The Tarot of Eli, LLC-Major Arcana-Dreams of Gaia-Key 23-Integrity & Thoth Tarot-ATU 15-The Devil

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The Dreams of Gaia Tarot-Key 23-Integrity, is comparable to the Thoth Devil card, for it represents making choices and acting with honesty and honor. There is personal integrity, artistic integrity, professional integrity, and intellectual integrity, all of which require one to have high moral, ethical, and personal standards. In other words, one must think highly of themselves as a creator. To know yourself, inspires integrity, whereas, to always seek approval, is the "bedevil thoughts" within that always rate you as one of lower value than others. In order to feel the harmony of a "happy self", one must "walk the talk" and always, no matter the circumstance, be true to themselves. This requires one to "above all things, know thyself". How can one be authentic, when they haven't a clue who they are?

Most of us have been "Divided and conquered" by the Patriarchy of our society. When you believe you are either "good" or "bad", there is always an argument in you head, a division about what you should do to avoid discomfort, even at the self devaluing price of dishonesty, hypocrisy, cruelty and injustice; all of which are preferable to a moment of discomfort. Discomfort of any kind, is seen as a punishment in a society indoctrinated by "pleasure-pain training".

The Devil within was born in us all, for it is survival thinking, where anything goes as long as the body survives. The patriarchy has learned long ago, all you have to do is feed the devil within in a self-absorbed child whose basic nature is to fear rejection. All children fear rejection, for they will die soon without parental care. Nature gave them the crying wail, to get the parents instant attention, so that they are feed and cared for. The Patriarchy wishes all of us to be a "self-absorbed" child for the rest of our lives, then all the Patriarchy has to do is "be the caretaker" by slogan, by propaganda, or the pretense of law and taking much but giving back as little as necessary to placate the "people", when they wail. The Devil within is indoctrination and dogma and starts growing by being told we are "bad,sinners, or born inferior in some way. This is because, self-absorbed children have no integrity, and as adults, they are just bigger self-absorbed children, who think any lie will do, as they will lie, cheat, steal, or gossip about another, to get the attention they want or think they need. They are secretly self-haters because of they fear of constant inferiority to others and don't understand that they can take care of themselves. Hence, they know not themselves. They hide behind the illusion of lack and think that inner-poverty can be overcome by outer wealth. Therefore, the "crazed consumer" is born, and the devil is laughing all the way to the bank.

Those who somehow exorcise this "devil within" do so by being true to themselves. They understand that all is Mind, and that to think well is to be well. To think ill is to act ill. They have an inner peace, as the Mind is One and not divided by dogma and indoctrination. The whole integrity of the mind is on a "strong foundation" of I AM Me. The Soul sits within the brain, at peace and able to handle any situation with strength and/or Spiritual Integrity. For each of us, is a "sun/son" of the Divine Creative, we are stars, that have become intimate with Life. So when the doubt/devil within arises out of the dark depths of fear, just get a hold of yourself by mentally repeating a strong truth of Self, such as: Get over yourself, get on with you, for impeccability is what we do! "We" are, Spirit-Mind-Body, and that trinity is the Power behind all success, and/or creation. We are the I, Spirit; The Am, Mind; and The Me, Body. After all if you are good enough for the Divine Creative to declare as its "image", than you are good enough for the world of man. Truth is made manifest and/or "actions speak louder than words". The One has acted in the creation of you. You are not an identity made of Patriarch controlled words and/or definitions created by propagandizing communication.

In Western Qaballah, the Devil is called "the path of Ayin". Ayin, is Hebrew letter for eye. The eye is a symbol often used for "I". Hence the peacock feathers, hanging off of the antlers of the humanoid Gaia figure in the Dreams of Gaia -integrity card. Peacock feathers are a symbol of the eye used by the ancients to proclaim the "peacock god". The All seeing I.Therefore, the "All seeing eye" is really the One I-dentity, that all identity comes from. That would be the One I AM. You are also a product of the I AM. For you command identity by using the I-dentity: I AM well, I AM ill, I AM poor, I AM rich, I AM sad, I AM happy, I AM valuable, I AM a loser, I AM a winner, etc. You have the power to establish your Reality by the Divine Creative's Power of Command that is I AM. Hence, you are made in the I-mage of the Divine. However, your great Child (Psyche) of the One-I AM,is now a little i am and a identity run by others. Such a one has no real identity, for they are the illusions of other's and have no life unless other's pay attention to them. Such a one is a mental slave to the environment they live in or think they live in. They have forgotten that each of us has the freedom to choose our own identity. That of impeccable action or one of dysfunctional reaction.

