The Spirit of the Tarot. Claudine Aegerter

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СКАЧАТЬ will have not much of a chance to go beyond the everyday life and ask the vital questions. Transcendence and spiritualisation has to come from within us, so mankind has to have freedom from the dominance of the needs of survival; this is a practical truth for the times we live in.

      The initiatic science seeks to understand the whole of nature, right back to its origins, so that the creator can find himself in nature. But before that, we have to make sure that needs, secu rity and protection are not part of the intent. All the laws we have learnt and all the understanding of the power of mind to bring things to us, can be used psychically to control other people; this is black magic. The Magician on the other hand, uses honesty, clarity, strength and perseverance, to do the work and journey through the Major Arcana.

      The name for this first card is ‘I Am’. Man ‘is’ only if he has con stant and full consciousness of the Soul and life within him for a full twenty four hours. This means that when we are lying down and falling asleep, we know why we are doing that and we know exactly what our subconscious is doing behind the scenes. That is what ‘I Am’ is about and The Magician is creating and bringing all the tools together in himself to achieve that. There have been several rounds, so it is not just a first-degree initiation and the round he’s come back on might be the last one, for all we know. He symbolises all of us who have followed the inner path, learning to go through our cycles and our degrees.

      He ceases to have a passive attitude and let life act on him. Nature and man suffer life; an initiate suffers, but he doesn’t suf fer life. He knows that life is in him and that he has to uplift the world and say, “Get away from me Satan”, where Satan represents the subconscious. Jesus, representing the Soul, does this when he talks to Peter, who represents the material and physical body of the personality with its needs, fears and protective instinct. The Soul, or the initiate, has to truly oppose all his needs, fears and protective instinct and in so doing, he can actually absorb all the fears within matter. Then, with the quality of perseverance he carries on with all the cosmic forces behind him, helping him to uplift. The only way we are going to transmute all the patterns that are locked in the biological life, is by completely absorbing them into our own will and love. The opposition is actually done by absorption and that is a good way of opposing, isn’t it!

      When we are on the inner path of consciousness in life, it is a continuous effort to always go beyond ourselves, deeper and deeper where we do not want to go. We keep on going behind, behind and behind, it is incredibly simple. We look at our everyday life and keep on watching and knowing that we are doing it! Every time we say, “I don’t want that any more”, we are on the path and we can’t go back, so we are going beyond ourselves. If we think we have reached our limits and we are still there tomorrow, then we haven’t reached the centre. To keep going beyond your limits is called endurance and we are going in the right direction. We are not talk ing about not using our discriminating power, for there are things one mustn’t endure and we are all intelligent enough to know what they might be. Every time we say, “No I can’t any more” we dis cover there is more love, understanding, humility, giving and more ‘Thy will be done’. This means we are on the right path.

      Until we associate completely with the fact that we are the person in front of us, whatever they are doing, we are stopping our spiritu-alisation and inward motion. Freedom is within and out is in.

      If we thought ourselves to be superior to humanity, we could not absorb and uplift it. If the Spirit in us was not able to reach the heart of matter and therefore the heart of all the molecules and cells, the wisdom of the planet could not be delivered. It is only in this world that real absorption, experiential knowledge and real freedom can happen; we are not running away here, we are going deeper. When we talk about the initiate being out of this world it is not as an angel on a cloud, it is deep in the very centre of matter that we become atomic and nowhere else. We become atomic inside and we go back to the real willpower of life, which will touch on the building blocks of Spirit and matter from millions of years ago. That is what erases all the misunderstandings within the genetic patterns and renders them completely bright, clear and spiritual; the way through is at the very heart of matter. We have to internalise with our minds, because it is the mind that does that journey and frees the mind-sets of the mental body. It is therefore that spiritual move ment within that is going to cleanse all the misunderstandings, fears and the pains of the Soul of nature, nature being the emotional body of Earth. That spiritual energy sends a blast, like a little atomic bomb into the genetic pool, so that we can truly become the beings of light we are supposed to be, carrying the blueprint of creation.

       NUMBER TWO

      The High Priestess, La Papesse

      Meeting the Mystery

       There is no higher manifestation of the divine intention than The High Priestess, the female Pope. Wearing a crown with two rings and a red cloak lined with green, she is seated on a throne in front of a veil. Here she pro tects the access to the great mystery. She is Isis, the metaphysical form of the Goddess and she represents love-wisdom. In one hand she holds the book of life, in the other the silver and gold keys, for she has all knowledge of both the natural and esoteric realms. Her left arm rests on a black sphinx. This Sphinx is the dweller on the threshold, the black Dog of Hell, represent ing our subconscious minds and this is what the initiate faces as he comes before her. Her face is partly obscured and her expression blank, for there is no easy access here. If the initiate is ready and few are, he will receive the higher revelation, will see beyond the veil and be changed forever.

      The right use of the Tarot is as a spiritual teaching aid. All systems are only tools; the intention and the energy we invest when using the tools will define the result. Here we are aiming to put drops of gold back into the Tarot cards, for one tiny unit of truth and light changes an ocean of misleading darkness. The work is to go into the subconscious where something is festering in ignorance; to take us in there we need the ancient symbol of the dog, represented here by the black sphinx.

      There are two qualities symbolised by the dog; there is the dog who is a server of God and there is the big black dog of Hell, who likes to be fed and the more he is fed the more he grows. The way we feed this black dog of Hell is by not knowing ourselves and being automatons, enacting out all our subconscious reactions without being aware of what is going on. We are all subject to this behaviour; the initiate’s only work is to become completely aware of every single atom of shadow within him and so become aware of the input of his inner relationship with the outer world. This way he won’t be caught by it, play its game and fall back into automatism. It is only when we can be aware of the origin of our reactions that we can start to be of use to the God we live in. This process doesn’t happen in five minutes, which is why there are twenty-two cards in the Arcana. It is a very thorough process, turning around every stone and every little memory cell, because each one of them might still contain a little hologram of a situation where we are ‘playing the game’. We are looking for little pools of hate, pain and regrets, so as to bring the light of love from our Soul into them. Every single corner of our sub conscious that we feed unknowingly creates an entity within our aura, for all thoughts are creative. With every need, want and link we forge with somebody, we create a tie. This is what we have to face with The High Priestess. Are we as pure of intention, as free of needs as we think we are?

      The High Priestess symbolises the highest manifestation of the authority of the divine wisdom on the planet. She is removed and silent. She scrutinises us and her presence warns that if we are going to come any nearer, it is not going to be a picnic.

      Everything manifested is a symbol for an unseen cause. As we begin to understand life as symbolic, we access our inner wisdom and the material world of form has less effect on us. The High Priest ess is therefore to be seen as a symbol, rather than a woman sitting on a throne. The aim of the journey is to understand that the world is within СКАЧАТЬ