The Experience of the Spirit

[Aaron]

Before I begin, I should note that I'm approaching this archetype from the viewpoint of the conscious mind within incarnation having an experience of the spirit. This may or may not be correct. But it is also possible to view this archetype as that experience which the spirit has while climbing through the third density. The difference is highlighted by asking the question: Is this the "Experience of the spirit", or "The experience of the spirit"?

Ra describes the spirit as a shuttle to intelligent infinity, or the channel by which contact with intelligent infinity is made.

The moon as depicted in this card strikes me as being the spirit itself, that spiritual self which is always replenishing itself, always full, always whole, and needs no movement or seeking.

In fifth and sixth density, but especially fifth, where the spirit is consciously experienced, it is not necessary to recycle body complexes:

(105.20)
I am Ra. When the discipline of the personality has led the mind/body/spirit complex into the fifth and especially the sixth level of study it is no longer necessary to build destruction of the physical vehicle into its design, for the spirit complex is so experienced as a shuttle that it is aware when the appropriate degree of intensity of learning and increment of lesson has been achieved.

From our viewpoint in this density, looking at this card, the spirit is not clearly seen. It is obfuscated by the clouds, and far into space, seemingly unreachable. In order to experience the spirit in this density (but not actually BEING the spirit, being the moon, as that has its place in fifth density), we must move over the dangerous dark ground, and past the dogs, into the pyramid of our choice. The dark pyramid being the choice of the negatively polarizing adept, and visa versa. The negatively polarizing adept will be seeking to experience the spirit in service to itself, seeking that dark pyramid, and the opposite for the positively polarizing adept, who seeks to experience the spirit in service to others. Both pyramids receive instreamings from that same moon, that same spirit.

The pyramids in this card speak to me as being that inner locus wherein the true and fulfilling experience of the spirit may be grasped by the seeker/adept. This would fit in with the general idea of the physical pyramids being places of initiation, where the adept would go to experience temporary death/rebirth and contact with the spirit.

(57.24)
The initiation of Queen’s Chamber has to do with the abandoning of self to such desire to know the Creator in full that the purified in-streaming light is drawn in balanced fashion through all energy centers, meeting in indigo and opening the gate to intelligent infinity. Thus the entity experiences true life or, as your people call it, resurrection.

Moving towards that pyramid, that apprehension of the experience of the spirit, either on the positive or the negative path, the dogs are encountered. On either side, these dogs are of an opposite nature of their respective pyramids. This says to me, similarly to what JustLikeYou wrote above, that along the way towards integration of the spirit complex (entering the pyramid), one will encounter their opposite self... the shadow self for those polarizing positively, and the loving self for those polarizing negatively. One must pass by these guardians with the conscious knowledge that what they face is the self, but does not represent their chosen path.

For me, the dogs bring to mind the concept of the Dweller on the Threshold.

"From ancient recesses of the memory, from a deeply rooted past, which is definitely recalled, and from the racial and the individual subconscious (or founded and established thought reservoirs and desires, inherited and inherent) there emerges from individual past lives and experience, that which is the sumtotal of all instinctual tendencies, of all inherited glamours, and of all phases of wrong mental attitudes; to these, (as they constitute a blended whole) we give the name of the Dweller on the Threshold. This Dweller is the sumtotal of all the personality characteristics which have remained unconquered and unsubtle, and which must be finally overcome before initiation can be taken. Each life sees some progress made; some personality defects straightened out, and some real advance effected. But the unconquered residue, and the ancient liabilities are numerous, and excessively potent, and - when the soul contact's adequately established - there eventuates a life wherein the highly developed and powerful personality becomes, in itself, the Dweller on the Threshold. Then the Angel of the Presence and the Dweller stand face to face, and something must then be done.

Within that quote is the hint that the dogs arise from accumulated experience in this density that has been sifted out and pushed aside/rejected by the entity as it experiences incarnations. All that has been experienced that speaks of the path opposite of one's choice must be integrated in order for a pure experience of the spirit to take place.

The scorpion at the bottom of the card seems to indicate the constant risk of those missteps in the night which Ra speaks of. When moving towards an experience of the spirit while in this veiled third density, there is always the possibility of attracting experiences to the self which can be harmful, due to the fact that the spirit and things of a magical nature are not understood or able to be worked with in this density. I think there is more to this scorpion, like the fact that it is facing towards the positive pyramid. But a deeper understanding of it escapes me at this time.