However, the Patriarchy knows that if you give him a child from 1 years old until 7 years old, that child is his for life. Hence, the public school, the dogma of theology and the indoctrinated parents. In such a world, run by the Fearful Greedy who control definition, (Ruler's) it is very hard to not fall prey to the bedeviling thoughts that are put into your head so that you I-mage, is controlled by social thinking and not by the Soul who makes it breathe and exist as "It-Self". Our self-consciousness is enslaved at a very young age, when we are the most vulnerable and dependent on acceptance, but we can break the chains that bind our imagination. Just by "knowing ourselves". Kabbalah/Qabalah/Cabalah, means "receiving and/or to receive". That is the reason for Western Qabalah and Tarot, to "receive" the inherited wealth of the Original I AM, in this material world of "I ain't".

The Gaia, female form on the Dreams of Gaia-Integrity card, is wearing the antlers of a stag, and very voluptuous in form, both suggesting fertility, and is surrounded by the wise owl and powerful jaguar. All symbols of a strong and powerful integrity that we know as "Mother Nature".

When the Dreams of Gaia-Integrity card is thrown in a divination, it implies:

• Act with honor and honesty. 
• Walk your talk.
• Know that everyone deserves a second chance.
• Oppose hypocrisy, dishonesty, cruelty, and injustice.
• Be the best You, that you can be.
• Don't betray a trust. 
• Do not cheat or take the easy way. 
• Do it for love not profit.

On the Qabalistic Tree of Life, The Devil-Key 15, is the Tree of Life, Path of Ayin, and it connects the 6th Sephiroth of the Solar Logos/Soul, Tiphareth with the Sephiroth-Hod, that is the sphere of Mercury and the intellect. The Path of Ayin, is the Twenty-sixth Path and is formative. In the terms of Self structure, it is the bridge between The Personality and the individuality of the Soul.

As I have stated so often before, the Solar Logos, is the Original Personality of the Divine Child of God, i.e. the Son/Sun and/or "The Golden Child" . Note: this is not a sexual description of a species, rather it is an "Energetic one", For the Sun of God is a Sun that sends "solar flares" (Divine Energy and Data) outward as individual expressions of It's own Self ( Personality); from Self into selves that circumnavigate, through the experiences of self-awareness back to Self, i.e. from Tiphareth to Malkuth and back up the Tree to Tiphareth again. The Patriarch turned the Sun of God, of the Dying god worshipers, into the Son of the Patriarch who calls itself god over the "People" it is supposed to serve. This Patriarch is the group soul of cultures. Each nation has its very own group soul, each in contest to rule all of mankind. For to rule, is to control definition, i.e., the imagination of the masses. The Patriarch knows that "the gods are creations of the created" and if one controls that god creating imagination, one controls the minds of the many.

The Hebrew letter Ayin means -Eye (I) and is a simple letter that also Means-Mirth. This double meaning may invite confusion; However, rest assured, that this Path of Ayin is one of the most difficult for western people to understand, for interpretation flies in the face of Christian cultural definitions that have been applied to the Devil.

In Barbra G. Walker's Book [ THE WOMAN'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MYTHS AND SECRETS] which has been honored by the London Times Educational supplement as 1986 "Book of the Year", the provenance of the word devil is noted as Persian. She states." The Words "devil" and "divinity" grew from the same root, Indo-European devi (Goddess) or deva (God), which became daeva (devil) in Persian. Old English divell (devil) can be traced to the Roman derivative divus, divi: gods. Thus it seems that, from the beginning, gods and devils were often confused with one another." She goes on to explain such enlightening scholarship that I highly recommenced this book to anyone who seeks an honest education. This confusion of gods and devils, is also why the Devil card, key 15 is a gematria 1+5=6; which is the Christ-Buddha-Soul consciousness, the 6th Sephiroth-Tiphareth. Hence, the Devil is the "unseen" or shadow side of the Sun of God.

There is another fact here that may hide from reason, and that is the combination of the words Devi (Goddess)and Lingam (Male phallus), is Divya Linga (Sanskrit word for Divine- lingam) and has also been interpreted by propagandists of Christian past, as the word Devil, which actually bespeaks of the "Sun/Son of God" as the Solar Phallus. Hence, the Christian Devil is always shown with a phallic tail. Much to study here as most of our "knowledge" is propaganda based misconstructions!

To the Qabalist, the Devil is not viewed as an evil entity (lived spelled backward), having its own god-like existence, as it represents a special mystery (Arcana) that must be experienced and understood before we can hope to directly know the Higher Self. Within our Physical bodies. The Devil is the intelligence that is Master of Manifest form (the Instinctual Mind), which we meet on the Path of Ayin, and must face and conquer. The Path of Ayin, takes the traveler into an understanding that we are entering a transition between the intellect of consciousness (individual conscious) and true spiritual conscious. In other words, our Brain, has been programmed by an artificial intelligence-The Patriarch, which is our Devil. The devil is always linked with illusion and the moon for the moon "reflects light" and therefore, is not the source.

