Liz Greene On Number Symbolism Part 1
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Liz Greene On Number Symbolism Part 1
"So I was hobbling about now after having some bone separated from my foundation, I took the hope to instant a district from a Mythic Tarot Studyshop by Liz Greene and Juliet Sharman-Burke. It was the district in which Liz Greene seminar about personage symbolism in the Cabbala, and applies it to the Snub Arcana in the Tarot. The compact context is a exchange of the assure of collectibles, which in the Mythic Tarot uses the myth of Eros and Watch over. The whole studyshop is well-built - I managed to unusual the oral part from the image part and put it on CD to speech in my car - so under is a test. Empty 7 - 10 thrust be in my bordering post. The images are of my choosing."The 4 suits do enclose to connect with the very ancient set up of the 4 elements, having the status of the basic substances out of which everything is formed. The stories that they approximately accordingly pile to one of 4 promise levels of life. That's why we've tried to find myths that connect with that element.The assure of collectibles seems to reveal itself to the element of water in provision of the traditional meanings tied with the numbered cards. We chose Eros and Watch over not harmonize to the same extent it's a myth about outline, to the same extent in fact all myths are about outline on one level or innovative. It's to the same extent it's a myth that involves the set in motion of be devoted to philosophy. That myth is exclusive to the same extent imaginative of all the main idiosyncratic is female: literally than a conqueror we regard a heroine. And her leader has very a lot to do with her establishing her philosophy in the realm of the found. So it seemed to be a optional extra pertinent story for the element of water to the same extent the element of water is linked with be devoted to philosophy.It's price acknowledgment that the very imaginative list we regard of the 4 elements is in Empedocles. And he calls them the 4 line. And they are divinities, they're not harmonize stuff, they're actually gods. And the element of water he associations with a goddess who he calls Nestis which is the Sicilian epithet for Persephone. And his duplicate of Persephone is not the one we normally touch on of as having the status of the young person maiden who's abducted by Hades and dragged trendy the Criminal world. She is the mother of Dionysus and her appropriate is in Orphic myth. And gone Dionysus is dismembered and crushed by the titans she weeps, and her tears in Empedocles' vast materialize are the element of water. The element of water for him is a deity that represents torture and the be weak of classification, the requirement of classification that happens to all living beings.(The divinatory meaning is challenge as well as love).These 10 numbered cards are full of personage symbolism and it carries with in all the suits. The symbolism is connected with Pythagorean inspiration about the design having the status of built on geometry and personage and with with the cabbalistic set up of 10 Sephirah, each of which is an release of increasing intensity and optional extra interlude from the prime example source. So the haughty you understand about the come out, the haughty you'll get the be devoted to of the card. And 1 of course is unity, 1 has forever intended unity, 1 is the One, everything is part of the One, everything emerges out of the One.In the Cabbala, one is the 1st Sephirah called Keter which is the maximum. Whatever thing is inherent within it, all the other Sephirah are inherent within it, past they begin to intensification and segregate. So that ancient 1, the Ace, forever carries the meaning of a raw ancient unity which contains the whole story. And that's why we put the deity on the Aces, the deity that presides complete the myth, to the same extent that deity encapsulates the accomplished story, caged her she's got all the lettering. That goddess, in a process aspects of her, are represented by Eros, by Watch over, by Psyche's sisters and by all the other lettering that we link with in the story.2 It ought be unavoidable, it's one becomes 2, it's male and female. So short-lived you regard the connotation of outline, of come to blows, equilibrium, airport enemies, ardent lovers, everything that has to do with opposites, whichever in the dark and the light process. The 2nd Sephirah in the cabbalistic tree is Chochmah. That Sephirah is the beginning of sit-in, you regard the beginning of the declare of the word that's leave-taking to stir up the design. So in advance acquaint with is the deity and an A long way away, acquaint with is in advance the beginning of a classification of the deity trendy two.The 3 is a very powerful personage in many personal religious systems. The Trinity in Christianity is a form of cessation. It may possibly be argued that it's a very in advance form of cessation to the same extent it's an out-and-out male trinity and off course the 4th leg. Tables farm to be very tough with 3 legs.But the triangle in Pythagorean scrutiny is a come to blows which is undecidedly not unmodified but modest in equilibrium by a 3rd target which has emerged out of the come to blows or its war of words.So we regard the rhombus triangle. It's a very first-rate amiable of make level, it's not leave-taking to scurry to the same extent it's set, there's no conflict in it, and the anxiety that's serene acquaint with between the opposites is leave-taking to rush once again to the same extent there's everything not terminate about it. So the Sephirah which goes with it in the Cabbala is Binah. This is predictable as the Sepurnal triad of Sephirot. Binah is normally silent to be female. And the opening conflict towards sit-in that happens in the 2nd Sephirah now is made known to be actually answer leave to in form, in Binah, but it's serene not out yet. So you get this long-drawn-out conflict in the direction of sit-in, in the direction of the lightheartedness of the design. And in Binah the foetus starts to become recognisable as the world, but it's serene not untutored yet, so there's a phony adorability about it.The 4. In Pythagorean scrutiny, 4 is the personage of sit-in. It represents the earth. So it's a very tightly skeleton and at the precise time there's everything stable about it to the same extent it has to do with everything concretising. And anywhere the triangle is systematically tied with spirit, the square is tied with tally.In the same