris, Ahurda-Mazda, Mithra, etc. However, the Gnostic Mysteries, unlike organized religions, states that Light conceals, rather than reveals, by its very brilliance.

As does the Moon, so does The Priestess or High Priestess, go from brilliant light to absolute darkness. Thus the Mythology of the Moon and her deities, such as, Hathor, Ishtar-Inanna, Dianna-Artemis, Hecate and Hel-Aine (Later as Helena), better known to those of Celtic origin as Elaine the Moon-Goddess.

The Thoth Tarot Card Shows THE PRIESTESS as Hecate-Selene (The Triple Goddess as described by Hesiod) which means "The Far Shooting Moon", an aspect of Artemis. Artemis is also known as the "maiden of the silver bow", suggesting the lower aspect of THE PRIESTESS,(The ART card), which is Sagittarius, the archer. That is why she is illustrated with a bow across her knees.

Artemis is the triple Goddess, represented as the Maiden, then the Orgiastic Nymph, then the Old Crone. As some say, Maid, Mother and Crone.

To reiterate: The Priestess or The High Priestess, acts upon the First Matter of the MAGUS, causing it to function in the pattern of a figure eight lying on its side, the lemnistrate and/or Mobius Loop. This represent a total unified energy cycle of both opposed and duplicated vibration. This holding, enclosing, and duplicating function is that of the first female quality on the Tree of Life. The Night Sun Tarot-The High Priestess card shows this holding quality as what looks to be a caged heart at her feet.

THE HIGH PRIESTESS or The Priestess, represents what Carl Jung called the "virgin anima", related to "virgin milk" which he called the "life giving power of the unconscious." The Word "virgin milk", is really a arcane meaning for menstrual or Mother's blood.

To the inquiring mind, I really recommend one gets the book: THE WOMAN'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MYTHS AND SECRETS, by Barbara G. Walker and looks up the Moon Goddess Myths. The Priestess or High Priestess relates a concept so subjective, that much repetition of information, in differentiating perspectives is greatly recommended.

Hence, to further understanding, I shall reiterate:

She Is The Path of Gimel of the Hermetic Qabalah. She is not a literal return to the warm enclosure of the Cosmic Womb, as is THE EMPRESS. Rather, she represents the Supreme All Mother, without her smiling mask, revealing a True face of cold yet beautiful countenance; this is the activity of the Pure Mind of the Supernal Triangle. When visiting the Inner Purity of Mind, All veils are removed, all illusion is dispersed, and we must face the crystalline reality of our own absolute free will; a task not for the self-consciously weak.

Her planet is the Moon, her Path is Gimel, meaning camel, which is most appropriate, as she is the one who "carries our self-consciousness across the vast desert of the Abyss". Just as the ancient Egyptians believed the Moon carried the Sun across the sky.

Again, on the Qabalistic Tree of Life, there are three Paths that represent the same energy, although as different but similar aspects, they are The Paths of Gimel (THE HIGH PRIESTESS), the Path of Samekh (THE ART) and the Path of Tau (THE UNIVERSE) which together makeup the devotional middle pillar. The Indigo Middle Path color in Atziluth( the highest of the Four Worlds) is Indigo, a deep-dark- water blue that suggests the Moon, as all three Paths relate to the Moon.

The State of Intelligence that is The Path of Gimel, will carry those cleansed of desire thinking, across the longest and most important Path on the Tree of Life; A path which radiates down from the Supernal Triangle, composed of unimaginable potential, to the Ethical Triangle, the "actual", also making this the path a position between God the Father in Kether, and God the Son in Tiphareth, making this a Path of the Highest Initiation.

The common description of the High Priestess is that she is the most pure essence of consciousness, symbolized in Tarot as the very source of all Water (Consciousness); However, to the initiate, she is considered the "lower Chokmah" (Wisdom), wisdom is being expressed here as both masculine and feminine (The Goddess Sophia of the Greeks-means Wisdom) When applied to Chokmah the word Wisdom is masculine, for here it is "sent forth" and as the Seed of wisdom is ejaculated, it expands outward, applying the seed of expansion contains its own limitation. The Feminine is Formative. Therefore Wisdom is taken into the most Spiritual (Spiral) manifestation of the feminine and formulates it into herself as any geometrical point into which to contemplate any possibility, i.e. the All Seeing I of the Original consciousness. The Word Sapiens, shown on a ribbon draped across the throne of the High Priestess, is also a Latin word for Wisdom, also showing her link with Chokmah.

Now I know this concept of the Womb of Unconsciousness is an impossibly difficult one to understand and the most descriptive of Qabalistic terms may seem nonsensical, but the Priestess/High Priestess, is the Womb of Consciousness (The Architect that is Chessed), but she is both Male and Female, much like a Hermaphrodite ( Hermes-Aphrodite) that can impregnate itself. The Higher Chokmah is a Sun, and the Lower Chokmah is a Moon. Thus when viewing THE HIGH PRIESTESS Tarot card, you will see a slight feminine figure with arms raised, behind curved vibrations of light (Feminine) and a strong lower masculine leg section with the a bow across the knees, with a background of straight lines of light (Masculine). Yet she is a virginal force, because no "Outside" Male force fertilizes her. From Her, the source of Water/Consciousness, is the idea behind the idea of form, I think Paul Foster Case said this best in saying that,"... no matter how many forms develop from it, the virgin substance is itself unchanged. Like Water, which holds matter in suspension or solution, this substance remains over itself. Here is one key to the alchemical mystery of the First Matter. Here, too, one may find a clue to the inner significance of the Virgin Myths of all Religions."The Same can also be said for "Mother's blood".

[ Remaining "over itself" may also be a clue as to why Lilith, the Biblical First Wife, wished to lay on top of the First Male Form called Adam, in Genesis and was banished from the Garden for a more complaint Eve. A convenient revision so that the Patriarch could be placed in charge of sexuality. A fun and enlightening study for the curious.]

In his book, THE THIRTY TWO PATHS OF WISDOM, Dr. Case calls the Path of Gimel, the Uniting Intelligence, because it is the "Essence of Glory" and/or "The Grace of God", specifically the grace of the Triple Goddess, shown as the Three Graces, Muses and or Fates. No matter the terms, the fact is that your personality must be shed of all the reality and desires that our conscious has constructed before the All- She is able to "carry One across the Abyss, into Daath (Knowledge) the invisible Chakra of the Tree of Life that resides below Kether, on the Middle Path. It is that Knowledge that our conscious essence is seeded from, so that the Psyche, (soul) could become the operator of the "Image of God".

Dark-Daath is no longer invisible to one who has entered the Garden of inherited Knowledge that resides between the Mother named Understanding and the Father named Wisdom.

Therefore, The High Priestess/'Priestess is often called the Prima Materia, or Root Matter (First Matter) as her work can be considered the result of Self-Conscious.

Now the MAGUS,( Will-Kether), symbolizes a condition prior to "Unconscious thought" This condition acts upon THE HIGH PRIESTESS in such a way, that the Path of Gimel becomes the " vessel of mind" and/or "Holy Gaäl", capable of encompassing the thought forms (knowledge) of which the Universe will eventually be composed. Being that She is the source underlying all vibratory patterns that compose form, She is shown on the Thoth Tarot Card as a figure composed of vibratory waves of energy.

Moreover, nothing can grow in the Garden of the Empress without this wave structure that underlays energy. It is for this very reason that the Moon is assigned to this path, for it is a pattern of waxing and waning, fluctuation, dualities and tides, just as the waves of energy in a vibratory pattern. Here, the Goddess is both Force and Form, and as a Moon she controls the tides of consciousness.

Now if you wish to skry this card, remember, She is Pure Virginal Conscious and without empathy, She is as Durga the Ice Queen of the Norse and Durga the Hindu goddess of life and death. Unless you have a mentor who has been through the initiation of THE HIGH PRIESTESS, you may find her Cold Beauty destructive to your sensibilities as she strips your personality of all that is not worthy of Pure Conscious Self. I have met her, "face to face" and She is a scary Beauty who will assist you in self dissection....often without permission. To those who think bravery is an ego trip, don't try this ....ever! Ask a Mother what bravery is, then do your best to incorporate that idea into your heart, you may then survive the ordeal of the "Dark night of the Soul".

When The HIGH PRIESTESS or THE PRIESTESS, is thrown during a reading for the non-initiated, the Querent is:

Experiencing the principle of self-trust, indicating an easily working state of harmony and inner independence.
A self knowing.
Accessing hidden Knowledge from the unconscious.
Self-sufficiency, self-trust, and intuition

To the initiated male, She represents:

The Spiritual Bride of the Just man (The Prince, no longer of this world).
When he reads the Law, she gives the Divine Meaning of that Law.
The Arcana is revealed, the Mystery is unfolded, an futures are seen.

To the Initiated Female:

She is the Papess, associated with St. Mary Magdalene, or the Great Shakti of the triple Hindu Goddess Kali, or the Greek Gnostic Sophia, the original Mother of the Holy Trinity.
Considered one of the Highest and Holiest of the Major Arcana.
Complete development of Feminine Powers (Womb rite) that go deeper in meaning than the words, intuition or insight, can convey.
She is the Law of inherited Wisdom.

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The Thoth Tarot:The Empress--Key 3-& The Night Tarot-Key 3-The Empress...."The Gate of Heaven":

The Empress represents the Universal Womb, in which all manifestation is gestated. As I have said before in past blogs, she is the Path of Daleth (means-Door) that spans between Chokma (All Father) and Binah (All Mother) and is a Transitional state of Psychic Energy. The 2nd Sephiroth-Chokma, is a Hebrew feminine noun, and has the capacity to emanate the "Pure female" (called Virgin Goddess); However, the 3rd Sephiroth-The Empress/Path of Daleth, is the merging of the Intelligent Energy states masculine and feminine; of Chokma and Binah. She is the pregnant balance of incubation and passivity. It is this Door/Daleth that effects the transition from One into Many, thus being the Gate of Heaven.

I have always called the Empress, "The Womb with a View" as she transforms all idea into form. She represents both the Universal Mother and Earth Mother, and almost every culture, ancient and new, has some form or name for her. She is the Mother of Gods, usually symbolized as the Moon, which is both light and dark, life and death. She often gives birth to an intermediary deity, such as Christ, Osiris, Mithras, Odin etc., usually Sun gods who rule the earth in her name.

At this high-Supernal Triangle-stage on the Qabalistic Tarot Tree of Life, words are always metaphorical and the pictures alone unconsciously communicate a great deal of information about the forces and forms more than any word can conceive. Thus it is recommended that these Trump Cards be used as mandalas for meditation. Both the Night Sun (more so) and the Thoth Tarot, also us sacred geometry, along with alchemical, astrological and Qabalistic symbols, which stimulate subjective thought.

The Empress is often called the "Mother of Light" since the Dark Fiery Energy of Chokma, enters the Womb that is the High Priestess, who gestates the egg of Akasha, while The All Mother as the Empress passes through Her as a "birth-door" (Vagina), the form of light that we can see. Hence, she is often seen drawn on traditional tarot with a light face (Empress) and dark face (High Priestess). The Night Side Tarot, used as a "dark probe" tarot, shows the Akashic Egg, that was gestated in the High Priestess, as a broken egg shell the vaginal area of her robe, representing a birth. One often finds that the Thoth Tarot, concentrates more on Visible Light, while the Night Sun Tarot concentrates its art on the "Dark Sun": "a light emitted by an anomalous sun, nocturnal and dark." Therefore, the Empress is both light and dark and as did Juno/Janus the Roman Goddess and later God of communication ( the Latin janua means door) which is the passage of ideas, and was said to control the affairs of men. The Roman patriarchal-two faced god, Janus was originally the goddess- Juno, who bore the "Gate of Heaven" title of the Sanctuary Screen in Christian Churches, derived from the yoni "gate" of Juno that was "veiled" by the hymen (a god) in her own Temples.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Hymen (god)

God of weddings, reception, marriageMount Olympus Bridal torch Apollo and Clio, Calliope, Urania, or Terpsichore; Aphrodite and Dionysos Priapos Hymen

Hymen (Ancient Greek: Ὑμήν), Hymenaios or Hymenaeus, in ancient Greece, was a god of marriage ceremonies, inspiring feasts and song. Related to the god's name, a hymenaios is a genre of Greek lyric poetry sung during the procession of the bride to the groom's house in which the god is addressed, in contrast to the Epithalamium, which was sung at the nuptial threshold. He was one of the winged love gods, Erotes.

He was the son of a muse, Clio or Calliope or Urania or Terpsichore.

As the "god of Weddings" the female hymen, really needs no great explanation of human sexual traditions.

As a personification of the Gate Way to Heaven, Juno had two outwardly facing faces, one for Life and the other for Death. The Tarot Empress is also known as Mother Sun and Mother Moon (High Priestess)...they are both the same metaphoric description of the Intelligent Energy that builds Worlds out of Light through the gestating power of Knowledge and the birthing power of Understanding.

Yet, the primary goddess-form related to the Empress is Venus-Aphrodite, who in Greek Mythology arose from the Ocean, naked riding a scallop shell. When ever she stepped on land flowers grew, and thus we also know the Empress in terms of luxurious proliferation making each facet of Nature so beautiful and compelling that we can be in danger of losing sight of the whole by the dazzle of the parts. This is about what we do with the human body----as spirit, Fiery energy, we supply the whole of emotion (energy in motion) to our forms, but often the individual emotional parts become so hypnotic that we forget the Whole Self for the focus of the parts. We become servants to what dazzles us with beauty, and forget that we are The Beautiful Dark that Operates "The Forms veiled in Light". It behooves us to state: "I AM the Spirit and thus, the Life of the Body".

As Aphrodite-Venus, the Tarot Empress is the Goddess of Love. In fact, the symbol of Venus encompasses the entire Tree of Life which expresses the truth that Love is the formative energy of the Tree of Life---i.e. The Universe; However, Venus maybe subjective in the Supernal Triangle, but She is also objective as a Sephira--Netzach which is a part of the Astral Triangle of Personality. There is a very profound mystery here, as there are three planetary forces that find their objective expression in the Sephira low (meaning density) on the Qabalistic Tree of Life while their subjective expressions called paths, are found at the opposite extreme of the Supernal Triangle.[Hod-Mercury, The Magician; Yesod-Moon, The High Priestess; and Netzach-Venus, The Empress]. To me the mystery of Life and the Alive finds solution here. Remember that Life loves its forms....as any mother knows, the child is more important than anything else to her! The Empress expressed thought into forms and through the administration of the Sun- center of Tiphareth (6th Sephiroth/Beauty). God creates the universe by

continuous thought and/or infinite dream, and as "God's Image" and/or demiurge, human kind creates reality by constantly thinking and dreaming of it. The study of the Empress card is indeed needed for the Self-Knowledge of the student Qabalist.

I am the love of being, that creates being so I can be intimate with creation.

-Eli

It can never be overstated that these cards or keys, represent states of conscious energy that comprise our Psyche of Whole-Self, which is a collective represented by the 78 tarot cards.

In The Tarot- key 3, The Empress, is the symbol of the universal principle of love with wisdom. She is a symbol of our ability to extend love and receive love. In Jungian psychology, she is the anima, the feminine nature.

As seen on the Thoth card,the moon is a western symbol for the feminine-magnetic-nature that is receptive to the male-electric-expressive-nature, usually symbolized as the sun. The images of the Moon waxing and waning, on the Thoth Card represent the dual faces of the Empress; Life and Death. The blue lotus, that is represented on the Thoth Empress card, is the Eastern symbol for wisdom. She is the yin energy of the orient. Key 3 reminds us that love with wisdom is the capacity to nurture and support ourselves in equal proportion to how we nurture and support others. The Pelican feeding her young from the blood of her breast represents, the Mother's blood that nurtures us all.

The Qabalistic Tarot- The Empress-Key 3, is attributed to Daleth, the Hebrew letter that means Door, and is ruled by the vibrations of the Planet Venus.

On the face of it, the Empress is a compliment to the Emperor-Key 4, and the cards for both the Night Sun Tarot and the Thoth Tarot are designed so that the Empress and the Emperor face each other. However the Empress's attributes are more Macrocosmic and Universal as compared to his more Microcosmic and material attributes of the Emperor.

The path of Daleth (on the Hermetic Qabalah Tree of Life) unites the All-Father and All- Mother, Chokma (2-Wisdom) and Binah (3-Understanding). Despite the number sequence, this is not saying one came before the other, rather Chokma -Wisdom and Binah- Understanding are inseparable and simultaneous. For when the Kether (Crown) became I AM---so became existence which is the United combination of Feminine and Masculine.

Also showing this spontaneous union of the Divine Anima and Animus, there is the astrological symbol of Venus, on the bottom right of the Thoth Card and upper right of the Night Sun card,which is the only planetary symbol that comprises all the Sephiroth on the Tree of Life. The Doctrine implied here, is that the fundamental formula for the Universal creation is Love (The Law of Attraction).

The Magnetic Womb, and Women is difficult to summarize in one word. Therefore the Greek quote."Many-throned, many-minded, many-wiled, daughter of Zeus", points us into the direction of the mystery that is "The Womb With A View" (I-magi-nation).

The Empress, is both the Highest Spiritual and lowest of material qualities (as above, so below) as she is the Mother of Form on all planes of existence while she is also the Alchemical SALT which is one of the three forms of alchemical energy (Mercury and Sulfur are the other two). Salt is seen as the inactive part of Nature (Womb-egg) that must be stimulated by Sulfur (Phallus-semen) to maintain the whirling (spiral) equilibrium of the Universe. The Arms and torso of the Thoth Deck Empress illustration consequently suggests the shape of the Alchemical symbol of Salt.

The Empress Tarot card of both the Thoth and Night Sun, shows a women in crown, Hathor like on the Thoth and a crown of thorns on the Night Sun Tarot, illustrating she is both suffering and royal (and mother of the Sun/Son Christian god), both are wearing vestments of the Imperial, seated upon a throne. On the Thoth Card, Her throne uprights suggest blue twisted flames symbolic of Her birth from Water, the Feminine Element that is Magnetic.

The cascading green veil behind the Night Sun Empress, suggest both water ( or hymen) and Venus.

Clutched in the right hand of the Thoth Empress stands a Lotus of Isis; suggesting the Passive Power of the Feminine (the Power that Contains). The roots of the Lotus are in the Earth beneath the Water itself, but its petals are open to the Sun, suggesting the belly of the chalice, i.e. the Holy Grail. She is then the Living Form of the Holy Grail

( Graäl) sanctified by the blood of the Sun (the Sun ejaculates energy which she accepts; semen is of blood). Perched on the Thoth Empress's Throne uprights are a sparrow and a dove, her most sacred birds. On her robe are the Royal Bees and dominoes surrounded by continuous spiraling lines. Her girdle is the Zodiac. The symbol of the Womb's Love of Form is everywhere similar on this card.

The Night Sun Empress's left hand holds the scepter and orb with cross, of Royal Empire rule and power. The flowers, are the five petaled Sacred Rose, The Rose-Mari, a symbol for the "Yoni of Mari", the early Ocean Goddess of Mesopotamia and surrounding area. Later the Rose-Mari became the Western symbol of the "Holy Graäl. This symbol not only shows her fecund nature but also states she is the All Mother Form Creator. Her ample breasts, show she is a nurturing mother. Behind her is a veiled solar golden oval, embellish with sacred geometry and words, none of which can really be made out, due to the veiling. The floor of the Night Sun Empress is also covered in sacred geometry, more for design than deciphering.

The tapestry beneath the Thoth Empress's Throne is embroidered Fleur-de-lys and fishes (fishes being the symbol of the First Matter) and also the Secret Rose which is at the base of the Throne. This is the Rose-Mari, a sacred symbol/Grail of the ancient Goddess Mari-The Ocean Goddess, who was seen as the Womb of all Life on Earth. On this card there are no contradictions; what seems to contradict are held in equilibrium by the revolving moons shown on this card.

The heraldry of the Empress is two fold. On her right is a Pelican feeding its own young with blood from its heart. On her left, is the white Eagle of the Alchemist-The Philosophic mercury which symbolizes the "first Matter" and/or "first semen"( Meditation and study, will clarify the deeper meanings of this Heraldry). The Pelican can be identified as The Great Mother, whose "hearts blood" nurtures her offspring as her "Daughter/Queen who becomes many". The understanding of this Hermetic symbolism is as deep as the Ocean, and that is the why and wherefore of path initiations. Love is not a human emotion for it emotes form the Ocean of The Universal Collective Unconscious, from which all Life became. To seek love, is to deny being love; rather we are Love who Creates Itself as off-spring, i.e. "Self Reflection".

When the Empress Tarot card turns up in a reading, the querent is:

Reminded that the power to give love and receive love comes from deep within us and is our natural inheritance from the Divine.
Creative, and intuitional.
Of a seductive happiness.
Of an idealistic and dynamic nature.
Of abundant and nurturing nature.
If Ill defined:
Shows the inexperience of an adolescent.
Turmoil within.
Presumptuousness.
Maliciousness.

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The Thoth Tarot- Emperor-Key 4 & The Night Sun Tarot-key 4-The Emperor: are both representative of the Warrior force, Mars, and the letter- Tzaddi. The Hebrew letter, Tzaddi (shown on bottom left of card), refers to the sign of Aries in the Zodiac and the ruler of Aries which is Mars. The resulting combination exalts the Sun. All of which implies that Aries and Mars is a combination of energy in its most material form with the idea of Authority.

The Thoth Tarot Emperor is illustrated as an imperial figure bedecked with crown and imperial vestments.

His throne shows capitals, behind him, that are representative of Himalayan Ram heads which also represent Aries the Ram. The Aries Ram is depicted on both the Thoth and Night Sun Tarot-Emperor.
The blazing golden-exalted- Sun Disk, is also represented behind the Emperor of both cards; However, the Night Sun Tarot shows solar radians that are embellished with angelic names.
The couchant lamb and upright flag at his feet represent his domesticated attribution on the lower planes. As is noticed in both government (the flag) and Rams, if untamed they both are wild and courageous, lonely in lonely places, whereas when tame they both are made to lie down in green pastures becoming docile and cowardly.
The golden ribbon draped across the Night Sun Tarot's Solar Disc, partially displays a sentence beginning with Dominico, which is Spanish for the Latin-Dominicus, meaning-Lord and Master.
Both wear imperial vestments of Red, representing Mars and Aries.
The Crown of Thorns on the Night Sun Tarot's spread, reminds us that the power to rule, comes with self-sacrifice and often suffering.

The Emperor also represents the alchemical chemical, Sulfur, as shown by The Thoth Tarot's Emperor's posed head and arms, forming a triangle; below his crossed legs form the cross, making a complete sigil of the alchemical sulfur. In the Gnosis of Alchemy, Sulfur is the male creative fiery energy of the Universe and corresponds to the Qabalistic Fiery- swift creative energy, the initiative of all Being. [From the Symboldictionary.net]

Sulfur (“Leviathan Cross”)

A symbol for the alchemical element Sulfur, (Brimstone) which is spiritually analogous to the human soul. Alchemically, sulfur has the qualities of masculine, hot and dry. Combined with Mercury (feminine, cool and moist), the pair were considered the parents of all metals. Alchemical drawings often portray Sulfur as the sun. (In some views, sulfur and salt are the parents of Mercury) The symbol of sulfur is often used as an identifying symbol by Satanists, due to sulphur’s historical association with the devil. This glyph is often referred to incorrectly as the “pontifical cross of Satan” by Christian tract writers, due to its adoption as an emblem of Satanism by Anton LaVey in the 1960s. The emblem has no history as a symbol of Satanism outside of LaVey’s usage, and the attribution is most likely a product of anti-Catholic sentiment, as it is often compared in this context to the Catholic Pontifical Cross. A more common symbol for sulfur is a fire triangle surmounting a cross of earth:

The Bee and Fleur-de-Lys, depicted on the Thoth Emperor's robes and bottom of the Card, both support the Imperial image as ancient signs of imperial power. The quality of this power is prone to sudden, violent but impermanent activity, so this fiery power must not persist for too long or it burns and destroys.

The Rams head scepter is a obvious continuance of authority and Aries. The Orb with the Maltese cross and the Aries scepter, on both Cards, imply that his authority and power are now established governance. The shield at the feet of the Thoth Tarot Emperor, represents the two headed eagle crowned with a crimson disk which is symbolic of the Alchemist's red tincture or the nature of gold. The golden eagle, the Sun, is consort to the white eagle, the moon, and/or silver, of the Empress. The Night Sun Tarot-Emperor, has an Eagle perched on his left arm.

In the final observation of this Thoth Emperor card, the white light descending upon his head is the 2nd Sephiroth-Chokma, Wisdom, and symbolizes Chokmah's authority of creative wisdom, the Logos, and that it is exerted upon Tiphareth (Beauty), the organized man build of the Whole Soul Collective. As stated the Alchemical Sulfur, also represents the soul. This makes sense, if you understand that Beauty is a perfect organization of opposites; a Jungian synchronicity.

There is much about the collective of "I Am", the Divine Creative, to explain but words are not the true explanation of "I Am" which is the English translation of the Hebrew letter Heh, that is shown on the lower left of the Thoth Emperor card and the upper right on the Night Sun Tarot Emperor.

In fact the Biblical story of Heh ( Hebrew word: Hinenni which is a composite of Heh means "Here I Am") is known as Moses and the burning bush (Exodus:3:1-4) which tells us of a great miracle of enlightenment, where Moses mentally and physically climbs to new heights and witness a miracle beyond his normal perceptions of sight. To sum up this story, at first he can't believe his eyes, but after God spoke from the burning bush, and called Moses's name twice---Moses responded with "Here I Am'. Thus showing that he has heard and is ready to do as bid by God. The Emperor card-Key 4, is the first Conscious sense---the first enactment of Willed energy on form. it is the eye (I) sight of conscious energy. It is the Fire that is seen-Light from Darkness. It is the Window that looks out onto form. But this is not understood by worded definitions alone. Moses had to go through many actions before he could "See the Light":

(A). He had to go out into the wilderness; seek solitariness of self contemplation leaving behind the definitions of society.

(B) He sees an angel; through meditation processes that take us out into the unexplored areas of our consciousness(wilderness) where we find our inner "Holy Guardian Angel").

( C). He notices that a bush is burning but is not consumed; our perspectives of sight, change through greater awareness and we see the spiritual fire or as I see, the Human Aura which is a "solar Fire" around the human body that doesn't consume.

(E). And after all this, is when he hears the Voice of God but he must hear it twice to be sure its real.

This is obviously a story about the inner path journey, as depicted on the Qabalistic Tree of Life, that we all must take to be able to claim our inheritance as "Children of God:" and our purpose is then made clear. On the Path of Heh, we now have a Window, in which to see through illusion and view the Real.

In order to get a glimpse of understanding about the Emperor Card, we have to Know the Empress. I know this sounds odd, but realize for a moment that Binah (The Great Mother) is a Yod unconscious energy that crosses over to the Heh conscious energy, thought the Path of the Empress; the Empress being the balance between Chokmah and Binah. The Empress is the growth process that comes from the union and/or the interaction of male and female as the fertilized cell. She is fruition, The Emperor, although he is a potent masculine energy, is Heh on the Paths, meaning that its function is determined by Binah. In fact, Chokmah (Wisdom); the primary quality of maleness (electric force) is a female noun in Hebrew. Often Chokmah is considered feminine in action, because we have taken the point of view that whatever gives birth is exercising a primary female quality at the moment of birth. To make a long story short, the male is inherent in the female and the female is inherent in the male, which is a real transformation function of a given energy consciousness.

We may understand this inherited androgyny, as the "contra sexual component" postulated by Carl Jung which states that in the unconscious the male harbors the perfect female image and the female harbors the perfect male image in her unconscious. Dr. Carl Jung, called them, the Animus (male-Soul) and Anima (female-Spirit). In truth for one energy to not be created nor destroyed, it only transforms, is both a process of male-electric dynamic motion and female formation (magnetic form). It may boggle the Mind, but there really isn't a separation of male and female. We are both conscious (male) and unconscious (female) because she produces the "form" that he must act on. Imagination, is both active idea and form, therefore it is the Divine Creative who is both She and He! I have already described the Emperor card in

detail, and have covered the path of Heh extensively. However, to reiterate, we know that the Hebrew letter, Heh, represents a window: a window of "insight" about Union rather than the "outsight" of divisionism. And without this window of insight. we can't see God-Logos! The Emperor is "I" sight of the "I AM", the first sense enacted on Form.

Again, THE Qabalistic Tarot, EMPEROR-Key 4, is the Path of Heh, Window, that runs between Tiphareth (Beauty-the Solar Logos) to Chokmah (Wisdom-Lesser Creator who rules over manifestation) and is known as the Constituting Intelligence ( Dr.Paul Foster Case).

Because of our Divine Inheritance from the Demiurge (Lesser Creator) and the Great Mother (Binah-Female aspect of the Demiurge) we are all a Psyche composed of the"Shades" of consciousness.

Modern psychology has called these Shades of Consciousness, the Unconscious (Universal Collective Unconscious), the Sub-conscious (the body collective unconsciousness) and the Consciousness (Self-conscious) which just about every elementary school child has heard of; However, hearing of a thing is not knowing the thing. Because of the evolution of subjective thought, from Mythology, to fundamental Religions, and now to the modern science of Psychology, and Parapsychology we are beginning to easily deal with the shades of consciousness within ourselves and are experiencing a New Age (The Age of Aquarius or Aeon of Horus) of enlightenment.

The Higher we realize ourselves on the Self Tapestry of the Tree of Life, the more the student understands that the Trump or Cards of the Major Arcana, only point the way towards understanding concepts that the human objective pattern seeking-mind cannot otherwise grasp.

By just beginning to understand the next Five Trumps/Paths, [THE EMPEROR, THE EMPRESS, THE HIGH PRIESTESS,THE MAGUS, THE FOOL], the initiate will be developing the consciousness of the Horus; what Crowley called, the 22nd century human psyche.

Because of Modern Physics, we know that there is only One Energy that cannot be created nor destroyed, only transformed (and transmitted), and the student of the Tarot knows that all the 78 cards of the Tarot deck represent Transformations of the One as Self. From the One, emergence the opposites, which are activating the formative, that is the Male (Electric) and Female (Magnetic) communion. Thus it is accurate to state that all Male figures in Tarot are Chokmah (Jah) and Binah (YHVH Elohim) is that of all Female.

The robes they wear, represent the different planes and/or dimensions of our mufti-verse, which are actually vibratory rates that are either "will to force" (male) Kether or "will to form" (Female) Binah, and/or their intertwining of vibration (The Divine Union of Goddess/God) that makes all things possible.

The Qabalist knows that the "Big Bang" came from what is the Source, Kether, thus the ejaculation of Energy, making the Action of Kether -male( Male is not a sex here, but an action) and therefore defining the Divine Feminine as "Formless" (virgin dark energy- magnetism) in the three formless states of Ain, Ain Soph and Ain Soph Ur.

The One became Two, Androgynous, when I became Am , which is known as Chokmah and Binah, which should be stated Chokmah/Binah, just as Yin/Yang or Time/Space are known to be inseparable and established at the same moment. Thus, with some authority we can say that the I is male and the Am is female, for one is Wisdom (Chokmah) and the other is Understanding (Binah) and we can't experience one without the other! Representing this union of Empress and Emperor, on the Night Sun Tarot, is the other half of the green venus curtain that was shown on the High Priestess, Night Sun card and as stated before, they both face each other. The four belts that the Night Sun Emperor wears, are symbolic of his rule in the 4 worlds of the Qabalah.

In the Tarot, THE FOOL represents the One Energy, THE MAGUS and the HIGH PRIESTESS, are the Macrocosm into Microcosm; first differentiation of Male and Female electromagnetic energy polarity. Pure Consciousness, known as the "root of Water" is represented by the HIGH PRIESTESS and Her consort, THE MAGUS, is considered psychologically as the Will. Thus the term I Am, is understood as the intercourse of consciousness and will, i.e "existence" which is not yet alive, but "will to force" and "will to form". Like I've said before, I AM is your Real Psyche Birth name. One might say, that our self-definitions, and/or "I Am's", are definitely a window into our Soul.

The mating of the HIGH PRIESTESS, to the MAGUS, is described in Robert Wang's book: THE QABALISTIC TAROT as, ".....the activity of the directing Will of the One on the Great Ocean of undifferentiated consciousness [Binah] which It has Itself projected [Big Bang] ( The bracketed words are my own).

Here we begin to think of the reflexive qualities of the Divine Creative; The Divine Feminine/Masculine creates, idea/thought, then the mind/understanding to hold that thought in a "net of magnetism" (emotions). Thus we have the concept of the Universe as a Mirror, where everything is the perception and activity of the Divine Spirit, reflecting on Itself, a process which the various and varying symbols of the Tarot are attempting to suggest.

The reason Crowley has positioned THE EMPEROR , so that the body forms a triangle and a cross. is because he is representing the alchemical symbol of Sulfur. This representation is because of the Alchemical explanation of the Divine-Self Interaction in terms of Sulfur, Salt and Mercury. In Tarot, Mercury is THE MAGUS, THE EMPRESS is Salt and THE EMPEROR is sulfur. This may seem as little more than obscure abstraction: However, when we consider that THE MAGUS, (Philosophic Mercury) acts upon THE HIGH PRIESTESS (Pure Consciousness) and by Union they are transformed into THE EMPEROR (Sulfur) and THE EMPRESS (Salt), we are actually considering the quite basic attributes of our own consciousness.

As stated before,THE EMPRESS is on a Path of Daleth (meaning door) which is above the Path of THE EMPEROR, simply because without her manifestation of form, he would have nothing to rule. Therefore, on the Path of Heh, the Emperor is a transformation of the MAGUS (Will). Basically, when we are classifying images according to color, subject, or other criterion, we are calling THE EMPEROR into play. As does THE EMPEROR,we are acting upon form. Another way to see this exercise of rule, is that if the subconscious didn't send up form from its depths, as a stream of images to be classified by the differentiating exercise of reason, Will would have nothing to control or transform. Thus THE EMPEROR, albeit a potent masculine force, functions as determined by THE EMPRESS.

When the Emperor Tarot card is thrown during a reading, it implies:

War, strife, conquest, victory and ambition; all the martial arts.
But these traits aren't always so destructive as the Emperor also implies, personal power and leadership; power from insight, possessing a global sense of issues and serving those around you.
The character of the Emperor is Patriarchal, which could also implies that the querent is up against an angry patriarchal structure of some kind, which includes rigidity and maybe even nastiness.

A confrontation with authority or even with some part of ones self which is feeling rigid and afraid. Interpretations of which depend on the dignity of the accompanying cards.

For the student of Higher Magic, the septure in the Emperor's right hand also represents:

The Lightning- Phallus of Shiva, giving rise to the Tarot Wand. This was originally the Trident (ternary Phallic symbol of Father, Son and Holy Ghost) born by the Western gods, Neptune, Jupiter, Hades, Poseidon, Pluto and Lucifer. Also the Trident was associated with Osiris and later on, to the Guardian of the Holy Grail.

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Key-5 of the Thoth Tarot-The Hierophant & The Night Sun Tarot-Key 5-The Hierophant:

Both The Thoth Tarot and the Night Sun Tarot display a Pontiff- like personage, which in Tarot, is the universal principle of learning and teaching. This universal principle was well explained in the publication of The-Course in Miracles:

"As you teach so will you learn." If that is true, and it is true indeed, do not forget that what you teach is teaching you."

The Tarot-Key 5: The Hierophant, refers to the Hebrew letter Vau which when translated to English means Nail. The Hebrew letter Vau, is displayed on the Thoth Tarot Card at the lower left hand bottom corner and on the upper right hand corner of the Night Sun Tarot Card. On the Thoth Tarot, nine nails appear at the top of this card, fixing the oriel behind the main figure.

The zodiacal reference to the Hierophant is Taurus, whose very nature is that of elephants, thus the corresponding figures of the pachyderm are shown behind the main Thoth Tarot figure, who is also seated on a Bull, a western representation of Taurus. The Bull of Taurus and the Papal Bull, are both behind the head of The Night Sun Tarot Pontiff.

Around The Thoth Hierophant, at the four corners of the card, are the four Kerubs or beasts, that are the guardians to every shrine. But no matter how many symbols one sees on this card, the uniting of the Macrocosm with the Microcosm, the nails, is the main reference and principle business of this card's occult mystery.

Oriel window

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

An oriel window is a form of bay window which projects from the main wall of a building but does not reach to the ground. Supported by corbels, brackets or similar, an oriel window is most commonly found projecting from an upper floor but is also sometimes used on the ground floor.

Oriel windows are seen in Arab architecture in the form of mashrabiya. In Islamic culture these windows and balconies project from the street front of houses, providing an area in which women could peer out and see the activities below while remaining invisible.

On the Thoth Tarot-Hierophant, the oriel is diaphanous; looking closely, you can see before the Manifester of the Mystery (Arcanum= mystery) a Hexagram which represents the Macrocosm. This Hexagram of the Macrocosm is also drawn in a gold line behind the Night Sun Tarot-Hierophantic image.

In the Thoth Card's center, looking as if part of the Hierophant's robe, is a pentagram, representing a dancing male child.
The Dancing Child represents the New Aeon of the child Horus that has supplanted the Aeon of the "Dying God", and/or Age of Osiris, which has governed the world for two thousand years.
Before The Thoth Hierophant is a female figure, girdled with a sword, who not only represents the "Dark Isis", or Scarlet Woman (Death Goddess with her sickle).

of the Hierarchy of the new Aeon but also that of the sign of Venus, the ruler of the sign of Taurus.

The Scarlet Woman is another name for this "Blood Goddess" and was a major interest of Crowley's magical pursuits, and a great deal of study is needed just to begin understanding this Macrocosmic phenomena. The book by Peter Gray, THE RED GODDESS, will assist the serious student in their research.

On the Thoth Tarot, The Scarlet Woman symbolism is further carried out by the image of a 5 petaled rose behind the phallic headdress of the Hierophant.
The images of the Serpent and Dove refer to Crowley's [Book of Law--chap.1, verse 57]: "there are love and love. There is the dove and there is the serpent." Again, more study is advised.

The Dark Indigo starry sky of Nuit ( the Egyptian goddess-womb of all phenomena) forms the background of the Thoth Tarot card. The left- blue hand of the Hierophant being depicted on the Night Sun Tarot, would also seem to represent the Indigo of Nuit; a subtle representation of the All Mother who is womb of everything, including the Hierophant. Since this card represents the sign of Taurus, the\Bull Kerub (Cherub) represents Earth in its strongest and most balanced form.

The letter Vau or Vav, has the meaning of nail or hook and is the simple letter meaning, hearing. The Hebrew story that Vau represents is:

When a man or woman who commits any of man's sins, by committing treachery toward God and that person shall become guilty-they shall confess the sin that they committed he shall make restitution for his guilt in its principle amount and add unto it a fifth and give it to the one to home he is indebted.

Numbers 5:6-7

This Jewish concept of atonement and confession, in which a person is dishonest regarding financial issues---as an affront to both the victim and God and where God requires the abuser to repent, confess and pay back the money he's stolen with interest before forgiveness is given, seems rather odd in this placement on the Tree of Life ( Vau leads from Chessed to Chokmah and is the uppermost Path on the Pillar of Mercy). But consider this----earthly abuses and their thoughts of another ( survival mind errors) block our perceptions so that we cannot expand and liberation our self conscious to that of our Soul/Psyche. The fact that the Golden Dawn documents describe this path as, "The Zodiac acting through Taurus upon Jupiter," May shed some light on this word/letter Vau. Esoterically, this is the action of Chokmah, as the spermatic potential of the manifest universe, upon the first manifestation; Chokmah as Chessed (mercy) is the Father in manifestation. The Word Mercy gives us a clue to this path's inner access.

Hence, to"walk the Path of Vau", can only be done with a "clean slate" and this requires self-honesty and trusting the mercy of your creator which is best done by recognizing our short comings and confessing them to our Higher Self and/or "Holy Guardian Angel". This gets the blocks out of the way, opening up the "River of Mercy" so that it may flow and revive us as the First Sensual Person of the Macrocosm, who has entered into the Microcosm (Chessed is the Yod of the Microcosm--Yod being the Intelligence of Will). What may come as a surprise to most of us, is that We

are Spirit/Life---who makes bodies alive! We have sought "Enfleshenment" but in order to do so we have had to "Walk down the Tree of Life", ever becoming a more condensed form of light, to arrive in the realm of Malkuth (Kingdom), the place of physical manifestation. All for Sensual Reasons! Now we must do the laborious task of "Expanding and Liberating" the "earthly consciousness" of the microcosm by remembering our Macrocosmic Conscious-Self, while still empowering a living form on Earth.

This is a tough job, when you remember that the "animal mind" is a survival mind and therefore a "slave mind"---all based on good and bad ("what doesn't hurt and what does hurt") right and wrong ( "what will get me punished and what won't get me punished"). To walk back up through the various conscious states of our Psyche,

we must divorce ourselves, piecemeal, from the survival thinking processes that limit the perspectives (sight, hearing, speaking, touching etc.) of the physical self conscious. To expand perspectives is to "open the mind" and we need to banish and/or atone for our actions and resulting guilt for "preying on each other" in order to avoid pain. Fear of discomfort is the "Kingdom" from which we direct our physical lives.....and emotional discomfort is understood as pain. To confront our "fear of pain", to reach atonement ( at-one-ment) is to face our errors and " to correct them in the Mercy of Chessed" .

The Qabalistic Path of Vau---The Hierophant Tarot card, is the Pontifes, the "bridge-maker" who provides a connecting link between outer experience and interior illumination---i.e. enlightenment. We combine the self-conscious of "enfleshenment" with the Self Conscious of Enlightenment by nailing them together on this Path of Atonement/confession. Our Soul needs to shed the illusion of survival thinking, so that it can claim its Immortal Inheritance, all this while still keeping a body! Here We not only unite the "As above and so Below", symbolized by the Pentagram, which is also the symbol for the "Ascended Man"----i.e. the fleshy conscious united with the "light" conscious as a complete SELF-Conscious! Not as easy as it sounds, and a lot of self examination is required. Hence, in order to remember ourselves as the "The Child of Divine Parents" (The "Spermatic Word" of the Father Impregnated the Egg of the Mother Binah--and we are the "The Child of the Divine Creative-The Horus--The living Suns ) is one reason we "walk up" the Paths of the Tree of Life, one step at a time. A lot to think about here, so do your research, meditations and be diligent in "seeing your error,\and correcting that error" for only then can we become "Wisdom". We expand and liberate self-by releasing confining perspectives and we can do this to the point of regaining "Greater Self".

The Hierophant card reminds us to have faith in ourselves; "above all things know thyself" is often forgotten in family situations and in the mundane world of survival. The family situations are represented in the Thoth card by the images of Isis and Osiris and Horus. In ancient Egypt, Isis was the image of Intuition, and Osiris, the image of wisdom, the symbols of which can be seen as the scepter of wisdom and the staff of moon. Which is illustrated as the Hierophants scepter on the Night Sun Tarot. The Staff of the Moon was also known as representing instinct.

The resurrected Osiris, became Horus who represented Perception and Vision, as a child born of Intuition and Wisdom and in the new Aeon- represents us. We are the children of Intuition and Wisdom who are to be the purveyors of perception and vision. We must have faith in following our childlike abilities of innocence and curiosity (the child in the star) We are to walk the mystical path with the practical feet of the Magus.

Therefore the Hierophant is that inner part of ourselves that knows how to express our divinity into the outer world.

In the Qabalistic Tarot and the Tree of Life, between the Macrocosm [Macroprosopus] and the Microcosm [Microprosopus] stands the Hierophant Key 5-which is the Eternal Intelligence.

To reiterate: The Hebrew word Vau, that is attributed to the Hierophant, means nail or hook, which is appropriate as the Eternal Intelligence fixes the process of absolute revelation; it is the foundation, the base of experience between the Supreme Spiritual Self and the Ego of Tiphareth, of which memory is considered as one aspect. Hence the nine nails shown above the Hierophant image of the Thoth Tarot. The Traditional tarot art of the Hierophant has always shown two figures in supplication to the Pontiff image, seeking the revelation of some sort of knowledge. This tradition is being reflected upon in the B.O.T.A. tarot. Rider-Waite, Golden Dawn and the Night Sun Tarot Hierophant. The Night Sun Tarot, seems to use the symbols of the Rider-Waite, Golden Dawn, and Thoth Tarot. The Two supplicants were traditional representation of the "conscious and unconscious".

It may be enough to know that all that we are is forever woven into the Divine Spirit (The Spirit/Psyche of The Universal Divine Collective Unconscious) by the binding Eternal Intelligence that is the Hierophant. The Hierophant links the "As above, so below", the Sun and the Moon, the Soul and the man.

The texts of the Golden Dawn Lodge of the Hermetic Qabalah, describes the Hierophant as "The Zodiac acting through Taurus upon Jupiter", thus making this card a powerfully masculine Path upon which the Chariot, which carries the soul across the abyss, travels this celestial rode that is the Path of Vau.

As all of you who follow my blog know, I have mentioned and examined the Thoth Deck Tarot in many ways. Not because of confusion, but because of the Multidimensional nature of the Energy Intelligence their images represent. The Hierophant links the Great Universe with manifestation which alone requires many texts of explanation. The 78 Tarot Cards, are the illustrations of these texts or rather the "flash cards" of Whole Self.

What surprises many students is the knowledge that the Hierophant is not just a teacher but the only inner teacher! He is the "Magus of the Eternal" (The "Inner Teacher"). The Thoth Deck Hierophant does great justice to this concept as it is so full of symbol that students will write essays for centuries.

You will notice that in the Crowley/Harris representation of this card, there is a pentagram on the Hierophant's chest that encloses a Child.

The Pentagram is the symbol of the "ascended man", it represents the union of Air, Earth, Fire, Water and the Spirit.
The Child within represents the Child Horus; the enlightened human persona of the future the Psyche of the Divine Hermaphrodite.
The figure of the Hierophant is that of a Titan.
And below him is the feminine figure of "The Scarlet Woman"--the Red/Dark Moon. Helps to remember that Black is really the Darkest of Reds.
Around him are the corners of this card are the Elemental Kerubim who symbolize the primordial elements of Kether which pass down to Chokmah as the Spheres of the Zodiac that is now grounded in manifestation.
The three ringed Key in his hand represents the Aeon of Isis, Osiris and Horus.

There is so much meaning here that great study is required. Leave it to say, that the Hierophant is the administrator of the duality (shown by the traditional 2 supplicant figures) which emerges with Chokmah as it is structured by Binah, and which begins as manifestation below the Abyss as Chessed and is thus related to Tiphareth (The Child Horus- The new Aeon) who is the central point of manifestation. The Hierophant is The Great Teacher who also learns by teaching, therefore teaching is part of the study here.

The window behind the Thoth Hierophant's head or the pillar entry way to sanctuary of the Night Sun Tarot, is the passageway for manifest spirit between Macrocosm and Microcosm. If you wish to be enlightened by the Teaching Intelligence of the Great Universal Self----meditate on this card!

The Path of Vau is the uppermost path on the Pillar of Mercy (Right hand Path). In the Golden Dawn texts, this path is described as, " The Zodiac acting through Taurus upon Jupiter". Here, Chokma is Jupiter, and his action is the spermatic potential of the Manifested Universe, Chesed, the Yod of Microcosm (Microprosopus), is the Father in Manifestation, while Chokmah (the Yod of the Macrocosm/) Macroprosopus) is the Supernal Father.

Therefore, the Path of the Hierophant is a powerfully masculine one (Electric Force), to which the Bull-Taurus is applied as the image definitively applied to this card; Being "Fixed Earth", this is a stable foundation; a stabilizing extreme. This is the absolute foundation of the process of revelation where the inherited Knowing of the Creator, where THE Great Father, is expressing It's experience through the Supreme Spiritual Self to the Personality or Ego (Whole Self) of Tiphareth (The Sun of Beauty). Thus memory is involved and the solid foundation of "Above all things, Know thyself" is established as an Universal Inheritance for the Divine Child/Son of God, which is our Soul/Psyche.

THE HIEROPHANT is related to teaching, which relates Higher ideas into Lower organisms that is often called, "As above so below". The Hierophant is a state of conscious energy that is the Only source for our understanding of the inner Spirit/Spiral energy conscious.This "Magus of the Eternal" is stated by Paul Foster Case in his text," THE THIRTY TWO PATHS OF WISDOM:, as being the," ....Pontifex, the 'bridge maker' who provides a connecting link between outer experience and interior illumination." Thus, the Hierophant gets the discriminating experience of the Body-operating-Personality, while teaching that very same Personality it's inherited Divinity. Thus,The Hierophant can be said to "Learn by Teaching". Therefore, the Eternal Intelligence can be called "Life" and the Reasoning behind manifestation and implies that a teacher who learns from his students, is a great teacher, i.e. Life learns from the "alive".

Crowley's main concept was the "grounding" of the Fifth- Key-, using the corner symbols of the Four Kerubiim (Guiding collective intelligence of the Four Elements) as the tentative expressions of the primordial Elements of Kether (Crown) that are passed down to Chokmah, as the Sphere of the Zodiac. Interestingly, we think of the Zodiac as 12 signs, but it is really four ternaries, where each element is broken down to three signs. To the Qabalist, this relates to Yod (hand) Heh (Window) and Vau (Nail).

The Administrator to the emerging duality that is Chokmah (Phallus -Womb, male-female, electric-magnetic) is the Hierophant and it given form or structure by Binah (Great Mother) which begins as manifestation below the Abyss of Dark Energy and Dark Matter, in Chesed (Mercy) as structured Light. Thus relating to Tiphareth (Beauty-Synchronicity), the central point of manifestation and is the Sun/Son god. This relationship is shown in two ways, first as the letter Vau, which is related to "The Son" (Androgynous Child of God) , and Tetragrammaton, the second is the number six itself is related to Tiphareth as shown by the Hexagram. Crowley also shows the combination of the 5 elements, by the Pentagram on the chest of the Hierophant as the four elements are combined under the fifth element-Spirit, thus forming the 5 pointed star. The Pentagram image, confirms the Great Work known as "As above, so Below", a process in which the symbolic Moon always is a key part. For the Moon is both above and below the Sun on the Tree of Life, as it is both implied as Yesod (Foundation) and is the Path of the High Priestess and is exalted in Taurus.

Let us not forget that Taurus is also ruled by Venus, referring us to the Empress, the Path of Daleth, between Chokmah and Binah. THE EMPRESS is Mother Nature, and/or the fertilized Universal Consciousness that is the foundation of the HIEROPHANT'S teaching.

THE HIEROPHANT'S teaching is intuitive, as it is on the "feeling" side of the Tree of Life ( Venus-Netzach side), applying intuition to concepts collected by reason and built up by memory.

Illustrated on the Thoth Tarot, the Hierophant's wand is composed of three circles which maybe considered as the three Aeons of Isis, Osiris, and Horus, interlocking their magical formula.

The fact that the Hierophant is the path of Vau, meaning nail, also relates to memory; memory binds together, as does the nail.

