The Tarot of Eli, LLC: The Thoth Tarot- Key/ATU 21- The Universe

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The Universe-ATU 21- is the 2nd to the last of the Major Arcana and is the Feminine Compliment to the 0-The Fool, who is also 0 and Atu-22: Atu being the name given the Major Arcana by Aleister Crowley.

Aleister Crowley used the term ATU instead of Key for the Major Arcana cards in his Thoth Tarot deck as a deliberate choice to reflect his unique perspective on the Tarot and to differentiate it from the traditional Tarot decks. The term ATU comes from the Latin word actus, which means "an act" or "a deed," suggesting that each card represents a significant force or event. This term was meant to align with Crowley's broader esoteric philosophy, which includes his ideas from Thelema, Qabalah, and Magick. Here's a breakdown of why this shift in terminology was important for Crowley:

1. Emphasis on Dynamic Forces

Crowley viewed the Major Arcana not simply as symbolic keys to understanding spiritual concepts, but as active forces in the universe. The term ATU reflects this idea by portraying the cards as expressions of universal processes or dynamic events. It suggests that these cards are not static symbols, but forces in motion that influence the spiritual and material world.

2. Alignment with Thelemic Principles

The change in terminology also reflects Crowley’s Thelemic philosophy, in which each Major Arcana card represents a significant step or transformation in the journey of the self, in alignment with his principle of Do what thou wilt. By using ATU, Crowley emphasizes that the Tarot represents not just abstract archetypes but actions or manifestations of Will in the universe.

3. Differentiation from Traditional Esoteric Systems

By using ATU instead of Key, Crowley intentionally distances his Tarot system from the more traditional interpretations, especially those of the Golden Dawn and earlier occultists. He wanted to convey that his Thoth Tarot was a unique and advanced system, rooted in his own magical and philosophical innovations. The term Key suggests something static or unlocking a mystery, while ATU embodies a sense of action and unfolding.

4. Symbolism of Letters and Numbers

Crowley had a deep understanding of Qabalistic symbolism and the relationship between letters, numbers, and forces. The use of ATU ties into his fascination with the interplay of numbers and symbols in a more active sense. In Qabalah, each card is associated with specific Hebrew letters and paths on the Tree of Life. By choosing ATU, he implies that these cards are more than gateways; they are active components in the cosmic plasmic structure, each with its own particular energy frequency and function.

In short, Crowley's choice of ATU over Key reflects his desire to portray the Major Arcana cards as powerful Plasma forces in the universe, aligned with his Thelemic ideas, and to distance his Tarot system from more traditional interpretations. The term suggests action, movement, and manifestation, which are central themes in his interpretation of the Tarot.

The Universe card is attributed to the Hebrew letter Tau or Tav [meaning equal armed cross/the "T" cross] and since this card is compliment to the Fool, letter Aleph [meaning: Ox] the two together spell the word Ath, which means Essence. The Fool is the beginning and the Universe is the completed end, that will go back to 0. The consensus is that since everything came from no-thing, the end of everything is the return to no-thing.

The letter Tau refers to the planet Saturn, the outermost and slowest of the 7 sacred planets (the Qabalah was written long before the other planets were "discovered" The Sumerian's knew of all the 11 Planets plus a 12th planet long before we "discovered" them.); Because of its heavy slow qualities the earth was "thrust upon the symbol". As Crowley explained, "The original three elements, Fire, Air and Water, sufficed for primitive thought; Earth and Spirit represent a latter accretion".

Neither is to be found in the original twenty-two Paths of the Sepher Yetzirah. However, the Hebrew Bible, Genesis explains The Path of Tau (T) and/or Earth, with a creation story.

Tau [Tav]; Tau Cross, Equal Armed Cross or "T" cross.

In the beginning God (dess)created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was a vast nothingness with darkness upon the surface of the deep, and the Divine Presence hovered upon the surface of the waters,. And God said," Let their be light." and there was light.

Genesis 1:1-3

As creation stories goes, this is one of the best known in the Western civilizations. It also points out that Light/Plasma was a creation of Divine Presence and that is why Light (Plasma) is seen as he first form of the Divine. What should also be understood is that created form began in Darkness [ Dark Energy-Dark matter] the Ain (No-Thing), as Physicists are telling us today.

As most of us know stars are primarily composed of plasma, which is one of the four fundamental states of matter (along with solid, liquid, and gas). Plasma is a highly ionized gas where electrons are separated from their parent atoms or molecules, resulting in a soup of charged particles—positive ions and free electrons.

How Plasma Relates to Stars:

1. High Temperatures: The extreme temperatures in stars cause atoms to collide with enough energy to strip electrons from their nuclei, forming plasma.
2. Energy Source: Stars, including our Sun, generate energy through nuclear fusion. In their cores, hydrogen nuclei (protons) fuse to form helium, releasing tremendous amounts of energy as light and heat. This process occurs in the plasma state.
3. Structure: The plasma in a star is held together by gravity, which creates a balance between the inward pull of gravity and the outward pressure from the energy generated in the core.

