Transformation of the Mind - Lovers

[Jade]

The bias is built up in the dynamic of Catalyst/Experience. Ra says that "all that is unprocessed that has come before the notice of a mind/body/spirit complex is catalyst". So Catalyst, by nature, is that which is unprocessed. However, obviously by the image of the card, the attention of the Empress is held by the bird in her left hand, while the "sphere of magical possibilities" is behind her head on the right. Ra also says that it is a portion of the Catalyst of the Mind to note "a suggestion that the offering of the illusion will often seem to suggest the opportunities lying upon the left-hand path or, as you might refer to it more simply, the service-to-self path." Ra says that it is in Experience that we build a bias, and that bias becomes more and more effective until we become almost impervious to catalyst of the path that we choose not. (Or, to be more accurate, becoming impervious to taking the negative interpretation of catalyst that we experience. The catalyst remains the same. It's the perspective that changes.)

So, it's a little from column A (choices created) and a little from column B (biases channeled from previous choices). The nature of the illusion it to tempt us away from our biases, until we build up substantial polarity to offer us protection from the other path. In Experience, the cat guards the right hand path, "in direct proportion to the purity of the manifestations of intention and the purity of inner work done along this path", by means of creating a joy and understanding in receptivity of all catalyst, even if it's "objectively" bad. Whereas the imp in the Transformation card guards the left-hand path from feeling pain, weakness, ignorance - objectively "negative" emotions, but ultimately, sympathy and compassion, for the self and other self.

This is why I think the transformation card is specifically and directly about building polarity, and why the triangles represent the paths diverged, because Ra always mentions purity of intentions being the hallmark of a highly polarized entity. Hence the abandonment. (Which is Ra's word, in an absolute statement, not mine!)

In this image of Transformation of Mind, then, each of the females points the way it would go, but is not able to move, nor are the two female entities striving to do so. They are at rest. The conscious entity holds both and will turn itself one way or the other or, potentially, backwards and forwards, rocking first one way then the other and not achieving the transformation. [b]In order for the Transformation of Mind to occur, one principle governing the use of the deep mind must be abandoned.[b]