The Hierophant is considered to be the Triumphal or Eternal Intelligence and is the solid base of experience between the Supreme Spiritual Self and the Soul-Ego of Tiphareth. Memory is one aspect of this ; however the Primary function of The Hierophant is to link the Macrocosm and the Microcosm and the binding nature of this consciousness is described in many ways; one is linking the Sun and the Moon, another is that The Hierophant links together the Collective Unconscious and the Conscious to the Son. Therefore The Hierophant ties together the Above and the Below.

Let us not forget the fact that it is related to teaching, not only the action of teaching but also the reaction of learning by teaching! The Hierophant is the only source for our understanding of the inner spirit, as he is the intelligent energy which binds inner spirit to the outer aspects of manifestation.

Esoterically, he is the "Magus of the Eternal". If you are acquainted with the Gnostic Christian teachings of Simon the Mage, you'll have a greater understanding of the Hierophant in each of us. Crowley uses the word "oriel" , meaning window, as the dark back ground of this card, as yet another symbol of the Hierophant's linking the Macrocosm and Microcosm, i.e. The Creator with Creation.

Yet in the Gnostic Texts, the Hierophant was also seen as the demi-urge, who could not be trusted. For he "tricks us" with geometry. Making us think that knowledge is in straight lines and stands behind the arrogance of academia. This is artful shown on the Night Sun Tarot as his two supplicants are holding up a triangle and ruler, both of the builders trade. This linear thought is not the "all of truth", for everything is spiral in this Spiral Universe of ours. This should not be news to us moderns for even Einstein is quoted as say our Universe is spiral. The Sphere or Circle, has always been associated with Moon-Mother-Goddess. So here again, the High Priestess is the Real behind the Reality that is the Hierophant. He is indeed a knowledgeable architect who builds well with his linear architectural designs, but She is Curvature, and relays a deeper dimension to knowledge than does the Hierophant.

["A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral".- Maynard James Keenan]
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Albert Einstein, has also described the Hierophantic Path of Vau, to a "tee":

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

When the Hierophant card is thrown:

The querent is experiencing divine wisdom.
Manifestation and explanation.
Teaching mainly in occult wisdom and/or seeking guidance in that area.
There is also a choice implied here, of self alignment to a particular philosophy, religion or a set of beliefs to which a great deal of loyalty is felt.
There is a marriage occurring between the Anima (Spirit) and Animus (Soul).

Now if ill defined, this card implies:

Patriarchy and the resulting oppressive law of orthodoxy.
Some one acting as judge and jury, telling the querent how to morally be.
In general, conforming to the cultural indoctrination and surrendering responsibility to social codes of behavior.
The desire for self-teaching and learning.
The need to make things tangible and practical.

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The Thoth Tarot-key 6 : THE LOVERS & The Night Sun Tarot- Key 6- THE LOVERS:

To the Gnostic or Hermetic Qabalist, The Lovers is a card that can hardly be understood by imagery let alone words, so the combination of both the imagery of the Unconscious and words of the self-consciousness, are recommended.

On the Qabalistic Tree of Life, The Lovers is The Path of Zain-meaning sword or armor and is the dual- cutting-edged Sword of Perspective that connects The Mother of Form-the 3rd Sephiroth- Binah-Understanding, with the central point of manifestation, the 6th Sephiroth Tiphareth-Beauty.

In the long past, the Lovers was just drawn as one individual and called The Lover. This obviously didn't suggest enough for more recent Tarot Readers and it has been redesigned to show the Two who are One. Since Gemini/The Twins is the astrological meaning of this card this duality should be depicted. The Lovers card represents the dualities of a single individual and is not appropriate as a symbol of human sexual love. In fact traditionally, it represents the "two brothers" who are the Kaberoi [The Twin Serpents of the Caduceus] and where known as the twin sons of the Primal Serpent Ptah.

Over time the Primal Serpent Force of the Universe has gained many names/titles from Skanda-Murugan, Ptah-Sokar-Osiris to Thoth-Hermes, Neptune-Vulcan, The Green man,Dionysus, Enki and so many more, but the understanding was still the same; it was the Primal Serpentine Force of microwave fiery- electric energy that began this Universe in a "Big Bang" scenario. Since we are attempting to describe a pure energy that both ejaculates (a serpentine flow) and gives birth (a receptive vessel), the male and female forms are used to show these aspects of"The One Primal Serpent Force". This serpentine energy is both a She in Hindu as Kundalini, in Greek as Sophia (Wisdom), as well as the above mentioned male descriptions.

Through out the Thoth card you will see serpent images, even the Spear of Dionysus or Thrysus known as the weapon with which he used to induce"the madness of Gnosis" (Knowledge). This "spear" represented the human spine and the third eye linked to one flowing Kundalini power. Thoth-Hermes was also known as the "Father of Alchemy" and many alchemical symbols exist in both the Thoth and Night Sun Tarot cards imagery.

Before I entangle your self-conscious with deep alchemical explanations, it may be easier to understand that The Lovers, represents the dual aspect of the One energy as Divine creativity surged across the Abyss into manifestation, formed of the stable dualities of He-electric and She-magnetic. The Great Work is the marriage of these dualities of manifestation. A ritual of returning to the Primal state, or Serpent force.

The path of Zain, of the Hermetic Qabalah, is called the Disposing Intelligence, which has often been considered an aspect of the Garden of Eden mythology, where human kind was made to leave it and must learn how to return to it, yet the serpent was the "good guy", before Christian revisionism, for He gave mankind the knowledge necessary for language and it was necessary to leave the "Place of Repose" for the Active World. Here the knowledge of the double helix of the DNA, becomes a story about a genetic modification that has become active, i.e. The "boot up" of the Inherited God Mind. The Word Hu (Mandarin word for "god") and Man ( From Manas- the Hindu word for Mind) and Man, mean we are the inheritors of Imagination, the Creative mind. The Hebrew word -ha-regesh- from which the English translation means-is arrived, and is called the Disposing Intelligence, by Dr. Paul Foster Case, in his text "The 32 paths to Wisdom". This Disposing Intelligence consists of , the Sun+ the Moon+ Fire (Spirit) =Disposing Intelligence.

In the Lover's Tarot card we have the Sun and the Moon uniting under Mercury (the planet ruling Gemini). On the Thoth and Night Sun Tarot cards, the man is representing the sun and the woman is representing the moon and the Divine Fire above the Abyss is the Kerub (cupid) which comes from the word Kaberoi. So when the Electric Force of the man and the Magnetic force of the woman are intertwine, a process that is rightly perceived, rightly discriminated, and when their operation is kept in proper order, the personality of the man engaged in this practice becomes a unobstructed channel for the outpouring of the Cosmic Life Force (Seen in the Card a the Orphic egg wrapped with a serpent). All this is mind boggling to the uninformed who know not their own Divinity nor its electromagnetic activity. So all I can say is, Google the mythological names listed in this essay-blog and see if you can understand the stories about the Great Story, that is out universe and our Selves. I Would recommend a magnificent book called, WORLD GNOSIS-The Coming Gnostic Civilization by Mark Amaru Pinkham who has done a inordinate amount of research that would take the interested student 20 years to assemble.

Thoth Tarot-Key 6-The Lovers, was at one time called "the Brothers" and is a significant arcana in that it implies the simultaneous creation of "equal and opposite reaction", as the biblical story of Cain and Able or the zodiacal twins of Gemini. Hence, when an action is created, its opposite is simultaneously created as well. When She was Created so was He. When Able was created so was Cain. When light was created so was the dark, as there could be no darkness before light. This card supports that application.

There is no measurable time lag in the creation of opposites,, as the formulation of any idea creates its contradictory at almost the same moment. That is why wisdom is often described by me as the action, "to create, see error ,and correct that error." Wisdom is known as 50% ERROR.. This is the concept behind the Christian Sin (Which was the name of an ancient Moon God), that over time, has become unrecognizable as the process of Wisdom; However, if one reads the Prodigal Son biblical parable, they will understand that the "Prodigal" who went forth and created error, was celebrated for correcting it, by the simple act of returning to his Father.

To know that the contradictory of any proposition is implicit in itself, is to know how Universal equilibrium is kept. Again, we have analysis followed by synthesis. To make this card even more confusing, remember that once error is corrected, we've made another creation.....with simultaneous error.

The Thoth Tarot Lovers Card, is a glyph of duality. Here, the Moorish King has a golden crown, while the white European Queen has a silver crown. This duality is further displayed by the Red Lion and the White Eagle; Lions and Eagles being alchemical symbols of the Male and Female Principles in Nature, appearing in equal and various stages of manifestation throughout creation. For instance, the Sun and Moon, Fire and Water (Electric and Magnetic), Air and Earth. They are the acid and alkali of chemistry, which are also metals and non-metals. Going even wider in this concept, they are Hydrogen and Oxygen which in this concept, the Hooded figure represents , the seed of all life as the Protean element of carbon. Astrophysicist know Red Suns as the producers of the carbon atom, so the symbols of this card are quite extensive. In tarot, the hooded figure is known as the Hermit. The Hermit is also shown blessing the Emperor and Empress of the Night Sun Tarot. These lovers wear the "crown of thorns" as symbols of their self sacrifice, the "dark side" of rule and marriage.

The Thoth King bears his sacred Lance, while the Queen bears the Holy Grail---the Phallus and Womb symbols of this card are a constant reminder of Creation's formula of equal and opposites being combined in order to establish life. This theory is support by the Twin Children carry their weapons, whose positions are counter changed; the white child carries the cup and roses, while the dark child carries the lance and a club ( both an equivalent symbol). At the bottom of the card is the primitive Pantomorphic form of the Hermetic Marriage; the winged Orphic egg. The colors of the egg, gray, symbolize the cooperation of the Supernal ( upper triangle of Kether, Chokma, Binah) in the Creation of Life.

The Thoth Card also depicts a Purple serpent that represents Mercury in the scale of the Queen and represent God's influence in Nature; the crimson tinged wings of the Orphic egg represent the King which is on the scale of Binah the Great Mother. Therefore, the Thoth Deck key 6 -The Lovers is then the complete symbolic rendition of the equilibrium of the Great Work. However, we must never forget that what form life takes is after all, possibility, for the form life takes is dependent upon the influences attendant during gestation. This is a fact that Awake Souls (those who do not experience the sleep of death) make use of while influencing a fetus that is forming in a womb.

By putting the symbol of Cupid above the Hooded figure, as seen on both cards, seems to confuse the issues of this card; However, deep study of the Cupid legend will help one to see that cupid is the libido symbol used to express Zero as Two (o as 8). Please feel free to enjoy your investigations while remembering that only deep meditations on this card will reveal some of the many secrets it represents.

To reiterate: In the Text, THIRTY TWO PATHS OF WISDOM, Paul Foster Case called THE LOVERS, the Disposing Intelligence. The complexity of this card can barely be presented by the image on the card, and is even difficult to understand as a disposing intelligence.

THE LOVERS, is the Path of Zain, meaning Sword, and is also a simple letter, meaning smell. The Path of Zain is depicted on the Hermetic Qabalah's Tree of Life and runs between Sephiroth #3 Binah (understanding) and #6- Tiphareth (Beauty) and connects the Pure Conscious, from which all forms emerged (Binah) with the central point of Manifestation (Tiphareth- Pure Soul and/or Real Person).

The Term Lovers, seems simple enough, yet it is a complex and profound card, as it is not about the love of two humans, but rather the Twins or duality of the individual united in pursuit of Divine Love. Therefore the True meaning of Key 6, is embedded in the Astrological sign Gemini, The Twins and the psychology of Dr. Carl Jung, as the perfect union of Anima (feminine-Latin for Spirit) and Animus (Masculine-Latin for Soul)

The Dual intelligent Forces of Male-expressive and Female-receptive, (electric and magnetic, conscious and unconscious, Psyche and Animal mind, Animus and Anima), are what, Zain,

The Lovers Path proposes to unite. These are equal and opposite frequencies of Intelligence that must be united as a major step towards the Godhead on the Tree of Life. The surging of the Divine One Energy, across the Abyss into manifestation, formed stable dualities, for the Divine Creative is a O who became 2, "will to force" and "will to form", which we call male and female, respectively.

This is nothing new to those who studied Matriarchal religions, God and Goddess were never seen separated and often they were depicted as one being with two faces. Only in the War/slave religions of Nomadic Tribes, "sword worshipers", did the Patriarch exist alone.

The Great Work, is a mental return to the primeval state (As above so below) by the communion or "marriage" of these dualities of manifestation within the Self-Conscious of the individual.

As Robert Wang wrote about the Path of Zain (meaning; sword or armor) in his book: THE QABALISTIC TAROT," Thus this path may be consideredthe aspect of the Garden of Eden, from which mankind was expelled, but to which it may earn re-entry by conscious dealing with what has been called the inner Sun and Moon. The whole key to the Great Work is uniting of the Sun and the Moon under Mercury (the planet ruling Gemini)."

On the Tarot Card, THE LOVERS, The Sun represents the man; the male expressive, the Moon represents the Woman; the female receptive, and the Divine Fire that is above the Abyss (The Vital Force or Serpent Force), is represented as Cupid. Case has stated that, the Sun represents self-consciousness and that the Moon is representative of the un-consciousness.

Dr.Paul Foster Case, founder of the Builders of the Adytum, considered that these are both aspects of the One Life Breath, each working half of the body. Today we mundanely know them as the Male half and the Female half of the human brain or in parapsychology as the Anima and the Animus. As Case has stated, "When the Solar and Lunar currents of the Life-Power are rightly perceived, rightly discriminated, and when their operation is kept in proper order, the personality of the man engaged in this practice becomes a free, unobstructed channel for the outpouring of the cosmic life force." Case considered THE LOVERS card to represent one of the dualities united by the Spiritual Self, the Divine Anima (female) and the Divine Animus (Male), both aware, conscious and united in the individual as they are in the Divine Creative. Just as most Tantric, and Gnostic practitioner's do.

To the Qabalist, The Lovers, represents the union of manifested opposites under the Divine Love of the Supernal (Upper triangle of the Tree of Life) through Binah/Ishtar-The Great Mother. Thus, the Crowley Thoth Deck Card depicts the theme of union as and Alchemical"Hermetic Marriage" of the component parts of the seeker.

The Path of Zain is an active path of Psyche, for the self control and will attributed to Mercury, which directs the movement and integration of opposites is not passive.

In fact, it is the fiery force or the Serpent Force known as the Kundalini which is masculine fiery force, united with the Feminine Watery force (flowing in waves as "serpentine:) both in equal measure and full of fiery dynamic, and inspirational qualities.

This is a red-hot marriage, complete with Honey Moon and resulting "little death" reminiscent of an individual "big bang", call the "ecstasy".

There is a type of death here, as the process of crossing the Abyss means the death of one's own Higher Self, a willful and total self-destruction and immersion into the Divine Self.

I'll leave you with a quote form the Gnostic Text, The Gospel of Didymos Judas Thomas where it is written by a Gnostic Nazarene known as Jesus, answered his disciples with: (22) " When you make the Two One, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female female;and when you fashion eyes in place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, and a likeness in place of a likeness; then you will enter the kingdom."

Jesus, mythical or not, obviously knew of the Principles attributed to THE LOVERS card, but then he was purported to be a Nazarene Gnostic Master (A Zeus Christos) which is equivalent to a Qabalistic Magi. What few know is that the Word Christos is Greek and refers to the Sun! It is also interesting, that the Night Sun Tarot's Emperor-Lover and the Empress-Lover are both wearing a crown of thorns, which the Christ was adorned with by the Romans. This could be a depiction of Jesus and Mary Magdalene; A very apropos idea. Especially since the Hermit carries both the Lock and Key of a Hermetic marriage.

THE LOVERS and THE ART card of the Tarot are considered among the most difficult to understand. The Path of the Art Card is Samekh (Prop) and requires a complete integration of the Personality in its subordination to the Ego (whole-self) in Tiphareth. The Path of THE LOVERS is Zain (Sword or Armor) requires a complete integration of the total self, manifest in the Microcosm, returning the soul to the aspect of the "Garden" or Macrocosm of the Universal Collective Unconscious, from which it emerged. Thus, we can say that Art is the equilibrium of the Lower Self and THE LOVERS, is the balance of the Higher Self.

In Crowley's card, we have the Royal Marriage of opposites, presided over by the hooded figure that is both the Hermit and Mercury. Eve and Lilith, as stylized statues, are shown above the marriage couple, with cupid aiming an arrow, represents the Original Will.

TheBlack King wears a crown of gold, bears a lance, and is attended by the Red Lion, while the Kings black child holds the lance in one hand and a club in the other.

The White Queen, crown in silver, is attended by the White Eagle and her white child, that is interchanged with the black child, holds flowers in one hand and the bottom of the Grail (Graäl) in the other. The Product of this union, is the Orphic Egg, that is the very essence of Life itself. The white and black, is further depiction of the Union of Opposites.

The symbolism of the two children, has been noted by Crowley as Cain and Able, which may seem out of place in a card called THE LOVERS; However, the process of The Hermetic Marriage is both reciprocal and repeated over and over again as it is defined by the infinity sign of Mercury-Magus, as the Sun and the Moon unite under Mercury. First one "Brother" dies, being absorbed into the other than there is a return to a balance of opposites after which the second "Brother" is killed and absorbed into the first. The Swords forming an arch over the threesome, is reminiscing of a Royal Wedding, where the married couple must walk through and arch of Swords, at the end of there nuptial ceremony. It also represents the English translation of the Hebrew letter Zain.

Theoretically, return to the Godhead requires that we incarnate repeatedly, in the twelve signs of the Zodiac, reaching perfection in each of the types of incarnation.

THE LOVERS card also relates to the Hermetic Marriage, or "Chemical Wedding", as written in the 17th century in a text called,:The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenceutz which is one of the key documents of Hermetic-Qabalism. I've found this alchemical text very readable, much like a fairy tale, and yet one of the most profound piece of esoteric or Gnostic symbolism ever written. The fact that the word Sword or Armor (Zain) is the word meaning of this path and that blood is spilled on this path, are all reconciled and/or reinforced in this text. This understanding requires some meditation on the Alchemical text.

There is the Tantric Philosophy here also (the meaning of Tantra is "to expand and liberate"), only through physical union with a female can either a man or god, achieve true reality and the power to deal with it; A Spiritual/sexual union, is required for shamans, priests, and holy men with the female is required before they gain full possession of their powers. This is also a process for Priestesses, who must be able to invoke the "Divine Phallus" through the Male before they can gain their Powers inherited from the Divine Hermetic Marriage, to manipulate time/space.

When THE LOVERS is thrown during a reading, it is stating:

A principle of Art and Craft of Relationship.
What is also suggested is the magical image of the power of surrender in which one form is given up in order to attain another.
Being involve in a process of cooperation.---combining energies for a common goal.
Yin Yang attraction of polarities, or universal forces for one another.
The power of sexual surrender to the Goddess within.
This card can also mean a love affair with some sort of trial or choice involved... be it marriage or profane love.
Time to make a choice of "one or the other", seen as two paths. The outcome of this choice is seen as vitally important.
Passive and some cases, mediumistic inspiration.
Motive power, and action, arising from inspiration and impulse.
Becoming cooperative as two or more people or forces come together, combining energy for a common goal.
Urge to unite and a choice of love.
Joining together....it is easy to see the Principle of the Art and Craft of relationship here.

If ill defined by the accompanying cards:

Indecision, confusion and uncertainty become the principles of this card.
The querent is failing to see the sum of the Union of Opposites and is trying to separate them as "good and bad" . This causes only inaction.
The agony of separation rather than the bliss of union.
Wanting the best of both worlds, causing instability in all those concerned.

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The Thoth Tarot- The Chariot-key 7 & The Night Sun Tarot-key 7-The Chariot: are representative of the Qabalistic Path of Cheth-meaning fence or enclosure, on the Tree of Life, between Binah, (understanding) the third Sephiroth on the Tree of Life and Geburah (severity) the 5th Sephiroth on the Tree of Life. It is the vehicle that encompasses the Soul on its journey into manifestation, shown on the Thoth Tarot Card, by the four Sphinx with different animal faces, each element having four sub-elements (cubed).

The Chariot itself is Kether as Geburah, the Throne of the Soul, that protects the Soul through its journey through dimensions of universal manifestation. The Chariot itself is thus unmoving and stable while the Red Wheels of Geburah power it through the Universal manifestation. Presented here, the Soul is a golden-solar-warrior, who is protected from the Abyss by the Limitless Light of Kether, a vibrational form of energy that the Soul rests on.

The Thoth Chariot is ruled by the sign of Cancer, a Water sign (the crab on his helmet) and it is the Pure Water (Pure Consciousness) of the High Priestess that is the Fence or Enclosure and/or Womb , shown as blue oval rings around the chariot, that protects the Soul in its journey from the Higher to the Lower planes of manifestation. The Soul/Psyche is the Self of our selves, it is our individual emanation of the Supreme Spirit Identity from Kether. The Soul being the"Solar Warrior" as shown by the Golden Starred Armor, is lead by the Moon. Keeping the Tradition of the ancient Egyptians, who believed that our Sun followed the Moon across the sky.

The wheels of Geburah (an energy intelligence of Binah the Great Mother) drive the Chariot into Form. Knowing that Binah is the Mother of Form, and is the Feminine Magnetic (womb) force of the Universe, we can see that the Chariot is the combination ( the Marriage of Kether-Chokmah- Binah that is the Supernal Triangle of the Above) of Electromagnetic force and the Spiritual Psyche form that is Soul. So with this in mind we may conclude that the flowing forceful nature of The Fiery Creative Father and the Receptive nature of the Watery-Magnetic Mother of all Form, protects our Soul from dispersion back into the Limitless light (Dark Energy Creative) which is Darkness, a non-identity to us. The Wheels that are shown on the Night Sun Tarot, are engraved with the Hexagrams of the ancient Chinese, Book of Changes- I-Ching.

I Ching

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Title page of a Song dynasty (c. 1100) edition of the I Ching

易Zhou dynasty (China)Divination, cosmology late 9th century BC

I ChingClassic of Changes

"I (Ching)" in seal script (top), Traditional (middle), and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters

易經易经 Yìjīng "Classic of Changes"

The I Ching ([î tɕíŋ] or Classic of Changes, is an ancient divination text and the oldest of the Chinese classics. Possessing a history of more than two and a half millennia of commentary and interpretation, the I Ching is an influential text read throughout the world, providing inspiration to the worlds of religion, psychoanalysis, business, literature, and art. Originally a divination manual in the Western Zhou period (1000–750 BC), over the course of the Warring States period and early imperial period (500–200 BC) it was transformed into a cosmological text with a series of philosophical commentaries known as the "Ten Wings." After becoming part of the Five Classics in the 2nd century BC, the I Ching was the subject of scholarly commentary and the basis for divination practice for centuries across the Far East, and eventually took on an influential role in Western understanding of Eastern thought.

The I Ching uses a type of divination called cleromancy, which produces apparently random numbers. Four numbers, 6 to 9, are turned into a hexagram, which can then be looked up in the I Ching book, arranged in an order known as the King Wen sequence. The interpretation of the readings found in the I Ching is a matter of centuries of debate, and many commentators have used the book symbolically, often to provide guidance for moral decision making as informed by Taoism and Confucianism. The hexagrams themselves have often acquired cosmological significance and paralleled with many other traditional names for the processes of change such as yin and yang and Wu Xing.

She/Binah, is the Vessel, Womb, Grail (that is in the hands of the Thoth Golden Knight on the Chariot) both blood red-Blood of Mother-Grail and water blue Womb of the High Priestess-Grail, both comprising the engine that moves our now stable soul-self through the Universe, allowing us a Psychic-conquest on all planes of energy! Such a engine of Psyche, makes each of us the inheriting Child of The Divine Creative!

The Thoth card symbolizes the vision of Ezekiel, wherein the prophet described the appearance of "four living creatures" and that each had four faces, A man, a lion, an ox, and that of an eagle which are the symbols for the elemental forces of the manifested universe.

What many of us should now understand is that the Very Severity of Binah, the Great Mother Defends us from dissolution into "Nothingness" as we are her most important "Psyches of Form"; we are both Masters of Form and Masterpieces and as far as She is concerned we are her "Most Beautiful Children" and have been given her Property---The Qabalistic 4 Worlds of Manifestation, as Trusted Keepers!

We are Souls, a collective of personalities developed over timed manifestation, who create and operate Self-Image in the Name of Abracadabra (Abrahacabra) that is seen woven into the canopy above the Thoth Golden Knight-Sou. Crowley states that Abrahacabra/Abracadabra is-The Vibratory word of the Aeon, The Great Work. The Holy Grail, is the "vessel of all Form" which the Psyche drinks, (the Wine/blood of Imagination) giving form to our thoughts......which become the Self-Awareness of I AM ME.

Now I know all this can be confusing, as there are so many ways to describe these cards who have gathered so many symbols over time as they are very old images of invisible forces that are fascinating but almost incomprehensible to our reasoning brain. That is why we must practice raising the Serpent Force within to awaken the normally unused 3/4's of our brain. The Kundalini can be seen as the "original Word of God" / The Logos, and must flow over and through our brain as the Lust of the Great Fiery Creative and the encompassing Waters of the High Priestess, before we manifest the comprehension of the Greater Self. Don't fret the brains heat, Understanding will come to the diligent, for no matter the seeming obfuscation of meanings attributed to them, the Tarot Keys represent truly universal archetypes, Forces and Forms that remain immutable despite the limitations of the worded attempts to describe them. You, each and everyone, are Force/Psyche and Forms of Light comprised of all of the 78 images in the Tarot Deck. The Tarot is YOU, not the man-made you, the indoctrinated one who is a reaction to your ruler- defined environment but the Powerful You that is the action that changes environment. You came To Expand and Liberate the survival mind of earth from its animal existence into the Higher Existence of the Immortal Soul/ The golden warrior of Creation. .

In the Psyche sits the Chariot-resting, while Powered by the Great Mothers Work and sitting quietly on the thrown of Kether, totally protected by the Magnetic Field of the Grail, awaiting the time when the Brain can hear ABRACADABRA (Abrahadabra)--the cypher of the Great Work. With the "Ears to Hear", that are developed by Knowing thyself, we can then manifest the Soul as the personality who operates a Power tool--in Mothers Great Garden, rather than a animal looking for its soul; something it will never find, since the finite are definitions from the infinite and are unable to define the infinite in their time- limited thoughts. The Chariot tarot card represents the Solar Warrior Soul who defines being---but is not defined by being. This is shown by the hour glass in the left hand of the Night Sun Tarot's Charioteer, holding the "Sands of Time", which also symbolize the Great Mother, for she is also Geburah/Saturn and rules time. This Night Sun Chariot card, displays the orbed scepter of the Emperor, representing his rule over the material, topped with the equal armed cross that represents the 4 elements of Tarot. The blue canopy of the Watery Divine Feminine is above him, and filled with Hebrew letters of the Hermetic Qabalah. Instead of the "four creatures" that pull the Chariot of the Thoth Tarot, The Night Sun Tarot, uses the traditional black and white horses of Tarot, which are the colors of

life and death, in the Traditional Tarot art of the Rider-Waite and Golden dawn decks. This combination of White and Black, is also seen in the twin pillars of the High Priestess cards of traditional tarot.

Correspondences: 7-The Chariot & 2-The High Priestess.

The Chariot's astrological sign is Cancer and the astrological planet of the High Priestess is the Moon, the ruler of Cancer.. Remember, the Tarot is about polarities; Will to Form (female- magnetic) and Will to Force (male-electric). In this association, the Chariot is the form of -I feel. The astrological Motion of the Moon (High Priestess) is- I seek myself through what I feel.

It also helps us to remember that all the Major Arcana cards have a receptive form (female) and fiery motion (male) and are thus androgyny. In correspondence, the form of one card will often correspond with the motion of another.

There is also an association with Rune-stones (another popular divination). For the Chariot, the Rune correspondence is Ehwaz, the rune of movement, gradual progress, dwelling places, and horses.

“The mind will trust the body, the body will trust the mind.”

Ehwaz – “eh-was” – Literally: “Horse” – Esoteric: Trust

Rune of harmonious teamwork and trust. Rune of pairs of entities working together for a common goal.

The Rune for the High Priestess is Othila , the rune of retreat, separation, inheritance, and the home.

“We inherit ourselves.”

Othala – “Oh-thall-ah” – Literally: “Homeland” or “Ancestral Lot” – Esoteric: Inheritance, estate, noble

Rune of ancestral spiritual power, divine inheritance and earthly estate.

Primary colors are, Orange-Yellow; with secondary colors of gold,white and silver. The corresponding Chakra is the Spleen Chakra (second chakra)which governs emotion, movement, pleasure, polarities, nurture and nurturing, socialization, sexuality, choices, pride, fear of rejection, and provides our life energy and vitality. The corresponding stones/minerals are gold, silver, platinum. Also amber, pyrite, golden beryl (topaz), citrine, all orange-yellow chalcedony, clear quartz crystal, diamond, moonstone, pearl spinel, white coral, opal, zircon, and gray or white fluorites and chalcedony.

Musical notes: Chariot-D# and the High Priestess is -G#

The Qaballah Hebrew letters are: Chariot- it is described as a simple letter-Speech while the High Priestess , in the Qabalistic Text-Sepher Yetzirah it is described as a -Double letter- meaning War-Peace.

The Tree of Life Paths are: Chariot- Cheth, the House of Influence. For the High Priestess the path is: Gimel, the Uniting Intelligence. Mean of the letter Gimel is camel and the meaning for Cheth is -Fence or Enclosure.

The plant essences: The Chariot-Coriander, carrot, labdanum, Roman Camomile and for the High Priestess-Camphor, lemon, and jasmine.

The psychic energy (magic abilities) generated by this correspondence is; Clairsentience (clear feeling) which is the ability to feel others emotions. Since this can be perceived both consciously or sub-consciously, often the clairsentient can become moody and confused without knowing why. By applying all the above correspondences (one stone or mineral) with the Mandala that is the Tarot Cards, meditation/ skying can be greatly charged to enhance "magic abilities".

The Tarot-Key- 7: THE CHARIOT

Motion or change and identity or rest are the first and second secrets of Nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail.

-Emerson

The Chariot represents the Universal Principles of change/movement combination of stillness-activity: of movement and repose.

Every individual is touched by multi-dimensional change in their areas of Earth, Air, Water and Fire, as symbolized by the four pillars, the four wheels,and the four animals. These four elemental aspects of ourselves combine to create who we are, mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. The spinning disc in the hands of the Thoth charioteer, also symbolizes the wheel of fortune/The Goddess Fortuna (The blue water womb of birth/nurture Mother and the red-fire womb of Sex/ Death/reincarnation Mother) and means that we as Psyche, have free-choice and can choose fortunate, positive, and abundant changes for ourselves.

The ten crystals on the golden armor of the Thoth Charioteer, represent the ten powerful positive choices of the Ten Sephiroth on the Qabalists' Tree of Life. The crown, which is "the crowning achievement", wisdom, understanding, mercy, severity, beauty, splendor, victory, foundation and kingdom. These ten states of conscious energy are multidimensional movements and repose that are known as "Our Greater Self".

Both the Thoth Tarot- CHARIOT Key 7, and Night Sun Tarot-Chariot are the Tree of Life Path of Cheth on the Tree of Life, the word Cheth means enclosure, or fence.

In the THIRTY TWO PATHS OF WISDOM, Paul Foster Case stated: The Eighteenth Path is called the House of Influence (by greatness of whose abundance the influx of good things upon created beings is increased) and from the midst of the investigation the arcana and hidden senses are drawn forth, which dwell in its shade and which cling to it, form the cause of all causes.

Between Geburah (Severity) and Binah (Understanding) the Great Mother on the Tree of Life, runs the Path of Cheth. This is the highest and most profound Path on the Pillar of Severity and introduces the Personality to the Supreme Spiritual Self, that wraps our Soul in the Golden Armor of Protection so that the Psyche can be carried through the unmanifested Universe, and/or Dark Matter and Dark Energy. The Chariot is the enclosure that holds the Soul in a state of peace, as moves through all planes. In his BOOK OF TOKENS, Paul Foster Cases stated this about the Chariot:

I am the hedge of protection

Enclosing the field of existence

In this field thou dwellest,.

And I am thy defense,

Against the darkness which is without.

Yet is this hedge of safety

Alas a wall of limitation,

And the darkness against which it defendeth thee

Is the radiant Darkness of the Limitless Light.,

Too brilliant for thine eyes.

The Darkness that Mr. Case refers to is that of the Limitless Light of Kether, the very pinnacle of the Supreme Spiritual Self. Pictured in the Chariot, the experience of the Spiritual Self, is known in Alchemy as the "Exhalation", where the Alchemist becomes the Philosopher's Stone.

The Thoth Deck Chariot, shows the influences of both the Hindu Tattvas

and the biblical text of Ezekiel with its "living creatures" being represented as 4 Sphinxes pulling the Chariot. These Four Kerubim (angelic beings) represent not only the four Tarot Elements of Fire, Water, Air and Earth, but also each has four sub-elements, as do the Tattvas, and are represented as the four faces of the creatures.

Geburah, is often symbolized with a Pentagram, or five pointed star, that has the Four Elements crowned by the Spirit (Space in the 5th Tattva). Thus, making 5 the number of Geburah on the Tree of Life. Geburah is a Red Force, and is symbolized on the Thoth card as Red Wheels, meaning that the force of Geburah (Severity) is the motive force of the Chariot.

Geburah is complimented by Chesed (Mercy) on the Tree of Life, and this compliment is seen in the constant usage of the number 4, Chesed's number. We have Four Sphinx, and four columns (Four Universal Elements) holding up the starry canopy or heavens of Binah (The Great Mother- Empress Card key 3). Theses four elemental columns are shown as wooden columns on the Night Sun Tarot Card: However, wooden or red they are called the " four columns of the Tree of Life in a Solid Sphere", adding a little more of the arcane to this card. I suggest the curious student gets the book, THE QABALISTIC TAROT by Robert Wang, as it is a fine text for understanding the Arcana of the Qabalistic Tarot.

Above the Golden Armored figure on the Thoth Card, is a crab, symbolizing the sign of Cancer. Woven into the canopy is the word "ABRACADABRA", which Robert Wang thinks is an apparent pun on "ABRAHADABRA", a word that Crowley called,"one of the most important key numbers of the Liber Al...the word of the Aeon....the cypher of the Great Work which when using Qabalistic Gemtria (numerology), (Book 777 of Crowley) adds up to 418 which equals 4+1+8=13; the Key 13 Death card. The link with the Death card is shown in the Night Sun Chariot card as a white/life and dark/death horse.

Crowley understood that something martial is going on in the Psyche of the Seeker themselves. Much like the Bhagavad Gita, or the Babylonian Epic of Creation, where the pursuit of enlivenment is symbolized by warring factions.

On this highest Path of Severity, the Soul Warrior of Geburah has reached a pinnacle, as shown by the Tens stars on his golden chest that represent Assiah or Matter. Seated in meditation, with the Holy Grail in his hands: the Cup (Womb) that we look directly into.

The movement of the Chariot conceals a mystery (arcana) of great significance. The Chariot is reminiscent of the Greek Chariot of the Sun, Helios, as the four horses of the Sun pulled the Chariot of the Sun across the sky. This is significant as a representation, since the Chariot moves between the Light, centered in Tiphareth (Beauty) and the Supreme Darkness of the Limitless Light at the hidden side of Kether (Crown), as depicted in the White and Dark horses that pull the Night Sun Tarot's Chariot. Yet, there is even a more complex meaning suggested here, as the Sun is guided by the Moon! And in Egyptian mythology, Greek Mythology and the Qabalistic Tree of Life, the sun is subordinate to the moon. Since the Chariot is of the sign of Cancer, that is ruled by the Moon (and in which Jupiter is exalted), the Charioteer follows this philosophy of subordination to the Great Mother nicely. The cardinal Path of the Moon, leads from Tiphareth (Beauty-Solar Logos) to Kether (Crown) is the Path of the High Priestess. Water ( Pure Consciousness) takes precedence here and is represented by the Moon.

The Chariot, is a Higher Path card, and requires much sckrying, meditation, and arcane study, so this author recommends that you devote more time to this card than a brief blog. At least, get the books I have recommended in this blog and read them liberally! What is also noted here, is that the Male-Female relationship, is represented backwards here in our reflected world. The Male -"Will to Force" of the Universe is Subservient to the Female-"Will to Form" in order for electric Force to become electro-magnetic Form; Idea is subservient to Understanding, for Life to progress.

In the Thoth Tarot- Key 7-The Chariot, the Cancer Crab stands on the Knights Helm, referring to the zodiacal sign of Cancer, into which the Sun moves at the summer solstice. Cancer is the cardinal sign of Water, shown as blue above and below the charioteer. Hence, Cancer not only represents the first onrush of the Tarot element water, but it also represents the Path Cheth (meaning fence or enclosure) that leads from the Great Mother Binah (understanding) to Geburah (Severity), on the Qabalistic Tree of Life. Therefore the Chariot represents the Veil of Water ( which is blood) in which the energy of the Supernal (The Trinity) descends on the energy of mankind as Prana and inspires the "spirit within". This card supports the old axiom," ...The Know is in the Flow" and helps us realize the value of Prana Yama (Yoga breath) breathing and the flow of the Life-Fire within and/or Kundalini.

The canopy of the Charioteer, on both cards, is of the sky blue, both the color of water and of the color of the Great Gnostic Sophia and/or Binah, in her Wisdom state of energy conscious. The blue canopy covered in sacred geometry and Hebrew letters, represents the Blue Sophia/Wisdom, on the Night Sun Tarot Card.

The four pillars of the canopy, on both cards represent the Pillars of the Universe while the Scarlet wheels on the Thoth Chariot card, represent the original energy of Geburah (the "cleansing menstrual blood" of the Goddess) that causes the revolving motion in the Universe.

The four Sphinxes that are drawing the Thoth Chariot, have the heads of the Four Kerubs, The Bull, The Lion, The Eagle and The Man. They actually represent the 16 sub-elements rather than just four, since in each Sphinx these elements are counter-changed. The only counter-change that is shown on the Night Sun Tarot card, is the White horse of Life and the Dark Horse of Life. There might also be a counter-change shown as the Scepter of the Emperor and the Hour Glass of Time, that belongs to the Sephiroth of Geburah, but of this I am uncertain, since both the Emperor and Empress are shown with this scepter in the Night Sun Tarot.

The amber-gold armor of the Charioteer, on both cards, represents the sign of Cancer. The reins are not in the Charioteer's hands because he is enthroned in the Chariot rather than conducting it as the whole system is in perfect balanced and his only function is to bear the Holy Grail and/or the instruments of the All Mother, as shown on the Night Sun Tarot. The Thoth Grail looks like a Blue and Red Chakra in the Charioteer's hands, as both colors represent the One Womb of the Blue Binah and the Red Geburah.

The design of the Ten Stars of Assiah sits upon the Thoth Charioteer's chest as an inheritance of the celestial dew of the Mother, which maybe symbolized by the blue curtains in the background of the Night Sun Tarot Card.

Cancer maybe known as the House of the Moon but Jupiter is also exalted in Cancer. This concept is illustrated on the Thoth Tarot Card, as the color of Amethyst that rings the Grail. The Shape of the Grail represents the Full Moon and the Great Sea of Binah. Spiritual life is inferred by the radiant blood -red in the center of the Grail: light in the darkness of the Womb.

Again, studying the individual symbols will lead to a greater understanding of the whole. The Charioteer looks the masculine part he is, but this card is of the Goddess as Binah and Geburah which are both receptive (female) and expressive (male). One will find that in the Gnostic Qabalah, both sexes are inseparable, where there is She, there is He and visa versa. The Chariot is the mystical Merkabah , the Chariot that carries the Throne of God in the visions of Ezekiel. The Throne is stable and unmoving, while the Chariot descends on the revolving "fiery" wheels of Geburah. The Triangle symbol of Fire, is seen behind the Night Sun Tarot Charioteer, as an integral part of the Chariot.

Arcana means secret and/or mystery and the Major Arcana (Key Cards) are deeply embedded in mysterious secrets buried in the imagery of time long past while being totally relevant today, requiring much study. " To know thyself, is to know God" describes the mystery of the Qabalah.

When the Chariot card is thrown during a Tarot divination, the querent is or will be soon experiencing:

Health, success, triumph, and victory. All of which shall be a combination of stillness and activity.
There is a principle of self mastery through change and movement towards a goal.
In other words, winning one's own way.
Self confidence that propels one to victory.
In the next 7 weeks or 7 months, the querent will be making changes in their job, or home or travel,.

When this card is thrown during a reading, the querent is reminded:

To devote themselves to the combination of activity and quietude so that they may have the drive to attain goals.
It is a time of clearing out the past, moving beyond and beginning with new energy while taking responsibility for one's present condition.
There is a need for victory here, by combining the images or content of the unconscious with the consciousness for the purpose of achievement.
The Chariot also signifies that the querent has begun controlling a situation by the force of their personality....a focus of Will.
The goal will need fighting for, but you have been granted the energy to win it!

If the accompanying cards are ill defined, then none of the fore mentioned qualities will be stable and all will be short lived.

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The Thoth Tarot-Key 8: ADJUSTMENT & The Night Sun Tarot-Key 8- JUSTICE:

In many Tarot Decks, the common way to present this State of Energy Conscious is as the Judgment Card but I personally think that Crowley hit the nail on the head with the Title of : Adjustment. Because in our world of patriarchal rule, Justice is merely revenge and a show of state power to destroy the life of dissenters, which then keeps the populace in line. Plus, Nature is not, morally or ethically, just. As Jesus is quoted as saying, "...rain falls on the just and unjust alike."[ Romans, 8:18]

The Supreme Spirit Identity, in this case, The Conscious State of "Will to Form", and/or Geburah doesn't deal in revenge----She deals in freedom of choice. She Trusts you, as the Psyche, to know that if you think a thought, and supply life-force to it (often called emotion) that you know what you are doing. This is often why we know this aspect of the Divine Feminine as severity, for you get what you "think you are" and she judges not if it is a thought of folly or wellness. Freedom to choose our own thoughts, makes us a Psychosomatic creative, that is, our Psyche (Soul) runs and describes our Soma (Physical body) ! The repercussions of cause and effect, manifest as and in your body, and the law of attraction produces "like attracts like" which many call luck, good or bad.

If you followed the Gnostic Qabalah axiom of "Above all things, know thyself!" you wouldn't have any difficulty with "freedom of Choice": However, due to belief in the divisions of the Patriarchal thought process, the union of your will and self-identity has been corrupted by the axiom of the Patriarch, "Divide and Conquer"; here our souls are divided from our bodies, by worshipping a religion or state. These are the false prophets and false idols, most theologies and governments warn us against, which is very clever, for by warning us, we are focused elsewhere and can't see that they are the very ones we must not follow or worship! So now most people have forgotten their Divine-Power of Limitation and Wholeness, becoming powerless and scattered, lost in the forest of Ruler-identity-propaganda used to design "slaves of the state".

The Adjustment card is the Path of Lamed, between Geburah (Severity) and Tiphareth (Beauty) on the Tree of Life. Adjustment represents the Faithful Intelligence of the Great Mother, who has faith in you as Her Divine Children...who may wander off and forget themselves, but with the proper "goading" (Lamed means--ox goad.) they will find themselves again.

Adjustment is the Ruler of Balance (operates from Binah- through Geburah, both aspects of The Great Mother) and maintains the outpouring of energy so that the "innocent child" (The Fool card which has been called the "Holy Ghost") will operate within the confines of a natural pattern: The Pattern of , I AM ME. Not what others identify Me as----but as I Am identifies Me as. You see that is Free -doom, the Anglo Saxon word that the English freedom is derived from. To the Anglo Saxon, Free-doom, was a declaration against slavery. For "Free-doom" means, "I choose my own death" and therefore is the meaning of freedom. Freedom of choice is "my choice", and if I choose to react to the identity enforced on me by "others" (the enemy of freedom) then I am doomed to the dysfunction of that thinking. If I Know Myself as I was identified to be by the Divine Collective....which is also process of "I think--therefore, I am", then I am functioning in the Natural State of our Divine inheritance!

With the knowledge of the natural flow of Adjustment we know that balance will be made so that energy will always flow to the living Spirit (Spiral Energy-Entity) through the balance of Spirit-Mind,-Body union. If that union is interrupted by incongruous thought patterns of fear such as "I lack" ...the lowest denominator---the body, is doomed to unbalance (disease) mentally, emotionally and physically; for "I AM", the Creator of "Me", is now "I AM Lack". Because of the Soul's freedom to identify "self" any way it wants, even if the Psyche is an ignorant servant of another "master", thoughts of emotion are what that identity will produce in form. The Will is Spirit, and for it to operate Life in an expansive and liberated way, it must be willed Love of Mind and Body to keep the balanced between the Loving Mother of Form, and form's operational self-conscious. For, to seek love, is to deny you are it, a statement of "I lack" and this places you in "impoverished love", a state of low self identity that builds the consumer who is in the "pursuit of happiness"; a pursuit of unequaled proportions, for the love sought, is always "just over the next hill", or "just the next expensive thing" and the stress this constant seeking, builds in the self-conscious will doom the self to futility and disease (dis-ease).

Self- Love is the balanced flow of Creation, throughout the Tree of Life, because it is the pattern of The Supreme Spirit Identity recreating it's Self-Images in order to expand and liberate Self-Awareness as "The intimacy of being Alive".

Because of this Faithful Love of Her Children, those of us who contact the Anima (Divine Feminine) by mentally journeying on the Path of Lamed, may decide to bring ourselves in to balance, but if we do not, it will be done for us as an act of "Tough love"! Much like driving a vehicle that has an automated correction system on board, if the driver won't adjust the steering wheel to stay on the road, the Natural Automated system will!

Being constructed of the Psycho-dynamic principle of Spirit-Soul-mind and body, all must be united in a balance of communion, an Understanding of Impeccable Being that is continual up and down the Tree of Life. As above so below, is not a far off metaphysical concept; for it is the conception of YOU as if the Qabalistic Tree of Life is a birth canal of Psyche! So being Faithful Intelligence, The Divine Mother of You will always make the adjustments necessary to get Psyche, and body on the right track, whether you like it or not! Once one understands this Universal Law of Freedom of Choice, one will always "Treat others as one wishes to be treated" for they now know to think ill is to be ill....and by thinking ill of those who think ill of us, just transmits the disease into a plague of illness where no one is well. Again, there are no enemies, only another way to be us. Let each other Be...is a very good motion! You cannot escape your thoughts for they are "how your Life Forms" so let's make them the best they can be, we'll then find our lives to be balanced and smooth flowing no matter how many rocks are out there! As the Tao states, " If it isn't here---It isn't there. If it is there, it is here. For what is here is there and what is there is here." Remember, our thought project ourselves on the Mirror of Life, and to create Monsters outside of us (There) creates Monsters inside of us (Here) and the Great Mother of Life...will supply the necessary surgery to remove them, so that her children can expand and liberate themselves from self-condemnation. Knowing thyself---helps us avoid the discomfort of this surgical-severity.

THE PATH OF LAMED: Adjustment-key 8 (Justice-Key 11 in many other traditional Tarot Decks ):

Primary Path Color: Emerald Green
Related Sound: F#
Astrological sign: Libra (Cardinal Air)
Word Meaning: of Lamed is Ox Goad
Hebrew Letter-Simple Letter: Work

Esoteric Title: The Daughter of the Lords of Truth; The Ruler of Balance.

Paul Foster Case wrote in the: Thirty-Two Paths of Wisdom: The Twenty-second Path is the Faithful Intelligence, and is so called because by it spiritual virtues are increased, and all dwellers on earth are nearly under its shadow.

Between Tiphareth (6-Beauty) and Geburah (5-Severity) lies the Emerald Green Path of Lamed. Lamed-The Ox Goad- is the spear like prod which keeps the ox moving down the path which points to the letter's special relationship with Aleph (0x) on the Path of The Fool. Although complex, their relationship can be stated: Adjustment (Justice on some cards) maintains the balance of the Tree of Life, so that the outpouring energy of The Fool (often called the Holy Ghost) will operate within the confines of a natural pattern. Adjustment is the administrator of the laws of Binah (Mother of Form), written by The Heirophant. Key-8 is therefore, the "Ruler of Balance".

Adjustment-is the IntelligenceFaithful to that symbolized by The Fool; the alignment of forces of the Twenty Second Path is an amalgam of all the Paths and is described as being within the essential life force symbolized by The Fool.

Lamed can be a Severe Path, as it is continual activity "in the above and the below" and will do whatever is necessary to bring the physical, mental and Soul/Psyche into equilibrium. Sometimes a "cutting away" process represented by the Sword, which is not always pleasant. The Sword of Geburah, that is shown in the center of the personages on both the Thoth and Night Sun Tarot cards, represents the part of our Psyche that cuts away all that which is unnecessary. Often, this surgical adjustment is less dramatic and much like driving a car, Adjustment/Justice is constantly correcting direction through slight corrects of the steering wheel, while traveling down the road of life (the "steering wheel" for driving an ox is an ox goad). This car analogy continues, when one understands that the Sephira (God Forms) are aspects of the soul itself who is the driver of the body-vehicle and not the external agencies that self-conscious likes to blame for its own folly. Thus, this "driving" process is to be considered psychologically as a condition of self-assessment.

In this Card-key 8-Adjustment/Justice , on many traditional tarot cards, the soul weighs itself on the scales in the left hand and then makes necessary adjustments wielding the sword in the right hand. However, In the Thoth Tarot, She balances the Scales on Her head, symbolizing a psychological balancing, of both the Alpha and Omega (Beginning and the end). In the art of the Night Sun Tarot, the figure is balancing the white oval of life in the Left hand scale and the black oval of death, in the right hand scale; Left being the female side, "Will to Form" and right being the masculine side of "Will to Force".

By placing the Sephiroth on the body that is facing the Tree, it can be seen that Geburah (Severity) is on the left and Chesed (Mercy) is on the right. This placement is the proper way to view the "Adam Khadmon" as "facing inward" rather than some artistic formats that place Him, the Soul, facing outward on the tree. For only in "inward" traveling of our Psyche, can we find the Tree of Life and it's many paths to wholeness.

Also in palmistry, if one's right hand is considered the primary hand, the left hand is seen as one's "receiving" feminine hand, while the right is considered their "giving hand" or masculine expressive hand.

Often this card is said to represent Karma-an often misunderstood Sanskrit word. Instead of meaning that a soul is reaping what is sown from past lives; Karma means to myself and Paul Foster Case, an action of continual adjustment. It is related to education; Lamed-The Ox goad, means to teach, and though many of us lament the maintenance of balance, this balancing is definitely a learning process. Slowly and sometimes, painfully, we learn how to analyze and re-balance ourselves as necessary for different situations.