Three Paths lead directly into Tiphareth: THE DEVIL {key 15), ART (key 14 called Temperance in

Traditional Medieval Tarot decks), and DEATH (key 13). Now each of these paths represents a special trial for the initiate; However, each student is not required to travel all 3 Paths.

One way to experience Path Travel is the Devotional Path of the Middle Pillar or Pillar of Mildness, where one need only experience the Path of Samekh (meaning- Prop) or the Art Card-key 14 (Temperance in other decks), leading from Yesod (Foundation) to Tiphareth (Beauty). This is more of a gentle path of the Mystics and demands less mental and emotional will from the Student. The Magi's way of following each and every Path, means the acquisition of control over Forces which each Path symbolizes: every Path confers a unique power

("magical abilities"). Therefore, a Magus is an active Force of Creation, rather than a Passive one. The difference here, is that the Traveler of the Middle Path does learn to balance and understand within the Self, the forces of the twenty-two Paths, but understanding these conceptual states of conscious energy does not necessarily develop the ability to manipulate them, which is an art necessary in the development of a "discerning Personality"; the Spiritual purpose for the human body! The Magus walks the lightning path.

Now I know, that some students of the Occult (hidden mysteries) enter into the studies seeking a type of "Raw Power", hoping to control others and circumstances to avoid pain and "doing unto others before they can do unto them". Such misinformed students soon learn that if such Power is acquired and then misused there is a devastating price to pay. So there is no question that for the timid, the Middle Path is much safer than facing and conquering the temptations of the Magical Path.

THE DEVIL represents Raw Power (Mars), it is the Force that brings about the transmutation of THE TOWER (key 16) and is in the sign of Capricorn (also shown as the Goat or Goat like image on the Waite and Crowley card), which is where Mars is exalted. Capricorn, is a weighty, even blind sign of earth and symbolizes the highest and lowest states of individual personality. Yet it is considered a sign of initiation, or release from matter and/or imagination formed limitations. These material limitations are suggested by the astrological ruler-ship of Capricorn by Saturn, the Planet of Binah, The Great Mother, that governs the limitations of form, including the measurement of Time. These limitations are of both the enclosure of matter or of time, the artificial system by which we meter and enclose all activities. Thus, THE DEVIL also represents the average person's misconception of "reality"; a perceptive belief that the material eye sight and/or-sensual condition is "Real". The Qabalist knows the physical-material world as the "1%" world, and realizes that the other invisible ”99%” (often called "the other side of the Mirror") is the unseen Real. This misconception of reality is symbolized on the head of the Rider-Waite DEVIL, by the upside down pentagram on the entities head. The upside down pentagram indicates delusion as our ideas of spirituality and reality are upside down as it is positioned over the "Third Eye" of Inner Sight. The Thoth Card Shows the "forget-me-nots" on the goat's head. The blue forget-me-nots, symbolize "fear of rejection" and/or "forget me not".

The total misconceptions of Life based on fear, is what the devil card implies.

The misconception of reality is symbolized in two ways on the Thoth -THE DEVIL card; the smirking mouth and the Goat represents the humorous figure of the childhood nemesis the "Bogey Man". This "Bogey Man" is more of threat to a child, and used to enforce obedience. Rather than show the Devil as some demonic netherworld god, the Thoth Tarot cards emphasizes the knowledge that our belief in the illusion of matter (Matter is only .4% visible as our bodies are 99.6% space!) is actually laughable while also implying that laughter is a humorous approach to our lives and is a tool which will help our consciousness to transcend the illusion of "thinking it to believe it". Mirth is the first great corrective and helps us not to take our perceptions of the material world seriously, which only means "fearfully". Therefore, The Devil Card cautions us not to believe everything we think.

It pays to note that the Survival Mind of the animal, is our Devilish tempter that tricks us into believing we are as Moons who are at the mercy of Forces rather than the Magus (The Sun) who manipulates these forces. The Wisdom of the ages, tells one to not believe in the Christian Devil. That the darkness within is merely our fear based thinking initiated by the survival mind of the biological brain that is stimulated by imaginary bogey men, created by those who wish to rule our imaginations.

These delusions of mental weakness, as a dark and unwholesome nightmare apparitions of a predator but actually represent the Patriarchy, who is indeed a predator who wishes to control your mind. Just as we prey on cows, for once you r identity is corralled in an enclosure, in our case- dogma, you are easily preyed on. Hence, the Shadow Side of our mind is our fear of fate, forces, and other states of enslaved thinking, brought on by our fear of pain, death etc. Also, the limited physical sight, rather than insight, can be the bogey-men creator that keeps us from exercising our free Will- and/ or Spiritual Power, as we constantly react to the environment rather than the spiritual act of acting in that environment. This is the Trick of sensuality, it makes us believe only in reaction as reality rather than the Action, that makes the Real of things. Spirit is action, the body is reaction. Our Action must control our reaction, if we are to exercise our Divine Freedom of Choice. When reacting to others, we are choosing to be ruled by them and spend our lives trying to appease them while we are in a constant state of fear of being preyed on.

