04-17-2009, 08:29 PM
(04-17-2009, 07:45 PM)zenmaster Wrote: The correspondence I see is one where the archetype first takes hold, as it were, and becomes fully available. On one level, the archetype could be seen as a motif of the meme.
Most interesting. I will offer a contradiction in thought and then answer my own question for your validation:
a) I may then surmise that the Magician at the Yellow level is the Magician I assumed to be the culmnation touch stone, i.e., the man at/in completion.
b) What I have been shown by your explanation is most intriguing and one quite frankly I had never taken into account, even as elementary as it now seems. The Magician is not more critical, more important, or sit at the top of a hierarchy of archetypes, if you will, any more than any other archetype to one's development. An archetype is simply and merely a representation. It is neither factual, nor embodied, nor existent. As such:
-- One position is no higher than is another
-- All positions are necessary to the whole
Removing the hierarchy from my own equation, in the prior assumption as though one archetype were more developed, higher, or more evolved, is where what is elementary should have been so all along. All representative color levels of one's developmental consciousness, as much as a societies developmental consciousness, as much as the worlds, has these archetypes operating at the level of the development cycle, so to speak. This being so, the primitive is as much the Magician as is the uberman (developed man), even if the uberman is more integrated into what I felt is more the Magician as a definition.
In this context the Magician has more than one definition, this depending upon the context this word (magician) is utilized in. Both assumptions are thus true.
Q