In the Hermetic Qaballah, it is understood that the principles of the Path of Adjustment maintain Tiphareth-Beauty; beauty being a harmony. On the Thoth Deck Card the Principle of Balance is depicted as the figure of Maat, The Egyptian Daughter of Ra; The Queen of Heaven. The Egyptian texts suggest that that it is through Maat the the Sun subsists, for Ra is said to "rest upon Maat," and to "live by Maat"---in other words, She maintains Tiphareth (The Sun/ Son of Goddess/God). This is the Path that regulates Divine Life Force (Sex force). Aleister Crowley called Maat a Harlequin, " the partner and fulfillment of THE FOOL." On the Thoth Tarot, She stands in the Vsesica Piscis (the diamond shape). Behind her is the throne of spheres and pyramids, in groups of four which means "Law and limitation", which sums up the Qabalistic Tree of Life.

The Goddess, is also known as Venus, and The Planet Venus, is the only planet whose symbol encompasses every single Sephira on the Tree of Life. This implies that Love is the ultimate power of the Universe and is the Law. As Maat, she wears ostrich feathers, with the serpent Uraeus, (Lord of Life and Death) on her forehead, She also holds the Sword of the Magus (male phallic symbol in this context) which suggests a sexual union, and the "completion" of the female (Crowley).

According to Crowley, this Lovely Lady a standing on her toes, is the feminine compliment to the Fool. The Letters Aleph (The Fool) and Lamed (Adjustment) constitute the secret key of the Book of Law, that is the basis for a Hermetic Qabalistic system so deep and sublime in meaning, that I recommend investing some time and money in obtaining Crowley's- The Book of Law!. Because she is the partner of the Fool she is shown as dancing on her toes, with a hint of Harlequin.

In 777, Crowley described the "completion of the feminine" as "The Woman Justified by equilibrium, and Self sacrifice is the Gate." Her Scale , weighs the Alpha and Omega (The All) and as Crowley pointed out," She is the ultimate illusion which is manifestation; she is the dance, many-colored, man-wiled, of Life itself. Constantly whirling, all are possibilities are enjoyed, under the phantom show of Space and Time: all things are real, the soul is surface, precisely because they are instantly compensated by this Adjustment. All things harmony and beauty; all things are truth; because they cancel out." This Path takes some study.

As mentioned before the Woman Goddess is also Harlequin; she is the Woman Satisfied, she is fulfillment of the Fool. She is also the ultimate illusion, which is manifestation. She is the many willed and many colored dance of Life itself. in which there will always be a balance kept by equal and opposite reaction, life and death. The Thoth Deck Card may illustrate Maat, but it means Karma, the Hindu Goddess.

As stated, Adjustment, is at work continuously in the above, The Greater Universe, and the below, our individual soul/personality. In other decks this is Key 8 Justice; However it is numbered, this powerful, natural equilibrating function occurs in our bodies, as they balance nutrition continuously to maintain proper operation as power tools for Spirit. And Adjustment is also an equilibrating function that occurs in our personalities, making sure there are no constant extremes of behavior that keep us from operating effectively in our environments. In the Personality Adjustment is done by natural force and reason.

To go forward, the Soul is measured when it "stands"in the Divine Light of the Solar Logos, shown as the golden All Seeing Eye of many "I"s, that is , Tiphareth, the sixth Sephiroth on the Tree of Life, often called the "Christ Light". Only in this Light (bright and warm intelligence) does the dual- edged Sword of Geburah, do its work; pruning away the perspectives which are not worthy of Her Divine Child. Here the Sword's pommel is in the shape of the zodiacal sign of Libra, signifying that it is the Sword of Geburah and/or Goddess of Justice. Pythagoras taught that the iusticia and aequitas (justice and equity) are"innate attributes of the feminine nature principle".[Rose,116]

The figure of Justice on the Night Sun Tarot, is presented as androgynous, suggesting the concept of the Roman praetor (judge) who "gave expression to justice as the organ and viva vox of Bona Dea-Fauna-Fatua. Thus tying him to the primordial mother, which enabled him to observe the practical justice of the ius natural, the equity of the left hand, often in opposition to the strictly formal masculine logic of the civil law. The Alpha and Omega symbols are also shown on bottom left and right of the card.

The image of Maat as presented on the Thoth card,

is a suggestion of the Maat legend as the "Daughter of Ra", relating her to the Sun God (6th Sephiroth-Tiphareth-Solar Logos). Her Qabalistic name is "Daughter of the Lords of Truth" while the Egyptians also called her the "Queen of Heaven"; all of these names pointing to the fact that this Severe Faithful Intelligence is the regulator of the Path of the Sun/Son and/or the Christ-Buddha consciousness that is our Soul. Hence, the Egyptian texts suggested, through Maat the Sun subsists, for Ra is said to "rest upon Maat" and/or to"live by Maat". In Qabalistic terms, this means that the principles of the Path of Adjustment maintain Tiphareth---The Bright and Warm intelligence of the Solar Logos, The Real Person, our Psyche. In the Whirling dance of space-time, we often forget that the Mirror of darkness which reflects this illusion of Life, making all things real, is the Soul which is a microcosmic collective of "living" experiences. All things are beauty and harmony; all things are Truth, because they cancel out. That is why the head dress of Maat bears the Ostrich feathers of the Twofold Truth and the personality is weighed by the Soul with it's first and last act as counter balances!

To reiterate: Since Ra is known to the ancient Egyptians, as the source of all Light, the Qabalists know Ra as the Fool or the Path of Aleph, who is the Source of All Light . This makes it possible to say, that Aleph rests upon the Path of Lamed, making Lamed the regulator of the Path of the Divine Life Force. That is also why I teach that "The Solar Husband is invoked by the Great Womb'". This may startle some men who objectify women as an object of sexual desire for dominance and control, for it is well known to both Tantrics and practicing Qabalists that the Life Force, and/or "Sex Energy" is invoked by the Great Female, to regulate and establish balanced expansion and liberation (Tantra) of her Life- Forms. The Form of Him came from the Womb of Her, i.e. "Ra is said to live by Maat." The Lord of Lightning servers the Great Magnetic-Ocean Mother. To put this simply, The Great One (Kether) became Two, by the process of adjusting/balancing Knowledge (Chokma) and Understanding (Binah), thereby, realizing He/She as "One who is Two" and thereby established the equilibrium that produces and maintains all things. We know this as the symbol of infinity and/or the Mobius loop.

The downward pointing Phallus and testes headdress on the female figure of this card attests to this understanding of Kether, as Ra who lives by Maat. This is the Judex and the Testes of Final Judgment, symbolic of the secret course of judgment whereby all current experience is absorbed, transmuted, and ultimately passed on, by virtue of the operation of the sword, to further manifestation. Those who Skry this card will not be unhappy that they did so, even if Geburah/Justice wields her sword in quick bright strokes, the discomfort of emotional burdens, the burdens of perspectives, just fall away and the skryer feels all "Warm and bright". Because she balances the First act and the Last act, she is to understood as assessing the virtue of every act and demanding exact and precise satisfaction. She is the very image of "Love is the law, love under will". Every form of energy must be applied with impeccable integrity, to the full satisfaction of its destiny. That is why I counsel my emotional reactive "Me" with, "Get over yourself and get on with You, impeccability is what we do!", whenever it forgets the Soul's demand for impeccability in loving thought and action, for these are the action's that drive life forward, ever expanding and ever liberating itself from past error.

There are a large compliment of Planets involved in the Adjustment/Justice card.

First is Venus, which rules Libra.
Mars is related because of the purging forces of Geburah.
The Sun, as stated above, is involved not only because the Path of Lamed runs from the Sun to Mars, but also because Adjustment (Justice) must take place in the clear bright light of Truth.
Saturn is exalted in Libra and finally:
Jupiter which is the planet of Chesed (Mercy). By acknowledging that Libra is ruled by Venus, is also to acknowledge that behind Adjustment stands the Empress, the primary path of Venus, which is the perfect equilibrium between the forces of Chokma (Wisdom) and Binah (Understanding). It is interesting to note that the planet Venus refers to all of the Sephiroth and encompasses every single Sephira on the Tree of Life. The implications being that Love is the Ultimate Power of the Universe: Love is the Law of Attraction.

The imagery on the Thoth card is all about "law and limitation", as symbolized by the throne of spheres and pyramids in groups of four,behind the Female figure. She is best described in Crowley's book: 777, as "The woman justified. By equilibrium and Self-Sacrifice is the Gate." He goes on to state; "She is the ultimate illusion which is manifestation: she is the dance, many-colored, many-willed, of Life Itself. Constantly whirling, all possibilities are enjoyed, under the phantom show of Space and Time; all things are real, the soul is the surface, precisely because they are instantly compensated by this Adjustment. All things are harmony and beauty; all things are truth because they cancel out." Crowley understood, that the Soul, is the Mirror that our image is reflected in and it is by the Adjustment of perspectives, that our healing comes from. This may be why when the medical journals state, "83% of all healing, is by placebo". I AM Psychosomatic Life, i.e., Me.

When the Thoth or Night Sun Tarot card is thrown during a reading, the querent is experiencing or will experience:

The making of a final decision.
Judgment and sentencing by a determination of an issue without appeal on this plane.
The querent is experiencing "What you put out, you get back".
The Law of action- reaction, where the natural forces of nature reach a balance within the individual, setting things right.
The balancing of opposites.
Karma.
It is eternal justice and balance.
Strength and Force are being applied to create a balance, but this is arrested as in the act of Judgment.
Depending on the combination of other cards, this could also mean the more mundane reality of legal proceedings, a court of law, a trial at law etc.
The Adjustment card promotes the "Butterfly effect", as all equilibrium must and will be obtained. Any disturbance will be balanced by an equal and opposite reaction.
What you put out, you will get back.
Think well, think love, and all will be well in thought and deed. Love is the Law of Attraction.

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THE PSYCHIC PATH OF YOD: A comparison of the Thoth Tarot- Key- 9-The Hermit and The Night Sun Tarot-Key 9-The Hermit.

* Primary Path Color: Yellowish-Green

* Musical Note: F

*Meaning of Yod: Hand

* Astrological sign: Virgo

* Hebrew Letter: Simple Letter-Sexual Love

* Esoteric Title: The Prophet of the Eternal, The Magus of the Voice of Power.

(Dr. Paul Foster Case) Thirty-Two Paths of Wisdom: " The Twentieth Path is the Intelligence of Will, and is so called because it is the means of preparation of all and each created being, and by this intelligence the existence of the Primordial Wisdom becomes known."

The Path of the Hebrew letter- Yod, is represented as The Hermit-Key 9 and connects Tiphareth (Sephira # 6- Beauty. Also known as the Christ-Buddha center) and Chesed (Sephira # 4-Mercy. Also the Architect of Manifestation). The Path of Yod is the very point of origin of our manifest Universe, it represents the self-sustained primal beginnings of manifestation. A direct contact with the Divine Source of All-The Divine Creative.

Virgo is attributed to the Twentieth Path and the Hermit card. Virgo reminds us that the Hermit "be ever-virgin, pure, and totally innocent". It represents a gateway to the bridge between Macrocosm (Macroprosopus) and Microcosm ( Microprosopus) which give it certain qualities of Daath (knowledge) represented by the very isolation of the figure. To look upon this figure suggests to me, Diogenes in search of the honest man---maybe even Moses emanating his rays of light.

This solitariness is even defined in the word Hermit, which comes from the Greek word meaning desert. It is a known fact that during the third and fourth centuries, extreme asceticism and societal withdrawal where considered a means of perfection. Many ascetics lived in the desert to achieve this. As our understanding progresses along the Tree of Life, we see how more important it is that we let the card suggest such images as they will. Images of a desert, is a very potent one. As a concept, the desert is an expanse of earth as indefinably vast as the ocean and as we consider Binah in the image of deep, dark, endless waters, we are able to see the desert as a crystallization out of Binah's vast sea of Unconsciousness. The Hermit is the same expression of energy conscious as the Fool; The Hermit, is at once the wise old age of the Child (Horus) and the virgin beginning of a new sequence.

The Hermit's principle is one of union. The Hermit represents the first point of awareness by the Higher Self and/or Real Person, with that of the Supreme Spiritual Self (Greater Self of the Buddhists) this is explained by the most erotic of imagery (As in the Hindu Tantric Temples). However, this is not the outer sexuality of coition, for this card is the essence of isolation and singularity. Therefore, the Hindu god Ganesh, with his "phallic" trunk would represent the Qabalistic Hermit. This is "self-contained" and "self-sustaining" sexuality of the Anima and Animus; the inner Soul- dance of polarities attributed to communion of Chokma and Binah and or Shakti Shiva, (The Red Cloak on both Hermetic Tarot Cards shows his roots with Binah), which makes all form -alive! Hence, the Yod is considered to be phallic; it is the Male-Fire (electric force) which rushes out toward the Female-Water (magnetic force) . A Yod (hand) is the All-Father in manifestation below the Abyss, which is related to the Logos (word of God).

On the Tree of Life , Tiphareth (6-Beauty) is the Logos center, an objective link between subjective-Creator and objective- Man (as above so below). Remembering that the Paths are subjective and therefore Arcane, the link with the objective is on the Path of the Hermit. This is to say, that Tiphareth is the objective center that can only be understood as transitional energy subjectively on the Path of Yod. To look from above down, by rising above Tipareth toward Chesed, on the Path of the Hermit, is to see subjectively ---and experience of "spiral hind-sight". The Hermit on both the Thoth and Night Sun Tarot, is carrying a lantern of his "own inner Sun", or "enlightenment".

The hand is, man's ultimate creative tool, hence, attributed to Yod and The Hermit is the very hand of the Divine Creative. On The Thoth Hermit is the Orphic Egg wrapped in a serpent, that represents the ancient Orphic Mysteries interpretation of the Cosmos encircled by the Fiery Spirit, i.e. Yod. This Fiery Spirit is shown as the Serpent Staff of the Night Sun Tarot Hermit.

On the Thoth Tarot illustration of the Hermit, the three Headed Dog (Cerberus) that "guards the gates of Hell"--has been tamed by the Hermit. The spermatozoon image, on the Thoth Tarot card, represents the Yod energy in the material world, while the completely hidden staff transmits the sexual force. Aliester Crowley stated, "In this Triumph is then the entire mystery of Life in its most secret workings. Yod=Phallus=Spermatozoon=Hand=Logos=Virgin" . The Lamp refers to Tiphareth, and makes a statement about the very nature of Light. The Yod is The Hermit, Heh is The Emperor and Vau is the Hierophant and all are functioning to the side of the Pillar of Mercy on the Tree of Life--a trinity from Chesed to Tiphareth to Chokmah, and back to Chesed. Thus we have a very valuable subject of meditation.

The Tarot Card of the Hermetic Qabalah-Key 9: THE HERMIT.

You may have noticed the different spellings of the Hebrew letters when interpreted in English----Kaballa-Qaballah-Qabalah-Caballah or Yod-Yud---this is because there is no real English spelling of Hebrew Letters so spelling is up to the interpreter. The Letter Yud is spelled as Yod in the Qabalah as in: The Path of Yod-The Hermit; 9th Key.

The Biblical story of Yod (Yud) is about Yosef [Joseph] :Then Joseph said to his brothers,"Come close to me if you please", and they came close. And he said," I am Joseph your brother- it is me, whom you sold into Egypt. And now, be not distressed, nor reproach yourselves for having sold me here, for it was to be provider that God sent me ahead of you. For this has been two of the hunger years in the midst of the land, and there are yet five years in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest. Thus God has sent me ahead of you to ensure your survival in the land and to sustain you for a momentous deliverance."

--Genesis 45: 4-8

The story of Yosef--defines the Hebrew letter Yod. A young man was sold into slavery by his brothers because of his magic ability to foretell events in his dreams. This form of clairvoyance, disturbed his brothers, so they plotted to dispose of Yosef---but for a profit! So they took him out to the desert and sold him into slavery. Upon coming home they told their father (Jacob) that he was killed and showed him the blood stained special robe of many colors as proof. The Tarot Hermit Card represents this story well with its depiction of a lone man in the desert carrying his own lantern of light. We know by reading the story of Yosef, that instead of bemoaning his fate, Yosef "knew himself" and with this inner trust that nothing happens without a "good" (God) reason to stay open minded and therefore, use his talents as needed.

Later, because he was fearlessly able to use his abilities to interpret the Pharaohs dreams, he became a court adviser, and was able to help his starving family survive. He could have sought revenge, although he did ask for an apology; However, when he saw the remorse of his brothers he forgave them.

Therefore, the Tarot- Hermit reminds us that to live in the past, is a "wanna-be-person", a phantom personality rooted in the past can't live today nor is it able to be open to the opportunities that are presented to it. Since its eyes are focused on the past, this past personality is unable to see in the now of the moment and is not a Real Person. A personality that carries its own Light, (enlightenment) is a personality of the Now, and of the Soul/Real Person. Hence, such a personality trusts the Inner-Light that radiates it, and knows that "things happen" for a life expanding purpose. This Story of Yosef and the Power of Yod, explains the introspective Tarot Hermit.

The story of Yosef represents those dark moments in your life when you are confused, misunderstood, underappreciated and depressed by events. During these moments of spiritual and physical darkness is when we must look toward our own "inner Light" that leads us forward in Life. The Power of believing in yourself comes from a knowing that your life is full of purpose (God doesn't create what God doesn't want) and everything that happens to you is for a life-motion expanding purpose. Recognize your uniqueness, and that your special talents can be applied to expand and liberate your world from the past limitations. Meditate on the Power of Forgiveness, and release yourself into the World of "I Am" rather than the death of "I Ain't", that living in the past as a "self denial" can only give us. Be the only one who defines you-solitary in your self-trust, and walk in the deserts of individuality undivided from your Soul----Soul and body are a erotic communion of "I Am Me"! Only your inner Self can Define your outer-self in this functioning communion---you are not man-made---------you are a Spiritual creation! " Above all things, know thyself!"

The Tarot- Hermit is an expression of The Fool, same energy that is at once wise old age of the Child (Son/Sun of God) and the virgin (Virgo) beginning of a new sequence. However, it is often difficult for the Student of the Qaballah to understand that Yod is also the simple letter meaning: Sexual Love.

Pre-eminently this card is one of union. It symbolizes the first point of awareness by the Higher Self (Yosef) of the Supreme Spiritual Self (Yod) that can be explained often in only the most erotic of imagery or in "sacred symbols", such as the Lingam-Yoni images of the Hindu or the more subjective lemnistrate and/or Mobius loop of the Magician card. But this card is the essence of isolation and singularity and is not about sexual coition. The sexuality here is self-contained and self-sustaining as it is the Communion of Two High States of Conscious Energy. Higher self and Supreme Spiritual Self. The Higher Self being the builder of The Personality, while the Supreme Spiritual Self is the Expression of Spiral Energy----The Serpentine Conscious Energy. Yod is related to Kether as Kether is isolated at the top of the Tree of Life, and is self-contained. It also forms the graphic root for all of the other letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Therefore the Yod is also phallic. It is the Male-Fire-conscious that rushes out toward the Female-Water-Unconscious. One cannot escape the erotic imagery which is often depicted On Hindu Temples but it is rarely seen as one individual divine creative who is made of two states of Spirit; One that is expressive and one that is receptive.

Again, the beauty of the Tarot Trump, is that they are subjective and require a deep inner contemplation to begin understanding the flow of Force and Form in the 99.6% invisible Self. For instance, Yod means Hand which is humankind's most creative tool when linked to imagination, the most creative Mind. The open hand represents the primal beginnings of manifestation since before anything can be built by human beings the hand must be open to grasp the tools necessary to begin.

In the Thoth and Night Sun illustration we can see the Hermit has grasped the Light. Thus the Hermit represents the Hand of God Before anything is created by humankind, we must have the idea or conception of a thing, that percolates out of the vast sea of consciousness that is Binah (The Scarlett Womb-man) who is represented by the Red Robes of the Hermit. The hand of God is a title also know to be that of Moses, who led his people out of the desert into the promised land. Often, the Hermit, who is Grandfather of the masculine trinity of Son, Father and Grandfather, is related to the Christ figure, but he is better related to the Hebrew pathfinder Moses, who led his people across the Egyptian desert. In fact, an early Gnostic sect, The Simonion Gnostics, that had taken its name from Simon- Magus, first described in the Acts of the Apostles, that the Logos was objectified as Moses. These second century Gnostics taught that the Book of Exodus was an allegory of the soul being led by the Logos (Moses/Hermit) through the desert of human life into the spiritual promised land. Many of us of the Western culture, know the story of Moses as a Thaumaturge (Arch-magician), whose staff is a wand of enormous power that can strike water from rock and turn into a serpent upon his bidding. The "Magi's wand", turning into a serpent force, is an allegory that refers to the use of Kundalini (Yod) force by the Adept Magician. This serpentine force is a Sacred Fire that is the essence of the Logos transmitted by the phallic wand. To a Tantric, this wand would be called the Divya Linga: Divine Lingam. This Divine lingam is shown as Mose's serpent staff on the Night Sun Hermit card.

Here the Esoteric meaning of the Hermit card seems to suggest that we need to first withdraw from the extremes of society and practice asceticism as an advance towards perfection. In fact, the very word Hermit is derived from the Greek word for Desert. Here the word desert suggests a crystallization of idea out of Binah's (Mother God) vast Ocean of Understanding, a kind of island in a wine-dark sea. But these explanations are as dry as the desert and need more intimacy to internalize them and therefore the more erotic images are presented. So no matter how the Hermit is described, it is communion, a preeminent union of Fiery Father Force from Kether (the Crown) with Binah- "will to form". The Waters of Unconscious-Imagination form force into Crystallized light and the birthing of Form. As a harmonic of communion, Beauty (Tiphareth- the Christ-Buddha center) radiates as the first point of awareness by the Supreme Spiritual Self, The Divine Anima, where she names her Husband, as the Animus (Soul) their union, to be felt internally, can only be explained in the most erotic imagery.

The Yod itself, represents the Phallus that ejaculates its fiery vibration into the Vast Red Sea of Binah The Yod, is often shown as a magician's Wand, that represents the Primal Phallic expression into the Space-Womb- conception of all Form, Imagination. That fiery vibration is often called the Word of God (Greek term: Logos), which in biblical tales, was spoken to Moses via a burning bush. Here the word of God is not issued directly, but comes through Moses as an intermediary, which is the function of the Logos, so Moses may be considered the tool of God or to more explicit, the Hermit is the Phallus of the Logos which ejaculates it's vibration of Light (vibration/idea) into the vast Dark Red inner Womb/Ocean of Binah.

The spermatozoa is shown on the Thoth card, next to the light of the Lantern that is held by the Hermit, suggesting this very interpretation. Also in the light of the Thoth Hermit's Phallus-Lantern, is the three headed dog guardian of the Gates of Hell, a Greek symbol known as Cerberus, who in this card is tamed by the Hermit and can be compared to the Passions tamed by the Hermit; Inner-Passions that if are untamed can become Hell. The one Head of Cerberus looking back, is representative of keeping past memory (me) while the two heads forward, suggest a Union that is progressive (I AM).

The mysteries of Life are truly shown in the Thoth Hermit Card, as we have Yod=Phallus=Spermatozoon=Hand=Virgin (Astrological sign Virgo). The Virgin conceptual meaning of ever-pure and totally innocent. The Hermit card is also considered the Bridge between the gab of Macrocosm (Macroprosopus) and Microcosm (Microprosopus) which simply means between the Invisible and Visible cosmos. This Bridge between the seen and unseen can also be called the Human Body, who is itself, in a vast desert of its own reality while floating in the Great Sea of Unconscious energy known as the Universal Collective Unconscious for no one is there but your own self-conceptions! We never are made to think or feel by "another". For our body is a Hermit, living in it's own waste land---what we think we feel; we cannot feel another person's thought! We may react to their thought, but that is us thinking about the meaning of their Words and reacting to our own thought----not a truth, not a real, just a self-centered phantom- perception of ourselves! If we fear (fear failure, fear inferiority, fear ability etc.) more than love ourselves, we are living in Hell! Know this self-love must be virginal, pure and innocent without narcissism which is a superiority complex; another domain of Hell.

The Hermit Tarot cards suggests that to manifest in your purity of Light, a Christos, or Buddha-Self, you must have intercourse with the Vast Dark Sea of Binah. Hence, experiencing The Understanding of the Mother of all Form and the Fiery Passion of the Father and know you are The Beautiful Child of Goddess-God (The Divine Creative). When your "I"'s (identity of three- I AM Me-the three heads of Cerberus), you'll recognize your Beauty in others, as your eyes ("I"s) are now enlightened by the Inner Love that created you.

Hence, from the deep solitude of inner contemplation, we learn that there are no "others" just "anothers" as all that we see is "another way to be me"- isolated in our own perspectives and demanding that everyone else worship them as we do, is to create a self waste land that is our own inner Hell. The Night Sun Tarot, depicts a very wild looking Hermit, much like a druid. The Serpent Wand is the "Serpent Force" that is Spirit. For Spirit is a Spiral of Microwaves. The Dark Potential of the Unconscious is all around while the lantern's light shows designs of "sacred geometry".

Both Tarot Cards suggest that it's best to understand that"only to thine own self " can we be true. Our Soul/Psyche is a mirror, so it is best to treat others as you wish to be treated and enjoy the different perspectives as fascinating experiments in Self-Awareness. As the Hermit card suggests, you can only achieve this bliss, by traveling the solitary inner desert of the ascetic and learning the comfort and peace of your own Inner core of Self. When I AM comfortable with Me, I find that I Am equally comfortable with You! So once again, we must know ourselves, for in truth, we can only see ourselves projected as a reflection in the Mirror of Binah's Vast wine dark Sea of consciousness. Therefore, we are transmitting our reality upon another, as if we created them. The Hermit can only "See itself" in the vast desert of mind and it helps to carry the Light of Love---to see where you are going---Heaven or Hell, they are both a journey in self-conscious perceptions/projections.

To those persona's who are on a mundane journey where a better credit score is the ultimate quest, this card has mundane meanings in a reading, but as a meditation device, skyring this card will aid in understanding the God Trinity of THE HERMIT -YOD, THE EMPEROR-HEH, AND THE HIEROPHANT-VAU. There is a clue to a deeper understanding in the placement of the letters, Yod, Heh, Vau, on the Tree of Life. as the letters work together as a trinity from Chesed (Mercy) to Tiphareth (Beauty) to Chokmah (Wisdom) and back to Chesed. Many rewards come to those who research, study and meditate introspectively.

In summery: The Hebrew letter Yod, shown bottom left of Thoth card and upper right of the Night Sun Tarot card, is the foundation of all other Hebrew letters, which are combinations of Yod in various ways. Being the first letter of Tetragrammaton, Yod represents the The Father who is Wisdom (Chokma); he is the Highest form of Mercury, and the Co-Creator of all worlds who is known as the Logos.

The physical symbol for him that "pollenates creation", is the Spermatozoon where one alone fertilizes the Orphic egg. Thus in the Thoth Tarot Hermit card we have the symbol of the Spermatozoon, and the Orphic egg (the Universe) encompassed by a many colored serpent that represents the iridescence of Mercury.

On the Thoth card, the Hermit is arranged in the form of Yod carrying a blazing lantern, whose central sigil is in the likeness of the Great King of Fire (Yod is the secret fire) and is the Sun/Son itself. He wears the colored cloak of Mother Binah/Understanding, in whom he gestates.

By realizing this symbolic card, we know that the Hermit is both creative and is the fluid essence of Light, i.e. the Life Force of the Universe. His fertility is shown by the back ground of wheat sheaves on the Thoth Card. And by the Serpent Staff of the Night Sun Tarot.

The Hermit Tarot card is attributed to the sign of Virgo, which is the most receptive form of feminine earth and reinforces the concept of fertility. Yet again is this theme of receptive- fertility repeated as zodiacal Mercury rules Virgo, and exalted therein.

As Psychopompos (Psychopomps), Mercury is here shown as the guide of the Soul through the lower regions. His serpent wand that is growing out of the Abyss reinforces this image of guiding light. Following him, on the Thoth card, is Cerberus the Three Headed Hound of Hell (I-AM- ME) who is tamed by his presence.

There is a reason the Trump, Keys, are called the Major Arcana, (major secrets) as yet another Thoth Deck Card, Key 9, The Hermit, show us a pictorial representation of the entire mystery of Life in its most secret workings. We are looking at the "First Fertile ejaculation of Spritual-Solar energy as visible Light" in the dark energy universe.

The mysterious formula of the Hermit is : Yod=Phallus=Spermatozoon=Hand=Logos=Virgin. To help in understanding of the extremes, the manifestation and The Method, we must realize that the Dark matter of Space is impregnated by the Solar microwave ejaculation of "living light"----but it is a type of masturbation, of "inner sex", as the Hermit exist "Within" the Dark Mother and not outside of Her, just as the consciousness exists inside the dark unconscious. To some this is more confusing than to others, so by contemplating the image of the Sun in dark space, we may gain some insight. Obviously much study outside of indoctrination is require to understand the Major Arcana.

The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.

-Michel de Montaigne, Of Solitude

Therefore in mundane terms, the Hermit card represents the Universal Principle of completion, contemplation, and introspection. The Hermit symbolizes the "wise-way- shower" who lights the way of wisdom in the experiences of life and is an invaluable inner resource for assisting us and others in our daily lives.

The tree headed dog, who is shown in the image of the Hell-Dog, Greek Cerberus, guardian of the underworld, signifies the part of our nature that things are complete (one head looking behind) before we move our attention forward. Cerberus, represents the dark inner and unknown parts of ourselves that we should explore and incorporate before wholeness of self can be experienced.

The burgundy cloak is the Egyptian symbol of blood, (The Scarlet Woman) that represents the inherent honesty and integrity (virtue) within all of us. It pays to remember that we inherit the great Wisdom, Integrity, and Virtue of the Divine Creative and through introspection and contemplation we can "Remember our Divinity".

Astrologically, the Hermit is Virgo, as shown on both cards. Virgo is the zodiacal sign that represents attention to details, organization, and beauty.

The egg wrapped in the serpent, is called the Orphic egg and symbolizes the ability to give birth to new spiritual and physical forms. The Yod is the All Father, Chokma and the PATH OF YOD, is the manifestation before the Abyss which is related to the Logos (Word), that is objectified as Tiphareth on the Tree of Life.

To some the term Logos or Word, is confusing; However, the Word/logos represents that vibratory will/ force which continually stimulates manifestation.

This stimulation also energizes the principles of form (Binah) which it has produced. Thus Kether, the Crown, the origin of Fiery Spirit, is seen as the One that from itself produced Two which refers to the Electric (Male) and Magnetic (Female) forces of the One Electromagnetic Energy. There is a lot to wrap your brain around here, but that is mostly true of all the symbolism of the Major Arcana.

The Thoth and Night Sun Hermit card, shows the lone figure cloaked in the Red of Binah, showing that he is rooted in the Great Red Mother, thus describing the motion and activity that is essential to the Yod which is the Intercourse of Chokma and Binah and the purifying flow of menstrual blood, a universal substance of rejuvenation. The Universal-blood flows to Purify idea/seed, she then conceptualizes energy into form (Understanding). Here, Wisdom (Chokma) is objectified by Understanding (Binah).

The concept of the Cosmos encircled by the Fiery Spirit (Yod), is shown by the Orphic egg, wrapped in a serpentine image of the spiral energy, nurturing the Universe.

The image of the spermatozoon, represents the Yod energies in the world, while the staff which transmits sexual force (Kundalini) is totally hidden on the Thoth card but is represented on the Night Sun Tarot card

I wonder, has it ever occurred to common man, that if you divide the spirit (Will) from the sacred- body, that it only leads to enslavement?

As Crowley states in his BOOK OF THOTH, "In this Trump is shown the entire mystery of Life in its most secret workings. Yod=Phallus= Spermatozoon=Hand=Logos=Virgin.

Finding out why the Divine Couple of the Universe worked for over 14 billion years to build below, in the Malkuth World of Physical Mater, a Divine Image called Hu (Chinese for God ) Man (Hindu word-Manas: meaning mind) i.e. YOU as Holy Spirit, will help establish Spirit body Union and the axiom "Above all things know thyself!". A lot of Divine work went into the making of You----and a lot of man-made history has been devoted to the Pavlovian process of demeaning yourself so that you could be ruled by those who can't rule themselves; slaves are but a bottom line profit. Something to ponder, as your self value flounders around in debt-slavery, trying to make "ends meet" and you try to understand the mystery of the "Holy Spirit". One Clue for understanding, is that All Being, is of The One Spirit, and if you don't have a Human-Spirit Body---you aren't whole!

The Night Sun Tarot Hermit, looks much like a Magus or Magician so I think it is best to see the correspondence between them.

Correspondences: 9-The Hermit & 1-The Magus.

The association of these cards with Astrology is in the sign Virgo and Planet Mercury.

In astrology Mercury rules both Gemini and Virgo and in Tarot Mercury corresponds to both the Lovers and the Hermit.

The astrological form of the Hermit is I learn and the astrological motion of the Magus (magician in some tarot decks) is I seek myself through what I serve.

The corresponding Rune-stones are: Hermit-Jera, the harvest rune-stone, beneficial outcomes, and the span of one year. Also, the Magus-Algiz, the rune of protection, the spiritual warrior, the one whose battle is with himself.

The associated primary colors Yellow-Green, Secondary colors lime-green. This correspondence of the Hermit and the Magus is also associated with the Third Chakra (solar plexus) which governs will power, wishes, metabolism, humor, wisdom, ego, reactions, ideas, intellectual analysis, and fear of rejection. The Third Chakra is the spiral energy of the intellect.

The stones/minerals associated with this correspondence are: Peridot, moldavite, jade, jadeite, aventurine, green kunzite, green containing tourmalines of uvite, feridavite, verdelite, watermelon-yellow green fluorites and chalcedony.

Musical notes for the Hermit-F and for the Magus-E.

Letters of the Qaballah are: Hermit-Simple letter- Sexual Love (English translation) The Hermits Path is : Yod , The Intelligence of Will. The symbol of meaning is : Hand.

Qabalistic letter for the Magus; Double letter- Life-Death and the Path is: Beth, the Intelligence of Transparency. Symbolic meaning-House.

The plant essences: The Hermit- Sage, wintergreen, and caraway. The Magician- Dill, lemongrass, sorax or Benzoin.

The psychic energy involved in the correspondence of the Hermit and the Magus, is associated with meditation and the ability to surrender the conscious mind to the super-conscious (self to Greater Self) which unlocks exploration and knowledge of the whole self for the expansion and liberation of the personality from self-imposed limits of knowledge and understanding. In other words, the key to "Holy Spirit". Therefore, skrying is enhanced when all these mineral, plant, and musical note correspondences are used together in one sitting.

To be an excellent reader of Tarot-a Tarot Seer- we must remember that the conscious mind learns only by association. From letters, to word, to idea, all of which is an association in the subconscious mind. A correspondence that has taken effort and years to the point of automatically producing associations with out any conscious effort.

The conscious mind functions solely through associations/correspondences in everything it learns, and thinks. Sharing common associations produces success in communication which is why we have a "school system". This is ability to see correspondence also aids the Tarot Seer in communicating messages from the Invisible (Divine) to the querent (asker of questions) so that clarity in communication is served. Messages from the Divine are in energetic form and must be given image to be understood by the process of association. To someone who is not a Qabalist, this all may seem "deep" which communicates too much effort to some, but to the diligent seer---deep is where we reside.

When the Hermit card is thrown during a reading, it implies:

That knowledge is needed, meditation and prayer are to be used to hear the inner self.
A deep desire to follow that which is meaningful and/or heartfelt to you.
Time to gather enough data and information in order to sort things out.
Introspection which may require you to withdraw from others or the usual environment in order to gain the perspectives needed.
A stage in life where Wisdom is sought.
This is a great card for skrying, as it is of the Inner Wisdom that we so much need to KNOW OURSELVES!
That knowledge is needed in the querent's life and having the need to listen closely to the "master within.
Contemplation, introspection by means of meditation is a method of achieving such a goal of inner wisdom.
The querent is or will be soon experiencing wisdom long sought and obtained from Above (enlightenment from the Inner Self). In other words, Divine inspiration.
Also there is a suggestion of knowledge needed by the querent who must listen closely to the Inner Self in order to obtain it.
We have here the Principle of introspection, of completion and Space/Time.
The querent themselves, may be experiencing the up-welling of the inner mediator, sage, philosopher, and/or wise man, within, and thus manifesting them in their life.
There is also a suggestion of detaching from others, so that one may gather data and information in order to figure things out.
The querent may be experiencing the need to analyze, or understand their role in life, or in relationships be they, in a group setting such as job, or family or even in a spiritual group, etc.
This is a card of attainment rather than a journey or quest as The Hermit shows us that we must have the strength to lose our man made outer self (our-self- of man-made definitions) before we can find the Divine Self within.
This card is hard to ill define...since even "being Lost" and alone in our feelings, is the beginning of "seeing the light". For being lost and alone in yourself, means you know that you "don't know who you are", which is the beginning of "letting go and letting God' reclaim your identity as " another way to be Me".
It is about the principle of introspection, completion and space.
This is representative of the deeper marriage of the Divine within ourselves, and is often a message that more knowledge is needed.
This is definitely a "above all things, know thyself' message.
The Hermit represents the inward search to find personal truth, where despair, isolation, as well as, accomplishments and gains, must be accepted.
Also, Personal Integrity, The I AM Me, which is always be true to you.

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The Thoth Tarot-Key 10- FORTUNE and The Night Sun Tarot-Key 10- The Wheel of Fortune: are called the Path of Caph or Kaph (meaning: Fist) and runs from Chesed (Mercy) to Netzach (Victory) on the Tree of Life. This path is on the side of the Tree of Life called The Pillar of Mercy, and connects the Personality to the Higher Self (all Sephiroth above Tiphareth are in the Higher Self).

The Path of Kaph, has a mediating function as the planet Jupiter is assigned to this Path. Jupiter, is also said to govern the flow of blood, thus reinforcing the mediating function of Kaph.

The Hebrew letter Kaph or Caph, is a "double letter', meaning that it is a union of opposites; riches and poverty, which are the natural fluctuations of Jupiter's forces on this path. Since this Path is one of the "Gateways to the Soul", the riches and poverty here are of the Psyche itself.

The meaning of Caph (Kaph) is fist, and refers to a completion of an activity, such as, the closing of a circle or grasping comprehension.

This is a cycle, albeit a closed one, the Wheel of Fortune or Fortune is considered a flow of Karma, which is a state of you get what you put out. The Wheel is an important symbol of the Mysteries, besides that of a prayer wheel, it is also the cycle of birth, death and rebirth.

Therefore, this is not a roulette wheel of chance and accidents, for in Qaballah, it is known that we are solely responsible for our own destinies which the words "freedom of choice" imply. The Wheeling motion of Fortune supplies us with what we earn, which can be pleasant or unpleasant and the words freedom of choice imply that; for Free Doom, the Anglo Saxon root of the English Freedom, states " I choose my own death".

The interchange of opposites is what makes the wheel Spin, in this case, we have, the Feminine-Geburah- Severity, and the masculine Chesed- Mercy, interchanging their forces and form. This interchange of opposites, is shown by the Ten Spokes on the Thoth Tarot card, symbolizing the Ten Sephiroth on the Tree of Life which is a continuity of Force and Form, in equilibrium.

In his work, The Thirty Two Paths of Wisdom, Dr. Paul Foster Case calls the Path of Caph, the Intelligence of Conciliation which would best be seen as a gyroscope, two wheels interlocking within each other, spinning in opposite directions, for this card represents the mediation of activity between rotating and/or moving opposites. The sense being that there is a cyclic and rhythmic motion of activity, as well as, cause and effect. This motion of interlocking wheels is shown as gears linked and driving the Night Sun Tarot -Key 10-Wheel of Fortune card.

What is interesting here, is that on the Thoth Deck Card, the Sphinx is seen as the stabilizing element in the midst of change and is positioned on top of the Wheel. The ancient Egyptians used the Sphinx image as the Pharaoh, usually vanquishing his enemies, with lion like power. Later on the Greeks, modified the Sphinx by illustrating it as a women on a male lion's body. Thus, the Sphinx came to represent the union of mankind, with the raw power of the animal kingdom, and a balance of male (electric) and female (magnetic) in the same form and therefore the Soul/Psyche of the individual. Again the union of opposites, is the birth place of all Power. The Night Sun Tarot, depicts a clock work driven marionette, as the stabilizing element. Implying Fortune's link with Time.

The Qabalistic concept of the Sphinx is that it is the Synthesis of all Elemental Forces, much like the Pentagram symbol of Man, where the Spirit is the Fifth element above and added to the four elements of the Kingdom. In fact, among the documents of the Enochian Mysteries of the Golden Dawn, the Sphinx has four forms, that of a Bull, Eagle, Man and Lion. These four faces are also describe by Ezekiel in the Biblical interpretation of his vision. The Thoth Fortune and Night Sun-The Wheel of Fortune, are a glyph of perpetual motion where the flying Eagle balances the Man; the roaring Lion counterpoises the laborious Bull.

As stated:

the Sphinx represents the stabilizing element in the midst of change. It is both the balancing phase of cyclic energy and the guardian to the gateway of the Mysteries, holding the secret of life and death. Thus the Sphinx is a gate guardian of the Path of Caph/Kaph (fist) as it is both that through which one passes in birth or death, and that which controls the passage.

The Sphinx symbolizes the directing aspect of the Higher Self in Tiphareth (beauty) and/or The Soul of the individual and being a Gate Keeper, it is protective and keeps the Personality from absorbing more force than its system can handle.

By correctly answering the question of the Sphinx, which is an extension of the Greek Axiom, Man, know thyself, implies that one is ready to pass through the gate of inner consciousness. As in the Oedipus legend, once correctly answered, the Sphinx throws itself back into the Sea which to a Qabalist means that the Gate keeper is no longer needed and is reabsorbed into the vast Ocean of the Universal Collective Unconsciousness (coined by Dr. Carl Jung) that created it. If the initiate can't answer the Sphinx's question, they are "slain" , which is the protection part of the Sphinx, as it sends back those personalities that are unready to pass consciously beyond the restrictions of time/space.

The dog faced monkey , on the left side of the Thoth Fortune- wheel, is in reference to the Plutonian, Cynocephalus. Cynocephalus is the not only the companion of Thoth but also the symbol of time and eternity. Thoth, being called the Lord of Holy Words, by the Ancient Greeks and Egyptians, is the inventor of writing and scribe for the Gods who records the results of the weighing of the Souls on the Path of Lamed (See past blog on the Adjustment Card). Thoth is also said to divided time into months, seasons and years. Thus his companion is Cynocephalus, the symbol for time and eternity. In a nut shell, the Words of Thoth are the vibratory patterns that turn the Wheel of Fortune. The Night Sun Tarot-Wheel of Fortune uses a Marionette, driven by a clock work, for its symbol of time and eternity.

Being quite esoteric here, the Wheel of Fortune means that when the Higher Self, that brings the Elements under control, bestows upon the Personality that which "knows itself": faithful companions that are the "words of the Logos" (vibratory patterns), freeing the Personality from the General Wheel of Fortune and/or Karma that governs the "sleeping souls" who "above all things" don't know themselves.

The idea of Fate, is shown on the Night Sun Tarot-key10, The Wheel of Fortune, as a back ground of the I-Ching hexagrams.

The Thoth

Tarot-Fortune card, depicts the interaction between the Sphinx, Hermanubis and Typhon; Hermanubis is a dual god, combining Horus and Anubis and is written as Heru-em-Anpu, meaning Horus as Anubis. Sword in hand, Heru-em-Anpu is often depicted in mythology as the slayer of Typhon, who is illustrated as a snake and crocodile shaped image on the Thoth Wheel. Typhon was of Greek origin and was involved in the wars of supremacy of the Gods, but as time develops the complexity of Myths, Typhon became the dark aspect of Osiris known as Set, the combination of these symbols plays out the counter-changing influence of Light and Dark energy. In Quantum physics, Dark Energy is the Pushing Force, the "vibrations" that spins the universe and pushes it outward. This may cause one to wonder if "death" is the pushing force for Life.

Therefore, the Tarot Wheel of Fortune, or Fortune- key -10, represents the fortunes of the Soul. It is a Karmic card that some misinterpret as "punishment for past sins", but that is in error. The reason for Karma, (originally a Hindu Goddess) is simple, Wisdom comes from creating, see the error in that creation, and then correcting it. All manifested- creation has error in it, even personalities, because forms are built out of a type of entropy-containment, i.e. Time, which impersonally decides the creations end. Hence, Fortune or Fate, is invariably linked to the Second Law of Thermodynamics where: "...all things proceed from order to disorder.", and creations are things (Personalities are made of self-thoughts), even thoughts, which are called the first material of alchemy and Qabalah, are"things" and are made of Conscious Energy, that is why they can be expanded and liberated, but never successfully repressed, as energy can't be destroyed. To repress a thought, is akin to trying to compress water or cage a Lion....sooner or later it will break its bonds and the" rage" built our of bondage will kill all in its path. So instead of trying to repress thoughts of anger, a Conciliatory extension of that thought must be made, such as, " Boy this makes me mad, but in truth nothing makes me, I am mad because I am not getting my own way."

There are many messages of "Know thyself in this card", first and foremost is that this is a card that represents the Soul's journey as a builder of personality. The Soul builds Persona's out of a type of fractal of the past experiences with life. The Path of Kaph (Caph) runs from Chesed (Mercy) to Netzach (Victory) on the Qabalistic Tree of Life (can be spelled, Kabbala, Cabbalist, etc.) and it is the Path between the Personality and the Higher Self.

In Dr. Paul Case's text, Thirty two paths of Wisdom, Fortune is called the Intelligence of Conciliation because it has a meditative function and that meditative function belongs to the Soul (the meditating Buddha, within) . The Hebrew word Caph or Kaph, is of a double meaning--Riches and Poverty, and as a Gate Way of the Soul, this means riches and poverty of the Soul/Psyche. A Soul is Rich in Personality creation and growth, when it expands and liberates personality from survival thinking but impoverished when survival thinking runs the body and decides the personality. However, the double meaning of "for every action, there is a reaction", can't be escaped, for to create riches, is to also create poverty.

When that Gate Way of Kaph is open and Higher Self knowledge is free flowing into the Personality (built of many personalities over time and stored in the Soul) the Personality is expanded and liberated from the Karmic Wheel of survival thinking which is often shown by remembering Past Lives. Even though the Brain will have and has had one life and no other, the software created by the Soul to operated an Alive being in the name of Life, is kept and passed on to the next body! In other words, the Real Person, finds out that the Artificial Intelligence it created, works! Hence, it passes it onward to operate yet another "living experience of Self Awareness" as a type of "wet ware". In other words, I Am experiences its name of I AM ME, only in a movement of entity. Entity, in physics, is described as a "point in time". The Tarot Wheel of Fortune/Fortune then also represents the Alpha and Omega of personalities.

This can be considered as the nature function of Jupiter on this path, as he, is often considered to be the Great Teacher and The Lord of the Force of Life and so the wheel of fortune is considered to be the symbol of Life itself. It is the Duality, of Female/receptive magnetic force and Male expressive-electric force that spin this wheel, and that is why the Greek Sphinx is shown sitting atop the wheel of Thoth's Fortune tarot card, as it is a androgynous figure, representing the Soul/Psyche. The Night Sun's marionette, can also be considered androgynous, albeit a somewhat sexless piece of word sculpture. The wheel represents the duality of all functioning Life; (Alpha-Omega, light and shadow, riches and poverty, electric-magnetic, Female and Male, etc.) The Soul then is the Intelligence of Conciliation as it mediates between the opposite to continue the flow of Intelligent energy in the Universal Tree of Life.

The Sphinx is also the traditional Gate Way between the life and death of a Personality. When the Personality can successfully conciliate between opposites, it is a kept intact and is then passed through the Gate of Life and Death, keeping full memory of its past and moving forward into the present. That is why some Archetypal personalities are named on this planet, for they keep showing up throughout history as teachers, healers, and/ or Gnostic Souls, whose personalities and Soul immortality are linked in a conciliatory flow of Life Force, that continually expands Self-Awareness. Rotation of the Wheel of Life cycles, is then considered a sequence, something which begins and ends and begins again. This is rhythm, a kind of periodicity that is cause and effect and can be considered the domain of the Causal Intelligence (Causal body of the Human Aura), the Intelligence of Cause. The human Soul can be seen, often by intense Prana Yama yoga training, as the Human Aura, composed of 8 "Beings", therefore a type of Fractal of Self-Awareness of the Higher Self. To forestall any comments, most people say there are 7 Auric Beings, but that is because they have confused the body with separation, as if some kind of infection. The Physical body is an Auric Being as well, for it too is comprised of the light spectrum! Besides, living condensed forms of matter, are the Soul's life-work!

The Higher Self or "Real Person", does judge the personality's work. If the Personality is flexible and able to preform under extremes, in Life's Great Work, expanding and liberating the alive from self perceived limitations of operation, it is not "put into the sleep of death", which is a form of anesthesia, and "operated upon". Rather, this Artificial form of Soul, is allowed to continue on the Path it is so successful on. Therefore, to be mentally expansive and liberated, in a world where operations of form are often restricted by rules and violent enforcement of those rules, that personality becomes too valuable to "put to sleep" and it is sent in again, and again, often many times, to help in the evolution of personal presentations of Life. This also means, such a personality begins operating more than just five senses, but also is endowed with the Soul Senses, which we often call Psychic abilities. The Soul is an ardent believer in"Don't fix it if it ain't broke"!

The Sphinx image represents the Soul as a regulatory intelligence as it regulates the amount of information, from the Higher Self, that the personality can absorb without overpowering it with "too much information". This action of the soul, is similar to how the atmosphere of earth regulates the amount of solar ultraviolet light that can reach the surface of the planet, thus protecting planetary life. It is nice to know that the Soul is a Sphinx-Mother and that it adores it's personalities enough to pay attention to them, but this attention is of no use to the Personality unless it pays attention to the Soul. Again, the Qabalistic axiom of "Above All things Know Thyself", has great meaning here!

Now unless surrounded by Trump Tarot cards, The Wheel Of Fortune/Fortune, doesn't speak of "personality incarnations" but rather of good or ill fortune on the Querent's personal daily wheel of life. Hence, the reading will convey the personal Soul's advice to the Querent, often by showing opposites in their life that must be joined to succeed.

It is also important to know that personalities are not your Soul, they aren't really you at all, just Artificial Intelligence, that is used to operate the wet-ware of Life. The Soul is in all actuality, a Solar Evolutionary Intelligence, while the human body, although a genetically modified animal form of earth, made to "channel" the Higher Frequencies of The Solar Conscious, is originally operated by the "instinctual mind" of lady Earth. There are many errors to be solved in the "animal survival mind", and as Psyche of the Star's, we have created an artificial persona, a "ME", that is supposed to connect the Above Conscious of the Sun's/Son to the below conscious of the animal kingdom, therefore allowing the corrections that are necessary to expand and liberate the survival mind from concepts enforced by mortal- limitation. Hence, welcoming the "Animal Mind", i.e. "The Beast Prince", into the more advance mental-immortal realms of Psyche.

Your Real Person is composed of "many" and your consciousness can actually "step back" into your Soul-Observer and see the error (s) in personal perspectives that keep your personality from preforming optimally in the operation of the wet-ware that is your physical body. Thus, each of us are able to take full responsibility for our actions or inaction, whatever they may be, and expand and liberate our very own personal software from dysfunction. Hence, we are not subject to the "fate of a nation", unless of course, that Nation is our master, an artificial stand-in- authority for our own soul. We are not alone in our dysfunction, we are loved and observed by our Very Soul/Sun, personalities are It's children, and often as children they need guidance from a more experienced source. We often call this guidance, Fate.

