The Tarot of Eli, LLC-Major Arcana: Thoth Tarot-ATU 19-The Sun & Tarot of The Spirit- Key 19- The Sun

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The Thoth ATU 19-The Sun, has on its bottom left the Hebrew letter Resh, meaning-Head. Therefore, the Head is seen as the Sun of the Body. It is the Head-Sun that rises above the Earth and the lower animal thoughts of the survival thinking.

The Sun, is cited as the Thirtieth Path and/or the Collective Intelligence, in Dr. Paul Foster Case's Tarot instruction called The Thirty-Two Paths of Wisdom, the Collective Intelligence of the Sun (Son) exercises control over the 12 signs of the zodiac (12 guideposts of Personality), as shown on this card by the 12 rays radiating outward from the central orb, as well as, a link between the personalities that have been experienced in different incarnations.

The Qabalistic Path of Resh, is the first of the Personality triad of paths, rising on the Tree of Life, from the 9th Sephiroth- Yesod (foundation) to the 8th Sephiroth-Hod (splendor). On the Path of Resh, one will experience the intellectual-formative side of this conscious energy as an activating force of the Personality. Just as the Higher Self and the Spiritual Self are composites of the masculine-intuitive dynamic, Yod and a feminine-Intellectual-formative , Heh, that together combine opposing forces , producing a set of equalized forces called Vau, so does the Path of Resh combine anima (spirit) and animus (soul).

The Combining Opposites power of the Path of Resh is thoroughly explained and in greater detail in my class reference book by Robert Wang: THE QABALISTIC TAROT (a text book of Mystical philosophies). For now, suffice it to say that The Sun-collective, assembles all the component parts of the Personality, on these lower paths, by infusing them with " brilliance, light and Warmth" which are considered intellectual qualities. Therefore, the Path of the Sun (Resh) is considered the highest level of human intellect(Horus), as The Star-Key 17, is considered the highest path of human emotions.

What may be curious to the discerning student of Tarot, is that when you combine The Sun 's high intellect with the high emotion of The Star card, the balanced effected is represented by The Tower-key 16, which at first glance seems the opposite of balance, if not outright chaos. However, what we are witnessing here, is the destruction of the unworthy elements of the "man-made personality", so that the Sun (son) Solar Personality is free to arise to its Source and escape from the caul of the faux man-made personality.

The Lower Paths on the Tree of Life, Tau, Shin and Resh, (The Universe, The Aeon, The Sun-), are the symbols of the component parts of the Personality which functions through the body-vehicle, as the Soul's experience-collecting apparatus. The Higher Self must function through the Personality if it is to influence the physical plane, as Pure Spirit must function through the Higher Self to establish "Whole Shelf". The fact that we perceive separation between these aspects of ourselves, is to necessitate understanding of each of the components that are in a state of infinite connectivity. The Tree of Life does describe, by its pattern, a degree of separation, as Sephiroth, but the Paths show us they are all connected and that the perception of separation is to expedite understanding of one of many dimensions of consciousness that is the One Mind.

Perception, is noted for its wide varieties from one organism to another, so it is up to each individual student to literally create their own Qabalah. The Path of Resh is crucial in developing the individual Qabalah. Upon journeying this Path of the Collective Intelligence, one will receive the imprint and acceptance of "Spirit guides: or those beings who direct the inner learning experience of the student. On the Path of Resh (head) the candidacy for Tiphareth (Beauty), The Conscious of the Son (Sun), and /or Higher Self, is begun.

The Inner Path leading into Hod, is where inner discoveries are made as the "Inner Teachers"/Sephiroth exert their influence on the material world, clarifying the relationship between Spirit,Mind, and body.

