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Thoth- ATU 11-Lust

#8. I look forward with confidence to the perfect realization of the Eternal Splendor of the Limitless Light.

In this world of the Military Industrial Complex, which indoctrinates by propaganda and dividing and conquering through dogma and media, we have forgotten our Lust for being by dividing our spirit from our bodies; as if spirit was an achievement rather than the one spiral of energy animating us and/or our higher nature. Because of this divisionism we have become automatons of our environment who are reaction instead of the powerful positive active expression of I AM ME who changes environment by the strength of Will and the powerful, Lust of Being that began with Kether (I Will Be!). This card represents the powerful purpose of the androgynous Being that is our Soul, before our identity was lost in the a paper mache' mask of pasted on words.

Here the Scarlet woman is shown with the Grail held high, filled with the "Scarlett womb" energy that is the primal force of Life and/or "The Blood of Mother". The High Priestess (key 2) is seen riding the Lust for life that is all around us, through us and is us. The anima, and animus of Earth species separation, are the many faces of life that all are under the leadership of the Active Goddess. This is the universal principle of Passion, awareness and aliveness! This is self-esteem, with the strength and the courage necessary to acknowledge the inner convictions so necessary to manifest as the Passionate Creative-Self. In all of us is this irresistible strength of Spiritual Will ; this Divine Frenzy of I Am Me!

However, in most of us, that frenzy is suppressed as we are divided against ourselves and devote the creative power of lust to good and bad emotional state run creativity, resulting in division of forces and unable to call upon the inner power that cleaves us from our chains of fear based ,and indoctrinated self-imposed slavery. We are Divinity dancing as the active images of Goddess and God whose self-expression is "Being"!

When this card falls in a reading, it means that you are in union with or you should be listening to the passionate roar of I Am that resides in your very essence of soul in order to find the bliss within that radiates you as it’s very creative and unashamed self. We live now! We are not to be "wanna-be's" who are the faux life of the past, hoping for a pretend future, therefore, not living the truth of today's passionate expression of I Am Me! Our definition belongs to no one, not our environment, not our parents, not our rulers and not our theologians –our definition belongs only to our passionate creative self as the Divine grant of “freedom of choice”. Divinity gave you the right to define yourself as an image of the Supreme Being (Qabalah tree of life). Peer pressure is not your definition!

To those of magic, lust is not obsession with the opposite sex. It is obsession with being. It is the luster of Will- that ejaculated this universe of I AM Energy into Self- manifestation in the womb of “To Be”. It is the indivisible creative strength of I Am The Divine Image/Child that radiates through us, outward, as a Sun of creative passion that restores life in the dead. Therefore, even in the most imposed mundane indolence, we can dance!

-1988 speech on "enfleshenment"-Eli

We see in this card the universal myth known as "beauty and the beast". This key represents the Beauty (Tiphareth The 6th Sephiroth on the Qabalistic Tree of Life) that is represented in all of us a Soul built of combinations of talent, gifts, and creative resources from inherited Divinity, which can quell our body's bestial natures. When our Spirit, Mind, and Body are in a balanced combination of movement and repose--we manifest Divine Beauty.

The multi-headed lion represents the beasts within which Beauty has tamed to do her creative biding. She expands and liberates the living from their past bonds of survival thinking onward to greater achievements of courageous creation. Our word Lust comes from the root word Lustre which is radiance. We cannot shine if we are not in our strength is divide because of our ignorant fear of the survival mind of the "beasts within" which steadily weakens us until we cannot radiate our purpose on this earth. Beauty (The Sun/Son of the Divine Creative) created us to radiate ourselves into the movement of life! We all have much more purpose than we can see in a world of slaves! Strength and Lustre are inseparable partners in creation.

This lust to be; this strength, can easily be seen as a soft and spongy mushroom pushes through hard concrete as if it was mere soggy tissue paper. In all of us is this quiet manifestation of strength.