Great fortune in astrology is attributed to the Planet Jupiter and the Tarot Card of Fortune is Jupiter's card. The Hebrew letter correspondence is Kaph, the palm of the hand, which is how fortune is read by palmists. The planet Jupiter, is not just considered good fortune, rather he is also the incalculable factor of luck. Therefore, the

Tarot-Key 10-Fortune or The Wheel of Fortune, is often referred to as "The karmic wheel of Life".

Representing the Universe in its constant state of change, the Thoth Tarot card of Fortune shows a background of distorted stars, as would be seen from a spinning platform. Some are light, some are dark, all are united in balance, issuing lightning that blaze through the firmament in blue and violate plumes. Suspended in the midst of this churning, swirling mass, is a ten spoked wheel (representing the 10 Sephiroth of the Tree of Life) and the sphere of Malkuth (Kingdom), indicating governance of physical affairs.

The Tarot images of the Three Forms of Energy that govern the movement of phenomena, are the Sworded Sphinx, Hermanubis, and Typhon. Representing the four Kerubs, the Sphinx is a composite of , the bull, the lion, the eagle and the man which also correspond to the four magic virtues of, To Know, To Will, To Dare and To Keep Silent. The four alchemical elements, summed with a fifth, called Spirit, form the pentagram.

In Alchemy, the Sphinx represents the element sulfur and is temporarily exalted at the top of the Wheel. Held in her paws is a roman short sword. The simian element dominates in the god Hermanubis, seen here climbing up the left side of the Wheel. Even though he is a composite god, in this instance, Hermanubis represents the alchemical Mercury.

In Egyptian Qabalah, the God Typhon, depict as the crocodile headed and serpent tailed beast on the right side of the wheel, who in the primitive world represent volcanoes and horrifying winds also represents the alchemical element of Salt. In Mythology, Typhon angered Zeus who blasted him with lightning bolts, thus making Typhon the father of hot and poisonous winds who also begets Harpies. One would think that interpretation ends there, but in truth, lightning which destroys, also begets, leading us to understand the Unity of Supreme attainment and the delight of reconstruction from destruction. This could also be understood as the logic of Karma.

It behooves us to understand, that no matter how dense and dull a phenomena maybe, a time will come when it must stir. The end and reward for our efforts may became lucid quietude but in the Universe, that pause soon degrades into the original entropy and/or original inertia. Thus, the correction is Changing the motion of comfortable atoms, so that carbon atoms of the living do not become carbon atoms of entropy, id est, diamonds.

All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination.

- Ruth Ross, Prospering Woman

Therefore, Fortune or Wheel of Fortune card- key X (Roman Numeral 10) in the Tarot Deck, represents the universal principle of abundance, liberation, expansion and prosperity.

In this good fortune is supported in astrological terms as Jupiter represents the planet of luck, opportunity, and abundance. Hence this symbol reminds us that Divinity/Psyche is the source of all fortune and as inheritors of this unlimited substance we have to accept our positions as Sons and Daughters of the Psyche. This awakens ourselves to the possibilities that can turn our lives in more positive liberating and expansive directions.

Let us open our minds with welcome by saying:

I am a prosperous individual.

I Am the abundance that created Me.

I enjoy manifesting internal abundance externally!

From the North, South, East and West, fortune flows to me in every way that is best. For those most interested in preforming a prosperity ritual, impeccability demands a use of corresponding images and substances in a "prosperity altar" ritual of Skrying. So here are the:

Correspondences (Thoth Tarot): Key 10-Fortune & key 14-Art (Temperance on other decks).

In the Thoth Tarot, Temperance is called Art and represents the art of Alchemy and/or the combining of opposites to create balance.
The Astrological sign: Art --Sagittarius
Astrological Planet:
Fortune--Jupiter.
The Astrological form of Art: I perceive.
The astrological motion of Fortune: I seek.

Rune-stones: Art (Temperance)- Raido, communication, union, reunion, and journeys; means "to read, to interpret."
Rune-stones: Fortune- Inguz, completion, release, and sharing; the hero.
Primary Colors: Blue; (secondary colors, royal blue, deep blue, bright blue, powder blue, sky blue)
Chakra: Throat Chakra (5th Chakra) governing expression, communication, creativity, mantras, media, inspiration, self-expression, speech, sound, devotion, spiritual expression, faith, religious inspiration.
Stones and minerals: Sapphire, sodalite, lapis lazuli, bornite (peacock copper), abalone, blue fluorites, and chalcedonies.
Musical notes: Art- G#. Wheel of Fortune-A#
Hebrew Qaballah letters: Art- Simple letter--Anger. Wheel of Fortune-Double letter-Riches-Poverty
Path for Art: Samekh, The Intelligence of Probation.
The Path of Fortune-Kaph, The Intelligence of Conciliation.
Symbol of Meaning: Art-Prop. Wheel of Fortune- Fist
Plant essences: Art- Hyssop, Bergamot, Angelica
Wheel of Fortune: Cedar, Nutmeg, Clove.

Magic Abilities (psychic frequency of energy): Telepathy which is the ability to communicate across time/space without the uses of the mundane five senses. Also preque vu, the feeling of sensing something which has not yet happened, but will. The opposite of deja vu .

In the Art card, Spirit that is Female polarity of energy(magnetic) and That is Male polarity of energy (electric) are combined as Androgyny, who is our Holy Guardian Angel. According to C G. Jung, spirit appears female to males and male to females. Here we have Spirit as the Alchemist, the Homeopath, pouring the liquid of life from the silver urn into the golden urn, never losing a drop of life in the transformation from life to death, i.e. the transition of soul to its spirit.

Fortune is shown as the Karmic wheel of life. Fortune comes from the Latin fortuna, meaning, chance, fate, luck and destiny. The word Wheel comes from the Greek kyklos, meaning cycle and wheel. That is probably why the Night Sun Tarot has the marionette on a type of bicycle and the figure eight pattern of infinity and change, is shown in the tiled back ground. All life is shaped of a spiral (spirit means "spiral entity") which modern scientists have now confirmed. The Wheel of Fortune is from November 22nd to December 20th, and the Northern peoples of Europe celebrated a holiday in December called Yule, in honor of cycles, circles, and spirals of life. Yule comes from the Gaelic gule, meaning Wheel. Now it is important that one sets up the Prosperity Altar, with the Art and Fortune card for skrying, along with the herbal essences or plants themselves, and the corresponding stones. It would also behest one to use tuning forks or "singing bowls" that are tuned to the notes of the two cards, as these are the frequencies of the Psyche they operate on. One then can set up the ritual anyway they prefer, incorporating all the above. Light the herbal incense, hit the notes, and skry the cards!

THE 21st PATH OF CAPH: Key 10- Fortune.

* Primary path color: Violet

*Musical note: A#

* Astrological Planet: Jupiter

*Meaning of Caph: Fist

* Hebrew letter-Double Letter: Riches-Poverty

*Esoteric Title: The Lord of the Forces of Life.

To reiterate: The Psyche Path of Caph or Kaph, runs from Chesed (Mercy) to Netzach (Victory). Under Chokmah (Pillar of Mercy), Caph is the connecting Path between the Personality and the Higher Self.

Dr. Paul Foster Case wrote in his Qabalistic Text: THIRTY-TWO PATHS OF WISDOM:"The Twenty-first Path is the Intelligence of Conciliation, and is so called because it receives the divine influence which flows into it from its benediction upon all and each existence".

The Intelligence of Conciliation, implies that this Path has a mediating function. Jupiter, which is assigned to this Path, is said to govern the circulation of blood, therefore mediating the function of the body. The Path of Caph, is one of the "Gateways of the Soul" that is attributed the opposites of riches and poverty, which can be considered the natural fluctuation of the Jupiter forces on this Path; these are riches and poverty of the Soul itself, and not necessarily those of this earth (The earth riches and poverty are governed by the Disks); However, both are often inseparable, since we are a dynamic operation of Psychosomatic energy.

The Sphinx (shown on top of the Wheel of Fortune) represents the stable element in the midst of change (as the wheel spins) and often represents the Soul . In the tale of Oedipus on the road to Thebes, the Sphinx bared the road and ask a traveler the question: "What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?"

Failure to answer the question correctly brought on destruction. Oedipus knew that the correct answer was Man, who crawls in childhood, walks on two legs in adulthood, and uses a cane in old age or "twilight years". The Sphinx responded to Oedipus's correct answer by throwing itself into the sea, which is an action replete with meaning for a Qabalist who knows of the Great Sea of Binah, as the Universal Collective Unconscious. In this tale, The Soul, allowed the Personality, Oedipus, to continue since it "Above all things, knew itself" and knew that his purpose, as a persona, was to operate "Mankind".

Recently the Sphinx represents the synthesis of the Elemental Forces (Golden Dawn: Papers on the Enochian Mysteries). This recalls the Pentagram,(symbol of Ascended Man), which is the Spirit above the four Elements.

The Papers on the Enochian Mysteries even state that there are four forms of the Sphinx: Bull, Eagle, Man and Lion, making the Sphinx the cardinal symbol of manifestation. It is the Gate that one passes through both in birth and death and the Intelligence that controls the passage. Being the directive power of the Higher Self in Tiphareth; it is protective, and a Keeper of the Gates which keeps the Personality from absorbing more than its system of reality can handle.

The answer to the Sphinx's question is really an extension of the Greek axiom: Man, know thyself! By throwing itself into the sea, the Sphinx has shown it is no longer needed when the gate is opened; the Gate Keeper was absorbed back into the Universal Collective unconsciousness, i.e. The Great Sea of the Divine Collective Unconsciousness. The Personality is protected by the Higher Self by the destruction of those parts of the personality who are unready to pass consciously beyond the restrictions of time/space. This action can also be considered as the real death process. Those who know the nature of the Sphinx may pass consciously from one state to the next, while others fall into a deep sleep, a "destruction" of awareness from which the soul gradually awakens into a new condition. In other words to know the answer is to remember "past lives" and to not know is to gradually awaken into a new life deplete of past knowledge. As you can see, this card is vaster than just the Sphinx in mundane concepts, and Greater research is required.

In general, the card means that when the Higher Self brings the Four Elements (alchemy) under control, the vibratory patterns (serpentine forces), become our companion and we are no longer bound to the wheel. The Three figures on the Wheel of Fortune represent the "Three Alchemical Principles", which are called in the Hindu system Gunas;

Sativa (philosophic Mercury-Superconscious)
Rajas ( Sulfur- activity, passion, and desire
Tamas ( Salt-- ignorance and inertia, sub-consciousness.)

It is generally accepted that the Wheel of Fortune represents the revolution of natural phases. In the Golden Dawn papers, Mercury is attributed to Kether, Salt is attributed to Chokmah and Sulfur is attributed to Binah., i.e. "The Three Principles of Nature".

When the WHEEL OF FORTUNE is thrown during a reading, it indicates:

That in the next 10 weeks or 10 months there shall be new opportunities for creating fortune in the querent's life.
Life is moving and being busy here, so breakthroughs in prosperity and abundance are approaching fast.
Generally this is a good luck card depicting rewards and recognition for things completed.
Change.

Remember, when at the bottom of the Wheel, you have only one way to go and that is Up!

Good fortune and happiness, but within bounds.
Sometimes they will be or have been, experiencing a form of intoxication with success, which is due to change.
In the next 10 weeks or 10 months, the querent will experience the opportunity for prosperity, abundance and good fortune; a kind of fortunate breakthrough.
The manifestation of something anticipated.

According to the dignity of the accompanying cards, this is fate at work, where the querent must await the outcome of events set into motion and there is nothing more to do but to wait and observe how the universal energies respond.

There is unity in Diversity so seemingly opposite and unrelated elements are coming together creating a complete surprise in unity. This unseen summation, is what we often call "fate", because we were unable to see the outcome of our actions.

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The Thoth Tarot Key 11-Lust & The Night Sun Tarot-Key 11-Strength is represented in many decks, as the Strength-key-11 card or the Strength card as Key 8. Crowley believe that there is far more truth and magick in the title of Lust.

Upon viewing the Tree of Life, one can see that The Lust Card is not the path of Strength of Geburah ( Severity) but rather the influence from Chesed (Mercy) upon Geburah. It is also interesting to note, that the Path of Lust is balance both vertically and horizontally. Crowley judged Lust to be a more expansive term than Strength because Lust implies not only Strength but " the joy of strength exercised". To me, it is vigor and the rapture of vigor expressed in True Presence. This Rapturous Vigor represents something I call "Will to Be"; when the Soul's will to be is fully established in the physical flesh. " Beauty and Strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us!"...to quote Crowley.

I really recommend that the knowledge seeking student get: THE BOOK OF THOTH (Egyptian Tarot) by Master Theron (Crowley) where the lascivious poetry and passionate prose, start a fire in your imagination. For this card cannot be easily understood by rationale thought, it must be felt in your guts as a burning passion, to be understood.

The Zodiacal assignation of the Lust card is Leo which is the Kerub of Fire and ruled by the Sun. This card is considered the most powerful of the 12 zodiacal cards and represents the most critical operations of both Magick and Alchemy.

The Qabalistic Hebrew letter attributed to this card is Teth, meaning-serpent. The union of the zodiac and the letter Teth, produces the image we see illustrated on the Lust card, of the "Lion- Serpent" (latter to be called, Dragon who is a compilation of all animals) that combines the many headed lion body with a haloed Serpent tail.

The Thoth Lust card portrays the original marriage as it occurs in nature showing a divine drunkenness or ecstasy rather than the Strength Tarot Card traditional woman with her hand in the mouth of a lion . The Scarlett Woman, on the Thoth card (representing the Moon) is shown a little drunk, maybe a little mad with ecstasy riding upon a lust inflamed lion. This implies the creative and primitive order of energy that is completely independent of the criticism of reason. Here is the reasoning behind diversity and variety.

The Thoth Deck Lust card portrays the Will of the Aeon. The goddess is holding high The Grail filled with "the blood of Saints" (A western magic euphemism for menstrual blood) , whose whole life has been absorbed by the Grail and whose bloodless images are in the back ground of this card.

In order to understand the magical doctrine of the Aeons, it is necessary to refer to the most ancient fables, legends and of the Zodiac.

The Aeons are subject to Zodiacal procession, for instance, the Aeon of Isis (the first Aeon) was connected to Pisces and Virgo.
The last Aeon, that of Osiris, is connected to Aries and Libra.
The present Aeon of Horus, is referred to Aquarius and Leo.

The central mystery of the Aeon of Osiris, was that of incarnation, and descriptions of all god-men were founded on some mythological story of some kind that essentially denied human fatherhood to the hero or god-man (Daemon -in Greek) by portraying a animal in god form as the impregnator of the immaculate conceptions. For example, the Dove of the Holy Ghost, impregnated the Virgin Mary, Romulus and Remus (twins of Rome) where begotten of the God Mars and a virgin and were suckled by a Wolf. The father of Gautama Buddha, was said to be an elephant with six tusks who appeared in his mothers dream. Similar fables are to found in every religion based on the Dying God (the Aeon of Osiris).

The Lust Card of Thoth Tarot and Strength card of the Night Sun Tarot, is THE Qabalistic Tree of Life- PATH OF TETH: Key 11-Lust (Strength):

* Primary color: Yellow-Greenish

* Musical note: E

*Astrological Sign: Leo (fixed fire)

* Word Meaning: Snake

* Simple Letter: Taste

*Esoteric Title: The Daughter of the Flaming Sword

THIRTY-TWO PATHS OF WISDOM (Paul Foster Case) : The Nineteenth Path is the Intelligence of all the activities and spiritual beings, and is so called because of the affluence diffused by it from the most high blessing and most exalted sublime glory.

Connecting both Geburah (severity) and Chesed (mercy), The Path of Teth, forms the first path of the Microprosopus (The Lesser Countenance of the Universe known as the Microcosm) . This Path is the outpouring of energy from Chesed to Geburah in the process of creation--which is why Crowley named his card Lust-"divine frenzy"- instead of the more common usage of Strength. His most repeated instruction was to ," Inflame Thyself with Prayer" which corresponds to the Alchemist expression of, " The heat of the furnace makes the Stone."(Philosopher's Stone). Here Great Passion is a heat acquired and confined by the initiate during an magical exercise such as that of the Middle Pillar.

This is not for the impatient or "fearful of effort" and extreme passion, as Paul Foster Case stated often and repeatedly," By prolonged practice...pursued something for months and years without apparent result, those who follow the Way of Liberation (to expand and liberate-Tantra) effect changes in their subconsciousness. These changes are symbolized by Key 8 (Key 11) (Strength/Lust card) and produce at the same time the result shown in Key 16 (The Tower)."

The student must understand that the whole point of meditation exercises is an actual and subtle change in the structure of the body cells. Dion Fortune (Mystical Qaballah) called the Qaballah, "Yoga of the West"---Yoga being "communion". In actuality it is the Tantra yoga of the West. Tantra is Sanskrit for "to expand and liberate" and Yoga-meaning communion, makes the expression Tantra Yoga, mean," To expand and liberate through communion", a mutual and often lengthy process of 2 becoming 1. Indeed, I had to go through years of effort in exercises (Tantra and Qaballah) and meditation to be able to "Stand On The Path of Teth", my persona immersed in the" divine frenzy". Then to teach the Great Passion "To Be", to my students, without going into a sexual obsession. The Energy flow is as Tireless as the stars, and one's Psyche also becomes that in its expression, but only after a constant "dipping" in and out of that Fiery Passion, sometimes to points of one's own considerable frenzy, that burns away the indoctrinated perspectives of the man-made world.

The Path of Teth (Strength/Lust) leads to the edge of the Abyss---the Source of All, The Ultimate Simplicity; the paradox is that the nearer we are to the ONE- the more complex becomes the Symbolism for words cannot convey the Knowledge- flow of the "Fiery Sun" (The Fiery creative-Conscious) ! Thus Leo is the symbol of the "Sun Lion" and it is the lion which is permitted to open the Sacred Scroll of the Apocalypse. In other words, the Solar intelligence, represented by this Key, can open higher levels of consciousness beyond the Sun (Tiphareth) itself.

The symbolism of this is "Sun god" is often the image of Sun God Mithras, whose body is human, but whose head is that of a lion, showing a brute force ("divine frenzy") which may be used constructively or destructively. He is also often shown with the twin serpent forces of Masculine and Feminine, suggesting an androgynous creativity. This Path of Teth, Serpent, is the Forge of Geburah's Sword and indicates a caution that the invoking philosopher may be overwhelmed by this power. Therefore, not unlike the story of Daniel in the Lion's den, he must hold back the destructive power of the Lion through force of will; a will that strong takes time to develop and is not an over-night sensation; it takes time- often a lot of it. I have students protesting this, yet they haven't even developed the will to stop being a "want-to-be" as their personality's reality, is still that of desire yet, the Path of Teth, the Lust/Strength card, is called the "Lust without need of result". . You must be an undaunted "I AM" to wield the PRIMAL Will of one who Controls the Lion! But the fact that their Personality, and/or animal ego, is fighting to hold onto its delusional past of "survival thinking", AVOIDING meditations and "sex" rituals---shows that it sees the danger of Real Sun/Son before it and fears its personal survival! Now those of cultural mind must willfully proceed, by overcoming the inner trickster who tries to waylay them with excuses why not to meditate or skry on a tarot card. Meditation on The Cards aids us in releasing the false self and become the Real Person!

In Alchemy, the symbol of the lion has three forms;

1-The Green Lion, the energy of nature before it is purified and subjected to the will.

2- The Red Lion, the force of nature under perfect control (The controlled energy flow developed by Tantra Yoga) which is the Alchemical Sulphur (solar energy) combined with Mercury (will).

3- the Old Lion, the completely purified consciousness, linking the Soul with the Higher Spiritual Self which is "older than time itself."

Because of the inexplicable knowledge of this Path, words tend to develop confusion rather than clarity, as often the symbolic Lion -Sun, is at one level, the Kerub of Fire, symbol of the Four elements, but this is not the same flow as the lion of the Sun's Spiritual Fire and/ or Kundalini, which is also a Serpent (Serpentine flow) of Fire and Water, Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine, respectively. The fiery Lion-Serpent is an aspect of the Life Force, which in manifestation, is a duality of activity (masculine) and passivity (feminine). Kundalini, the Sacred Fire, is the active phase, purposely unleashed and directed by the Will of Watery Mother, i.e. Imagination. This "divine frenzy" of Lust without need of result, represents a very important initiatory formula dealing with the Serpent Power (shown on the Lust Card as the Haloed Serpent Tail) which is used to stimulate the various centers of energy in the body (Chakras). There are seven Chakras which are activated by the Lion-Serpent Power. Hence, this taming of the Lion by the "Womb-man" in the Lust Card, means that to bring the energies symbolized by the Lion with it's head of Archetypes, under perfect control, is to open the seven- seals (Chakras) on the Book of Reality above the Abyss. Where one may know "The Above" (Supernal Triangle of the Tree of Life)--from which all manifestation emerges. This "opening" is an important Path of transition---a gateway to Daath (knowledge).

The Thoth Tarot-Key 11- Lust: In most other Tarot Decks, key is called STRENGTH; However, in Aleister Crowley's estimation, the word Strength doesn't do this deception of intelligence justice, I also agree. The LUST Card is Key, 11 in the Thoth Tarot and has replaced the STRENGTH card. The Night Sun Tarot of Fabio Listrani, places the Strength card in his depiction of Key 11 and illustrates this "Lust without need of result" as the "Wise Woman" of Primitive decoration, whose hand is in the Lion's mouth, thus controlling the consumptive need of fulfillment and satiation... need of result. The Lion is also the traditional image of Strength and power, often used by the Pharotic art of old Egypt. It is also the lion of the astrological sign of Leo.

The Thoth- Lust and the Night Sun Tarot- Card-Key 11, is the Path of Teth, the 19th Path on the Tree of Life. The Hebrew letter, Teth, means snake, which is often refereed to as Serpent Force. The zodiacal sign assigned to this card is Sun Powered sign of Leo. Leo is symbolized as a Lion, while Teth, is a Snake, the combination of these two, is the Lion-Serpent, the idea of which fostered the Chimera and Dragon images of the ancients. The Night Sun Tarot, depicts this lion-serpent, as the lion's tail jutting out between the legs of the Shamanic Woman, with suggestive serpent designs along its prodigious length. The interchangeability of the Lion and the Serpent symbols represents an important key in understanding the great embedded profundities of this card. Upper right of the Night Sun Tarot displays the Hebrew letter Teth and the upper left displays the sign of Leo. The card has a background in solar gold and magical art. This card screams Lust, rather than just Strength, hence, the mixing of images of the Thoth and Golden Dawn cards.

To reiterate: The Path of Teth, connects Chesed (Mercy) and Geburah (Severity) and channels a great outpouring of Energy from the Masculine Chesed, to the Feminine Geburah. This Great Outpouring, is the Path on which Fire becomes Light, which produces a "heated" manifestation. The Path of the Flaming Sword and/or "Flaming Serpent" is also known as the progeny of the "Daughter of the Flaming Sword", i.e. The Lust/Strength tarot card. The Night Sun depicts the Daughter of the Flaming sword, as a very convincing Barbarian Woman of Strength, along with the 5 petaled white rose of the Western Goddess, known as the "Tudor Rose". The Red colors painting this Barbarian Scarlet Woman, represent the Red Rose composition of this Tudor design. The Red Gail and the White Grail, both aspects of the Great All Mother and Divine Creative.

The Supernal Triangle is composed of Kether (Crown), Chokma (Wisdom) and Binah (Understanding), and is composed of what Paul Foster Case stated in his BOOK OF TOKENS, as the "Radiant darkness of the Limitless light." The Supernal Triangle is above the Abyss, while the Path of Teth crosses just below it (the yellow path between Chesed and Geburah). Thus the Path of Teth, Lust, is the first Path of Microprosopus (Microcosm or Lesser Countenance.) and the Primary Path of the Higher Self, linking great opposites below the Abyss.

As symbols interchange, such as the Lion and Serpent (later: Chimera), one understands that the realities these symbols represent, can also be interchanged. In truth, the 1st law of Thermodynamics states that: ," There is only one Energy that can not be created nor destroyed, only transformed," which can be interpreted as the One Spirit of Qabalah. Transformation means that Spirit can take any form it wills and in great fecund diversity, as the earth and Universe has shown. Wisdom, is represented by the snake holding its tail in its mouth (also a 8 symbol). Many of us of the western cultures, know that the Serpent was also considered the Tempter, in the garden of Eden myth. However, since it is Fiery, the Serpent is vital Life Force, and/or the Redeemer. But then the Sun itself is both Tempter, burning in its invisible heat, the tempted-nude-sun bather to near death on the beach and Redeemer, by providing Vital Life Force to all things alive.

Transformation as sex can be confusing but it should be known that without the flow of vital life force between opposites, there would be no "Limited Light", that all manifestation is constructed of. It should be noted that the "Power of Limitation" begins as sex. Thus, we have the Greater Countenance, the Macrosopos, of Limitless Light, that can only be known as Darkness or Dark Fire (Dark Energy), designing Two Self concepts, Masculine electric and Feminine Magnetic, so that limits could be produced by the interchange of Forces and Form. The Dark Light is the invisible/unseen subjective infinity of the One,(Macrosopos) and the Limited light of manifestation is the Objective, and knowable finite side of the One (Microsopos). The whole of which is often called by Gnostics as "The Mirror"---one side infinitely dark, the Abyss, and the other side reflective of the image of all who look into it. That could also be called the Unconscious and the consciousness.

To put this simply, The Lust of the One, by becoming Two who must always join in impassioned flow or mutual attraction to create, (electric and magnetic become electromagnetic), this union is the stuff of Vital Life Force. I think you can now see why Vital Life force, is also called "sex energy". Crowley's idea of Lust as the joy of Creation experiencing its strength, is right on the button. For only in the Human body/Spirit Mind context, can the Divine Creative experience its Joyful Creative Strength! Hence, only through the intimacy of sensuality, can Creation experience itself!

The Lion symbol, in the context of the Qabalah, has to do with Strength and is not a representation of intellect, as it refers to the greatest strength of all, the Light of the Sun, the ruler of Leo the Lion of Astrology. The Solar Power represented in this Lust/Strength Card, can open the Higher levels of Consciousness beyond the Sun (Tiphareth) itself. The graphic representation of the Ancient god Mithra, whose body was that of a man and whose head was that of a lion, depicts this concept anthropomorphically.

Also the Egyptian Goddess Sekhmet, was often shown drawn with a lioness head along with the Serpent and Sun crown. She was a form of The Western Isis, as the Sun sets in the West and in Egypt the West was the direction one goes upon death to the Underworld.

The Brute force of Kundalini (Serpent Force--Vital Life Force) can be used destructively or constructively, and on the very Path of Teth, flows the Vital Life force from Chesed (Mercy) to Geburah (Severity) which forges the Sword of Geburah, indicating the possibility of the initiate being overwhelmed by the power which one evokes. We are reminded

( Re-Minded) here, that as the Sun is a vital life force to manifestation, the Dark Sun, is vital to the flow of Higher Thought. Therefore, knowing your limits, will keep you from objectively becoming Sun burned in the flesh and subjectively experiencing the severity of a Mind Burn ( Emotional trauma) in the consciousness. Lust, in a Divine Creative- sense, can "burn out your low voltage earthly lights"! So the initiate must become adept at Self Knowledge, so that they don't damage their "I sight" , by expanding it beyond the "point of no return" when joining intelligence with Higher Intellectual Forces. Have fun deciphering that!

Putting aside metaphor, too much Sun/Vital Force and/or Kundalini can be psychosomatically dangerous, so that is why the Tantrics, and Gnostics, go through long, diligent meditations, exercises of intellect, rituals both singular and dual and the use of philological devices (such as Tarot) so that this flow of Vital Life Force is unblocked, unrestricted (not feared), and can flow through and out into another, forming a Vital Spiral of energy flow, that Re-Vitalizes Life. So all of you who wish to experience the Rapture of Kundalini, note that the Rapture can become a Raptor to those whose "House is not built on a strong foundation" of Love, both of Self and Others. Love of Being, is what holds your molecules together, even under the rapid increase in atomic vibration that your body under goes when the "Kundalini rises " The Lust of God----is the Orgasm that never stops flowing, causing the destruction and reconstruction of all life. It is also a rapture in the individual that one can adapt to, but is never willing to stop.

Correspondences: 11-Lust & 19-The Sun.

In the Thoth Tarot, 11-Lust is the Strength or Justice Card in many other decks. Crowley and Lady Frieda Harris knew that the Lust of Creation, was the underlying Strength in the diversity of Life Itself.

In this correspondence the astrological sign is; Strength/Lust-Leo and the astrological Planet, The Sun. I know many people fear the word Lust, but it relays the tremendous passion that gave birth to the "Big Bang" and the word Strength seems to be a bit watered down. As A.Crowley wrote about the Lust card:"Migrate Energy with Love; but let Love devour all things."

The astrological form of Lust: I will. The astrological motion of the Sun: I seek myself through what I create.

Rune stones are: Lust-Uruz, the run of strength, sacrificial animals, and physical endurance.

The Rune stone for The Sun: Sowelu, the rune of wholeness and the life forces; means "the Sun." Primary color is Yellow and secondary is mustard.

Lust and The Sun are associated with the Third Chakra -the Navel Chakra- of the solar plexus that in Sanskrit is called the Manipura Chakra. This chakra indicates will power, wishes, metabolism, humor, wisdom, ego, attitudes, prejudices, reactions, ideas, intellectual analysis, ...it is the chakra of The Intelligence.

The stones/minerals of this association are; Topaz, amber, citrine, tsilaisite tourmaline, yellow fluorites, yellow chalcedony.

The corresponding musical notes are: Lust-E# and for The Sun-D.

The Qabalistic letters are: Lust-simple letter-Taste. The path (Tree of Life) Hebrew alphabet-Teth,The Intelligence of all the activities of the Spiritual Beings. The symbolic meaning is-snake. The "Spiritual Beings" are what is often called the 7 Immortals and/or Auric bodies of your Aura. However, I think this is in error, for the 8th body of your Aura is the Physical Body. It to is a Spiritual Being, called "organic matter", for it is designed of Oroboros, the Serpent that Eats its own Tail. Which is a metaphor for Organic Matter that eats itself to stay alive; a form of immortality.

For The Sun- double letter- Fertility-Barrenness. The path-Resh, The Collecting Intelligence. Symbol of meaning-Head.

The Herbal essences: Lust- Rosemary, Juniper Berry, Orange. For The Sun the herbal essences are: Cinnamon, Mandarin or Tangerine, Frankincense.

The Correspondence of Lust and The Sun produces Passive Magic which is the ability to create magic by trusting the (lust) plan of operation to the Divine Creative within. The most potent kind of magic since the Original Lust is involved and it comes with release from personal desire for one's own ends, patience through faith (trust) and power through acceptance. In other words, releasing the goal of personal wants to the expansion and liberation of Life of which you are a part of.

Again, when assembling all these correspondences, mineral, essences, etc. One of each is enough; However, each has an associating "vibration" so the greater the influence is felt with the "many". For those of you who really wish to do powerful passive magic meditation, assemble the stones/minerals in a large circle, place within that circle a pillow to sit on, the Lust Card and The Sun card as focal points of meditation, Herbal essences may be outside the circle . Have a pitch pipe inside the circle with you and blow the notes associated with both cards and vocalize your trust in The Divine Creative (Thy will be done)---then focus on the union of the Cards.

I often place four cinnamon essence-lit candles in a square and circle the stones within that square and place a bowl of water with Rosemary herb/ or Juniper Berry essence with in the circle with me. The Vibrations of Energy seem to be greatly enhanced by such a construct.

"Come forth, o children, under the stars, & take your fill of love! I am above you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to see your joy." [quoted from the BOOK OF THOTH by Master Theron]

As I alluded to previously in the explanation of the Thoth Tarot Lust card, passionate prose may better explain this card than the stolid words of academia. In fact, the scholars of the Aeon of Osiris, foresaw this coming Aeon of Horus with the jaded eyes of fear, and horror. By not understanding the recessions of the Eons (Aeon), they regarded every change a catastrophe. They viewed the Scarlett Woman and the Beast, as fearful unknowns and poisoned every definition of the Aeon of Horus with diatribes of fear filled ignorance. The Beast, is the Natural Animal mind of Earth, consisting of both the reptile brain and the mammal brain., which are awake and functioning in most people. However, the Hu-Man brain, which translates to mean God-Mind (Hu is Mandarin for God and Man-Hindu word Manas meaning mind), is either sound asleep in the majority of mankind or so distracted by conflicting thought from the Social Group Mind that it would be better off asleep.

The New Aeon of Horus, is the period of the "22nd century" human whose God Mind (Imagination +Consciousness) is awake and certain. Therefore correcting and healing the Social Group Mind of humankind, in both the group and the individual. The Theory is, that if enough of the human species "knows itself" and/or becomes enlightened, there will be a cascading effect in the Societal Group Mind, awakening the rest of the "sleeping" human species. In some fields of Scientific thought, this is called the "100th Monkey Principle" (from studies of Japanese monkeys). You may want to research this principle.

A.Crowley spent his entire long magick career pursuing the Scarlett Woman, and coined the Seven pointed Star (black and while illustration) which included the name of the Goddess, her number and letters which he spelled-B-A-B-A-L-O-N, because of the Gematria (refer to Liber XV [Magick,pp.345sqq.]. This is a great mandala for meditation and by deciphering the letters and symbols, it also reveals a Major Arcana (secret sacrament) that absolutely must be known in order to work Magick with the Great Red Binah (Scarlett Woman) and manifest The Great Work ("As above, so below"). As Crowley has stated," This sacrament is a physical-magical formula for attaining initiation.... and it is in alchemy the process of distillation, operated by internal ferment, and the influence of the Sun and the Moon."

On the Thoth Lust Tarot Card, Seven are the heads of the Beast (Lion-Serpent) that the Scarlett Woman rides; the head of an Angel: the head of a Poet: the head of a Saint: the head of a Adulterous Woman: the head of a man of Valor: the head of a Satyr: and the head of the Lion-Serpent. Behind the Beast, are the rayed circles of the Ten Sephiroth, not yet in order, as every new Aeon demands a new system of Universal classification. At the top of the Lust Card, are the Ten rays, representing the Ten horns of the Beast and/or Ten Serpent forces sent in every direction to destroy and re-create the world. Reincarnation is part of this cards mystery.

As I stated, I agree with Aleister Crowley's expansion of the STRENGTH card, into the LUST card because the Passion-The Vital Force of Universal Construction, "the motion within the movement" of everything, is the Passionate expression of the I AM As Two, who then Join to become One, often shown as a "lazy eight" (figure eight laying on its side). Represented here is the Passion that creates All, i.e. the Active and Passive Motive force of Kundalini, and/or of Lion-Serpent/Electromagnetic vibrational- Energy Spectrum. This Serpentine Force, can also be called "Serpent theory" instead of the Quantum Physics "String Theory", where every particle has a serpentine string of active and passive energy with in it. In other words, there is within all, vibratory strings of Vital Fiery Force. Thus, Lust , where active and passive forces come together, seems a more appropriate understanding of the underlying "motion" of Life.

The Kundalini, or Fiery Lion Serpent is the Vital aspect of Life Force, which in manifestation, is duality of passivity and activity in a rhythmic beat, like a heart. Kundalini is known as the Sacred Fire, when in its active phase, purposely unleaded by Willed goal.

The UNIVERSE key 21, is the completion of the LUST CARD, and you'll see the Woman figure riding the Lion Serpent on the Lust card, dancing with the Serpent Force in the Universe card. Both illustrations are veils, concealing of principles, though at different ends of manifestation. LUST is the beginning of the Microcosm and THE UNIVERSE is the completion of it. Both of these cards are of that which is Womb, at the Highest Level, the womb-man who has tamed the Lion-Serpent and the womb-man who dances in space surrounded by the Cherubim of the four elements are both expressions of that which is the EMPRESS/Binah key 3.

Again, this is a very powerful Qabalistic path and those of sensitive psyche, will be profoundly affected. One must appreciate the fact, that this Path of Teth (meaning Snake), Lust Card, is a statement of methodology, whereby the Original Will controls the Vital Life Energy. We must also remember, that the word Power, means "the ability to do work" and our body, if Loved as a master Craftsman loves and adores one's favorite-tools, gives us Willed -Power in this dimension of crystallized energy. A power to weave our very own Vital Life Force into masterpieces of Self Identity! But be warned, for "here be dragons", if your sexual desires are still kept as those of a "wanna-be" man-made personality, upon encountering the Kundalini, one will become so obsessed with sexual union, that they can't eat or sleep and madly seek sexual gratification. This could be a time for institutionalization!

This Divine Frenzy requires a focused willful intelligence, much like Gilgamesh of Sumerian/Babylonian legend (shown and explained in earlier blogs on Babylonian Tarot Cards) and not some mad hater personality, that can't even control its own thought.

I would recommend that one Skry the Thoth card only after one is capable of holding a one- thought or image focus during an entire meditation and after one has already met the "Secret Lover" within! For, any Psyche that Touches the Lust OF The Great Father/Mother (Divine Creative), will be profoundly charged, changed, and expanded beyond comfortable perspectives, all of which can be dangerous to the balance of our delicate persona.

In other words, one must be diligently trained in channeling higher and higher vibratory levels of Vital Life Force, before they "Ride the Lion-Serpent". For this "Bad boy" is not just for any rodeo rider, it is the impassioned Roar of the "Big Bang", that started it all! That is why A.Crowley calls the Traditional Strength card Lust. For even the "little lust" of the manifested (Microcosm) seems to be beyond the cultural ego's control, as most every theologian's or politician's "secret life" will show. It is hard to imagine, what the Macrocosmic Lust would do to such a weak psyche, but then again, we have historical examples in Caligula, Adolf Hitler, etc.

Lust represents a very important initiatory formula dealing with Serpent Power. This Spiraling Power is the Force that opens, or stimulates all the Chakras (energy centers) in the Human body. The Principles embedded in the Lust Card, tell us how to use this power. This is a "Divine Frenzy" which when stated Alchemically, "the heat of the furnace makes the Stone" or if religious, "inflame thyself with Prayer". The Heat applied, is the great passion within the confines of Tantric exercises, or the exercise of the Middle Pillar (Aleister Crowley's book,777), all of which I recommend the interested party research. As Mustafa Jahaladine Rumi, the 12th century Sufi Master Stated in his devotional poetry, "...I Want the Burning!"

Crowley's imagery may shock some, as he presents the Whore of Babylon, taming the Lion-Serpent but then he understood that the epitome of virginity (sign of Virgo), was the Sacred Virgins of the Temples, before Christianity, made them "evil women" or Saints, of which both perspectives were confusingly applied.

The Christian word "Whore" is a bastardization of the Greek word, Hetacrate (meaning female companion) or Horae, who acted as midwives to the Greek Gods and inspired earthly horae ( harlot-priestesses) to train men in the Sexual Mysteries. The temple dance, still called the Hora, was based on the Priestesses imitation of the zodiacal circling of "hours". Horology is Time keeping, because of the systems devised by the ancient Temple Priestesses of the Goddess. The Horae were call the "fair ones, begetter of all things who in appointed order, bring on day and night, summer and winter, so as to months and years grow full."

These "fair ones" had many names: The Tantric word for sacred harlot was Veshya (Mahanirvanatantra, 328), probably derived from the Divine Creatrix's oldest names in Greece and Rome, Hestia or Vesta, "the hearth mother" who was served by Vestal Virgins who were originally harlot-priestesses. Then, "Hearth" and "Earth" both arose from the altar of the Saxon Goddess Ertha, or Heartha, the northern Hestia-Vesta. In fact, in the matriarchal age, every woman's hearth-fire was her altar. The hearth was also the omphalos (Orphic egg), (Potter & Sargent, 201) feminine hub of the Universe, and the navel-stone of the temple, around which the sacred harlots performed their Dance of Time.

In Egypt they were the "Ladies of the Hour", in Persia houris,

in Babylon harines; among Semites they were the "whores" call hor (a hole), ancestresses of the Horites.

Ishtar ( pronounced-Easter), the Mesopotamian Creatrix, was considered the "Great Whore of Babylon",(Briffault 3, 169) who announced, "A prostitute compassionate am I."

Mary Magdalene, Priestess of the Temple of Mari in King Salomon's court (Malvern,49) stated," Not only are we compassionate of ourselves, but we are compassionate of all the race of mankind."

These ancient harlots, were revered for their learning and often commanded high social status and were considered the embodiment of the Queen of Heaven, who in Palestine was called Qadeshet, the Great Whore; therefore the harlots were honored like queens at centers of learning in Greece and Asia Minor. Noteworthy, is the empress Theodora, wife of Justinian, who began her career as a temple harlot (Bullough, 125). St. Helena, the mother of Constantine, was a harlot before she became an empress-saint.

Yet the Whore of Babylon, the Fiery Feminine Divine Creative, is not "any man's" companion, she is the Mother of the Solar-Father God or "Vital Life Force" known as the "serpent force". This "Powerful Form" of the Great Mother, is pretty well illustrated on the Night Sun Tarot.
Therefore, She is the Great Whore and no man's servant; For She is impregnated by Suns....Something more for the diligent student to investigate!

Crowley judged Lust to be a more expansive term than Strength because Lust implies not only Strength but "the joy of strength exercised". To me, it is vigor and the rapture of vigor expressed in The True Presence , The Prometheus in us all. This Rapturous Vigor represents something I call "Will to Be"; when the Soul's "I will be" is fully established in the physical flesh. " Beauty and Strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us!"...to quote Crowley.

I really recommend that the truly seeking student get: THE BOOK OF THOTH (Egyptian Tarot) by Master Theron (Crowley) where the lascivious poetry and passionate prose, start a fire in your imagination. For this card cannot be easily understood by rationale thought, it must be felt in your guts as a twisting- burning passion, to be understood: A fiery Serpent encircling your spine.

When the Lust or Strength card is thrown during a reading, it means:

The querent will be experiencing or soon will be experiencing, in the next 11wks or months; passion, awareness, aliveness and strength to overcome.
The querent is presently expressing their full creative abilities while also having a strong trust in those abilities.
There is present the Principle of Courage and Self Esteem. The inner passion of Will-To-Be- is appearing in the querent's waking consciousness.
The querent could be called an Enchantress, or is a passionate animal /nature/ helper.
The querent may also find Magical helpers through the Matriarchal Conscious that brings sexuality and language to her people. Also, knowing from the heart what is needed.
Loving passion.
The querent is relying on spiritual powers to manage the situation at hand and is receiving the strength to over come.
Following ones own inner light, doing what their "heart of heart" inner-self, says is right.
There can be an experiencing of a "gut level" driving force, instinctual and compelling for protection or survival.
Also, possessing the courage of one's convictions.
The strength of Passion, in the Higher Nature, which are power, courage, energy, action and magnanimity.
One is experiencing the Law of Self-Domination, self-rule and self control.

If ill defined, this card is about obstinacy and the negatives of the above passions with out love. Spiritual and sexual deviancy, one of which is celibacy .

Thank you for your interest and comments. May you live long and prosper!

The Thoth-HANGED MAN- key 12, and the Night Sun Tarot-Key12-The Handed man, display a curious image of Severity and the implications are very different from the previous paths that connect the Personality and the Higher Self; Severity, because this is the Path of Mem (meaning-Water) that connects Hod (Splendor) and Geburah (Severity) on the Pillar of Severity.

The Hebrew word-MEM, (Water) is a one of the three Maternals, and implies a Baptism in Maternal Waters, as the other two : The Path of Shin (Art) is a baptism in Fire, and The Path of Aleph-The Fool, is a baptism in Air. Of all these three Baptisms, the Baptism in Water (Unconsciousness) is the central and pivotal experience of the entire Qabalistic Tree of Life.

Unconsciousness, is the Alchemical First Principle, also called the Thinking Principle and is refereed to the physical image of Water because it is alike water in wave motion, and fluid flow.

The lowest expression of the First Principle, is first found, by the upward traveling initiate, as the Astral Fluid that is drawn down the Path of the Universe into Yesod, the Foundation Sephiroth. This Thinking Principle, the Astral Fluid, is found as the Stable Intelligence, by virtue of consistency, in all Sephiroth and Paths as it underlies everything that is.

Pointing downward. Hence, the Spirit is "drowned" in the Maternal Waters where upon, perceiving itself as a Soul, as an intrinsic and inseparably part of the One Consciousness. Carl Jung, who coined the phrase. Collective Unconscious , describe this Water of Mem as a "...boundless expanse full of unprecedented uncertainty, with apparently no inside and no outside, no above and no below, no here and no there, no mine and no thine, no good and no bad.". To him the First Principle of the Alchemists was also described as Water, as he states, "It is the world of water, where all life floats in suspension: where the realm of the sympathetic system, the soul of everything living begins; where I am individually this and that; where I experience the other in myself and the other-than-myself experiences me.....the collective conscious is anything but an encapsulated personal system; it is sheer objectivity, as wide as the world and open to all the world."

I would highly recommend that the initiate reads the works of Carl Jung, on the Universal Collective Unconscious, thus gaining a modern understanding of the ancient wisdom. To put it another way, in the state of consciousness of which the Unconscious is the "first state", we are "always the subject that has an object", a reality that is totally turned around in the Universal Collective Unconscious where, we are "the object of every subject", as stated by Carl Jung.

In other words, our subjective Self, I AM becomes objective Self, Me, when immersed in the Maternal Waters on the Path of Mem. THE HANGED MAN is where the invisible becomes visible.

The initiate knows that we must move constantly upward (upward is inward in Qabalah) on the Paths of the Tree of Life, for only through the hindsight gained by going to a higher Sephiroth, can we experience an understanding of the qualities of the lower Sephiroth.

The Path of Mem, leads to Geburah (Severity) which is directly above Tiphareth (Beauty); Geburah is the Fiery or Active part of the Higher Self and is shown as Red in color; the color of Mars. This further illustrates the point that Geburah is the fiery-blood- energy on the Pillar of Water below Binah. In the Thoth Tarot card of the HANGED MAN, the Womb of Binah is where the hanging figure's foot is held; from the oval of the Egyptian Ankh, which is the cross like symbol ( also called the Tau cross) of both Divine Androgyny and Infinity.

To the one who has inwardly traveled the Paths to this point, it is to be noted that the Path of Mem, the HANGED MAN, must be approached very differently than the lower paths. Here, the mediator becomes the object of one's own meditation. The individual becomes the "other" which was previously the object of pursuit; the "other" now becomes the initiate. Thus it can be said, that the personality meditates in pursuit of the Higher Self, who then becomes or envelopes the Personality of the pursuer creating a Higher Sensual Self....A self often stated as having "Magick Abilities".

The Hanged Man symbolizes the savior-god- man or Hanged God of many religions; Odin( hung on a giant Ash tree called Yggdrasil) Jesus on a cross, and Prometheus hung on a mountain. The Moon symbolizes-Mensis (Latin), Mona (Mona Lisa is old English for The Moon), month, money, menopause, Menstruation, manna, menat ( amulet) and much more. Showing us that the Moon is about Womb and the regeneration of form. That is why the Violet-reds are primary colors for all living things are "of Mother's blood", as every baby can attest.

The Thoth Tarot-Key 12-THE HANGED MAN and the Night Sun Tarot-The Hanged Man are both:

assigned the Hebrew letter Mem (bottom left of card of Thoth and Upper right of Night Sun), which means Water. Mem is a Maternal letter meaning the Element Water and the Amniotic Fluid of the Womb. This is of no surprise, since the Gnostic believe that the Homo-Sapiens is an GMO evolution of a marine mammal, rather than ape, and that the Noah's Ark and the Flood is a hierarchic presentation of the facts of life. The Sumerians, believed our "angelic" forefathers, Annunaki (Meaning: "Those who from the Sky came") spliced their DNA with a marine amphibian, which at time was the most intelligent species on the earth.

There are many scientists that also believe the marine mammal theory because of the fact we have more in common with marine mammals than apes. I would suggest you research this, as I am about the Tarot here and not seeking to become an anthropologist.

To continue : The Hanged Man represents the baptism that is also a death. Death being a transformation from one reality to another, as is birth where the Water Mammal, must become a land-mammal and therefore, "dead" to the Sea; a death in one area and birth into another. The symbolism of the Hanged Man is often attributed to Self-Sacrifice without recourse, but this is really and errant idea. In the last Aeon of Osiris, the Hanged Man represented the supreme formula for adept-ship for the figure that is hung is actually the Spirit "drowning"(baptized) in the Astral Fluid, before becoming manifest in form. The Astral, are layers of "light" where all the Forces and Forms of the "Above Sephira" meet in order to combine in a manifestation as a physical birth in the material world.

To the flesh-o-phobe, this would be the effect of spiritual purity being sacrifice to fleshy debasement.

To the Spirit, this is the way of transforming from idea of experience of Self, to an intimate Self-Awareness: from thought to discerning thought. Being in the flesh, requires Spirit to become aware of its thoughts and how they affect the living simply by the reactions of those thoughts in the very living form that "cloaks it". Think ill, be ill, think well be well etc.

Idea or visions, in the Aeon of Osiris, were considered more important than the flesh, and the destruction of bodies in the name of idea/visions (Commonly called, "...For the Greater Good") seemed a just cause. In the Aeon of Osiris , it could be said that the foundation of thought was the ruling of definition by the few who enforced definition on the many.

In this new Aeon/ Age of Horus, the idea must "expand and liberate the living from their own self-imposed limits, allowing the Foundation of Love ("Love thy neighbor as thyself') to become the "common mind", a state of Psyche, where union rather than divisionism becomes the conscious foundation of all action. As shown on the Thoth Devil card, the foundation of Earth intelligence, the "instinctual mind", is built on the foundation of "forget me not", I.e., Fear of rejection. The Soul Psyche is founded on the foundation of "I AM", a fearless statement of Presence.

Simply stated, the self in manifestation is more important than the ideas forged by self, no matter how utopian the ideas are. However, the caveat here is that, you must at first love yourself....as you can't give to another what you don't have, thus requiring that above all things you must know yourself!

The Aeon of Horus, is the age where the Hu (god) man (mind) realizes it is the child of god, a Spiritual Sacrament, and becomes the Christ/Buddha consciousness on Earth; uniting the Above and the Below. That union is seen in the Thoth-Hanged Man, whose foot is connected to the Ankh (symbolized in the West as the Rosy Cross) which is a combination of Goddess- God/Womb and Phallus, and is known as a symbol for eternal universe in a sigil of Mankind (head- arms and torso). The ancients knew that if it was made manifest, it was a truth, because Creation made it. Ideas are not a truth, unless they can become "made manifest" by the Power of Creation and/or the ability to do work. In a more personal note; you exist because you're supposed to! The judgment of you has already been made by The Divine Creative, who obviously approve your manifestation! In other words, the obviousness of your presence proves you are worthy of being! This kind of thinking doesn't bode well for those who wish to "rule you", so dividing you from your "good" by a religion made of flesh hating rules, will pervert the Sacrament of "Will to be" and will assure your enslavement. The Hanged Man illustrates that being born into the World is a baptism, not a trial to prove your worth!

