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Above all things, know thyself!

The Universes is Change; every Change is the effect of the Act of Love; all Acts of Love contain Pure Joy. Die daily! Death is the apex of one curve of the snake Life: behold all opposites as necessary complements and rejoice.

[Letter from Harris to Crowley, 1939]

The Thoth Death Card-ATU/Key 13 is the Qabalistic Path of Nun on the Tree of Life and runs from Netzach (Victory) to Tiphareth (Beauty) on the Tree of Life and is one of the three paths that leads from the Personality to the Higher and/or Greater Self. The aspirant may experience the Higher Self on any one of these 3 Paths, Art (The Path of Samekh), The Devil (The Path of Ayin), and Death, (The Path of Nun); However, the lessons of all 3 must be mastered. The figures of the Art card, the Devil card and the Death card are all distinct aspects of the same thing; The Higher Self and/or the Divine Hermaphrodite who is the Engine behind Life.

On the Path of Nun, one is launching the consciousness into the Dark Unconscious of Universal Origins. This takes courage and determination, for the consciousness appears to be extinguished in the Universal Collective Unconscious. However, a new state of "ego" and/or "I" is revealed in this Abyssal Womb of Mind. I liken the body consciousness to an Artificial Intelligence, and the Universal Collective Unconscious as the Real Intelligence. This artifice aids me in trusting the dissolution of my self- consciousness, as a transition towards rebirth as it is purified of illusion and deception and the fantasy of being a form under the control of some outside and false authority.

In fact, the word meaning of the Hebrew letter- Nun is Fish, and reveals the whole arcane doctrine of the Qabalah, as it is the symbol for the "first matter" (Dark Mater) that moves within the Infinite Ocean of the Universal Collective Unconscious. Without death's merciful transformation, many of us could never leave the fantasy we weave as a story of Self, no matter how dysfunctional or functional.

The perspicacious aspirant will note that the Tree of Life has a Path for Death, that of Nun, but seems not to have a Path for Birth: However, The Devil, the Path of Ayin (eye), enchains our Personality in Matter, and creates a "false ego", as it leaves the Higher Self on personality's journey down the Tree of Life. Therefore, the Devil, who is the Lord of the Material World, is a card of Birth. Plus, there is the fact that both Death and Birth are the same transition, as one appears in one dimensional reality while leaving another. As the invisible psyche is born into visible light and/or "outer World", their inner "I" sight dies/changes to the visible or "eye" sight of the manmade world, just as the personality transitions from the outer world back into the inner world at physical death/transformation. One energy transforms itself by the process of the illusion of destruction (energy cannot be destroyed) of energy phases as the I AM continually redefining Self from one phase of self-awareness to another. If we were to look through alchemical glasses at this phase-to-phase flow, it seems that the Art Card should be before the Death card in the deck, as the Art card foreshadows the final stage of the Great Work-(2=1) creating The Divine Hermaphrodite (The Heavenly Human-Adam Khadmon). However, Death is the final stage of transition without requiring the conscious union of anima and animus: However, the union of anima and animus causes a transformation that is shown on the Art card as the Golden Cauldron emblazoned with the sign of the Raven and Skull, the caput mortem image, which is German for death. Hence, from the Divine Marriage of the Anima and Animus, comes transformation of 2 into 1. Placing this marriage as a type of annihilation of the separation caused by 0=2. All transforms back to 1 (Hermaphrodite) in the Death Card, annihilating the "false ego" mind virus as well as individuality. We are all connected and belong to each other.

The Personality constructed consciousness, is indeed extinguished in the Abyss of the Universal Collective Unconscious causing a period of "forgetful sleep" caused by soul downloading before the Personality exits as a mask of the Higher Self and produces another operative artifice known as self-consciousness which is used to operate another avatar/ material form as a "self-reflection." The exception to this recycling process, and amnesia of the transforming sleep, is when the self-consciousness continually downloads daily into the soul and thereby accompanies the Soul back to the Higher Self without needing physical death to do so. This is done when self- consciousness has become a discriminating Mercury, and knows the "tricks" of Matter, i.e. the illusions of senses, that the Personality experiences on the physical plane. These illusions or delusions come from the false perspective of separateness and survival thinking of the physical form that is derived from the survival mind of the subconscious where is hidden a "shadow personality" and/or "false ego" that subverts the self-consciousness with "fear". Hence, the fear of Death/Change, which resides in the subconscious as a parasite must be conquered by the self- consciousness so "that it won't experience the death sleep". When this is achieved the self- consciousness knowingly transfers from body to body, becoming a Personal Mercury/Messenger manifestation of the Higher Self. When the Whole of the Tree communicates with Malkuth, we have "As above, so Below", with manifestation being the in-form-action of the Greater Self. Hence, "I die daily", begins to make sense, as one transforms Self- Data into Self-Knowledge daily through introspection and outside discernment as in-form- action.