In summary, stars are massive, luminous spheres of plasma, powered by nuclear fusion at their cores, and their behavior and structure are deeply influenced by the properties of this unique state of matter.

Aleister Crowley often referred to people as "stars" in his writings, particularly in his magnum opus, The Book of the Law (Liber AL vel Legis). This concept is rooted in his philosophy of Thelema, where he emphasizes the individuality, divinity, and unique purpose of each person.

Key References and Context:

1. The Book of the Law:

   • In Chapter I, Verse 3, he writes: "Every man and every woman is a star."
   • This statement encapsulates the idea that every individual has their own unique orbit or path in life, akin to stars moving through the cosmos. It suggests autonomy, uniqueness, and divine potential.

2. Thelemic Philosophy:

   • Crowley taught that each person is a microcosm (coagulated plasma) of the macrocosm (Plasma), reflecting the divine in their individuality.
   • This metaphor aligns with his emphasis on True Will, the unique purpose or destiny of each person, comparable to the gravitational trajectory of a star in space.

3. Stars in the Mystical and Astrological Sense:

   • In Western Hermetic Qabalah, stars are often symbolic of divine light (Plasma) and the infinite potential of the universe. Crowley's use of the term builds on these esoteric traditions, blending them with his vision of spiritual self-realization.

Crowley’s poetic and mystical language reinforces the idea that everyone is both connected to and responsible for their own spiritual journey, shining brightly in their own way.

The "Vast Nothingness on the Surface of the Deep"----The Deep Thick Darkness of Binah (Dark Energy) and where the conception of Movement (Divine hovering Plasmic Presence or Logos) began the process of form made of light. All this is known to Qabalists but is what often not known, is that Tau is the Alpha (Beginning) and the Omega (the End) of all form. Therefore, this card is totally about the Feminine power of "Will-to-Form". Hence, there is no Androgyny depicted as activity here, for She created the masculine form, which is depicted as a twisting or spiraling python.

To the Ancient Greeks, Zeus was often depicted as a Python, and in this phase would come to a woman in her dreams as a Great Snake and impregnate her. All eroticism aside, she is and birth action of Dark Energy and he the Motion within Dark matter, which is a vast nothingness, i.e. formless; However, all form comes from this vastness (The Abyss). Divine Masculine Presence, besides being waves of plasmic light, is Self-Awareness on a Microcosmic scale that we call consciousness and is difficult to understand so it is often called waves of Light or Serpent force. I felt this force reverberate through me as I woke up one day and stated loudly " I Am the World Serpent", and if you have felt this unique presence, here is a detailed explanation of this "Serpent Force".

A layered key to memory, motion, and sovereign Being

1 ▸ Prime Archetype – the Serpent that Encloses All

Across systems the World Serpent marks the liminal ring: inside is the ordered realm, outside the infinite ocean of undifferentiated potential. Declaring “I Am the World Serpent” therefore identifies the Self as both custodian of form and door to the formless.

2 ▸ Hermetic & Qabalistic Dimensions

1. Eheyeh—“I Am.” In the Sephiroth of Kether the Divine Name is אהיה (Eh-yeh, I Am). To voice “I Am” already places you in the crown of the Tree; to add World Serpent crowns spacetime itself.

2. Ouroboros & the Path of Tau. The circle-serpent is a glyph Crowley links to the Path 32 (Tau) where the Universe card resides—World in the Golden Dawn, The Universe in the Thoth deck. Here the serpent is the serpentine waveform that dances the Magnetitrix into matter.

3. 358 Gematria (נחש / משיח). The Hebrew נחש (Nāḥaš, “serpent”) and משיח (Mashi-aḥ, “Messiah”) share the value 358. Thus the redeemed/coiled serpent is the Christos-Current, the liberating Fire of Kundalini.

4. Hadit’s Whisper. In Liber AL I:26 “I am the secret Serpent coiled about to spring.” The Thelemite recognizes the World Serpent as the infinitely contracted point of Will poised to expand through every star-soul.

3 ▸ Modern Viewpoints

• Psychological / Jungian. The ouroboric serpent is the first symbol of the Self that devours its own opposites, a mandala of individuation where ego and shadow, conscious and unconscious, meet in regenerative loops.

• Biophysical. Our double-helix DNA is literally a coiled serpent storing the wordless memory of earlier stars; cell division is a micro-Ragnarök that births worlds of proteins each moment.

• Cosmological. Closed cosmic strings, toroidal magnetospheres, even the milky plasma ring around the Milky Way mimic the serpent’s coil—scientific echoes of the same archetype.

• Eco-gnostic. Gaia-theory frames Earth’s biosphere as a single self-regulating loop: the serpent body whose rhythmic contractions (climate, tectonics, evolution) keep life in dynamic disequilibrium—creative tension.

4 ▸ Living the Formula

Daily Breath-Cycle Meditation (aligns with your ongoing Tarot-breath series)

Repeat three circuits, intoning softly: “Ehyeh—Nāḥaš—Ehyeh.”