The Hanged Man presents a special meaning to the adept, the legs are crossed so the right leg forms a right angle to the left leg, and on the Thoth tarot card, the arms are stretched out at an angle of 60 degrees, so as to form an equilateral triangle. The symbol thus presented is that of the Triangle surmounted by the Cross which represents the descent of light, into mater, in order to redeem it! I AM Love must become aware of itself "as being"! The process of redemption continues in the symbology of the green disks terminating at the head and limbs, representing the influence of Venus which is the planetary symbol of love, grace and beauty. You may note, that the Central Sephiroth on the Tree of Life, is called both Beauty and the Christ Conscious/The Son. The Hang Man represents the redeeming value of baptizing idea in flesh, so that it may Live and "Know itself"!

Correspondences: Key-12- The Hanged Man & Key 18-The Moon:

This card association represents the High Androgynous Self. The Moon represents the Feminine-magnetic- sub-conscious and the Hanged Man represents the Masculine-electric- reasoning conscious; their perfect union producing the Super-conscious. To the Greeks, the sub-conscious was known as Aphrodite and the masculine reasoning conscious as Hermes,; together they are know as the Divine Hermaphrodite.

The Astrological sign: Moon-Pisces
The astrological planet: The Hanged Man-Neptune
Form: Moon-I believe
Motion: The Hanged Man- I seek myself and I don't seek myself. (Again, Form is Female, and motion is Male---The Qaballah is all about polarities.)
The Associated Rune-stones: Moon--Isa, the rune that impedes, a standstill, said to be born of ice: The Goddess Isis. ( woman is magnetic---containment and container so that energy can become form.)
Rune-stone for The Hanged Man: Perth, the rune of mystery, initiation, becoming whole, forces beyond our control.
Primary colors: Violet-Red----(secondary: magenta, mauve, deep rose, wine).
Corresponding Chakra: The Brow Chakra or Third eye (6th chakra),which is the energy point of intuition, light, color, seeing (color-seeing as in Auric Seer), thought, information, inner and outer meditation (our bodies are Meditated into being), visualization, imagination, spiritual perception, dreams, fantasy, clairvoyance, oneiromancy (the ability to see through dreams)...The Chakra of purpose and patience.
Minerals and Stones: Rubies, garnets, sugalite, rubelite (violet-red tourmaline), and violet-red chalcedonies.
Corresponding Musical Notes: Moon-B. The Hanged Man-G#.
The Hebrew letters (Qaballah): Moon-Simple Letter--Sleep. The Hanged Man-- Maternal Letter--Water.
The Tree of Life Paths: Moon-Qoph, The Corporal Intelligence. The Handed Man-Mem, The Stable Intelligence
Symbols of Meaning: Moon-Back of head, Ear. The Hanged Man-Water
Associated Plant Essences: The Moon- Sandalwood, Marjoram, Melissa or Lemon Balm. The Hanged Man-Mugwort, Spikenard, or Valerian, Myrrh.

The Psychic abilities

gathered from Meditating/skrying on The Moon and The Hanged Man: Clairvoyance- the art of "clear-seeing" which is the ability to see beyond the veils imposed by the physical eyes or time-space. Oneiromancy- the ability to see through dreams---such as an Oracle and/or Oracular -sight.

The Thoth Key 12-The Hanged Man and the Night Sun Tarot-The Hanged Man, represent The Universal Principle of Surrender, Breaking Old Patterns.

The Hanged Man represents a state of consciousness that recognizes a need for a pattern break; where we recognize that we need to change our mental posture, a kind of reverse thinking, in order to get out of a mental rut that is "Baffling" us. The image is a metaphor for "upside down" thinking, as Baffling, was a medieval practice of hanging a debtor or thief by one foot from a scaffolding.

Therefore, this card may be seen as a kind of crucifixion of the self-conscious personality to get rid of egoistic patterns that are no longer constructive. On the Thoth Tarot card, the repetitive patterns of rutted thought are represented by the background of squares within squares. The Night Sun shows these repetitive rutted thoughts, are shown by a head in a cage. Behind the Night Sun Tarot's Hanged Man, is the "As above so below hexagram on a wall that is shimmering in water and the Sun light radians penetrating it. This imagery represents the Watery world of the Astral, and the Sun/light of Tiphareth/Solar Logos, shinning down into it. The Hanged man's left leg and foot are roped to the boarder art of this very art filled card. The intertwined red tipped vines are not only reminiscent of the serpent force of life itself but also represent one of the primary qualities of this card, which is gestation.

Rather than being a card of baneful potencies, when viewing the Hanged Man we are reminded that our "hang-ups" are preventing our growth and we need to free ourselves from undue self imposed limitations. The reversed cross holding the foot of the Thoth Hanged man is known as the Egyptian Ankh which is a symbol of universal life force (Union of Female and Male force) and is an inheritance constantly accessible to us for creative making (a magic term for manifesting). We often bind our creativity by thinking and doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. This is a form of insanity brought on by denial, that rejects our divine inheritance and bleeds us dry of our energy as our life force is constantly being used to repress our own motion. Therefore, in this state of blindness, we feel bound, or nailed in place and can see no way out. The solution is in surrendering to our inner-self, knowing that we weren't created to be anything other that a Divine being and that in us all is a Great Nature that creates, sees error and corrects it. Faith in oneself is not that hard to do, because we are good enough for The Divine Creative to create as It's Image--we ought to be good enough for ourselves!

The Hanged Man of Tarot, represents the Principle of Surrender in order to break old habits. The Thoth Path of Mem, THE HANGED MAN- Key 12, has a reverse figure on the card that represents the Higher Self imposing a complete reversal of perspective which is a suspension of individual consciousness. Much like the reflected image in the mirror, where one is looking at the Real non-reflected image that is now the reversed object of reflection. This is however, a willing suspension, done by an initiate's conscious effort, a type of sacrifice or baptism, where the perspective of "I Am" is cleansed of the illusions of the material world.
Because of this sacrificing of one's individual perspectives to the Greater Self perspective of the Universal Collective Unconscious, the Thoth Deck HANGED MAN is shown in a suspected state of crucifixion that images the myth of the Dying God. (Dionysus. Osiris, Odin, Christ etc.).
Some of my more observant students have asked why the Hanged Man is crucified on the Left hand Path or one side of the Tree of Life as it would seem logical to have him spanning the Tree. The reasoning behind this one sided nonfiction, is because this is an intellectual experience, as shown by the legs positioned into the upside don number 4 which is suspended above the Triangle (3) implied by the positioning of the arms. Four is the number of the Emperor Key-4 of the Thoth Deck Tarot, and represents the Rational qualities of the Mind while 3 is the number of the Empress, the imaginative qualities of the mind ( also seen in the number 12,1+2=3). The hanged image is just a positioning the rational qualities of the mind over the desire principle.

The HANGED MAN is also a form of repose, while the WHEEL OF FORTUNE is activity both of which form a balance that is known as the activity and passivity of the ONE THING.

. Therefor the HANGED MAN represents openness without end, while THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE, is the exact opposite, as it encloses in eternal motion, i.e. making a limited thought pattern and/or Form. When Mem (Water-consciousness) is closed, it becomes the Ankh (a form of the Tau cross) Therefore the Ankh, shown in the Thoth card also represents Mem reversed or "consciousness turned inward".

In Crowley's card of the HANGED MAN, the figure emphasizes the cross-triangle, and is suspended from the Ankh, being attached to this form of the Tau Cross, by a coiled serpent that symbolizes: "The creator and destroyer who operates all change". There is also a lower coiled serpent that represents the effect of the Work of God: As Crowley states in his book of Thoth: : "Through his work a Child is begotten, as shown by the Serpent stirring in the Darkness of the Abyss below him." The image of the "serpent stirring in the Darkness" on the Night Sun Tarot card, is shown as the many red tipped serpentine vines in the abysmal blackness that surrounds the Hanged Man.

As I have stated before, this is the card that shows the reversal of perspective, where the individual self conscious, reflected in the light of Solar consciousness (reflecting Psyche ), becomes the Universal Identity of the Real Person and/or Soul/Psyche that has manifested "selves" as individual identities that mimic the maker of things, i.e., the Divine Universal Collective Unconscious. This reversal of self binding thoughts, removes the caged-thoughts of indoctrination. Successful skrying of this card will reverse perspective.

When the Hanged Man Tarot Card is thrown in a divination, the Querent is:

Experiencing moments of enforced sacrifice, maybe even punishment.
the Principle of Surrender in order to break old patterns.

A time when one must accept reversals.
Depending on the dignity of the accompanying cards, THE HANGED MAN, represents a state of mystical death in the form of a change of consciousness.
If Ill defined: Loss that may not be voluntary and general suffering.

The Qabalistic Thoth Tarot-Key 13-Death & The Night Sun Tarot-Key13-Death:

1st law of thermodynamics (physics) "There is only one energy that cannot be created nor destroyed- only transformed."

What we should understand is that alive and dead are two aspects of the same state of Intelligence-Life. Being Alive is life-death cycle of recycling, as form is time-space, there are no divisions between alpha an omega. Therefore, this card represents the Universal Principle of Letting Go and Moving On. As Crowley stated: " The Universe is Change; every Change is the effect of an Act of Love: all Acts of Love contain Pure Joy. Die Daily.Death is the apex of one curve of the snake Life: behold all opposites as necessary compliments, and rejoice."

The Tarot -Death is assigned the Scorpio symbol. There are three symbolic images of Scorpio in the Thoth key which represent three stages of transformation and/ or death and rebirth stages:

The scorpion represents that part of ourselves that is willing to protect , and move away from conditions which cause pain and hurt. Letting go.
The snake sheds old skin in order to rebuild anew and grow. This reminds us that in order to transform old identities, we must be willing to let go of the old and move on.
The Eagle or Phoenix, is about vital force, of immortality and regeneration. The bird in or nature is vital free spirit who is irrepressible and ever changing.
The skeleton represents the inherent body structure that allows movement and change within our self expression as well as, it is the bones of who we are and represents our ancestral lineage and our commitment to grow and evolve through birth/death cycles.
The Crown represents expanded consciousness; where one has conquered the survival mind of the animal. To be honest all of us know we don't survive this manifestation. We move on to expand and liberate Life!

There are many esoteric aspects of the Death card, also known as The Path of Nun. The Hebrew word, Nun, means Fish, which is the symbol for the First Matter, i.e. Thought. There is also an alchemical symbol of this Path as putrefaction, which is the decaying black mass in the crucible that eventually transforms into gold and is considered a purifying trans-formative process of turning death into new life.

The Thoth and Night Sun Tarot cards symbolize this trans formative process as a scythe, a harvesting tool that is also a symbol for Time. Time is under the control of Saturn-Binah, the giver and destroyer of Life Illustrated in the Thoth card is the sweeping scythe, harvesting souls, and the transformative bubbles of new life in its wake. The Night Sun Tarot depicts the Death Goddess, Samothea, pregnant with new life; all of which, support this analogy of life giving and life destroying.

The skeleton is the frame work that holds the organs and can be seen as a seed of the body as the minerals that are attributed to bone are the "seeds" of organic forms.

As stated:The astrological sign attributed to Death-key13 is Scorpio, a trans-formative sign of three symbolic images, the Scorpion, the Serpent and the Eagle. Thus, we have the transformation of a dangerous earth-crawling creature, to a serpent which symbolizes the Astral Light, weaving its way upward to become an Eagle which is shown behind and above the Thoth Skeleton's head and as Dark raptor feathers behind the Night Sun's death goddess's head. Both symbols of Death are dancing. A dance which represents in the Death Tarot Card as movement. Movement being seen as change/transformation, which is the skeletal pattern of the Universe. For it is only by constant change can entropy be overcome.

Here is a card that first invites terror, until understood by the initiate. First, it is important to understand that this is not a "physical death" card. The Path of Nun connects Tiphareth (Beauty) with Netzach (victory) and is about the flow of Personality from the Higher Self (Tiphareth is the Energy Intelligence of the Christos) into the Imaginative Intelligence which is the seed of all thought-form. What many of us forget, is that all form is comprised of the First material---Thought!

The fish, besides being the meaning of the Hebrew letter-Nun, is also the traditional symbol that represents the first matter. Which is appropriate since all though-forms come from Binah, the 3rd Sephiroth on the Qabalistic Tree of Life. She is the Great Mother Ocean of The Collective Unconscious. The Fish is the ancient symbol for the Vesica Pisces. In this Crowley card, we see a serpent wrapped around the fish, this is because the Activating Principle of Vibration---The Father Fire/Electric force is shown as serpentine and because the serpent is another symbol for the Astrological sign of Scorpio. The Scorpion, another of the 3 symbols for the sign of Scorpio, is shown at the bottom of the Thoth Card. The serpentine forces, activate thought-form into living form.

The Thoth Card depicts a Skeleton, gaily galloping about, swinging it's Scythe of death; a scythe that represents the Transformational aspect of the first law of thermodynamics," One energy that cannot be created nor destroyed, only transformed" . So rather than an "end", this card is about the Transformation of the Real Person as it proceeds downward from the Higher Self into the illusion of the World of Matter. The Death-Key 13-The Path of Nun, is not easily understood by the survival bases self-conscious of the body, whose foundational of self-identity is based on a child's fear of rejection. To the self-conscious, death is the ultimate rejection: However, to the Soul, death is but a reboot.

The Esoteric title of this Death card is , the Lord of the Gate of Death. Pointing out that this card isn't the Transformation process itself, but directs the personality "downward" into incarnation. It is the Path of the Flaming Sword , meaning that this is the path of emanation of the Lower Creator-Energy of the Sun into matter which was shown in Genesis, as the Archangel Michael herding Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden, with his flaming sword, often errantly depicted as punishment for sin. More like an early Christian fear based propaganda ploy used to discourage the worshipping the original Moon God-Sin of Mount Sinai. Sin was born of the Queen of Heaven- Inanna, and ruled the Land of Sinim (Isaiah 49:12), which meant "land of the lunar mountain" and was an older form of Zion. The Moon was always associated with life and death, as it was both light and dark, as well as being thought to "killing" the Sun at night and then resurrecting the Sun in the morning. This belief lead to the many dying sun god (son of god) religions.

To further expand its meaning, the Qabalist know this Path of Nun as the path of which the Solar Energy Psyche of the Son (Sun) of God is transformed into the Netzach sphere, or pattern of intelligent energy that is the realm of the Conscious Rational Mind. This part of the Great Work involves psychological re-orientation where there is a perceptual change about the nature of reality and about what constitutes Self. Yet another aspect of our Transformational psychosomatic-nature that points out that how we see the outside world is merely Self viewing itself. The Psyche using the soma, to examine identity. Therefore how we mentally/emotionally identify ourselves, becomes our psychosomatic "outer image"! What we must remember here is that all eye sight is and aspect of "I" sight and we cannot see what we don't see as ourselves! I AM is the power that creates our "reality". How I identity myself ---is what I see as perspective!

Netzach, the 7th Sephiroth on the Qabalistic Tree of Life, is the progenitor of Desire Nature, as the name Victory, if examined, will reveal. The path upward from Netzach to Tiphareth (Beauty) is when the Real Person's very will to live and/or function in the sensory condition of the body, is abrogated on the Path of Death. Here the temporary nature of the sensory illusion that the personality thinks it is, is correctly self-perceived. On the upward trek on the Path of Nun, the personality undergoes a "willful" death, surrendering everything that it perceives itself to be to the "Great Unknown" of the Psyche/Soul who then shares this data with the Universal Collective Unconscious. This is the Most difficult surrender --the total surrender of life to the Creator of Life, and then to "The Great Dark Womb of Binah" but it must be done to achieve cosmic awareness and/or Your Divine inheritance. Body death, begins the process that is often called "Born again" and is a rebirth of the Personality in a expanded and liberated state that some would called "Saved" but really is just a "rebooting". For in truth, when one lets go of the possessive sensual self....they step out of the Karmic wheel of Personality death, into the Real Persona- one of incarnations remembered, and Cosmic Inheritance accepted as a Higher Self expression. A Real Person, who was meant to operate the body, before it was told not to be itself by the society and pleasure/pain trained (Brain washing) through the senses. However, do not make the error of thinking sensation is a bad or lesser thing, for to know its purpose in the Great Work, is to "Know Thyself" and sensuality is "magic" to the Soul, who has no such combination of senses, as does the human body (33 senses according to the Tantric Yogis) . Yes we have inherited many mores sense than the 5 senses of taste, touch, hear and see. For instance, a sense of balance, a sense of up and a sense of down, a sense of intuition, as sense of heat and a sense of cold etc.. When we Know that Imagination is our "Mother of Conscious", and that we Imagine our frequency of energy into Self (Psyche into Soma), we know longer seek blame for our inner pain, emotional dysfunctions, i.e., our "Feelings". Instead we know that we think a "feeling" and then the body enacts it. If we thing ill thoughts, we get ill feelings, and the body becomes the manifestation of that illness! How we felt is no one's fault but the Personality Program within the body. Our reaction to other's actions, is our own feeling and is not a creation of another.

This part of enjoying the senses fully, rather than dividing them into "good and bad" categories, is a form of "enlightenment" that is most difficult to realize. Not because we are stupid, but because of our survival mind built out of "fear of rejection" rules our sensual personality and believes in victory over enemies (those who reject us), as a character positive and wishes to be permanent master of our brains. Lucky for us, "Old Sam" (Samhiel) or the female version, Samothea, Death, intervenes, and frees us from the self- inflicted tyranny of survival thinking and we realize that the enemy we seek to conquer has always been our indoctrinated selves! Our personalities (some call ego) are not permanent, they are recyclable masks, and we can recycle them best by giving them directly to the Higher Self who created the "Beautiful Person" before they became "ugly in their own feelings". This is the Willful death, and the way to go about achieving it is "enlightenment" ...The Gnostic way of traveling. Johann Jakob Bachofen said," Maternal life moves between two poles. Its realm is not that of being but that of becoming and passing away, the eternal alternation of two colors, the white of life and the black of death. Only through equal mixture of the two is the survival of the material world assured. Without death no rejuvenation is possible... the positive power cannot for one moment exist without the negative power. Death, then, is not the opposite but the helper of Life". Like I said, "Death pushes Life along, as does Dark Energy push the seen Universe."

For those who don't know who Johann Jakob Bachofen was or is (22 December 1815 – 25 November 1887) he was a Swiss antiquarian, jurist, philologist, and anthropologist, professor for Roman law at the University of Basel from 1841 to 1845.

Bachofen is most often connected with his theories surrounding prehistoric matriarchy, or Das Mutterrecht, the title of his seminal 1861 book Mother Right: an investigation of the religious and juridical character of matriarchy in the Ancient World. Bachofen assembled documentation demonstrating that motherhood is the source of human society, religion, morality, and decorum. He postulated an archaic "mother-right" within the context of a primeval Matriarchal religion or Urreligion.

Bachofen became an important precursor of 20th century theories of matriarchy, such as the Old European culture postulated by Marija Gimbutas from the 1950s, and the field of feminist theology and "Matriarchal Studies" in 1970s feminism.

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The Hermetic Qabalah is one of those journeys up the paths of Enlightenment, back to our Divine Family Inheritance of "I AM". If you will examine the Thoth Death card, you will notice that at the end of the Scythe swing, bubbles of new life are forming showing us that The Transformation is not an end, it is a beginning into a new and greater adventure! This Tarot card has many Alchemical, Spiritual and psychological meanings , and requires a great deal of study before you can willingly die as a personality and be reconstructed by the "Sun of God" as It's Persona. We must know that as a personality, we cannot know the full extent of the "Christ within"----but the Christos knows us! To "Throw thyself into the Abyss" (often called the "Dark Night of the Soul") is to trust your creator absolutely. After all, I Am made Me manifest, which could only mean that Originally I was a Loving Expression of the Greater Self Awareness...but the constant manipulation of my definition by culture, religion, propaganda-media, and misinterpretation of sensations, has made the personality lose sight of itself, becoming lost in the Forest of babble were it blames the trees for its fear of being rejected. The Trees in the Hermetic Qabalah's forest, are the many reflections of the Tree of Life, whose leaves are the Tarot Cards and upon understanding both, we Know Ourselves and never again shall we experience bafflement.

The term "Dark night of the Soul" refers to the darkness of the passage from known to the unknown, where the psyche is striped of the desire nature and of the personal identity. This leaves a dreadful emptiness in the consciousness, almost a complete disinterest in everything. Personally, upon experiencing these Three Paths of the Dark Night, The Devil, Art and Death, there was left only a thought of despair repeating over and over again, an abject surrender of self, abolishing any other desire or thought. It was, " I can't be YOU, You must be me." The Higher Self responded to that by sending my " skeletal awareness" directly to the Great Mother Binah, who then broke down and reassembled the Personality into that of the Divine Child, and I awoke as the "Will to Be" and/or the Desire of the Great Mother of Form. This inner falling into the abyss, is a very hard journey to explain and it requires one not to be concerned with living or dying. One becomes a mechanical motion, pushing ahead with great faith, as Life's processes have no value one still mechanically crawls towards the Higher Self. Moving forward in a total darkness, where reason and nightmare dance together, my psyche moving inch by inch, the Soul (Psyche) begins the process of "putrefaction", believing, but not always so sure, that there will be light that will eventually appear and lead the way. It was a Red dot of light that appeared to me out of indescribable darkness....The Great Red Binah, "Mother's blood" the purifying Force of resurrection, bathed me and Loved me (indescribable ecstasy) and sent me back down the Tree into Tiphareth and the Fiery Light of the Higher Self. Once a Divine Child always a Divine Child....somehow we've forgotten that, and have thus disinherited ourselves by giving our personality up and becoming a cultural personality out of fear of punishment, i.e., fear of rejection.

The term "Dark Night of the Soul" was first coined by St. John of the Cross where he said."...although this happy night brings darkness to the spirit, it does so only to give it light in everything; and that, although it humbles it and makes it miserable, it does so only to exalt it and to raise it up; although it impoverishes it and empties it of all natural affection and attachment, it does so only that it may enable it to stretch forward, divinely, and thus to have fruition and experience all things, both above and below".

Upon conquering the Path of Nun, the Soul built personality is reconstructed as the Person of the Higher Self, and the emptied brain is filled with the Primary Imagination...The will to form and the Understanding of the Great "Womb with a view".

Mars rules Scorpio. Scorpio rules the sex organs. Thus this Death Card, of both the Thoth and Night Sun Tarot, represent a Sexual energy, a reproductive energy which is consciously directed in a physical exercises such as that of Tantra, or that of Crowley's Middle Pillar. The initiate is now following the "Path of the Flaming Sword" , which is both destructive and constructive and not for the weak of character, or for those who fear life's rejection.

The Death Card, during a reading, suggests Time, Age and transformation. Rarely does it symbolize physical death and only if borne out by the accompanying cards. For the Querent, this is the Principle of letting go, and moving on. A rebirth out of Old conditions. A type of transitional metamorphosis which destroys the something old to build the something new.. A Realization of Life Power as it is released from past confines and revitalized by change and regeneration.

Nun: Fish. Key 13-Death Tarot Card; Thoth and Night Sun Tarot.

The Story of NUN is best shown in the Story of Noah (Noach):

There are generations of Noah---Noah was a righteous man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.

Genesis 6:9

One "being righteous in his generation", is a relative statement. After all the ten generations between Adam & Eve and Noah were a steady stream of immorality, greed, corruption---mankind was a nasty being at the time, totally dependent on the survival mind. So Noah, who secluded himself from the culture and keep his morality---looked pretty good. Like comparing copper to silver, silver looks better. But when comparing silver to gold, gold is definitely more valuable. Comparing Noah to a modern man of goodness, well...Noah would lose. For example, years latter when God said he would destroyed Sodom, Abraham bargained with god --always trying to save at least a few people. Noah didn't even consider it, he just followed orders. His silence showed that he didn't consider others very often, if at all. This story points out that what we call morality, righteousness, and goodness, even what is considered" good or bad" action, is all relative to the times and culture of the observer. What we think is right and wrong change with culture and evolution. So being the "Best you" that you can be today, will most often change to an even "better you" in time; just do the best-you that you can today. We were never built "perfect", not because God couldn't build us perfect but because Perfection is a state of stasis; Carbon in its "perfect state", is a diamond and is useless as organic matter. Stasis, meaning "non-motion", is not how Energy Moves! Our Perfection is rather a state of motion driven by change. Hence, we are always "creating-seeing error in that creation-and correcting it." And we all know, that unless you do it, that is get your butt moving into a motion of active creation---you are unable to sense the error in thought and thus never correct an errant creation. And all creation has error---because of the Law of Entropy! (....everything proceeds from order, into disorder. --Second Law of Thermodynamics). So by being what we know best today----we'll be able to know more in the future. This is the Story line of Nun. It is about Spiritual Relativity, i.e., Everything is relative.

Everyone has relative-perspectives based on their life experiences. Often that is why one believes one thing and another believes the opposite to be true. I've personally have learned not to believe everything I think. Do it---Know it by the constructing and operating of it---not by just taking my own or everyone's word for it. Lazy minds, are from sleeping Souls who let others tell them what is right and what is wrong. These Souls experience a Dreamless sleep that is known as death. My Soul is the Skeleton with the Scythe, who continually transforms my personality by "trimming off the wasteful thought" and recycling it into greater action (The fish is a symbol of the First Matter). This "Soul psycho-dynamic Surgery" of constantly evolving thought, is frightful to a self-conscious personality that sees change as an enemy. In truth, Transformation is change, and it is the only constant in this Universe. Therefore, I trust the Soul as I know that "me" is not in-charge of this rodeo we call life----My Soul Persona is, so I respect my "I AM" mentor and do the best I can---at the moment. I Find that the best surgical device for errant thought is the Qaballah, as it is a step by step procedure into our Great Work, where we come to Know Ourselves and the how and the why the Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine (both are States of Energy Conscious-God "Electric State" and Goddess "Magnetic State") spent 14.7 billion years coming to a "conclusion of probabilities" that is the fractal of identities created by I AM that is "me". Being a dancer whose rhythm is "Alpha and Omega" that intercourses into Form, I now know that Paradox has a personality and it is Human!

THE PATH OF NUN:
Color: Green-blue
Musical note: G
Sign: Scorpio (fixed water)
Meaning: Fish
Simple letter: movement

Esoteric title:

The Child of the Great Transformers;The Lord of the Gate of Death.

This is the Twenty-Fourth Path of the Tree of Life and is called the Imaginative Intelligence, because it gives likeness to all similarities which are created in like manner----from thought into form. Our Psyche is an exact copy of this principle called Imaginative Intelligence, therefore behooving us to "do unto another as we would have done to ourselves." But this is and idea generated from knowledge that everyone you see is another way of being you; Generated from Knowledge, not belief. For belief, is subject to exceptions caused by peer pressure/i.e., fear of rejection and is a passive mind rather than an active one, as it isn't "doing" in fact it is a "non-doing" who fears change. We must act on knowledge that we have, it may not be the best, but the best you know and that promises to get better by learning from the doing, i.e. experience. Once again Trust Your Inner Self-(Soul) it built you for Life's purpose . As I like to say, " You were loved into being, praised into Manifestation and Adored as a Self-Presence"....from your True Parents--the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine! So, it's okay to be you, and remember that "you" is a continual progressive cycle of renewal. To change is exactly why you were built! It helps to see yourself as a Fish in an Ocean of Energy Conscious; this Ocean built a fish of Itself, so that it could flow through that "person" and Be Itself . Oceans can't see, taste, touch, smell or hear themselves, unless they are "within" themselves as a fish. Self Awareness, requires Energy Conscious to become a consciousness (Personal Conscious) in order to be intimately aware of its actions. The Divine Creative built it-selves (us) so it could "Above All Things Know Thy Self".

The Tarot- Key 13-Death, seems a most sinister foretelling of our future in physical manifestation. However, it is a compendium of Universal Energy in its most secret form, i.e. Putrefaction. The technical name, putrefaction, is from the adepts of Alchemy, and describes a series of changes which develops the final form of life from the original latent seed in the Orphic egg. The Night Sun depicts this "egg shape" behind the Death figure, as spiraling circles on the Golden background.

To reiterate: The Hebrew letter Nun is attributed to this card and means-fish. Fish is the symbol of life beneath the waters and/or of life traveling through the Waters of the Unconscious. We also know that the Fish is a Oceanic- metaphor of Life itself. For the fish is entirely composed of Ocean and Sun, and the fish is how the Ocean "knows itself", by flowing through its own creation of Self Identity. A definite simile to Spirit and body, and the First Material, "Thought" that floats in the Abyss of the Universal Collective Unconscious.

Zodiacal this card is attributed to the sign of Scorpio, who is ruled by Mars, a planet of fiery energy in its lowest form. Scorpio is one of the two most powerful signs in the zodiac. Leo is the other, but in this case, Scorpio is divided into three phases and lacks the intensity of Leo, therefore an impulse is needed. In formal astrology, Scorpio is divided into three parts:

The lowest part is symbolized by the Scorpion, who the ancients noted, was to commit suicide if surrounded by a ring of fire. In this lowest stage of Scorpio, the "negative person" under this sign will do the same if their thoughts are of the lowest emotional nature and/or they are otherwise in a disparate situation.. While the Kundalini Serpent is " surrounding their brain" with sexual-fiery energy any negative thought emotion that is put to will, becomes an element of disparity. This self-termination, represents the lowest form of putrefaction which is described as," the strain of the environment has become intolerable, and the attacked element willing subjects itself to change; for example, potassium when thrown upon water becomes ignited, and accepts the embrace of the hydroxide radical.".
The second or middle interpretation of the sign of Scorpio, is given by the serpent , who represents the Lord of Life and Death, as his motivation is an undulation similar to the spiral undulating twins of Life and Death. Life and Dearth are actions of responsible intelligence for the changes necessary to encourage the transformation process of the Organic Living Organism we call Gaea. The Serpent is also the principle symbol for Male Energy/Force.
The third and highest aspect of Scorpio is the Eagle, which represents exaltation over matter. This Eagle comparison may best be understood if one considers the descriptions of ancient chemistry, what the ancient chemists called the purest (or most tenuous) elements present were usually given off as gas or vapor...i,e. elements that became exalted over the base material. Thus we have the three representations in this card of the three stages of putrefaction.

The Tarot Key 13 -Death card, illustrates the trans-formative dance of Death, that is a Saturnine symbol of both Skeleton and Scythe. Seemingly strange , because Saturn has no overt connection to Scorpio; However, Saturn represents the essential structure of existing things (Time), as does the skeleton, Saturn is known to the ancients, as the elemental nature of things that is not destroyed by the ordinary changes which occur in the operations of Nature. Furthermore, the Dancing Skeleton on the Thoth Tarot card, wears the crown of Osiris, "The Dying God", representing Osiris in the waters of Amennti (amniotic fluid), The Vesica Pisces.

Yet more, he is also the original secret creative male god, whose tradition has been corrupted by the propaganda of Changing Religions, to that of "Lord Dread", a fiendish and senile symbol.

Again, it is to be noted here, that the Sweeping Scythe, is producing bubbles that represent the dancing new life forms produced by the putrefaction of the old forms. Their dance, is the new motion of life that arises, as if gas bubbles freeing themselves from the putrefaction of the old forms, who reside in stasis at the bottom of the Amniotic fluid of the Sea. This conceptualization is continued in the Fish symbol, that is a paramount illustration on this card. The attentive student will note that the serpent and the fish are the two principle objects of worship in cults that taught the doctrines of resurrection or re-incarnation ( Oannaes and Dagon, fish gods of Western Asia). Even in Christianity, the Fish represents the Christ. Even such esteemed scholars as Browning, reminded us that the Greek word, IXThUS,"...means fish and very aptly symbolizes Christ." IXThUS, was supposed to be a notariqon; the initials of a sentence meaning, "Jesus Christ Son of God, Savior". Also,The Gospels, are full of miracles involving fish, and the fish is sacred to Mercury, because of their swiftness, silvered brilliance and cold bloodedness. This again recalls the function of Mercury, the god, who is the guide of the dead, a messenger of divine will and as the continuing lasting elastic element of Nature. This is a card of great importance, that must be understood if we wish to translate the compendium of Universal Self.

When the Death-Key 13, Major Arcana Tarot card is thrown during a reading:

It is about a trans-formative moment in ones own Personality. Not a death in the family or their own. That is the paradigm of the 10 of Swords, Ruin.

That one is eliminating what is no longer in service.

Giving up your sense of self to a feeling of merging with another or The Greater Self who is both life-death.
We are pruning and composing.

The Death Card represents, time, age and transformation.
Rarely does it represent physical death, rather it is the death of the old personality by the enlightened process of Spiritual growth.
Physical death is only shown by this card if the accompanying cards support the concept. (Such as the 10 of Swords-Ruin,)
Mostly, it is the Principle of letting go and moving on, re-birthing out of old stasis conditions.
Realization of Life power, that comes from change.

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Tarot Card Comparisons: The Thoth Tarot-Key 14- Art & The Night Sun Tarot-Key 14- Temperance.

This key is the Path of Samekh, which leads from Yesod (Foundation) to Tiphareth ( Beauty); from the Moon to the Sun, from the Personality to the Higher Self.

Primary color of Path: Blue

Musical Note: G#

Astrological Sign: Sagittarius

Meaning of Samekh: PROP

Hebrew Simple letter: Anger

Esoteric title: The Daughter of the Reconcilers, the Bringer Forth of Life.

The Thoth Tarot- Art card, key 14, is a Avant- garde artistic expression of Alchemy in its purest form. What is problematic for most modern people is that they believe alchemy is an outdated or ancient form of Chemistry. To an alchemist, chemistry is about dead things, while the Art of Alchemy is creating'" living things". Because minerals and metals did not grow, they were consider excrement by the Fathers of Science. For the Alchemist, the problem then was to elevate metal to vegetable, thus making metals alive. The robe of the Androgynous figure on the Thoth Tarot card, is green as vegetation, symbolizing this alchemical allegory.

Studying the Art of Alchemy, albeit often "hidden" by mystical language, is recommended if you are to understand the subtle meaning of the combination of opposites, to get "living things" out of the dead.

In Tarot, The Key 14 Art/Temperance card is the completion of the Lovers- Key-6, Gemini, the divine twins. Sagittarius is attributed to The Art card, and is the Zodiacal opposite of Gemini, and therefore in alchemical terms, "after a manner, at one with it". Sagittarius, is known as the Archer, so a primitive form of the goddess Diana "the Huntress" and also a lunar goddess (Elaine), is illustrated on the Thoth card. The connection between the Huntress and the Moon is illustrated in the shape of the bow on the figure's shoulders. You may have noted that this figure is depicted as having two heads which symbolizes the completed Hermetic Marriage of the Twins illustrated on the Lovers- key 6, as the black and white figures are blended into one androgynous figure.

The Red Lion illustrated on the Lovers card, has become an enlarged White Lion and the White Eagle had become an enlarged Red Eagle. This illustrates a very advanced knowledge of Alchemy, where the Red Lion has exchanged His red blood for her white gluten (the theme of opposites counter-changing, continues as the Eagle turns red). In alchemy, gluten is not of organic wheat, it is a very complicated scientific formula that often takes a laborious deciphering of "mystical words" to explain.

However, some alchemists have named gluten- “white magnesia.” One philosopher translates this as “magnet of Jah,” or, the attractive principle of Divine Wisdom. This magnet is the power of attraction which establishes the orbits of the planets and the astronomical order of the heavens. It is the flow of the Magnetic-Feminine Principle of "Will to Form". It is even called the Universal action of the "Law of Attraction". To further illustrate this equilibrium and counter-change of opposites, the white woman has a black head and the black King has a white head. She wears a golden crown with a silver band, and he the silver crown with a golden fillet. Silver represents the Moon and Gold represents the Sun.

The white head on the right, is extended in action by a white arm on the left which grasps a cup containing the white gluten. The black head on the left, is linked to the black arm on the right, that holds a lance which becomes a torch pouring forth its fiery blood. Thus, the fire that normally burns up the water and the water normally puts out the fire are combined by equal mixing. This equal mixing can be compared

to a water injection system that enhances the performance of a combustion engine. Yet again, illustrating the counter-change of opposites. This counter-changing of opposites can also be illustrated in our common lives by the marriage of opposites in husband and wife, and how after time, they both modify and begin acting, "after a manner", like the other. This is similar to the alchemical distillation process, which is done by the slow process of time, as nature does it, rather than under the agitation of extreme heat, as modern chemists do it.

Hence, at the bottom of the Thoth Art card, water (Divine Feminine) and fire (Creative Father) are harmoniously mingled, illustrating a crude concept of the Spiritual idea, which is, "the satisfaction of the desire of an incomplete element of one kind to satisfy its formula by assimilation of its equal and opposite".

The Art of this stage of the great work, is the mingling of opposites in a cauldron of the Sun (gold) which represents the "Human body", also known as the "Golden Child"; the Sun presides over distillation.

Most of us know that the fertile earth is maintained by rain and sun. The process of rain is formed by a slow process of evaporation, which is carried on the air (which is itself a marriage of fire and water) and engineered by the Sun. This also illustrates the formula for continued life, which is death or putrefaction which is represented on the cauldron as a Raven and Skull ( caput mortuum). In this card, the representation of the Alchemy of Life, the union of opposites, by the heat of the Fiery Passion of Spirit (I Will Be) is stated over and over again.

Thoth Tarot-Key 14-Art & The Night Sun Tarot-Key 14- Temperance:

At first, many students find the symbolism of the Thoth Major Arcana complicated; However, the principle of the Path of Samekh or Art, is to produce a consciously controlled vision that is limited by will. This inner path, leads from Yesod-Foundation, the 9th Sephiroth to #6-Tiphareth-Beauty.

The purpose of Hermetic, Qabalistic, Alchemy, Astrology and Gnostic symbols is to furnish descriptions that most anyone can relate to. They are not remote or really complicated, if you focus on one at a time. In fact most of the symbolic language of the Mysteries, has been superseded by the language of Carl Jung and other psychologists. To Carl Jung, this ability to consciously control Visions, would be called "lucid dreaming", a process of active dreaming which is known to help the individual correct personality disorders.

Robert Wang goes on to explain, in his text book: THE QABALISTIC TAROT," It should be added that the Metals described in Alchemical literature are the same as the Seven Chakras of the Hindus, the Seven Planets and the Sephiroth of the Microprosopus [lower seven on the Tree of Life.]. These words have been used as codes over the centuries, meaning seven distinct levels of objective consciousness. Thus when one speaks of a Planet ruling a sign of the Zodiac, what is meant in the relationship of a Sign to a given center of energy both in the Greater Universe and in the Human body." (the brackets are my own explanation).

The Art of awakening these Psycho-dynamic energy Paths in the Human Body, is the Qabalistic initiates goal. Hence, "To Know Thyself", is to know the "As above and so below" nature of our Whole Self.

The Art/Temperance Card, is the sign of Sagittarius (shown on both cards), which is ruled by the planet Jupiter, meaning the Sephiroth- Chesed (Wisdom). Here, we should remember that Chesed is the architect of all manifestation, working with the "will to form" and/or "potential to form" of Binah (Understanding). The Night Sun Tarot-Temperance, shows the traditional title and Angel figure of this tarot key. This shows its artistic link to the Rider-Waite tarot, yet the back ground of the card, depicts alchemical symbols, and Hebrew letters. Showing it's Hermetic Qabalistic link with the Thoth Tarot.

As explained before, Art-Key 14- The Path of Samekh, is an actual physical process, and a metaphysical process known for centuries by Gnostic, Mystics, Tantric yogis, Alchemists, and Qabalists, as it is a willed process of directing the communion or interchange of opposite energies. The beginning of this process is begun by the Higher Self; a process which is instituted in the Sephiroth Chesed, the most refined, point of Microprosopus, to which the Higher Self is central.

Chesed the 4th Sephira-Mercy, is the enacting " will to force" (phallus) of the Great Mother Binah's, the third Sephira-Understanding, process of "will to form"(womb).

Until the initiate accomplices this psycho-physical process of the Path of Samekh, the Higher Self (Shown as an androgynous figure on the card) cannot be "known", in the self-consciousness. .

Therefore, key 14 is often described as the Art of "Spiritual Alchemy" and the whole process as a preparation of the Personality, and its physical vehicle to deal with the Solar Forces (influx of Spiritual Fire) which would devastate a "normal" system.

This is an ongoing process of tempering, measuring and testing, instigated by the Higher Self, to see how much the physical body can bear. Which is why the traditional title of key 14 was Temperance. For when properly tempered, in Water and Fire, the body-cauldron can handle the stress of such energy. Once could say the arrow of Sagittarius is then released (Kundalini rises) causing a vibrationary surge in the body.

Once contacted on the Path of Samekh, the Higher Self will regulate the flow, so the individual isn't harmed. Often, a great jolt of energy, will tell the individual to "back off', and relax. Because this is a Passion so overwhelming, it is often described as Divine Anger, which is apt if we realize that anger is for self-motivation; to get off of one's butt and do something. It could be said that Divine Anger is the motivation for Sagittarius to launch his arrow. Therefore, weare not only to be Moons, i.e., reflections of The Real Person (Soul), but also the Solar Personality, the Golden Person (Christos or Buddha consciousness), the combination of which makes the Divine Child that radiates Universal persona from inside our DNA. There is an alchemy of inner chemistry, started by the fiery Kundalini force, as it seems to awaken "sleeping chromosomes of Divine inheritance".

Now don't misunderstand, the Art card demonstrates how the experience of rebirth is brought about, which is to say, through the exchange and equilibrium of opposites which can only be symbolically described, but it does not demonstrate the birth itself. Thus, the symbolism here is not to demonstrate a "deep Mystery", rather this symbolism demonstrates how limited and inadequate is our language to describe the process. That is why the Qabalistic Tarot Reader, is not one who thinks that by memorizing descriptions and numbers of the cards they are a Tarot Reader. Rather, it is by skrying, and subjectively "walking the Paths", turning subjective into objective sensation , i.e. the process of actual experience ....one begins to Understand the Tarot.

The Art Card is not nearly so symbolic as some believe, it symbolizes the Alchemical Art where Fire becomes Water and Water becomes Fire (...."When the male is no longer male and the female, female." : Gnostic Gospel of Thomas). This process is describing an actual event/process that happens in the initiates material body, i.e. an actual physical/chemical/psychological transformation. Thus Crowley presented on this card a Androgynous figure, combining the Water (unconsciousness with Lightning or Fiery Father-consciousness) creating in the Golden Cistern (the Human body) what is known as the Living Water and/or the Spiritual V.I.T.R.I.O.L.. The Thoth Art card represents the whole hidden quality of the Orphic Egg shown on the Lovers key 6, it is the same formula but in a more advanced stage. Here, the Original Duality (electric -male and magnetic- female- force) has been completely compensated; but after birth comes growth; after growth, puberty; after puberty, purification. This card then is a foreshadowing of the Great Work.

Around the Rainbow Solar Cape of the Thoth- Divine Androgyny is an alchemical Latin glory; VISITA INTERIORA TERRAE RECTIFICANDO INVENIES OCCULTUM LAPIDEM. [ "Visit the interior parts of earth; by rectification thou shalt find the hidden stone."] The initials of this glory are, V.I.T.R.I.O.L, which is known in alchemy as the "Universal Solvent". Also, vitriol is also called the "Universal Medicine" which is sometimes a stone (Philosopher's stone) , a powder or a tincture, according to ancient writings. It is because the Alchemists were dealing with substances on the "borderland" of matter that makes them difficult to understand. This can be found also in Physics, where Quantum physics is involved with describing the "Quanta" which is the "borderland" of matter, in modern science. The Alchemist knew/knows, that the difference between living things and dead things, is their behavior. The Vitriol, mentioned in alchemy, is a combination of Mercury, Sulfur and Salt but in a higher-living nature rather than the vulgar nature of chemistry. In fact, the word Rectificando implies the right leading of the new substance in the path of the True Will, vivified by merging with Fiery/bright and warm Soul. By bringing the Original Psyche into the body, the Golden Child's fiery nature not only tempers the consciousness, one also tempers the dreams of the Unconscious with consciousness, thus forming "something more than the sum of its parts" and with the addition of sensual discernment, an intimate experience as "Self"; A union of Master and Masterpiece! What is arcane here is that this "Universal Solvent" is released by the Kundalini fire in a human body, whose "interior parts of earth" are Chromosomes, using the True Will of the Soul to rightly lead or rectify this new body- substance towards states of "Higher Consciousness".

This alchemical process is often describe by Qabalists as a personal application of the Yod (fire) and Heh (water) uniting in the body to produce Vau (Air) within the individual crucible of form which is Heh-final and Earth. This is described as a "Spiritual Orgasm" or "The Ecstasy" which is a process demanding inner manipulation of sexual forces (He-" Will to Force" and She, "Will to Form") and is shown as an golden energy (in the shape of a stylized arrow) firing upward and across the shoulders of the Divine figure in the Art Card. Even the often flesh-o-phobic Christian iconography, has accepted this Spiritual Orgasm. For instance, the ecstasy of the 16th century mystic, Saint Theresa which was described as an angel thrusting a flaming arrow into her heart . Justifying the Traditional Tarot card depiction of an Angel on the Temperance card.

The symbolical of the piecing arrow that brings ecstatic enlightenment is actually an archetypal, and mufti-cultural accepted description of a real process of physiological transformation! What happens is a rhythmic, pleasuring motion of inner spiraling energy, an ebb and flow that is confined (shown as the figure eight and/or lemniscate, associate with the Magus) in very specific perimeters (oval or womb shaped) but which is taken in either direction at will.

The Adept, knows that by changing the vibration of inner energy, one raises or lowers the level of consciousness, moving from Chakra to Chakra or Path to Path. Simply stated: the Kundalini (serpent energy) acting upon consciousness produces astral images; the pictures that form our minds.

The Path of Samekh: Key 14-ART (Temperance). The path that leads from the Moon to the Sun. The Hebrew story that goes along with the letter Samekh starts on:

Har Sinai ( Mount Sinai)

On the third day when it was morning, there was thunder and lightning and a heavy cloud on the mountain and the sound of the shofar [ram's horn] was very powerful and the entire people that were in the camp shuddered. Moses brought the people forth from the camp toward God, and they stood at the bottom of a mountain. All of Mount Sinai was smoking because God had descended upon it in the fire: its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace and the entire mountain shuddered exceedingly. The sound of the shofar grew continually much stronger. Moses would speak, and God would respond to him with a voice.

-Exodus 19:16-19

I know that many comfort seekers will not venture out into space on this short excerpt alone but I know of many more from the Bible including the Angels that "fell to earth" and married the "women of men" and Ezekiel's wheel and the older stories of the Annunaki (those who from the Sky came) of the Sumerian's and so much more evidence, including the fact that the human species, when compared to the evolution of species on this earth, was a sort of instant evolution, that just exploded upon this planet like no other. Also the fact that Human kind knew Quantum Physics (Subtle energy-Dark light) (As the writings of the Qaballah, Hindu, Chinese and many philosophies prove.) many thousands of years ago- and that we are just caching up to their knowledge even now. I propose the hypothesis that our bodies and minds, are part alien and part earth species, a peculiar tempering of opposites done in the "cauldron" of geneticists.
[Exodus 19: 16-19] explains in detail a loud fiery rocket ship landing on the high ground of the Mountain Sinai, and talking to its "Genetically Modified Organisms", i.e. human species. The earth is covered in proof that we have been visited over and over by our "Alien Fore Fathers & Mothers"-often known as the Elder Races, who came from the "Sky". This has been reported by eyewitness accounts from the Dogon of Africa to the Aryan/Hindus of India, and the Sumerian's of Mesopotamia, spanning their written history for thousands of years. The only way to deny the obvious, is to say that everything written by the human scholars of the past, is simply "fairy tales" for children or limited to metaphors. This of course is obvious error, for scholars tend to be academic----which means they are very literal and they don't offer opinions without belief in facts, usually facts gained by being there. Hence, fairy tales are not scholarly. So, besides the ignorance that arrogance excuses as "Truth", we should remember that all of our "Modern Science" comes from the Past! {Ancient Greeks and Arabs such as Archimedes, etc.} Therefore I dare say that, we are galactic children whose genetic inheritance comes from the Golden Cauldron of the Galactic Core. The purpose of the Divine Creative is obvious...It's "To Be"! The disturbing fact that mankind has been Homo-Sapiens, only for a very short time of 200,000 years, compared to earth who has had life on it for 3.8 billion years. There is also the fact that Astrophysicists have stated that the Universe is about 14 Billion Years Old, making our Milky Way galaxy a very old Lady, who most likely had life within her Star System, if earth is any example, at about the same time in her existence, say about 10.2 Billion years ago. Plenty of time for very advance beings to become "expression of the Divine Creative", long before earth had her first bacterial burp!

Then there is this very old story of the "Great Flood", found in ancient writings from India, Sumer, Mesopotamia and finally in the Bible. All of which talk about a Man who built a big ship, stuck his family on board, along with "Two of every kind" of critter, in order to survive the flood and repopulate the earth after it dried out. Anyone with an ounce of sense would know this to be impossible and therefore, a metaphor, "a painted picture", done by someone who saw something inexplicable but had to relate what they were seeing to their everyday life. Also, since we have found through centuries of experience that the wooden ship limit to be about 400' before the wood could no longer hold its own weigh and therefore collapse in a broken pile of rubble. Plus, there is the fact that there is no way to have two of every species and the food, fodder, etc. necessary to feed them nor the massive amount of fresh water for them to drink, which alone would be in the thousands of tons, for one day let alone "40 day's and 40 nights", as Noah was said to be adrift on the sea! Not even a continent on earth can supply fodder, water etc. for" two of every kind". Being modern people we should realize what science, developed by a genus-Homo-Sapiens- that has been on this earth for about 200,000 years, can do today... we can freeze the egg and sperm of every species on this planet and place them on a modern internally powered- refrigerated ship! And we have yet to physically travel beyond the moon! So I will go out on a expanded and liberated mental postulation and say that "Noah was a "family of peoples" that traveled the Great Sea of Space and when in this solar system, sent out a scout ship (Dove) to find a suitable planet to land on. Now many say that Divine Creative can do anything--It's all a miracle etc. Then I ask, " Why have Noah build a Ship which could not possibly do the job? For even if "god" miraculously gave them eggs and sperm from every species, there was no internal power nor refrigeration in which to keep them suspended in, thus the eggs and spermatozoon would experience death in minutes and spoilage in a day. Plus, as it was depicted as having no power, not even sails, it was adrift which would be very unstable and dangerous as one cannot maneuver an adrift boat. So faith, be it religious, or belief in ones engineering, has nothing to do with the ancient story of Noah. Besides, the Swedish ship builders who built the 17th Century battle ship the- Vasa, had faith it would float, rather than sinking immediately in its own harbor. Although it shown the limits of size a wooden ship could be, it was nowhere as big as the ship of Noah would have to be....like maybe the size of earth itself!
Now that I have had fun starting a few arguments about our "genetic splicing" or genetic- alchemy with those who the Sumerian's called the Annunaki- "those who from the Sky came", I will leave you adrift in a sea of questions. So for more info, you'll have to do your research, and as I have said, the proof of our Alien Elders, is throughout our early history---but is usually denied by "explaining" it as "religion aphorism", or Shamanic drug dreams, fantasy story telling etc. I think we are the "angels that fell to earth" or at the very least, their off-spring! There seems to be much knowledge to support this and knowing doesn't require "faith"....it requires diligent "work" which may be uncomfortable to many, but rewarding to the few. The Story of Samekh, is very intriguing.
The Tarot-Key 14- Art/Temperance.

