11-13-2020, 03:28 PM
Not literal death... This card is broadly Death of the Ego. I would say Death of Desire.
The Transformation of the Body - Death - Immortality
Hieroglyph DEATH which reaps crowned heads in a prairie where men are seen growing
"The night has passed and a new day has arrived, so adorn yourself with the weapons of light"
"man confuses the force of Desire with Willpower"
"As we are now, asleep, daydreaming, tossed about between our memories of the past and our cravings for the future, or our worries for the future, we are in a self-created Fantasyland. We are not aware of ourselves. We are being buffeted by waves of our own lust, anger, envy and fear. And if all those waves of emotions and circumstances that hit us, we reacts automatically, without awareness. All of the reaction, these mechanical emotions waste our vital values"
81.30 Q: Transformation of Body is called Death, for with Death the body is transformed to a higher vibration body for additional learning. Is this correct?
Ra: This is correct and may be seen to be additionally correct in that each moment, and certainly each diurnal period of the body incarnation offers death & rebirth to one which is attempting to use the catalyst which is offered it"
"Observe humanity and the prevalence of mental illness and emotional sickness. They vastly outnumber the physical ones, yet we avoid them. We avoid knowing how prevant, how strong, how pervasive mental and emotional illness really is in our culture. We cannot deal with it. It is too big of a problem and, of course, our advertising, our movies, our media are all taking advantage of it, telling us - "you can have a happy life, happiness, contentment, if you buy something, if you look a certain way, if you dress a certain way, if you belong to a certain group". This is all utilizing desire to hypnotize us, to manipulate us for the purposes of money, power. For the Gnostic, for the aspirant, awareness becomes the critical step: To be aware, to be obervant of one's own three brains. To be always aware of what one is thinking, to always observe what one is feeling, to always be watchful of sensation or the impulse to act one way or another.
How many of us have chosen a career out of envy? Of fear? Pride? How many of our daily activities are driven entirely by the ego? This is onoly going to produce suffering. To bbe aware of those things means we have to stop ignoring ourselves - to observe, to look, to pay attention. In doing so, we begin to save energy when we recognize that this particular form of action is driven by Ego - "Why should I do that? It would be much more intelligent for me to not do that"- and when we take that step of renouncing our own egotistical will, we save the energy that we could have otherwise wasted. In this manner, little-by-litte we begin to save those values, to accumulate them. This is the basis of Gnostic psychology. In this process is death - we become the Reaper!
Our own consciousness becomes that Angel of Death from moment to moment in ourselves because we, with the staff of our spinal column, harness the energies with that scythe, the blade of discriminating awareness. We clise through the wheat of the moment-to-moment experience of any given impression, and we pull out from those impressions a seed - comprehension, understanding, wisdom. As we discard the chaff, that which is not useful, that which we do not need, that is the process of death - dying in our own desires. We must deny ourselves.
By saving those energies, by developing more conscious comprehension by gathering togethehr the energies from the impressions of life to transform those forces, by savings the energies that are present in our psyche to transform and accumulate those forces, we step towards immortality. We conquer death. This is how we move from being the mere shadow of a human being into becoming a human being. When we develop this conscious awareness of death, death is no longer a fearful thing.
When you begin to recall and remember how many times you have already died, you begin to realize that death is not the problem. Ignorance is the problem. Life and death proceed as a cycle, which is natural. The Essence proceeds from body to body, which is naterual. There is nothing to be afraid of in that. What is to be fearful of, to be worried about, is to ignore that. The longer we ignore it, the deeper our suffering bbecomes. When we conserve these forces, we begin to accomplish something that is written in Corinthians:
“How are the dead raised, and with what body do they return? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not brought back to life, is not brought back to life, is not brought to life, accept through death. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be but grain. All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men, another of beasts, another of fishes, another of birds. There are all celestial bodies, and terrestrial bodies. So is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption. It is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor. It is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness. It is raised in power.”
The God of Death is also called Dharma. That is his name. Dharma means law, truth. This teaching is dharma. It is the law. It is truth. Any true teaching is dharma. Any pure action is dharma. Any wrong action is adharma, without dharma. The name Yama also means “to do.” So when you enter into any school of Yoga in the ancient traditions, the first thing you learn; yama and niyama, to do and not to do. And you are given vows. “Do these things and do not do these things.” By doing so, you enter into the path of dharma, right action, the path of death: the death of the ego.
These traditional yamas, or steps, start with Ahimsa, which is non-violence. Are we living with that guide? Are we acting in a non-violent way in our thoughts, in our feelings, in our actions? If we have violent thinking, anger, resentment, skepticism, fanaticism, which are all anger, which are all violent, we are performing niyama, wrong action.
Number two, Satya, truthfulness, to tell the truth in word and thought. Are we truthful? Are we truthful with ourselves or are we lying to ourselves? Are we deceiving ourselves? Do we justify ourselves? Justifications are lies. Do we ignore our mistakes and make excuses for ourselves? These are lies.