The Path of Resh, is where the student understand the control and limitations of intellect. The Path of the Sun/Son, is also the path of” awakening", that helps the student understand the use of the tremendous "Sexual Force" of Yesod (Foundation) that is known as the "secret" or Arcane force manipulated by the initiate of the Mysteries. This force has many names, such as "Serpent Force", Kundalini, or "Life Force", all of which fall short in proper perception, as most definitions do. This force must be experienced to be understood, and proper preparation for its "rising" must be made by experiencing of the Perceptual Intelligence on the Path of Shin (The Aeon). A commonly known book, the Bible, has a parable called the prodigal son, that goes about explaining this preparation.

Yesod, is attributed to the Moon which governs the ebbing and flowing of the Astral Light (Akashic Fluid) and is the sexuality beneath our material existence. Hod is attributed to Mercury, the first similarity of the specific Personality. The Personality is hermaphroditic, as male and female qualities have yet to be separated out as specifics, and is fluid and of "silvery" light, much like liquid mercury and is seen in the Auric Field as a "silver cord" that is attached to the homo sapiens sapiens navel /Swadhisthana Chakra. Therefore, the Path of the Sun, when considered developmentally, is the point of childhood of the emerging Personality as it builds toward an earthly incarnation. By traveling upward, towards Hod, we are once again experiencing this initial innocence: a kind of re-experiencing youth and/or a rebirth. The initiate reaches a stage where there is some recollection of the Source from which we emerged. For the true personality created by the Soul as its avatar, is what gives the body its animation. The faux personality of indoctrination and dogma, that cover the personality in a caul of self rejection, is produced by the Patriarchal societies, enslaves life.

The dancing Twins, on the Thoth Sun card (like the dancing Shakti and Shiva of Tantra), symbolize the purest-innocent repression of the electric-male (Earth) and the magnetic female (Water) principles in physical manifestation. These Twins are also a reference to the astrological sign of Gemini, the sign that links Taurus (Earth) and Cancer (Water). The ancient Greeks and Romans also referred the sign Gemini, to Apollo and the Sun.

In the Thoth-Sun card, the green mound beneath the Twins, symbolizes fertility, as its shape shows aspiration to the Higher Self. The Children dance, free from enclosure, symbolizing freedom from the "prejudices of the people that date morally from the about 25 hundred B.C." [Crowley]. Here, the Sun, is the Rose-Cross expanded from four arms to 12 rays and embracing the whole of creation in its rays, it is the “adorable Fire” that is the vital life force of all creation. Crowley also saw this card as representing the Cain and Abel story of Biblical origins. For there is a type of "death" and rebirth represented by this Solar Card, as the faux persona dies to the true personality and/or the faux personality destroys the Truth, by covering the Abel persona in the dirt of a fear based culture.

This expanded "Inner Sun" is felt by the initiate, as a very warm rising, fertile power, Sexual- adorable fire, that does change the physiology of the physical form into the " Master’s Body". Here the Anima and The Animus, dance the rhythm of life as composite vibration and frequency.

The Hexagram is the symbol of the composite Thirtieth-Path which is compressed of the Four Elements, the Signs of the Zodiac, and the Planets, all under the Rulership of the Sun. Thus, the Hexagram is the symbol of the perfect integration of Personality and Higher Self (Tiphareth -meaning Beauty). The Sun is also called the "Splendor of the Material World”. Representative of the intellect acting upon the dual human condition of, consciousness and the physical body the Sun is a point of connection with the Greater Life that is comprised by balancing the human intellect with the Higher Intellect that is the "Sun (Son) of God".

For the initiate, experiencing the Path of Resh, is very profound as it is the introduction to the inner sun, which is the light of the personality, as the outer sun is the light of the physical world. What one tends to forget, while experiencing the bright warmth and light of this inner sun/soul, one's personality cannot look directly into this solar intelligence, any more than they can at the physical sun, without suffering damage: However, this "damage" is to the artificial persona for it cannot exist in Truth. As shown by The Tower Card; equilibrium will be reached by "burning away" what is unworthy of the Higher Personality.