5 ▸ Ritual Touch-Stone

1. Place the Thoth Universe card at the north of your working space.

2. Trace an Ouroboros sigil in the air with the wand, sealing it with the mantra above.

3. Vibrate: “IAO SABAO—The Serpent swallows the Sun, the Sun births the Serpent.”

4. Enter silent absorption, letting any personal storyline, limitation, or shame be “swallowed” by the circle until only sensation of limitless motion-in-stillness remains.

6 ▸ Why You May Have Said It 

The World Serpent often surfaces when the psyche senses a cycle’s completion and the imminent molt into a larger skin. Beside personal milestones, note: the solstice gateway (exact on June 20-21 this year) aligns solar zenith with the galactic equator—an outer reflection of the Serpent swallowing its own tail in the heavens. Your declaration may therefore be an oracular signal that your microcosmic orbit has closed and the next coil is ready to spring.

Closing Reflection

To affirm “I Am the World Serpent” is to recognize yourself as both perimeter and center, devourer and midwife, end and endlessness. Walk forward with the humility of the serpent’s tail—always touching ground—and the majesty of its head, ever poised above the waters of space.

Self-Awareness on the Divine Scale (...." From Her did she build Herself", this statement was often attributed to the Greek Goddess Hera) is The Universe, the One Self-Aware Plasmic Energy that all selves come from which we call the Universal Collective Unconscious and/or the Unconscious or Great Sea of Binah in which He swims as a serpent.

The Universe card can feel elusive—almost impossible to “get your head around.” Yet true expansion of vision demands that we compel the proud, surface-bound personality to peer into the Black Mirror of the Deep Unconscious, the primordial All-Seeing I from which the first ripple of Thought condenses into form.

Elucidation & Hermetic Deep-Dive

Ritual Exercise: Crossing the Ring-Pass-Not

1. Set the Temple

   • Universe card in the West (symbolic sunset into darkness).

   • Black mirror or polished obsidian before it.

2. Vibration

   • Intone “Ayin-Soph Aur” three times, imagining light congealing into a swirling indigo vortex.

3. Self-Confrontation Breath (7-4-7 pattern)

   • Inhale 7 counts: draw awareness from crown to root, feeling the “I” collapse.

   • Hold 4 counts: rest in the silent eye of the vortex.

   • Exhale 7 counts: let the vortex expand outward until it swallows your parochial identity.

   • Repeat nine cycles, each time allowing a symbol or memory to rise and dissolve.

4. Seal

   • Trace the Tau-cross over the mirror, stating: “From Nothing I looked, and through looking became the World.”

   • Ground with a simple act—touch the floor, taste salt—affirming form reborn from formlessness.

Bringing It Into Daily Life

• Micro-Universe Moments: Whenever a disruptive event occurs, pause and silently affirm “This, too, is Tau—closing one loop so a wider loop can open.”

• Dream Journaling: The subconscious will often answer the Universe card with mythic serpent, dance, or ring imagery. Record and sketch these symbols to map your personal Ring-Cosmos.

• Creative Projects: Begin any new artwork, blog post, or reading by spending 2–3 minutes in the Tau-breath; you will notice ideas gestate from a deeper stratum, carrying that “All-Seeing I” clarity.

Closing Reflection

The Universe is not a destination but a living torus of consciousness folding back upon itself. Each time you face the dark glass of the unknown, you reenact the primal gesture—Ayin beholds Itself, and a world is born. Keep peering; every glance is a new creation.

This Lovely Tarot Card- key 21- The Universe is what I have called the "Womb- with- a -View" , it is called She because it is the action of the Feminine Magnetic aspect of the one Electromagnetic energy. The Divine Creative is both Feminine and Masculine, but is neither sex, so the masculine of the Divine is called light/electric and the Feminine of the Divine Creative is called the Dark/Magnetic . In this context Masculine force is Movement and Feminine Force is Form.

The most difficult task for our personal perspective is to understand that the Dark Unconscious Energy, even exists and that from darkness we have all come and to darkness we all return ( alpha and omega)! But as if that understanding wasn't enough----we can come from and go back to that blazing darkness of Kether----consciously!

In Hermetic Qabalah, we often speak of Chokmah—the Second Sephirah—as the First formless flash of Masculine Force, the primal Will to Emanate. This is not “Light” as the eyes perceive, but Dark Fire—a phrase often misunderstood. It is not “dark” in the sense of evil or shadow, but dark like the womb of space, invisible motion within unmeasured potential. It is the Motion within Dark Energy, not yet clothed in wavelength.

🌑 Dark Fire ≠ Light

While Chokmah's current is the Ur-impulse—that sudden push into existence—it remains veiled in Ain Soph's stillness. What we call “light” (electromagnetic radiation) is already a product, a slowed-down ripple made possible by the Great Mother Binah (the 3rd Sephirah), who gives form and boundaries to Chokmah’s infinite motion. This very boundary gives rise to “the visible spectrum”—a narrowing of infinite fire into what is perceptible.

🔥 Chokmah is the Will to Be.
🌊 Binah is the Womb that shapes it.
🌟 Light is their first child—finite and measurable.