The Great Work is Life itself as a Wholeness and not a divisionism of separates all trying to prove themselves to a feared Creator as superior to one another. By the very process of creation, The Divine Creative had already Approved the collective of YOU (Spirit-mind-body) into being by the purposeful act of Creation! Those who are seeking approval, a survival mechanism of the social animal that is profaned by the "false ego", are what I call "fish in the Ocean, looking for water." and/ or "Wanna-Be's" who forgot that they already Are the present- All Being (Spirit-Mind-Body).

The Beauty of Tiphareth, the Soul collective personality of the Higher Self, is the harmony experienced once you return to this aspect of Personality and Psyche communication. Hence, you mentally return to your body knowing that you, as a Personality of Mercury/Magus, are completely accepted and not fearing rejection in the least (a mask of fear of death)! In other words, you "Know thyself" as the Divinity you always were.

The Tarot Card- Death-key 13, is called in the many texts of the Mysteries, "The Child of the Great Transformers" and the "Lord of the Gates of Death"; Implying that Nun is not the Great Transformers themselves, he is their Child. Thus, Nun is not Death itself, rather Nun is the keeper of the Gateway into Transformation. This states that the "first matter" and/ or "thought", is the Gatekeeper of Transformation, which is not too difficult to "wrap your head around" if you understand that how you "perceive yourself" transforms your reality. We are Life, which creates Lifetimes as examples of Self-Awareness!

After Traveling one of the 3 Paths of the "Dark Night of the Soul", where your consciousness is torn down (putrefied), dissolved, combined in new solution, and re-coagulated, relieving it of all that is not worthy of the "first" you; the archetypal Adam Khadmon/The Heavenly Human. Hence, the elimination of Words as self-definitions, sends you up the Tree towards the Real I AM and then being sent back down the Tree into your Malkuth-body transformation as the wisdom of the Divine Creative in a figure eight flow (lemniscate) that is unbroken by the World of Man and/or Word of Man interference. Therefore, perspectives of the Personality change from reality to the Real perspectives of the Great Work which is to be an aware-sensual-Soul/Psyche that bridges the below to the above, rather than a socially made fear based viral personality. Your brain, who communicates with man-made definitions, can't do the job as it is an artificial sense of self and uses words to control identity! Therefore, you must go inward (inward is upward) into the Psyche/Soul to begin the transformations necessary to become the Mercury-messenger of the Greater Self-, but only after facing the blazing heat of the Art Card, which is used to burn away the impurities that have stuck to your I AM as if your soul has been "tarred and feathered" by the society of man; Once the "tar and feathers" of false identity/words are burned away, you stand in shining Mercurial glory before the Divine Creative as- I AM YOU!

As stated, one of the alchemical aspects of the Death card, also known as The Path of Nun, meaning Fish, is the symbol for the First Matter and a fish is shown behind the dancing skeleton on the Thoth Card. There is also an alchemical symbol of this Path as putrefaction, which is the decaying black mass in the crucible that eventually transforms into gold and is considered a transformative process of turning death into new life by the alchemical process of Putrefaction, Dissolution, Solution and Coagulation. The Thoth Deck card symbolizes this Transformative process as a scythe, a harvesting tool that is also a symbol for Time. Time is under the control of Saturn-Binah, the giver and destroyer of Life. This would be the Wise Crone of the Triple Goddess (Hecate of the Greeks). The Transformative bubbles of new life appear in the Thoth Death's wake, all of which support this analogy of life giving and life destroying.

Who Sustains the Universe.

Those who practice Tarot and/or are readers of my blog, know this charming bone dancing Thoth Tarot and Declarative Tarot fellow as Death. In the British Isles, he was known as LORD DREAD or DREADLORD and the end of October is his Holy Day! He is the Semitic version of the Asiatic Sana, Samara (Aryan), or Samarium, "the leveler", most of us know that you can level things very well with a skillful usage of a Scythe, a very particular harvesting tool of this dancing fellow. What is interesting, in early Britain, Samuel had a female counterpart, SAMOTHEA/SAMANTHEA (Death Goddess-) who seems to have been another form of SKADI or SCATHA. Samanthea, or Skadi was the goddess of the mysterious (Arcane) and of Hyperborean, the land where Pythagoras (Greek Thoth and/or Hermes) traveled to learn the arts of letters, astronomy, and science from this All-Wise Lady. What one finds throughout world of Central and South America, the image of the well-known Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead, Santa Muerte, is a Madonna like image of death. What all of us should remember is that we are Light Beings, each a Self-Reflection of the Divine Creative, who transition to Physical Entity, so that we can intimately experience information as in-form-action, and thereby, turn it into knowledge. We then go back to being what we always have been, Intelligent Light, taking our experience to the Universal Collective Unconscious, that we all are quantumly entangled with. Once "downloaded", we come back to begin the process of sensual experience again to understand yet more information. We are Energy, and energy cannot be destroyed nor created, only transformed, and transmitted.