The Path of Ayin, means Eye, a representation of the true "I" and/or our Soul/Psyche. Hence, if we believe in only what our physical eyes show us, we lose our inner "I" sight, shown as the All Seeing Eye, that is on the Forehead of the Thoth Tarot- Goat, which symbolizes the astrological sign of Capricorn.

The Qabalist knows that there is nothing in the Universe that is not of One Mind. The devil, as we are taught, is merely a postulation of those who wish to rule the knowledge by keeping other's ignorant and making them fear their body. intelligence and senses. Once, the creative trinity of the Spirit- Mind- Body are divided, by dogma, one becomes a "body bedeviled" by its own Mind and Spirit.

Intellectually the "Devil " Tarot indicates a state of mind that is a source of forms, a mind of measurement called "rational" and its measurement is the appearance of relative existence. The Path of Ayin must be conquered before there is the necessary intellectual means of reaching the Christ-Buddha consciousness that is Tiphareth, the 6th Sephiroth-Beauty- on the Tree of Life. We are not to reject the rational , for without measurement, there is no sensual self-awareness and therefore, no discernment. That is why this necessary state of mind, is also called the "Lord of the Gates of Matter and the Child of the forces of Time" (see the Emerald Tablet). The Devil then is both Tempter and Redeemer. He is also described as the "Prince of the Powers of Air", indicating that this state of energy conscious is mediating in the flow of Astral currents; Air being understood here as being the whole of Yetzirah, the Astral Plane which controls the ebb and flow of Matter. Yet, this rational one, must be under the supervision of the Soul, and not some "outside" authority.

Therefore, the inner Path of Ayin, confers the ability to bring the upside down pentagram indicating "matter's rule over spirit", right side up. Right side up, the pentagram indicating Spirit's rule over matter; which is another way of saying, the ability to reverse the currents of astral light. This process begins with the intellect of Hod (Splendor) and leads into the intuition of Tiphareth (Beauty). Thus, Dr. Paul Foster Case in his text -The Thirty-Two Paths to Wisdom, calls the Devil the Renewing Intelligence. The Qabalist understands that only through the forces of the Devil and our right understanding of them, can we come directly to the Higher Consciousness of the Son/Sun of The Divine Creative.

It behooves us to remember that the word manifestation actually means to create illusion, and while manifestation is the necessary means to create the illusion of earthly form and therefore, measurement for the infinite Soul/psyche, it is the "dissolution" of these forms that is absolutely essential to the Path of Return. To the Qabalist, "dissolution" means analysis which is precisely what we apply when we intellectually separate the component forces and forms of the Universe and ourselves into 22 paths on the Tree of Life. By first conceptualizing these component parts and then reintegrating them through our understanding of their operation, can we Return to our Divinity.

The Astral light (Akashic fluid, Odic force, etc.) is manipulated for whatever purpose, through an understanding of the Devil which is a "Great Magical Agent" (Eliphas Levi) for the processes of alchemical manipulation, as to dissolve, to consolidate, to quicken, and to moderate. This is dissolution, re-integration, activity and grounding which can be described as Fire, Water, Air and Earth.

The Thoth Tarot Card is more Arcane and metaphysically complex in its imagery than a traditional tarot card. This is because, as Crowley states, that Key 15 represents, "creative energy in its most material form", and as "Pan Pangenetor, the All-Begetter". Rather than some child's bogey man. Crowley's goat is Pan standing on the highest mountain-top on earth, against a "background of the exquisitely tenuous, complex, and fantastic forms of madness." Between the legs of the Thoth Goat, is the wand of the Chief Adept and all in front of a Phallus and two testicles, implying the Universal "All-Begetter". On the Thoth Devil card, the tip of the male organ is outside of the card, implying it is in the "Greater Heavens", while the testes contain the bound up forms of manifestation. The mysteries behind this card require books of research, so I hope this gets you started towards your discoveries.

WHEN THOTH KEY 15-THE DEVIL CARD IS THROWN DURING A DIVINATION, IT IMPLIES:

• Materialism.
• Material Force.
• Sometimes obsession. (especially if thrown with the Lovers card)
• upside down thinking, where the illusion of fear rules your thought and one thinks that "everything bad happens to me".
• Not seeing the forest through the trees.
• Living in your own illusion of suffering and being obsessed with pain or fear thereof. Such as a hypochondriac. 
• Needing mirth in your understanding, as you are too serious. Time to laugh at your assumptions.
• Needing more action and less reaction in your life.

If ill defined by the surrounding cards, it implies:

• Fateful entanglements.
• Self-destructive drives.
• Collective hysteria. 
• Darkness, hell, dark powers.

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