Interpreting Tarot Fool

In a fundamental study of the Tarot Book of Thoth ", which we will build now and then, Aleister Crowley, the Arch at this paid most attention - if the rest of Arkan was paid from two to ten pages, the" Fool ", has received more than twenty pages most careful analysis. This is not surprising - after all, "Fool" is a zero-Arkan, Arkan from which to start a deck of Tarot. And that means - it takes its origin, our psyche. Crowley identifies the "Fool" with the original and undifferentiated state when the male and female are inextricably merged, this state of the first two months of the fetus in the uterus, where it has both male and female traits, this original unity of Taoist philosophy and the Pleroma of the Gnostics, it is inseparable unity of the psyche, when the mind has not yet been formed. Crowley draws attention to that at all the great people who changed the history of the lay press divine madness - from "epilepsy cameleers Mohammed" to "Provincial megalomana Napoleon." Following common sense, you can become successful, but not great. Crowley identifies the Fool with a "green man of Spring", the era of matriarchy, Parsfalem, Hoor-Pa-Kraatom and androgynous deities - Zeus Arrenotelusom, twofold, and Bacchus Baphomet. Look closely at the map. Confront us with the human figure, with small horns, in a green dress. It is enclosed in a double oval, but his hands, feet and horns violate the boundaries of the oval. At the bottom are depicted two animals - a crocodile and a tiger, which clearly set him aggressively - even a tiger bites his leg from above - a bunch of grapes, and a butterfly. In the very center of the map, in place of the phallus depicted luminous sun.

As mentioned, the map depicts the very first stage of creation, or origin. Oval represents the cosmic egg, the primary area from which the birth directed the creative impulse. Note that it is not already in this area - the full force of its active principle beyond its limits. Identification of the phallus of the sun - arhitepichno. Jung first thought about the existence of universal units of the collective unconscious when his mentally ill patient does not have even elementary education, led him to the window and pointed to the solar beam, saying: "Behold, there is the phallus of the sun", reproducing thus the ancient arhitepicheskoe representation mitraistkih Mysteries . Solar phallus points to an active, conceiving the masculine, whereas the sphere, the egg - the passive, feminine, generating.

This analogy is to be understood symbolically, as the union of opposites, is not deceived, following Freud, who understood everything very precisely. Map of "Fool" is, the original state when the opposition is not divided, but nonetheless, the male principle, is actively seeking to withdraw from defending, but retaining the uterus cosmic egg. Here we should recall the Neumann system which refers to the original mental unity before the birth of consciousness. Map given the name "fool" or "jester", because this initial momentum going long before the formation of consciousness as such, and although they directed abroad, unconscious of itself as long as his. This impulse is not understood, not srefleksirovan, and is a pure being, at the time of its inception. This can be compared with the awesome feeling of surprise and delight felt by a child aged from two to four years, which can be defined as "I esm. Memory of this event is just some born consciousness, still remains a long dashed, broken twilight, yet as they grow up not completely formed its center - the ego. At the macrocosmic level, this point can only be compared with the "big bang" when the fullness of the first point of infinite potential explodes and begins relentlessly unfold. It is the moment of the limit of filling life with amazement and delight.

Time of the birth of consciousness, reflected in all world mythology, the myth of immaculate conception and miraculous birth. Immaculate, because at the subjective level there is a feeling born of personal appearance out of nowhere, as it were, and do not have the material bearer miracle called consciousness. Another moment ago, there was only unconscious itself flesh lump instincts, and suddenly, somehow miraculously momentum, this instinct has found a lump of light - consciousness, the sun, phallus. This moment is a true miracle, which is being located within the boundaries of infantile religions projecting outward, the alleged historical birth, which is obviously impossible. According to the law of psychological compensation, this time a miracle immediately replaced by the horror - in the mythology of it is presented all-powerful forces trying to destroy the miracle child. Look how versatile this motive, Moses, Pharaoh pursues, who knows that a child will succeed him, Jesus - King Herod, with his whole army, Perseus, Theseus, Hercules, from birth, became a victim of persecution by powerful forces, but always , miraculously escaped death at the hands of those forces.