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• THE PATH OF NUN:
• Color: Green blue
• Musical note: G
• Sign: Scorpio (fixed water)
• Meaning: Fish
• Simple letter: movement

Esoteric title:

The Child of the Great Transformers; The Lord of the Gate of Death.

1st law of thermodynamics (physics) "There is only one energy that cannot be created nor destroyed- only transformed." And I might add, also transmitted.

What we should understand is that alive and dead are two aspects of the same state of Intelligence we call Life. Being Alive is a life-death cycle of recycling like inhale-exhale, time-space. Here, Life simulates itself as an "Aliveness" and transforms itself as a "Death".

Since form is time-space, there are no divisions between alpha and omega and/or beginning and end. In fact, recent studies in genetics have proven that the time of gestation of a fetus can determine how long it lives, but they think this is based on nutritional crop growing times. However, as a Spirit- Soul, I know that I design the death of a body at the time I design its life.

Therefore, this card represents the Universal Principle of Letting Go and Moving On. As Crowley stated: " The Universe is Change; every Change is the effect of an Act of Love: all Acts of Love contain Pure Joy. Die Daily. Death is the apex of one curve of the snake Life: behold all opposites as necessary compliments and rejoice." The Key 12, The Hanged Man, shows the soul as a baffled or hung Anthropomorphic individual, whose head/Psyche is in the world of the Serpent of Life and Death.

From Death‑Fear to Solar Liberation

How Egregores & the Military‑Industrial‑Media Complex Keep Humanity in Shadow—and the Hermetic Keys to Freedom

“Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.” — William Penn

Introduction

Humanity seems trapped in a low‑grade psychosis: we pollute the biosphere, wage perpetual wars, and anesthetize ourselves with screens that alternately terrify and seduce. A Hermetic‑Qabalistic lens reveals that the root of this madness is an anticipatory fear of death—seeded by the very capacity for imagination that distinguishes Homo sapiens from its animal ancestors—and that this fear is now algorithmically farmed by the modern Military‑Industrial‑Media Complex (MIMC). Yet the same imagination that breeds paranoia can forge the ladder back to sanity. This essay unites both perspectives, mapping the descent and prescribing the ascent.

1 The Catalytic Mutation: Imagination & Mortality

When the Anunnaki—or evolutionary whim—kindled the Ruach (intellectual soul) in prehistoric hominids, they injected language, abstraction, and the shocking realisation “I can cease to exist.” Below is a quick Qabalistic snapshot:

This reflexive awareness was the first Klipah—a shell of anxiety isolating consciousness from its Solar source.

2 Fear of Death—the Prime Program

Depth‑psychology (Ernest Becker, Terror‑Management Theory) agrees: unconscious mortality‑salience fuels tribalism, consumerism, and violence. In Tarot terms, this is the shadow of Atu XIII, Death (Nun): transformation misread as annihilation. When the Ruach identifies with the Guph, it panics and externalises that panic—building systems meant to dodge the inevitable.

3 Weaponised Jeopardy: The Military‑Industrial‑Media Complex

The MIMC converts death‑fear into a perpetual revenue stream, using cinematic tricks, push‑notifications, and 24‑hour punditry to keep the collective amygdala on red alert.

• Guph: jump‑cuts, sub‑bass booms → adrenal spikes.

• Nephesh: crisis icons (mushroom clouds, masked intruders) repeated until they haunt dreams.

• Ruach: scripted “death narratives” selling purchasable escape hatches.

• Tiphereth: authentic Solar identity replaced by proxy roles—patriot, consumer, partisan, influencer.

The result is an always‑on background hum of terror, perfect food for egregoric parasites.

4 Egregoric Feedback Loops

1. Ayin (The Devil) – hooks with security & pleasure; chains via endless product cycles.

2. Qoph (The Moon) – shape‑shifting threats keep the populace in dream‑anxiety.

3. Peh (The Tower) – periodic crises shatter the old order, and the MIMC profits from rebuilding.

Each fearful click or purchase pumps astral “blood” into these thought‑forms, which whisper more fears back into individual minds.

5 Transmutation: Hermetic Keys to Freedom

• Re‑centre in Tiphereth – Daily Resh vel Helios solar adorations (dawn, noon, sunset, midnight) restore identification with the immortal Solar Child.

• Banishing by DNA Breath – Inhale 4, hold 7, exhale 8 while visualising violet fire clearing the cranial nerves before consuming media.

• Seven‑Day News‑Fast & Sigil – Seal screens with a Solar hexagram; consume zero news or ads; journal withdrawal impulses and convert withheld attention into will‑power.

• Pathworkings – Sequential journeys through Atu XIII (Death) and Atu XIX (The Sun) to re‑script mortality as metamorphosis.