The astrological sign attributed to Death-ATU/Key 13- is a transformative sign of three symbolic images, the Scorpion, the Serpent, and the Eagle, all symbols of Scorpio. Thus, we have the transformation of a dangerous earth-crawling creature, to a serpent which symbolizes the Vigorous Energy of Life (sexually transmitted energy), weaving its way upward to become an Eagle (behind and above the figure's head) that soars above all heads. All of which are represented in the Thoth Tarot Card as movement. Movement being seen as change/transformation, which is the skeletal pattern of the Universe for movement is Life. It is only by constant change that entropy can be temporarily overcome, and Life continues. This entropy is shown on the Tarot -Death card as a dark tar like water and land that captured souls are caught in. Their struggle to ascend while in the "Group Tar Pit/"False Ego" of the race, is futile unless they conquer their fear of death, and all its resulting branches of fear (fear of pain, fear of discomfort, fear of rejection, fear of life, fear of poverty, fear of loss, fear of evil, etc.).When fear of Death, is no longer in the Ego, all other fears just melt away and the pure trust in and as the Divine takes its place.

St. John of the Cross first coined the term "Dark Night of the Soul" where he said:

"...although this happy night brings darkness to the spirit, it does so only to give it light in everything; and that, although it humbles it and makes it miserable, it does so only to exalt it and to raise it up; although it impoverishes it and empties it of all natural affection and attachment, it does so only that it may enable it to stretch forward, divinely, and thus to have fruition and experience all things, both above and below...."

Upon conquering the Path of Nun, the Soul is reconstructed as the Personality of the Higher Self, rather than one made by mankind and media-controlled word hypnosis. The reconstructed personality enters an emptied brain and filles it with the Primary Imagination/Creative Information and/or The Will to Force and Will to Form and the Understanding of the Great "Womb with a view", who is the Creatrix.

Therefore, the term "Dark night of the Soul" refers to the darkness of unknowing, where the psyche is striped of the desire nature of the personality in the Abyssal Womb and/or non-space. This leaves a dreadful emptiness, a complete disinterest in everything. Personally, upon experiencing these 3 Paths of the Dark Night, The Devil, Art and Death, there was left only a thought of despair repeatedly abolishing any other desire or thought. For me it was, “I can't be You, You must be me." The Higher Self responded to that by sending my “skeletal awareness" directly to the Great Mother Binah, who then broke down and reassembled the Personality into that of the Divine Child, and I awoke as the "Will to Be" and/or the "I Will Be" that is Eheieh the God name of Kether and now Eli. The illusionary separation from the Divine was eliminated.

This is an exceedingly difficult journey to explain, and it requires one not to be concerned with living or dying. One becomes a mechanical motion, pushing ahead with great faith, as if Life's processes have no value, yet one still mechanically crawls towards the Higher Self. Moving forward in total darkness, inch by inch, the Soul (Psyche) begins the process of "putrefaction", believing, but not always so sure, that there will be light that will eventually appear and lead the way.

It was a red dot of light that appeared to me out of indescribable darkness (I am a Ruby Ray vibration) ... I became the original “I” of Kether/Eheieh, observing the red atom of me that originally issued from the Great Dark Menstrual Sea of the Red Binah (Lilith) and I found my birthplace as a Soul/Solar self, was in a Giant Red star. This purifying Force of resurrection, Bathed/Baptized me/ Loved me (indescribable ecstasy) and sent me back down the Tree into the fiery self-awareness of Tiphareth and the Fiery Light of the Higher Self. Once a Divine Child always a Divine Child …. somehow, we've forgotten that in the process of indoctrinated amnesia and thus disinherited ourselves/ our-Soul personality of the Higher Self, from the Macrocosm parent (Divine Hermaphrodite) of our Microcosm. We were always taught to reject ourselves and comply with an outside authority; However, just by rejecting the human body because of "Nudity" which is a man-made description (no other creature is "nude"), making us think we are "bad" until clothed/tar and feathered in man-made rules, restrictions, and fears. Hence, we reject our bodies before we even get to fully integrate with them! The body is the reason you; the Great Solar Self are here on earth! Between you and the Love of yourself, is the "false ego", mental parasite/viral program. You must know this evil virus in your subconscious personally and banish it under discerning observation. For its only power is by not being observed. Hence, a false power fed only by denial and trickery.

