Tarot Card Comparisons: The Thoth Tarot- Ace of Wands & The Witches Tarot- Ace of Wands

THE ACE OF WANDS, of the Thoth Deck, shows a flaming club/Wand with flaming Yods (meaning-hands) going in the directions of the individual Sephiroth on the  Tree of Life . 

The Witches Tarot- ACE OF WANDS keeps with the traditional wooden Hawthorn wand all abloom with mental fertility where each flower represents thoughts abloom in our minds.

In the language of plants, the Hawthorne flowers represented hope and the Hawthorne tree was the first choice for the May pole, of which this Wand card seems to represent.  With the Soul, as a traditional symbol of a butterfly, flying in a dawning sky.

The castle in the background represents the just reward after one's quest for knowledge and wisdom is completed.

Both the Witches Tarot and Thoth Tarot imply that the  Ace of Wands is the source of All Mind and Energy. The entire  Tree of Life is the glyph of the power of Fire, of Kether, the Crown, the point, and swirling fire, on the Tree of Life.

The All Powerful Name of the Divine Creative, in the Qabalah is Tetragrammaton and the Yod is the first Hebrew letter, of the Hebrew spelling of that name (you may look all this up in the book QABALISTIC TAROT by Robert Wang). The Yod, is associated with the English word, "Father".

When you look upon the Ace of Wands, you are viewing the  10 Yodic Fires (Father) aspect of the One Energy that is in all things, as well as, in all  other 9 Sephira on the Tree of Life. This Fire is obvious when looking at the Thoth Ace of Wands, but suggested as the life force in the sprouting wood wand of The Witches tarot deck.

The Fire, also represents Spirit  which "Knows Itself through measure or Form", and thus is loosely explained as the underlying Fire in all things, but in no way is this a complete understanding of the Spiral Energy {Spirit} that is all around us, in us, below us and above us, unseen by us; However, deeply felt by us as "Self".  The Ace of Wands is the invisible "movement within all motion", which is about as clear a understanding as we can get. The Qabalah, calls it, "....the primordial Energy of the Divine manifesting in Matter.", yet it is at so early a stage that it is not definitely formulated as Will (Conscious Spirit) and has no form until Binah, Understanding, who is the Great Mother, gives it form. 

Please note: The small cards, known as Minor Arcana are not Divine Persons and/or intelligentsia, as are the Atu (Major Arcana). Rather, they are sub elements and/or "blind forces" under the Demiourgos (Creative Intelligence), Tetragrammaton. These "blind forces" are ruled by the Intelligentsia, in the Yetziratic World, who go forth from the Sechemhamphorach (Lord of the Universe). Lord being an Anglo-Saxon word for Husband or Husbandry, and means that he is "keeper of Her Forms". In other words,"There was no Father 'till she Named Him Father", simply stating the Form of Father (Fire-Light) belongs to Her creative Dark- Energy-Womb. This is one of the many mysteries studied by the Qabalist and theoretical quantum physicists. A study just too lengthy and in-depth for this blog.  

For now, the Element of Spirit (Fire) has its own Lords of the Atu or Major Arcana, (Magus, Emperor, Hermit etc.) .  and each Atu possesses it's own private, personal and particular Universe, with all Demiourgos complete, just as EVERY MAN AND WOMAN is a complete composite of the 10 dimensional Universe depicted by the Sephiroth on the Tree of Life and known as Adam Khadmon and/or the Supreme Being!

 

Now all of us are taught that we are built "incomplete" and must seek Goodness (God-ness-----Demiourgos-ness) in order to "make it to heaven" . Most people actually believe, they are in the image of God, and/or made by God, with the God-Creative mind of Imagination (making you a Demiurge), but somehow, this Divine All Knowing, All building, All Creating Power, has judge you a sinner and/or an error; You who are the precious and Divine image. An image of the Divine, created by Divine Will,  would not be created as dysfunction, simply because The Divine Creative wouldn't create what it wouldn't want to be.  Hence, You are made in a completeness, a Wholeness collective of ten dimensions of intelligence that must always progressively identify Itself as evolutionary Self Awareness, for the infinite cannot measure itself! The World of Assiah, the Physical world, has been created to give Self Measure! You are THE CHILD OF GODDESS/GOD and what you are taught to believe as sin, or incompleteness, is the unending potential of "free thinking" (freedom of choice) that empowers progressive creation! This understanding is lost to you because you are taught to belittle your identity, or are belittled by cultural definitions that make you believe someone else has rule over you, even though you are made "in Gods image" and have freedom of choice. In other words, you as a child, unintentionally allowed someone else to give you measure!  Because of this assault on your self value, you may have forgotten that God doesn't build what  God doesn't want!