Number three, Asteya, to not enter into debt. I am not talking about money. I am talking about karma. Do not create karmic debt. Do not covet. Do not steal. Do not owe.
Number four, Brahmacharya, to have purity in our sexual energies, to be faithful. Truly, Brahmacharya means “to be faithful.” Someone who is married can be in Brahmacharya, being faithful to their spouse.
Number five, Kshama, to be patient, to be in the now, to be in non-attachment.
The sixth yama, Dhruti, to be steadfast, to be without fear, to be decisive. Interesting that that is the sixth yama, to be decisive. Of course, we know the sixth Arcanum is indecision so the sixth yama is saying: “Decide.” Choose your path and follow it, but in every moment.
The seventh is Daya; compassion. Everyone thinks they are compassionate, but what is compassion? Compassion is conscious love. Conscious. Sometimes conscious love looks like anger, looks like pain. The parent who disciplines his child does so with conscious love. The child does not like it. It is the same thing with God. In his love for us, God gives us debt, gives us our karma, God gives us suffering, gives us hell. Yama, the god of death, is the god of compassion. He is a dharmapala, a protector of the dharma, a dharma king. The Angels of Death do their duty because of compassion.
The eighth, Aarjav, honesty straight-forwardness, renouncing deception, renouncing wrong-doing.
The ninth, mitahar, moderate behavior, no gluttony.
The tenth, shachah, purity, chastity.
Arcanum 13 is Death, but it can also signify Something New, there may be Wealth, there may be poverty, it is a number of great synthesis. It contains the gospel of Judas. Judas represents the Death of the "I", the Gospel of Judas is that of Death, it is the dissolution of Ego. Judas symbolizes the Ego, which one must decapitate.
Death is the remainider of whhole numbers. When the mathematiical operation is completed, only the values of the consciousness remain. These values, when seen calirvoyantly, look like a legion of phantoms that continue living. The re-incarnation of the values is the mechanism of nature. Really, the Soul doesn't reincarnate, because the human being does not yet have their soul incarnated. Only the values reincarnate themselves.
Sources:
The Ra Material
Gnosticteachings.org - Arcanum 13: Immortality (Transcription)
Samael Aun Weor - The Initiatic Path in the Arcana of the Tarot and Kabalah, Esoteric Course of Kabalah, and Manual of Practical Magic
The Kabbalistic and Occult Tarot of Eliphas Levi - Daath Gnosis
The Transformation of the Body - Death - Immortality
Hieroglyph DEATH which reaps crowned heads in a prairie where men are seen growing
"The night has passed and a new day has arrived, so adorn yourself with the weapons of light"
"man confuses the force of Desire with Willpower"
"As we are now, asleep, daydreaming, tossed about between our memories of the past and our cravings for the future, or our worries for the future, we are in a self-created Fantasyland. We are not aware of ourselves. We are being buffeted by waves of our own lust, anger, envy and fear. And if all those waves of emotions and circumstances that hit us, we reacts automatically, without awareness. All of the reaction, these mechanical emotions waste our vital values"
81.30 Q: Transformation of Body is called Death, for with Death the body is transformed to a higher vibration body for additional learning. Is this correct?
Ra: This is correct and may be seen to be additionally correct in that each moment, and certainly each diurnal period of the body incarnation offers death & rebirth to one which is attempting to use the catalyst which is offered it"
"Observe humanity and the prevalence of mental illness and emotional sickness. They vastly outnumber the physical ones, yet we avoid them. We avoid knowing how prevant, how strong, how pervasive mental and emotional illness really is in our culture. We cannot deal with it. It is too big of a problem and, of course, our advertising, our movies, our media are all taking advantage of it, telling us - "you can have a happy life, happiness, contentment, if you buy something, if you look a certain way, if you dress a certain way, if you belong to a certain group". This is all utilizing desire to hypnotize us, to manipulate us for the purposes of money, power. For the Gnostic, for the aspirant, awareness becomes the critical step: To be aware, to be obervant of one's own three brains. To be always aware of what one is thinking, to always observe what one is feeling, to always be watchful of sensation or the impulse to act one way or another.
How many of us have chosen a career out of envy? Of fear? Pride? How many of our daily activities are driven entirely by the ego? This is onoly going to produce suffering. To bbe aware of those things means we have to stop ignoring ourselves - to observe, to look, to pay attention. In doing so, we begin to save energy when we recognize that this particular form of action is driven by Ego - "Why should I do that? It would be much more intelligent for me to not do that"- and when we take that step of renouncing our own egotistical will, we save the energy that we could have otherwise wasted. In this manner, little-by-litte we begin to save those values, to accumulate them. This is the basis of Gnostic psychology. In this process is death - we become the Reaper!
