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Western Hermetic Magick Qabalah, Tantric, Astrological, Numerical and Alchemical Tarot Card Comparison

June 24, 2025

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Thoth-Ace of Disks

The Mystic Palette Tarot- Ace of Coins

Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse.

-Benjamin Franklin

In Western Hermetic Qabalah, Kether, the First Sephirah on the Tree of Life, is symbolized by the Point, the Crown, and the Svastika—three glyphs that veil the mystery of Primordial Unity. The Point, geometrically indivisible and without extension, represents the Self-contained Totality—completeness without definition, dimension, or opposition. It is the metaphysical Zero that becomes One—a singularity that contains all latent possibilities. In this sense, the Point corresponds with the number 1, the numerical emanation from the Ain Soph Aur that holds the potentiality of all subsequent creation, much like a seed contains the entire tree in potential.

The Crown signifies divine sovereignty, the supreme consciousness, and the primal emanation from which the rest of the Tree flows. It is the invisible yet omnipresent head of the spiritual hierarchy—beyond polarity, beyond time, beyond grasp.

The Svastika, or Manji in Buddhist iconography, is a symbol of the "First Whirling"—the primal motion that initiates the Spiral of Manifestation. It is not a symbol of tyranny as corrupted by 20th-century propaganda, but rather a sacred glyph of Universal Breath, the primal rotation that gives rise to the Tetragrammaton itself. In esoteric Buddhism and ancient Indo-European mysticism alike, the Svastika is the movement of Spirit into Form—the eternal rotation of energy from the Unmanifest to the Manifest.

The sacred stone attributed to Kether is the Pure Diamond, a crystal of highest clarity and durability, symbolizing the indestructible brilliance of the Supernal Will. In its perfected lattice structure, the diamond reflects the seamless unity and refractive light of the Divine Mind—the undifferentiated Light (Ain Soph Aur) entering the threshold of existence.

When approached as a sigil of Kether, the Svastika becomes a glyph of Breath, Motion, and Spirit: it encodes eternal return, the whirling dance of the Ain before it clothes itself in the garments of Sephirothic Form. To understand it in this light is to reclaim the truth of sacred motion that undergirds the very Tree of Life itself.

The Buddhist svastika is called "manji" (卍) in Japanese, and it is known as "wan" (卍, 万)" in Chinese. In Sanskrit, it is referred to as "svastika" (स्वस्तिक), which means "conducive to well-being," derived from "su-" (good, auspicious) and "asti" (to be, to exist).

Meaning & Symbolism in Buddhism

In Buddhist tradition, the manji (swastika) is a sacred and auspicious symbol representing harmony, eternity, and the interconnectedness of all things. Its arms, usually turning to the left (counterclockwise, 卍) in East Asian Buddhism or to the right (clockwise, 卐) in Indian traditions, symbolize the revolving forces of Dharma and the eternal cycle of life, death, and rebirth (Samsara).

Deeper Symbolism

  • Cosmic Harmony – It represents the balance of opposites (like yin and yang in Taoism), reflecting the unity of all phenomena.
  • Buddha’s Heart and Footprint – In many Buddhist iconographies, the swastika is found on the chest or palms of statues of the Buddha, signifying his infinite wisdom and compassion.
  • The Wheel of Dharma (Dharmachakra) – The swastika is a geometric simplification of the eight-spoked Dharma Wheel, showing the ever-moving cosmic order of the universe.
  • Four Cardinal Directions – It extends to the fourfold nature of existence (North, South, East, West), linking it to space and the infinite expanse of reality.

Esoteric Buddhist Perspectives

In Vajrayāna Buddhism, the swastika often appears in mandalas and yantras as a gateway to higher consciousness. It is also associated with certain Bodhisattvas, particularly Maitreya, the future Buddha.

In Japanese Esoteric Buddhism (Shingon), the manji is a symbol of the primordial truth and the cosmic reality of Mahāvairocana Buddha (Dainichi Nyorai)—the central deity in many tantric practices.

Connection to Other Traditions

  • In Jainism, it represents the four states of existence: gods, humans, animals, and hell-beings.
  • In Hinduism, it is a solar symbol linked to Surya (the Sun), Vishnu, and Ganesha.
  • In Western Esotericism, the swastika has been used as a solar, alchemical, and Hermetic emblem, predating its later misappropriations.

 

The Diamond Crown symbolizes the Holy Guiding Spirit (Holy Guardian Angel/Higher Self) to which we may aspire. Since diamonds are the stone representing Kether as they reflect the purest light, the crown should be a diamond crown or as Crowley puts it: "A 22 diadem crown" as the Trump and/or Major Arcana are the diamonds in the Will of Kether.

The Four Archangels of the 4 Elements

The Thoth Ace of Disks is rich in layered symbolism, presenting the Four Wings as emblems of the Four Archangels—Mikhael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel—each governing one of the Four Elements (Fire, Water, Air, and Earth). These archangelic forces are not static beings but dynamic intelligences who establish equilibrium and structure within the Elemental Kingdoms. Their crossing currents stabilize the rotating energies that would otherwise remain chaotic, acting as pillars that uphold the manifest world.