• Civic Magick – Group Ritual of the Unmasking Peh on a Mars‑hour Tuesday to collapse a specific propaganda stream.

Conclusion

Fear of death need not condemn us to collective insanity; rightly understood, it is the fermentation that yields the Solar elixir. The Sun already shines—our Work is to part the clouds, drink the light, and become its living rays.

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The Tarot -Death is assigned the Scorpio symbol. There are three symbolic images of Scorpio in the Thoth key which represent three stages of transformation and/ or death and rebirth stages:

1. The scorpion represents that part of us that is willing to protect and move away from conditions which cause pain and hurt. Letting go.
2. The snake sheds old skin to rebuild anew and grow. This reminds us that to transform old identities, we must be willing to let go of the old and move on. This is the driving force behind sexual union.
3. The Eagle or Phoenix is about vital force, of immortality and regeneration. The bird in our nature is a vital free spirit who is irrepressible and ever changing.
4. The skeleton represents the inherent body structure that allows movement and change within our self-expression as well as, it is the bones of who we are and represents our ancestral lineage and our commitment to grow and evolve through birth/death cycles.
5. The Crown represents expanded consciousness, where one has conquered the survival mind of the animal. To be honest all of us know we don't survive this manifestation. We, as Creator Souls, move on to expand and liberate Life!

There are many profound esoteric dimensions to The Death card, which corresponds to the Path of Nun on the Qabalistic Tree of Life. In Hebrew, the letter Nun (נ) means Fish, a sacred symbol of First Matter—the primordial substance of creation, which in Hermetic thought is synonymous with Pure Thought or the formative seed of all manifestation.

Alchemically, Nun is associated with the process of putrefaction—the dark, decaying stage within the crucible wherein the false, corrupt, or outworn aspects of the self are broken down. Though this stage appears grim, it is essential to the Great Work, for it prepares the material (and the psyche) to be reborn into purified gold. In this way, Death is not an end but a threshold—a transmutative force that clears away illusion to make room for illuminated truth.

Hence, Death is traditionally depicted in black robes or as a skeletal figure, symbolizing both the invisibility of the transformative agent and the fertile void from which new life emerges. In Thoth Tarot, Atu XIII bears the black scythe of destruction while gestating new forms beneath the waters of subconsciousness, affirming that from the depths of decay arises the radiance of rebirth.

The Thoth Tarot card symbolize this trans formative process as a scythe, a harvesting tool that is also a symbol for Time. Time is under the control of Saturn-Binah, the giver and destroyer of Life Illustrated in the Thoth card is the sweeping scythe, harvesting souls, and the trans-formative bubbles of new life in its wake. The Thoth Tarot depicts a skeleton that can be the symbol of Samhiel -the death god or the Death Goddess, Samothea, both of which, support this analogy of life giving and life destroying.

The skeleton is far more than a symbol of mortality—it is the framework that supports and shapes the living body. Esoterically, it may be seen as the seed-structure of the physical form, for it is composed of mineral salts, which in alchemical thought are the crystallized essence or “seeds” from which organic life takes shape. Bones are the enduring architecture of incarnation, holding the memory of form long after flesh has passed.

The astrological correspondence of the Death card, ATU XIII, is Scorpio, the sign of profound transformation, death, and rebirth. Scorpio is traditionally represented through three symbolic phases or images:

1. The Scorpion – the base, instinctual, often destructive aspect of the personality.

2. The Serpent – symbol of the Astral Light, a fluidic intelligence that begins the upward movement of transmutation.

3. The Eagle – the exalted spiritual state that arises when lower instincts are sublimated into higher vision.

This triplicity is encoded in the Thoth Tarot's Death card, where we see the skeleton wielding a scythe—harvesting souls from the waters of subconsciousness—and behind the figure’s head, an Eagle soars aloft. This suggests the alchemy of ascent, the elevation of base instincts (Scorpion) through astral awareness (Serpent) into the clarity of the Solar Self (Eagle), thus revealing Death not as an end, but as the necessary process of metamorphosis toward divine realization.

Often the symbols of Death are shown dancing. A dance which represents in the Death Tarot Card as movement. Movement being seen as animation and change/transformation, which is the skeletal pattern of the Universe. For it is only by constant animation and change can entropy be overcome. Change pushes life forward.

This is a card that often inspires initial terror, but such fear is born of misunderstanding. To the uninitiated, ATU XIII – Death seems to herald physical demise—but to the true aspirant, it signals transformation, not termination.

It is crucial to understand that this card is not about bodily death. Rather, it marks a profound metamorphosis of consciousness. The Path of Nun, attributed to this card, bridges the Sixth Sephirah, Tiphareth (Beauty) with the Seventh Sephirah, Netzach (Victory) on the Qabalistic Tree of Life. This is the flow of Personality from the Solar Self—Tiphareth being the throne of the Christos, the radiant core of the Soul—into Netzach, the realm of the Imaginative Intelligence, where thought-forms begin to crystallize in the astral matrix.