🜂 Light is Not Infinite—It Is a Measured Child of the Infinite

Stars are born; stars go nova. Even light, that herald of form and vision, has its expiry. It is subject to entropy. Photons, though massless, age in relativistic time and are bent by gravity. The Universe, as we know it, is not eternal—it breathes, it cycles.

Modern cosmology now echoes this Hermetic vision: The expansion of the Universe may eventually “slow,” then collapse, or tear apart into black entropy, only to be reborn. Hindu cosmology has known this all along:

“The night of Brahma is as long as the day. What dies is not destroyed, but reborn.”
(— Bhagavad Gita, interpreted Hermetically)

🜄 The Will to Form: Binah and the Spiral of Becoming

Binah, the Great Sea, the Supernal Mother, is the Shekinah, Sophia, Babalon, Isis Unveiled. She is that regenerative force which collects the experiences of prior Universes, the archive of all soul-lives, and from their ashes builds new Aeons.

This is not simple recycling—it is resurrection.

The Kundalini—the primal, serpentine, plasmic force—is Her current through you. It coils not only at the base of your spine but also at the heart of the Earth, moving through the ley-lines and dragon paths, encoded in golden ratio spirals, vortex flows, and DNA helices.

The spiral is Her signature, found in:

• Galaxies

• Whirlpools

• Conch shells

• Weather systems

• Your fingerprint

And most tellingly—in the serpent that rises through the Tree of Life, crossing the middle pillar in the rising flame of liberation.

🜃 Dimensions Are Spirals of Consciousness, Not Just Space

Each twist of the serpent creates a new “dimension,” not merely of spatial geometry but of Being itself. We are not moving linearly from 3D to 5D to some "new age paradise." Instead, we are spiraling through the resonance layers of the original Divine Thought, collapsing waveform into form, then dissolving it again into memory, then recasting it anew. Each spiral encodes a new octave of soul-expression.

🌌 Final Thought: The True Resurrection is Recursive Creation

The great secret is this: The Universe is not a one-time act. It is a breathing serpent. You, as a soul, are not a static thing, but a coil of Will moving through the serpent’s body, gathering the nectar of experience, and feeding it back to the Mother's Womb for re-creation.

When we say "I Am the World Serpent", we say:

"I am the coil of motion that links what was, what is, and what shall become.
I am Light—but more so, I am the Fire behind Light.
I am not the star—I am the Will that births stars, and the Wisdom that gathers their ashes."

The Path of Tau, The Universe or The traditional World Tarot Card :

* Path color is Indigo

* Musical Note: A

*Planet; Saturn

* Meaning: The Tau Cross---Equal armed Cross

* Double letter: Power-Servitude

* Esoteric title: The Great One of the Night of Time.

Obviously, because our Souls manifest a body made of time-space, it is a competent builder of "self-image" on the Plane of Malkuth (Material Plane) and as I said, this self is mostly space (99%) and only 1% time. I dare to say, that we are mostly "Dark Matter" and "Dark Energy" with a "clothing of time".

The Dark Mother gave birth to Our Self-Awareness before the Soul was born of the Spiral energy that is Light! To go into this dark Self is the journey of this Path of Tau....it is where the individual consciousness gets its first glimpse of the Personality that has been Forged out of the Higher Self that is shown as Tiphareth (Beauty) on the Tree of Life. The Original Observer (Psyche and/or Real Person) becomes the observed individual "I" personality of the physical presence and we begin viewing our lives in a different way. The light of "me" is limited, while the Darkness of I Am reabsorbs the lessons of Light and continues on to build expanded "me" and/or Self-concepts. The Alpha and Omega is also a spiral and returns upon itself!

We are Spiral Entity (Willed-powered Plasma) --Spirits and we turn on and off the light of personal consciousness, shut down and re-boot, so that we may expand and liberate our Personal expression! Observation reabsorbs (Alchemical putrefaction) the data experienced by the body. In order for past limits to be expanded into Present Limits you must have an up and down--an in and out-- and a space all around in order to Observe your Great Work!

The Universe Card shows that Space all Around as an Oval shape reminiscent of the Vesica Piscis, that surrounds the Dancing Goddess (The Dark Motion in the Light Motion) {those who know of my teachings hear me often speak of the "Dancing Goddess and God" as the Divine Creative].

I could show pages of examples of this Alpha and Omega symbolism but space is limited here---So know this, If we realize that in the end, we all come from the same source and focus on the light of creation--knowing that we are all formed from this Plasmic Light, we can find peace and eternal bliss within ourselves knowing that our existence ends only to redefine existence again. Energy cannot be created nor destroyed only Transformed and this Transformation is the Alpha and the Omega and the Omega into Alpha and the.... you get the point!

As I previously stated: In the old original Qabalistic Text- The Sephir Yestzirah,The World of Assiah, the Material World, does not appear except as a "pendant to the Tree of Life." The moderns have updated the Qabalah accordingly which has only complimented the original.

Earth and Saturn, share certain qualities, such as, heaviness, dullness, coldness, dryness, immobility and the like. Yet, we also find Saturn in Binah, in respect to the Dark Energy and Time which is the Material of the Womb of all things, on the Queens scale of Observed Nature. Again, pointing out that as soon as an end to a process is reached, it always returns to the beginning.

