Introduction To Tarot E-Book

Ann Davies

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

These are the lessons . First of all, let us say that in making you acquainted with Tarot, our aim is to show you how to use v/hat we believe to be the most effective aid to human progress ever devised by the mind of man. Just as we might give you an introduction to a wise and helpful counselor, so these lessons aim to enable you to enjoy the benefits we, and thousands of others, have derived from Tarot.

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Ann Davies

Introduction To Tarot

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Part

Part

of the life-equipment of every human being is

an immortal something which was net born w ith the body,

something which will never

die,

liiore than this, THE ItiiGRTAL 301^,THING

Li

THIN US IS LKAT BRINGS ABOUT THE DISSOLUTION

OP OUR PHYSICAL 3 GDIIS.

Our essential immortal

nature is the actual cause of the fact of physical death.

Ylhen we face the fact ©f death, and learn its meaning, we shall find out how t«

overcome it, how to erase

it completely fr«m

our consciousness and our experience.

This

is more than a premise of certainty that we shall survive the death of the body.

It

is more than a mere hope of resurrection.

It is more than a change of consciousness.

The

knowledge of those vAio are eonsoiously immortal totally annuls deqrth.

These who beo<me perfeet

in this knoy/lodge, here on oarth, need have no experience

of physical dissolution.

They are

released from what

seor.i3 to be the '’common

lot.”

They are able to maintain the existoneo of their physical bodies, in perfect health and vigor, over a period

of time limited only by

their own deliberate choice.

Key 13 declares

this doctrine of Ageless

Ylisdcsn symbolically.

It does more.

It conveys

to suboonsciousness,

through the sense

o f

sight,

stimuli which will call forth fr<m our inner mind the knowledge which will enable us

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to annul death.

The letter Nun printed on this Key means, as a verb,

”to sprout, to grow.”

As a noun, its

meaning is

’’fish.” This is nls* the proper name Nun, given in the Old Testament to the father of Joshua.

New, when the Old Testament says that Joshua (liberation) was the Son of Nun (fish), it is hinting that the liberating power of Truth or Reality is a consequence of the power of growth represented by Nun.

In the human body this power of growth is the oause

of the multiplication of cells, and of the development Of structure.

It is else

the fundamental principle of reproduction.

In

Hebrew Wisdom,

therefore,

the letter Nun is

associated with Scorpio, the sign of the zodiac which presides over reproduction.

As the

eighth sign of the zodiac, Scorpio has fundamental rulership ever the eighth house of the heroeeope, the house of death and inherit aneeea . CUR niCST PRECIOUS HERITAGE IS THE P(/T-ER EHICLi iaAifIFESTS ITSELF IN THE FACT CF DEATH.

The real nature of this power is indicated by the number

13.

This

is the number,

in

Hebrew of two words.

One moans UNITY. Tho other means LOVE.

The ONE POi.ER whenoo all things proceed, the LOVE PURER v/hioh is the cause of all attractions

and affinities,

is also tho

DEii-TH PClIER which brings about the dissolution of physical bodies.

There are not two antagonistic powers, one making for life, and the other for death.

There is only ONE PURER, having opposite forms of manifestation.

At first glance, the central figpre of Key 13

is the conventional representation of the

’’Grim Reaper.1’

To the initiated eye, however, the skeleton is a reminder that the bony struo-

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13

ture

of the body is the foundation of all eur muscular activities.

Vfhat

is

shov/n here, then, is a picture of the actual basis of all our bodily activities.

As a symbol, therefore, the skeleton stands for that which is the basis of all function, the foundation of all growth and development.

This something is t he ONE PGUIiR, specialized in the reproductive functions of the body.

It

is the SELD-PCLIR.

Hence a conventionalized

pioture

of a seed is placed in the upper left-hand corner of Key 13.

Hero

is

a simple hieroglyphic of the whole process

of manifestation.

The two ovals are

united,

cr really ono.

The inner and smaller

oval represents the source of the radiant energy. From it proceed five rays, representing the five differentiations known in Ytestem occultism as ether, fire, y;ater, air and earth.

This radiant energy fills the space enclosed by the

outer

oval, which is

one with the inner

oval.

The INNER PCibER projects itself, or what appears

to be an extension of itself, o.s SPACE

(tho larger oval), and fills that space with forms

of energy whose combination constitutes the body of the universe.

The

same povrer is represented by the skeleton. All growth and development are based on endless permutations of form.

In the absolute

sense there

is no change,

for the No-Thing

remains

eternally Itself, throughout the whole series

of appearances.

Yet

in the relative

sense this pageant of transformation is actual, and it necessitates the dissolution of useless and outworn forms.

Leok closely, and you will

see that the

skeleton is

curiously distorted.

There are

two twists

in the spinal column.

Cno is just

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above the pelvis, and serves t o nark the location of the Mars center in the body.

The other

is at the neok, where the Venus center has its place.

Here this skeleton clothed with flesh, its body would be twisted in a way no contortionist eeuld duplicate.

This

anatomical

impossibility indicates the central secret of the thirteenth Key,

Vie have to learn to give a certain twist te the energy manifested physically through the Liars

center.

This is the physical center, in the nervous

system, which controls the reproductive activities ef the body. Y/hat we must

do is to turn this energy in another direction, the reverse of what it usually takes.

The Mars-feree is present in the body during one’s entire lifetime.

Unless

it be deliberately TURNED in the right direction, we cannot annul death,

'■

This nent direction is given to the liars-force by meana of t h ^ activity ef its complement, the force speeialized by the Venus center in the throat.

Briefly, this is effected by a change in mental imagery, and thus we have here another bit of light on the meaning of 13, The right way to effect the necessary minute changes in cur chemical and physiological makeup is to imagine new patterns ef life.

Make

the right

patterns, and subconsciousness will take care of the corresponding physical alterations.

The new image must precede the new structure.

In this picture the direction of movement is from North to South.

The skeleton walks tec/ard

the right side of the picture.

The wind blocs

the branches

of the trees in the some direction.

In occultism. North is

the side of the

dark, disintegrative forces, and this direction

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15

is specially assigned to Mars.

South has to do

with regenerative activities, and is associated with the Sun. What

is pictured here is the

movement

of a current of force from the Itoxe center, just below the navel, upward toward the Sun center, above and behind the heart.

This

is the movement of a current of nerve force which passes through the solar plexus, or Jupiter oenter, on its way from the Mars center to the Sun center.

This

rising current of

energy is

set moving in response to certain activities

of the Venus center in the throat, and results in new specializations of the force which enters the physical organism through the Sun center, much as electricity enters the wiring system

of a building through the main switch.

Eence this Key shows a rising sun in the background, to intimate the beginning of a new cycle

of manifestation for those powers whioh, throughout the Tarot are symbolized by the sun.

The impetus of this rising current of nerve force continues after it leaves the heart center, and sets in motion certain special functions of the higher tenters in the throat and head (the centers

called Venus, Moon and Mercury in the terminology of the Yiestern School).

^ T h i s results in a change of consciousness, accompanied by the manifestation of occult powers which are latent in most human personalities. )

£ Among these is the power of recollecting the experiences

of human personality when it is functioning in the astral body and other higher v e h i c l e s ^ All persons ’’travel” more or less in these higher vehicles when the body is asleep.

Vie say ”more or less," because such "journeys"

are by no means of nightly occurrence. >

<wid wro

put the words "travel" and "journeys" in quotation marks because there are good reasons for