Esoteric title: The Daughter of the Reconciles, The Bringer Forth of Life.

As you can see, the Esoteric title....fits very well with "those who from the Sky came". This is not a "coincidence", as that word just excuses ignorance or denial. The Qabalist know that the path of Samekh, is about safety and protection.

To enhance this image of safety and protection,let me explain another alien presence in the "modern day".

There is a military base in the area of Great Falls Montana, that was/is stocked with ICBMs, during the late 60's and early 70's ( Look this incident up) they had a visitors In "saucer shaped" flying objects, neutralize the 12 missiles that were brought on line for a "test" firing. The offending Saucers swooped down and passed over every missile silo and instantly every missile became inoperable, probably by using some kind of EMT device.----This is documented---everyone on and in the base, both military and civilian, witnessed this. In fact, almost every nuclear test on this planet was witness to a "UFO" incident. Craft were seen that were beyond the technology of every nation on this planet. It would seem that we are being watched and protected form our own idiocy. We seem to be very important to someone "off Planet" and they are watching and protecting us!

Again both Plato and Qabalah state the necessity to "Know Thyself". Part of that knowledge is that we are the evolutionary Children of the Highest States of Energy-Conscious in this universe. It's time to personalize the Highest States of Mind by Being them! This requires "LOVE OF BEING" to release a hidden substance in our bodies, so that our brains "tune in" a Universal Mind! So, know that you are a continual action of the Universal Unconscious collective's "Love of Being". A knowing that requires you to realize that Love begins with your-self....for we cannot give what we don't have! You are not alone and you have been "loved into being, worshiped into manifestation, and adored into presence" by "those who from the Sky came", who seem to be just doing, " The Great Work" by bringing the "above to the below", i.e. Eld life to new life.. Hence, we are made in "their own image"! I think that once we begin treating each other as we wished to be treated; a very evolved state of mind, we will be welcomed into the Galactic Family and landings will become normal commerce. Think of how long we have allowed our most paranoid thinkers, to rule us...It's time to switch from the ignorant behavior of the Survival Mind (animal predator mind) to our Solar Minds, (Souls). We are Stars and as an Auric Seer, it is easy for me to SEE That!

This fact we are inheritors of the stars, is depicted in the revised Golden Dawn Tarot art of the B.O.T.A Tarot card and the, golden background and the solar plexus design on the Night Sun Tarot Temperance card. The deeper internal meanings of the Thoth Tarot, just aren't depicted in the Night Sun Tarot- key 14; although the art is stunning.

The Art of awakening these Psycho-dynamic energy Paths in the Elder Race chromosomes spliced into the Human Body, is the Qabalistic initiates goal. "To Know Thyself", is to know the "As above and so below" nature of our Whole Self.The Art/Temperance Card, is assigned the sign of Sagittarius, which is ruled by the planet Jupiter, meaning the Sephiroth- Chesed (Mercy). Let me remind you that Chesed, the Sephirotic Being called "mercy", who is titled the "architect of all manifestation", is a Universal Creative, not an intelligence of earth and therefore, is an Eld of our creation.

As explained before, Art-Key 14- The Path of Samekh, is an actual physical process, and a arcana for centuries of Gnostic, Mystics, Tantric yogis, Alchemists, and Qabalists, and is a willed process of directing the communion or interchange of opposite energies. The beginning of this process is begun by one going into deep meditations, physiological yoga's, skrying, reading and study Qabalah, tarot divinations etc.

Until the initiate accomplices this psychosomatic process of the Path of Samekh, the Higher Self (Shown as an androgynous or Angelic figure on the card) cannot be known to the personality.

All in all, the Art Card key 14, is the consummation of the Divine Marriage, depicted on the Lovers card, Key 6, here the Orgasm of Spirit has been reached within the Anima and Animus forces of the human body. There is a perfect interchange of forces, as the Red Lion has become white, and the White lion has become Red. The Art card shows Water being poured on Fire, and Fire is merged with Water, all within the purified physical vehicle, shown as the Golden Cauldron, i.e. the Master's body. Get and read the Text Book, The Qabalistic Tarot by Robert Wang and the Book of Thoth by Aleister Crowley for further mystical explanation of this coded process.

When the Art card is thrown during a reading, the querent is experiencing or will soon experience:

A combination of forces effecting realization and action.
A blending of all circumstances in order to achieve balance.
Trials and tribulations that lead to the "middle path", arriving at a profound realization.
That one is blending all circumstances to create balance.
Balancing the opposite and different conditions of life.
One is either seeking or has at one's disposal the knowledge to blend different life aspects, thereby creating harmony.
One has a lot of knowledge to inherit from the Divine and must have active balance to receive it!
This is the Law of Creativity.
The Angel that we are must unite with the Animal that we have enlivened in order to be the Divine expression of now!

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The Thoth Tarot- Key 15-The Devil & The Night Sun Tarot-Key 15-The Devil: represent a concept that it is so subtle it is easily misunderstood. In fact the early Christian theologians, so misunderstood this concept that it is now considered synonymous with evil.....like the Evil Twin of a One or Monotheistic God... or some such nonsense. As modern person who knows the first law of physics, we know there is only "one energy that cannot be created nor destroyed, only transformed [and transmitted]". Therefore, evil is not and energy, it is a form of upside down thinking, which is often depicted as an upside down pentagram.

The Hebrew letter Ayin, shown bottom left on the Thoth card, and top right of the Night Sun Tarot card, is attributed to this card, meaning Eye, which is a metaphor for "I": the "All Seeing Eye", which is the All Seeing Identity shown on the Thoth- goat's forehead. Capricorn is the Zodiacal attribution and that is why we have illustrated the Goat of Capricorn, an earth sign, as a full body figure on the Thoth card and a Goat-Head on the Night Sun Tarot Devil card.

On the Qabalistic Tree of Life, we see that Key 13-Death and Key 15- The Devil are symmetrically placed; they lead from the Hu (god) man (mind)

consciousness, Tiphareth the 6th Sephiroth ,to the spheres where Thought, on the left, and Bliss on the right, are developed. Between them, Key 14-ART leads similarly to the sphere which formulates existence.

Here is something arcane for you to ponder: When the physical brain's personality leaves behind the Splendor of Words, as a false form of self-awareness,, the self conscious leaves Sephiroth #8-Hod, and it begins to climb the Path of Ayin (Devil) towards the Chris/Buddha Consciousness (Hu-man consciousness) Tiphareth-Sephiroth #6; However, the devilish part of this climb is the "personality survival ego" who will constantly try to blind your "I" sight with the splendor of praise and rationale. Therefore, tempting the personality to stay "man made" rather than go to the Soul who made the Original Persona. This story of temptation is a common one in the Bible, commonly referred to, as the Temptations of Christ in the desert:

[Form Wikipedia the free encyclopedia]Thetemptation of Christ is detailed in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. According to these texts, after being baptized by John the Baptist, Jesus fasted for forty days and nights in the Judaean Desert. During this time, Satan appeared to Jesus and tried to tempt him. Jesus having refused each temptation, the devil then departed and Jesus returned to Galilee.

The moral is, the "I" (identity) of our I AM, must be open to the Real and not the rhinestone splendor of reality, which is obviously relative and based on survival thinking of the individual's reptile and mammal intelligence of the body, what I call the "survival mind". The Human consciousness is the God Mind for the Hu is Mandarin for God, and the word man comes from the Hindu Manas-meaning Mind; Hence a god-mind has been joined with the reptile and mammal brains. In order to understand the animal brain, we must first not believe everything we think! Therefore, the smirking goat image on the Thoth Card, reminds us to take all our "serious thoughts" with a "grain of salt".

The symbol for the animal mind, is not only the Goat image, but also the little blue forget-me-not, flowers arrayed between the goats horns. These serve to remind us that, the animal personality (small ego or self-conscious) is founded on the concept of "fear of rejection" (forget me not), the first real emotion of a baby. From the crying, squalling young, who do everything they can to be the forefront of their parents attention, comes our small ego's beginning. From then on, most everything we think and do is about being "accepted", even long after we've left the parents behind. We just "transform" the parental image to "peers", country leaders, law enforcement, our "best friends" etc. Yet when all the transformations of worry, concern, and emotional outbursts are removed, we see only the culprit of our stress, fear of Rejection. To many, fear of death, is just another form of "fear of rejection", but from our imagined creator and produces hell's and heaven's in our fear of the "after life". What is a problem with this foundational formative of the animal mind, is that it "closes the eyes" (I's) to any other perspective, never allowing the Real Person/ Soul/Psyche to communicate through the miasma of fear based thought.

The Hu-man Mind is vibrating to the frequency of Buddha or Christ consciousness, and is not normally tuned into by the mundane person who is trained only to use the animal brains to describe a reality of a "good and evil" world, created by survival thinking. Everyone's very own Devil is trained thought, i.e. your man made logic and rationale thinking induced by "pleasure/pain training"! You may notice, that when you try to Meditate, or concentrate on a ritual that elevates your awareness, that your brain keeps trying to interfere with thoughts of "you must", "you Need to" and/or "You better do this first...". That's your Devil thought process, reinforced by fear of rejection, interfering with your Will to expand and liberate your mind. Now the brain knows it can't defeat the Will of Spirit, so it confuses it with the splendor of words, which are definitions supplied by "your betters"; "Your Betters", is another false concept as they do not exist. For as the Qabalist knows, "If it exists, it's supposed to."
Hence, we all are Children of the Divine Creative. Each of us has the same potential, whether we use that potential equally, is up to the individual, as each of us are not slaves to anyone and/or any "outside authority". Each of us has Divine Freedom of Choice to imagine ourselves as we will, making our authority an inner one of "I" sight. Hence, "To Be or not To be" is indeed our plight. We are free to be ignorant of our truth because of "Pleasure Pain" training that is ruler enforced identity or go beyond and liberate our I-dentity from indoctrinated limits, thereby becoming " a Tree of Knowledge". Rather than a weed fearing the gardener.

However, it isn't enough to know that you have a be-deviling program of "thought-ware" or brain-software running in your head all day, and thereby becoming a artificial will (intelligence) based on errant animal-self concepts of rejection; you also have to begin exercising the Spiritual "I Will-BE", which is based on the foundation of Loving-to Be. This is a process where One begins by loving the inner animal "under will". "Above All Things Know Thyself", implies that we know that we are the Master of our masterpiece. I mean "really", look at this cute pup; He's dirty, mischievous, and a adorable "little devi", just like the personality I have inherited. But then so is your "outer animal" and/or the "alive"; your inner self is the Life of the outer forms that are alive. Therefore, your animal body has a life only supplied by the Real Soul Persona, that you really are! Since most of us can love a dog, then why, as a parent of sensual "self image", which it is our purpose to be, can't we be the "best parent" of our dual- personality of "spirit and animal"; a marriage of Heaven and Earth, that we can be? As Psyche, each of us must take charge, and not let another raise our animal- child! We are the Psyche's (Sun/Son of God), born of the Divine Creative, who came to expand and liberate the animal survival mind of earth. We must, if we are to operate this "new" sensuality of Spirit and Body union, as a Real Persona of the Divine Creative, i.e. "child of god"!

To reiterate: On the Qabalistic Tree of Life, The Tarot-Devil-Key 15: is the Path of Ayin, connecting the Sephiroth of the Solar Logos-Tiphareth, Beauty, with the Sephiroth- Hod, Splendor, which is the sphere of Mercury and intellect.

The Path of Ayin (meaning Eye, which is a symbol for The "I"), is the Twenty-sixth Path and is formative. In the terms of Self structure; it is the bridge between The Solar or Soul Personality and individuality. As I have stated before, in many blogs, the Solar Logos, is the Original Persona of the Divine Child of God, i.e. the Son/Sun.

Note: this is not a sexual description of a species, which is a definite propaganda misdirection, rather it is an Energetic one, For the Christianized "Son of God" is about the Solar Logos; a Sun that sends "solar flares" (Divine Yod Energy) outward as individual expressions of It's own Self (individual selves or Personalities); from Self into selves that circumnavigate, through the many myriad of experiences of self-awareness back to Self, i.e. from Tiphareth to Malkuth and back up the Tree to Tiphareth again.

Not only does the Hebrew letter Ayin mean -Eye, it is also a simple letter that means -Mirth. This double meaning may invite confusion; However, rest assured, that this Path of Ayin is one of the most difficult for western people to understand, for interpretation flies in the face of Christian cultural definitions that have been misapplied to the Devil. The "All Seeing eye" is really the I (the symbol for Original Identity is an "all seeing Self perspective") of the First Identity which later with "realization" became I AM, which is the duality we now call sexual Identity...for I is Kether/Eheieh (I will be) and Am is the All- Mother who is composed of the 2 who are simultaneously- 1. These being the Sephiroth of the Supernal Triangle, the Masculine- Chokmah-"Will to Force" and the Feminine- Binah, "Will to Form", which are inseparable from "I Will be". This is the Qabalistic Trinity of Creation that I call the -Divine Creative.

In Barbra G. Walker's Book [ THE WOMAN'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MYTHS AND SECRETS] which has been honored by the London Times Educational supplement as 1986 "Book of the Year", the provenance of the word devil is noted as Persian. She states." The Words "devil" and "divinity" grew from the same root, Indo-European devi (Goddess) or deva (God), which became daeva (devil) in Persian. Old English divell (devil) can be traced to the Roman derivative divus, divi, meaning gods. Thus it seems that, from the beginning, gods and devils were often confused with one another. She goes on to explain such enlightening scholarship that I highly recommenced this book to anyone who seeks an honest education.

There is another fact here that may hide from reason, and that is the combination of the words Devi (Goddess)and Lingam (Male phallus), is Divya Linga ( Sanskrit word for Divine- lingam) and has also been interpreted by propagandists of Christian past, as the word Devil: which actually bespeaks of the "Son of God" as the Solar Phallus. That is why the Hermetic Thoth Card shows testes (ovals full of white humanoid shapes) and a large Golden- Universal Phallus penetrating the Dark Energy of Universal Womb. The Night Sun Tarot also depicts this knowledge of "Divine Lingam" and Universal Yoni, inseparable and therefore, One; as full breasted female form with and erect phallus, surrounded by two Serpent forces (Will to force, and Will to form). Once again we understand The Devil to represent the "score of the forms and appearance of relative existence", a description supplied in various Mystery Tests. Another ancient description is that the Devil is"Lord of the Gates of Matter and Child of the Forces of Time," which indicates a phallic energy state, Lord being husbandry, as the gateway to form is Yoni or Womb.

To the Hermetic Qabalist, the Devil is not viewed as an evil entity (lived spelled backward), having its own god-like existence, rather it represents a special mystery (Arcana) that must be experienced and understood before we can hope to directly know the Higher Self.

The Devil is the intelligence that is Master of Manifest form (the Survival Mind), which we meet on the Path of Ayin, and must face and conquer. The Path of Ayin, takes the traveler into an understanding that we are entering a transition between the intellect of mortal consciousness (individual conscious) and True Spiritual Immortal Conscious.

Three Mental Paths lead directly into Tiphareth: THE DEVIL (key 15), ART (key 14 called Temperance in Golden Dawn, Barbara Walker, Night Sun and Babylonian Decks), and DEATH (key 13). Now each of these paths represents a special trial for the initiate; However, each student is not required to travel all three Paths.

One way to experience Path Travel within the Psyche, is the Devotional Path of the Middle Pillar, where one need only experience the Path of Samekh (meaning- Prop) or the Art Card-key 14 (Temperance in other decks), leading from Yesod (Foundation ) to Tiphareth (Beauty). This is more of a gentle path of the Mystics and demands less mental and emotional will from the Student.
The Magi's way of following each and every Path, means the acquisition of control over Forces which each Path symbolizes: every Path confers a unique power ( "magical abilities"). A Magus is an active Force of Creation, rather than a Passive one. Therefore the difference here, is that the Traveler of the Middle Path does learn to balance and understand within the Self, the forces of the thirty-two Paths (combination of the 22 paths plus the 10 Sephirotic Intelligences), but understanding these conceptual states of conscious energy does not necessarily develop the ability to manipulate them, which is an art necessary in the development of a "discerning Personality"; the Spiritual purpose for the human body!

Now I know, that some students of the Occult (hidden mysteries) enter into the studies seeking a type of "Raw Power", hoping to control others and circumstances to avoid pain and "doing unto others before they can do unto them", a process of thought from the Survival mind. Such misinformed students soon learn that if such Power is acquired and then misused, there is a devastating price to pay. So there is no question that for the timid, and doubtful, the Middle Path is much safer than facing and conquering the temptations of the Magical Path of the Flaming Sword.

THE DEVIL Tarot card represents a Raw animal Power (Mars), it is the Survival-Force reflection of "I Will Be", that brings about the transmutation of THE TOWER (key 16) and is in the sign of Capricorn (also shown as the Goat on the card), which is where Mars is exalted. Capricorn, is a weighty, even blind sign of Earth and symbolizes the highest and lowest states of individual personality. Yet it is considered a sign of initiation, or release from matter formed limitations. These material limitations are suggested by the astrological ruler-ship of Capricorn by Saturn, the Planet of Binah, The Great Mother (Imagination) that governs the limitations of form, as does Saturn/Time. These limitations are of both the enclosure of matter or of time, the artificial system by which we meter and enclose all activities and our own self definitions. Thus, THE DEVIL also represents the average person's misconception of "reality"; a perceptive belief that the material-sensual condition is "Real". The Qabalist knows the physical-material world as the "1%" world, and realizes that the other invisible "99%" (often called "the other side of the Mirror") is the Real.

THE DEVIL representing Saturn in Capricorn, brings up an interesting point. The Ancients stated that "Saturn eats its own children", meaning that for Spirit ( I AM), the illusion of being "alive" (Me) is necessary to produce the sensuality of the material form, and that the dissolution of these forms (Me) is essential to the Path of Return. In reality, Life eats itself to stay alive and to the Alchemist dissolution means analysis, which is the precise application of separating the component forces of ourselves and our universe into twenty-two paths on the Tree of Life. The next part of the process is reintegrating these forces through the understanding of their operation. Eliphas Levi called THE DEVIL--The Path of Ayin---the "Great Magical Agent" this process of manipulation as, to dissolve, to consolidate, to quicken, to moderate, i.e., dissolution, re-integration, activity, and grounding. Thus we have the same qualities as described to Fire, Water, Air and Earth.

The misconception of reality is symbolized in two ways on the Thoth DEVIL card;

The smirking mouth.
The Goat represents the humorous figure of the childhood nemesis the "Bogey Man" (Christianized devil image).

This Card then emphasizes the knowledge that our belief in the illusion of matter, i.e. mortality, (Matter is only .4% visible as our bodies are 99.6% space!) is actually laughable to us "Suns of the Divine Creative" and/or immortal Psyche/Soul, while implying that laughter and a humorous approach to our lives is a tool which will help our consciousness to transcend the illusion of "seeing it to believe it" and becoming "Knowing it by Being it".

Mirth is the first great corrective toward realizing what is real and what is reality, and therefore, helps us not to take our perceptions of the material world seriously, which only means "fearfully". It pays to remember that the Survival Mind of the animal, is our Devilish tempter that tricks us into believing we are as Moons who are at the mercy of Solar-Forces rather than the Magus (The Sun) who manipulates them.

The difference between a comedy and a tragedy is that in a comedy the characters figure out reality in time to do something about it.

--Bennett W. Goodspeed

The Universal Principle of mirth combined with stability. This tarot card image in the deck has gone through a transformation within itself. Greek Mythology described the half-goat, half-man, as Pan, the sensual god of Merriment which also latter became the god Bacchus of merriment and wine. That is why the Night Sun Tarot, which imitates in this instance the Rider-Waite Tarot, shows the Goat headed Androgynous Personage, and the two lower goat footed- satyr like persons, chained to the altar. In traditional tarot art, these two represented a man and woman chained to earth by their primal desires. The Goat Headed Angel, angel being a traditional symbol, has the Orphic egg of the Universe above its horned head, with it's right hand extended in a blessing, which may confuse someone. However, it is the Souls Blessing, from the Christos/psyche that created us. What we forget is that in Qabalistic numerology, Gematria, 15 is 1+5=6, 6 being the number of the Sun/Son of god Sephiroth-Tiphareth known as Beauty. So behind the façade' of flesh that the body, of the earthly world provides; a mask, that disguises your Real Self (the masks on the two smaller images), resides the Blessed Son of the Divine Creative, who has been masked and divided, in terms of a species sex and theological doctrine. Truth being, the He and She of Creation are not ever separated, there is Only One I AM. This One is shown as "One Hearth" on the book of life, (Book of Time) that resides on the Devil's altar, which in Christian terms is earth itself.

In Egyptian mythology, the Son god- was Ra, a sun deity symbol of Life Force and Energy. During the middle ages, the inquisitional backlash to the panistic cults, caused the Devil image to be created.

Interestingly, the Devil spelled backwards is Lived, and shows the obvious reason for this backlash-propaganda for "backward thinking" that is against "living-it-up" which was considered hedonism. According to man-made theology, we must now consider the body a burden, that Nature somehow imposed on us, and that the resulting sensuality is improper and a shame unto god(?). If that be so, then the Devil, "the evil twin", created us rather than the All Perfect Father God, of Christian dogma. However, the Christian dogma got around this reasoning by saying that it is freedom of choice, a Divinely granted grace, that is our down fall. Which goes a long way in proving that being a "free thinker", is very anti-Christian.

All superstitious ensconce aside, the Devil/Pan archetype represents the need to face whatever "bedevils" us. It reminds us to handle life from a place of humor which gives us the sure footedness of a goat ( Capricorn) and the humor of Pan (the smiling goat). To avoid the ensnarement of fearful chaos (the web image of spider like veils), we must hold on to our sense of humor, mirth and stability which centers us when we face real or imagined problems. It's okay to laugh in a traffic jam!

In astrology, Capricorn, the goat, is able and willing to look at internal issues (third eye) and external bedevilment with both eyes wide open and focused straight ahead. The Egyptian Eye of Horus staff , as shown on the Thoth Tarot card,represents our vision and intuition that protects us from peer pressure and other peoples reaction to our creative motion. Busy bodies, are just Myna birds, and can't hold a candle to self-knowledge---they have none that is why they try to do unto everyone else! It's okay to smile at Myna birds, they just mimic intelligence.

The male figures and female figures represent the creative power ability to combine male-electric and female-magnetic forces within our natures to create unlimited self possibilities. Mirth allows us to be able to break the bondage of self definition supplied by culture, society, media, theology and peers. The Mirthful creator identifies Himself Herself and therefore, you, ("created in god's own image") are free to define yourself as you will. This is the Freedom of Choice is called I Am Me; me being the Divine Child of I AM. Creation is always about polarities, i.e., the Law of attraction and resonance.

The rings of Saturn are seen at the top of the Thoth card, as Saturn rules the sign of Capricorn.

One primary statement of the Path of Ayin (meaning-Eye) is that the ignorant, superstitious person, sees the world in an "upside down" vision. Thus the upside down or inverted pentagram is associated with the Devil. The Qabalist knows that "all things were from One by the meditation of One," [from the Emerald Tablet], stating the obvious, that there is nothing in the Universe that isn't of The One Divine Creative, including the bogey of the ignorant, the Devil.

The intelligent state of energy known as Devil has also been called the "Prince of the Powers of Air", (therefore the traditional tarot depiction of wings) implying that this energy state is meditating in the flow of the Astral currents. In this context, Air is understood to be the whole of Yetzirah, the Astral Plane, which controls the ebb and flow of matter.

The ability to reverse the ebb and flow of Astral light, requires meditation, intellect and discipline, all of which are achieved by conquering the Path of Ayin. One must begin this process of discipline with the intellect of Hod, traversing into the intuition of Tiphareth, The Christ or Buddha state of intelligent energy. As I stated: Even the scriptures talk of Christ's passage through the temptations of the Devil, i.e. his own illusions brought on by sensual matter .

As one can see, there is represented an understanding of the intercourse of Forces and Form, attributes to the understanding that "God is sex"; another reason for a smirk on the goat's face. In truth, The Creator, who is One that is Two, knew that It needed a mirror to see itself. The material world is that which reflects from the mirror of Divine Creative consciousness and that one that reflects this material world, is known to most of us as the Soul/Psyche. The I AM can only be aware of Itself, as a Me, a self-reflection.

What the understanding of The Tarot Devil card produces in us, is the knowledge that the illusion of Form, is the same as the illusion of mirror reflections, its all reflected backwards and not a true state of Being. Turn your mind around, and know that you are a Spirit who owns a body (which is a power tool for discernment), and not a body that is seeking Spirit.

The analogy that I like to use when describing the common perspective, is that of a "fish in the ocean, seeking water". Not only is this a accurate description for a body seeking spirit, it is also a mirthful one that describe the illusion of form, as the fish-form can be stated as "The Ocean experiencing itself".

Besides the obvious clue of the word Devil being Lived spelled backward, this card represents the Reverse of Truth that a Reflection in a Mirror gives us in a world of Reflected light. Here we may even understand that Words, are in themselves, merely Reflections of individual observation. This may seem a stretch, but if we realize that the"Power of Words", is merely individual interpretation as they in themselves are not a Power but a Color of Power; color being a reflection of light and words being a reflection of vibration. To illustrate this phenomena of seeming word power, you can yell at the floor the words," Grass, let there be grass", until you turn green, but grass will not be created on your floor. There is no power to create an image by words, unless you are indoctrinated into understanding their meaning by a culture. This being so, words are indoctrinated definition which leaves them subject to interpretation----especially if the means of indoctrination is enforced by punishment! Punishing us to understand a definition, means we define it first as Pain, which ends up making it a "bad thing".

The Devil Card represents the illusion of Worded Thought as Truth. It is a Trick of "smoke and mirrors" [time/space], for only Manifestation defines Truth, and words are not manifestations, but only interpretations of definitions of manifestations.

The Path of Ayin therefore, connects Tiphareth [Sun/Son Consciousness] with Hod [ a sphere of Mercury] with the Active Splendor of Intellect helping us understand that Splendor is the domain of color. Therefore, Hod represents the COLOR OF INTELLECT.

Many of us personally have experienced the "Peacock" spread of Words by those who think amassing words is intellect, but it really is a propagandists paradigm of "baffling them with BS". That is also the process of our brain who is programmed into believing that thought is from words even though intuition is the flow of knowledge from the Inner Self connected to the Universal Collective Unconscious, that "thinks" as Image. Words trick us into thinking that we "know something", without being able to create it into manifestation. Words basically serve survival thinking, they describe to us What is food--what is not food, what is good and what is bad, according to personal likes or dislikes etc.. To describe the Real of something requires mathematics and lab work, the drawing of structures etc., trying to recreated what has been already created, in order to truly understand it beyond its worded definition. Hence, with the Splendor of words, we can interpret a universe that is already created by Something Beyond Words. This is great, as long as we remember that words build a reality---not the Real and that as Spirit, we are "Something beyond words". The Real is already made, without ever asking us to assist. I AM never asked the Me, if it was okay to build it. THE ME (self-reflection) inherits what the I AM produces (Identity). Imagination is the Intellect/Womb of Spirit-----but in our worded thought, imagination is a "not real" since thought as words are the power of fantasy.

If we realize that reality is merely reflections in a mirror of our own self-interpretation/reflection, we won't be tricked by the Devil in our head! The Brain is a Mirror of our own imagined Self! If properly used, the Brain/mirror assists us in seeing the error of our self awareness in retrospect. If not properly used, we think that we are the Brain, and cannot afford to ever be in error----for that means "bad" and that is Pain! Therefore, the brain can never be wrong, and believes everything it "thinks" which is the paradigm of righteousness and as history has proven, guarantees genocide.

In Summery, The trickster software, is a cultural soft-ware program of "good and bad" divisionism that has been enforced/indoctrinated into our "Wet Ware" (brain) by pleasure/pain stimulation. No matter how many "selves" of the One energy exist, Self is all that you see. Hence, separation is impossible as the One energy Sees Itself as you and is hidden in all the transformations of the ONE I [eye] (selves) who uses the phallus of "Will to Force" and the Womb of "Will to Form"-- I-Magi-nation--to define Self Awareness in the multitude of "selves" and/or mirrors! Therefore, the One "I" is on the forehead of the Goat image on the Thoth Devil card, showing us that the "divided" thought is the Master of Manifestation...the Worded Brain, that we must face and conquer to find our Real Self. This may sound funny, but in truth, we are not a Brain, we are A Spirit, that is Life and never have we been "the alive", which is a product of our Creative Self-Imagery and a mirrored division of the One Life!

The Devil Card represents a mystery which we must penetrate before we can directly know the Higher Principle of the Self. This card is the symbolic veil for the greatest practical secret of occultism; the veil of reflected light, and the "masking" of thought with words.

The axiom of "above all things, know thyself" again applies here and we must understand that the world of Physical manifestation is A Spiritual Activity and we are the Active Spirit here and that thought is merely a mechanism for self-reflection! Hence, The Devil card also represents the illusions of the physical eye, where we accept what the reflectors [human eyes] tell us, placing ourselves into the mental/emotional bondage of reversed perspective (AM I), rather than expanding and liberating the body from the rule of The instinctual-survival mind. We are the "Sons" of The Divine Creative [middle path Tiphareth- the Sun center whose light the body reflects] and the Devil is a reversal of our expanding awareness---it is lived spelled backwards! This means that through meditation and disciplined Intellect, we can reverse the flow of Astral light downward , and advance ourselves/personalities, upward to the Christ/Buddha conscious state of energy. In the Hermetic Qabalah and Tarot, Down is Outward and Up is Inward!

Thus the Devil is both tempter and redeemer by understanding the "Lord of the Gates of Matter and the Child of the Forces of Time"....as our servant who manifests our wishes as "sensual feelings', we become immune to being our feelings and examine them before enacting them. We are Spirit, the Master of Time/Space of whom the forces of Time serve! The Trick here is that we think that our Servant--Thought--is us, rather than Serves us in the matters of experimental self-awareness!

Tarot Correspondences: Key 15-The Devil & Key 21- The Universe (The World card in other decks).

The word devil derives from the Greek diabolos; di meaning "to divide", and/or two, Abolos meaning to "abolish'.

The word archetypes are: evil (live spelled backwards), lived (devil spelled backwards), deus (two), divide, diverse, die, deva (Goddess), dervish, deviate, devious, diabolic, and diablerie (black magic).

The Tarot Universe or World card, is associated with Saturn and Capricorn (December 21- January 20), in which falls the Winter Solstice; Christmas Day. Before December 21-24 is when the Sun is farthest from the Earth. Christmas Day is when the Sun begins to rise again from its deepest descent, i.e. The Sun (son) is born again. There are many Gods and Goddesses born at Christmas, such as, Buddha, Tammuz, Mithra, Quetzalcoatl, Frey and Freya, Attis, Saturn, Adonis, Herne, Pryderi, Persephone, Baalim, Dionysus, Osiris, Horus, and Jesus. Christmas is also known as Candle Mass, the lighting of candles to honor the birth of the Sun's light---a custom still honored in many Christian churches on Christmas Eve.

The Tarot- Devil--Capricorn (Goat)
The Tarot-Universe (The World)--Saturn.

The Devil's rune is, Nauthiz, the rune of constraint, necessity, and pain.
The Universe rune, is Wunjo, the rune of joy and light, the absence of sorrow and suffering.
The colors for both cards, -Violet (indigo); secondary colors- navy-blue, black.
- Both cards correspond to the fifth chakra ( Throat Chakra) which represents expression, communication, creativity, media, inspiration,mantras, sound, devotion, spiritual expression/understanding and also religious inspiration.
Stones and Minerals:Sapphire, sodalite, lapis lazuli, tanzanite, blue-violet fluorites and chalcedonies. Hematite, smoky quartz, onyx, jet, coal, and all black stones.
Musical notes: The Devil-A. The Universe/Word-A
Devil-Simple letter- Mirth. The Universe/World- Double letter- Power-Servitude.
Devil- Path Ayin, The Renovating Intelligence.
The Universe- Path Tau, The Administrative Intelligence.
Symbology-Devil- Eye.
The Universe-Tau Cross (equal armed "T" cross)
Devil-Clary sage, Patchouli.
The Universe- Vetivert, oakmoss, myrtle.

Magic abilities developed by skrying ritual:

Clairaudience. This psychic attribute is known as "clear seeing" which is the ability to "hear" without regard to time/space or the use of physical ears.

The knowledgeable student of the Qaballah knows that the Devil, Key 15 is about the illusion of Division---where as "The One Energy" seems to become two---He and She. She is Magnetism and He is Electric. United, they make all life possible------separate they cannot "give birth" to life. In the Universe Card, The One energy is also shown as The Goddess and The Serpentine God (electric force) with the "All seeing Eye of Horus---The son (sun) which represents ( among other esoteric ideas), clairaudience. Needles to say, a greater in depth study of these esoteric meanings must occur before we can manifest the " Mirth filled enlightenment of Union".

If the Devil Thoth or Night Sun Tarot card is thrown during a reading:

the querent is being tricked by the illusion of an issue of perception.
The querent is experiencing states of materialism, and/or material force.
Temptation of the flesh, sometimes obsession, all associate with the "Trickster" god images of the past which is the principle of mirth.
The querent may experience humor over their material circumstances, or over what "bedevils" them.
The advice is to view your emotions humorously, which will free you from the illusion of their seriousness.
There is a warning here, that even the best of intentions, may do harm .
Accept the presence of paradox and realize your own truth.

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When the Thoth Devil card is thrown:

It reminds us to stop struggling for truth amid seeming contradictions.
We must accept the presence of paradox and realize our own truth.
Celebrate life, laugh. play, and dance upon the Earth---Why else create a sensual body ?
To own the brain, rather than have it bedevil the Psyche.

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The Thoth Tarot- Key 16-The Tower and the Night Sun Tarot- Key 16- The Tower:

The universal principle of renovation and restoration.

This card is often misunderstood and seen as a doom and gloom -Armageddon end of an Aeon symbol. It's actually more about your own man-made personality, and the institutions that helped develop it. The "man-made" self conscious, if firmly entrenched in fear of rejection, is static and has crystallized thought to the point where you repeat the same thoughts and expect different results. There is insanity in such a process.

The Tarot-Tower, as seen on both the Thoth and Night Sun Tarot, is a hallmark image of the Tower of Babel brought down by God the Destroyer (Shiva or Jehovah etc.). In less archaic language, the personality is de-constructed and reconstructed by enlighten thought directly from the "Sun/Son of God" and/or your Soul.

On the Thoth Tarot, Key 16, The fire breathing dragon at the base, is the Spiritual and/or Life force that transforms life constantly in order to keep evolving the living.
The four figures falling out of the Thoth tower, and the many figures falling out of the Night Sun Tower, symbolize the crystallized thought of the "wanna-be", i.e. yesterdays' thought formed people, who fear social rejection, who seek only comfort and fear change. These are thoughts that hold us back from our impeccable performance in life motion. Evolutionary Life is all about performance rather than conformance. Essential Self is progressive thought; not enslaved thought.
The open eye at the top represents the Eye of Horus, the Egyptian god of perception; the perceptive state of awakening and seeing the deeper/inner authentic self that is not human defined but is the Soul's Persona. The Solar symbol behind the Night Sun Tarot, represents this all seeing perception.
Awakening people are required to come into alignment with the Greater Self, which is symbolized by the Oriental fire breathing dragon. We are Dragons! Dragons are symbols for the union of Angel, animal and daemon---i.e. "those of the Divine Creative, who are not bound by laws but expand and liberate laws from states of stasis by transubstantiation".
The haloed serpent, on the Thoth key, reminds us that by shedding old ways of thinking we become expanded and liberated, the very meaning of the Sanskrit word-Tantra. Expanded consciousness requires expanded definitions of self and the "rising of the Serpent forces" that are coiled at the base of our physical spine.
The dove, again on the Thoth key, represents the inner peace that we have when we become the authentic god-made being which comes from shedding the outer definition of man-made being.

From :The Qabalistic Tarot by Robert Wang;... it is the equilibrating Path of the Personality, related to Mars, and to the North, the quarter known traditionally in the Mysteries as "the place of greatest darkness" because it is said that the Sun never shone in the North of Solomon's Temple. Yet we are instructed that Light comes from Darkness, that "gold cometh from the North", and that "Enlightenment has its origin in the hidden sources of power which terrify the minds of the ignorant".

Tarot-Key 16- The Tower:

The Primary color: Scarlet
Musical Note: C Natural
Astrological Planet: Mars
Symbol of Meaning: Mouth
Double Letter: Grace-Indignation

Esoteric Title: The Lord of the Hosts of the Mighty.

From the text-Thirty-Two Paths of Wisdom( Dr. Paul Foster Case): "The Twenty-seventh
Path is the Active or Exciting Intelligence and it is so called because through it every existent being receives its spirit and motion". The Path of Peh (The Tower), connects the center of the reasoning process (Hod) with the center of the intuition-desire nature (Netzach).

In quantum physics, we now know that from Dark energy comes light energy, through a invisible particle called a "Boson", this shows that light does indeed come from darkness.

The Path of Peh is a Hebrew Double letter which designates it as one of the "Gateways of the Soul" with two possible directions of passage. The Hebrew letter, Peth, means mouth, which symbolizes the taking in of nourishment ( in this case taking in of higher energies to enervate the Personality) and the passing out of speech. A process utilized by the Prana Yamas (breathing exercises of Yoga, meaning: life-death) to expand and liberate the Personality through the influx of Prana (Spiritual Life Force) and the chanting of sounds such as "Ohm".

Those of us who have done esoteric work are aware of the abject importance of words and of the sounds that compose these words. The physical inner Vibration of a God Name, can have definitive effect on the physical body and even on the subtle energy patterns of the body- even if one is not consciously aware of it. Words of Power, that are words spoken with Martian Force, assist us in bringing down our personal Towers which are the false concepts and institutions which we believe to be reality. We are also aware that to tear something down is to make space for some new construction. Thus Mars is not only the god of War and Destruction, but also the traditional god that rules over the fertility of crops. Also, the Logos is called-The Word, and is assigned to Kether the first Sephiroth, as the first "Sound" in the Universe.

In the Thoth Tarot-Key 16, we can see the striking down of the Tower, and the Personality concepts of reality (crystalline forms falling from the Tower) and it looks like the destruction of evil. This is not the case as it show us the spiritual learning process of building up and tearing down of concepts (to expand and liberate the personality from false concepts of self) formed only as useful stepping stones into the inner worlds of our beginnings as spirit and/or microwave vibrations of Eheieh, meaning, "I Will BE".

In the art of Tarot, The Tower is often shown in complete isolation, since most individuals perceive themselves as totally separate units of consciousness. This belief in separation, is an error of the self-conscious Personality and/or "small ego". When that Tower falls, we experience the True Ego, which is not ours alone, but a Divine Collective (Everything I See is another Way to be Me).Yet each Tower of Perspective we build is sacred as a construct of reality that leads us to the next construct. Knowing this, we understand the underlying principles of each Path without being bound by their necessary artificial outward manifestation.
For instance, our physical bodies are outward manifestations of inner Spiritual awareness and our spirit is not bound to that body (it is a Tower that falls also) and does move on! When viewing the Tree of Life, it is necessary to understand that the Sephiroth (circles) are the centers of objective energy while each path is our subjective use of that energy. That is to say, that all Sephirotic intelligence, flow subtly on all paths. There really is no division-ism anywhere in the Universe which is composed of One Energy, immortal, infinite and which is represented as the All Seeing Eye (I) in this card that is observing all as itself. Meanwhile another aspect of the Divine Creative, Dis, the Roman god of the dead, belches flames from the tower base.

On either side of the Thoth Tarot key, are the Serpent and the Dove depicting two forms of desire; the will to live and the will to die . Hence, this path is often terrifying and has been referred to as the "Dark night of the Soul". If the Dark night is true for you, then you are willing to transform by becoming desire-less and transformation is brought upon you by the Greater Ego. This is really an act of salvation and not dark at all. To be Transformed by Kali Ma (The Hindu Dark Intelligence of Dark Matter) is a Transformation of the Soul (The Original Personality) into Universal Real Awareness-----and that is scary only to the ego's/personality based survival mind, that demands domination.
I Am, is how you command your reality into being, for it is your inherited power over identity. I AM Me, is how you exist as the "collective of self- ideas"! Me is and always will be a construct from the I Am . In Qabalah "I" is He the idea and "Am" is She--the womb of understanding and the "Me" is the child born of understood idea. Some of our "Me's" become towering error of dysfunctional identity and since your functionality is in the "expansion and liberation of the Alive" ( As above, so Below), your self-awareness must support the living; if not, a "hidden (occult) source of power" will step in and topple your tower of Me. This is not for reasons of your permanent annihilation, but for the purpose of reconstructing definition by purifying the dysfunctional dedicated energy that is no longer moving in progressive states of evolution.

Somewhere, probably from Christianity, we got the idea that spiritual development (bringing the Above mind to the Below mind) is all sweetness and light; this is false. Enlightenment is a process of creation, destruction and recreation. A phoenix rising from its own ashes may set a romantic picture to some, however, ashes require a burning...sometimes a fierce fire of destruction! That is why on the Tree of Life of the Hermetic Qabalah, you will see Severity (Geburah #5) and Mercy (Chesed-#4) connected by the Path of Teth (Strength)...because Tempering of a soft-unrefined- mind requires, hot fires of Passion, and the Hard Hammering of Wisdom (experience), and enough mercy not to destroy the creation. All of this, in order to forge the Proper strength in a Divine Creative-Self Personality; in a Soul who expresses itself as a person. One could say that progress, requires tempering of the personal self conscious, in the forges of heated passion and the cooling waters of mercy! This usually produces an empathy for others that comes from experiencing and recognizing error as sensual pain; empathy is something gained from experiencing life as a "limited sensual form"; something that being "alive" can only give the Soul. Remember, As a dreaming Spirit----any fantasy will do but Life is ordered by cause and effect. Creation is the effect of ideas generated by the Universal Collective Unconscious-mind, a union of Imagination and Reason. Spirit is Pure Will and has no empathy, just like a sociopathic scientist who experiences no empathy for his/her test subjects. Spiritual/willful ( "I Will Be") creativity must be linked to sensual being, in order to know what thoughts enhance the Living and what thoughts don't. Intimacy and Love is created by this Union Of Invisible I AM and sensual identity-Me! Love, The Law of Attraction, is only understood by sensually experiencing " the Thoughts of Self- that we Love". Since Love, is a Powerful Will, on both sides of the mirror, what we willfully give our emotion to, is seen as "what we Love", and created for the individual who ordered it from the Universal I AM. As one can guess, what we think as Hate, is a powerful emotional focus, and is seen as "What we Love", and the Law of Attraction is invoked by the hater.

Therefore this world is not about the Visions of the Ambitious, as something being created for the Greater Good (Greater God) but rather the expansion and liberation of idea as The Living Presence of I AM (I AM ME...is the Universal Mind's Vision). Therefore, in a world of "living" thought, sacrificing the alive for your visions, is dysfunctional. In the Living World, visions are to support the living individuals. Therefore the sacrifice of the "alive" to ideas, is no longer functional. Ideas, visions, are now to "enlighten" personal-life by raising it up out of the ashes of dysfunctional thoughts of self defeating definition. In our world, we often find that War is how we do this.
Therefore, The Path of Peh, The Tower Tarot Card, is connecting Hod (Splendor) and Netzach (Victory), both of which are united in War. For example, it was the allowing the vision of Splendor that masked the bigotry of Aryan purity, a peacocks vision of self importance, that had to be destroyed by the individuals who together threw down the Towering Nazi horror in the second world war. Death and Destruction was deemed a necessary severity for the victorious destruction of that false vision of separatist bigotry. For only after a battle against false knowledge and through, strife, and severity, are we to be Victors. Therefore there is another message from the Tower card; personal courage is required to become enlightened. This need for courage will be felt severely, when the towers of falsehood topple after all your years of hard work to make them stand. However, you must first identity the error (build it), correct it (tear it down) and then you must gather the rubble and rebuild. This is Experience, and this is how Knowledge builds Wisdom. Knowledge is built out of the rubble of failure, Wisdom is built out of the courage to rebuild correctly, after failure. The Mercy of God allows you to survive personality destruction, so that the Real-you (the on not man-made) can see error and correct it. We are Spirits whose Real Persona is a Soul (a collective of multi-dimensional experience)----personalities are the Towers we build! As in most

Tarot cards of the Major Arcana, The Tower Card-key 16, has many layers of meaning. We have:

War.
The Changing of the Aeon.
Personality annihilation, reconstruction of the person via Soul "I" sight and even the deeper occult meanings of: Universal deconstruction as the dream of the sleeping God is abolished by the Awakened God.
One interesting aspect of different creation stories is that sometimes Vishnu or Shiva are given credit for creating the world. It is believed that they dreamed up the creation of the universe, with Brahma doing all the heavy lifting in the dream, as if he were just following the blueprints laid out by the other two gods. Following this belief, is the rumor that if Shiva or Vishnu awaken form the dream they have created, the Universe will vanish. Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma, are really just a trinity of One. As is the Qabalistic Supernal Triangle, which is a trinity of Kether.

The many symbols on the Thoth card represent all of these meanings. We have the All Seeing eye of the Awake Shiva, the Haloed Serpent Force, the Lion-Serpent Abraxas, the Dove of Peace that is the Holy Spirit (also the Venus influence) and the crystalline humanoid shapes of the falling figures, who because of their indoctrination have become indistinct geometrical expressions that are unrecognizable as individuals. The Lion-Serpent Abraxas (or Xnoubis) and the Dove of Peace, represent two forms of Desire" The Will to live and the Will to die.

There is yet another layer in meaning here, as the former is the Feminine and the latter is the masculine impulses. Some may see these two as in contradiction, but in all actuality, "the will to live" and the "Will to die" are the inseparable "Wife and Husband" of all creation. Life and death are a single manifestation, Life/Death, of all Energy, just as Time/Space are one. It behooves us to remember, that no matter how great the creation, it is going to"proceed from order to disorder". Entropy happens to energy, when it is made to 'manifest" as form. Form is a ruled and time-controlled environment that causes a Static motion within parameters. Whereas, eternal motion, requires this stasis of parameters to move as a collective into motive energy as a Universal dynamic of Harmony and Balance. This need of balancing the harmonics is shown on the Night Sun Tarot as scale-balances on the eight corners of its Tower. Energy transformation requires transformation of transformations, in order to constantly transform. Hence the term, " life eats itself to stay alive". The great mass of humanity, falling out of the window to the Night Sun's Tarot-key 16, almost looks to be entrails, which would be apropos for the "gutting of our false personality".

The Tower, key 16,may seem all doom and gloom, but in reality, our Soul is merely bringing us out of slavery to the definitions of self depredation (the Child of Man) and back into the Original Identity of our Creation, The Child of the Divine Creative. This may cause some "internal turmoil", but it won't be long-lived if you don't resist the change of direction for too long.
One may ask during skrying of this card," What must I free myself from to release the energy that I AM."

When the Tower card is thrown during a tarot divination, it usually means:

That the querent will be experiencing an ego- personal process of eliminating all that is artificial, false-to-fact, and no longer useful to them; usually in a 16week or month process.
Healing, and restoration comes from this process. This is much like a doctors axiom of ,"This is gonna hurt a bit, but it will feel better soon".

Ambition, war, courage and fighting.
In certain card combinations the Tower can represent destruction, danger, ruin and fall.
However, it is mostly about the universal principle of reconstruction and renovation and is often seen to mean that the Querent is a healer, restorer and renovator who aids in or is experiencing the breaking down of the 'self absorbed individual self (often called Ego") and eliminating what is false-to fact (supported by denial), artificial and no longer of use to the progressive individual.
A breakthrough in self thought that shatters the old structures of belief.
The deconstruction of self-definition necessary for Enlightenment.

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The Thoth Tarot-Key 17- The Star & The Night Sun Tarot-Key17-The Star: The Tarot Star, traditionally refers to the zodiacal sign Aquarius, the Water Bearer. The picture represents the Egyptian Goddess Nuit, the Lady of the Stars. Nuit is rarely shown in colors other than Black or Dark indigo, because She represents "Before the veil of Light was created".....in other words, She is the Dark Womb, the Dark/ Alma-Mater/ Matter"from whose breasts flows the Milky way". The fact that the Ancient Gnostic knew there was a Dark Force that birthed and nurtured the Stars should peek the interest of any quantum physicist who has discovered that the "Quanta"(sub atomic particles) appear to have an intelligence.

The Star card figure is shown as a human figure, to verify through anthropomorphic art, the fact that She is depicted as a Macrocosmic manifestation (Dark Energy) rather than a just a mythological concept, for we are her Microcosmic creation- "Horus in manifestation", as we connect both the "Above and Below".

On the Thoth Tarot Card, She is shown as bearing two cups, one golden cup held high above her head from which she pours the "ethereal water" upon it (in ritual this is symbolized by a mixture of milk, oil and blood). The other cup is Silver, from which She pours the *Amitra, the immortal liquor of her life, pouring it into the Great Sea of Binah ( 3rd Sephiroth called "Understanding") that is illustrated as conjunct to a shore of fertile earth.

[ Amitra of the Indian philosophers, the Nepenthe and Ambrosia of the Greeks, the Alchahest and Universal Medicine of the Alchemists, The Nectar. The Mother of the Blood of the Grail .]

You may note that the Thoth cups represent the shape of breasts, while the Night Sun Tarot depicts her breasts running with milk that forms a pool, from which she arises. The two breasts or cups is tradition tarot art, because the ancient astronomer priests or priestesses, believed that Stars were formed from the "milk of her breasts" and it is written: " The milk of the Stars from her paps; yeah, the milk of the stars from her paps".The Milky way, because of our edge on view, was seen as a river of sparkling life giving Goddess milk, by the ancients. To the Egyptians it was the out flowing milk of the Heavenly Cow, i.e., Hathor. Here we see a blending of the Goddess Hathor, "The Cow Goddess", into the later goddess name of Nuit. The Goddess Nuit has also been called, "Nothingness with Twinkles....".

To the ancient Greeks, the Moon Cow was Io or Europa or Hera. The Greek word gala, meaning "mothers milk",is the root word for galaxy.

The 4 rivers of paradise copied in the bible as 4 streams of Eden, that emanated in 4 directions, where first known as the 4 Rivers of Paradise that flowed from the 4 teats of the Moon Cow. The Arcadian name for the milky way was Hiddagal, meaning "river of the Divine Lady", became the stream Hiddekel, (Genesis 2:14). The 4 rivers in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:10–14): Pishon (perhaps the Jaxartes or Syr Darya), Gihon (perhaps the Oxus or Amu Darya), Hiddekel (Tigris).