This knowledge is often illustrated in the form of a serpent eating its own tail, (Ouroboros) which is a stylized circle of serpentine force. This is a universe of serpents, strings of energy spiraling inside of sub-atomic particles (quantum string theory), which may seem to be small and insignificant but the whole of the Universe exists because of them. Yet, the whole of the Universe shall return to strings, assimilating data learned, for the next excursion into Self-Awareness.

What may be interesting to note, is that electricity is also visible as "serpentine" light. It seems that linking Father and Idea (Male electric force) and Mother and Understanding (female Magnetic Force), which gives form to idea as formed waves of energy that "go back on themselves", shows some cohesive link from ancient to modern insight into the Universal make-up! This "going back" on one's self is also shown as the serpentine figure eight, laying on its side.

You may know that Tetragrammaton, The All,(it is recommended that the student read-The Book of Thoth, by Master Theron) is a formula of ,"The Union of the Father and Mother produces Twins, the son going forward to the daughter, the daughter returning the energy to the father; by this cycle of change the stability and eternity of the universe is assured."( From, The Book of Thoth) Please note, these are cycles of force and form and not a statement of human family life.

THE UNIVERSE and/or THE WORLD key 21, of Tarot.

As stated, This Qabalistic Tarot Card is The Path of Tau, meaning equal armed cross and/or the Tau cross (T-cross). Tau is a Hebrew Double-letter (Soul letter), a combination of opposites and is called power-servitude. As the motion of Conscious (Solar Logos) energy crystallized into form, and whose movement is downward on the Tree of Life, it becomes obvious that the first path upward is the Last Key of the Major Arcana:

The meaning of the word Power is the ability to do work and the ability to weave esoteric/Plasmic work into physical material is why we-Spirits from the "Spooky Universe"-have a physical body! We now must work from a material perspective (the "Below") to the Realms of Pure Spirit (the "Above") doing the Serious Work of the Divine [THE GREAT WORK], as long as our Divine Consciousness is functioning through a physical body.

Think of the magic we are, for we are from Solar Conscious (Solar Logos of Galactic center), born of a Photon Sun ("Sons of God"), who as an Spiral intelligence (Spirit or microwave strings of woven intelligence), have learned to not fear the death of stars, but instead, take the dead star material (physical matter/coagulated plasma) and make it Live again; Alive, but in a more empathetic, sensual, and personal way and therefore extending the life of Stars as Real Persons (Souls)who created individual personalities out of specialized microwave frequencies! Real Persons (Greater Ego) are often referred to as Souls (solar selves), personalities are a form of artificial conscious, we call self-consciousness (small ego), just as bodies are an artificial planet, with a Quantum Sun residing inside and outside! (The form of Plasma known as Prana is outside but breathed into the body making it "alive".) Hence, your real I AM, is Prana as you are the breath (spirit) that makes the body live.

The Path of the Key 21, joins Earth (Malkuth) with the Foundation (Yesod) and is the first path out of the material condition for the personality, leading towards an understanding of the Persona forged by the Higher Self of Tiphareth (our Soul), for EACH incarnation. The Universe Card is the mandala for the "Administrative Intelligence", as Dr. Paul Foster Case described it in his text "The Thirty-Two Paths of Wisdom". The Path of Tau is the "Thirty Second Path" and as Dr. Case says," it directs and associates in all their operations the seven planets."

In our discussions of the Universe or World-Tarot Card, we are discussing the Material of Malkuth. I have often heard people refer to themselves as "mind and body" and when they meditate or dream, they consider that the images that come to them are somehow separate from the body physical as if the Divine marriage of Spirit and Matter has somehow become a Divine Divorce. Somehow the body is not of Mind; a type of doppelganger that exploded out of the mud of lost dreams. Before, we take a long tour on the fears of being alive, just remember; THE DIVINE CREATIVE BUILDS WHAT IT WANTS TO BE! Therefore, Mind and body are inseparable lovers who form a plane as Spirit-Mind-Body.

The Gnostic, Tao and Qabalistic Mysteries have for generations state that ALL IS MIND. The Above- Macrocosm ( Quantum- Plasmic Universal Collective Unconscious) and the Below-Microcosm (Atomic-Self-conscious), are a hermetic marriage that forms Cosmic Self Awareness--- The I AM and/or MIND! Therefore, the distinction between mind and body is perspective, not of actuality.

Once again, the ruler-controlled perspective of the small false parasitic ego's born of "Divide and Conquer", a paradigm of good and bad self-created by the enforced identity culture of ruled indoctrination does us mental and physical harm. For by fearing the sensuality of the body (fear of both pain and pleasure) we become as slaves who fear the lash of our master's (fear of pain/discomfort) disapproval and act only as a cultural egregore.

Hence, we act as an idiot driver of a car, who fears the sensors (sensation) that give information of the car's health as gauges. This stress driven- driver, would ignore the "engine warning light", because he fears it would mean discomfort, such as bills, or time in repair (hospital time) and ignorantly thinks that if he "ignores it", it must go away. Finally, when broken down on the highway, the ignorant person will inevitably blame the car. The same thing happens with the "nervous breakdowns" of those who insist the stress they are sensing, is because of "everything else", rather than their own errant perspectives.