Our own consciousness becomes that Angel of Death from moment to moment in ourselves because we, with the staff of our spinal column, harness the energies with that scythe, the blade of discriminating awareness. We clise through the wheat of the moment-to-moment experience of any given impression, and we pull out from those impressions a seed - comprehension, understanding, wisdom. As we discard the chaff, that which is not useful, that which we do not need, that is the process of death - dying in our own desires. We must deny ourselves.
By saving those energies, by developing more conscious comprehension by gathering togethehr the energies from the impressions of life to transform those forces, by savings the energies that are present in our psyche to transform and accumulate those forces, we step towards immortality. We conquer death. This is how we move from being the mere shadow of a human being into becoming a human being. When we develop this conscious awareness of death, death is no longer a fearful thing.
When you begin to recall and remember how many times you have already died, you begin to realize that death is not the problem. Ignorance is the problem. Life and death proceed as a cycle, which is natural. The Essence proceeds from body to body, which is naterual. There is nothing to be afraid of in that. What is to be fearful of, to be worried about, is to ignore that. The longer we ignore it, the deeper our suffering bbecomes. When we conserve these forces, we begin to accomplish something that is written in Corinthians:
“How are the dead raised, and with what body do they return? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not brought back to life, is not brought back to life, is not brought to life, accept through death. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be but grain. All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men, another of beasts, another of fishes, another of birds. There are all celestial bodies, and terrestrial bodies. So is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption. It is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor. It is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness. It is raised in power.”
The God of Death is also called Dharma. That is his name. Dharma means law, truth. This teaching is dharma. It is the law. It is truth. Any true teaching is dharma. Any pure action is dharma. Any wrong action is adharma, without dharma. The name Yama also means “to do.” So when you enter into any school of Yoga in the ancient traditions, the first thing you learn; yama and niyama, to do and not to do. And you are given vows. “Do these things and do not do these things.” By doing so, you enter into the path of dharma, right action, the path of death: the death of the ego.
These traditional yamas, or steps, start with Ahimsa, which is non-violence. Are we living with that guide? Are we acting in a non-violent way in our thoughts, in our feelings, in our actions? If we have violent thinking, anger, resentment, skepticism, fanaticism, which are all anger, which are all violent, we are performing niyama, wrong action.
Number two, Satya, truthfulness, to tell the truth in word and thought. Are we truthful? Are we truthful with ourselves or are we lying to ourselves? Are we deceiving ourselves? Do we justify ourselves? Justifications are lies. Do we ignore our mistakes and make excuses for ourselves? These are lies.
Number three, Asteya, to not enter into debt. I am not talking about money. I am talking about karma. Do not create karmic debt. Do not covet. Do not steal. Do not owe.
Number four, Brahmacharya, to have purity in our sexual energies, to be faithful. Truly, Brahmacharya means “to be faithful.” Someone who is married can be in Brahmacharya, being faithful to their spouse.
Number five, Kshama, to be patient, to be in the now, to be in non-attachment.
The sixth yama, Dhruti, to be steadfast, to be without fear, to be decisive. Interesting that that is the sixth yama, to be decisive. Of course, we know the sixth Arcanum is indecision so the sixth yama is saying: “Decide.” Choose your path and follow it, but in every moment.
The seventh is Daya; compassion. Everyone thinks they are compassionate, but what is compassion? Compassion is conscious love. Conscious. Sometimes conscious love looks like anger, looks like pain. The parent who disciplines his child does so with conscious love. The child does not like it. It is the same thing with God. In his love for us, God gives us debt, gives us our karma, God gives us suffering, gives us hell. Yama, the god of death, is the god of compassion. He is a dharmapala, a protector of the dharma, a dharma king. The Angels of Death do their duty because of compassion.
The eighth, Aarjav, honesty straight-forwardness, renouncing deception, renouncing wrong-doing.
The ninth, mitahar, moderate behavior, no gluttony.
The tenth, shachah, purity, chastity.
Arcanum 13 is Death, but it can also signify Something New, there may be Wealth, there may be poverty, it is a number of great synthesis. It contains the gospel of Judas. Judas represents the Death of the "I", the Gospel of Judas is that of Death, it is the dissolution of Ego. Judas symbolizes the Ego, which one must decapitate.
Death is the remainider of whhole numbers. When the mathematiical operation is completed, only the values of the consciousness remain. These values, when seen calirvoyantly, look like a legion of phantoms that continue living. The re-incarnation of the values is the mechanism of nature. Really, the Soul doesn't reincarnate, because the human being does not yet have their soul incarnated. Only the values reincarnate themselves.
Sources:
The Ra Material
Gnosticteachings.org - Arcanum 13: Immortality (Transcription)
Samael Aun Weor - The Initiatic Path in the Arcana of the Tarot and Kabalah, Esoteric Course of Kabalah, and Manual of Practical Magic
The Kabbalistic and Occult Tarot of Eliphas Levi - Daath Gnosis
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