What is attempted in illustration on the Thoth Deck Star card, and the Divine breast milk in the Night Sun Tarot, is to show the universe in its ultimate elements. The Celestial globe is behind the Thoth Tarot-Goddess figure showing a prominent 7 pointed star that represents Venus, declaring the principle characteristic of Her nature to be love, the 7 pointed star is also shown as an {7/2} acute heptagram. This Star is also shown behind the Night Sun Tarot goddess figure as a magic {7/3} obtuse heptagram which is also shown spinning in the night sky background, swirling the "dark material" in the art of both the Thoth Tarot and the Night Sun Tarot.

In general, a heptagram is any self-intersecting heptagon (7-sided polygon).

There are two regular heptagrams, labeled as {7/2} and >{7/3}, with the second number representing the vertex interval step from a regular heptagon, {7/1}.[From Wikipedia]

The Thoth Star card shows the manifestation of Nuit on a lower plane is Binah the Great Mother - The Sea of Life, The fertile Earth, nurtured by the Ocean of Binah, shown as supporting Roses in the right hand corner of the picture but between the Sea and the Land is the Abyss, which is hidden by the clouds, that whirl as her hair.

[The Lady of the Rose, the Rose-Mari, is another aspect of the Fertile Goddess and during the Matriarchal age, there were Priestesses of the Blood Rose who were in direct representation of the Great Fertile Mother and stood for the Wellness of the people. This goes all the way back to Lemuria and/or the Land of Mu, that has been illustrated on ancient Chinese maps as shown on a map from www.moorsgate.com..

The Left hand upper corner of the Star card, shows the 7/3 heptagram that Crowley called the " Star of Babalon" which represents yet another aspect of the "All Mother goddess", that of the Scarlet Woman (Blood Rose) the Lady shown in Key 11, Lust, as riding the Lion-Serpent. Form her star issues the curved light of Spiritual/Spiral rays (Spiral and Spiritual are both from the Greek word: Spiro. which means -Breath.}. She is the Dark matter, and Heaven itself is no more than a veil before the face of the immortal Goddess.

Interesting to note here, is that every form of energy depicted here, is spiral (Spiritual). This is known as a "Spiral Universe"...we live in a Spiral Galaxy which we think we discovered just recently. Yet Zoroaster is quoted as saying," God is he, having the head of a hawk; having a spiral force." Hawks spiral in the sky as they hunt and also symbolizes the ancient Egyptian Hawk Headed god Horus. Spiral is also the mathematical conception of the Universe by the renowned physicist Albert Einstein. It seems the Metaphysics of Hermetic Tarot, Gnosis, Alchemy, Qabalah, Tantra etc., are the Quantum physics of today!

The viewer may note, that on the Thoth Star card depiction, only in the lower-silver cup, is the flowing water of life, shown as rectilinear forms, rather than the spiral flow from the upper golden cup. This is because of mankind's insistence on a linear view, that forms a blindness to the wonder and beauty of the Spiral (spiritual) Universe. We know that Euclidean geometry depends on the conception of straight lines, but Riemann, Bolyai, and Lobatchewsky, (Mathematicians) have mathematically proven that the Parallel Postulate is found to be incapable of proof. Thus, the straight line has no true correspondence to reality. I would highly recommend that the True Student of Tarot, get the Book of Law by A. Crowley....it is more than significant in aiding understanding the Occult metaphysics which can be compared to the quantum physics of today. Even the "New" String theory, was foreseen as the "serpent force" of the ancient metaphysicians.

THE Tarot-STAR is known on the Tree of Life, as the inner Path of Tzaddi. The Hebrew letter Tzaddi means fishhook and the Path is the Path of Meditation. Meditation is the fishhook on this path that properly attaches us to The Divine Collective Unconscious, using our imagination. I-magi-nation is than being the proper approach to this Divine Intelligent Energy for she is the All Mother Intelligence that makes and nurtures all image.

As we can see on the Thoth Star Card, there are two streams of Divine Energy:

one from the Golden Cup (Solar womb) and;
one from the Silver Cup (Moon womb.

The Divine Energy flows through the Divine Mother to us by the integration of Chokma- Will to Force- (intuition/feelings for he is Wisdom a feminine noun in Hebrew) and Binah-Will to Form(intellect/consciousness). These 2 streams of energy are shown flowing from the 2 breasts of the Night Sun Tarot central goddess image.

Many of us forget that the Imagination is a

"Womb-with-a view"---and is the Consciousness of the Divine Mother of all Forms. This forgetfulness, is because we have been taught by our Patriarchal society that imagination is a world-wind creator of fantasy and to be considered beneath our rational-worded-linear thought. We have somehow forgotten the meaning of Image-maker-conscious (imagination)."It's Just your imagination," is a common "put down" theme and uses denial to ignore the fact that:

It's "just" The Divine Creative's Imagination that created all that you can see, hear, feel , smell and touch including YOU! Other than a self-reflection, what else do you think a Self-Image is?

Water is a symbol for the ebb and flow of consciousness , and Binah, is the Vast Sea of the Un-Conscious (meaning "not of consciousness"), which by meditation, we cast our consciousness into and thereby find a understanding of the process of life and death. The Night Sun Tarot also shows the "magic beads" of prayer used by many cultures, and two cubes or cages. Since he has shown "hearts in cages" on his other cards, I can only think that Fabio, is suggesting the cube of matter (they are resting on earth) encasing the hearts/ of anima-spirit and animus-soul.

In the Thirty Two Paths of Wisdom, by Dr. Paul Foster Case, The Path of Tzaddi is described as the Path of the Natural Intelligence. To the Student of the Hermetic Qabalah, this suggests that the primal forces of nature attributed to Netzach (Victory), the sphere of the Elohim who are synonymous with nature itself. You'll need to study the Hebrew word Elohim to understand this in greater detail, but they are called the Gods of Netzach....which means ruling forces. That can be ruled by Man, who is arguably the Elohim Malachim (sons of god) Which is whom we are as the Soul or Real Person that radiates from the 6th Sephiroth-Tiphareth. As physics has proven; by our observation alone, we change the observed behavior of electrons!

To aid further understanding, the Number 17 reduces to 8, which is the Lust Card-Key 8 in the Thoth Deck, which represents the conscious control of the Kundalini, that is both solar and sexual force. I call the Lust Card the image of " Riding the Dragon" ----being in conscious union and thus control of the Divine Frenzy as your life expression. In other-words, the Impersonal Power of I AM becoming a conscious manifestation of Me...a personal expression of Power. The figure 8 is the magical symbol for infinity, where 0 has become 8, 2 from a spiral of energy. The Universal 2, Binah and Chokmah, are both of the Fool, who is 0.

This trinity of I AM ME, is all part of the Greater Mysteries of Tiphareth, the Solar Logos which is the central Star of our Existence (our Solar Core/Psyche). Only by controlling the Sexual/Spiral energy in ourselves---the Kundalini [Lion-Serpent] can we travel the path to Tiphareth. However, this fact has been perverted by believing that Sexual energy, must be oppressed (made celebrate) to approach our Christos. This celibate practice is a perversion of the truth as the function of the Divine Creative and the practice of ten's of thousands of years worth of Shamans, Tantric and mystics, suggests otherwise.

We must combine, through communion of He and She the flowing serpentine force with willful union of intuition, feelings, and intellect in order to flow to our Solar Core and stand a True Power of influence in the realm of Alma Mater.

This Union, is the mystery of Tantric, Gnostic and Qabalistic practices and what some may call "Sex-Magic"----or "Sex-Magi". Which is really the Divine's technological break through of Sex where 1 becomes 2 and joins to become 3! (Such as, color becomes red, then blue, then joins to become a color called purple-making 3 colors). 1 is always one, but 2 and 1 is Three. Three is a plane, from which Self can reflect! Therefore the Triangle, in its many forms, is deem "magical".

Our ignorance of the Sexual Communion is not only showing us how the great Mother is disabused by fear based Patriarchal rule, but that all sexual perversion diverts us from the path of Tzaddi, and we are unable to control the lust filled passions of the Divine Frenzy that is all around us and within us, and therefore become mental, emotional and physical deviates of a psychosomatic -chaos perpetrated by divisive thinking, which makes us powerless to use our scattered creative forces. Just what the bullies of "Divide and Conquer" want, i.e., "those who rule definition".

Great enlightenment comes to the student who studies this Path and as many before, we realize that by not understanding the Divine Frenzy within the figure 8----we become murders, rapist, etc., where violence becomes our sexual activity.

The Process of approaching the Solar Center, is a yoga (yoga means--communion), involving the enervation of centers of energy (Chakras--means "spinning wheels") which open up our Energy Centers through the process of meditation, both internal and sexual. Our body is a magical device of the Solar Logos and its Son, the Soul. And as a magician, we as a consciousness, must learn to operate this device. The first knowledge should be that energy flows from positive to negative poles. Male is positive polarity in this world, and female is negative polarity, so once again the figure 8 shows up to show us the necessary flow between the electric male and magnetic female. This flow is shown on the Thoth tarot as the flow from the Golden cup of the Sun (he) and the Silver cup of the Moon (she).

As Paul Foster Case stated, about the Path of Tzaddi, "Through it is consummated and perfected the Nature of every existing thing beneath the Sun".

Hence, we can't consummate our perfected nature until we are the perfect marriage of anima and animus on Psychic worlds above and Psychic worlds below...of as above, so below.

When meditation is successful, we find that we don't meditate, but rather we are meditated into image! We may understand better if we think of Tiphareth, The Higher Self/Solar Logos, as a kind of fisherman, who by angling with the Fishhook of meditation, pulls our personality/self-conscious up into the Solar Self. From that Higher Perspective our personality can see that the self-image of form is meditated into existence from Briah, the Creative World of the Soul.

The formation of the individual consciousness from the Divine collective unconscious begins from the point of Netzach, which is the highest level of "personality" while Tiphareth is the highest level to be reached by intellect. The object is to hold a "Holy Mass" where the Personality and the Intellect are joined in Communion, within the honeymoon suite that is The Human body.

The Tarot Star Card figure, represents the most pure manifestation of the Great Mother Binah at the level of Real Persona, preceding enclosure in matter. She is the Same figure found in The Empress, in her royal regalia; The High Priestess and in The Universe cards, The Scarlet Woman in the Lust card; However, here She is unveiled, a naked virgin, further representing Her Venusian purity.

The Star is associated with the love and inspiration sign of Aquarius. In the ancient world, Saturn was said to govern Aquarius, referring us to Binah/Time and The Universe key 21.

Because the Star card represents the universe resolved into its ultimate elements, it relates to many more Paths than any other card in the deck. Thus, I recommend getting the text book by Robert Wang---The Qabalistic Tarot ( A text book of Mystical Philosophy) and studying the many path- Charts on the Tree of Life , that he presents in the book.

To the Hermetic Qabalist, the Star card represents the "Lower Eden", from which the Personality originates and the Emperor, represents "Upper Eden" where the idea of Fiery Higher Self originates...The Solar Logos. Here to, we see a relationship of The Star Path (Tzaddi) relating to another Path, that of the Emperor (Heh).

The Star card also relates to the astrological Planet Venus, which to the ancients was seen as the "Morning and Evening Star", also referred to as Lucifer, the Most beautiful of all Archangels, referring to the Sephiroth Tiphareth-Beauty, which is the Solar Logos. Lucifer is not seen as a underworld figure, but rather the Higher Self and or Real Person (Soul) but with proper enforcement of propaganda, you can be made to believe that "The Higher Self" is a "Savior" who is separate from you; a "you" who are but a slave to definition supplied by your cultural rulers whose rule is satanic, as it depends on the shedding of innocent blood.

After the " War Lord religions" (Patriarch) took over cultural programming, the meaning of Beauty (Synchronicity) became a Underworld Angel who was so narcissistic that he challenged God; as did the Titans, the children of women and the "gods who from the sky came", challenged the gods of Olympus. We all must study history and mythology to see how the Jews, Muslims and Christians took the names of gods and goddesses of other religions and demonized them, which only contributed to ignorance and lost self-awareness. The truth is that the Latin word Lucifer (Morning Star) is similar to the Greek Christos (Sun, also Zeus Christos or Sun of God) ----both relating to the fiery Sun/Son of God....The Solar Logos and/or our Higher Self/Psyche/Real Person/Soul.

To aid one in their skrying/meditation, it is found more power is gathered when one uses the corresponding things in nature. Therefore:

Thoth Tarot Correspondences: 0-The Fool & key-17-The Star.

It may be interesting to note that in ancient text, the "Holy Ghost" was considered to be feminine rather than the masculine concept of masculine, and she was/is known as Sophia, The Mother and Beloved of the Father. The Star card promotes the image of Sophia, while the Fool, promotes the image of the Father. To the ancients, the Fool (The Green Man) was both wise and "innocent as the children". He is Joker (Trickster) and Wisdom.

Astrological Sign: The Star-Aquarius
Astrological Planet: The Fool- Uranus
Key 17-The Star, has the astrological form: I know.
The Fool has the astrological motion: I seek myself through what I don't know.
Rune-stones: STAR- Lagaz, the water stone that flows and conducts.
There are two Rune-stones for the Fool: Mannaz, the name of mankind, the human race , and the self. The other is the blank rune, called "the unknowable", the name of destiny. That is also why the Fool is not a key---it is 0, the symbol for infinity, which is indeed unknowable and has no gateway to unlock. The Fool card can be placed at the beginning of the Tarot deck or at the end, as can the Blank rune.
Primary colors: Violet (purple, lavender).
The associated Chakra is the Sixth chakra or the Brow Chakra, which is intuition, light, color, seeing (also color-seeing as in Auric Seer) thought, information, meditation, visualization, imagination (The Womb With A View), spiritual perception, dreams,----the Chakra of purpose and patience.
Stones and Minerals: Amethyst, sugalite, charoite, siberite ( violet tourmaline), chalcedonies and fluorites of violet hues.
Musical Notes: Star-A# and for the Fool- E
Hebrew Qaballah letters: Star-Simple letter- Imagination.
Fool- Maternal letter- Air
The Path of the Star--Tzaddi, The Natural Intelligence ( Mother Nature)
The Path of the Fool-Aleph, The Scintillating Intelligence.
Plant essences: The Star--Eucalyptus, Fir, Lime, Blue Chamomile.

The Fool- Fennel, Niaouli.

Often the Star card is associated with the "Mother Nature" of the Universe (The Universe is Natural----in fact there isn't any Super Natural---there is just parts of the Universal Collective that is Nature, that we don't understand yet) and the Fool is The Green Man-or Father Nature. It may help our understanding if we remember that Male is Electric Force and Female is Magnetic Force, so in essence we are dealing with Universal Magnetic Conscious and Universal Electric Consciousness. When both are united in harmony----We have Sophia, "the whole of spirit". .

The Hebrew story about the letterTZADDIK (Tzaddi)--Meaning; fish-hook.

The Path of Tzaddi-Key 17-The Star.

So God created man in His Image, in the image of God He created him; male and female; He created them.

Genesis 1:27

In this short story of the first of two descriptions of human creation, God made male and female at the same time. This is true for time/space and electric-magnetic. All of us are subtle androgyny, rather than the obvious single sex, as we all are composed of the energy that flows between and through the polarities of electro-magnetic (electric is male and magnetic is female). Also the brain itself has "male and female" lobes. Since there was only One (Kether on the Tree of Life) when two where created from the one ( Chokmah-Male electric/spiritual fire and Female Binah--Magnetic-spiritual water)both "became" at once, just as the figure eight is drawn from one line. The "Image" of God has been argued by the best, but it can also mean extra-terrestrial "DNA" bonded with the natural mammalian DNA, a GMO operation done by the "angels that fell to earth" and/or "those who from the sky came". [I know that was unnecessary to bring up but I just love a good debate!] However, there is no debate about our imagination, it is as a creative Womb and obviously an active Creative Conscious nestled in our passive "Unconscious"---the Universal- Collective-Unconscious being attributed to natural inheritance, i.e. created before us by Life's experiences, but ours to be at one with.

All of us know that particles of energy became Stars , then planets (Star detritus) and all were the process of "Energy Conscious" (God) Self-Awareness . Since we have " Solar-Force Fields" around our bodies --called the 7 bodies of the human aura and their subtle energy entry points in the body called -Chakras, we know that we were Solar Conscious states of energy, before we became the operators of a physical state of energy/ matter body. We call this Solar Presence---Spirit and Soul. It is a State of Energy Conscious, Psyche, of the Eternal One Energy. That means we are much more than we think we are. And if you have read my past blogs, you know that thought itself, is a delusional- trickster as it is all probabilities and not reality. Before Thought we were "I Will Be"! And with this giant roar of will, space swirled, and existence was born as "I AM" , which became "I AM Being" and/or "I AM ME"! Hence,Becoming the self-conscious Image of the Divine Creative, (accessing our Solar Conscious state---enlightenment) is the purpose of the Qaballah (kabala) . In other words, claiming our inheritance from our Solar Being.
We are the combination of both Solar (fire-Kundalini) Evolution and Planetary Evolution (water)-----we are Divine Children of the Serpentine Fiery Father and the Serpentine Watery Mother (made in the Divine's Image). This is usually shown as a red and blue serpentine energy going up the spine. The Divine Creative obviously thinks we are Great and I often wonder why some people spend all their lives seeking greatness when Greatness built each of us as Itself? It seems to me that "greatness seeking" is like a fish in the ocean looking for water? Sounds----like mental blindness to me. It is easy to declare our Greatness; just say "Greatness built me to express Itself" and then "above all things know thyself", which is a process of stimulating solar- memory (not in the brain) by studying the Qaballah or any other mechanism for "enlarging self- awareness". We are not "brains"....we build them as hardware for software....not as "I Am" but rather as "I translate myself into Material Experience" (Me) and I dare say, something is lost in that translation.
The I Am already exists as immortal-infinite Energy Conscious . That is another reason why we are created in the Image of Divinity-We are Solar-Self united with Planetary-Self. We are the Nature of Stars united with the Nature of Planets! We are Spirit first and bodies (power tools) second! "I" don't Live in my brain, "I Am Life"---my brain is "alive" and/or a "Me" but Life is beyond it's function, for being a "self-reflection" of Life is its forte. Life is the product of "I AM Goddess/God", a Union of "Will to Force" (god) and "Will to Form" (goddess) creating microwaves of Spiral Energy (Kundalini) often called the serpent force, which is Spiritual ( From the Greek Spiro as is spiral) "Life-Force" . The symbol of the Fish is the representation of "the first Matter" which we know as "thought"! The Hook is a fastener, the physical matter fastened to the Divine Creation and/or Imagination!
In Qaballah, Water is consciousness and Fire is the Solar Logos or Spirit. We are an amazing creation of "I AM Me"! The Path of Tzaddi, is about the Mysteries of Tiphareth---the mystery of Beauty and that Mystery lies in the Flow of Kundalini (Solar-sexual energy) in the Union of Polarities that exist in fire and water; of Motion and Form. It is my constant understanding, that, "Beauty built me to be Itself" and I know that as I look around, the Kingdom of Beauty is all around me. When you understand this beauty-filled sight----you will "know thyself" and you will appreciate all things and therefore lack nothing. You will no longer be "a fish (Spirit) in the Ocean (Goddess) looking for water" ( life) . Rather you will be Life-Ocean who is Alive as " I AM Me"-fish!

When the Tarot- Star Card-Key 17, is thrown during a reading the querent shall be or will be experiencing:

Hope, faith and unexpected help for 17 weeks or 17 months.

Self esteem and confidence contributing to self-efficiency and talent.
The querent, upon meditating, shall hear their own song (sound frequency), becoming harmony and then emoting love, calm and peaceful agility.

An expanded and liberated personality change is in the works.
Hope, faith and expected spiritual help combine.
There is a principle of self esteem and confidence here, maybe even recognition of self sufficiency and talent from others.
In the next 17wks or months, the querent will be experiencing an upsurge in courage to be themselves and in so doing, assisting others in their self- esteem.
The querent may be hearing their own song through meditation and moving with love in a calm and peaceful rhythm.
Opening to the Goddess within.
Contacting the Dark Universal Collective Unconscious which is the Ocean of Natural Intelligence.

If ill defined by the accompanying cards:

There can be the experiencing of dreaminess, and deceived hope. This feeling of fantasy is rare, so basically the querent is or will be, experiencing freedom from all masks, illusions and restrictions while being replenished by the pure waters of the Universal Unconscious.
There can be a state of dreaminess, and deceived hope, if ill defined.

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The Thoth Tarot-Key 18-The Moon & The Night Sun Tarot-Key 18- The Moon: The Qabalistic Path of Qoph.

Primary path color: Crimson (ultra-violet)
Musical note: B natural
Astrological sign: Pisces (Mutable water)
Symbol of meaning: Back of head, ear.
Simple letter: Sleep

Qabalistic esoteric title: The Ruler of Flux and Re-flux. The Child of the Sons of the Mighty.

From theThirty Two Paths of Wisdom (Dr.Paul Foster Case):

The Twenty-ninth Path is the Corporeal Intelligence, so-called because it forms every body which is formed beneath the whole set of worlds and the increment of them.

The Path of Qoph or Qof, of the Hermetic Qabalah connects the 7th Sephiroth-Netzach/ Victory with The Kingdom -the 10th Sephiroth-Malkuth and is described as the "Victory of the Material World"but also as the"deceptive effect of the apparent power of Material Forces".This is spiritual rebirth and/or resurrection. As we incarnate, it is the first stage of the Soul's organization of the physical body that it will inhabit (often done in the womb). It is a form of "sleep", a pre-consciousness (that precedes the waking consciousness) differentiating into physical matter from the collective elemental unconscious of Netzach.

The Moon Tarot card is represented in"every form Sinister" because of the limited sight of the Survival mind of the Dark unconscious, a well-spring of deception, illusion, and in the extreme, lunacy. On the Thoth card, we see a sinister landscape above the Water of the Unconscious; watered by a stream (or path) of serum(semen) tinged with blood, which flows between the gaps of two barren mountains. Nine drops of impure blood or menstrual blood shaped like Yods (meaning-hand) represent self-sustaining primal points of matter formation and/or sexual energy or sexual love, fall on the Moon below. Also, in terms of the spiritually developing individual self conscious, it is the conquest of the phantoms reflected from the material world of the Self-Conscious Survival Mind into the Unconscious Mind of Imagination. The Qabalistic lodge of the Golden Dawn, described these phantoms as, "The Child of the Sons of the Mighty" which simply means the "creations of the Created". This is a watery path of probation, where the student must face and conquer the phantoms of their own deep unconscious as well as those of the race in which he is born. It can be a terrible and frightening Path, not only of stunning illusions but of real dangers to the emotional stability of those who have not built up enough inner strength (inner virtue--often called "Character") to handle this experience. However, when we slay the "monsters within" the deep recesses of our sleep-consciousness (sub-conscious), and understand their mechanisms, we gain the capacity to manipulate those qualities in ourselves as well as in others. This ability is often called "Witch craft", however, it is also the ability of a good therapist.

The Path of Qoph or Qof, is an inner primitive path of raw animal nature; of instincts (survival mind), uncontrolled passions, and emotions of nature that are both "red in tooth and claw" and which are not subject to intellectual, moral or ethical considerations. This Path shows us predatory survival aspects of ourselves which society forces us to repress but which are an integral and undeniable part of our human being. To be whole, we must approach this Path with our Whole Being, applying reason, rather than fear, to that which we encounter, as we apply feeling to that which is encountered on this Path of Discernment.

In the Thoth Tarot, Key 18-THE MOON, there are two images of the Guardians of the Gate who are the Ra kings of ancient Egypt. These are the Sun gods who protect our life force and energy as we change and reclaim our authentic selves.

The Jackals (represent the Egyptian deity Anubis) remind us that we must let go of the old in order to go through the gates into new experiences. The Moon card also shows Anubis in both forms, of the Dark nether realms of Death and the light realms of resurrection and is a very complex deity of lunar opposites. However, one way or the other, birth, death and resurrection are pivotal concepts on the Path of the Moon. These are biological processes and they occur in the dark Unconscious and light of consciousness, championed by our sensual perceptions of good and bad.

The Egyptian scarab, represents Khepri, the Egyptian God of Transformation, i.e. "He who becomes". This dung beetle and/or scarab, rolls the ball of the sun, pushing it into the Other World in the evening and over the horizon into the morning. For the ancient Egyptian, the scarab-beetle-god represented the rising sun and symbolized the renewal of life and the idea of eternal existence. Not unlike our own knowledge of eternal existence in the first law of thermodynamics ( There is only one energy that can't be created nor destroyed; only transformed).

The Night Sun Tarot, also depicts 2 guardians of the Gate Way to Life and Death, shown as a golden disc inscribed with magic symbols, along with two large "moon dogs", who also represent Anubis the judgmental psychopomps- god of Death. The "Samothea", Celtic goddess of Death, along with her scythe, that is depicted on the Death card Key 13 of the Night Sun Tarot, is the morbid pregnant twins on this card of the Moon. Yet she is wearing the crown of Hathor, the ancient Egyptian Cow Goddess, often presented wearing the Sun and Moon crescent (cow horns) Crown. Therefore we have a Sun and Moon, depiction just as we have on the Thoth card, albeit darker and without a scarab. Here again, The Moon Tarot reminds us that Death begets life.

The Moon is not only the astrological representative of the water-sign Pisces (shown on both cards) but is also the universal feminine principle of magnetism. The magnetic influence of flux and re-flux help us to see the inherent power of our receptive nature; to open, expand, yield, and totally express our full power and nature, like the Moon. The Moon reflects back to us the mystery of who we are and of our changing phases of our happy light side and our fearful dark side. The Reclamation of our Authentic Self or Real Person requires that we open, receive and go-inward. Moon like, it is essential to reveal ourselves without holding back or censoring ourselves in anyway ( Of this I am profoundly accused of!). The Moon card in representing the water sign Pisces. The traditional two fish of Pisces are symbolized here as the Anubi gate guardians, and represent the Piscean commitment to evolutionary transformation. To me as a practicing Magus, this is the gateway to the "other side of the Mirror".....The non- Son/Sun-reflected-subjective side of my Dark Psyche where my dark- warrior champion exists, basking in the fact he has destroyed his enemies...For are we not all, Shakti the Lover of Life and Shiva the Destroyer? Nevertheless, because the Soul of me fears him not, he of magnificent darkness and I of the Bright Sun, have had long and meaningful talks and have become friends who listen to the Great She, together, as one who is both of light and darkness. Hence the Dark Warrior has donned Golden Armor, and become Shepard of Her forms and worlds.

The Moon- of the Tarot, is the 18th Key of the Major Arcana or Trump and as stated:

is called the Path of Qoph--meaning, back of head or ear. Connecting Netzach (Victory) with Malkuth (Kingdom), the Path of Qoph is described as the "Victory of the Material World" and/or the "deceptive effect of the apparent power of the Material World". This path, is also known as the "Threshold to life", a spiritual birth that may be considered on two levels.

On one level, it is the course of incarnation where the soul organizes the physical body of which it will inhabit. It is a kind of sleep (physical consciousness not yet formed), a kind of pre-consciousness, that differentiates into mater from the collective unconscious of Netzach.
On another level, where the student is advancing spiritual awareness up the Tree of Life, it is a path of conquest of the phantoms of their self-conscious or "man-made" personality which are creations of the created. Therefore the path of Qoph, is a probationary path, where the student must face the emotional phantoms hid in the dark recesses of their own mind, as well as those of the race.

This probationary path of emotional phantoms, can be disturbing to those of weak moral fiber who lack discernment and can pose real dangers to one's emotional stability. On the other hand, those of discerning minds are strong enough to tread this Path and slay the monsters "within" our sleep-consciousness and understand their mechanisms, therefore gaining the capacity to manipulate those qualities in ourselves and those of others. Mastery of Illusion is a product of this path.

Since the meaning of the Hebrew word-Qoph or Qof, is the back of the head, behind the head itself, it also represents the Sun- or Resh in Hebrew. The Moon symbolizes the anterior to the bright intellect of the Sun. The Moon, the Path of Qoph, only reflects the light of the Sun. Thus the central path of the Thoth Moon card goes from the dark side of the Moon, towards the light side that reflects direct Sun-light. Hence, the Night Sun Tarot, shows the Hathor Sun and Moon crown, lower on the back of the head, in the position of Qof, rather than the traditional "on top of the Goddess's head" position.

The rising act of direct Sun-light is show as the Egyptian Scarab symbol of the God Kephera (kheprera), pushing the Sun towards the Moon. Basically, the Moon -Key-18, symbolizes the rebirth of light out of hideous darkness; bright intellect overcoming the dark denizens of our sub-conscious, i.e. the illusions of emotional fears. This act of rebirth of light out of hideous darkness, is well depicted on the Night Sun Tarot, as a pregnant putrefying woman.

The Moon card is veiled by illusion and those illusions must be understood in order for the Prodigal Soul to claim its Rich Universal Inheritance.

The simple Hebrew letter of Qoph, translates into the English word, sleep. Thus we have a conscious relationship with the Moon, The bright Sun reflecting side, our waking consciousness and the dark sunless side of the "sleeping" subconsciousness. As the Moon has cycles, so does our Psyche , as during the cyclic phase of conscious withdrawal from the physical (Sleep) many of us still act upon the fantasies and information closely related to the bodies survival based experiences. Their dreaming is filled with phantoms produced by the bodies fear of pain and/or death which once consciously transcended, is the successful completion of the Path of The Moon. Therefore this is often a card of impure horror and hidden darkness that our self-conscious must pass through before our conscious-light can be reborn.

In Thoth Tarot of the Hermetic Qabalah, THE HIGH PRIESTESS-Key 2, is a source of pure, crystal clear waters (consciousness) emerging from the God Head-The Father, to God the Son/Sun. The Same waters of consciousness are seen here on The Moon card, but they are polluted with the dark subconscious fears of mortality, that self-conscious physical manifestation bestows on consciousness in a world where "life eats itself to stay alive". However, as I have stated before, the traveling up the Path of Qoph, towards the "Son/Sun Consciousness" of Tiphareth, notably changes the body physiology, as the Bright Beautiful Light Intellect of the Sun (Tiphareth) descends into it. Hence, when traveling up the inner Path of Qoph, the Personality becomes increasing aware of the Higher Self and less controlled by the dark survival fears of the body. This traveling conscious- energy process is shown on the Thoth Deck Moon Card as cyclic wave motion, as a pattern of both above and below, linked by the Beetle of the Sun. In the simplest of terms, this is a Path of natural energy from which our bodies develop in the Womb and is continual process throughout our lives as cells live, die and resurrect-replace in daily life. The work of the Path of Qoph ends with the dissolution of energy back to its source, which is Netzach (victory).

As before stated: Paul Foster Case called The Moon, the "Corporeal Intelligence" which means the "body consciousness". Also in Hebrew the word "corporeal" means "to rain upon", which is why we see the symbols of Yods raining down from the central orb of the Thoth Tarot Moon- card (Down from Tiphareth). Since this is a Watery Card, some of a more poetic bent, say that these Yod symbols are "tears of the Moon-Goddess" raining down and filling the Nile. However, what most Qabalistic Scholars agree on is that something descends from the Moon to the Earth on the Path of Qoph, which is represented as raining Yods on the Thoth Tarot or ripples in the water/space-time fabric behind the Twin macabre of the Night Sun Tarot.

Since The path of Qoph is that of primitive instincts, of nature red in "both tooth and claw" which emerges uncontrolled by moral or ethical reasoning, "Moon Dogs" are often presented to represent this controlling fact of Instinctual mind. The traveler of this Path will face aspects of themselves that our culture forces them to repress but are indeed integral and undeniable parts of our Master predator human form. This is the Survival Mind, where the "law of the jungle" resides in the dark pools of violence and conquest. This can be a very cruel path to endure, until the student is able to fear not these internal demons which removes the veils of darkness, allowing in the Bright Intellect of the Son who applies beautiful reason to our consciousness.

Therefore, the Moon Tarot Card-Key 18 represents:

The universal principle of Choice and Authenticity.

This has been called one of the Karma Cards ( work that needs to be done).

Ultimately, we have a daily choice between supporting our authentic or Real Self or our dutiful man-made self. There is the Real which is the Spiritual Being or Soul and then there is reality, the "self-reflection and/or indoctrinated identity that we call our ego or personality or self-conscious. This one is choked full of "negative emotional self identities" as well as, fears of being preyed on by "others". These fears of being "preyed on" are also well represented as violent dogs of the Moon.

The Tarot Moon, therefore reminds us of the illusions of the survival mind. If you as an individual knows that everyone you see is another way of being you; you are basking in the Real Sun/Son light of divine self-awareness. If you see everyone as enemy or friend, you suffer from reality blindness brought on by the survival mind of the animal that you should own but now owns you because of your fears of the blindfold imposed darkness and of sensuality: fear of pain, fear of discomfort, fear of vulnerability, fear of rejection; All of which come from the animal thought of "fear of being eaten", which is also called fear of death.

The Moon is a card representing illusion and reminds us that the illusion imposed on our consciousness by the senses. For senses are all psychosomatic, meaning that not everyone has imagined the same sensual experience from the same environments; in other words they are not scientific proof. As a Soul (meaning Psyche), the body is only 1% of us, and its purpose is to define thought . In other words to aid our creative psyche in discernment so that Self-Awareness becomes a ever expansive and liberating motion in life rather than a Faustian fantasy of death.

Dreams are another attribute of the Moon.

In the Qabalah, Reality is defined as trans-formative, the Real is the One who Transforms but is not the transformation itself. You may also see the Scarab beetle on the bottom of the Thoth card. This is the symbol of the Egyptian god Khepri, the god of transformations. Successful understanding of this path, is to understand the relationship of our personality-consciousness to the physical power-tool built for each incarnation, that facilitates an awake Soul, who walks in the light; rather than a Soul who sleeps in the dark and doesn't operate the sensor bound Power-Tool it was given by giving it's operation to the faux authority of cultural dogma through the auspices of fear. The Moon Card is a reminder that most people/souls, during the cyclic phase of withdrawal of consciousness from the physical Power-Tool, continue to act on information and phantasmagorical fantasies related to survival subconscious, or "group animal Soul" of body existence. If not released, the sleeping soul-consciousness becomes a phantom of its own fantasies that are so close to the fabric of material manifestation that they are often seen as phantasms or as ghosts.

In the Thoth illustration, the Scarab is rolling the Sun across the horizon, into the "other-world" of the evening and this world at the dawn. This motion represents the renewal of life and the Real eternal existence which is invisible and thus called dark.

To review:

The Moon in astrology is considered a Planet most Universal as She is partaking of both the highest and lowest, as well as filling the space between. In other words, the Moon waxes and wanes. In her highest point (Elaine the Moon Goddess) the Moon acts as a link between the human and the Divine. In her lowest avatar (the goddess Tabu) where she is waning, she joins the earthly spheres of Netzack (victory) with Malkuth (kingdom) culminating in the matter of all superior forms.

Many of us know that a Waning moon is attributed to witchcraft, sorcery and abominable deeds which is a superstitious way of defining the poisoned darkness of Winter, that is the condition before the rebirth of light in the spring. However, there is also a poisoned darkness in our deep subconscious. Here thoughts of fear, loathing and hate putrefy without the light of conscious observation.

Looking back at the Thoth Moon Tarot Card, we see two dark towers, representing the "unknown" that so disturbs the unconscious. As stated:Guarding these towers are the images of the jackal god of Kem, Anubis who is the watcher in the twilight. Thus both the threshold of Life and the threshold of Death, are depicted here. Hence, to some, this Path of Qoph, is all a journey of great fear, that demands monumental courage from the adept-traveler; a "dark night of the soul" where all is doubtful, all is mysterious and intoxicating. Not the intoxication of Ecstatic Dionysus, but that of dreadful madness caused by pernicious drugs.The Venom of the Moon has placed a drunkenness on the mind; a lunacy that seems endless.

However, the adepts of the Hermetic Qabalah, do not fear this night, no matter what horrors may afflict the soul,whatever abominations may excite heart loathing, whatever terrors may gibber in the mind, the answer is the same at every stage:"How splendid is the Adventure!"

To me, the Dark Goddess is the Real Lady, while the Light Goddess, is "The Real Lady, dressed in veils". True love does not balk at darkness.

We would all best remember, that the Moon reflects the Light of the Sun as the unconscious reflects the thoughts of the conscious. The seemingly harmless self-absorbed thoughts of the conscious, become reflected in the dark emotions of the unconscious and the body becomes "insane" with destructive perversions.....not a great scenario for enlightenment... unless you begin to understand that survival thinking must be replaced by the Knowledge of the Immortal Soul.

Often, to know pain, is to know pleasure. Darkness cannot be seen without the knowledge of light. Knowing this, the student doesn't fear their inner darkness of shadowy emotions, they just bring in the light, as the Hermit strides through the Night with his lantern glowing and as the Moon spins through darkness, ever growing closer to the Sun. The Moon card reminds us to face our inner demons with the Divine Daemon (God-man) of the Soul, since all shadows disappear in the light. It is through the gates of fearful but voluntary personality- death, that we find our "True Identity".

When the Qabalistic Tarot- Moon card is thrown:

The querent is reminded that they are functioning in the realm of the unconscious where they become aware that reality is a dream, that time/space and physical bodies are merely conceptions, and therefore deep cellular change is possible.
Often this is the Shamanic call to enter into the darkness of unconscious desires and fears so that you may transform them into functional motion rather than dysfunctional illusion.

Dissatisfaction, voluntary change ( involuntary change is usually death).
There are issues in the life of the querent that are of error, lying, falsity, deception; it is a time to watch motives.
The querent must drop denial, self-deception, delusions in order to claim their own authenticity.
Represented here is the waxing and waning of phases where one begins the process of self-examination that will eventually arise as authoritative states of being.
The Greeks called this Mental path, "the Path of Childbirth", a time of renewal.

Dissatisfaction and voluntary change is on the horizon.
The querent is experiencing choice and authenticity over old illusions and delusions.
A call to enter into the darkness of the unconscious and to come to grips with one's fantasy made demons.
Within 18 weeks or 18 months the querent must take control of the survival mind and expand it beyond its fear based perspectives.
They must remember, that they are a Spirit who owns a body, not a body who owns a spirit; an Immortal Conscious that owns a mortal consciousness.

The Moon is about the Illusion of life and death, so there will be moments of lying, falsity, deception, if the card is ill dignified.

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Thoth Tarot, Key19-The Sun &The Night Sun Tarot=key 19- The Sun: The Path of Resh.

* Color:Orange

*Musical Note: D- Natural

*Planet: Sun

*Meaning: Head

* Double letter (Hebrew) Fertility-Barrenness

* Qabalistic esoteric title: The Lord of the Fire of the World.

From the Thirty Two Paths of Wisdom-Dr. Paul Foster Case: The Thirtieth Path is the Collecting Intelligence and is so-called because Astrologers deduce from it the judgment of the Stars, and of the celestial signs, and the perfections of their science, according to the rules of their resolutions.

(The Path of Resh is the path from the Sephiroth #8-Hod at a down angle to Sephiroth #9-Yesod)

The Path of Resh connects Splendor (Hod) with Foundation (Yesod) and is the first of the Paths of the Personality Triad to be encountered in upward motion on the Tree.

As the activePath of the intellectual formative side, it is the activating force of the Personality which is an "image of the High Self" and/or reflected in the Psyche/Soul. The Real Person of the Soul, is composed of both Male-electric-dynamic ("masculine-intuitive-dynamic, Yod) and female-formative-magnetic (intellectual-formative, Heh) and a harmony of energy frequencies from the union of the two opposites which is known as the equilibrating action of Vau.

The Sun in the Qabalistic Thoth and Night Sun Tarot decks, is the "Collecting Intelligence", meaning that it exercises control over many different components which is seen as the:

12 signs of the Zodiac, in the Thoth Tarot key, symbolized by the 12 rays of light emanating from the Sun. In the Night Sun Tarot key, the signs of the zodiac are centralized in a golden disc in the center of a Sun rays motif.
The Masculine and Feminine polarities are represented as the flying angelic forms or children forms. In the Night Sun the sexes are differentiated by one side showing a 5 petal "Rose Mari" flower that is sacred to the Divine Feminine.
The Zodiacal signs are considered to be the 12 guide posts of Personality and receptacles of Planetary influences, one of which governs the birth and life course of each incarnation.
The Sun is not only central to today's incarnation but also acts as a link between the Personalities which have been experienced in other incarnations, by the Soul and/or Real Person and is known as the realm of the Akashic records.
The collecting of the Sun also encompasses all the component parts of the self-conscious personality, discovered on these lower Paths, that are here infused with the dual action of the Sun (light and warmth).
To initiates, light and warmth are considered to be intellectual qualities. The Path of The Sun is intellectual and is the highest level of the human intellect ( The Star is the highest level of emotions).
The Sun is also The Son who carries on the work of the Father. The Sun is the introduction to the inner sun (soul) which is the light of the self conscious personality, just as the physical sun is the light of the material world.
What must be noted here, is that definite physical-chemical, psychological and psychosomatic changes happen to those who successfully work on the Paths. In his study course, The Thirty Two Paths of Wisdom, Dr. Paul Foster Case states that:...marked inner differences from the average person are due to psychological contrasts to the mental states of ordinary human beings, but they are also the outer signs of organic changes inside the skin of the new creature. He is chemically and structurally unlike genus homo. There are different constituents in his (her) blood stream. Through the nervous system and in the brain, and glands related to them, function differently in the body of an adept from the way they do in the bodies of the greater number of his (her)contemporaries.

In order to update the language I placed the word her in parentheses but it is also important to note that these "marked inner differences" also cause the "magic abilities" of the psychic and/or the "healing semen of the anointed" (sun rays) in Tantric practice. Since this solar person is now not like the genus Homo which is Latin for-man and since we are from the DNA splicing of Annunaki (Sumerian for "those who from the sky came"), often called in the bible as "angels that fell to earth" or "sons of god" and whom "married the woman of man", thereby naming the offspring Nephilim, we need a new genus name. How about Homo Nephilim Sapiens?

When we travel the Sun Tarot- The Path of Resh upwards, we return to this child like point of new innocence. It is quite literally "a growing younger" process of birth backwards until we reach a stage where there is some recollection of the Source from which we emerge. In other words, the original Persona from the Soul, rather than the man-made personality of the social self-conscious. However, we also have because of inheritance, a soul comprised of Earth and Elder Races experience; a soul "mated" to another Archetypical Race. Thereby, giving us the "dancing Twins" as one Soul. All of us are "soul mated" to the "sons of god". Seems like something to ponder, as two of us argue in our brains, one trying to gain dominance over the other, as we go about our self-conscious daily routines. The art of harmony, a dance in rhythm, is to equalize the two souls in an hermetic marriage, which requires loving one another. Therefore, one must listen to the "other" and then reach a mutual agreement. You may notice the "Dancing Twins" as show on the Thoth and Night Sun card, they were called the "Sons of Seth" or the "Daughters of Seth" as ones who came from the God of Seth who was Annunaki, before we may have known them as --the Twin aspects of the Soul. T

This article from Wikipedia is about the third son of Adam and Eve. For the Egyptian deity, see Set (deity). For other uses, see Seth (disambiguation). .Seth (Hebrew: שֵׁת, Šet, Šēṯ; Arabic: شِيث‎‎ (Sheeth); placed; appointed"), in Judaism, Christianity, Mandaeism, and Islam, was the third son of Adam and Eve and brother of Cain and Abel, who were the only other of their children mentioned by name in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible). According to Genesis 4:25, Seth was born after Abel's murder, and Eve believed God had appointed him as a replacement for Abel. According to Genesis, Seth was born when Adam was 130 years old "a son in his likeness and image." The genealogy is repeated at 1 Chronicles 1:1–3. Genesis 5:4–5 states that Adam fathered "sons and daughters" before his death, aged 930 years. According to the Bible, Seth lived to the age of 912. This profound age, was also the normal aging of the Annunaki, according to the Sumerian clay tablets.

It's also important to note that the Personality we came as Spirit to build, is one that expands and liberates the Animal consciousness towards a state of "Angelic -Sapiens conscious. We came to elevate matter and its survival mind to that of Universal Thought.

There is a Hebrew story that goes along with the letter -RESH- Key 19-The Sun. It begins in the story of Rebecca.
Resh-Rivka (Rebecca)And when the time came for [Rebecca] to give birth, behold! There were twins in her womb. The first one emerged red, entirely like a hairy mantle, so they named him Esau. After that his brother emerged with his hand grasping on to the heel of Esau; so he called his name Jacob...The lads grew up and Esau became one who knows hunting, a man of the field but Jacob was a wholesome man, abiding in tents. Isaac loved Esau for he ate of his venison, but Rebecca loved Jacob. Genesis 25:24-28

The Great Matriarch Rebecca and her twin sons, is a story of contrasting elements in all of us----we are Spirit (Issac) and we are of Genetically Modified Animal forms (Esau). There is a clash among these two, these twins, Mothered by "The Great Mother Binah. In the Form of Mother Earth---Esau (animal Personality) and the other aspect of the All Mother- Mother of Intellectual form, the Solar Womb of the Soul Personality (spirit-Is Intellect of Father). Esau is in essence, the "Survival Mind" of the animal and Issac is the "inner-Sun"--enlightenment of Spirit. This may look like a form of competition as each one is competing for His First Born rights--but it is a 'communion'---where each one is joined at birth to "expand and liberate" both body and Soul. If you read on in the book of Genesis, you will see that Isaac (the father of the twins) love Esau and was to give him the first born blessing while Rebecca loved Jacob and set up an elaborate scheme to get the first born blessing for Jacob. The battle between the animal-unconscious and our solar-conscious, is well known in us all---where the animal instinctively sees threats (enemies) the Solar mind sees "another as myself" and acts with compassion. We all feel that struggle in our "heads" and " hearts" believing that somehow they are separates and in conflict, when in reality they are different perspectives produced by different worlds. The Body is Loved into Being, and the Spirit is Love of Being-----Love is the joining factor here! Knowing that the Qabalah is about " motion and form" of Supreme Being and Supreme Entity and how the Union of seemingly opposites makes the "flow" from first motion-Kether- into the forms of Malkuth possible.

Hence, the Hebrew Story of the Letter Resh shows us a deeper understanding of ourselves. Soul is the Beloved of Spirit; Physical Body is the beloved of the Soul. Therefore, the greatest mistake of many fundamentalists is to believe that the body is somehow bad and of less value than the Soul. this of course, is not true, as the Divine Creative creates only what it wants.

The Sun Card -Resh- is the "Collective Intelligence", meaning that It has control over a number of components. In this case, the 12 (12-Rays) signs of the Zodiac. These signs are the 12 guideposts of Personality and the of vibratory intellect of Planetary Influences, one of which governs the birth and life motion of each incarnation of the Spirit/Soul-Persona and Body Personality! The Sun is the central link (Tiphareth) to the incarnation at hand and to all the Personalities that have been experienced in past incarnations.
The Collective Intelligence of the Sun also unites all the component parts of the Personality, discovered on the lower paths of the Tree of Life, and infuses them with the dual action of the Sun, i.e. light and warmth, which are considered intellectual qualities! The path of the Sun is the highest level of human intellect (light and warmth=enlightenment).

Resh means head which is consistent with this thought of high human intellect. This high intellect is a combination of animal intellect and Soul (solar) intellect---not as some would have you believe--a divorcing of the two! The Sun basically is the Intellect acting on the dualities of the human condition, consciousness (electricity) and its human vehicle (power tool). This is the point of connection of the human intellect with the higher intellect of solar conscious [The Greater Life]. The Sun is also the Son who carries on the work of the Father (Chokmah) which is motion and the Body is Form of the Mother (Binah).
As adepts of the Qabalah, we know we are the Union of Hermes-Aphrodite (hermaphrodites) who give birth to Solar-Body unions .... of course you'll have to do more studying to see this easily. These two Children of the Divine Androgyny, motion (solar=conscious) and form (matter-consciousness) are both loved and their Greatest Value is in their Union of Equilibrium (Beauty). These children are represented as the dancing twins who move hand in hand throughout creation (motion and form). Be as the Children---is enlightenment. Let your Spirit supply the motion of your Form---Love must Power the Body-power tool! Therefore the Tarot- Key 19- THE SUN, is the The Principle of Collaboration, Teamwork, and Partnership.

As Master Theron said:
"Give forth thy light to all without doubt; the clouds and shadows are no matter for thee. Make Speech and Silence, Energy and Stillness, twin forms of thy play.-Crowley
The understanding of Resh requires the knowledge of Love and the Love of Being---to be twins of expanding and liberating life! Knowledge is not "thought", it is KNOWN. Hence, this Love must come from the "Heart", the central "sun" of the body; a love known but not thought of, while the intellect of the body--the Head--must move as loving thought in action, rather than as animal reaction! In other words Knowledge of Union, rather than the survival thoughts of division! The Sun, as a Star and a astrological sign, radiates all Life Motion and as the symbol for "Son of god" knows that"All that I see is another way to be me", for is not everything from stars? This wonder of oneness is the Knowledge of the heart, ask any child who hasn't been indoctrinated in "good-bad" (enemy creation), they are in union with all around them and eyes of Wonder look at all things; Eyes that aren't veiled by fear which is indeed "thoughts that be-devil us"! Trusting the Spirit that made you. Knowing that you have no enemies for even death exists for the sustainability of organic matter and a support for life. A sustainability, that as a Spirit/Soul Personality---you can always have another way to be a discerning self conscious. Survival-Thought is the beast that deceives us---knowledge is our Divine Inheritance and is known as "intuition" which is the thoughtlessness of knowing. Creator has joined with creation in order to be a sensual God---i.e. intimate with creation. A tough idea to get, but once gotten-never forgotten!

The Thoth Tarot- The Sun represents the Life Force that awaits expression within us all. The twins dancing on the green mountain of creation, symbolize the inner dance of male (electric) and female (magnetic) energy that is dancing in us all. The dancing gods of Shakti (Goddess) and Shiva (God) that are the rhythm of Life's heart beat. All the signs of the zodiac that encompass the Sun, show that we bring exuberance and consistency to the dance of two (one on one relationships) as well as to group or organizational settings.

The orange band around the Thoth-Sun represents the implementing of a shared vision which is the purpose of Teamwork and Partnership. Creation is a form of play and exploration and it is the Divine Child within us that is always seeking to express itself in unlimited ways. We are infinite beings, children of the Androgynous Divine Creative and can never grow old. We are the manifested Joy of Creation who has come to dance among creation as a joyful expression of I AM ME! We are both magnetic and dynamic and we are a "self experiment" of the Divine Creative that cannot be made by anyone else. It is time to remember that if we are good enough for to The Divine Creative to create, we are good enough for anyone, including ourselves.