In addition to the Four, we find Six wings arranged in a cruciform pattern, intersecting the elemental cross. This alludes to the number 6, the number of Tiphareth, the Sun, and the harmonizing center of the Tree of Life. Here, the Ace speaks to the alchemical marriage of Solar Fire and Terrestrial Substance, representing the sacred union of Spirit and Matter. From this Solar-Earthly conjunction arises Gaia—the Living Being of the Earth, a conscious, organic intelligence born from the interplay of celestial fire and material form.

Each of the Four Aces in the Thoth Tarot represents the Root Force behind the Alchemical Elements:

  • The Ace of Wands: Root of Fire (Atziluth),

  • The Ace of Cups: Root of Water (Briah),

  • The Ace of Swords: Root of Air (Yetzirah),

  • The Ace of Disks: Root of Earth (Assiah).

As such, the Ace of Disks is the foundational Seed of Materialization, the primal impetus that sets matter into rhythmic motion. It governs not only matter's form and inertia, but also its inner energetic spiral, the Divine Motion within Matter. This is the motion that gives shape to the formless—a sacred geometry of incarnation.

The Princess of Disks is the Throne of the Ace of Disks, embodying its latent potential in the realm of form. She is the carrier and catalyst of that Root Force, embodying its gestation and eventual emergence in Assiah. As the terrestrial aspect of elemental Earth, she brings the abstract idea of material force into the womb of manifestation, where it becomes the actual “earth-body” of existence.

Astrologically, the Ace of Disks is said to rule the Aries–Taurus–Gemini quadrant above the North Pole, suggesting its influence over the spring quadrant of celestial energies, where fiery Will becomes form. This quadrant is also traditionally associated with Europe and Africa, indicating the terrestrial regions where this material current is especially anchored, and where civilization has long been seeded as a garden of both mythic and historical genesis.

The Ace of Disks is a fascinating card in the Thoth Tarot deck, designed by Aleister Crowley and illustrated by Lady Frieda Harris. It represents the essence of the earth element/Malkuth and carries profound symbolism within the system of Western Hermetic Qabalah and High Magick.

Title: The Thoth Ace of Disks - Manifestation and Potential

The Ace of Disks in the Thoth Tarot is a card of immense significance, encapsulating the essence of earthly manifestation, materialization, and the potential for growth. It is associated with the Earth element, the Kabbalistic/Qabalistic realm of Assiah, and the suit of Disks, Pentacles, or Coins in traditional tarot decks.

The Medieval Feathers Tarot- Ace of Coins

The Medieval Feathers Tarot – Ace of Coins presents a more traditional interpretation of the material realm, aligning closely with classical symbolism. Coins, also called Pentacles or Disks in other systems, are emblematic of the material plane and all that springs from it: wealth, health, nourishment, physical resources, and the value systems we create to govern our survival—such as currency, contracts, and seeds of potential.

In this card, the Ace of Coins is gracefully offered by a unicorn, a mythical creature symbolic of purity, rarity, and sacred promise. This unicorn serves as a guardian of material blessings, but she bestows her gifts not arbitrarily. Her wealth is granted to those who labor with integrity and devotion—the sacred workers of the Earth who understand that abundance must be reciprocated with care. Thus, she demands stewardship, not greed. Her presence is not a sign of fortune alone, but of a covenant: those who receive her wealth are charged to protect the ground it springs from.

The floral coin behind her is enveloped in rich flora and vibrant fauna, a living emblem of fecundity, prosperity, and interdependence. It emphasizes that material success is not an isolated event, but part of a living ecosystem of relationships, needs, and balances. When her gifts are sought for selfish purposes, hidden agendas, or parasitic desires, the unicorn becomes the awakener—revealing through loss or reversal that true wealth cannot be hoarded or misused without consequence.

Yet for those in genuine need, the unicorn is also a benevolent force, bringing sustenance to those whose integrity and heart are aligned with necessity and not entitlement. In this way, she acts as a divine intermediary of karmic balance in the world of Earth.

The feather of the Blue Tit (a small but bright and vocal bird) symbolizes innocence, joy, and the light-hearted trust of the pure-hearted. It reminds the querent that those who keep their spirit unburdened by deceit or despair—those who remain true to their inner values—will be granted providence, even in unlikely times. For them, the unicorn may manifest in dreams, synchronicities, or mysterious guidance, heralding the approach of something wondrous. Beauty and abundance are soon to follow for those who remain loyal to their essential truth.

In a broader sense, the Ace of Coins can represent it can be the youthful stage of any living being and/or the early stages of a project that involves working with manifested materials. The shape of the coin implies not only money but also is shaped like a platter that is used to offer food, or cups of drink.

When this card appears in a layout, it implies that materiality or value are important to the situation: a seed will take root, a coin or a plate will be offered.

The Path of Malkuth:

On the Tree of Life in the Western Hermetic Qabalah (also known in variant spellings as Cabbalah or Kabbalah), the Ace of Disks corresponds to the Sephirah of MalkuthThe Kingdom. Malkuth is the gateway of incarnation, the final condensation of spiritual emanation into material form. It is the tangible world, the domain of matter, sensation, experience, and physical manifestation. Though it appears to be the "lowest" on the Tree, it is in truth the foundation of all spiritual work, for it is only through embodiment that the soul may actualize its divine potential.

