(08-06-2014, 06:41 PM)JustLikeYou Wrote: Well, are we studying the cards or the archetypal mind? If the latter, then it is quite acceptable to think subtler thoughts than the Egyptians did. Besides, Ra claims to have fashioned the images and then provided them to the Egyptians. So the question is what Ra intended by a particular symbol, rather than what the Egyptians were capable of understanding.
Moreover, I'm not sure I made my claim clear enough. Allow me to clarify:
1. Logos = Central Galactic Sun
2. Sub-logos = Solar Sun
3. Sub-sub-logos = mind/body/spirit complex totality (Polaris, the inner Sun)
4. Sub-sub-sub-logos = incarnate mind (the waking mind)
I am suggesting that it is the third which is represented by the sun in #19, and the fourth which is depicted by #5 as a whole.
Well . . . . I agree that card #5 is number 4 on your list. But I'm struggling with card #19 being the inner sun/complex totality or what I call the Oversoul. I really think the card depiction, with the two figures, is to say that God even loves people on the STS path. But if this sun is the Oversoul, it just loses that (I think) critical meaning.
Card 5 = the significance of the mental self is the Actor on this stage.
Card 12 = the significance of the body is to serve the mental self.
Card 19 = the significance of spirit is that it always shines on you, unconditionally.
I do see your logic, though. If card 19 is the Oversoul, it implies that your higher self has sub-selves from both polarities. (Because that's in the pciture.) I don't know what to think about that. Maybe both interpretations are valid? I sure can see the importance of the Oversoul having a card. Hmmm. I need to reflect on this some more.