The Transformation and Great Way of the Mind as a Mated Pair

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I would add inward/outward flow.

Hi 3DMonkey,
Can you expand more? JustLikeYou and I have been ferreting out all the possible ways to view polarity and I'd love to hear it if you have an addition.

We've hypothesized 3 levels of polarity in the tarot so far:

1) Inherent quality - moving or unmoving/static or dynamic

2) Function - Activator (FORCE) or acted upon (FORM) - the mover and the moved

3) "native" plane of reference
Here are some quick thoughts on this last one:

Consciousness is the pre-requisite for Will; Will is that which makes THE CHOICE possible. THE CHOICE is a thing of this world. The Magician ACTS here--in 3D. So the function of the archetype is more on the physical plane. Static on the inner; dynamic on the outer (3D). The Priestess is the opposite. Her realm is the unconscious, which is dynamic on the inner and static or hidden on the outer. When I set the polarities in the text on my website, I posited that the Mind and the Spirit would be viewed from their "native" elements--the inner. So in my analysis, I made the Matrices static (both are receivers of spiritual force) and the Potentiators dynamic (force from the inner). However, as I saw the "native" land of the Body to be 3D, I worked from the physical perspective: so the movement is dynamic and the spiritual power that limits is static (it is a dam on the outer--static; on the inner it is a force of restraint).

So what we'd get in a little chart form

Mind Complex
1st level: Magician = unmoving; Priestess = moving

2nd level: Magician = dynamic (reaching); Priestess = static (waiting)

3rd level: Magician = static; Priestess = dynamic

Body Complex:
1st level: Matrix of Body = dynamic (FORCE); Potentiator = static (FORM--that which limits or directs the movement in the matrix)

2nd level: M of B = Form (homeostatis; movement in balance); P of B = force (that which actively directs)

3rd level: M of B = dynamic; P of B = static

I need to think more about the levels and the Spirit Complex. I see the Matrix as receptive (static) and the Potentiator as an activator (dynamic) overall.

This is just a rough outline to give you an example--how would you describe inward/outward flow?

@JustLikeYou --any clarifications you'd add?

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Where did you see this name given to Archetype 6, Shemaya?

The Mind Cycle has always seemed to me as the realm where most of the balancing of lower chakras (1-3) occurs. We cannot become masters of ourselves in the way that these cards suggest until the desires which seem outside out control are balanced and placed within a context where the choice has been made (in chakra 4). Whereas archetypes 1-4 seem to me to be a time of balancing red-yellow rays, the Mind Cycle seems to culminate in archetype 6, where green ray is either opened further or closed further.

I would say that this is one of the main reasons why we find the mind cycle at the beginning of the Archetypes. Ra says in Session 5 that the mind must be initiated before the body or the spirit. Ra says elsewhere that the lower chakras must be balanced before the upper ones are given significant attention. Therefore, it would seem that this balancing happens in the disciplines of the mind, where the movements of archetypes 1-7 are the most prominent.

If we look at the human beings around us, we can see that no one seems to be a master of her own experience until these lower chakras have been balanced and they have a firm grasp upon what their purpose in this world is (i.e. to serve the self or others). Thus, the choice having been made and committed to, the mind is firmly rooted in its purpose and therefore gains sufficient vision to be able to direct its energies with enough focus to move forward along the path. In this sense, the Transformation of the Mind is the ultimate activator, because it is the location where the choice is first made.

Since this discussion revolves around the concept of the Great Chain of Mind, I think it is also important to point out that while the evolution of a full life-time can be viewed as a progressive motion through these archetypes one-by-one, my experience of them has been that smaller archetypal movements are nested within this larger life-story. So while I may, for example, still be within a long-term phase of Archetype 6, I can still experience catalyst of body, transformation of spirit, and so forth, within smaller phases of my experience.

I've been wondering how this would be related to the Paths on the Tree of Life--The Mind archetypes are "located" at the top of the tree extending from Kether. So are they the "first" on the tree, but far from Malkuth, the physical realm--anyone have any ideas?