(06-09-2012, 11:23 AM)Tenet Nosce Wrote: [ -> ]JustLikeYou- Thanks for the very thoughtful reply. I will come back to it when I have a little more time to give it a proper response. I don't really disagree with anything specific that you have written, however it is all kind of tangential to the main point of my post, to which you haven't responded.
We are talking about Card #22, which is termed "The Choice".
Where in the symbolic imagery of this card do you see The Choice as being depicted between "STS" and "STO"?
You also completely ignored the quote I provided which specifically addressed how to use the archetypical mind to accelerate personal evolution.
91.36 Wrote:Questioner: How is the knowledge of the facets of the archetypical mind used by the individual to accelerate his evolution?
Ra: I am Ra. We shall offer an example based upon this first explored archetype or concept complex. The conscious mind of the adept may be full to bursting of the most abstruse and unmanageable of ideas, so that further ideation becomes impossible and work in blue ray or indigo is blocked through over-activation. 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.
It clearly, and unequivocally, says: Without polarity. What do you think Ra meant by this?
I would like to take this opportunity to restate my personal understanding of this card, by first pasting what I had written in another thread.
"Often referred to as The Fool, I choose not to acknowledge it in this manner because fool is meant to be innocently ignorant and not idiotic. However it is my understanding that this is not an innocently ignorant archetype at all.
The Survivor is one who comes from the ruins of the highest levels of civilization, and having experienced the most that the material world has to offer the physical experience of flesh.
Leaving the ruins behind him he now stands at the threshold to a new experience, and knowing nothing about how to survive in the natural world void of material satisfaction.
he leaves behind the limitations of civilization and departs into the dangers and vulnerabilities of the mysterious natural world.
With him he carries the burden of balancing duality symbolized by the two sacks on the pole in his left hand, also symbolizing the arrival onto the left hand path.. Wearing rags he is no longer civilized.
The scepter in his right hand, the path of rule and civilization that lay in ruin behind him, is now nothing more than a walking stick. The symbol of impedance on the stick indicates how such authority and rule was a barrier to the full access through the length of the spine to the Crown.
the eclipse symbolizes the Goddess hiding/veiling the way to the Infinite Spirit, depicted by the sun as always, allowing only what she chooses to reveal by her own design.
This scene is the depiction of Thoth escaping from Atlantis to lead his followers from the right hand path onto the left hand path. Remember that many believe it was Thoth who originally devised the Tarot image system."
I think Ra was trying to impress upon us the fact that the card would be better called 'the lack of choice', than the choice.
That is why he spoke of 'without polarity'.
This character is not a fool because of idiocy or ignorance, but because it is being suggested that without access to the the life it had previously experienced, which lay now in ruins and complete annihilation, he may as well be a fool with nothing more than the offering of creation on which to survive. It may also be suggested that fool denotes the judgement on the human intellect for having been advanced and yet so foolish as to abuse that advanced state and end up with nothing but the ruin of their own choices.
This 'mind' had learned all that was available to be learned, and had reached the pinnacle of what the human could achieve. Whatever other truths were to be revealed would be incomprehensible to the mind of the human state. There was nothing more to be learned and no other advancement to be gained. They had it all, and they blew it.
The opportunity of the right hand path of authority, rule, education, tradition, and guidance had come to an abrupt end in total and complete destruction. Their knowledge and abilities had become their demise. That mind was no longer capable of increasing in evolved degree, nor capable of returning to what once was. That mind had served its purpose, and was now filled and used to capacity.
To go on from here there is no choice. There is no return and there is only moving forward into unknown territory. Like an innocent fool, knowing nothing at all about what was to come, the new mind is the only option. In this state there is no polarity or orientation to be chosen. Every step will be a new one, every thought a new idea. Nothing of the old will enter into this new state.
It is a fresh start free of baggage and choice, because it is a step into a completely unknown experience. The Left hand path of the Mystic, Magi, Magician, who will now begin to test the elements and learn from them the true aspects of the mind and its connection to the All. Which becomes the next card in the teaching.
A path where the authority of rule and the guidance of tradition will have no place or influence as the mind is now guided by intuition and the Divine Connection, which is revealed in the next few cards as the connection to the Goddess and the revelations she now has to offer this helpless mind with no other choice but to become One with the All. The card represents the stepping out into the unknown realm of metaphysics and alchemy, or spirituality, from the ruined pieces of the step that was once our old world of religion and secular education. This is done because the old world exists no longer and there is no other choice.
This card symbolizes every wanderer and seeker who has left behind their old world of culture and familiarity to step into an unknown and unfolding mystical future. The left hand path or middle path as some might prefer to see it. The Ancients have always called it the Left hand Path of the Divine Feminine in acknowledgement of the duality of the One, and an understanding that the Right hand Path of authoritative rule and mass guidance now gives way to a much more intimate and personal learning and growth/development.
This is done because all that we had previously come to know has reached the capacity of the human brain to comprehend. There is no choice to continue to fill it more of the same old same old. And the new will be beyond our ability to understand or absorb. Does the consciousness that had only known the being of second density as some lower creature enter into the third density with any possible means of knowing what intimate sex would be like? Or what experiencing a love for various tastes of many different food types and concoctions?
This archetype is the field of consciousness evolving into its higher state, becoming its higher being, filled to the brim with what can be taken from this density, and vibrating into a new density which begins completely free and void of all need to choose direction or to polarize or orient. it begins in a new field with billions of new fields with which to mate and share, as an empty chalice/grail ready to be refilled.
On this journey to come all is new and direction and choice will begin anew. New choices and directions await, but they begin from a perspective of complete and utter ignorance of what is to come.
How can one polarize toward complete Mystery?
This is the state of the consciousness as it enters from second into third as well. hense why this card is used to be both the first card as well as the last.
It suggests Infinity and Mystery.
Neither of which can be polarized toward.
There is no choice. The Consciousness must evolve into the Mystery.