The Thoth Deck LUST card, key-11, replaces the STRENGTH, card which is Key-8 in the traditional Tarot Decks. Strength is key 8 in the Golden Dawn, Rider-Waite-Smith, Spiral Tarot, Haindl Tarot and Manara Tarot Decks, to name a few. So it may be confusing when I place it in the Path of Teth, which is normally called STRENGTH-Key 8. As I stated, I agree with Aleister Crowley's expansion of the STRENGTH card, into the LUST card, because it is the Passionate Vital Force of Universal Construction, "the motion within the movement" of everything. Lust is the Passionate expression of the- I AM as Two (0=2), the I-phallus and the Am-womb, who then Join to become One Passion that creates all, and is in all of us, i.e., The Active and Passive force of Kundalini, and/or of the Lion-Serpent. This lion serpent is shown as the tail of the beast on the Thoth Card. It can also be called "Serpent theory" instead of the Quantum Physics "String Theory", where every particle has a serpentine string of active and passive energy with in it. In other words, there is within all, vibratory strings of Vital Fiery strong atomic Force. The Hindus call it OM.

Thus, Lust, where active and passive forces come together, seems a more appropriate understanding of the underlying "motion" of Life. The Kundalini, or Fiery Lion Serpent is the vital aspect of Life Force, which in manifestation, is duality of passivity and activity. Kundalini is known as the Sacred Fire, when in its active phase, purposely unleashed by Will.

The Thoth UNIVERSE -ATU 21, is the completion of the LUST CARD, and you'll see the Woman figure riding the Lion Serpent on the Lust card, dancing with the Serpent Force in the Universe card. Both illustrations are veils, concealing of principles, though at different ends of manifestation. LUST is the beginning of the Microcosm and THE UNIVERSE is the completion of it. Both of these cards are of that which is Womb, at the Highest Level, the womb-man who has tamed the Lion-Serpent and the womb-man who dances in space surrounded by the Cherubim of the four elements are both expressions of that which is the EMPRESS- Key 3.

Again, this is a very powerful path and those of sensitive self-absorbed psyche, will be profoundly affected in the negative and must avoid exposure to this vigorous energy. One must appreciate the fact, that this Path of Teth, Lust Card, is a statement of methodology; whereby the Will controls the Vital Life Energy and if we are of divided will, this energy will empower what we "will the most" and if that is "emotional dysfunction" and/or fear based identity, we will crash and burn with vital energy going to "self-destruction".

We must also remember, that the word Power, means "the ability to do work" and our body, if loved as a master Craftsman loves and adores one's favorite-tools, gives us Souls Will - to-Power in this dimension of crystallized energy; a power to weave our very own Vital Life Force into masterpieces of movement and repose! So let us all ride the “Lion Serpent” or Inner Dragon/Sun, with the powerful presence of loving control and shameless presence!

This is the Divine Frenzy that obliterated "Alone" (0)and split into 2. It is an Self-annihilation, of 0 is also the process of becoming 2, Will to Force and Will to Form, who then become the Dragonish expression of Frenzy and Form, when the Red-Babalon (Crowley’s spelling for purposes of Gematria) unites with the Golden Fiery Force of the Solar Husband, the offspring are Beautiful Children. All about us on Earth, we have proof of being genetically modified Organisms derived from Angelic/ "Those who from the Sky came", known to Sumeria as Anunnaki, and hominid-interbreeding, creating the biblical Nephilim and/or children from Angel (all beings who came from the sky are given wings by artists) and hominid breeding. However, because of the well documented *"War of the Gods", we the "Meek" (slaves) have inherited the Earth. The Souls of the Creators, are Us and the body of Homo Sapiens Sapiens, is our new "will to form", our I AM Me. Some of us have yet to "love" this beast we operate in our name of "I AM". However, to reject the body, is to divide the Spirit, Mind, Body connection that makes us a "Supreme Being", as we are all quantumly entangled and/or connected to the Universal Creative Being, the I AM.

*(War of the Gods, documented in Vedic, Nordic, Greek, Sumerian, Jewish, and Assyrian literature, to name a few).

To be Whole requires a focused willful spiritual intelligence, and not some mad Hatter type of personality, that can't even control its own thought. Skry the Lust card only after you are capable of holding one thought or image focus during an entire meditation! Any Psyche that Touches the Lust OF The Great Father/Mother, will be profoundly charged, changed, and expanded beyond comfortable perspectives; all of which can be dangerous to our delicate denial based egos. In other words, one must be diligently trained in channeling higher and higher vibratory levels of Vital Life Force, before they "Ride the Lion-Serpent". That is why A. Crowley calls the Traditional Strength card Lust. For even the "little lust" of the manifested (Microcosm) seems to be beyond the cultural ego's control, as every politicians "secret life" of greed and sexual conquest will show. It is hard to imagine, what the Macrocosmic Lust would do to such a weak psyche... but then again, we have examples in Adolf Hitler, Stali, Pol Pot, etc., where lust becomes a violent form of masturbation.

Lust represents a very important initiatory formula dealing with Serpent/Vital Power. This Spiraling Power is the Force that opens, stimulates or spools up all the Chakras (energy centers) in the Human body. The Principles embedded in the Lust Card, tell us how to use this power. This is a "Divine Frenzy" which when stated alchemically becomes; “the heat of the furnace makes the Stone" or if religious; “inflame thyself with Prayer". The Heat applied, is the Great Passion at friction in the confines of a condensed magnetic field that is the human. This Heat or burning is experienced often in Tantric exercises, or the exercise of the Middle Pillar (Aleister Crowley's book, 777), all of which I recommend the interested party research.

Crowley's imagery may shock some, as he presents the Whore of Babylon, taming the Lion-Serpent but then he understood that the epitome of virginity (sign of Virgo), was the Sacred Virgins of the Temples, before Christianity, made them "evil women" or Saints, of which both perspectives were confusingly applied. The Christian word 'Whore" is a bastardization of the Greek word, Hetacrate, meaning female companion. Something more for the diligent student to investigate!

Haindl Tarot- Key 8-Strength

The Haindl Tarot- Key 8-Strength, uses the Traditional Tarot Title for this card. On the upper left is the Hebrew letter Teth (Serpent)  and on the upper right is the Rune-Sigil (S), meaning Sun. 

Meaning (s): Power and Strength This rune represents a wild ox, appreciated for its strength and power. It stands for internal mental fortitude, will to face challenges, and new beginnings. For men, it represents manhood and for women, it stands for femininity.📷

A Brief Overview on Mystical Rune Symbols and Their Meanings

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spiritualray.com/rune-stone-symbols-meanings

On the bottom right corner of the Haindl card, is the symbol for Leo (sun).  Displayed as the main image on the Card is a Shaman,  performing a ritual under the moon, in the woods by a pool of water; the pool represents the hidden mysteries of the unconscious.  By holding up the serpent, she is connecting the Vital Energy flow of "As above, so below"; from Macrocosm to Microcosm.  That is why the serpent is green, the color of new growth, and red on the underside,  the color of energy.  This card represents more of the Thoth imagery than the traditional strength cards of tarot. Energy shown in the form of a serpentine shape, is also the symbol for the "first husband" which is Microwave Energy to us moderns. 

When the Lust or Strength card is thrown during a reading: 

• It means the querent is relying on spiritual powers to manage the situation at hand and is receiving the strength to overcome.   
• Following one’s own inner light, doing what their "heart of heart".  
• Inner -self, says it is right.  
• There can be an experiencing of a "gut level" driving force, instinctual and compelling for protection or survival.  
• Also, possessing the courage of one's convictions. 
•   The strength of Passion, in the Higher Nature, which are dragon like power, courage, energy, action and magnanimity.  
• One is experiencing the Law of Self-Domination, self-rule and self-control.
• This card represents the querent’s' passion, awareness, and aliveness.
•  A symbol that you have a strong faith in your abilities. 
• You have no qualms about relying on the spiritual powers within in order to handle the situation at hand. 
•  In other words you radiate your inner beauty and the ability to give love.

• If ill defined by the surrounding cards (Thoth) or reversed (Haindl), it implies:

• Feeling blocked from one's power.
• Weak.
• Overwhelmed.
• You need some form of meditation or relaxation which may help restore strength.

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