According to Aleister Crowley, The Sun card represents The Lord of Light, Heru-ra-ha , in his manifestation to the human race as the Sun, spiritual, moral and physical. The Lord of light is also the Lord of the New Aeon of Horus; Horus being the proposed self-conscious state of the New 22nd century Human. The Energy -Conscious State of Horus is the State of Enlightenment that is often sought by the adept and neophyte alike. It is the awakening of the "sleeping" chromosomes of Alien races, that is done by the Soul/Psyche (The Real Person) who claims its body back from the definitions of Rulers.

Therefore, the new Aeon has for its purpose, the complete emancipation of the human race from the indoctrination of intransigent prejudicial thought forced upon them by enforcement of rule and doctrine-made-morality since about 25,000 BCE. We know from history, that when those who had made the transition from indoctrinated morality to enlightenment, they have been ill received by Society and persecuted for displaying the Life, Liberty and Love of the "Solar Self", i.e., the Soul.

Hence, The New Aeon, represents a social change from Social enslavement to the Life, Liberty and Love of the emancipated Spirit.

So in review: The Dancing Twins of the Thoth Tarot and Night Sun Tarot card, represent the male-animus and female-anima, eternally young, innocent and shameless. The Fertile Earth is represent as a green mound aspiring to the heavens, The fact that the new Aeon doesn't mean absence without control (love your neighbor as yourself--is the control) is shown by the wall surrounding the top of the Fertile Earth. Yet the Twins dance outside this wall, as they are dancing in the light , in which complete freedom is both the cause and effect of the new solar logos energy upon the earth. The ignorant restrictions of both sin and death in the old indoctrination, have been abolished by a enlightened knowledge of "create-see error and correct it", i.e. Wisdom, free from the pathological aspect of blame and free from the restrictions of animal survival thinking. It's the Galactic Consciousness manifesting in the human head,

At the feet of the Thoth Twins are the symbols of both the Rose and the Cross, or the single 5 petal rose of the Night Sun Tarot, from which they are arisen and still supported. The Cross is now expanded into the Sun (The 6th Sephiroth-Tiphareth), from which it was derived and has expanded beyond the four arms of mundane law (mundane law is associated with the #4) into the 12 rays of both the zodiac and the 12 Hua-Most Ancient-Holy Ones - also known as the Eld or Elders ( Hua is numerically the #12) who sponsored the Human Race and came from "the Heavens" (Annunaki in Sumerian).

This formula of the Rose and Cross has expanded into the complete union of terrestrial and celestial communion in human kind which is shown by the Thoth Tarot by the Wall completely encircling the top of the mound. On the Night Sun Tarot, it is shown by the outline of the circle and Universal cube. Because of this communion of Solar Creative Fire and Terrestrial intelligent matter, the Spiritual Fire has changed into something "rich and strange", producing "living gods" as the "inner Sun", which is the light of the personality rises just as the physical Sun does in the material world. This is most profound, as the Inner Solar Being,(the Inner Master/Christos/Buddha) is now consciously in operation of the physical body as both Master and Masterpiece in energy conscious union.

The Hexagram is the symbol of the composite Thirtieth Path which is compressed of the Four Elements, the Signs of the Zodiac, and the Planets, all under the Ruler ship of the Sun. Thus, the Hexagram is the symbol of the perfect integration of Personality and Higher Self (Tiphareth -meaning Beauty). The Sun is also called the "Splendor of the Material World", as it connects Yesod-Foundation to Hod-Splendor, and is basically representative of the intellect acting upon the dual human condition of, consciousness and the physical body. Thus, the Sun is a point of connection with the Greater Life that is comprised by balancing the human intellect with the Higher Intellect that is the "Sun (Son) of God".

What cannot be overstated, for the initiate, experiencing the Path of Resh, is very profound as it is the introduction to the inner sun, which is the light of the original personality, as the outer sun is the light of the physical world. What one tends to forget, while experiencing the warmth and light of this inner sun, one's self-conscious cannot look directly into this Solar intelligence, anymore than they can at the physical sun, without suffering a type of damage. As shown by The Tower Card; equilibrium will be reached by "burning away" what is unworthy of the Higher Personality.

The Tree of Life does describe, by its pattern, a degree of separation, as Sephiroth, but The Paths (Major Arcane Tarot Keys) show us they are all connected and that the perception of separation is to expedite understanding of a dimension of conscious energy.

Perception, is noted for its wide variations from one organism to another, so it is up to each individual student to literally create their own Qabalah. The Path of Resh is crucial in developing the individual Qabalah.

Upon journeying this Path of The Collective Intelligence, one will receive the imprint and acceptance of "Spirit guides", or those beings who direct the inner learning experience of the student. On The Path of Resh (head) the candidacy for Tiphareth

(Beauty), The Conscious of the Son (Sun), and /or Higher Self, is begun.

Therefore, The Path leading into Hod-Splendor, is where inner discoveries are made as the Inner Teachers ("other Personas" of the Collective Soul Intelligence) exert their influence on the material world, clarifying the relationship between mind and body.

The Path of Resh, will help the student understand the control and limitations of intellect. The Path of the Sun, is also the path of "awakening", that helps the student understand the use of the tremendous"Sexual Force" of Yesod (Foundation) that is known as the "secret" or Arcane force manipulated by the initiate of the Mysteries. This force has many names, such as"Serpent Force", Kundalini, or "Life Force", and even"Spirit", all of which fall short in proper perception, as most definitions do. This "solar life force" is shown as a coiled serpent, at the tip of the human spine; a kind of "booster" of coiled force that will arise and ignite the Star conscious of an Individual. This force must be experienced to be understood, and proper preparation for its "rising" must be made by experiencing of The Perceptual Intelligence on the Path of Shin (The Aeon).

Yesod, the 8th Sephiroth-Foundation, is attributed to the Moon which represents the Intelligence that governs the ebbing and flowing of the Astral Light (Akashic Fluid) and is the sexuality/sexual polarity beneath our material existence. Hod is considered to be Mercury, the first similarity of the specific or Real Personality. The Real Person is hermaphroditic, as male and female qualities have yet to be separated out as specifics. The Path of the Sun, when considered developmentally, is the point of childhood; of the emerging Personality as it builds toward an earthly incarnation. By traveling upward, towards Hod, we are once again experiencing this initial innocence, a kind of re experiencing youth and/or a rebirth. The initiate reaches a stage where there is some recollection of the Source from which we emerged, i.e. our Sun-collective intelligence.

The dancing Twins, on the both Thoth Tarot and Night Sun card, symbolize the purest-innocent repression of the electric-male (Earth) and the magnetic female (Water) principles in physical manifestation. These Twins are also a reference to the astrological sign of Gemini, the sign that links Taurus (Earth) and Cancer (Water). The ancient Greeks and Romans also referred the sign Gemini, to Apollo and the Sun.

The Fiery Spirit or Spiral Energy of Masculine and the Magnetic =Formative Sophia (Goddess of Wisdom) feminine side. Their arms cross or they hold hands to represent the Union of these Divine States of Intellect and Energy (in Tantric Image they would be in "Sexual Union") that must be established to"Collect" all the necessary Forces in order to establish a Intellectual and living Being.

The Path of Resh, is intellectual, and THE SUN represents the highest form of human intellect (The Real Person) which is both a balance of Masculine and Feminine conscious energy. So in a physical representation, when both the Left and Right side of the brain are in equilibrium with the Solar Forces (Kundalini) within the body, we are at our most advanced state of Personality. This is a profound union of the Personality with the Inner Sun where there is a deep physical inner feeling of Warmth and Light not unlike the external feeling of warmth and light a sun bather may experience. Also, like the physical sun, you cannot look directly into the "inner sun" with out suffering "damage", for it will burn away the dross. Reminding us of the opposites of the Sun, that it is both the harbinger of fertility and barrenness which is the Double Letter meaning of the Hebrew letter- Resh.

As a symbol of Resh, the human head is represented, which is our Physical Collective Intelligence. The Path of Resh is an initiation of the Personality to the Great Source of Inner Light which takes place in the material body that affects the dual components of the Lower Self (Chemical and Intellectual). The Adept knows that the component parts of the Personality (Lower Paths on the Tree of Life) function through the body as an experience-collecting vehicle for the Spirit persona we call the Soul. The human body is an important Crucible for the Alchemical union of Higher and Lower Self communion. Therefore, the Physical body is a Sacred Place; our temple, our forge of sacrament, where ideas are forged into artistic-intimate-sensual-presence and where Male and Female are not divided into a purely errant "Battle of the Sexes" as proposed by the "Divide and Conquer" indoctrination of divisionism, but rather as Divine Twins!

Remember "God creates what God wants!" This is a Hermaphroditic path, where we return to the innocence of a child and as we travel upwards this Path of Resh, our Personality grows younger, innocent and sees with Wonder rather than the critically perverted eyes of the good and bad Pavlovian domesticated and divided-personality of the Adult. We begin seeing What God Sees!

Tiphareth is the Central Sun (Son) of the physical microcosm and connects us to the Dark Sun (limitless light-Father) of the Macrocosm and the Path of Resh begins us on the Journey to Central Sun-of God, within. There is much to study about this card, Cain an Able ( bareness and fertility), the Dragon-faced-Men, Sons of Seth, Daughters of Seth and the Christ who Didymos Judas Thomas in the Gnostic Gospels quoted as saying"....I am the honeymoon suite." and much more!

When the Tarot= key19- The Sun card is thrown during a reading:

It generally means Gain, Glory and riches all of the Fertility side.
However, if surrounded by very ill cards, it can mean the bareness/desert side which would be Arrogance, Vanity, and Display.
The querent shall experience gain, riches, glory and sometimes be called arrogant which is often a misunderstanding of their glowing self-confidence.
The querent might make great displays of vanity but this is only seen when accompanied by very negative cards.

The querent is or shall be experiencing, glory, gain, riches, by means of partnership, cooperation, and team work.
Beginning a new cycle of life, growth, reward, truth and progress.
The Divine Marriage of the physical, mental and Spiritual Wholeness.
There is a radiance of self trust and rekindled enthusiasm that revitalizes something that has previously existed in their life.

If ill defined by the accompanying cards,

arrogance and vanity maybe displayed---but this requires the influence of very evil cards. All in all, when the Sun rises, all is well.

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The Thoth Tarot-Key 20- THE AEON & The Night Sun Tarot-Key 20-Judgment.

Those who have seen the old Traditional Card--The Angel or Last Judgment--know that the Thoth Deck Card seems to stray from tradition; However, Crowley states otherwise and says, "...it was necessary to depart completely from the tradition of the cards, in order to carry on that tradition."[Book of Thoth]

On the old card art, an Angel was depicted as blowing a trumpet, as seen on the Night Sun Tarot; The Golden Dawn and Rider Waite Tarot decks also showed the symbol of the Eon of Osiris (circle with inner cross), as a flag on the end of the Trumpet. While below the Angel, three graves were opening up. Of the three dead arising, one of them had his arms extended in right angles at elbows and shoulders, forming the Hebrew letter Shin-meaning fire. Thus, the card represented the destruction of the World by fire...the "world" being the Aeon of Osiris. The Night Sun Tarot, shows the three persons rising out of the traditional graves, with the symbol for the Aeon of Osiris above, while the Thoth Tarot depicts a large golden letter of Shin, flora in its arrangement, with three human forms in it.

The Aeon of Osiris ended in 1904 when the Solar-Fiery god Horus took over the position of Hierophant in the East, from the Airy god Osiris. Therefore, Crowley rightly thought that the new card should be a representation of the "Steele of Revealing".

The artist of the Thoth Cards, Lady Freda Harris, produced a card of magnificent detail, showing the Star filled body of Goddess Nuit, the Egyptian night sky or Star Goddess, who is the category of unlimited possibility; her mate Hadit, whom Crowley called ," the ubiquitous point-of-view, the only philosophically tenable conception of Reality", is represented as a winged globe of fire, symbolizing the eternal energy with the Power of Going. The resulting marriage of these two produces the child Horus (Heru-ra-ha), shown in the images of a double god; his extroverted (standing) image represents Ra--hoor-khuit and his passive or introverted sitting image represents Honor-pa-kraat.(you'll have to look these up in Egyptian myth for further explanation). Horus, being a solar entity, is also shown coming forth in golden light. The whole of the explanation of the Aeon card is in Crowley's Book of Law.

At the bottom -right of the Aeon card and at the top-left of the Night Sun Tarot card, we see the Hebrew letter Shin , suggesting the form of a flower. As stated: On the Thoth Tarot- the three Yods (leaf or petal like ends) of the letter Shin are occupied by three human figures (the three arising from graves on the Old Card) arising to partake of the Essence of the new Aeon. Behind the letter Shin, is a symbolic representation of the zodiacal sign, Libra; Crowley called this "... the forth-shadowing of the Aeon which is to follow the present one, presumably in about 2000 years."

In the Book of Law, Crowley depicts Ra-hoor-khuit; as stating,"I am the Lord of the Double Wand of Power; the Wand of Force of Coph Nia; but my left hand is empty, for I have crushed a Universe;& naught remains." Not much more about the future Aeon is shown on this card, as Crowley felt the present Aeon is too young to show more. Crowley points out that Horus has another name which is Heru and that is synonymous with Hru which is "The Great Angel set over the Tarot." The left hand of the Traditional Tarot Angel, as shown on the Night Sun Tarot, is also empty and depicts a downward pointing finger, pointing towards the "crushed Universe". On the

upper right of the Night Sun Card, is the upward point triangle that symbolizes the element of Fire.

The Aeon (Eon) of Horus has come in with a fiery roar, with two world wars, and "police actions" of great upheavals in political, moral, physical and spiritual events. All of which have marked the catastrophic transition from the Aeon of Osiris to the Aeon of Horus. Now we can manifest the fiery might of Solar fusion on the planet itself in the form of Hydrogen bombs, so this is a fiery era indeed. It is seems very instructive to study the Political massing of power, and the art of combustion with accompanying improvements in travel, and communication (all done by the harnessing of the male/female force called, electromagnetism) with great mental leaps in thermodynamic science and philosophy; However, also with a general need for the consolidation of religious thought. If we compare the five hundred years preceding the following crisis of the Patriarch of approximately 2000 years ago, with those of similar periods in 1904 of the old era, 500 years of Dark Ages are likely to be upon us as Theocracies, as shown in the past, murder each other to further their control over the minds of people. Fortunately, we have brighter minds bearing enlightened torches of thought to light our way our of the past darkness of superstition and the present Dark Age of Corporate enslavement or State Controlled identity. In the age of Horus, the Solar-Soul (The Real Person) is arising and reclaiming its bodies! There is a Horus, a hawk headed Sun-god in all of us, that can soar above the clouded minds of the many. Even, the many can feel its inner heat, thinking it an anomaly.

To further understanding, you might want to consider the fact that Horus is an androgynous figure, i.e. the combination of Nuit and Hadit. The new Aeon of Horus, is where the Matriarch and the Patriarch, unite in communion, to raise the Solar (Soul) Children who are the "Sons/Suns of the Divine Creative".

To reiterate: Crowley knew that the system of Tarot evolves to meet the spiritual needs of the races and of that the individual Personality or Self-Consciousness. Therefore he suggest that over time the Spiritual make-up; the Gnosis of mankind, will have so advanced that what was previously known as JUDGMENT, will be inadequate to describe the experience of The Aeon/ the Path of Shin . This meets with his assertion that we are now passing through a five hundred year period of extreme darkness and trial, preparatory to a New Aeon of Light. fortunately for all of us, there are many good "Light Bearers" both manifesting as teachers, Gnostic Soul-Personalities and Middle Path Hierophants on Earth and in the Pleroma (higher Astral known as the "Great White Brotherhood"--because of the White light state of Conscious energy they manifest) that we are assisted in our progress out of this Cultural Dark end of our Era and if aware, can be guided along the road to the New Aeon of Horus. Horus represents the Divine Child of God (Tiphareth) and/or the human body/brain who is becoming the receptacle of the Holy Spirit on Earth. Hence, reinstating our purpose as Spiritual vessels called Souls, to elevate the Survival Mind of Earth to a Higher level of Conscious Energy which we do through the "creating, seeing error, and correcting that error" experience provided by the human body. It is therefore not a far stretch of the imagination to see the human being-Spiritual Conscious combination as the New Horus.

In the Thoth Aeon card, the Sky Goddess Nuith is a Dark Goddess of Omega---End, signifying the End of the Aeon of Osiris (the Past Aeon) and as we know, energy cannot be destroyed, only transformed, which tells us that ends mean new beginnings.

New beginnings are represented by Hadit the Solar Orb of light.
The Birth of those beginnings into manifested reality, is Horus both passive and active and/or "in motion and repose." as stated in Gnostic texts. Therefore the Aeon card represents the harmonious and spiritual conscious state of the human being of the twenty second century. Since we are in this 500 year period of darkness, it is a long slow fall of the Tower, so we must "look inward" to weather the storm. However, we do not have to wait for the 22nd century, as we can become the Divine Child of Universal Energy Conscious inheritance by "knowing Ourselves". We then are no longer bound to the Karmic Wheel of the Human Race and progress forward at our own elevated pace.

The Hebrew letter Shin means Tooth which is descriptive of the Mastication paradigm that is involved with Transformation.

As stated and to aid in further study: The Tarot-Key 20,is known as the Path of Shin (tooth) on the Tree of Life. Many Qabalist know the Middle Pillar, the straight alignment of Malkuth, Yesod, Tiphareth and Kether, is the pillar of balance, yet the Path of Shin, is Left hand Path, or the left side Pillar of Severity and is usually subject to imbalance. The answer to this is that every symbol, represented on these Path cards/Manor Arcana, represents a duality, containing its own opposite. Each Path must contain the essential components of its opposite Path, as energy moves from positive to negative, male to female, electric to magnetic. Hence, upon viewing Hod (Splendor) you will see that it is connected or conjoined with Netzach. Hod is related to The Aeon, and Netzach is related to The Moon, showing that intelligence applied without feeling is as pathological as feeling applied without intellect. And since the Cards represent a kind of intellect/conscious energy, everything we experience, every idea, every activity, co-exists in us with its opposite.

There are so many concepts to grasp in the Major Arcana, that the student may feel overwhelmed. Luckily, the images on the Cards are pictorial representation of the visual experiences of the Paths opening up a great deal of learning by meditating on them. These Qabalistic Images have been carefully assembled over the centuries by the experienced mind work of highly advanced women and men, who have at first traveled these inner Archetypal Roads of the Psyche and then meticulously laid down, in image, the details to assist latter generations. It is the short coming of most students who begin these Astral paths, that at once encountering theses Tarot constructs, believing that they have a reality of their own. The Qabalistic Teacher must explain that only when the student is able to go beyond the lower Astral, can one touch upon realities that activate the symbols, i.e. "open the Gates" to greater Consciousness. For instance, while traveling the Path of Shin, one may at first experience what is illustrated on the Aeon Card. Diligent skrying, will soon project our consciousness beyond the visual construct into a understanding that the Path is the enervating, activating effect of the Cosmic Motive Principle on the individual consciousness.

That is to say, that on the Path of Shin, the Fiery Spirit permeates the Personality of the individual, in the descent of Energy into Matter. Thus, the last illusions of personality as being separated form the Soul is burned away.

The Tree of Life and the human body is as the Universe. If we have learned any physics at all, we know that from the simplest concept, came all the complexity that is the Cosmos. In the Big Bang theory, a singularity, which came from nothing ( a Boson of Dark energy and Dark Matter), exploded outward, and became many. This is also a concept easily seen in the development of the human body, as a single celled zygote, divides into hundreds of thousands of cells ultimately ending up as a complex human body. In the Tarot, The Fool, is the ultimate simplicity and The Universe-key 21, is representative of the ultimate complexity and yet all the Cards are implicit, unexpressed in The Fool. Therefore, in all the cards in-between, Fool and Universe, we find the balance between what is expressed or unexpressed.

I am ending this Aeon/Judgment card explanation , with the understanding that 3 tarot cards, The Aeon, The Universe and The Moon, are aspects of our individual waking consciousness that comprises our self-conscious personality, also represent stages of Self -Awareness of the Soul.

The Aeon Card, representing the Path of Shin, is where the aspirant to the Mysteries experiences the Personality being lifted from the tomb of matter and evaluated on the extent to which it has balanced the four alchemical elements of Malkuth; Intellect (Fire), emotions (Water), Spirit (Air) and physical-sensual being (Earth). This is also explains the fact that each individual aspirant encounters different experiences on the Paths.

It should be noted, that the patterns of the cards will be totally meaningless, unless the student understands what is symbolized by the four alchemical "Elements" and/or Elemental Forces. Every Qabalistic symbol represents to a specific part of the Whole Self.

Further understanding of The Aeon/Judgment or Path of Shin, is in its meaning, "Tooth", which suggests hardness, sharpness and/or biting. It is often interpreted as the teeth which chew prior to the ingestion of energy into the system--in this case the Kundalini is released and masticates the divided personality and then deals a final blow to the perception of a separate and individual Personality; leaving behind the original Personality which is Child of God. The continuation of this Tarot card and process of "Above all things, Know thyself" will be in The Aeon-key 20- Part 3.

The maternal meaning of the letter Shin is Fire, both the meaning of the Path and the maternal meaning of Tooth, are a powerful combination.

Dr.Paul Foster Case describes the Path of Shin, as, " The Perpetual Intelligence", because it is a continuous monitoring Intelligence of the progress of the Personality toward Universal Consciousness. Now I have often called the Mind Universal Collective Unconscious (meaning Not like personal consciousness), which is the Mind of the Macrocosm; not like consciousness, simply because a consciousness is a microcosmic reality; However, if we release our consciousness to the Universal Unconscious Energy, we have developed a Consciousness that bridges the Macrocosm and Microcosm, yet is still Personally Self-Aware! We have then successfully become the Horus, the 22nd century human evolution! .

Therefore, the Path of Shin joins the Earth Intelligence-Malkuth with that of Hod-the Splendor Intelligence (artistic), which is the Sephiroth base of the Pillar of Severity, connecting Earth with the Will-To-Be ( Will to form) of the Great Binah. On this path, the Student experiences a perpetual burning away of that which is unworthy by the Archangel controlled "Redeeming Fire"; a process that is physical as the higher vibratory Passion of the Divine Self Will To Force and Will to Form, begins hotly flowing through our bodies. This is a point of delicate balance, and a Teacher of the Mysteries must expect the Students to react in peculiar ways, such as a feeling of heated passion for the Teacher. This is simply a misplaced transference, because the cultural ego, seeks self gratification when stimulated. For the student, this is the beginning of experiencing unconditional love, which is often muddled with conditional thinking. This Passion dynamic is the Fire of Spirit and with proper guidance the Student will go into the Fire, instead of trying to control it with conditions. That is the lesson of Hod, love/passion is not a peacocks splendor, rather it is the Foundation of all Creation, but to know this is a perpetual process of "burning off the unworthy", so that progress can continue. Thus the "Splendor of the Material World" is burned away in a kind of physical resurrection, a rebirth of body and personality sending us perpetually towards the Great Mother of Intelligence.

Therefore, this resurrection is bases on the developments of the opposite card to this progressive Path of Shin. A path that is THE MOON -Key 18, relating to the disciplined quest for a greater reality, that actually changes the physiological. In other words, the balanced Energies of both Shin and Qolph (the Moon) stimulate the rebirth of our bodies; that is a physiological rebuild, necessary to handle the higher vibratory states of the Higher Consciousness and the One Emotion that is Love without conditions. This is a process that Paul Foster Case described, as building a "Master's Body". A body, where the Elder power of Kundalini is flowing, uncoiled and hot, with out emotionally adverse effects.

The Path of Shin, is the bright fiery probationary path of the Intellect where the components of the Personality first encountered in The Universe-Key 21- The Path of Tau, are critically analyzed and evaluated , i.e. Judged.The opposite path is that of THE MOON, a dark watery probationary path of emotions. The balance of Aeon and Moon, builds the Master body, the Manifested Body of Horus - The Solar Child of Isis and Osiris ( The two previous Aeons).

These three Qabalistic introductory Paths to the True Nature of Self in incarnation, are usually extremely difficult to travel, because these Elemental Paths of which The Aeon, The Fool, The Hanged Man are known, are very difficult to understand. This mental difficulty is because all of the Elements are present on each Path, in either repressed or expressed form. For example, the pattern of Maternal letters (form producing intelligence) as stated in the Qabalistic book, Sepher Yetzirah, that Air (Gases) produces Water which produces Fire which we know to be true by studying physics. THE FOOL-0, is pure Air. THE HANGED MAN-KEY 12, is Air acted upon by Water, and THE AEON Key- 20, is Air and Water acted upon by Fire within the human body. It pays to note, that the human body is the Golden Crucible of Spiritual/metaphysical Alchemy.

On the Path of Shin (The Qabalistic Tarot-The Aeon or the Night Sun Tarot-Judgment), the Consciousness (Water) is activated by the Dynamic Principle (Fire) in the presence of equilibrating Spirit (Air) with in the physical vehicle (Earth), all of which produces a balance of intelligence forces in the individual necessary for total understanding of the Personality structure and its relationship to the Greater Self.

When the Aeon card is thrown during a reading:

The querent is usually experiencing a period of final decisions, Judgment, and determination of a issue without appeal on its plane where the querent is accepting the results of their decisions.
The querent is experiencing a natural progression of growth and maturation, where personal perceptions are dissolving to be replaced by a deeper understanding; a resurrection into a new stage of consciousness.
Spiritual truth is burning away, the falsehood of a man-made identity.
The birth of a "new Self" arising out of the destruction of the old self.
Change of position, renewal, and outcome.
.Awakening of Strong desires.
The Aeon means a final decision, Judgment and Sentence.
A matter determined without appeal on this material plane.

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The Thoth Tarot- Universe-Key 21 & The Night Sun Tarot-Key 21- The World: is the 2nd to the last of the Major Arcana and is the Feminine Compliment to the 0-The Fool, who is also Atu-22: Atu being the name given the Major Arcana by Aleister Crowley. The Universe is attributed to the Hebrew letter Tau or Tav [meaning: equal armed cross/the "T" cross] and since this card is compliment to the Fool, letter Aleph [meaning: Ox] the two together spell the word Ath, which means Essence. The Fool is the beginning and the Universe is the completed end, that will go back to 0. The consensus is that since everything came from nothing, the end of everything is the return to nothing.

The letter Tau refers to the planet Saturn, the outermost and slowest of the 7 sacred planets (the Qabalah was written long before the other planets were discovered); because of its heavy slow qualities the earth was"thrust upon the symbol" . As Crowley explained, "The original three elements, Fire, Air and Water, sufficed for primitive thought; Earth and Spirit represent a latter accretion".

Neither is to be found in the original twenty-two Paths of the Sepher Yetzirah. However, the Hebrew Bible, Genesis explains The Path of Tau (T) and/or Earth, with a creation story.

Tau [Tav]; Tau Cross, Equal Armed Cross or "T" cross.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was a vast nothingness with darkness upon the surface of the deep, and the Divine Presence hovered upon the surface of the waters,. And God said," Let their be light." and there was light.

Genesis 1:1-3

As creation stories goes, this is one of the best known in the Western civilizations. It also points out that Light was a creation of Divine Presence and that is why Light is seen as he first form of the Divine. What should also be understood is that form began in Darkness[ Dark energy-Dark matter] The Ain (No-Thing), as Physicists are telling us today. The "Vast Nothingness on the Surface of the Deep"----The Deep Thick Darkness of Binah (Dark Energy) and where the conception of Movement (Divine hovering Presence or Logos) began the process of form made of light. All this is known to Qabalists but is what often not known, is that Tau is the Alpha (Beginning) and the Omega ( the End) of all form and that this card is totally about the Feminine power of "Will to Form". Hence,there is no Androgyny depicted as activity here, for She created the masculine form. She is and action of Dark Energy and the Motion within Dark matter which is a vast nothingness, i.e. formless; However, all form comes from this vastness ( The Abyss). Divine Masculine Presence, besides being light, is Self-Awareness on a Microcosmic scale that we call consciousness and is difficult to understand---so often it is called Light. Self-Awareness on the Divine Scale (...." From Her did she build Herself", this statement was often attributed to the Greek Goddess Hera) is The Universe, the One Self-Aware Energy that all selves come from which we call the Universal Collective Unconscious and/or the Unconscious. This card is not easy "to get your head around", but then to expand perspective, we must force our resistant self-conscious personality to take a deep and thoughtful look into the Dark Depths of the unconscious, the Original "All Seeing I", from which the 1st movement of Thought becomes form.

This Lovely Tarot Card- key 21- The Universe is what I have called the "Womb- with- a -View" , it is called She because it is the action of the Feminine Magnetic aspect of the one Electromagnetic energy.. God is both Feminine and Masculine, but is neither sex, so the masculine of the Divine is called light/electric and the Feminine of the Divine Creative is called the Dark/Magnetic . In this context Masculine force is Movement and Feminine Force is Form. The most difficult task for our personal perspective is to understand that the Dark Unconscious Energy, even exists and that from darkness we have all come and to darkness we all return ( alpha and omega)! But as if that understanding wasn't enough----we can come from and go back to that darkness----consciously!

Truth is, movement is best seen as light even though Chokma ( 1st formless Manifestation of Masculine Force) is called the "Dark Fire" because it is not Light as we know it but rather the motion within Dark Energy! Light is a creation, that has an end! Stars go Nova, and end, what we know as "The Universe" will go back to "nothingness"...albeit 20 billion years from now. But for all those who enjoy "Being" there is a future for as the Hindu's believe, there is also renewal and regeneration, where the Universe of Form starts all over again; changed by all the knowledge gain from the Past. This Great Will-To- Form that is Mother Binah (Goddess with many names) is always building "Her Children of Form" and is resurrection and regeneration as show by the "serpent force" which is the Serpentine Energy of the Kundalini (Primal Life

Force) which is coiled at the Root Chakra of all humans and coiled in the Earth and flowing as Spiral upon Spiral, collapsing upon themselves to form "dimensions of Being".

The Path of Tau, The Universe or The World Tarot Card :

* Path color is Indigo

* Musical Note: A

*Planet; Saturn

* Meaning: The Tau Cross---Equal armed Cross

* Double letter: Power-Servitude

* Esoteric title: The Great One of the Night of Time.

Obviously, because our Souls manifest a body made of time-space, it is a competent builder of "self-image" on the Plane of Malkuth (Material Plane) and as I said, this self is mostly space (99%) and only 1% time. I dare to say, that we are mostly "Dark Matter" and "Dark Energy" with a "clothing of time". The Dark Mother gave birth to Our Self-Awareness before the Soul was born of the Spiral energy that is Light! To go into this dark Self is the journey of this Path of Tau....it is where the individual personality gets it's first glimpse of the Personality that has been Forged out of the Higher Self that is shown as Tiphareth (Beauty) on the Tree of Life. The Original Observer (Psyche and/or Real Person) becomes the observed individual "I" personality of the physical presence and we begin viewing our lives in a different way. The light of "me" is limited, while the Darkness of I Am reabsorbs the lessons of Light and continues on to build expanded "me" and/or Self-concepts. The Alpha and Omega is also a spiral and returns upon itself!

We are Spiral Entity---Spirits and we turn on and off the light of person, shut down and re-boot, so that we may expand and liberate our Personal expression! Past limits are expanded into Present Limits -----because of the very nature of observation----you must have an up and down--an in and out-- and a space all around in order to Observe your Great Work! The Universe Card shows that Space all Around as an Oval shape that surrounds the Dancing Goddess (The Dark Motion in the Light Motion) {those who know of my teachings hear me often speak of the "Dancing Goddess and God"]. I could show pages of examples of this Alpha and Omega symbolism but space is limited here---So know this, If we realize that in the end, we all come from the same source and focus on the light of creation--knowing that we are all formed from this Light, we can find peace and eternal bliss within ourselves knowing that our existence ends only to redefine existence again. Energy cannot be created nor destroyed only Transformed and this Transformation is the Alpha and the Omega and the Alpha and the Omega and the....you get the point!

As I previously stated: In the old original Qabalistic Text- The Sephir Yestzirah,The World of Assiah, the Material World, does not appear except as a "pendant to the Tree of Life." The moderns have updated the Qabalah accordingly which has only complimented the original.

Earth and Saturn, share certain qualities, such as, heaviness, dullness, coldness, dryness, immobility and the like. Yet, we also find Saturn in Binah, in respect to the Dark Energy and Material of the Womb of all things, on the Queens scale of Observed Nature. Again pointing out that as soon as an end to a process is reached, it always returns to the beginning. This knowledge is often illustrated in the form of a serpent eating its own tail, (Ouroboros) which is a stylized circle of serpentine force. This is a universe of serpents, strings of energy spiraling inside of sub-atomic particles (quantum string theory), may seem to be small and insignificant but the whole of the Universe exists because of them. Yet, the whole of the Universe shall return to strings, assimilating data learned, for the next excursion into Self-Awareness. What may be interesting to note, is that electricity is also visible as "serpentine" light. It seems that linking Father and Idea (Male electric force) and Mother and Understanding (female Magnetic Force), which gives form to idea as formed waves of energy that "go back on themselves", shows some cohesive link from ancient to modern insight into the Universal make-up!

You may know that Tetragrammaton, The All,(it is recommended that the student read-The Book of Thoth, by Master Theron) is a formula of ,"The Union of the Father and Mother produces Twins, the son going forward to the daughter, the daughter returning the energy to the father; by this cycle of change the stability and eternity of the universe is assured."( From, The Book of Thoth) Please note, these are cycles of force and form and not a statement of human family life.

THE UNIVERSE and/or THE WORLD key 21, of Tarot.

This Qabalistic Tarot Card is The Path of Tau, meaning equal armed cross and/or the Tau cross (T-cross). Tau is a Hebrew Double-letter (Soul letter), a combination of opposites and is called power-servitude. As the motion of Conscious (Solar Logos) energy crystallized into form, and whose movement is downward on the Tree of Life, it becomes obvious that the first path upward is the Last Key of the Major Arcana:

The meaning of the word Power, is the ability to do work and the ability to weave esoteric/Pyschic work into physical material is why we-Spirit-have a physical body! We now must work from a material perspective (the "Below") to the Realms of Pure Spirit (the "Above") doing the Serious Work of the Divine [THE GREAT WORK], as long as our Divine Consciousness is functioning through a physical body. Think of the magic we are, for we are from Solar Conscious (Solar Logos), born of Suns ("Sons of God"), who as an Spiral intelligence (Spirit), have learned to not fear the death of stars, but instead, take the dead star material (physical matter) and make it Live again; Alive, but in a more empathetic, sensual, and personal way and therefore extending the life of Stars as Real Persons (Souls)who created individual personalities out of microwave frequencies! Real Persons (Greater Ego) are often refereed to as Souls, personalities are a form of artificial conscious, we call self-consciousness (small ego), just as bodies are a artificial sun!

The Path of the Key 21, joins Earth (Malkuth) with the Foundation (Yesod) and is the first path out of the material condition for the personality, leading towards an understanding of the Persona forged by the Higher Self of Tiphareth (our Soul),for EACH incarnation. The Universe Card is the mandala for the"Administrative Intelligence", as Dr. Paul Foster Case described it in his text "The Thirty Two Paths of Wisdom". The Path of Tau is the "Thirty Second Path"and

Dr. Case says," it directs and associates in all their operations the seven planets."

In our discussions of the Universe or World-Tarot Card, we are discussing the Material of Malkuth. I have often heard people refer to themselves as "mind and body" and when they meditate or dream, they consider that the images that come to them are somehow separate from the body-physical as if the Divine marriage of Spirit and Matter has somehow became a Divine Divorce. Somehow the body is not of Mind; a type of doppelganger that exploded out of the mud of lost dreams. Before, we take a long tour on the fears of being alive, just remember; THE DIVINE CREATIVE BUILDS WHAT IT WANTS TO BE! Therefore, Mind and body are inseparable.

The Gnostic, Tao and Qabalistic Mysteries have for generations state that ALL IS MIND. The Above- Macrocosm (Universal Collective Unconscious) and the Below-Microcosm (Self-conscious), are a hermetic marriage that forms Cosmic Self Awareness---MIND! Therefore, the distinction between mind and body is perspective, not of actuality. Once again the perspective of the small ego's "Divide and Conquer", created by the enforced identity culture of ruled indoctrination does us mental and physical harm. For by fearing the sensuality of the body we become as slaves who fear the lash of our master's (fear of pain/discomfort) disaproval. Hence, we act as a idiot driver of a car, who fears the sensors that give information of the cars health as gauges. This stress driven- driver, would ignore the "engine warning light", because he fears it would mean discomfort, such as bills, or time in repair (hospital time) and if he "ignores it", it must go away. Finally, when broken down on the highway, the ignorant person will inevitably blame the car. The same thing happens with the "nervous breakdowns" of those who insist the stress they are sensing, is because of "everything else", rather than their own errant perspectives. The body is a psycho-sensing device, i.e., psychosomatic vehicle. Anyone who impeccably "drives" a vehicle, especially a "Power Tool" of such vast ability as the human body, needs Sensors and the fearless knowledge of how to read them!

When we close our eyes and see pictures, we are seeing the foundation of Matter, the most refined form of matter-Thoughts- which are the energy forms closest to the physical condition. The Physical is a Crystallization of these subtle forms brought about by the Power and mutual Servitude of I AM ME----Force (I) and Form (AM) whom both are Power to generate offspring-Me, and who all serve each other as a Divine Psyche and power tool. We are the Figure Eight (infinity-symbol) of Force and Form. A twisting of Serpentine Force and Form flow, i.e The Image Maker. Hence, perspectives, base on how we identify ourselves, creates the dimension of "Me".

As have stated before, we are 99.6% invisible, which means that most of our identity and the Physical World is Unseen (human Aura)! How many of us would go to a bank to change a "Twenty", and accept only .4% back as change? Why then would you, as a Soul, accept only .4% of the Electromagnetic Spectrum of Energy, as all that is Real and/or Reality? Also, 95% of all thought, is unconscious, and therefore, automatic. Hence, our conscious body is being operated by only 5% of our observation! I sure hope you don't drive a car that way!

As you can see by looking at the illustration of the Four Worlds, Assiah is Malkuth, alone, and it is described as our sphere of sensation. Yet Malkuth is symbolized by the Seven Pointed Star which is representative of the Seven Palaces of Assiah (planets) By experiencing the Path of Tau--The Universe, we are taken to the Gateway of these Seven Palaces.

On the Path of Tau, the Universal Plan (The Great Work) becomes apparent without necessarily being understood. You can enter the "Holy of Holies" (Worlds) and encounter them in such away that you are "in them but not of them", a product of the Divine perspective--which is where most "new ager's" are not at. They must progress further up the Tree of Life to become above " them", as only through hind sight can we really see! The physical self-conscious can only realize "reflections in light", and not see the Transmitter of that reflected image! Now this doesn't mean you "ascend" out of Form, but that you Ascend "within" Form, for we are building the As above, So below, not to leave it, but to expand its light spectrum/electromagnetic flow to focus our Psychic Power of "Will to Be", of which we have inherited from the Divine Creative who began as Kether who is Eheieh-"I Will BE"- into this crystallized-light dimension of Bio-protons.

What is important here is that all the Force and Form of The One Energy is present and self- balanced on this Path. The Above has condensed as the Below! This self-balance is also stated in the Oriental Tao, as "What is here is there, and what is there is here. If it is not here, it is not there and if it is not there, it is not here." In Qabalah, it is stated as,"All the power that ever was or will be is here now." So get it....and say, "I AM all the power that ever was or will be and I AM here now as Me!" The Asian philosophyof All is "here" is easily shown as The Hindu "All Mother Goddess" Kali, multi-armed because of her many aspects. The Night Sun Tarot, shows Kali in the Traditional blue color, standing on the dead body of Shiva, her masculine lover, who she will soon reincarnate. Just as the Unconscious, reincarnates the consciousness. The Vesica Pisces, or the Universal Womb, is shown as an oval of woven vines and the four elements are shown both their alchemical and tarot symbols.

Therefore, we are both "here and there", which implies that we are all "wholly spirit", hence, this Path of Tau, is a Path of Gnostic Initiation, where the personality is encountering itself and becoming aware of the fact that what we encounter on this Path is of our own making. This is where the physical personality, realizes it is not really "in charge of the Macrocosmic Universe" (Qabalistic-Macroprosopos) of the Original I AM but rather of all that is inside our heads which is a Microcosmic universe (Microprosopos) of "Me".

However, we also encounter symbols and ideas which are of a greater consciousness than our own, and begin to see how our being relates to a Universal picture. It is easy to know when one is "on this path and becomes of it", we become dreamy, as the ego loves the fantasy of --- but not the work. In other words, "just lay back and the dreams will deliver you"--kind of thinking that doesn't understand or denies the Psychosomatic Power that drives our Creative Power tools. This type of denial really is apparent when someone suggests that to think is not enough for you must "do the Deed" as well, and you feel rebellious anger. The self-conscious sees an enemy to its blissful denial and will often use "name calling" to disabuse them while expounding on the belief system of fantasy. Utopia is such a belief for it is based on fear of pain.

Therefore, our own Survival thinking or self-conscious (animal mind), must be observed by the Real Person on this Path in order to expand self-conscious into the Higher Self/Real Person; which is a Psyche from the Collective Oneness and not of the divisionism and "comfort dreams" of the survival animal mind which worships "belief systems" (superstitions) but abhors "deed-systems", i.e. the diligent personal gathering of experience and/or Knowledge. The initiate knows that to travel the Path upward to Tiphareth (Christ light) is a "deed system". This is a Path that can only be successfully traveled by those who bring their Personalities into a balance with The Real Person "within"; a balancing of self-understanding and action, where we no longer look for blame or worship, as we experience the phantoms-of- emotional pain that we are creating and experiencing; or by entertaining ourselves with an extended comfortable denial fantasy where all is "Sunny", which many deluded people believe is this Path. Sorry folks, but "rain falls on the just and unjust alike". So get over it, and above it! In the Hermetic Qabalah, when one, looks within they "rise above" the "outside" world. For "within" is to ascend and to look outward is to descend from the Real Person to the personality.

Spirit is not a kind of Opiate that keeps us from seeing the self-surgery that must be done! The True Seeker, must keep in mind that the Universe is a Path of entry into the Astral (Yesod) and that the Astral "seeks to deceive", this is the fantasy place, were the many see or channel "ascended masters" from and the fallacy of worship has only changed colors. We came to make "As above, so below"; The Great Work, which simply states we came to "descend" Mastery. The Entire Tree of Life is your Real Person, often called "your spirit or Soul", and the common belief is to "seek Holy Spirit". How so? The Kether, the 1st Sephiroth, is Spirits first "I Will Be", and the last Sephiroth, Malkuth is "I AM Being" ....the two combined, combine the whole Divine Collective that is the "Tree of Life". Therefore, if you have a being "Here", you have one "There", therefore, YOU ALREADY ARE WHOLE SPIRIT! This doesn't take a lot of thought, because the Divine Creative obviously has devoted a lot of time (14 billion years) to creating a Physical Universe! Will to Form-the Divine Feminine and Will to Force, the Divine Masculine, have combined to build Us as "It's" Image, because The Divine Wishes "To Be!"...It was always "ascended" and has created self image in "higher and lower" frequency! As do we! I know this seems hard to get, for we came "down" the Tree of Life, and must reclaim our knowledge "left behind" because of psyche "down sizing". However, we, the Spiritual Adventures of "Here and There" Self, finally have the form we need, for the Hu (god in Mandarin)-Man (from Hindu Manas-Mind), has a brain that can store and sensually experience this information! Right now, according to medical experts, we are using only 7 to 10% of it at any moment and if we used it all at any time, it still is only 1% of our Intelligence! Remember, Malkuth is known as the 1% world. The Whole of your Intelligence is the Tree of Life.

In the Thoth Deck- Universe and on the traditional, World Tarot Card, we see the Four Alchemical Elements as different images of heads, or the tarot symbols, of cups, swords, wands, pentacles, surrounding the Oval-Womb (Will to Form) of the Great Mother which is both the entry point of Life and the exit of Death. Her fullest expression as Binah (Understanding) is represented as the female form "within" and is all principles that we perceive as matter and is shown in gematria (Qabalistic numerology) as 2+1+3, the number of the Sephira-Binah.

Creation in Time requires a beginning and an end to an event, otherwise form is not conceived. So the event of "Sun consciousness"-Tiphareth- Force down-pouring and uprising, must have a beginning a middle and an end. Therefore, Life processes run in waves, or spirals which come back upon themselves and this process is the nature of the Akashic Fluid of Yesod. This spiral force is directed by the passive and active energy flow, each of which is dual poled (male and female) and is shown on the Thoth card as "Lord Python", the vibrationary "first husband" which represents the Primary sexual forces of Nature that will be experienced on the Path of Tau.

The blue background of this card represents the Great Sea of The Divine Collective Un-Consciousness (Binah-Understanding & Chokmah-Sophia-Wisdom), as well as, the blue Kali, in its most dense and difficult expression.There are many currents here, and some lead to the Light and others to the darkness of self-delusion. We must really carry the perspective of, "Everyone I see is another way of being Me" on this path so that we don't form this Akashic Fluid into phantom "enemies" and "masters" that sink our "life" boat personality into an enslaved rower of "someone else's dream". This is the path of Self- Perspective-formed- images of Me, as done by the I AM.

Therefore, the proper study of the Paths (Major Arcana cards)in our Unconscious, is the ascending of Understanding up the Tree of Life, as we are "below" and need to remember the realms of Pure Spirit "above". The experiences on Earth, assist us in our goals of a more refined understanding of Universal patterns. Such as a microscope helps the biologist in a more refined understanding of cell- structure and bacterial earth manifestations, our physical body with its crystalline lenses of light,(the "I sight" of our senses), helps us see/reflect deeply into the microcosm, so that we better understand the macrocosm.

As long as our Divine Consciousness is functioning though a physical vehicle, we can discern thought. This is where our serious esoteric work begins and ends.

Dr. Paul Foster Case, who wrote the text, The Thirty Two Paths to Wisdom (the number Thirty Two is the sum of the Paths and the Sephiroth) calls The Path of Tau (The Universe or The World card) the " Administrative Intelligence" because it "directs and associates in all seven planets." The "seven planets" he is referring to are the Microprosopus-Hexagram pattern of the seven planets on the Tree of Life.

The Kingdom of Mind is all around you, but we don't see it. Jesus the Christ of Western mysteries, even stated this in the Gnostic Gospels of Didymos, Judas Thomas, paragraph 113, when he was quoted as saying, "... the Kingdom of the father is spread out upon the Earth , and men do not see it." What Hermetic Qabalist's know, is that the Father, Shin (Fire), lives within the Womb-with-a view and is her dancing partner, shown as Heru-Ra-Ha of Key 19-The Sun. "The Sun, Strength & Sight, Light : these are for the servants of the Star & the Snake." This is the final form of the image of the magical formula of God, combining and transforming so many symbols that description is difficult and migratory. Hence, long-continual meditation is recommended.

The Dancing Goddess of The Universe, or the Traditional-The World Tarot card, represents the Celebration of the Great Work accomplished; it is the "movement with in the Motion" of all energy. It is the "Aliveness" in all Living forms. It is the passionate dance rhythm of your intercourse with the Divine; your heart beat.

In the four corners, of oval or square, as mentioned before, are the Kerubim images, showing the established Universe. The Thoth Universe card shows about her is an ellipse composed of seventy-two circles for the quinaries of the Zodiac, know as the Shemhamphorasch. The skeletal plan (grid) of the building of the house of Matter, is shown at the lower center of the card. It shows the older 92 elemental table of known chemicals elements, arranged according to their rank in the hierarchy.

The central wheel of Light initiates the form of the Tree of Life as the ten principle bodies of the solar system: Visible only to the pure of heart. You'll find these principle bodies explained in the Book of Thoth, by Master Theron, on page 119. All the symbols on this card are shown dancing in complex swirls, whorls, loops, much like the atoms dance in the Stars. The back ground color of this card is the indigo of Saturn as the midnight sky, of which the Dancing Maiden is derived. From the Dark Womb of Energy, She is the issue of Living Light.

When The Universe or The World card is thrown during a reading:

The querent is experiencing the matter itself.
A synthesis of world and kingdom.
The universe card usually denotes the actual subject of the question. This interpretation depends entirely on the accompanying cards, as they are the"stars in her heavens".
This is a card of wholeness, where the querents whole world is balanced and the querent is building, in the next 21 weeks, new internal and external worlds----perspectives of wholeness.
The querent may be experiencing a Universal principle of wholeness and is at one in consciousness,with all phenomena.
There is exhibited within the querent an understanding of their "reason to be".
The Universe Card usually denotes the actual subject of the question, therefore depending entirely on the surrounding cards.

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Tarot Card Comparisons: The Thoth Tarot-The High Priestess -key 2 & The Night Sun Tarot-The High Priestess-key-2.

Tarot Card Comparisons: The Thoth Tarot-Key 3- The Empress & The Night Sun Tarot-Key 3-The Empress

Tarot Card Comparisons: The Thoth Tarot-Key 4- The Emperor & The Night Sun Tarot-Key 4- The Emperor

Tarot Card Comparisons: The Thoth Tarot-Key 5-The Hierophant & The Night Sun Tarot- Key 5- The Hierophant

Tarot Card Comparisons: The Thoth Tarot-Key 6- The Lovers & The Night Sun Tarot-Key 6- The Lovers

Tarot Card Comparison: The Thoth Tarot-Key 7- The Chariot & The Night Sun Tarot-Key 7- The Chariot

Tarot Card Comparisons: The Thoth Tarot- Key 8-Adjustment & The Night Sun Tarot-Key 8-Justice

Tarot Card Comparisons: The Thoth Tarot-Key 9-The Hermit and The Night Sun Tarot- Key 9-The Hermit

Tarot Card Comparisons: The Thoth Tarot- Key 10- Fortune & The Night Sun Tarot-Key 10-The Wheel of Fortune

Tarot Card Comparisons: The Thoth Tarot-Key 11- Lust & The Night Sun Tarot-Key 11-Strength

Tarot Card Comparisons: The Thoth Tarot-Key 12-The Hanged Man & The Night Sun Tarot-Key 12-The Hanged Man

Tarot Card Comparisons: The Thoth Tarot -Key 13- Death & The Night Sun Tarot- Key 13- Death

Tarot Card Comparisons: The Thoth Tarot-Key 14- Art & The Night Sun Tarot-Key 14- Temperance.

Tarot Card Comparisons: The Thoth Tarot-Key 15- The Devil and The Night Sun Tarot- Key 15- The Devil

Tarot Card Comparisons: The Thoth Tarot-Key 16- The Tower and the NIght Sun Tarot-Key 16- The Tower

Tarot Card Comparisons: The Thoth Tarot-Key 17-The Star & The Night Sun Tarot-Key17-The Star

Tarot Card Comparisons: The Thoth Tarot-Key 18- The Moon & The Night Sun Tarot- Key 18- The Moon

Tarot Card Comparisons: The Thoth Tarot-key 19- The Sun & The Night Sun Tarot-key 19-The Sun

Tarot Card Comparisons: TheThoh Tarot-Key 20-The Aeon & The Night Sun Tarot-Key 20- Judgement

Tarot Card Comparisons: The Thoth Tarot- Key 21- The Universe & The Night Sun Tarot- Key 21- The World