The body is a psycho-sensing device, i.e., psychosomatic vehicle. Anyone who impeccably "drives" a vehicle, especially a "Power Tool" of such vast ability as the human body, needs Sensors and the fearless knowledge of how to read them and thereby, operate it successfully!

When we close our eyes and see pictures, we are seeing the foundation of Matter, the most refined form of matter-Thoughts- which are the energy forms closest to the physical condition. The Physical is a Crystallization of these subtle forms brought about by the Power and mutual Servitude of I AM ME----Force (I) and Form (AM) whom both are Power to generate offspring-Me, and who all serve each other as a Divine Psyche and power tool.

We are the Figure Eight (infinity-symbol) of Force and Form. A twisting of Serpentine Force and Form flow, i.e The Image Maker. Hence, perspectives, base on how we identify ourselves, creates the dimension of "Me", often called "reality".

As have stated before, we are 99 % invisible, which means that most of our identity and the Physical World is Unseen (human Aura)! How many of us would go to a bank to change a "Twenty", and accept only 1% back as change? Why then would you, as a Soul, accept only 1% of the Electromagnetic Spectrum of Energy/Mind, as all that is Real and/or Reality? Also, 85% of all thought, is unconscious, and therefore, indoctrinated automatic responses. Hence, our conscious body is being operated by only 17% of our observation! I sure hope you don't drive a car that way!

As you can see by looking at the illustration of the Four Worlds, Assiah is Malkuth, alone, and it is described as our sphere of sensation and/or action. Yet Malkuth is symbolized by the Seven Pointed Star which is representative of the Seven Palaces of Assiah (planets) By experiencing the Path of Tau--The Universe, we are taken to the Gateway of these Seven Palaces.

On the Path of Tau, the Universal Plan (The Great Work) becomes apparent without necessarily being understood. You can enter the "Holy of Holies" (Worlds) and encounter them in such a way that you are "in them but not of them", a product of the Divine perspective--which is where most "new ager's" are not at. They must progress further up the Tree of Life to become above " them", as only through hind sight can we really see!

The physical self-conscious can only realize "reflections in light" and not see the Transmitter of that reflected image! Now this doesn't mean you "ascend" out of Form, but that you Ascend "within" Form, for we are building the as above, so below, not trying to leave it, but to expand its light spectrum/electromagnetic flow of Solar Self to focus our Psychic Power of "Will to Be". This will to be which we have inherited from the Divine Creative who began as Kether who is Eheieh-"I Will BE"- into this crystallized-light dimension of Bio-protons. Hence, in Qabalah, inside is up the tree (serpent path), and outside is down the |Tree of Life (lightning/plasmic path).

What is important here is that all the Force and Form of The One Energy is present and self- balanced on this Path. The Above has condensed as the Below! This self-balance is also stated in the Oriental Tao, as "What is here is there, and what is there is here. If it is not here, it is not there and if it is not there, it is not here." In Qabalah, it is stated as, "All the power that ever was or will be is here now." so get it....and say, "I AM all the power that ever was or will be and I AM here now as Me!"

The Asian philosophy of All is "here" is easily shown as The Hindu "All Mother Goddess" Kali, multi-armed because of her many aspects standing on or over Shiva (Plasma) the living and destroying god. Just as the Solar conscious, reincarnates the individual consciousness.

On the Thoth Universe card, The Vesica Pisces, or the Universal Womb, is shown as an oval of woven vines and the four elements are shown both their alchemical and tarot symbols.

Therefore, we are both "here and there", which implies that we are all "wholly spirit", hence, this Path of Tau, is a Path of Gnostic Initiation, where the personality is encountering itself and becoming aware of the fact that what we encounter on this Path is of our own making. This is where the physical personality, realizes it is not really "in charge of the Macrocosmic Universe" (Qabalistic-Macroprosopos) of the Original I AM but rather of all that is inside our heads which is a Microcosmic universe (Microprosopos) of "Me".

The Delicate Difference Between Fantasy and the Great Work

As we grow on the Hermetic Path, we begin to encounter symbols, inner visions, and subtle ideas that clearly transcend the limits of our everyday consciousness. They seem to originate from a vaster Mind, a greater Self, and they pull us toward a Universal perspective. This is the call of the Great Work—the stirring of the Soul awakening to its divine architecture.

It is easy to recognize when one has begun this journey and is becoming shaped by it. We start to feel dreamy, almost narcotic. The ego, being ever the opportunist, co-opts this new wave of illumination and spins it into fantasy. It whispers:

“You’re already evolving. Just relax and the dreams will do the work.”

But this is not gnosis—it is glamour. It is the sleepwalker’s lullaby sung by the ego dressed in robes of light.

