The Spirit of the Tarot. Claudine Aegerter

If we love drama best and love the survival nature of God better than the uplifting part, we might be using the power of the light to further and feed our infant drama even more. If we realise that this is what we are doing, we need to stop it straight away for this is the path of self-destruction, which can drag others down with its magnetic powers. There is nothing cleverer than a twisted intellect that feeds the ‘black dog of hell’ or the ‘the dweller the threshold’. This is Active Intelligence that hasn’t recognised its divinity and thinks it is the only God, in fact it is just one aspect of the divinity wanting to remain in charge of everything. This is when the human being is encouraged by the emotional game that the personality is using, which involves being clever in order to resist the Soul’s message. Most personalities resist the break through to the Soul, through the belief that they are masters of their own lives. They think that if they don’t persist in this affirmation, they will be martyrs or victims again and never be themselves. This is the cleverest trick in the book of affirmation! It re-enforces the walls of separation so that the inner light is never seen amongst the glitzy light of glamour.

      It is so important that we drop the covering up and the games we play, so as to involve deep into the inner light. The little black dog of hell really only wants one thing, which is to obey a master, so let it be the light that it obeys! The love-hate of the drama is very strong and we are all in it. Any tiny critical little thought we have about ourselves, or about other people is of the drama nature; all these are manifestations of the little black dog of hell! If we think we are too fat or to thin for instance, we have the capability of either doing some thing about it, or just knowing why and liking the way we are at the time. We need to de-focus the mind from the emotional drama that wants the game of feeling bad or guilty; this drama takes the mind away from the light. If we bring the light in to look at the size of our bellies that is quite funny, but it is also a tragic misuse and a self-centred use of light. Whatever we think about ourselves, whether it is over inflated like; “I’m a great spiritual person” or coming down on ourselves as in “I’m a worm”, both are virtual, self-centred and the wasteful use of the light. Looking inside can only relate to the outside and what we see out there we have within; the knowledge of that is what renders us transparent. Whatever reactions come into our instrument, we should allow them for we need them. It is only through owning our reactions and understanding them with com passion, that we can reach transparency. To sin by pride or by false meekness doesn’t allow the work to carry on. The question is, do we react honestly and admit there’s a reaction or a bit of shadow there? Do we have a look at it and clear it or do we react because we like the game? If it is the latter, this is addiction setting in.

      Without The Empress we are in Maya or illusion in whatever we do. The Empress is Active Intelligence that has completely regained its divinity. We are in the process of beginning to recognise what we have to do with our minds; without the qualities of The Empress we cannot ever begin to do the work. In starting that work, we look for our own original sound by trying out many different songs. In that process we may find some vibrations that are in tune with parts of our sound or Soul, vibrating to its spiritual guidance. When we travel deep into our space we might find some aspects of ourselves that we don’t like, this is when the work of transmutation has to take place. We need to remember the first sound behind our name; to do that we have to let ourselves drop as if we were falling from a mountain. Then, as we fall deeper and deeper, we will align with our sound and eventually it will become the chord, or silver thread.

      Once we have connected to it we will be able to go anywhere with it, because we will always be completely aligned with the orig inal sound within ourselves and always be at home.

       Figure 2. The work of the evolving

      Figure 3. The goal of the disciple. consciousness.

       The alignment of the Soul-driven personality with its higher mind has the ultimate goal of building a direct link to the divine plan.

      The naming of the animals that God asked Adam to do, is so important because it was saying “If, on my behalf, you can make sounds which represent all things, such as trees, cats or clouds, then you are actually vibrating with those things that you are naming and so bringing them back to me”.

      We can qualify this further by saying “Beautiful flower, sweet cat and great tree” and even if it is ‘murky yuck’, all that can be brought back to God, for they are all part of God and God knows how to love. If there is only love, simplicity, humility and the understand ing of the process, then transmutation predominates and we may ask “Why should anyone want to be the best and what for?” We are all alchemical instruments and not one of us is better as an instru ment than any other. Who cares which one goes first and which one is recognised or is the fairest? As we drop all the descriptions such as, ‘fairest’, ‘prettiest’ and ‘cleverest’ by owning them and admit ting that we wanted to be this or that, we can transmute them. The question is always “What do I love best? Do I love God best, or my position in the system?” Once we know the answer to that, we stop feeding the drama and everything else that might look like a fall isn’t one. Everything difficult that comes up is like a bubble coming to the surface and is released. So we should not pull it back by think ing that we are bad again or by hating it, because that is feeding the drama; we can just love the process of witnessing.

      All the Tarot cards are archetypes. We are all archetypes, because it is a virtual world; we are as we thought, loved and feared yester day. Archetypes are illusionary thought forms, but they are a neces sary part of recognising the big drama we play. Archetypes are mostly elemental gods and thought-forms. We are required to fly with the archetype without getting lost; this is how we survive in the inner world of the psyche and the mind. Archetypes are not reality, but they are ways and mind-sets that help us to recognise each energy we are dealing with, so enabling us to touch the fire without burning.

      The only archetype that is not virtual is the great life we live in; energetically this is just movement in space. It is important to deperson alise the greater entity we live in, otherwise we go back into the arche type of the father-mother God. This is a beautiful concept but is still an archetype. It is an energetic life, that is all and though that is a mind-set too, it is the clearest mind-set we can have so it stops us from going back into the emotional. If we can only see the world as archetypal we might have locked ourselves into a virtual system, whereas if we really see it as energy, see matter as crystallised Spirit and Spirit as refined matter, it is so much easier to have a transpersonal point of view.

      The whole of life is symbolic and archetypal; it is only a film or tapestry. The Empress is the beginning of the esoteric life or mind. Being the goddess of clear reason she is serene and poised. We need to remember that if we recognise a good or bad archetype in some one else, we have been there ourselves.

      The initiate comes right into the market place in order to learn, for the only viable place to wield energy is in matter, on the Earth. He knows that he can’t give his life to God because it already belongs to God, but because he has understood the idea of fusion and aligning he is able to go through the door for the last purification. Divine wis dom, or the second aspect of the Trinity is in every single one of the atoms of our body; it is really here in matter, not somewhere up in the clouds. The alchemical process is one of recognising and dissolv ing the separative little self into the light and heat of the Soul, again and again. The initiate is dealing with the daily reaction of the heavy matter of his body and he knows that his brain/body apparatus is a wonderful sounding board. It enables him to align progressively to the light that is flowing through him, revealing the understanding of all the wisdom and knowledge that his karmic biological lives have gathered. He knows as well that there is no more intellectual knowledge to explore, for we can keep on reading books for a long time until eventually we realise that it doesn’t actually change any thing, since we are still reacting to life and have to experience these lessons to release the wisdom. We know that the reactions are not there to be taken personally, therefore there is a deeper burning that enables a true transmutation to happen. This is the giving up of self, but at the same time