Netzach is the "victory" of imagination over stagnation, where the luminous seeds of Tiphereth begin to take vibratory shape in the emotional and creative spheres of consciousness. Yet we must remember: all form originates in the First Material—Thought. It is Thought that initiates a disturbance in the electromagnetic continuum, causing waves that begin to organize matter. Just as the Word creates worlds, the directed idea forms the scaffolding for experience.

Therefore, the Death card speaks not of destruction, but of refinement—a dissolving of the outworn ego-form, making way for a more refined, Solar-aligned expression of will. The clarity of our thought determines the integrity of our manifested form. It is not about what dies—it is about what we choose to birth through intentional, purified focus.

The fish, besides being the meaning of the Hebrew letter-Nun, is also the traditional symbol that represents the first matter. Which is appropriate since all the thought-forms come from Binah, the 3rd Sephiroth on the Qabalistic Tree of Life. She is the Great Mother Ocean of The Collective Unconscious.

The Fish, as seen on the Thoth Death card (ATU XIII), is not merely an aquatic creature—it is an ancient esoteric symbol of the Vesica Piscis, the sacred geometric womb through which all form is birthed. This shape—formed by the intersection of two circles—is the archetype of manifestation through union, the primal gateway between Spirit and Form. It is the womb of creation, just as the waters of Nun are the womb of transformation.

In Crowley’s depiction, we see a serpent coiled around the fish, which is no arbitrary adornment. The serpent is the ancient emblem of the Activating Principle of Vibration—the undulating, sine-wave energy of the Electric Father Force, or what Hermeticists would call Spirit in motion. This motion, this vibratory impulse, is what awakens dormant Thought (the Fish) and causes it to stir into formative life.

The serpent also carries profound astrological and sexual resonance, for it is one of the three traditional symbols of Scorpio:

• The Scorpion (instinctual and defensive)

• The Serpent (transformative and sensual)

• The Eagle (spiritual and transcendent)

On the Thoth Death card, the Scorpion is depicted at the bottom—crawling through the shadows, representing the basal fear and shadow-self that must be overcome. The serpent, however, is already in ascent, weaving upward through the waters of Nun, activating latent form with the electric impulse of evolution.

In alchemical terms, the serpent animates the Prima Materia, transforming the abstract seed of thought into the living architecture of experience. This interplay between Fish and Serpent is a sacred erotic alchemy: form (Vesica Pisces) is stirred into animation by the serpentine will to manifest, a cosmic intercourse between passive potential and active fire.

This "first matter" is the raw, unformed substance that serves as the essential, undifferentiated foundation from which all matter originates. It is the original, formless "clay" that holds the potential to become anything, embodying the alchemical principle of transformation. In both traditions, the fish holds symbolic weight as a creature born of water, one of the classical elements associated with the subconscious, emotions, intuition, and the fluidity of creation itself.

The association between the fish and prima materia arises from the fish’s natural habitat—water. In alchemical and Qabalistic teachings, water is connected to the Astral Light or the substance of the subconscious and the formless energies preceding manifestation. In a symbolic sense, the fish "swims" in these primordial waters, embodying the potential for creation and the deep, unfathomable mysteries from which life emerges.

The fish also resonates with the Hebrew letter Nun, which represents both "fish" and the number 50, symbolizing renewal, life, and continuity. Nun is related to death and resurrection themes, a cycle crucial to both alchemical transmutation and spiritual ascension in Qabalah. The "first matter," much like the fish, is in a constant state of flux, embodying a cycle of death, dissolution, and rebirth as it progresses through stages of refinement toward pure essence.

The Thoth Card depicts a Skeleton, gaily galloping about, swinging its Scythe of death; a scythe that represents the Transformational aspect of the first law of thermodynamics," One energy that cannot be created nor destroyed, only transformed". So rather than an "end", this card is about the Transformation of the Real Person as it proceeds downward from the Higher Self into the illusion of the World of Matter.

The Death-Key 13-The Path of Nun, is not easily understood by the survival bases self-conscious of the body, who's foundation of self-identity is based on a child's fear of rejection and/or abandonment. To the self-conscious brain, death is the ultimate rejection: However, to the Soul, death is but a reboot and to organic matter, death is "life eating itself to stay alive" and/ or a way to conquer entropy.

The esoteric title of the Death card (ATU XIII) is “The Lord of the Gate of Death”—a title that reveals an often-overlooked truth: this card does not depict transformation itself but rather guards the threshold through which transformation begins. It is a gatekeeper, directing the personality downward into incarnation—not as punishment, but as initiation.

