12-13-2018, 09:32 AM
(12-12-2018, 08:29 PM)loostudent Wrote:(12-12-2018, 10:22 AM)Nau7ik Wrote: This quote is interesting and I want to know what others think about the attractions to the archetypes to male and females??
What qualities do you want to develop to be a man? I mean to be a real and mature man. (Immature is a sissy or a macho)
In Jungian system there are four male archetypes: king, warrior, magician and lover.
Ra said: "For instance, in your ritual performed to purify this place you use the term “Ve Geburah.” It is a correct assumption that this is a portion or aspect of the One Infinite Creator. However, there are various correspondences with the archetypical mind which may be more and more refined by the adept. “Ve Geburah” [the 5th sephirot] is the correspondence of Michael, of Mars, of the positive, of maleness." The Cabalistic Tree of Life also has the pillar of severity. I rather see it as the male pillar although it is said to be feminine. Metaphysical meaning of male/female is supposed to be different than on physical plane but I still hold an opinion there is analogy.
But what are these male qualities without the opposite? Don't they come best to expression, potentiation and balance in relation with the opposite?
Yes, there’s an analogy of some sort. The polarity is represented variously across the different levels of our being, for males and females. And I totally agree that male and female are natural compliments to each other. The side pillars of the tree need to find their equilibrium in the Middle Pillar. We can’t look at one sephiroth without the other, Dion Fortune suggested. The principle of balance is repeated in the Ra Material.
The one archetype that I’ve always been attracted to (and I am a man) is IX. The Hermit.
As far as the Sephirothic archetypes, Chesed is my favorite. Chesed is Jupiter, which is located in the middle of the Pillar of Mercy (masculine/positive). The path of the Hermit (#20) is inbetween Tiphareth and Chesed.
Furthermore as I was reading about the court cards, I noticed that often Queens are given to males and King’s to females.