There is a divine fire within all of us, and this Ace of Wands- Demiurge, that drives one over mountains, into the deepest seas, and towards the void of space, creating always creating, because we are the child of the Divine Frenzy of "I AM ME": One Self, that is of infinite possibilities and whose measurement is every expanding, ever changing, ever creating and every experiencing that which one persona creates as one's measurement and/or perspectives of self.

"ABOVE ALL THINGS, KNOW THYSELF".....YOU ARE A Demiourgos OF YOUR OWN UNIVERSE. The God of Macrocosm made you the god of your own Microcosm. It is time to know that we didn't come into being as a delusion of an insane God or Goddess; we came into being as a Self-Reflection of Goddess/God and/or the Divine Creative; The Phallic-God that is expressive creative energy and the Womb-God that is receptive creative energy.The Fire of Passionate creation, the burning need to be, is that Fire felt as Kether- Eheieh, which is Hebrew for "I Will BE", which fires the Mind that is the vessel/womb of idea and thought.

This will take some meditation on idea and thought, which is the "purpose" of the Tarot and the  Qabalah. You are blinded by "man-made" definitions of yourself. The Universal Collective Unconscious creates "self image" and the- Picture Language of the Tarot and the Qabalah, help you to"see again" the I Am that is measured as "you".

Our mental blindness, is an illusion created by the Military Industrial Complex of Rulers, who know the art of "divide and conquer" so that One's collective can be "man-made", which is to be divided, spirit from body, mind from soul, by placing the definitions of religion and/or "right and wrong" in between the idea of self; dividing mind from Soul-Psyche- energy by believing you are not energy nor intelligence, but seeking it. Therefore, dividing personality from purpose, by training one to believe our purpose is some service of the State or corporations. Idea, is not thought. Idea is Form, and comes from the Greek, I Dea, which means "I Goddess" who is "Will to Form". Hence, thought is definition of form. Thought is justly untrustworthy, as it is anybodies definition and excuses ignorance. That is why "Truth is made Manifest". For example, yell the words "grow grass, or become grass" at you table. You will find that no matter how forceful your tone, the thought of the definitive word grass does not build the form of grass. Grass is an idea.  The word Grass is merely a thought and or a definition of this green leafy being and not a truth to you, as you cannot build it as form yourself.

Any division between Spirit, unconsciousness (Imagination), consciousness (self conscious) and subconsciousness (body intelligence) causes Weakness, confusion, division, and  separation due to errant communication between our "Sephirothic energy collective conscious" by destroying a "mental path of communication" between dimensions; our Tree of Life. Making us individual victims, as strength requires Union.

In the world made of seekers, there aren't I AM's, there are Rulers and Slaves... there are "I Ain't s" those who must seek happiness, love, value, definition,etc, all of which is supplied by "somebody else" (Saviors), because somehow," God had a "bad hair day" when God created you as It's own Image!"

 Sorry people, but this is thoughtless ignorance, for the Divine Creative has day's only when the Divine has Form! Because "Days" come from Time/Space and not from the Infinite and Endless! "I AM God's Day"...........is a far more intelligent way to understand this! "I Am the Love of You", is a far greater understanding of God. 

The Thoth  ACE OF WANDS, and that of the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot, as stated by Israel Regardie of the Golden Dawn,:(Regardie, The Golden Dawn, v. IV. 'Book T'):  "First order of appearance are the four Aces, representing the force of Spirit acting in, and binding together the four scales of each element and answering to the Dominion of the Letters of the Name in Kether of each. They represent the Radical or Root Force. The four Aces are said to be placed on the North Pole of the Universe, wherein they revolve, governing its rotation, and ruling as the connecting link between Yetzirah and the Material Plane of the Universe."

If ill defined by the surrounding cards, the Ace of Wands implies that chaos begins.

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