01-11-2013, 07:54 PM
(01-11-2013, 11:08 AM)βαθμιαίος Wrote: Nevertheless, I'll offer another quote for you: "You may note that the hands of the central image indicate the appropriate bias for right- and left-hand working; that is, the right hand gestures in service to others, offering its light outward. The left hand attempts to absorb the power of the spirit and point it for its use alone."
This interpretation by the Ra group is essentially completely ignoring the actual symbolism which any left hand path student would recognize immediately. Although I will admit that it all depends on what image is being used in any particular set. Do you know what set of cards Ra would be using as its example?
In my post here
http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthread.php?tid=4643
you will see the images offered by the Brotherhood of Light deck which utilizes many of the pagan symbols that most would recognize.
If you look at the right hand, you can clearly see that it is making the pentagram symbol, a very explicit symbol of left hand path teaching. And note that the scepter is not in the right hand as it is in the 4 card, The Emperor. The scepter, in the Emperor card signifies the rule of authority. Everything about the Emperor card shows an effort to imitate the Goddess cards preceding it, with that one difference, where the rule is over the right hand path alone. The crossed legs representing the Tree of Life, the circle on the scepter representing The Spirit and the Sacred Eye, the spirit represented over the heart by the Eagle, and even the most prominent signifier of the serpent rising from the forehead representing enlightenment, are all well known and immediately recognized symbols of Left hand Path, but that one tell tale sigh of carrying the scepter in the right hand path reveals the attempted mimicking.
Usually referred to as the Hierophant, and also, in extreme perversion and ignorance by Christian influences, as the Pope. Appropriately and more accurately, if at all, the Catholic Pope would be the Right Hand card. But you can certainly imagine why the church would not want it to be represented that way, when the card to follow depicts the true authority and power beyond and above the rule of human civilization.
The character of the Hierophant card, which I simply refer to as The Left Hand Path card, is the True power and authority. The scepter is now in the left hand, the right hand making the secret symbol of the elements, the pentagram.
Everything here suggests rule over polarity. he even has the army at his feet. His is the command of All, leading to the Goddess which hovers above, and balancing the elements all around him. Like the Goddess he stands at the threshold between the worlds in full control.
He wears the crown of Shin revealing his true power over balance which is the manifestation of the Goddess. he is in harmony with duality.
His supreme authority reveals the mockery and inferiority of the right hand path, also revealing the need to evolve from the right hand path to the left hand path as one becomes able to acknowledge the true power of the Goddess.
This is where the right hand path leads. One cannot get to the Goddess and ascendance without leaving the right hand path and going to the left hand. And one cannot get to the left hand path without first following the right. It is a process of evolving the consciousness.
Luke 10:22 - " ...no one knows who the Son is except the Father." Right Hand Path
John 14:6-7 - "Jesus answered, "No one comes to the Father except through me." Left Hand Path