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Above all things, know Yourself!

"But I had to remind myself that neither our passing nor that of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think it is. If there is any human tragedy, there is only one and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin."

From the Novel-- The Glass Rainbow by James Lee Burke

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Thoth- 7 of Wands-Valour

#7. Living from that Will supported by its unfailing Wisdom and Understanding, mine is the victorious life.

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The Declarative Tarot-layers of Passion-No. 7- Courage. 

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WE ARE THE MANY AND THE ONE

Everything I see is another way to be me!

The 7 of Wands, Valour(Lord of Valour) is attributed to Mars in Leo. The Angels of this Decan are: Mahashiah and Lelahel. Netzach, the 7th Sephiroth and ruler of the Tarot 7's on the Qabalistic Tree of Life, is ruled by Venus and therefore, is the conscious energy of Love; as relating to the often-misunderstood concept of "God is Love and/or God is Sex." Our misunderstanding of love and sex has to do with the very nature of our indoctrinated culture, profaned subconscious images, and that of the errant concepts of the "gods" themselves. In the Western Mysteries, it is said that "The Gods are the Creations of the Created...the Gods are the emanations of the Group Mind of Races, they are not emanations of Eheieh, the One and the Eternal." {Quoted from the: Qabalistic Tarot, by Robert Wang, page 99). Eheieh ("I Will Be") is the God name of the 1st Sephiroth-Kether.

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Eheieh, the God Name of Kether, means "I Will Be" and therefore, the Primal Will of I AM. This quote is also a reference to the Group Mind (Group Soul), that the Gods are of Netzach- Victory; a Victory that is about the social mind of a country victorious over the instinctual mind of the Race. Graphically, the diagram of the sign of Venus superimposed over the Tree of Life, displays the influence the Divine Feminine has over/in/as the aspect of Imagination-The Divine Creative of the One Hermaphroditical Mind. For she is the Receptive part of every Sephiroth and therefore, the one that receives your/ dreams/ prayers/ Wants/ Meditations/chants, etc.

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Venus covers the Tree of Life

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This should open your eyes to your power, as the living Suns (often written as Sons but it is of no gender) of the One Eheieh ("I Will Be")-The I AM. You have the power to form potent forces into your own image to serve your needs! Because your Personality begins in the Realm of the Gods, (Netzach) you are a Personal God in your own right, and must "Above all things, know thyself", if you are to function as the I AM! And again; your sexual self is your Spiritual Nature as you are a natural plane of fertile existence in your own right; a trinity that is Spirit-Mind-Body! For all intent, your body is the Animal God of Earth (and the symbol of Venus in shape). Every single living creature on earth, depends on what man does! If mankind decides that a species does not or no longer can serve them---mankind knowingly or unknowingly destroys them. Even in our ignorance, we are responsible for our actions of destruction or construction, as our ignorance alone will annihilate species or decrease their environment and even the World we live on and therefore, even ourselves! There is only One Truly Apex Predator on the Earth, and its name is Homo Sapiens Sapiens. We rule, in the air, on the seas, in the seas, and on the land and soon to be in space. Truth being, that the Adam Khadmon, the "Heavenly Human" of Qabalah, is the Cosmic Apex Predator Archetype. For only a grand predator can conquer domains and that grand predator is the Human Hermaphrodite Brain; there is a compelling argument that Homo Sapiens have been produced by the "cross breeding" of Anunnaki ("Those who from the sky came") and Homo Erectus (Read the books by Zecharia Sitchin). It is time to love your inner predator and domesticate it with Love, and we certainly don't need to prey on each other, as we all belong to each other. We are a celestial colony and there is an argument among Medical Science that our DNA could be 9.6-Billion-year-old DNA points out (most believe the earth is only 3.8 billion years old) rather than what is commonly believed. Either the earth is much older than believed or our DNA came from the Stars. This goes along with the present theory of Panspermia.