As I have said before, the inner working on the Paths brings about definite physiochemical changes in the human body and as one of the most noted teachers of the Hermetic Qabalah, Dr. Paul Foster Case has stated in his study course, The Thirty-Two Paths of Wisdom,"...marked inner differences from the average person, are due to psychological contrasts in the mental state of the ordinary human beings, but they are also the outer signs of organic changes inside the skin of the new creature. He [She] is chemically and structurally unlike genus homo.There are different constituents in his [her] blood stream. Through his [her] nervous system pass currents of force not present in most human bodies because in his [her] organism channels are open which are closed in the physical vehicle of most persons. Centers in the nervous system and in the brain, and glands related to them, function differently in the body of an adept from the way they do in the bodies of the greater number of his [her] contemporaries." (The brackets are my own addition, as it was written when the proper He was used to describe both sexes.) This is the same physicochemical change that happens to adepts in the Tantric Arts, where balanced Divine Male and Divine Female energy opens up the Divya Sidhis or magic abilities.

The Qabalist always bears in mind that the Personality, the component parts of which are represented on these lower Paths of the Tree of Life, functions through the body as an experience-collecting vehicle for the Soul/Spirit. To divorce the body from the Spirit, for instance as a "sinner", is a most serious mistake of divisionism, for then we are mentally and thus physically divorcing ourselves from the very Powers that created the life breath of the body! The body is the crucible of the Spiritual Alchemist, and the Sun is the important symbol, as well as, the furnace heat that is the alchemical process of turning the lead of unworthy thought into the gold of Higher Mind. The Sun/Son of the Divine Creative has a body called the "philosopher's stone"/material. Here there is no significant difference between Spirit-Mind-Body, as they form the "trinity" and or menage à Trois that live in the body as I AM ME and/or Spirit-Mind-Personality.

The Tarot of The Spirit- Key 19-The Sun, also depicts and image of spiritual realization. This is the truest love that is possible, for it is the Divine Marriage of the Soul and Body, overseen by the Spirit. Here a man and woman are being married before a garden of lilies. Again, they represent the marriage of all polar opposites, light and dark, hot and cold, invisible light and reflected light, dry and moist, etc. This marriage is the return to god-consciousness, the Horus and/or the Heavenly Human. As stated many times, but never enough, Hu is a Mandarin word meaning -God and Man-comes from the Hindu word for mind-Manas. HuMan is not a homo sapiens sapiens normal personality. It is the True Soul's identity of itself as in-form-action. Something that has been profaned by culture.

Hence, this is an exalted marriage, overseen by Spirit, that takes place atop the Middle Pillar of the Qabalistic Tree of life and/or atop the human spinal column as a pillar of equilibrium and/or the Pillar of mystical consciousness. When the One Life is known through the mystical consciousness, there is a quiet bliss in the wedding chamber of the "brain". The need for pain, sorrow, worry, tension or other self-absorbed homo sapiens sapiens emotions, is seen as unnecessary and will no longer darken the brilliant and warm personality of the Trinity. I AM Me, is equalized in love. The symbol for this love is the endless circle of gold, for gold is symbolize as the alchemical symbol of the Sun. Here the 0=2.

When the ATU/ Key 19-the Sun Card is thrown during a reading:

• The querent shall experience gain, riches, and glory. 
• Maybe called arrogant which is often a misunderstanding of their glowing self-confidence.
• The querent might make great displays of vanity but this is only seen when accompanied by very negative cards.
• The dance of the divine twins, can also be considered a meeting of the soul (solar) mates. However, this most esoteric and requires a Lover’s or Love card to clarify as an exoteric event.
• Vivacity.
• Acceptance of life.
• Vitality.
• Generosity.
• Warmth. 
• Freshness.
• Self-confidence. 

If ill defined by surrounding cards:

• Self-satisfaction.
• Personality cult (culture created).
• Delusions of grandeur. 

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