The Ace of Disks—or Coins in traditional decks—serves as a radiant symbol of this principle. It is the seed of Earth, the Root of Matter, holding the potential for all material abundance, grounded action, and prosperity. Yet this is not mere coin or commerce—it is the Sacred Ground of being, the living interface between spirit and substance.

Malkuth teaches that the material realm reflects the spiritual realm, just as the microcosm mirrors the macrocosm. Every stone, every body, every experience in Malkuth is encoded with divine essence. To walk the Path of Malkuth is to sanctify the everyday, to recognize the body as a temple, and to engage in the alchemical Great Work within the physical plane—not apart from it.

Thus, the Ace of Disks reminds us: it is through the trials, triumphs, and labors of earthly life that the higher levels of consciousness are revealed. In remembering this, we begin the true ascent—not by escaping the world, but by redeeming it through awareness. Malkuth is the root and the return; and the Kingdom, when rightly ruled by the inner Sovereign, becomes the Crown restored.

High Magick and Transformation

In the practice of High Magick and the teachings of Western Hermetic Qabalah, the Thoth Ace of Disks serves as a powerful tool for transformation, grounding, and materialization. Far more than a symbol of mundane wealth, this Ace is the alchemical seed of Earth, carrying within it the blueprint of manifestation—the Divine Idea crystallizing into Form.

In advanced ritual work, particularly in sexual alchemy and the magick of polarity, the Ace of Disks can be employed as a talismanic focus to direct and stabilize the vital currents raised during acts of sacred union. When two adepts unite in sexual ecstasy—their energies spiraling upward and downward simultaneously—the Ace acts as an energetic anchor, drawing the refined creative force into the material plane. This is the sacred act of weaving Spirit into Matter—a process known in Hermetic terms as the Great Work on the Plane of Assiah.

The card may be meditated upon before such rites to attune the practitioner to the frequencies of Gaia, aligning intention with natural law. During ritual, it may be placed beneath the altar or the body as a sigil of rooting—ensuring that the spiritual and erotic energies raised are not dissipated, but fertilized into form—be it a child, a work of art, a new reality, or a fulfilled desire.

Conclusion

The Thoth Ace of Disks is a potent glyph of spiritual embodiment, representing not just the potential for material success, but the reverent relationship between the Divine and the Physical. It teaches that matter is not a prison, but a temple—and that to walk the Path of the Magus is to learn how to build within it.

By embracing the virtues of practicality, stability, and Earth-centered awareness, we align with the foundational currents that support and nourish manifestation. The Ace of Disks reminds us that abundance is not merely acquired—it is cultivated, and that all true manifestation begins with a rooted presence in the Now.

In this way, the card becomes both seed and soil—a reminder that the Earth is a sacred field in which the Divine seeks to bloom.

The 4 Princesses

Seeds/Aces hold the knowledge of the initial point of reference up to the time of release into the world. You could compare yourself to a Seed from your Psyche=Solar Self (Soul) holding within the vast knowledge and Wisdom of the Divine Creative (Yin Yang-Binah and Chokmah on the Tree of Life). When you let go of all that you think you are, thereby allowing the Divine Creatrix to enliven what She knows you are, you reach vast heights of Self that were unopen to the mundane.

The Inherited Wealth of the True Self

The true wealth we have inherited is not the counterfeit coin of societal approval or material accumulation, but the inviolable union of Spirit, Mind, and Body—a trinity of divine inheritance seeded within each individual Soul. This sacred inheritance is the birthright of the Starry Child, the awakened Self who remembers their origin beyond systems, beyond control, and beyond illusion.

In contrast, what passes for wealth in the modern world is often a profane surrogate—a distorted value system born not from inner truth but from the group soul, an artificial construct of consensus reality. This collective egregore, manufactured by the "few who wish to rule the many," seeks to redefine manifestation itself through the manipulation of money, media, and imagination. Rather than seeing wealth as the flow of life-force in alignment with Divine Will, this system installs external authority as the arbiter of one’s worth and power.

This false construct was well-known to the ancient Gnostics, who named its architects the Archons—parasites of thought and sovereignty that feed on illusion and fear. In our era, these same forces operate behind what President Dwight D. Eisenhower prophetically warned against: the rise of the military-industrial complex—a monolithic machinery of control and resource domination. Though dressed in modern suits and technologies, it is the same spiritual parasite, now global in scale.

Among Indigenous traditions, particularly in Native American teachings, this energy is referred to as the Wetiko—a cannibalistic spirit of greed and possession that causes the infected to consume not just the earth’s resources, but the dreams and souls of others. It is the disease of disconnection from one’s sacred Self, and it is healed not through violence or revolt, but through reunion with the True Wealth—the Inner Light, the unified Self who knows that Spirit is the only true currency.

To reclaim this inheritance is the act of the Adept. It is to walk the path of High Magick, wherein the Self becomes the gold, and every action is a signature of sovereignty.

