The Kabbala (Tree of Life) and the Tarot Major Arcana
Lemniscate or the Double Ouroboros
The Ouroboros
The Elements:
A wand
A cup,
A pentacle
and A sword
The Solar Cross
Mercury makes the Hexagram and Venus the pentagram:
Hermes’ Prophecy
There will come a time when it will have been in vain that Egyptians have honored the Godhead with heartfelt piety and service; and all our holy worship will be fruitless and ineffectual.
The Elohim will return from earth to heaven; Egypt will be forsaken, and the land which was once the home of religion will be left desolate, bereft of the presence of its deities.
They will no longer love this world around us, this incomparable work of YHWH, this glorious structure which HE has built, this sum of good made up of many diverse forms, this instrument whereby the will of YHWH operates in that which he has made, ungrudgingly favoring man’s welfare.
Darkness will be preferred to light, and death will be thought more profitable than life; no one will raise his eyes to heaven; the pious will be deemed insane, the impious wise; the madman will be thought a brave man, and the wicked will be esteemed as good.
As for the soul, and the belief that it is immortal by nature, or may hope to attain to immortality, as I have taught you; all this they will mock and even persuade themselves that it is false.
No word of reverence or piety, no utterance worthy of heaven, will be heard or believed.
And so, the Elohiym will depart from mankind – a grievous thing and only evil angels will remain, who will mingle with men, and drive the poor wretches into all manner of reckless crime, into:
Then will the earth tremble, and the sea bear no ships; heaven will not support the stars in their orbits, all voices of the Elohim will be forced into silence; the fruits of the Earth will rot; the soil will turn barren, and the very air will sicken with sullen stagnation; all things will be disordered and awry, all good will disappear.
But when all this has befallen, then YHWH the Creator of all things will look on that which has come to pass and will stop the disorder by the counterforce of his will, which is the good.
HE will call back to the right path those who have gone astray; he will cleanse the world of evil, washing it away with floods, burning it out with the fiercest fire, and expelling it with war and pestilence.
The actual text of that maxim, as translated by Dennis W. Hauck is,
That which is Below corresponds to that which is Above, and that which is Above corresponds to that which is Below, to accomplish the miracle of the One Thing.
The tablet also refers to the three parts of the wisdom of the whole universe.
Hermes claims his knowledge of these three parts is why he received the name Trismegistus (thrice-great, or Ao-Ao-Ao meaning “greatest”).
If one marks the shadows of the sunrise at the Summer and Winter Solstices at the latitude of Jerusalem one creates an angle of exactly 60º.
The Masonic compass is opened to an angle of 60º.
The Square, with its angle of 90º, represents the northern British Isles, and Scotland.
The Square and Compass is the Blade and Chalice, God and Goddess in the act of Creation, and within the Star we find the Heavenly Luminaries or the Eyes or Spirits of God (the Planets).
The symbols on the star represent the astrological portion of the symbol:
Jupiter
Venus
the Moon
Mercury
Mars
and Saturn, with the Sun being at the center.
Zoroaster’ teachings mentioned earlier in the thread as Thoth or Hermes, would be responsible for the seven-petal flower depicted at the center.
First you have the sun and moon in opposite positions which proves the world has been put on a purposeful pole shift done at the hands of man.
In the East where the sun is supposed to rise you now have the moon or crescent where there is a brother with a sword with an eagle or falcon upon it where he is shielding his eyes from the light because it is either too bright or he cannot see because he is blinded by the darkness.
In the West where the sun is supposed to set, you now have the sun with a brother who can see clearly what is going on as he holds the staff and serpent.
In the middle is the LORD OR LORDS and KING OF KINGS who represent the union of both and has risen above the Abyss on the wings of destiny.
The Phoenix or Rex Mundi who represents not only the union of East and West, but also AS ABOVE SO BELOW.
The double snakes of the caduceus also represent duality and the unification of polar opposites, as well as displaying balance and integration polarities in order to strike harmony.
Such dualities include:
Asleep/Awake
Illness/Health
Separation/Unity
Male/Female
Left/Right
Binding/Loosing
Wax/Wane
Water/Fire
Sun/Moon
Yin/Yang
Light/Dark
Good/Evil
Upper/Lower
If you take it a step further, you notice the dual intertwined snakes form a double helix DNA strand; Serpent DNA specifically.
If the serpent is a biological anthropomorphism of DNA, then we can attribute the Ouroboros to cycles of DNA change.
The Staff
Vertical rods/constructs are considered archetypal symbols of the phallus.
refers directly to the Sun as being a source of knowledge.
Leo is one of the constellations of the Zodiac.
The Zodiac, is a direct reference to the Sun.
The Sun’s position at midday during the time of the Egyptians coincided with the midsummer solstice.
Leo was a constellation of the summer.
The theme of:
Illumination
Knowledge
Secrets
being kept “under the Lion’s Paw” is a recurring motif.
Qing “Guardian Lions” holding some objects with their right paws. One is holding a baby lion, the other a Flower of Life sphere.
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Note the double lion guarding the start of the Alchemical process shown in this picture.
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The Kabbala (Tree of Life) and the Tarot Major Arcana
The main focus for the As Above, So Below concept is The Magician or Magikan.
Oddly enough the Magician is associated with Mercury, the same planet as Hermes.
It displays:
Power
Action
Awareness
Application
Resourcefulness
The Magician Tarot card deals with the ability to utilize every resource available to us.
When we think of the Magician, we must understand that there is no question of power.
He at number 1 and he is 1 and at one with himself and all creation.
The Magician has absolute power over all circumstances.
He is in control of his own thoughts, and therefore the ruler of reality.
The Magician is the bridge between the world of the spirit and the world of humanity.
His right hand holds a staff raised toward the sky and his left-hand points to the earth.