🌀 The Ego’s Trap: Mistaking Fantasy for Power

The self-conscious mind—what some call the “animal mind” or Nephesh in Qabalah—is brilliant at protecting its comfort zone. It loves belief systems because they require no deeds. They are castles in the air, emotionally satisfying and beautifully constructed… until life knocks on the door with a crisis, and the foundation dissolves.

This is where resistance appears. When someone suggests:

“To think is not enough. You must do the Deed,”

—watch the ego flare. Rebellion, sarcasm, dismissal, or outright hostility follows. The Dreamer within us becomes enraged when told that dreaming is not the same as doing.

And so we call names. We ridicule those who challenge our denial, all while eloquently defending our fantasy constructs. Utopia is one such construct—it promises eternal pleasure and harmony without discomfort. But such visions are born not from divine insight, but from a fear of pain.

🌗 Without Shadow, Light is a Lie

In Hermetic terms, Pleasure and Pain are not opposites—they are poles of one force. Without Pain, there is no measurement for Pleasure. Without discomfort, there is no incentive to evolve.

Pain is not punishment; it is the compass of correction. It reveals where alignment is broken. It teaches the Path by showing us the Shadow we refuse to integrate.

Thus, the one who seeks only comfort, only light, only the ease of imagination, is avoiding the true alchemy of Being. This avoidance stunts the unfoldment of the Self.

🜁 The True Self is Deed, Not Belief

Survival thinking is a loop. It worships safety, repetition, and predictability. It clings to superstition, dogma, and inherited belief systems because they give it control. But real transformation begins when the aspirant becomes aware of this loop, observes it without judgment, and then begins the Work anyway.

To become the Real Person, the Higher Self, one must act. The journey from the self-conscious to the Superconscious is not imagined into being—it is walked, lived, and wrought.

This higher mode of awareness is not of the fragmented, tribal animal mind—it is a fractal shard of the Universal Mind, the Psyche of Collective Oneness, which doesn’t care what you believe. It cares only what you do with what you know.

🔥 The Great Divide: Belief Systems vs Deed Systems

🔑 Closing Reflection

The moment you feel resistance toward doing, observe it. It is the shadow of the animal mind clutching comfort and naming it "truth." Observe it—but do not obey it.

For only through Deeds aligned with Gnosis do we bridge the gap between symbol and substance. Thought becomes will; will becomes action; action becomes embodiment.

And only then does the True Light—the one that burns in both dream and deed—reveal itself.

The aspirant or initiate knows that to travel the Path upward to Tiphareth (Christ light) is a "deed system". This is a Path that can only be successfully traveled by those who bring their Personalities into a balance with The Real Person and/or Lover "within"; a balancing of self-understanding and action, where we no longer look for blame or worship, as we experience the phantoms-of- emotional pain that we are creating and experiencing; or by entertaining ourselves with an extended comfortable denial fantasy where all is "Sunny", which many deluded people believe is this Path. Sorry folks, but "rain falls on the just and unjust alike". So get over it, and above it! In the Hermetic Qabalah, when one, looks within they "rise above" the "outside" world. For "within" is to ascend and to look outward is to descend from the Real Person to the personality.

Spirit is not a kind of Opiate that keeps us from seeing the self-surgery that must be done! 

The True Seeker must keep in mind that the Universe is a Path of entry into the Astral (Yesod) and that the Astral "seeks to deceive", this is the fantasy place, were the many see or channel "ascended masters" from and the fallacy of worship has only changed colors. We came to make "As above, so below"; The Great Work, which simply states we came to "descend" the Mastery of I Am into the mastery of manifestation/Me.

The Entire Tree of Life is your Real Person, often called "your spirit or Soul", and the common belief is to "seek Holy Spirit". How so? The Kether, the 1st Sephiroth, is Spirits first "I Will Be", and the last Sephiroth, Malkuth is "I AM Being" .... the two combined, combine the whole Divine Collective that is the "Tree of Life". Therefore, if you have a being "Here", you have one "There", therefore, YOU ALREADY ARE WHOLE SPIRIT!

This doesn't take a lot of thought, because the Divine Creative obviously has devoted a lot of time ( at least 14 billion years) to creating a Physical Universe! Will to Form-the Divine Feminine and Will to Force, the Divine Masculine, have combined to build Us as "It's" Image, because The Plasmic Divine Wishes "To Be!"...It was always "ascended" and has created self-image in "higher and lower" frequency! As do we!

I know this idea of divinity seems hard to get, for we came "down" the Tree of Life, and must reclaim our knowledge "left behind" because of psyche "downsizing". However, we, the Spiritual Adventures of "Here and There" Self, finally have the form we need, for the Adam Khadmon/Heavenly Human, has a brain that can store and sensually experience this information! Right now, according to medical experts, we are using only 7 to 10% of it at any moment and if we used it all at any time, it still is only 1% of our Intelligence! Remember, Malkuth is known as the 1% world. The Whole of your Intelligence is the Tree of Life.

In the Thoth Deck- Universe and on the traditional, World Tarot Card, we see the Four Alchemical Elements as different images of heads, or the tarot symbols, of cups, swords, wands, pentacles, surrounding the Oval-Womb (Will to Form) of the Great Mother which is both the entry point of Life and the exit of life as we know it as Death. Her fullest expression as Binah (Understanding) is represented as the female form "within" and is all principles that we perceive as matter and is shown in gematria (Qabalistic numerology) as 2+1+3, the number of the Sephira-Binah.

