The Magician: Matrix of the Mind

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I often think about the caged bird in this Archetype, and what daddy Ra said in session 91, which is just so beautiful:

"Questioner: The hand downward has been seen as seeking from within, not outwardly active dominance over the material world. Would Ra comment?

Ra: I am Ra. Look again, O student. Does the hand reach within? Nay. Without potentiation the conscious mind has no inwardness. That hand, O student, reaches towards that which, outside its unpotentiated influence, is locked from it."

And then more about the bird in the cage:

"Ra: The folded wing in this image is intended to suggest that just as the Matrix figure, the Magician, cannot act without reaching its wingèd spirit, so neither can the spirit fly lest it be released into conscious manifestation and fructified thereby."

"Ra: Observe the struggle of a caged bird to fly."

And then at last this powerful statement about the Matrix:

"Ra: It is then that the adept would call upon the new mind, untouched and virgin, and dwell within the archetype of the new and unblemished mind without bias, without polarity, full of the magic of the Logos."

These statements and the caged bird indeed haunts me.