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In Gnostic cosmology, the Archons are powerful, otherworldly beings that play a crucial role in the structure and dynamics of the universe. Here are some key characteristics of the Gnostic Archons:

1. Origin and Nature

  • Creation: Archons are often depicted as emanations or creations of a higher, but flawed, deity known as the Demiurge. This deity, according to Gnostic texts, is responsible for the creation of the material world.
  • Nature: They are considered malevolent or misguided entities that have a negative influence on the human soul and spiritual enlightenment.

2. Role in the Cosmos

  • Rulers of the Material Realm: The term "Archon" itself means "ruler" or "authority" in Greek. Archons are seen as the rulers of the material world, which is considered a flawed and imperfect creation.
  • Hindrance to Salvation: Their primary role is to keep human souls trapped in the material world and to prevent them from reaching Gnosis, which is the knowledge of spiritual truths and the divine realm.

3. Interaction with Humanity

  • Deception and Control: Archons are believed to deceive and manipulate humans through false religious doctrines, material distractions, and psychological manipulation.
  • Spiritual Ignorance: They foster ignorance and keep individuals from realizing their true, divine nature and potential for spiritual ascension.

4. Depictions and Attributes

  • Appearance: Archons are often depicted as having grotesque, monstrous forms, though their exact appearance can vary across different Gnostic texts.
  • Powers: They possess significant powers over the physical world and human consciousness. This includes the ability to shape reality, control fate, and manipulate human perceptions.

5. Overcoming the Archons

  • Spiritual Knowledge (Gnosis): Gnosticism teaches that through Gnosis—direct, mystical knowledge of the divine—individuals can transcend the influence of the Archons.
  • Inner Light: Every human soul contains a divine spark or inner light that can guide them toward spiritual liberation and return to the divine realm, escaping the Archons' control.

6. Mythological Context

  • Sophia and the Demiurge: According to Gnostic mythology, Sophia, a divine emanation, accidentally creates the Demiurge. The Demiurge, ignorant of the true divine realm, creates the material world and the Archons to rule it.
  • Dualistic Cosmology: Gnostic teachings emphasize a dualistic view of the cosmos, where the material world is seen as separate from, and inferior to, the divine spiritual realm.

Understanding the Archons is essential to grasping Gnostic cosmology and its emphasis on transcending material existence to achieve spiritual enlightenment and reunification with the divine.

Kundalini Rising-The Celestial Serpentine- Fire at the base of the Spine.

Aleister Crowley chose the Ace of Disks from the Thoth Tarot as his personal sigil, a profound and symbolic act that reveals deep layers of Qabalistic, Hermetic, and Thelemic meaning. The card is far more than just an emblem of material wealth—it is a glyph of the highest mysteries, representing the realized Great Work.

1. The Ace of Disks: The Point of Manifestation

In the Thoth Tarot, the Aces are the purest, undiluted expressions of their element. The Ace of Disks represents Earth in its primal, archetypal form—Malkuth (מלכות), the final Sephirah of the Tree of Life.

However, Malkuth is not just the end but also the beginning:

“Malkuth is in Kether, and Kether is in Malkuth.” (Sepher Yetzirah)

This duality suggests that the material world (Malkuth) is not separate from the divine, but rather its ultimate expression. By choosing the Ace of Disks, Crowley signified his role as the magus who brings down divine wisdom into form—the Logos made Flesh.

2. The Coin and the Mark of the Beast (To Mega Therion)

At the center of the Thoth Tarot Ace of Disks, we find a golden coin or disk, inscribed with Crowley’s personal mark: the sigil of the Beast (To Mega Therion, Greek: Τὸ Μέγα Θηρίον, "The Great Beast").

This symbol includes:

  • Thelemic Solar Phallic forces
  • The Rosy Cross, a Hermetic sign of divine union
  • The encircled Pentagram, which represents Spirit ruling over Matter
  • The Mark of the Beast 666, Crowley’s magical identity

This suggests that he saw himself as the material embodiment of divine will (Thelema), destined to establish the New Aeon on the physical plane.

3. Ace of Disks as the Manifestation of Thelema

Thelema’s Core Doctrine and the Ace of Disks

Crowley’s Liber AL vel Legis (The Book of the Law) speaks of Thelema (Will) as the driving force behind the universe. In this context, the Ace of Disks is the physical vessel of that Will—the ultimate manifestation of the Logos in matter.

It is not mere money or worldly wealth, but the perfected Work (Opus Magnum), the Philosopher’s Stone made real.

This is reinforced by the radiating energy of the card, which pulses outward in spirals, much like the cosmic forces described in Thelemic doctrine.

4. The Ace of Disks and Babalon: The Sacred Vessel

Crowley associated the Ace of Disks with the Great Mother, Babalon, who carries the Cup of Abominations (the Grail of all experience) as shown on the ATU 11- Lust card.

  • In Hermetic Qabalah, the disk or coin is the final alchemical crystallization of the forces of Binah (Understanding, the Mother).
  • The Grail and the Coin are linked—one receptive (Water), one generative (Earth).
  • Thus, the Ace of Disks is both the seed and the harvest, the beginning and the end.