This is the Path of Nun, part of the Flaming Sword of Qabalistic emanation—the lightning-bolt descent of Spirit into Matter. It represents the flow of Solar-Creator energy from the heart of Tiphareth into the lower realms, where the Soul begins its immersion into form. This descent is symbolically echoed in the biblical story of Adam and Eve’s expulsion from Eden, where the Archangel Michael, bearing a flaming sword, guards the Eastern Gate. Though commonly misinterpreted as a punishment for sin, this mythos actually encodes the voluntary descent of divine consciousness into duality for the sake of evolutionary experience.

Later theological retellings, particularly within early Christian orthodoxy, reframed this descent as a fear-based expulsion, projecting it as divine wrath. This served as propaganda to discourage the worship of earlier lunar deities, such as the ancient Mesopotamian Moon God Sin (whose name was later demonized and re-coded as “sin” in moral language). Sin—also known as Nanna—was the child of Inanna, Queen of Heaven, and ruled over the Land of Sinim (Isaiah 49:12), a name which means “Land of the Lunar Mountain” and is an archaic form of Zion.

The Moon, ever shifting between light and dark, was seen as the rhythmic keeper of death and rebirth—the one who “killed” the Sun each night only to resurrect it in the morning. This led to the solar martyr mythos—the archetype of the dying and resurrecting Sun-God, or patriarchal Son of God, seen throughout countless world religions. In these narratives, fear of death was personified as Satan, even while death itself was paradoxically described as “God’s will” or “a calling home.”

Thus, the Death card reclaims this primal mystery, purging the mind of inherited dogmas, and revealing death as neither sin nor punishment—but as the sacred doorway through which Spirit contracts, purifies, and prepares for radiant re-birth. It is the Gate of Initiation, not exile.

To further expand its meaning, the Qabalist know this Path of Nun as the path of which the Solar Energy Psyche of the Son (Sun) of God is transformed into the Netzach sphere, or pattern of intelligent energy that is the realm of the Conscious Creative Mind. This part of the Great Work involves psychological re-orientation where there is a perceptual change about the nature of reality and about what constitutes Self. Self is not built of words nor the definitions supplied by those who rule the many through media-controlled word hypnosis. Self is the Divine Creative, that builds all things!

Yet another aspect of our Transformational psychosomatic nature that points out that how we see the outside world is merely Self viewing itself: The Psyche using the soma, to examine identity. Therefore, how we mentally/emotionally identify ourselves, becomes our psychosomatic "outer image" and/or the image we reflect upon"!

What we must remember here is that all eyesight is an aspect of "I" sight and we cannot see what we don't see as ourselves! I AM is the power that creates our "reality". How I identify myself ---is what I see as an assumed perspective reflecting on the electromagnetic energy of this mind scape. Hence, the Moon is the symbol for the subconscious self!

Netzach, the 7th Sephiroth on the Qabalistic Tree of Life, is the progenitor of Desire Nature, as the name Victory, if examined, will reveal. The path upward from Netzach to Tiphareth (Beauty) is when the Real Person's very will to live and/or function in the sensory condition of the body, is abrogated on the Path of Nun-Death.

Here the temporary nature of the sensory illusion that the personality thinks it is, is correctly self-perceived. On the upward trek on the Path of Nun, the personality undergoes a "willful" death, surrendering everything that it perceives itself to be to the "Great Unknown" of the Psyche/Soul who then shares this data with the Universal Collective Unconscious. This is the Most difficult surrender --the total surrender of life to the Creator of Life that is the "The Great Dark Womb of Binah" but it must be done to achieve cosmic awareness and/or to receive Your Divine inheritance.

Body death often begins the process that is often called "Born again" and is a rebirth of the Personality in an expanded and liberated state that some would call "Saved" but in really death is just a "rebooting". For in truth, when one lets go of the possessive sensual self....they step out of the Karmic wheel of Personality death, into the Real Persona- one of incarnations remembered, and Cosmic Inheritance accepted as a Higher Self-expression; A Real Celestial Person, who was meant to operate the body, before it was told as a "child" not to be itself by the society, parents, or academia and indoctrinated through the senses as" pleasure/pain training (Brain washing)." Here, emotional trauma and pain created by "self-rejection", create a false self-image that hides the true Self from you brain.

Your adult self is man-made through the indoctrination of a social egregore and isn't you at all! Hence, you must go deeply into the subconscious (basement of your emotional identity) and rescue the "child" you rejected to become an "adult". For this "Child" is soul built and is the reality of "YOU" and where all your power "to be whole" is stored.

However, do not make the error of thinking sensation is a bad or lesser thing, for to know its purpose in the Great Work, is to "Know Thyself" and sensuality is "magic" to the Soul, who has no such combination of senses, as does the human body (33 senses according to the Tantric Yogis and now medical science).