Mars rules Scorpio: Scorpio rules the sex organs. Hence, this Death Card, represents a Sexual -fertile and fecund vigorous energy, a reproductive energy which is consciously directed in a physical exercise such as that of Tantra, or that of Crowley’s Middle Pillar, an activity best represented by Crowley's Death Card. The Path of the flaming sword is a Personality coming down the tree of life, after the "personality death", the initiate is now following the "Path of the Serpent”, which is traveling up the Tree. Such inner motion is both destructive and constructive and is not for the weak of character or for those who fear death, a phenomenon shown by trying to dominate others and your environment, rather than knowing that you are another way to be them. What I find curious, is that when you combine the images of Scorpio, the scorpion, the serpent, the eagle, and the Path of the flaming sword you get: A Dragon who becomes a Phoenix

Qabalists know that Hermes/Thoth is the Magician (Magus) of letters, words, and sound, while the Art of Forms(astronomy) is the Domain of Binah as the Star card and science of form is shown in The Art Card (Alchemy) where He and She combine to Transform into One, making the superstitious identity of the Dread Lord into a Hermes-Aphrodite combination known as a hermaphrodite. Therefore, one could say that the Supernal Triangle of the Tree of Life is a type of Hyperborean and/or Shambolic type of existence, known as the World of Aziluth, which is across the Abyss and a place you can only reach after a death of your human realities.

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Arctic continent on the Gerardus Mercator map of 1595.

In Greek mythology, the Hyperboreans (Ancient Greek: Ὑπερβόρε(ι)οι, pronounced [hyperbóre(ː)oi̯]; Latin: Hyperborei) were a mythical people who lived in the far northern part of the known world.^[1] Their name appears to derive from the Greek ὑπέρ Βορέᾱ, "beyond Boreas" (the personified North Wind), although some scholars prefer a derivation from ὑπερφέρω ("to carry over").^[2] Despite their location in an otherwise frigid part of the world, the Hyperboreans were believed to inhabit a sunny, temperate, and divinely-blessed land. In many versions of the story, they lived north of the Riphean Mountains, which shielded them from the effects of the cold North Wind. The oldest myths portray them as the favorites of Apollo, and some ancient Greek writers regarded the Hyperboreans as the mythical founders of Apollo's shrines at Delos and Delphi.^[3]

Later writers disagreed on the existence and location of the Hyperboreans, with some regarding them as purely mythological, and others connecting them to real-world peoples and places in northern Europe (e.g. Britain, Scandinavia, or Siberia).^[4] In medieval and Renaissance literature, the Hyperboreans came to signify remoteness and exoticism. Modern scholars consider the Hyperborean myth to be an amalgam of ideas from ancient utopianism, "edge of the earth" stories, the cult of Apollo, and exaggerated reports of phenomena in northern Europe (e.g. the Arctic "midnight sun").^[5]

(The Hyperboreans were "Ancient Astronauts")

Around the world, there is a celebration set aside to commemorate this transition from flesh to light and it is called All Soul's or Halloween night. Christians of the day described the All-Soul's night as heretical practices, where magic charms and divination, reading the future with Witches mirrors and nutshell ashes and other objectionable rites: Even the unholy act of ducking for apples in tubs of water, which was said to represent souls in the Cauldron of Regeneration.

But this is not just limited to past superstition, even today it is believed that if a girl peels an apple before a mirror on Halloween, she will see the image of her future husband in the glass.

However, today's celebration of parties, and candy/gift giving follows the original version of Samuel’s day, as the original divination was Oracular utterances by the elder dead (Ancestors) who came up from their tombs on Halloween/All Souls Day, bearing gifts for the children of their living descendants. According to the pagan lunar calendar, festivals were celebrated on the "eve' rather than the day. Hence, Halloween or All Hallows' Eve, was the original festival that was later displaced to the following day. The Irish called this Holy Night, the Vigil of Saman.