Creation in Time requires a beginning and an end to an event, otherwise form is not conceived. So the event of "Sun consciousness"-Tiphareth- Force down-pouring and uprising, must have a beginning a middle and an end. Therefore, Life processes run in waves, or spirals which come back upon themselves, and this process is the nature of the Akashic Fluid of Yesod. This spiral force is directed by the passive and active energy flow, each of which is dual poled (male and female) and is shown on the Thoth card as "Lord Python", the frequency "first husband" which represents the Primary sexual forces of Nature that will be experienced on the Path of Tau.

The blue background of this card represents the Great Sea of The Divine Collective Un-Consciousness (Binah-Understanding & Chokmah-Sophia-Wisdom), as well as, the blue Kali, in its most dense and difficult expression.There are many currents here, and some lead to the Light and others to the darkness of self-delusion. We must really carry the perspective of, "Everyone I see is another way of being Me" on this path so that we don't form this Akashic Fluid into phantom "enemies" and "masters" that sink our "life" boat personality into an enslaved rower of "someone else's dream". This is the path of Self- Perspective-formed- images of Me, as done by the I AM.

Therefore, the proper study of the Paths (Major Arcana cards) in our Unconscious, is the ascending of Understanding up the Tree of Life, as we are "below" and need to remember the Plasmic realms of Pure Spirit "above". The experiences on Earth, assist us in our goals of a more refined understanding of Universal patterns. Such as a microscope helps the biologist in a more refined understanding of cell- structure and bacterial earth manifestations, our physical body with its crystalline lenses of light, (the "I sight" of our senses), helps us see/reflect deeply into the microcosm, so that we better understand and are able to combine the macrocosm of the original "I" with the "I Am Me" of material presence.

As long as our Divine Consciousness is functioning though a physical vehicle, we can discern thought/knowledge. This is where our serious esoteric work begins and ends.

Dr. Paul Foster Case, who wrote the text, The Thirty Two Paths to Wisdom (the number Thirty Two is the sum of the Paths and the Sephiroth) calls The Path of Tau (The Universe or The World card) the " Administrative Intelligence" because it "directs and associates in all seven planets." The "seven planets" he is referring to are the Microprosopus-Hexagram pattern of the seven planets on the Tree of Life that has Tiphareth as the Central Sun.

The Kingdom of Mind is all around you, but we don't see it. Jesus the Christ of Western mysteries, even stated this in the Gnostic Gospels of Didymos, Judas Thomas, paragraph 113, when he was quoted as saying, "... the Kingdom of the father is spread out upon the Earth, and men do not see it." What Hermetic Qabalist's know, is that the Father, Shin (Fire), lives within the Womb-with-a view and is her dancing partner, shown as Heru-Ra-Ha of Key 19-The Sun. "The Sun, Strength & Sight, Light: these are for the servants of the Star & the Snake (Aleister Crowley)." This is the final form of the image of the magical formula of Tetragramaton, combining and transforming so many symbols that description is difficult and migratory. Hence, long-continual meditation is recommended.

The Dancing Goddess of The Universe, or the Traditional-The World Tarot card, represents the Celebration of the Great Work accomplished; it is the "movement within the Motion" of all energy. It is the "Aliveness" in all Living forms. It is the passionate dance rhythm of your plasma intercourse with the Divine, your breath.

In the four corners, of oval or square, as mentioned before, are the Kerubim images, showing the established Universe. The Thoth Universe card shows about her is an ellipse composed of seventy-two circles for the quinaries of the Zodiac, know as the Shemhamphorasch. The skeletal plan (grid) of the building of the house of Matter, is shown at the lower center of the card. It shows the older 92 elemental table of known chemicals elements, arranged according to their rank in the hierarchy.

The central wheel of Light initiates the form of the Tree of Life as the ten principle bodies of the solar system: Visible only to the pure of heart. You'll find these principle bodies explained in the Book of Thoth, by Master Theron, on page 119. All the symbols on this card are shown dancing in complex swirls, whorls, loops, much like the atoms dance in the Stars. The back ground color of this card is the indigo of Saturn as the midnight sky, of which the Dancing Maiden is derived. From the Dark Womb of Energy, She is the issue of Living Light.

When The Universe or The World card is thrown during a reading:

• The querent is experiencing the matter itself.
• A synthesis of world and kingdom.
• The universe card usually denotes the actual subject of the question. This interpretation depends entirely on the accompanying cards, as they are the "stars in her heavens".
• This is a card of wholeness, where the querents whole world is balanced and the querent is building, in the next 21 weeks, new internal and external worlds----perspectives of wholeness.
• The querent may be experiencing a Universal principle of wholeness and is at one in consciousness,with all phenomena.
• There is exhibited within the querent an understanding of their "reason to be".
• The Universe Card usually denotes the actual subject  of the question, therefore depending entirely on the surrounding cards.

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