08-06-2014, 06:41 PM
ricdaw Wrote:While Logos and Sub-Logos are part of Ra's teachings, I don't believe that the cards express any of that teaching. You are correct that the Sun is a sub-logos. But I don't think the sun in the Sun card is meant to be a sub-logos depiction. It is intended to represent instead All That Is. The ancient Egyptians (probably?) didn't have any idea of galaxy or universe so I am reluctant to conclude that the card carries forward that learn/teaching. I posit that the sun is intended to represent God, not a sub-logos of God, for the purposes of the tarot and its teachings. But I do agree with you on the larger structure.
Well, are we studying the cards or the archetypal mind? If the latter, then it is quite acceptable to think subtler thoughts than the Egyptians did. Besides, Ra claims to have fashioned the images and then provided them to the Egyptians. So the question is what Ra intended by a particular symbol, rather than what the Egyptians were capable of understanding.
Moreover, I'm not sure I made my claim clear enough. Allow me to clarify:
1. Logos = Central Galactic Sun
2. Sub-logos = Solar Sun
3. Sub-sub-logos = mind/body/spirit complex totality (Polaris, the inner Sun)
4. Sub-sub-sub-logos = incarnate mind (the waking mind)
I am suggesting that it is the third which is represented by the sun in #19, and the fourth which is depicted by #5 as a whole.
ricdaw Wrote:I think the Hanged Man is not a person.
I was referring to the picture on the card, in which there is found a hanging man.
ricdaw Wrote:It is a symbolic representation of "a body" (generic, non-personal) that is of service to the Hierophant. I don't think the card means limitations (except possibly in a tarot reading). Nor is it a call to accept limitations. The significance of this card, to me, is that the body is useful, but working on the body or for the body (or for anything physical for that matter) is not warranted. The body is disposable in the greater scheme of things. And physicality, and its seeming importance, is illusion. The body is a means to an end.
Agreed.