Sicilian Halloween tradition states that, "the dead relations have become the good fairies of the little ones." There are many more traditions across Europe. Even in Lithuania, there were burn offerings of domestic animals to their god ZIMIENNIK(Samanik) believing that if the Lord of the underworld accepted the offering on behalf of the dead, the spirits would do no harm. The Fact That Death is seen as an active force (The Dancing Skeleton) by the ancients, relates to the fact that Death, acts like the Dark Energy that pushes the Universe outward, by pushing Life forward. The objective Self, the Mortal Form, may fear its own demise, but the Subjective Self, (that is 99.6% of you) does not. Spirit knows Death to be but a tool that transforms, as is Life, which Transforms Self Concepts into Self-Reality and/or Self in-form-action. In-Form-Action, makes it possible to experience information and thereby, creating personal knowledge, thereby making the Soul a collective consciousness. Transformation defeats the stasis of entropy that can form as a viral parasite, trying to stop all movement in the individual it infects. Such stoppages are shown as addictions, indolence, fear paralysis, depressions, feelings of helplessness, obsession with conspiracy theories, "righteousness", jealousy, superiority, or inferiority complexes, etc. In other words, self-destructiveness.

On that note:

The celebration of Halloween Death, should be a celebration of the Spirit who survives mortality, knowing full well, that by owning your own beast based "survival Mind", you can push your Identity Forward into the Invisible Universe---and be Lord over Death and/or Lord/Lady Life. Therefore, the Thoth Death Card is a Rebirth Card, where we drop the old, and become the new. Knowing that all is Mind/Psyche, and that everything is imagined into being, allows you to understand that I AM- is Truth and that all that you think you are, is merely an assumption; a fantasy or dream that you control by image-making, and rational measurement, and emoting self-thought into the environment. You are the Power that is Life, who has forgotten its Divinity. Declare it every day! I AM Divine! I AM Magnificent Life who makes lifetimes.

The Thoth Card and the Declarative Tarot Path 13- departed from the Tradition set by the Golden Dawn, Rider, Waite, or the older Marseilles cards where death is riding a white horse. Hence, the dancing boney fellow on the Declarative Tarot, has wings of the Monarch butterfly. This is because the Monarch will migrate thousands of miles and upon arriving at their destination will go into a torpor (a catatonic sleep) to hibernate through the winter. With spring's sunny heat, they revive themselves in time for the grand dance of transformational release.

The fiery colors of the marigold-flower are used in many ceremonies. These vibrant colors of marigold flowers are thought to evoke feelings of warmth and affection, making them suitable for love-related rituals and ceremonies. In summary, the marigold flower meaning varies across cultures, often symbolizing purity, divinity, and the connection between life and death.

The dung beetles are fantastic navigators, who use the Sun and Stars to determine their destination by scouting from the top of the dung ball and advising destination. The Ancient Egyptians observed this scouting activity resulting in the Dung Beetle being held in surprising high esteem in Ancient Egypt, where the Dung Beetle (Scarab Beetle) was an aspect of the Sun God Ra. It was believed that every day a Scarab pushed the Sun toward the horizon at the start of a new day; this gave Beetle a strong connection with renewal, safety, and restoration.

All these amazing images remind us of the four alchemical activities of putrefaction, dissolution, solution, and coagulation. Which in life are death-rest before birth, experience, transition, and birth.

After one has deconstructed the false ego, which has weighed us down, the Holy Death will infuse the aspirant with energy, talent (magic abilities), regeneration and support into whatever work we decide to do. By analyzing this new field and the fertile energy it begins in by bringing it all into our Awake Consciousness, we create a synthesis that will form the architecture of our Great Work, which we will manifest in. Only excessive haste and ambition, of the false ego, will lead us to neglect the proper procedure of regeneration and thereby leading to finality and failure. The ladybug larvae illustrate the natural cycle we all follow. Ladybugs are thought to symbolize everything from protection to resilience to good luck, according to the author of Shamanic Breathwork: Nature of Change Linda Star Wolf, Ph.D.

When the Death Card, ATU/ Key 13 is thrown, it implies:

• Time, Age, and transformation. 
• Rarely does it symbolize physical death and only if borne out by the accompanying cards, such as the 10 of swords-Ruin-Swords being the traditional death suit. 
• For the Querent, this is the principle of letting go, and moving on.
• A rebirth out of old conditions. 
• A type of transitional metamorphosis which destroys something old to build something new. 
• The Realization of Life Power as it is released from past confines and revitalized by change and regeneration.
• Psychology of letting go.
• New opportunities. 
• Rebirth from one form into another.
• Personality transformation. 

If surrounded by ill-defined cards, it implies:

• Resisting change.
• Stagnation.
• Inertia.
• Pain of giving something up.

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