Quote:Ra: As to its name, the name of Magician is understandable when you consider that consciousness is the great foundation, mystery, and revelation which makes this particular density possible. The self-conscious entity is full of the magic of that which is to come. It may be considered first, for the mind is the first of the complexes to be developed by the student of spiritual evolution.

Quote:“The ibis has a bill that resembles the crescent moon, and its gait suggests the movement of the moon to some classical authors. Plutarch has written that the alternating black and white feathers of the male ibis are reminiscent of the dark and light phases of the moon. In addition to being a lunar animal, the ibis was well known in antiquity, because it would refuse to drink unhealthy or poisoned water, killed poisonous reptiles, and set mankind an example of cleanliness. Like the god Thoth, the ibis was hostile to dangerous forces and a model for purity and good sense; for Thoth, in addition to being the moon god, was the god of wisdom, who maintained the cosmic order that pervades the created world.”

Quote:Ra: The sphere of spiritual power is an indication indeed that each opportunity is pregnant with the most extravagant magical possibilities for the far-seeing adept.

Quote:Ra: Let us for a moment consider thought. What is it, my friends, to take thought? Took you then thought today? What thoughts did you think today? What thoughts were part of the original thought today? In how many of your thoughts did the creation abide? Was love contained? And was service freely given? You are not part of a material universe. You are part of a thought. You are dancing in a ballroom in which there is no material. You are dancing thoughts. You move your body, your mind, and your spirit in somewhat eccentric patterns for you have not completely grasped the concept that you are part of the original thought.

Quote:Q'uo: Matrix is a word that seems not even to indicate a living being but, rather, a structure, a container, a grid, qualities and aspects of self. The basic figure of Matrix is figured forth as royal. And this is not by mistake. For as a spiritual being each seeker is indeed the highest royalty, is indeed prince and king and Creator. This figure of Matrix has tremendous potential, for it is empty and waiting. The hunger for evolution is stitched and knitted into every fiber of the carefully articulated web of being that the Matrix experiences as its nature. Possessed of crown and power and royalty, it is a figure with no lack of self-respect, with no concern for being unworthy, with no unhealed issues. And coming to the mind of the Matrix as a human is the work of some time. For much of human sorrow, shame, guilt, low self-esteem and unworthiness need to be, not denied, but taken off as shoes, as garments that are upon the body of the self, but are not the self.

Quote:Let us gaze at the archetypes of the mind. Firstly, the Matrix of the mind. This essence or energy is the untaught seeker, the beginner’s mind, reaching, reaching and again reaching. For what? The Potentiator of the Mind is that which receives the desire and enables it by a process of reflection and blessing. The Significator of the Mind is then the result of the Matrix entity or archetypical figure reaching or intending that which can only be potentiated by the seemingly passive Potentiator, that seated figure which has within the bosom great wisdom.

Thusly, the Matrix of the Mind is able to record incoming data, and through the Potentiator once again is able to deliver to the archetype of the Catalyst of the Mind the catalyst which shall become experience.

Quote:The advantages of being polarized are a fruitfulness which one cannot gain without polarity. This may be seen to be literally true in human sexuality, wherein male and female come together to allow the opportunity of a pregnancy to occur. In the sense of working with one’s conscious awareness of the passing moments of experience, polarity is that which actively encourages the self to move into relationship. The sexual polarity creates a bias towards seeking companionship. The companionship may then move in any of a number of ways, all of which bear fruit in terms of an increased rate of catalyst, and therefore, an increased opportunity to learn from the catalyst.

Archetypically speaking, this sexuality can be seen to be that difference between the Matrix of the Mind and the Potentiator of the Mind, in that the male energy is seen as that which reaches, as does the Matrix of the Mind. The female may be seen likewise as that which awaits the reaching. In the cultural roles prevalent among your peoples, these roles are seen to hold somewhat towards true; that is, to the male of a mated pair, there is given the most affirmative training towards the bias of feeling a responsibility to provide for a family, to nurture and tend a wife and children by working and offering the fruits of that labor. The cultural feminine archetype, as opposed to the archetype of the deep mind, is considerably clouded and complex compared to the cultural role of the feminine gender, say, one hundred of your years in the past. However, there is a tendency still, and an inevitable one, towards the female’s perception of the self as one which nurtures and supports by the presence, by the loving and intuitive caring, by the qualities of compassionate gentleness, and intuitive hunching or guessing.