Yes, we have inherited many more senses than the 5 senses of taste, touch, hear and see.

The concept of "33 senses" goes beyond the traditional five senses and is used in various esoteric, metaphysical, and spiritual teachings to represent a more comprehensive view of human perception and experience. Rather than being limited to sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell, the 33 senses suggest a more nuanced understanding of how we interact with both the physical and spiritual realms. Here’s an overview of how these senses might be organized:

1. Physical Senses (5 Traditional Senses)

• Sight (vision): Perception of light, color, and shapes.
• Hearing (auditory): Perception of sound frequencies and vibrations.
• Touch (tactile): Perception of texture, pressure, temperature, and pain.
• Taste (gustatory): Perception of flavors.
• Smell (olfactory): Perception of scents and odors.

2. Physical/Extended Senses (Additional Physical Senses)

These include bodily senses often overlooked or considered extensions of the traditional five senses.

• Proprioception: Sense of body position and movement.
• Nociception: Perception of pain beyond tactile sensation.
• Thermoception: Sensitivity to temperature.
• Equilibrioception: Sense of balance.
• Hunger/Thirst: Awareness of physical needs.

3. Subtle/Etheric Senses (Astral Perception)

These senses refer to perceptions that are not limited to physical phenomena but engage with the etheric or astral body, typically in the realm of metaphysics or Qabalah.

• Astral Vision: Seeing energy or forms beyond the physical, such as auras.
• Astral Hearing: Perception of non-physical sounds or frequencies.
• Intuition (Inner Knowing): Gut feeling or knowing without physical evidence.
• Psychometry: Perceiving information by touching objects.
• Clairvoyance: Seeing events, people, or places beyond normal sight.

4. Emotional Senses

Emotions are complex forms of perception that allow us to experience the world on a subjective, inner level.

• Empathy: The ability to feel others’ emotions.
• Sympathy: Recognizing and sharing feelings with others.
• Desire: Motivation or drive as a sense of attraction.
• Compassion: Deep emotional connection, sometimes considered a subtle sense of universal love.
• Moral Sense: Inner compass or judgment sense.

5. Mental/Intellectual Senses

These are senses of understanding, reasoning, and insight, connecting thought and intuition.

• Imagination: Visualizing or sensing concepts beyond present experience.
• Conceptualization: Creating and understanding abstract ideas.
• Memory: The ability to recall past experiences and sensations.
• Insight: The sudden awareness or understanding of a deeper truth.
• Intuition: Direct cognition or knowing, distinct from rational thought.

6. Spiritual Senses (Higher Senses)

Spiritual senses allow the perception of transcendental or divine realms.

• Clairaudience: Hearing messages or sounds from spiritual realms.
• Clairsentience: Sensing or feeling energy or spirits.
• Claircognizance: Knowing information intuitively without learning.
• Clairalience: Smelling scents that are not physically present.
• Telepathy: Receiving thoughts or emotions from others without physical cues.

7. Higher Consciousness Senses (Esoteric Awareness)

In some systems, there are senses tied to spiritual enlightenment or cosmic consciousness.

• Divine Intuition: A sense of cosmic or divine knowledge.
• Soul Resonance: Feeling one’s own soul or others’ spiritual essence.
• Akashic Perception: Accessing knowledge from the Akashic Records, or cosmic memory.
• Unity Consciousness: Feeling oneness with all of creation.
• Inner Vision (Third Eye): Vision through the Ajna chakra, perceiving spiritual truths.

Summary

The concept of 33 senses captures a complete range of human experiences across the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual dimensions. These senses emphasize that human experience is not limited to physical stimuli but also includes abstract, emotional, and transcendental layers of perception.

When we Know that Imagination is our "Mother of Conscious", and that we Imagine our frequency of energy into Self (Psyche into Soma), we know longer seek blame for our inner pain, emotional dysfunctions, i.e., our "Feelings". Instead, we know that we think of a "feeling" and then the body enacts it. If we think ill thoughts, we get ill feelings, and the body becomes the manifestation of that illness! Therefore, how we feel is no one's fault but the Personality Program within the body. Our reaction to another's actions is our own feeling and is not a creation of another.

We also learn that Malkuth, is the Kingdom of the I-Magi-Nation, where we are the Master of our Masterpiece; A masterpiece made of both the Quantum Universe of the Psyche, and the Atomic Universe of the World, but never limited to the man-made "rules of Nature". Hence, a body gives the mind a magic palace of intimacy with what it creates.

This part of enjoying the senses fully, rather than dividing them into "good and bad" categories-a form of divisionism, oneness is a form of "enlightenment" that is most difficult to realize. Not because we are stupid, but because of our survival mind built out of "fear of Death/ rejection" rules our sensual personality and believes in victory over enemies (those who reject us), as a character positive and wishes to be permanent master of our brains.