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Adam Khadmon (Heavenly Human)

Only Gods have such power over everything in their Domains/Dimensional Planes! Forget the drama of fearing animal predators, for one 90 lb. weakling-homo sapiens sapiens with a rifle, and a lot of ammunition, can annihilate any species, predator, or non-predators on this planet. That is why Governments who rule over an armed people, can't thoroughly oppress them. It's time we accept our inherent responsibility for the lives of all things and ourselves. Courage is an act of responsibility. It takes a special courage to be a "free people", for as history has proven over and over again, that if you give a government an "inch it will take a mile" unless the people make them keep to the "proverbial inch" and sadly that means to "keep and bear" arms, under discernment, even if some will misuse them because of malformed egos.

To give up one right to the government is to give them all up for they will take that mile. To keep a country free, the government must fear the people; oppressed people fear the government and their Police Forces. For those who seek authority over others, can never have enough authority as they are severely infected by the "mind virus" that promotes insatiable greed. Only the courage of the populace can control a government and itself! Again, Valour is needed. There is always someone who will find a way to blame others for their own thoughts that created their "emotional pain" and will always find a way to commit violence with hammers, knives, clubs, or guns "to make others feel their pain". The bright mind does not play the "blame game", for that is a game of ignorance. Powerful Valor comes from Knowing Oneself, not just believing in one's- self. Hence, the act of a Chinese man stopping a tank sent to further oppress the people, with nothing but his passion, while others run in fear. I wonder, do we have such courageous people in our social mass, who can vote to control government, or will we all become so pacified by lies and propaganda that we find voting to be too much effort? There is no courage in such people who expect others to do their valor for them.

Above all things know Thyself!

"But I had to remind myself that neither our passing nor that of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think it is. If there is any human tragedy, there is only one and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin."

From the Novel-- The Glass Rainbow by James Lee Burke

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Valour

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Adam Khadmon- The Heavenly human

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The Qabalistic Tree of Life illustrates that you are really the Psyche composed of ten demi-gods and/or archetypal intelligences, in a collective of loving cooperation that is "The Mind". You are Adam Kadmon (Divine Archetypal Heavenly Human.), the entire Tree of Life. Each of us are an aspect of the "god mind" on every plane of intelligent energy, by inheritance and inheritance must be claimed. The "false ego" who has profaned Self-Conscious may not have earned such status, but the Soul has and that Psyche, (represented on the Tree of Life as the 6th Sephiroth-Beauty) is connected to every part of the Tree. Mastery is also called "As above, so below", in such a state the Self-Conscious is a Mercury like messenger of the Soul and the Higher Self to the worlds of matter. I AM states that you are the god-like authority in your life. I AM Spirit! I AM Life! I AM....declares your identity by freedom of choice.

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" Now the order of the Paths. The Tenth Aleph (the fool) brings Wisdom into activity; the Twelfth- Beth (Magus) brings Understanding; The Thirteenth-Gimel (High Priestess) brings in Beauty (sixth Sephiroth-Tiphareth), and thus Beauty begins to be active before Mercy (fourth Sephiroth-Chesed) and Severity (Fifth Sephiroth-Geburah), as in creation the beauty of visible nature was manifest before creatures to whom mercy or severity could be shown, was brought forth."

"Beauty being established in the Fourteenth Path-Daleth (Empress) unites WISDOM and UNDERSTANDING; and the central point of this path, where crosses the thirteenth (Da'ath-the invisible Sephiroth) in Hebrew Knowledge, for all knowledge has its root in the Divine Contemplation of the perfect primal Beauty.

.... From the Book of Tokens-by Paul Foster Case.

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Mercury

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We are not in a world built by the Hermaphrodite Soul/Psyche. We are in a world controlled by the Patriarchy /Military Industrial Complex (useless old men) and their "divide and conquer" indoctrination and their propaganda imposed by the rule over definition while also profaning our own fear of pain and predation. Only by acts of individual Valour can we claim our Divine Inheritance and enjoy Victory over indoctrination and dogma of the Military Industrial Complex and its media-controlled word hypnosis...in other words, rid ourselves of the false identity that we call ego and/or personality. We start by first cleansing our profaned ego of Patriarchal programing. These actions of Valour require the Will that is Spirit and the fiery sexual energy of Spirit that drives passion through the body to succeed in any deed.