(05-14-2016, 12:16 PM)JustLikeYou Wrote: So if we stretch the computer metaphor, perhaps the matrix is more like a hacker and the potentiator is more like the Internet. The Internet of Things is limitless and nebulous, while the hacker's evolution is not properly an increase of knowledge, so much as an increase in his ability to access whatever information he might require. This metaphor, however, might fall flat when we bring the Transformation into consideration: what could it mean for the hacker to view the Internet as either a maiden or a prostitute?

(04-23-2017, 01:33 PM)JustLikeYou Wrote: It occurs to me, Ankh, that since this archetype is programmed into us, we're never really going to feel satisfied and complete. The Logos thought it wise to embed existential anxiety into us: the caged bird that never quite escapes, the trapped spirit that always feels prison even if it can't see it.  :-/

(04-23-2017, 01:33 PM)JustLikeYou Wrote: It occurs to me, Ankh, that since this archetype is programmed into us, we're never really going to feel satisfied and complete. The Logos thought it wise to embed existential anxiety into us: the caged bird that never quite escapes, the trapped spirit that always feels prison even if it can't see it.  :-/

Matt1 Wrote:Can you go into more detail on the magician being unmoved by itself? I have never fully grasped this aspect of the archetype.

Matt1 Wrote:I assume its probably something to do with consciousness being developed through unconscious catalyst/experience? Without the unconsciousness we could not learn anything in an incarnation? Its the dance between the two that allows for inner guidance from the higher self?

(04-23-2017, 01:33 PM)JustLikeYou Wrote: It occurs to me, Ankh, that since this archetype is programmed into us, we're never really going to feel satisfied and complete. The Logos thought it wise to embed existential anxiety into us: the caged bird that never quite escapes, the trapped spirit that always feels prison even if it can't see it.  :-/

(08-12-2017, 05:06 PM)JustLikeYou Wrote: ^ What she said. If I got it wrong, tell me how.

I'm sorry to hear that you judge my approach to this study as purely intellectual; I don't experience it that way at all. But then there's no telling what others will see in my words.

I agree with you about the internal alchemy system. This is what Ra and Don were trying to bring out of it, and it's what I seek to pull out of them also.

It strikes me as manifestly false that this system is "very obvious" in the images. If it were very obvious, then the study would not be so long and difficult for so many who try. Though perhaps it is very obvious to you, in which case you would make a natural teacher.

Anyway, my point about the caged bird is that once you figure out how to free it, you'll find there is yet another bird in there that is still caged. This isn't an intellectual judgment, but something I've found true in experience. Another way to put this is that we always want something, no matter how many of our desires find fulfilment. Only the very, very few have crossed the threshold from desire to complete satisfaction (and presumably also complete freedom).

(08-14-2017, 03:09 PM)Cobrien Wrote:

(08-12-2017, 05:06 PM)JustLikeYou Wrote: ^ What she said. If I got it wrong, tell me how.

I'm sorry to hear that you judge my approach to this study as purely intellectual; I don't experience it that way at all. But then there's no telling what others will see in my words.

I agree with you about the internal alchemy system. This is what Ra and Don were trying to bring out of it, and it's what I seek to pull out of them also.

It strikes me as manifestly false that this system is "very obvious" in the images. If it were very obvious, then the study would not be so long and difficult for so many who try. Though perhaps it is very obvious to you, in which case you would make a natural teacher.

Anyway, my point about the caged bird is that once you figure out how to free it, you'll find there is yet another bird in there that is still caged. This isn't an intellectual judgment, but something I've found true in experience. Another way to put this is that we always want something, no matter how many of our desires find fulfilment. Only the very, very few have crossed the threshold from desire to complete satisfaction (and presumably also complete freedom).

The sphere of power is the reaching. Yet you've arrived where you are. Thus the caged bird. The mind is it's own messenger. The relationship between the magician and high priestess is always stressed.

(03-22-2016, 11:27 AM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: Hello, let me introduce you to my friend, the Magician, also known as the Matrix of the Mind.



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