CARD XII. THE HANGED MAN.
Joh 17:15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
Joh 17:16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
"Man." The Pain of the higher consciousness bound by the limitations of the body and mind. Superman in the separate man.
The reversed cross, also known as the cross of St. Peter,
The inverted cross is also an esoteric symbol of (pole) reversal, and is related to the 12th key of the tarot, the hanged man.
"And then I saw a man in terrible suffering, hung by one leg, head downward, to a high tree. And I heard the voice: --
"Look! This is a man who saw Truth. Suffering awaits the man on earth, who finds the way to eternity and to the understanding of the Endless.
"He is still a man, but he already knows much of what is inaccessible even to Gods. And the incommensurableness of the small and the great in his soul constitutes his pain and his golgotha.
"In his own soul appears the gallows on which he hangs in ...
"The language of Light is wordless, but in it is the essence of meaning" Walter Russell
"Meditation is the instrument used for the raising of one's Awareness to the highest levels of consciousness." Dr. Kandasamy Arunachalam
"2.26 The continuous practice of discrimination is the means of attaining liberation." The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
"Think that he (He / She / Fire) is outside of all things, and deep in the inside of all things; and that thou and thy world are only the thing between; and that outside and inside are both identical, couldst thou understand the supernatural truths!"
The Philosophy of Fire by Clymer, R. Swinburne pg 164
"Meditation is certainly superior to intelligence. The earth seems to be meditating. The space between the earth and heaven seems to be meditating. So also, heaven seems to be meditating. Water seems to be meditating. The mountains seem to be meditating. Gods and human beings also seem to be meditating."
Chandogya Upanishad
By pure thought, by ...
