Reposted from @the.library.of.thomas #DOORWAYTOTHEUNDERWORLD The Sacred Virgins were the Cors who sang in choirs and who, like Ariadne at Knossos, performed the sacred spiral dance of the "choros" which, in ancient times, were also the chorus of narrators of religious ritual, ballad and tragedy. This chorus, in later Rome comprising of only the cream of noble youth and maidenhood, danced the labyrinth around a central core or "Cor". In effect this was the eye of the storm or whirlwind, symbolised by a column or pillar, upon which roosted the Dove of the Spirit, the Magdal, which represented the corpus callosum, and the wings of the grey matter of the cerebral hemispheres of the human brain. Also pertinent to the labyrith, as the genitalia of the Cor or Virgin, and variously therefore the Triangle of Daleth in which is set the All Seeing Eye of God, is the Cor, as the pupil of the eye. The second card [of the Waite Tarot], the High Priestess portraying the virgin Isis, is seated before a veil decorated with Persephone's pomegranates, which is suspended between the two pillars [of Boaz and Jachin]. Partly concealed beneath her blue robe she holds a scroll on her lap bearing the legend Torah, or Law. Here it is indicated that the law resides within her womb and that she and it are situated between the pillars and thus represent and occupy the point of Zen balance or stillness derived from divine union. Kabalistically speaking she sits at the Cor of the Llan, the inner sanctuary of the temple in the labyrinth, before the invisible middle pillar of the Tree of Life. It is in this position, in ceremonial magic, that initiates position themselves psychically in anticipation of a final communion with their Holy Guardian Angel. This is the Ende-Werk of the Hermetic process, as envisioned by modern occultists. On her head the High Priestess wears a crown comprising of the disc of the Ajna Chakra or Sephiroth of Kether positioned between the draconian horns of divinity. On her breast she wears the Johannite white cross of Iao or Thymus the Healer, and at her feet rests the crescent of the new moon. #TheDragonLegacy by #NicholasdeVere, pp 155, 156, 157 #TheLibraryofTh (at Time Traveler Technologies Ltd.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAEoMT-gMZz/?igshid=8x6nk5i964vc