02-25-2012, 08:38 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-25-2012, 08:57 PM by JustLikeYou.)
Your description was very lucid, Ali Quadir. Thank you for that.
Since the topic of the Archetypes (Tarot) seems to be en vogue, I would like to comment liberally on the above quotation.
You have precisely described the movements of the first four Archetypes. It is not accidental that Ra describes the orb in the hand of each of the figures in these cards as magical (with the exception of the High Priestess, who is obviously equally magical).
The Magician and the High Priestess are the primary Archetypes involved in a ritual magical action. In fact, it is a lovemaking between the two in which the will of the Magician to have a particular kind of experienced is received into the High Priestess and then impregnates her. What is borne of the High Priestess is the manifestation. The Magician and the High Priestess are the unmanifest aspects of the mind and it is their lovemaking which begets the mind now manifest.
The manifest aspects of the mind are the child, the Empress, and her lover, the Emperor. The Empress is what you see in the world and yourself through manifestation. Since all is one, your unconscious mind is capable of revealing itself to you through anything at all in the manifest reality, it matters not where you see it. Whatever you think of the world you live in and your role within that world is exactly the magic that your Magician has impregnated your High Priestess with. What you see in the world is only the child of this process. And what you see in manifestation may surprise you. Your emotions, your random thoughts about others, judgments that creep in, judgments that you pretend you do not make, intense desires that you have, these are all being shown to you by the Empress in the course of your everyday life.
The Emperor, unlike the Magician, has knowledge of the unconscious mind. The Emperor has seen what magic the mind has birthed, the Emperor has seen what kind of experience was willed. It is now up to the Emperor to take responsibility for this. On the one hand, the Emperor may decide to love, to forgive, to accept, and to speak beautiful words to the Empress. On the other hand, the Emperor may decide to speak ugly words to the Empress. He may tell her that she is stupid, weak, and unforgivable. He may tell her that she will never be pure and never deserve abundance. This relationship between the mind manifest in the world and the self who witnesses this manifestation is the lovemaking of the two. It may be of the light, it may be of the dark, and it may be a mixture of the two.
You therefore engage in two major magical actions: The first magical action is your method of projecting your will out into manifestation. The second magical action is your relationship with the part of yourself that has manifest from this projecting. When you firmly commit to either the light or the darkness and you master this process, your mind will approach perfection.
My wife once engaged in a simple example of this four-fold process. She commanded the Universe to show her her fears. The part of herself that commanded is the Magician. The part of herself which received the command (the "Universe") is the High Priestess.
She began waking up each morning with a new fear which was intense and unavoidable. This was the Empress. Each fear, she explored, loving all of the things she found therein, accepting the entirety of the fear, painful as the process was. This choice to explore and accept the fears was the Emperor who had chosen to treat his love, the Empress, as a royal maiden.
Diana Wrote:The first thing one must realize, is that we manifest from the subconscious mind. The trainer of the subconscious mind is the conscious mind. Your experiences, reactions, and internal dialogue keep feeding the conscious mind with concepts and symbols...
Magick and its rituals would be one way to train the subconscious mind with intention. But all you have to do is watch your internal dialogue and begin to notice what your true programmed beliefs are. Then, reprogram your subconscious by discontinuing to feed it with negative statements, and replace them with positive ones.
Since the topic of the Archetypes (Tarot) seems to be en vogue, I would like to comment liberally on the above quotation.
You have precisely described the movements of the first four Archetypes. It is not accidental that Ra describes the orb in the hand of each of the figures in these cards as magical (with the exception of the High Priestess, who is obviously equally magical).
The Magician and the High Priestess are the primary Archetypes involved in a ritual magical action. In fact, it is a lovemaking between the two in which the will of the Magician to have a particular kind of experienced is received into the High Priestess and then impregnates her. What is borne of the High Priestess is the manifestation. The Magician and the High Priestess are the unmanifest aspects of the mind and it is their lovemaking which begets the mind now manifest.
The manifest aspects of the mind are the child, the Empress, and her lover, the Emperor. The Empress is what you see in the world and yourself through manifestation. Since all is one, your unconscious mind is capable of revealing itself to you through anything at all in the manifest reality, it matters not where you see it. Whatever you think of the world you live in and your role within that world is exactly the magic that your Magician has impregnated your High Priestess with. What you see in the world is only the child of this process. And what you see in manifestation may surprise you. Your emotions, your random thoughts about others, judgments that creep in, judgments that you pretend you do not make, intense desires that you have, these are all being shown to you by the Empress in the course of your everyday life.
The Emperor, unlike the Magician, has knowledge of the unconscious mind. The Emperor has seen what magic the mind has birthed, the Emperor has seen what kind of experience was willed. It is now up to the Emperor to take responsibility for this. On the one hand, the Emperor may decide to love, to forgive, to accept, and to speak beautiful words to the Empress. On the other hand, the Emperor may decide to speak ugly words to the Empress. He may tell her that she is stupid, weak, and unforgivable. He may tell her that she will never be pure and never deserve abundance. This relationship between the mind manifest in the world and the self who witnesses this manifestation is the lovemaking of the two. It may be of the light, it may be of the dark, and it may be a mixture of the two.
You therefore engage in two major magical actions: The first magical action is your method of projecting your will out into manifestation. The second magical action is your relationship with the part of yourself that has manifest from this projecting. When you firmly commit to either the light or the darkness and you master this process, your mind will approach perfection.
My wife once engaged in a simple example of this four-fold process. She commanded the Universe to show her her fears. The part of herself that commanded is the Magician. The part of herself which received the command (the "Universe") is the High Priestess.
She began waking up each morning with a new fear which was intense and unavoidable. This was the Empress. Each fear, she explored, loving all of the things she found therein, accepting the entirety of the fear, painful as the process was. This choice to explore and accept the fears was the Emperor who had chosen to treat his love, the Empress, as a royal maiden.
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