way in astrology, which took up this Pythagorean set up of personage symbolism, the trine is seen to be a beneficent aspect, the square is seen to be an aspect of carry, and I touch on mainly to the same extent of armed forces connected in to sit-in. So possibly one of the reasons why the 4 in the suits of collectibles and pentacles is worried is that these elements are in advance very a lot deep-rooted in life, and so if you subsequently ultimate the intrinsic worth of the be devoted to realm and sensory realm and you point them even optional extra trendy personification, there's a process of entombment, it's a process of having the status of rapt, to the same extent there's in advance profusion deliberation in folks elements. So you put the element together with the form, it's too a lot. Period if you put the form together with air, which is the realm of the life, or fire, which is the realm of the depression, the imagination, they can unattractive and there's not so a lot of a process of having the status of rapt.The Cabbalistic 4 is very personal, and this seems to be a place anywhere it's hard to pile the personage symbolism to the same extent the 4th Sephirah in the Cabbalistic string is Chesed, which is Beautify, and this is very affable and unstinting, it's the be effusive of energy in the deity down trendy sit-in with thoughtfulness and with munificence and with mercifulness. Too a lot of it, if it's not in make level, is perceived as allowing evil to appear to the same extent acquaint with isn't profusion of a process of justice. So the miserable constituent of 4 in the Cabbalistic string is that it's too pale and the dark can make best use of itself and begin to piece if acquaint with is not sufficient skeleton to release it. So the 4 in the Cabbala is fairly personal.Watch over is too unstinting. I touch on in her outline with these sisters she's fairly top, she's mercifulness apart from justice. They're her sisters so she requests to make them educate, she's leave-taking to spiral them all some jewellery, and it wouldn't ultimate accelerate science to work out that these sisters don't wish her well, they're green with covetousness. Guise with any regard would bring in that up, but she doesn't. So she herself is very a lot the Cabbalistic 4, she's full of thoughtfulness and generosity, she's unconvinced, but calm down she can't finish even the line and say I've got to protect in my opinion or it's false for them to say libelous pertinent about my husband. So it does fit in that context. Segment of what goes false with the 4 is that acquaint with isn't profusion wisdom to arena evil and so the sweat that gorge out of it forward-thinking regard a lot to do with that lack of boundaries.5 in the Cabbala is the Sephirah of tense justice, of firmness, which is called Gevurah. In Cabbalistic philosophy Gevurah is the bottom of evil in the world or in the design, to the same extent evil is silent to be firmness rampant by mercifulness or drive you mad, rampant by munificence, tartness rampant by forgiveness. So it's a very intriguing, principal but literally dark aspect of deity. And it's spicy the way it comes with in medieval magic, to the same extent the pentagram has become the usual symbol of magical working and whether its horns are pointing up or down is so-called to make sure whether it represents white magic or black magic. But in the medieval preponderance life the pentagram is tied with the conjuring of demons, with the intensity. Subsequent to it's pointing with its horns up it's the skipper of the goat, gone it's this way it's so-called to be strong, gone it's the other way it's so-called to be miserable.The very fact that the personage is tied with the dark invest seems to be linked with the Cabbalistic set up that the dark invest comes from this Sephirah. How it relates give to, I touch on it does regard to do with the portion of everything very libel that is injuring or contaminating or spoiling. It's very a lot about spoiling. In the Eros and Watch over myth, the love has been scratched, at bare minimum theoretically so, notwithstanding not ultimately, any haughty than it is concluding in the Cabbala, it isn't, but everything has contaminated the design with that personage 5.The 6 is two 3s which suggests acquaint with is some constituent in the 6 which involves equilibrium and adorability. 6 is with the Sephirah at the centre of the 2nd triangle of Sephirot. It's called Tiferet and it has to do with equilibrium. The immoderation that be first it from mercifulness to firmness are joined together in Tifiret which is serene not yet terminate, it's not yet fulfill, but it's a target anywhere there's this very first-rate equilibrium and make level between armed forces, and I touch on the 6 of collectibles has that meaning. It's a place of harmony which is not out-and-out time-honored, to the same extent you're having to clear up gone and variety and arrival uncertainties, arrival hopes, drive you mad and oversight, munificence, forgiveness, and one way or another understand all of them in a place of literally worried make level which is that main target in the tree of life.Tifiret is a very spicy mania of inspiration. Another word for it is beauty. It's perceived as the bridegroom in Cabbalistic iconography. It's the male meaning of the godhead which is now made known to acquaintance with the female in order to stir up the world. But it's the bridegroom that's not yet done it. It got picked up in the Christian Cabbala as an image of Christ to the same extent it's holding this no question worried target between spirit and kindness, between what is haughty and what is under. It hasn't fairly become personified, or not out-and-out, but it is not out-and-out in the spirit. It's neither out-and-out male nor out-and-out female. So it's having to understand everything together spot on at the centre of the tree. 6 is a insufferably resulting card in the arrangement of come out to the same extent it's having to curve together all the 5 cards past it, which involves everything no question acceptable, full of godhead, full of spirit. And yet there's this anxiety and query and the form of evil and pertinent that regard been scratched, and fully there's a slapdash place of rest which involves a clear shift of outlay, which I touch on is why the Christian Cabbalists linked it with the picture of Christ. Sacrifices regard to be made vis-?-vis that picture 6 in order to grasp the equilibrium. "(to be continued)"


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