He takes the power of the Universe and channels it through his own body and directs it to the physical plane.
His magical table holds all four suits of the Tarot, each of which represents one of the four primordial elements of the alchemists –
earth
air
fire
and water.
These symbolise the appropriate use of mind, heart, body and soul in the process of manifestation.
The Magician’s robe is white, symbolizing the purity and innocence found in the Fool, but his cloak is red, representing worldly experience and knowledge.
In the bed of flowers at his feet this duality is repeated in the mix of pure white lilies and thorny red roses.
The key focus areas which I discussed previously are now very clear.
Lemniscate or the Double Ouroboros
The Lemniscate symbolizes the endless, infinite nature of energy.
Energy cannot be created or destroyed.
The infinity symbol above the Magician’s head illustrates that he understands the energy of his thoughts always lead to infinite consequence.
The Ouroboros
The Magician tarot card meaning is that energy is endless, and our ability to manipulate energy is key.
The Ouroboros around his waist further signifies the concept of rebirth & regeneration.
The Magician understands that rebirth occurs in each moment, Another source of his power.
Most importantly, it is a symbol that stands for the maxim “one is all” which is the highest philosophy for the Magician.
The Elements:
A wand
A cup
A pentacle
and A sword
The Magician is keenly aware that we are born prepared to live our lives.
We each have the tools and resources within us to use at our whim.
This is indicated by all the symbols of the suit shown within the Magicians grasp.
The Magician realizes that he is the master of these tools, they are not his master.
The Magician reminds us that everything we need to live our best life is available to us as long as we master the gifts of potential and not become slaves to our circumstances.
The six-sided star incorporates the Duality, Male and Female (Unity), the Blade (upward pointing triangle) and Chalice.
The blade represents the Physical, and the Chalice represents the Spiritual realm.
It is sometimes referenced as the fire and water triangle as well.
Moloch
Chiun
Remphan
are all names for the star god, Saturn, whose symbol is a six-pointed star formed by two triangles. Saturn was the supreme god of the Chaldeans.
The hexagram is referred to the talisman of Saturn.
The hexagram was brought to the Jewish people by Solomon when he turned to witchcraft and idolatry after his marriage to Pharaoh’s daughter.
It became known as the Seal of Solomon in Egyptian magic and witchcraft.
The six-pointed star was adopted as the family crest or shield by the Rothschild family during the 19th century.
The Rothschilds bought a great deal of property in “Israel,” from the Turks and Arabs, and were largest financial supporters of the Zionist movement in the early decades.
The influence of the Rothschilds and their heavy financial support of Israel, led the Jewish nation to adopt the so-called “Star of David” as their own symbol as a nation.
In the beginning of a Day of Manifestation it is taught that a certain Great Being (designated in the Western World by the name of God, but by other names in other parts of the earth) limits Himself to a certain portion of space, in which He elects to create a Solar System for the evolution of added self-consciousness.
He includes in His own Being hosts of glorious Hierarchies of, to us, immeasurable spiritual power and splendor.
They are the fruitage of past manifestations of this same Being and also other Intelligences, in descending degrees of development down to such as have not reached a stage of consciousness as high as our present humanity, and therefore these latter will not be able to finish their evolution in this System.
In God — this great collective Being — there are contained lesser beings of every grade of intelligence and stage of consciousness, from omniscience to an unconsciousness deeper than that of the deepest trance condition.
During the period of manifestation with which we are concerned, these various grades of beings are working to acquire more experience than they possessed at the beginning of this period of existence.
Those who, in previous manifestations, have attained to the highest degree of development, work on those who have not yet evolved any consciousness.
They induce in them a stage of self-consciousness from which they can take up further work themselves.
Those who had started their evolution in a former Day of Manifestation, but had not progressed far at the close, now take up their task again, just as we take up our daily work in the morning where we left off the previous night.
All the different Beings, however, do not take up their evolution at the early stages of a new manifestation.
Some must wait until those who precede them have made the conditions which are necessary for their further development.
There are no instantaneous processes in nature.
All is an exceedingly slow unfolding, a development which, though so exceedingly slow, is yet absolutely certain to attain ultimate perfection.
Just as there are progressive stages in the human life —
childhood
youth
manhood
or womanhood, and old age — so in the macrocosm there are different stages corresponding to these various periods of the microcosmic life.
A child cannot take up the duties of fatherhood or motherhood. Its undeveloped mental and physical condition render it incapable of doing such work.
The same is true of the less evolved beings in the beginning of manifestation.
They must wait until the higher evolved have made the proper conditions for them.
The lower the grade of the intelligence of the evolving being, the more it is dependent upon outside help.
At the Beginning, then, the highest Beings — those who are the farthest evolved — work upon those who have the greatest degree of unconsciousness.
Later, they turn them over to some of the less evolved entities, who are then able to carry the work a little further.
The mural shows the right eye, the left eye and the middle eye.
This mural is the symbol for not only all three schools, but also the meaning and purpose of life itself.
The right eye is male, the left eye is female, and the middle eye is the child, the source of both the other two eyes, for we all begin life as a child.
The Left Eye of Horus, the feminine pathway, explores the human nature of emotions and feeling, both positive and negative, sexual energy and birthing, death, certain psychic energy, and everything that is not logical.
The right eye is controlled by the left brain; it’s male knowledge.
Although the right eye “sees” directly to the right brain, this is not what the Egyptians were communicating.
It is not the “seeing” but rather the interrupting of the “seeing” information that was important here.
It is the left brain that makes this interruption of what is seen; it controls the right side of the body, and vice versa.
In the same manner, the Left Eye of Horus, controlled by the right brain, is female knowledge.
Mercury makes the Hexagram and Venus the pentagram:
