"Gnosis (mysticism become conscious of itself) is exactly what the image of The Priestess expresses both in its entirety and in its details, namely the descent of revelation (the pure act or essence reflected by substance) down to the final stage."
"The essence of pure mysticism is creative activity. One becomes a mystic when one dares to elevate oneself - i.e. "to stand upright", then even more upright, and ever more upright - beyond all created being as far as the essence of Being, the divine creative fire. "Concentration without effort" is burning without smoke or crackling fire. On the part of the human being it is the act of daring to aspire to the supreme Reality and this act is real and effective only when the soul is serene and the body completely relaxed - without smoke or crackling fire.
The essence of pure gnosis is reflected mysticism. Gnosis signifies that that which takes place in mysticism has become higher knowledge. That is, gnosis is mysticism which has become conscious of itself. It is mystical experience transformed into higher knowledge."
"That is why it is necessary to renounce "personal opinion" (the Magus in us) in order to receive the revelation of truth, "personal" action (the Priestess in us) in order to become an agent for sacred magic, the way (or method) of "personal" development (the Empress in us) in order to be guided by the Master of The Ways, and one's "personally" chosen mission (Emperor) in order to be charged with a mission from above."
(Anon. Meditations On The Tarot)
Are we then to renounce "personal things" to become an empty space to be filled by Divine initiative?
Should we become anonymous?
Regarding the six of Disks, we see this as a personal transformation described thus:
"It represents consciousness in its most harmonised form, not only in idea, as in the case of the number two. In other words, the Son is an interpretation of the Father in terms of the mind." (A.C. The Book of Thoth)
The six here is an interpretation of the Ace of Disks in terms of the mind - we are occupied with the values of our actions (inner/external), what does our earthly existence mean to us, how can we transform ourselves to find harmony in our body and soul using all the six planets seen here?
In the Cups we see that water no longer flows from them to nourish and sustain the plants.
The blossoms have withered and dried, the sea has become a stagnant pool - but a clue to salvation is found in the the outline of a butterfly (transformation into a higher consciousness) formed by the shape of roots in the image.
"It is not death that resists life but always the ego marking the boundaries against death by not letting the energies flow, accumulating them instead as protection against the fear of death." (Akron/Banzhaf)
We need therefore to actively involve ourselves in the process of letting go of old patterns and behaviours in order to experience new ones, to be like the alchemical Priestess seen in "14 - Art" incorporating our light and dark natures - to fully express who we are, to completely trust our intuition and renounce any obstacles in communicating with it.
The Priestess rules over these intuitive and unconscious powers - she combines both the dark and light side of our nature, she is the inner guide to these states and their energy.
"A great deal of what people now consider ignorance, of being themselves ignorant of what men of Old Time thought, comes from this misapprehension (of heating something in a retort over a flame, as opposed to letting it take place naturally). At the bottom of (Art/14) are seen fire+water harmoniously mingled, but this is only a crude symbol of the spiritual idea, which is the satisfaction of the desire of the incomplete element of one kind to satisfy its formula by assimilation of its equal and opposite." (A.C. The Book of Thoth)
The Priestess then is our connection between the inner world of our emotions/intuition/dreams and the external world of experience, she is "Isis the Eternal Virgin, the truth behind the veil of light, the idea behind all form.
"This is the contemplative sense, which follows on from concentration & meditation and commences the moment that discursive and logical thought is suspended. This occurs when there is the matter of a new dimension of knowledge, mainly depth. It occurs when it is a question of something deeper, the question of "true or false?" when the enquirer perceives more of the significance of the truth discovered by this discursive thought and why this truth is true in itself. We reach the mystical or essential source of this truth by listening in silence." (Lynda IH Hughes - 22 Keys To Wisdom)
"Each of us is linked to a spiritual being whom he/she calls the Holy Guardian Angel, until we have become spiritually wedded to this being, we are not fully equipped as human beings to rule the denizens of our lower nature or advance spiritually" (Lon Milo Duquette - Angels, Demons and Gods Of The New Millennium).
Aleister Crowley devised a magical word to illustrate knowledge of and conversation with this Holy Guardian Angel, a word found hidden in the imagery of the Chariot card and which symbolises the union of numbers five and six (seen either side of the Priestess here, as light and dark) - ABRAHADABRA, representing "magical change" when we combine our emotional nature to produce tangible results that have been influenced by our intuition which reminds us finally of who we really are.
"The direct wisdom of gnosis (the Priestess) and the productive power of magic (the Empress), whosever has these two, to a certain degree can found a "school"(teach). Whosoever has these two to a "still higher" degree can lay down the Law!" (Anon. Meditations On The Tarot)
"Love is the law, love under will." (A.C. The Book of the Law also known as Liber AL vel Legis)
"This is the harmony of the Universe, that Love
Unites the will to create with the understanding
Of that creation; understand thou thine own will.
Love and let Love. Rejoice in every shape of Love
And get thy rapture and nourishment thereof."
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