By making this his sigil, Crowley may have signified his role as the "Beast" who carries the Word of the Goddess into the material realm.

5. The Ace of Disks and the Chakras (The Solar Plexus)

The glowing radiance in the Ace of Disks aligns with the Manipura (Solar Plexus Chakra), the center of personal power, will, and transformation.

  • The solar energy bursting outward suggests a fully awakened Will
  • The whirling vortex recalls the Svastika (Swastika / Manji), a sign of infinite energy in motion
  • The disk embodies the Solar-Phallic power of Thelema, with its generative creative force

Thus, Crowley’s sigil encapsulates the fusion of divine Will with physical manifestation—the enlightened Magus who rules matter through Spirit.

6. The Ace of Disks as a Qabalistic Key

The card’s placement on the Tree of Life (Malkuth in Assiah) signifies that Crowley was declaring dominion over the physical world—not as a mundane ruler, but as a magician who understands its divine origins.

  • The Ace of Disks represents the completed descent of Spirit into Matter, which aligns with the magical formula of Thelema: “Love is the law, love under will.”
  • It embodies the whole of the Tree of Life compressed into a single point—the unity of Kether and Malkuth.

This makes the card a microcosm of all magical power—hence why Crowley used it as his personal sigil.

Final Synthesis: Why Did Crowley Choose This Card?

The Thoth Tarot Ace of Disks was Crowley’s sigil because it represents:

  1. The Great Work Manifested – The perfected spiritual realization in the physical world
  2. The Thelemic Will Made Flesh – The fusion of divine Will (Thelema) and earthly existence
  3. The Power of the Beast (666) – Crowley’s personal sigil inscribed on the coin
  4. The Solar-Phallic Current of Thelema – The Ace as a generative force, aligning with Babalon
  5. The Mastery of Matter and Spirit – The completion of the magical formula in Malkuth

Crowley did not see the material world as a fallen or lesser realm—instead, he viewed it as the final expression of divine perfection.

Thus, the Ace of Disks is the ultimate Thelemic sigil: The Universe itself, perfected through the enlightened Will.

Adam Khadmon (Divine Hermaphrodite), The Heavenly Human

A chakra and Kundalini workbook- by Dr. John Mumford. Highly recommended!

The Ace of Disks, as seen in the Thoth Tarot Deck, is layered idea-upon idea; a fractal and requires a great study of Crowley's Liber Al, and 777 along with the Equinox book series to understand the Earth/Elemental Magic involved. I shall only superficially cover this card, although that superficiality may seem deep, as it goes much deeper into the metaphysical than traditional pentacle or pentagram tarot cards usually express.

The Ace of Disks in the Thoth Tarot displays a spinning mandala—a sacred wheel of becoming that represents not just the material world, but the dynamic fusion of Earth, Moon (Luna), and Sun. Together, these three celestial bodies form the Mandala of Sacred Life on Earth: the living mystery of Malkuth, the 10th Sephirah, the Kingdom of reflected and coagulated light—where Divine Energy assumes density, and consciousness becomes embodied.

This mandala is not a passive image. It is a vortex of motion, a churning gyroscope of photons, electrons, neutrons, atoms, and quantum potentials that, through their rhythmic dance, cohere into conscious entities. What we call the material world is thus revealed as a holy coagulation—a marriage of the Divine Phallus (the Solar-electric creative principle) and the Divine Womb (the magnetic, Feminine, receptive matrix). In Qabalistic terms, this is the union of Chokmah and Binah streaming downward into Malkuth, the crystallized echo of their cosmic embrace.

This generative polarity is not only described in ancient mythologies—as the interplay of Sky Father and Earth Mother, or the Dance of Shiva and Shakti—but is now echoed in our contemporary myth of Theoretical Quantum Physics. What we once called gods, mystics now understand as energy archetypes, and scientists now label as quanta: subatomic packets of potential—the "Seeds of Atoms"—that emerge from the Void when observed. These quantum seeds are the divine sparks that become form, and their behavior is shaped by consciousness and intention—the very forces harnessed in ritual and magick.

As Hermetic magicians, we may call this phenomenon the Magick of Imagination, for it is through conscious observation—the Eye of the Creator within us—that Form arises from the Formless. Imagination is not illusion. It is the Womb of Creation, the Mother of all forms, whose sacred power to "dream matter into motion" has been revered by sages across time. The Ace of Disks, then, is not just the root of Earth—it is the First Particle made visible, the Idea of Manifestation made real, and the spinning sigil of Divine Intent within the Field of Assiah.

The Creatrix-Gaia.

The Annunaki-"Those who from the Heavens Came"; The God's and Sons of God

At the center of the Thoth Ace of Disks, we find inscribed the Greek phrase “TO META OΠION”—a cryptic rendering often translated as “To the Mark of the Beast”—which, through Qabalistic and Thelemic filters, resonates with “To Mega Therion”, meaning The Great Beast. Alongside this phrase, the number 666 also appears—famously associated with Aleister Crowley, the Sun, and the solar animal-man as the perfected beast—not in the Christian apocalyptic sense, but in its Hermetic and Thelemic interpretation as the Pan-consciousness of Earth.

