have to sense the Soul of the Mary of nature to decipher the sound that we are seeking, because all manifestation ended up in a crystallised form, such as an animal or plant, which then can be named. Everything vibrates to a sound and then the matter that is subsequently created is the final destination of that sound at the time. As we re-incarnate with the guidance of our inner light, the crystal lisation of our name becomes more and more invisible as we develop the understanding of the symbol that we perceive, then we can reflect it into our etheric mirror. We know that the impulse from the Great Architect comes from within the sound, so the sound is only the result of the movement of the impulse, re-organising the original chaotic sound into crystallised units. That first point of manifestation break ing through from the spiritual will into space, was the forgotten name of God and our name was part of it. This is the secret that all the tra ditions are helping us to bring back, because it is the origin or source of everything on Earth. Our original name is part of that first sound, which is made of light. The Star is a virtual mirror of the brighter self. The brighter we become the more cosmic we are. Finding the sound in the present automatically mirrors back the Star.
In Number 1 we saw that The Magician is truly a juggler or Baton-holder, who holds the baton to direct energy and learn to achieve another level of understanding. This means that eventually he will allow the divine energy that flows through him to be in charge. If he thinks he is in charge he’s playing at being God, but by allowing that flow, understanding the world that is around him and know ing what his needs are, he won’t fall into any illusion. He is learn ing non-action, but at the same time he has to be very active, for if he doesn’t act he will never understand what non-action is. When people are using their instrument very intensively they eventually let things happen through them. For example if we sing a lot, even tually it isn’t us singing but the Spirit of singing coming through us; we are just letting it happen.
Figure 1. Spiral. Movement of Spirit into the space of the universal egg.
The Magician comes in and is faced straight away with that moving spiral. He is going to have to go through many rounds of it before he will achieve higher initiation. The first thing that he has to do is to open the door to wisdom. This is not human or shamanic wisdom, but divine wisdom represented by The High Priestess. She is not funny and she is not going to say, “I will touch your cheek with a feather and make it better”, rather she will stare at your cheek and it will hurt even more. This wisdom is not subject to the laws we know of and it doesn’t come through recognition, for the divine wisdom is beyond that. It is the veil that we need to come through if we are going to have a chance to follow our cosmic star.
We are looking here at the great energetic work of alchemy, which is about being able to internalise the whole understanding, then transmute the water of the emotional body into love and wisdom. It is an energetic work and we only truly exteriorise and emanate the star we are by internalising and rendering ourselves alchemical.
The initiate comes back carrying an awful lot of knowledge; he knows he can be a magician but he is aware that there is a lot to do to avoid the pitfalls. At this point a lot of people will withdraw; a few others will jump in before they are ready and what they will find is awesome to them and might blow their minds away, because they haven’t done much of that deep internal work. Those that are ready have to start doing the inner work before the veil is lifted. The second card, The High Priestess, is the great door to higher con sciousness and is the alpha omega of all there is. The initiate has to have enough humility to be ready to come in front of The High Priestess, for she is the aim of the whole of the Tarot deck. This aim is to acquire divine wisdom and fuse with the divine mind. The rest of the major Arcana tell us about all the energetic trials we have to go through to achieve the initiation. It is a transforming journey. So every time this break through is not achieved we cannot go onto the next stage. It is not a drama or a test, it is just an energetic process that we have to endure and accept.
It is a question of choice. We all have heavy luggage and if we keep on with the drama we know by playing the same old games, it is because we want to. When we make the choice to serve ourselves, we are denying our Star and denying God, so making the load even heavier for ourselves and everyone else. The minute we make a true choice of affirmation to look up or away from whatever game we are playing, it is instant and we need not play that game again. It is not controlling, hiding, or covering up any more, because we can now see that the game is only a habit we can remove. The virtual reality we live in can be dispelled, but if our true self loves it better we can choose to go back into it. Any tenuous, tiny particle of an emotional link that we attach onto the game makes us stay in it. It is not about love/hate; it is not being a victim, or being weak; neither is it saying “It is to do with my childhood” or “It is past-life”. It is none of those, it is a question of what we want to love; either an impersonal God, or a self-centred little god of personality. Both are still God, so nobody punishes or judges, we just have to recognise which one we love the best.
If we go into the practice of affirmation in order to drop some negative emotional mindset and later find we haven’t dropped it, we need to see whether we are using the name of truth as a witness to feed and reinforce our malaise. If we love drama best and love the survival nature of God better than the uplifting part, we might be using the power of the light to further and feed our infant drama even more. If we realise that this is what we are doing, we need to stop it straight away for this is the path of self-destruction, which can drag others down with its magnetic powers. There is nothing cleverer than a twisted intellect that feeds the ‘black dog of hell’ or the ‘the dweller the threshold’. This is Active Intelligence that hasn’t recognised its divinity and thinks it is the only God, in fact it is just one aspect of the divinity wanting to remain in charge of everything. This is when the human being is encouraged by the emotional game that the personality is using, which involves being clever in order to resist the Soul’s message. Most personalities resist the break through to the Soul, through the belief that they are masters of their own lives. They think that if they don’t persist in this affirmation, they will be martyrs or victims again and never be themselves. This is the cleverest trick in the book of affirmation! It re-enforces the walls of separation so that the inner light is never seen amongst the glitzy light of glamour.
It is so important that we drop the covering up and the games we play, so as to involve deep into the inner light. The little black dog of hell really only wants one thing, which is to obey a master, so let it be the light that it obeys! The love-hate of the drama is very strong and we are all in it. Any tiny critical little thought we have about ourselves, or about other people is of the drama nature; all these are manifestations of the little black dog of hell! If we think we are too fat or to thin for instance, we have the capability of either doing some thing about it, or just knowing why and liking the way we are at the time. We need to de-focus the mind from the emotional drama that wants the game of feeling bad or guilty; this drama takes the mind away from the light. If we bring the light in to look at the size of our bellies that is quite funny, but it is also a tragic misuse and a self-centred use of light. Whatever we think about ourselves, whether it is over inflated like; “I’m a great spiritual person” or coming down on ourselves as in “I’m a worm”, both are virtual, self-centred and the wasteful use of the light. Looking inside can only relate to the outside and what we see out there we have within; the knowledge of that is what renders us transparent. Whatever reactions come into our instrument, we should allow them for we need them. It is only through owning our reactions and understanding them with com passion, that we can reach transparency. To sin by pride or by false meekness doesn’t allow the work to carry on. The question is, do we react honestly and admit there’s a reaction or a bit of shadow there? Do we have a look at it and clear it or do we react because we like the game? If it is the latter, this is addiction setting in.
Without The Empress we are in Maya or illusion in whatever we do. The Empress is Active Intelligence that has completely regained its divinity. We are in the process of beginning to recognise what we have to do with our