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You may note in the people around you, those of low sexual energy, do not perform well in the challenges of life. Most often they blame others for lack of performance. It is time to realize that the Sexual-Self is the Spiritual Self, the Solar Fiery Will that makes you alive and is a primal force from the Archetypal realm of Aziluth---a type of Martial Solar force that shapes and forms Time-Space. Before it was profaned by indoctrination this Sexual-Self is as Leo and Mars together; A Solar Warrior that is Life itself, and who is not afraid of Love nor afraid to fight for the right of every living thing. In each of us is the Anima (Soul) and Animus (Spirit), a divine marriage that has been divided by the divide and conquer paradigm of the Patriarchy controlled dogma. Once divided from our wholeness we lose mental and emotional power and are easily manipulated. Our brain is a perfect copy of our Psyche/Soul that is both female (anima) and male (animus) and in this misogynistic world of the Patriarch, both sides of our brain are indoctrinated to disagree with each other, i.e., we are made to believe in the "battle of the sexes", a battle that is a media illusion made to manipulate our brains. This is the programing of divisionism. Hence, another example of "divide and conquer." There is no Male without Female and No Female without Male, and no "us" without "them".

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Like a molecule we are all quantumly connected, both Earthly and Celestial, creating "One Mind".

To make the "Above as the Below", i.e., The Great Work is to realize yourself as sole owner and spiritual-ruler of your own animal- ego-body and Mind as a Solar psyche- (Sun of the Divine Creative) and claim it as your "Sacred Place" in Time. Being Divine Energy, you are infinite Non-Space, and within your Divine Unconscious, are the dreams of being. Life is the Lucid Dream of the Divine Creative and therefore, of the Soul. Time/Space is the stuff you create forms from, by mixing beginning and end- time- in a cauldron of Thoughts/Ideas (Images) heated by the vibrations of Lust/Passion (light) and shaped by the imagination of I AM ME; you transform the illusion of being into a sensual reality, the sensual reality of I Am Me; Me being the assumption of I AM. The point here is that there are no "gods" save those potent intelligent forces we have; that we use to form in our own image--- images that are serving our need "to be". This, of course, is a simplistic representation, which is why the Tree of Life is so important to Know. The Tree of Life represents the multi-dimensional complexity of how this Created Living Universe is done and is a model of the Universal DNA, which creates Stars and impregnates planets (planets are made of dead stars/Hence Isis creating Horus out of dead Osiris)! By knowing yourself, you can then realize the original data you set aside in downsizing/condensing energy and know how to proceed with the Great Work of I AM Me! There is only 1 energy, 1 whole mind, 1 Spirit, who is many Souls/Psyches. I AM is your Truth, "Me" are your assumptions.

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The Declarative Tarot-Layers of Passion-No. 7- Courage.

The Declarative Tarot-Layers of Passion-No.7-Courage represents the power to continue no matter what resists you. It asks you not to rest on your laurels even though you have come far and been through much courage is needed to complete the journey. Much like the often-paraphrased quote of Admiral Farragut "Damn the torpedoes, battle speed!" is attributed to Admiral David Farragut during the American Civil War. He uttered this command during the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864. This statement has become a well-known and oft-quoted phrase, symbolizing Farragut's determination and resolve in the face of danger. It's important to note that the exact wording of the quote may vary slightly in different historical accounts, as some say, "Damn the Torpedoes, full steam ahead", but the essence of the statement remains consistent. Here the Admiral has chosen courage over fear of destruction.

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Illustrated on this card are four ways of approaching courage.

  1. We can climb the highest mountain with our eyes focused upward.
  2. We can choose to drown in emotions, or be like the figure in the sea, swimming upward out of emotional turmoil toward the light of higher wisdom.
  3. Another courageous act is sometimes to step away from an intense situation long enough to relax and listen to the light of the inner voice.
  4. Taking the time for inner contemplation, such as meditation.