Here, 666 is not a number of evil, but of completion in the Solar sense—the number of Tiphareth in full radiance (6 = Sun, in the center of the Tree of Life), magnified through the triple repetition of 6: a solarized being in harmony with the body, the soul, and the spirit. In this context, the Ace of Disks reflects Earth as the crystallized culmination of the Beast-Force, the realm where spirit meets animality in its most tangible and incarnated form.

This card, then, reveals Malkuth as the world of the Animal, not in degradation, but in the sacred fullness of organic evolution. The Pan-Force—named after the Great God Pan, the All—is the raw, fecund intelligence of nature, of horn and hoof and root and soil. In this light, the Beast is not a monster, but a divine biological vessel prepared to house the solarized Self.

The narrative deepens through the ancient Gnostic and mythic memory of genetic intervention. The biblical reference to the “sons of God who came unto the daughters of men”—or what some interpret as the Nephilim or “fallen angels”—suggests a cross-breeding of cosmic intelligence with terrestrial biology. Whether framed as ancient alien manipulation or divine genetic encoding, the result was a quantum leap in consciousness: the awakening of the animal-man into the capacity for reason, memory, magick, and astral travel.

Thus, the Ace of Disks, far from being just a material card, contains encoded within it the great evolutionary experiment of Spirit incarnating in Matter. The Earth is the field, the body is the beast, and the Solar Will is the awakener. The mark of the Beast is not a curse, but a seal of initiation—a reminder that our animal forms are being transmuted into divine temples, not rejected, but redeemed through conscious participation in the Great Work.

Adam Khadmon-The Heavenly Human.

Thus, the homo sapiens sapiens body is a G.M.O, for the purpose of advanced evolutionary work that the Qabalah Archetype of the Galactic Adam Khadmon represents. The Great Work of as above so below, which is to bring the above-Energy Intelligence (Galactic-Macrocosm) and the below Intelligence (Planet-Microcosm) into perfect union on earth. Our bodies are the "great beast", that we must operate in our name of "I AM"!

The God molecule.

Genesis 6:2-7

Genesis 6:2-7 that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless, his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”

To the indoctrinated, the Beast/Body is seen by some as a lowly thing, whereas Divine Creative after some "panspermia" has seen the Beast to be worthy of inheritor status as the hominoid pattern when joined with the "God Molecule" (God DNA/RNA-Fractal) which is a product of Cosmic Colonization, not just manifested on earth.

"Ancient Astronauts" have visited many worlds, and combined their DNA with indigenous hominoid forms, to produce the Adam Khadmon and/or "Heavenly Human", giving them the ability to mentally tune into the Universal Collective Macrocosmic Unconscious mind. Hence, we have the Divine Creatrix Mind known as Imagination, Intuition, and the Rational mind of the Divine Architect; the Womb and Phallus of energy (0=2) and thereby, of all form. I don't presume to question the Divine Creative in this, I just exalt in my inheritance, for there is no greater wealth for Spirit than to be intimate with creation; especially with an Avatar that one creates as their "life motion". You are the universal breath that breathed your body into life.

According to Crowley, the central Hieroglyph is that of "the chosen priest and apostle of infinite space," (The Husband),"The prince-priest Beast"- To Meta Ohepion- [Liber Al. I.15.] was Crowley's motto as he saw himself as the Prince Priest of the Beast. Thus, the Cosmic Phallus, in the shape of the Cosmic Yoni Linga (Hindu), is shown as the central symbol of this card, as that is the symbol of Tetragrammaton (secret name of the Creator"-rebounding, whirling forth, crying aloud,") again showing the Sol (Phallus) Luna (Yoni) union of energy and reflected light.

Crowley took this card as his personal Hieroglyph, so deep study is required to understand his deep and subtle meanings implied by this card. Purchasing his book of Thoth and reading it may help one see beyond their dogma misunderstanding of the "beast" as something evil. The Body is an Earthly Beast, and now due to genetic modification is our Avatar of Spiritual presence on Earth. It is the sacred place of the Soul on earth. Contrary to many fundamental religions and "new ager's" concepts, Earth is a Spiritual Plane, for I AM Spirit, and I am manifesting a presence of Star and Earth as a lemniscate binary union.

I Am Energy and everything I see is another way to be Me!

The Merkabah.

The Ace of Disks is also a Mandala for the New Aeon of Horus. This card has layered depths of Gnosis (Knowledge) that can never be seen by first glance and requires in-depth study of the Tree of Life (The God Molecule in 2 D-we are the God Molecule in 10 D) and a recommended scrying of this card.

The Non-Being required "Will", to weave patterns of Light-into a Fantasy of being so that it could be/sense itself. The Universe is the Fantasy of the Divine Creative Self wrought out of the love/lust of the Masculine for the Feminine or vice versa, the love of electricity for the magnetic! To even get a glimmer of understanding of this is to revise your perspectives on Fantasy/Illusion and watch how opposite magnetic poles attract each other and if the magnet is spun in an enclosure of wire, it produces electricity. It is the magnetic attraction of poles that makes Power!

