The Tarot of Eli, LLC-Minor Arcana: Thoth Tarot- Ace of Swords & The Tarot Apokalypsis- Ace of Swords.

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#1. I am the center of expression for the Primal Will-to-Good which creates and sustains the Universe.

The Thoth Ace of Swords and the Modern Witch Tarot Ace of Swords, represents the Unknowable Kether, whose God name is Eheieh (I Will Be) the 1st Sephiroth on the Tree of Life,  which is often depicted as the Point, The Diamond Crown, and the Buddhist Swastika (the first swirling) as explained in past blogs; However, these symbols only direct us into a journey of understanding that has no goal. We may say the goal is to understand the Infinite, but the word infinite, even if understood, is a human invention and understanding requires measurement and there is no measure of infinite. Therefore, words are an inadequate medium when trying to explain the "No-Thing" before Time-Space (Time Space is Measurement). The point that is Kether, is the Singularity of Energy that was before the Big Bang but as the words may imply some vast understanding, this explanation is empty of experience and incomprehensible as is implies "non-space". Yet, we are also potentially anything, which makes us not as comfortably understood as one would like to think. 

It Seems that the Divine Collective Unconscious, and/or the I AM wishes us to be as mentally vast as our forms seem to be limited. This is seen by the Imagination's ability to expand concepts so far beyond reality that reality is just an imagined collection of “comfortable limits”, as is our own forms. One moment we are the Human dreaming of being Spiral Energy (Spirit) the next we are Spiral Energy dreaming we are a human. Much like that old Chinese tale of Chuang Tzu dreaming he was a butterfly, then upon awakening he wondered if he was a butterfly dreaming, he is a man. For those who don't know the tale, Chuang Tzu was a philosopher in ancient China who one night went to sleep and dreamt that he was a butterfly. He dreamt that he was flying around from flower to flower and noticed while he was dreaming, he felt free, blown about by the breeze hither and thither. He was quite sure that he was a butterfly. Considering Kether, it is much the same. Am I energy who dreams it is a Homo Sapien Sapien, or am I a Homo Sapien Sapien dreaming I am energy?

The Qabalist knows that All is Mind, and we are not talking about just the human consciousness, but the Mind that the Dream of the Universe floats in. All is mind! Hence, we are a Mind dreaming we are human. The Ace of Swords is a "seed or essence of Mind". The Root Powers of Air symbolize the influence of Kether in the formative World of Yetzirah and/or Astral Formative World. This may be understood as the motion in the Currents of Astral Fluid; However, that is just the unknown "footprint in the snow" whose melting shape is almost indecipherable and not the Powerful Being itself. The Astral realms are the realms of Fleeting Dream Forms...nothing solid. Thus, the Ace of Swords is a potent card which can be extremely good or extremely evil. Evil is live spelled backwards, and basically implies devolution rather than evolution. To move forward progressively, is Living, to Move backward, is "living in the past" and/or "anti-life" which is a form of "living dead"... since the past isn't present now. Thus, we have philosopher's saying. “Let the dead bury the dead...". In such a saying one remembers that the suit of Swords is the official tarot death suit.

Am I a man dreaming I am alive or am I life dreaming I am a man?

The Mind/Intellect is called the Pythagorean Element of Air, for it is heated by Passions, as Air is heated by Sun/Fire, and thus it can become violent and life threatening while still being rational. However, this is avoided if the Will of Spirit (Energy and Will combined is Spirit), is the controller of Passion and/or vigorous energy, then the Mind's rational becomes Life Expanding and Liberating; the Mind is of Spirit (The One Mind is the Supernal Triangle of Kether-Chokmah-Binah). The Ace of Wands represents a natural force, while the Ace of Swords represents that which is invoked; a force called upon. Hence, I AM, is the Ace of Swords; for I AM invokes existence, yet what I am is totally dreamt of and/or assumed.

The currents generated by Kether on the Astral are both dynamic and erratic, having the potential to be applied at will to different situations. Thus, we have the description of a "whirling force" that gains strength through trouble. To Qabalists, this is an affirmation of Divine authority and may become the Sword of Wrath, punishment, and affliction. The pure mind has no conscience; it is up to us who are intimate with life (or us who are life being intimate with the alive), to supply discernment to thought. Zoroaster, called this No-thing/Kether a "whirling force crying out loud---I AM!"

Word of Law-Achath Rauch Elohim Chiim.

If we are finding the fact that we are both the dream and the dreamer who is the dream of Spirit confusing let us not despair, for the Ace of Swords represents the Sword of the Magus crowned in the twenty-two diadem of light (22 ATU-referring to the 0-Fool). To those of magic, the number 22 refers to Atu known as 22=2x11, the Magical manifestation of Chokmah, Wisdom, and the Logos. In Hebrew letters, which are numbers, is the Word of Law that blazes forth (Shown on Thoth Sword) clearing the dark clouds of a Personal Mind based on confusion, fear, or survival thinking.