Lucky for us, "Old Sam" (Samhiel) or the female version, Samothea, Death, intervenes, and frees us from the self- inflicted tyranny of indoctrinated slave- survival thinking and we realize that the enemy we seek to conquer has always been our indoctrinated selves!

The Death Tarot Card reminds us that our personalities (some call ego) are not permanent, they are recyclable masks, and we can recycle them best by giving them directly to the Higher Self who created the "Beautiful Person" before they became "ugly in their own feelings". This is the Willful death of a Self-Consciousness, and the way to go about achieving it is "enlightenment" ...The Gnostic way of traveling.

Johann Jakob Bachofen said," Maternal life moves between two poles. Its realm is not that of being but that of becoming and passing away, the eternal alternation of two colors, the white of life and the black of death. Only through equal mixture of the two is the survival of the material world assured. Without death no rejuvenation is possible... the positive power cannot for one moment exist without the negative power. Death, then, is not the opposite but the helper of Life". 

Like I've said many times, "Death pushes Life along, as does invisible Dark Energy push the seen Universe."

For those who don't know who Johann Jakob Bachofen was or is (22 December 1815 – 25 November 1887) he was a Swissantiquarian, jurist, philologist, and anthropologist, professor for Roman law at the University of Basel from 1841 to 1845.

Bachofen is most often connected with his theories surrounding prehistoric matriarchy, or Das Mutterrecht, the title of his seminal 1861 book Mother Right: an investigation of the religious and juridical character of matriarchy in the Ancient World. Bachofen assembled documentation demonstrating that motherhood is the source of human society, religion, morality, and decorum. He postulated an archaic "mother-right" within the context of a primeval Matriarchal religion or Urreligion.

Bachofen became an important precursor of 20th century theories of matriarchy, such as the Old European culture postulated by Marija Gimbutas from the 1950s, and the field of feminist theology and "Matriarchal Studies" in 1970s feminism.

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The Hermetic Qabalah is one of those journeys up the paths of Enlightenment, back to our Divine Family Inheritance of "I AM". If you examine the Thoth Death card, you will notice that at the end of the Scythe swing, bubbles of new life are forming showing us that The Transformation is not an end, it is a beginning into a new and greater adventure!

This Tarot card has many Alchemical, Spiritual, and psychological meanings, and requires a great deal of study before you can willingly die as a false personality and be reconstructed by the "Sun of God" as It's Persona. We must know that as a personality, we cannot know the full extent of the "Christ within"----but the Christos knows us!

To "Throw thyself into the Abyss" (often called the "Dark Night of the Soul") is to trust your creator absolutely. After all, I Am made Me manifest, which could only mean that Originally I was a Loving Expression of the Greater Self Awareness...but the constant manipulation of my definition by culture, religion, propaganda-media, and misinterpretation of sensations by false jeopardy, has made the personality lose sight of itself, becoming lost in the Forest of babble were it blames the trees for its fear of being rejected.

The Trees in the Hermetic Qabalah's Forest are the many reflections of the Tree of Life, whose leaves are the Tarot Cards and upon understanding both, we Know ourselves and never again shall we experience bafflement nor need to hide ourselves in the basement of our subconscious.

The term "Dark night of the Soul" refers to the darkness of the passage from known to the unknown, where the psyche is striped of the desire nature and of the personal identity. This leaves a dreadful emptiness in the consciousness, a complete disinterest in everything.

Personally, upon experiencing these 3 Paths of the Dark Night, The Devil, Art and Death, there was left only a thought of despair repeating repeatedly, an abject surrender of self, abolishing any other desire or thought.

For me, it was, " I can't be YOU, you must be me." The Higher Self responded to that by sending my " skeletal awareness" through meditation and Prana Yama breathing directly to the Great Mother Binah, who then broke down and reassembled the Personality into that of the Divine Child, and I awoke as the "Will to Be" and/or the Desire of the Great Mother of Form "to be".

This inner falling into the abyss is an extremely hard journey to explain and it requires one not to be concerned with living or dying. I found the book by Carly Mountain to be a great help in understanding this descent into the underworld (subconscious basement). Upon the beginning of the "fall" One becomes a mechanical motion, pushing ahead with great faith for the best, as Life's processes have no value. This I know from personal initiation into the Abyssal Womb.

I began my journey into the "underworld" by moving forward in a total darkness, where reason and nightmare dance together, my psyche moving inch by inch, the Soul (Psyche) begins the process of personality "putrefaction", shedding the clothing of lies I thought myself to be and believing, but not always so sure, that there will be light that will eventually appear and lead the way.