Spiritual Power is thereby generated by Love.

Every thought you think is a Fantasy that the body (an enclosure of matter) makes into "reality" by sensitizing it and enacting it. We are the "I AM" who is the playwriter, actor, screenplay, and the observer of our Assumptions as Self. As I said, reality is a weaving of layers upon layers of Dream-Fantasy, a fractal of Self. All the Universe is in the Mind of One Conscious Energy Collective of which you are a harmonious Life-Frequency of Spiral and willfully (spirit) woven light (energy). The Union of Goddess (magnetic womb) and God (electric Phallus) animate all the Dreams of this Mind. That makes this card a "must meditate on Mandala".

Thoughts or ideas are the seeds planted, and emotions (energy-in-motion) is the cultivator, and will power (spirit) is the fertilizer that grows those seeds into greater fruition.

When the All Seeing "I" created the dream of the All- existing "Am," love became the foundation of observation for the Creator and the Child of the Universal I AM is called a "Me". I AM ME should be a proud statement of Self and great wealth. Self is all you will ever know and all that you will ever see. Greater Self is the creator/creatrix of the Universal Fractal of Images and/or "lesser selves" that become data and/or self-awareness made manifest through the union of Wisdom and Understanding: a union that is called "love".

The Throwing of a Disk.

Adam Khadmon is a Divine Hermaphrodite Identity and is not a specific gender, it is-The Great I AM...

The Tree of Life shows the Crown-Kether and the Kingdom- Malkuth as both ends of the Tree. As above, so below, is the Qabalist's axiom for Magi...one who is the manifestation of Divine Will on the Material Earth Plane.; one whose “I’s” (10 Sephiroth) are all seeing. “As above, so below” implies Whole-ness of Spirit, consciousness, and body (Holy Spirit= Soul+MInd+Body) and is the destination of all who study the Qabalah. Earth is not perceived as a "lesser form" of Spirit but as an achievement of Total Spiritual Self Awareness!

Since there is no logic to No-thing "becoming" some-thing so that it may return to nothing, ascension is of the Personality, not the body, as it is already intelligently ascended by the Solar Being that is the Soul (Sun of the Divine Creative). No-thing (Kether) obviously desired itself into being something---because its trinity of Self (Kether-Chokmah-Binah) is the” I AM” who is the god's name known in Hebrew as Eheieh- "I Will Be". Hence, the first name we’ve all inherited is "I AM" and the Divine Creative "I" is united with all the "Am". The identity produced by the awareness and understanding of difference between the "I" and the "Am" has created a "ME". Therefore, Me is always an assumption, freely made by the declaration of "I Am...". Hence, you shall be whatever you declare yourself to be.

I Am the Will, I Am the Way, I Am the Wealth, I Am the Health, I Am the Day!

The Ace of Disks suggests that We are masters of Time-Space, and Self assumption, thereby, achieving an active part of the Conscious Energy Self Awareness, by being able to focus that awareness down to the scale of human/crystal sensuality. We may call ourselves Souls, but we do not know what that means. First off, the word soul came from the Greek-Psyche, a part of mythology for understanding the workings of the Unconscious. But to be more modern, souls are Psyche composed of Libraries of Personal experience created by Spiritual (spiral) union of frequencies (Stars) of the One Energy that are focused into fractals of " I AM Me". You are a Star who is mating with Earth!

Supernal Trinity.

The Supernal Triangle, of Kether, Chokmah, Binah, together state "I AM YOU"; therefore, your name is indeed legion and compiled from the sum of the many Selves of the One- Self. The One "Many 'I'd' Self" Created you, the "selves of Self", as its intimacy with all Creation! The Soul or Solar Self is composed of a trinity of I (Spirit) AM (Mind)ME (body), a special Alchemy of the invisible energy joined with the visible energy through the union of "Fire, Water, Air, and Earth". This is easily seen if the "me" is not profaned by dogma, indoctrination, media "word hypnosis", and/or the parasitic mind virus of the false ego and/or Archon controlled slaves.

I Am

When the Ace of Disks is thrown, new material conditions for a new satisfying path in life shall ensue. The Ace of Disks is the "seed" of Matter brought on by the joyous union of the Sun-Phallus and The Womb of Earth. This card affirms the new Aeon...The manifestation of the Solar Being (Soul) and the Material Being as One Being who is many selves attributing to the Knowledge of Self! In other words, the Being whose name is Legion (Many) is the combination of the Sun/Son of The Divine Creative and the princess- daughter Earth! That would be best known as, I AM ME and everyone I see is another way to be me.

Matter, may be called the crystallized light, which is a materialization of Ideas that began in the "Great Dark Ocean of Binah (who is the dark conscious space all around us and in us and as us)", the feminine of the Divine Creative and because of Her Union with Chokmah (wisdom), the masculine of the Divine Creative, creates Life as an animated energy form of "Will to Force" united to "Will to Form", as a point of self-examination. If your identity looks deeply into the mind, you can see that when an idea (wisdom) is understood (Binah), it is now information and information coagulate into in-form-action, producing experienced knowledge in this universe.