I would suggest getting the Book 777 by Aleister Crowley to further study this, as the words ​"Achath Ruach Elohim Chiim" are the numbers 777 and means in English translation, “One is Spirit of the Gods of the Living" which implies that we are Spiritual life being intimate with the alive, using Avatars! The Ruach being the 6th Sephiroth- Tiphareth, the Solar Logos/Soul/Psyche----all of which I like to call the Solar or Celestial Self. There is a lot of investigative gematria to understand in Thoth Tarot so get the book 777 or The Book of Thoth, both written by Crowley. The Kether is God/Energy "not living", Achath Ruach Elohim Chiim, is the Spiral Energy that produces Living Creation (Sun/Son of God) only after the Will to Force (Chokmah) and the Will to Form (Binah) are applied. 777, is also the number of the Scarlet Woman, the Red Goddess of vigorous energy, the Blood of Life frequency that makes stones live. Crowley named her Babalon (his spelling) So once again The Divine Creative is seen as God is Sex and/or 0=2 and the vigorous motion of the Universe is the 2 trying to come together as 1-----we call that "sex": However, it may be better known as "The Law of Attraction".

The Tarot Apokalypsis-Ace of Swords is a decorative medieval sword overlaying a great tree (Yggdrasil) shedding Norse Runes. Yggdrasil is an important feature of Norse mythology. It is the Norse tree of life, encompassing all nine worlds that are part of the ancient Norse view of the cosmos. It is an ash tree in which all the worlds, including the world of humans and the world of the gods, nestle among the branches and roots. In Norse mythology, the squirrel is a messenger between spirit worlds. Commonly called “drill tooth,” squirrels in these tales could travel on the famous world tree. They'd scurry up and down, carrying important messages to the eagle and other regal characters, in this case to the Ravens. Ravens are in Norse mythology, the Icelandic Sagas, and Icelandic folklore where they are usually shown as a wise, all-knowing messenger and often a bird of prophecy, protector, and helper. The Ravens are perched in a pair of antlers. Antlers are an ancient archetype representing male energy, strength, and fertility. The Horned God is a powerful symbol to the ancient people, named Cernunnos, Herne, Lord of all Stags. The great branching horns manifest the Spirit of the Forest - the esoteric mystery of the Tree of Life. Then there is a full Moon on your upper left of this card. The new moon was the signal for the beginning of the new month and the end of the old month. There really isn't any great significance to the Full Moon in Norse myth. However, the sun is a feminine noun, and the moon is a masculine noun. This goes along with the Tarot Ace of Swords which is considered a masculine invoked force.

+The Sun & Moon in Norse Writings https://www.worldhistory.org/user/irinamaria.manea/

Unlike in the Roman tradition and much like in modern German, the sun (sól in Old Norse) is a feminine noun, and the moon (máni) is masculine. In the Völuspá, a poem where a prophetess reveals information about the beginning and end of the world, we can read about their kinship:

The sun, sister of the moon,
Shone from the south,
With her hand
Over the rim of heaven.
The sun did not know yet.
Where her home should be,
The moon did not know yet
What power he had

(stanza 5)

There is also a hangman's noose hanging from a lower tree limb. This may imply that this Tree of Life requires sacrifice as do all concepts and ideas that one pursues as goals. The primary meaning of this card is new concepts and ideas.

The Ace of Sword Tarot Card displays the Mind's healing that instills in our subconscious mind a powerful creative and purifying energy that can heal our ills with its rational and analytical essence. However, there is a discipline of severe inner work required as this energy concedes nothing without personal introspection and discovery of the "mind virus" that infects our subconscious self-identity, hence self-sacrifice.

Because we are of the Celestial (we are evolutionary stars-the evolution of Light-Suns of God) we carry data that is new perspectives, that free the consciousness from the boundaries of flesh and sensuality. Here are viewed unlimited potentials, where we begin to "remember" the Truth of Self and understand that all is Self, and Self is all we will ever know. That Self is the Cosmic I AM. Hence, the Truth of Existence, is I AM--- a truth we have all inherited as "selves of the One I AM". However, what we exist as, and/or present as "Self" is entirely up to our "knowing ourselves" and therefore, assumed potential that is not written in stone. I AM is reality and what I Am is a dream of being a "Me". Above all things, know thyself! Hence, we decide our own fate by our perspectives, but we are not in control of our Destiny, for that belongs to the DNA of the Stars, from which we are born and of which we are destined to explore. ALL OF US HAVE REACHED OUR DESTINY WHICH IS "I AM BEING!" However, when we reject the indolent programing and dogma profaning of our Self, we then can decide our own fate. Fate is a daily action that we control! By invoking our Higher Mind/Self, we become the Heavenly Human we are designed to be, and all things then belong to us. "

"​Let the seeker seek, for they will become troubled. When they become troubled, they shall become astonished and know that they are the ruler over the All".

The Nag Hamadi Library-Gospel of Didymos Judas Thomas.

When the Ace of Swords card is thrown in a divination, it implies:

• The Querent is experiencing mental clarity and inventiveness.
• Problems being overcome with original thinking.
• The dawning of a new intellectual process.
• Acting with logic discrimination and Strength in adversity.
•  Out of evil some good will come. 
• Something that looks bleak can surprisingly turn out to be promising Doom. 
• This is also considered the card of Morgan the Fate and therefore, Finality, Tragedy, and ultimately- fate; However, it is release, freedom from past restraint and a new lightness and/or a kind of salvation.
• The beginning of an idea or information. 
• The rise of Inner insight.
• This card depends on the surrounding cards to show whether it is fate or rebirth.
• Objectivity.

If ill defined by the surrounding cards it implies:

• Restlessness.
• Premature and subjective thinking.
• Belligerence.
• Hard hearted.
• Weakness of will.

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