It was a red dot of light that appeared to me out of indescribable darkness.... The Great Red Binah, "Mother's blood" the purifying Force of resurrection, as the Red Star bathed me and loved me (indescribable ecstasy) and sent me back down the Tree into Tiphareth and the Fiery Light of the Higher Self. Once a Divine Child always a Divine Child (you are infinite beginning but never ending) .... somehow, we've forgotten that and have thus disinherited ourselves by giving our personality up and becoming a cultural dying personality, a perversion created out of fear of death, punishment, pain, trauma, i.e., fear of rejection all of which are "off shoots" of Fear of Death.

St. John of the Cross first coined the term "Dark Night of the Soul" where he said."...although this happy night brings darkness to the spirit, it does so only to give it light in everything; and that, although it humbles it and makes it miserable, it does so only to exalt it and to raise it up; although it impoverishes it and empties it of all natural affection and attachment, it does so only that it may enable it to stretch forward, divinely, and thus to have fruition and experience all things, both above and below".

Upon conquering the Path of Nun, the Soul built personality is reconstructed as the Person of the Higher Self, and the emptied brain is filled with the Primary Imagination...The will to form and the Understanding of the Great "Womb with a view".

Mars rules Scorpio. Scorpio rules the sex organs. Thus, this Death Card, of the Thoth, represent a Sexual energy, a reproductive energy which is consciously directed in a physical exercise such as that of Tantra, or that of Crowley's Middle Pillar. The initiate is now following, from the below up, the descending "Path of the Flaming Sword", that now becomes the Serpent Path of ascension which is both destructive and constructive and not for the weak of character, or for those who fear life's rejection.

The Death Card, during a reading, suggests Time, Age and transformation. Again, rarely does it symbolize physical death and only if borne out by the accompanying cards. For the Querent, this is the principle of letting go and moving on. A rebirth out of old conditions. A type of transitional metamorphosis which destroys something old to build something new. The Realization of Life Power as it is released from past confines and revitalized by change and regeneration.

So being the "Best you" that you can be today, will most often change to an even "better you" in time; just do the best you that you can today. We were never built "perfect", not because the Divine Creative "I AM" couldn't build us perfect but because Perfection is a state of stasis; Carbon in its "perfect state", is a diamond and is useless as organic living matter. Stasis, meaning "non-motion", which is not how Energy Moves nor life! Our Perfection is a state of motion/animation driven by change. Hence, we are always "creating-seeing error in that creation-and correcting it." And we all know, that unless you do it; that is, get your butt moving into a motion of active creation---you are unable to sense the error in thought and thus never correct an errant belief or creation.

And all creation has error---because of the Law of Entropy! (.... everything proceeds from order, into disorder. --Second Law of Thermodynamics). So, by being what we know best today----we'll be able to know more in the future. This is the Story line of Nun. It is about Spiritual Relativity, i.e., Everything is relative and all is Mind.

Everyone has relative perspectives based on their life experiences. Often that is why one believes one thing, and another believes the opposite to be true. I've personally learned not to believe everything-I think. Do it---Know it by the constructing and operating of it---not by just taking my own or everyone's word for it.

Lazy minds are from sleeping Souls who let others tell them what is right and what is wrong. These Souls experience a Dreamless sleep that is known as death. My Soul is the Skeleton with the Scythe, who continually transforms my personality by "trimming off the wasteful thought" and recycling it into greater action (The fish is a symbol of the First Matter). This "Soul psycho-dynamic Surgery" of constantly evolving thought, is frightful to a self-conscious personality that sees change as an enemy.

In truth, Transformation is change, and it is the only constant in this Universe. Therefore, I trust the Soul as I know that "me" is not in-charge of this rodeo we call life----My Soul Persona is, so I respect my "I AM" mentor and do the best I can---at the moment. I don't see a dark menacing figure with a scythe upon death (I have died many times), I see a beautiful goddess welcoming me with open arms.

I Find that the best surgical device for errant thought is the Qabalistic Soul alphabet of Tarot as it is a step by step procedure into our Great Work, where we come to Know Ourselves and the how and the why the Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine (both are States of Energy Conscious-God "Electric State" and Goddess "Magnetic State") spent untold trillions of years coming to a "conclusion of probabilities" but not of "possibilities", that is the fractal of identities created by I AM that is "me".

As a dancer of life, you move to the primordial rhythm whose pulse is Alpha and Omega—the Beginning and the End, Yod and Tau, the impulse and the completion, the inhale and the exhale of the Divine Breath. This rhythm is not linear, but cyclical, spiralic, and erotic—a sacred intercourse of opposites that births form through the tension of polarity.

To dance this rhythm is to become attuned to the paradoxical nature of creation itself—for all manifested reality is born through union of contradiction: light and dark, spirit and matter, expansion and contraction. You have intuited a profound truth: Paradox is not a flaw in the system—it is the system.