The seeds of Image are as a seed of a tree----all the knowledge/wisdom of the Tree is in that seed which becomes something greater than itself as it grows from practice and experience into The New Identity of that Tree. The Ace of Disks also postulates that We are such seeds. We are the seeds of I AM that has acknowledged itself as probabilities rather than a stasis form of Law. We are the Self-Rule Makers of the I AM Universe---we make a Rule -a definition and then become it, and hopefully grow beyond it by expanding and liberating our identity from that previous definition when experienced and understood. You could call us the Seeds of Conscious Evolution. We are always the "Exception" to some previously observed rule. It's called FREEDOM OF CHOICE! So, this card reminds us to choose and then fertilize and nurture that choice with Will-To-Be-Thyself! Our Destiny is "To Be"; our fate as being is ours to decide.

Above all things, Know thyself!

This is indeed a great inheritance! We can be and/or are whatever we define ourselves to be just by using the inner Alchemy that applies emotion (energy-in-motion) to thought and thereby creating in-form-action which is done by invocation and ritual! To be "ill defined" is to think ill about any or all that you "see". To be "Well defined" is to know that everything you see is another way to be me (identity of the One Energy Fractal of I AM) and just like you, it is supposed to exist. 

Again, the greatest seeds of Life that you can plant come from, “Doing unto another what you would have done to you!"- That includes the "beasts" of earth and the earth herself. Hence, it behooves you to think well no matter how they "do unto you"! We must practice what we "think we are"---for that is the nature and justice of an emoted "Thought Form "and/or our crystallized conscious-energy bodies---which are the "seeding" of Self-Aware Cosmic Spirit on this Earth. Outer growth depends on fertile and nurturing internal awareness!

Remember, you cannot erase thought by suppressing it for it is created out of energy and cannot be destroyed! So, expand it instead and as a seed it can grow into a fruitful tree. For instance, let's say you wake up in the morning thinking, "Damn I feel lousy!" Don't try and suppress it by denying that you thought it by overlaying a thought such as " Oh not really---I feel great" for that will only fail and magnify that ill feeling. Instead think expansively and liberate that ill thought towards well thought!

For example, you may think," Damn I feel lousy but in 5 minutes I'll feel better!" And in 5 minutes you will feel better and as a seed you will continually feel better by "watering" it every 5 minutes with "I feel even better in another 5 minutes", etc. until the ill feeling is gone. We can do the same for any ill thought---Such as," Boy is she/he a bitch!" By just adding a positive. Such as, "However, those who go after what they want always seem bitchy to those who don't." This just frees you from "disliking" yourself as you go after what you want in life! Therefore, the Ace of Disks reminds us of the seeds we plant in our own Identities by definitions supplied to those images composed of the One Energy around us.

Remember, if it exists---it’s supposed to!

To see error doesn't mean to condemn it! Error is 50% of Wisdom, Wisdom being the ability to create, see error (in that creation) and correct it. The Body is where we correct the errant thought because we can "Feel" thought and if it "hurts" it has error in it! Happiness is constant growing harmony of Spirit-Mind Body intercourse; whereas depression is a stagnation of self-identity; a swamp of past emotion, a quagmire born of fearful yesterdays of 2 dimensional good and bad thinking! 

Hence, you are not divided into good and bad, you are learning what "theory" works and what doesn't. Learning is the harbinger of knowledge and is not either good or bad.

The Ace of Disks/Pentagrams reminds us that You are good enough for Divine Image--you are good enough for you! To stop ill thought, think this as a corrective to your body when it gets on the pity-pot of self-absorbed thought, “Get over yourself and get on with you, impeccability is what we do!” 

The Ace of Disks/Pentacles reminds us that All Earth Magic is comprised of the special Trinity of Will +Thought + Emotions=Magic/Creation. We are the keepers of the Earth God Molecule and someday this colony of ET's, will branch out into our solar system and link our God Molecule/DNA to other planets and thereby creating yet another form of Adam Khadmon, the Universal Archetype of I AM Me! Your personality is yours to create and destroy, for it is not you as it is your avatar on earth. When your persona (mask) is in love with the Soul that it radiates from, you'll know yourself.

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WHEN THE ACE OF DISKS or ACE OF PENTACLES IS THROWN DURING A DIVINATION:

It implies:

  • Union between the physical and spiritual aspects of the querent.
  • Beginning a new pathway in life that will bring satisfaction.
  • A new planting of seeds, for a new home, job, career, or some form of security.
  • Materialization of ideas brings stability to skills that produce results.
  • Could also be a time of meditation; an inward pulling of energy.
  • Good beginnings for financial wealth, material gain and worldly status.
  • The beginning of any new material form
  • A most auspicious card showing the bringing together of internal and external talents and resources.
  • Even if ill dignified it shows a sharing of treasure.
  • Also, the Card of a Shaman, or one who is practiced in the arts of Earth Magic.
  • A raise in pay.

If ill defined by the surrounding cards, it implies:

  • Materialism.
  • Stinginess.
  • The vile side of materialism/affluence.

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