The inner Valour of the Spirit brings forth the light that purifies our inner and outer self. Since the inner world creates the outer world for every individual our presence alone will continue this action of purification in the outer world. This "light" is such a dynamic action that it gives protection and harmony, so that inspiration under the command of our self-consciousness, will find a way to materialize in our life-motion. We are Life and when we realize the work of Divine Art, our living becomes a panorama of wealth, health, and well-being. However, if this inner- harmony of Energy and Intelligence finds no creative outlet, the "mind virus" that infests our subconscious turns this action into delirious frustrations, unhealthy habits and in the worst case so self-destructive it can lead to suicide. Above all things, know thyself! You are the manifestation of the Will of the One--- To Be! Hence, you are a Divine Being and your very own authority.

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Gnosis is knowledge and "those who know", are called Gnostics.

If those who lead you say, "the kingdom of Heaven is in the sky", then the birds shall surely precede you. If they say, "Look the Kingdom is in the sea", then the fish shall precede you. Rather, the Kingdom of Heaven is in you, and outside of you for if you truly know yourself and remove the Patriarchy built personality from your inside your skin, you need not find your kingdom, for it was always hidden by the false mask of words. You are the Divine Energy that makes your body Alive, and you enter it through the Chakras (Spinning wheels) attached to the Spine. This animation of the Avatar human, sensualizes your mind and thereby, fools you into thinking it is you. Ascension is to be "Thrice Wise" as wholeness is composed of the Wisdom of Spirit, The Wisdom of Mind, and the Wisdom of Body. This wholeness makes you a messenger of the "People of RA" and/or the archetypal Beings of Aziluth. Hence, Hermes Trismegistus.

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Thoth- 7 of wands-Valour

Since I am trained in and receive the Western Hermetic Qabalah, I use the Thoth Tarot Deck. The Thoth Tarot in which Crowley/Harris uses the 3 Adept Wands of the Golden Dawn Lodge in a fan of six, and crosses them with a crude fiery club, suggesting a disorganized and disordered battle...one of uncertain results. In short, the army is in disarray, a loss of confidence is implied, and only individual Valour (Spelled-v-a-l-o-u-r-The Queen's English) will save the day!   However, because of the chaos all around you and in you, you may be uncertain of whom to smite with your misshapen will/club. Therefore, it may be a smite here or there and that mindless melee of wild smiting could connect and bring a victorious outcome, but more times than not, it's a waste of energy. In this state, Crowley sums it up as:

"Patriotism, so to speak, is not enough". The 4 sevens are not capable of bringing any comfort; each one represents the degeneration of the element. Its utmost weakness is exposed in every case.

[The Book of Thoth, Pg. 182]

The element in Wands is represented as Fire/Spiritual Will, and in this case "the Spiritual Will of the mass" is weakened by fear-based turmoil, and only by individual Valour can the day be saved.

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The Patriarchy.

Hence, only your individual courage can save the day. One might say, "roar like a lion and discern like the genius you are already created to be"! "Knee jerk" emotionalism, makes only preplanned jerks hanging from a master puppeteer's lines. The body reacts, the Spirit acts.

When the 7 of Wands or Layers of Passion-No.7-Courage is thrown during a reading, it implies that:

  • The querent is unsure of ideas and must summon personal bravery and courage to instigate them.
  • Resistance against the external world.
  • More confidence is needed to ensure victory. 
  • Here, responsibility must be taken up as the querent's standard, and they must stand alone, trusting their Greater Self to handle the most difficult of situations.
  • Here mettle is being tested, and only the inner courage of spirit has the necessary acceleration to push the querent through the line of resistance.
  • This card also shows how valuable you the querent are to spirit, for if you were "weak", spirit wouldn't be testing your mettle.
  • Attack from a defensive position.
  • Daring.
  • Using one's power for transformation.

If ill defined by the surrounding cards, it implies:

  • Indecisiveness.
  • Ignorance.
  • Discrepancy between instinct (courage) and Spirit (sense).
  • Loss of nerve. 
  • Seek an alternative, reconciliation. 

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