(08-12-2010, 09:56 PM)βαθμιαίος Wrote: I'm still not really buying the idea that standing = male and seated = female, given that there are standing females and seated males among the archetypes. I think there must be some other resonance or implication, but I'm not sure what.
Perhaps it is the smaller subset of cards on which the male is seated or the female is standing that should attract your attention. Then again, perhaps I'm totally off base, but it feels right to me.
(08-12-2010, 09:56 PM)βαθμιαίος Wrote: You mean "without potentiation," right, where you wrote "with potentiation"?
Yes, thank you for the correction.
(08-12-2010, 09:56 PM)βαθμιαίος Wrote: It says the Potentiators choose to make alterations in their experiential continuum. If the Matrix is the one reaching, isn't he the one choosing to make alterations? And why are the results recorded in the Matrices? Wouldn't the results be recorded in the Significators?
I had an interesting dream about a year ago, that gave me an insight into this enigma. I described the dream in post #9 of the Tread Considerations of s/t and t/s, and there were many aspects to it, but the one pertinent to this topic was that I had been thinking about how experience happens with respect to the archetypes backward. In my dream I came to realize that experience occurs in the process of mapping t/s into s/t. The pertinent quote from my post was:
Quote:I believe that this order of mapping applies directly to the archetypes that Ra discusses in Book IV. I see now how Arcanum IV- the Experience of the mind, feeds this biased interpretation of an experience to Arcanum III - the Catalyst of the Mind, which evaluates its catalytic properties and delivers them to Arcanum II - the Potentiator of the Mind, who prepares Arcanum I - the Matrix of the Mind, to store the biased interpretation of the experience in the matrix of the mind. I realize now that I had been looking at the process backward, as I had previously thought that these happened in the opposite order (i.e., the matrix stored a raw event, which was evaluated for potentiation value, and then was handed to the catalyst for reaction which became the experience).
To more fully answer your question then, given the above interpretation, it would seem that the Significator of the mind deems those experiences (catalysts) as significant and offers them to the Experience for further processing. Note that the ultimate bias gleaned from an experience (positive or negative) has yet to be determined when it is passed on by the Significantor.
[Edit 2:40 pm] Sorry, I just realized that I hadn't addressed all of your question. My interpretation of the other aspect to your question (i.e., Isn't the Magician the one choosing to make alterations?) is this: The Magician choose to reach to experience and then stores what is provided back from the Potentiator. This then begs the question of how is Magician performing magic? To me, the Magician is the switch that creates the circuit of experience. Without the reaching, there would be no experience, and hence no circuit and no magic.
Of course, I could have just been dreaming, but it made sense at the time, and does still. At least to me.
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