What does Ra mean by "Will"?

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Thanks!! I had some thoughts related to the archetypes--if it doesn't resonate, please let it go. I'm just trying to work things out and understand them better.

Here are my thoughts: In traditional decks, the Matrix of Mind is given the title of Magician and the Potentiator of Mind is the Priestess. RA’s information on dynamism (force/form polarity) seems at first to contradict this if it is assumed that the Magician, or tool user, is active and the Priestess is negative or passive. However, RA’s information gives us that it is the Priestess that is the dynamic force, the current the Priest or Magician would be able to direct or use to become enlightened. The Magician, like the Priest, may have all the knowledge to effect change in the world (or within himself), but without the “current,” he has no “power” to make anything move.

Taking Ra’s information on the relative dynamism of the two archetypes as correct, the Magician is the “form,” the static element, while the Priestess carries the electrical current, or power, which the Magician directs through conscious knowledge. No Priest touches the divine without his Priestess (whether she be an actual partner or his well-developed feminine half). This would also imply that in a relationship between a man and a woman, it is the drive of the woman which potentiates and enlivens man mentally—she feeds his imagination and makes him more than the sum of his conscious parts. This is evidenced throughout history where one finds the Greek hetaera, the Japanese geisha, or the French courtesan. In fact, RA states, “the Matrix of the Mind is attracted to the biological male and the Potentiator of the Mind to the biological female. Thusly in energy transfer the female is able to potentiate that which may be within the conscious mind of the male so that it may feel enspirited.”

i believe this relativity of dynamism is also present within an individual. Each individual will eventually balance itself, becoming both “masculine” and “feminine”—or rather, each individual will eventually run as a self-perpetuating machine. The Will, or conscious mind, will direct and harness the pure power and energy of the sea of the unconscious within the individual. Evidence for this may be found in the world where many may be said to be out of balance regardless of biological gender. The individual at the mercy of emotion, instinct, intuition (the unconscious) cannot manage to bring any of its projects to fruition. That energy is like so much water poured out onto a table: it runs off on all sides and eventually evaporates. Without the Will, the conscious, to apply wisdom (or restraint), the water has no shape and cannot build up enough of itself to be used in any productive way. The great dams of the world are like the Will, the conscious, which restricts the flow of the water in order to harness its power. However, an over-abundance of Will, or conscious mind, leaves an individual without the ability to create from within itself; it is brittle and redundant, only repeating that which was generated by the genius of others without variation. It can achieve a high degree of seeming perfection in a variety of areas, but all its works lack the spark that marks the creations of genius—genius being that touch of the muse, the subconscious. When the numinous flows through a work—art, music, literature—it potentiates others as well.

Any thoughts?