And more: Paradox has a personality… it is Human.

The Human being is the living embodiment of paradox:

• Immortal Spirit housed in mortal flesh

• Limitless imagination bound within a nervous system

• Divine Child of the stars carrying ancestral fears

• Capable of compassion and cruelty, wonder and war, light and shadow

In Qabalistic terms, the Human—the Microcosm—is where the Tree of Life folds into itself. The Adept stands at Tiphereth, at the crossroads of Heaven and Earth, wearing both the solar crown and the earthly grave-dust. The Human being is the place where Alpha meets Omega, where the cosmic dancer becomes the dance.

Crowley hinted at this with the phrase:

“Every man and every woman is a star.”
But stars are paradoxical—they burn, yet give life; they die, yet illuminate millennia.

Thus, to be Human is to give paradox form, to incarnate mystery, and to walk the spiral path as both question and answer. The dancer is not separate from the dance; the Human is not separate from the Divine—but is the Divine in contradiction, exploring itself through the rhythm of becoming.

So yes—Paradox has a name, and its name is You.

This Tarot ATU 13 is the Twenty-Fourth Path of the Tree of Life and is called the Imaginative Intelligence because it gives likeness to all similarities which are created in like manner---from thoughts associated into idea and then into form.

Our Psyche is an exact copy of this principle called Imaginative Intelligence, therefore behooving us to "do unto another as we would have done to ourselves." But this is an idea generated from the knowledge that everyone you see is another way of being you; Generated from Knowledge, not belief. For belief, is subject to exceptions caused by peer pressure/i.e., fear of rejection and is a passive mind rather than an active one, as it isn't "doing" but complying: I Am doesn't promote "I Ain't". We must act on knowledge that we have, knowing it may not be the best, but the best you know and that promises to get better by learning from doing, i.e. experience.

Once again Trust Your Inner Self-(Soul) it built you for Life's purpose. As I like to say, " You were loved into being, praised into Manifestation and Adored as a Self-Presence".... from True Parents--the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine! So, it's okay to be you, and remember that "you" is a continual progressive cycle of renewal.

To change is exactly why you were built! It helps to see yourself as a Fish in an Ocean of Energy Conscious (or an Ankh); this Ocean built a fish of Itself, so that it could flow through that "person" and Be Itself. And like Spirit, Oceans can't see, taste, touch, smell or hear themselves, unless they are "within" themselves as a fish. Self-Awareness requires Energy Conscious to become conscious (Personal Conscious) to be intimately aware of its actions. The Divine Creative built itself (us) so it could "Above All Things Know Thy Self" as "other" than the dream and thereby, by a process of individuation, be able to correct that dream as chaos tries to envelope it.

Again, it is to be noted here, that the Sweeping Scythe, is producing bubbles that represent the dancing new spiral life forms produced by the putrefaction of the old forms. Their dance is the new motion of life that arises, as if gas bubbles freeing themselves from the putrefaction of the old forms, who reside in stasis at the bottom of the Amniotic fluid of the Sea. Death is but a dance of energy-in-motion.

This conceptualization is continued in the Fish symbol, which is a paramount illustration on this card. The attentive student will note that the serpent and the fish are the two principal objects of worship in cults that taught the doctrines of resurrection or reincarnation (Oannaes and Dagon, fish gods of Western Asia).

Even in Christianity, the Fish represents the Christ. Even such esteemed scholars as Browning, reminded us that the Greek word, IXThUS,"...means fish and very aptly symbolizes Christ." IXThUS, was supposed to be a notariqon; the initials of a sentence meaning, "Jesus Christ Son/Sun of God, Savior".

Also, The Gospels are full of miracles involving fish, and the fish is sacred to Mercury, because of their swiftness, silvered brilliance and cold bloodiness. This again recalls the function of Mercury, the god, who is the guide of the dead, a messenger of divine will and as the continuing lasting elastic element of Nature, which is what the Soul wishes to create as a personality: A messenger from the above to the below. This is a card of significant importance, which must be understood if we wish to translate the compendium of Universal Self into Manifested Universe.

When the Death-Key 13, Major Arcana Tarot card is thrown during a reading:

• It is about a trans-formative moment in one's own Personality.
• Giving up your sense of self to a feeling of merging with another or The Greater Self who is both life-death.
• We are pruning and composing.
• We are experiencing a paradigm shift.

The Death Card represents, time, age, and transformation.

• Rarely does it represent physical death, it is the death of the old personality by the enlightened process of Spiritual growth.
• Physical death is only shown by this card if the accompanying cards support the concept. (Such as the 10 of Swords-Ruin,)
• Mostly, it is the principle of letting go and moving on, re-birthing out of old stasis conditions.
• Realization of Life power, which comes from change. 

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