What does the Tarot Lovers

"Openness to inspiration, intuition, wisdom, and the second vision, lightness, levity, profundity, devoid of practicality, instability, contradiction, shallow alliance with other, instability, contradiction, triviality, highbrow" (Aleister Crowley's "Book of Thoth) Crowley draws attention to the special contradictions inherent in this card - "Each character is itself a double, so that the meaning of a branch, and merge it is possible only with the help of all sorts of weddings." This card has a double name - "Lovers" on the one hand - "Brothers" on the other. Brothers - it's Cain and Abel, "The shedding of blood is necessary for God to hear children of Eve." Crowley says that the sign of the curse of Cain on his forehead is actually a sign of the secret initiation, and this idea is confirmed in the views of some of the Gnostics. In our time this idea was brilliantly deployed more than once referred Novel by Hermann Hesse "Damian." lovers and brothers, love and hatred: the first section, "Mysteries of association" Carl Jung: "coniunctio form factors of the opposite, as opposed to each other by their mutual hostility, and attracted to one another by their love. First of all, they form a dual ..."( followed by a long list of all the possible opposites). As is evident from a map of alchemical symbolism is not accidental, and although Jung and Crowley were not familiar with the investigations of each other, they certainly drank from the same source - Young's study entirely devoted to alchemy, and map symbols in love (as Arkan and 14, but more on that later) wholly owned by it to the symbolism of alchemy.

The theme of this card - the analysis of which must be followed by synthesis (Arkan "Art"), and these two processes of thinking are in dialectical interaction. For gaining consciousness after the sword of separation in the hands of purple women already hit (in the past eon with a sword was Christ, now Lilith - Draw your own conclusions), consciousness is facing a total separation of opposites, and division. We have already said that once traced the light of consciousness, the world appears in its total dismemberment and every phenomenon in its own. This separateness, the principle itself, which means the archetype of the dualistic thinking and is 6 Arkan - "Lovers". Crowley wrote that "The map shows the Arch of Swords, under which the Royal Wedding," which hints at the very myth of separation. Map consists of all conceivable opposites - the King and Queen (the most common alchemical metaphor), white griffin (sky) and the red lion (land), white and black baby with his arms crossed. Top card shows two women, an ode from which many other tempting - the essence of Eve and Lilith.

What is meant by this mythological archetype corresponds to one side to the myth of the separation of earth and sky, their children (a son, a nail, the hierophant), such as the myth of the Malaysian division of the rank and dad, described and analyzed Neumann in "Origin and evolution of consciousness." On the other hand, this myth of the warring brothers (and sometimes sisters - Inanna and Ereshkegal), the most famous of which is the myth of Cain and Abel, for the acquisition of consciousness always entails a sense of inexpiable guilt of original sin - again, this fact is analyzed in detail Neumann in the already mentioned work as well as in "depth psychology and the new ethics." We can trace a sequence of development of consciousness, which is lost only after the tenth Arkan - fool only beginning to be freed from the womb of the unconscious, the magician has already separated from her, but still big toes on it rests, the images, the emperor and empress correlated with maternal and paternal images to isolate from the unconscious, the hierophant is the first breakthrough of consciousness. Crowley notes that this is the first map, where the separation of opposites in love reached its climax - the umbilical cord linking to the breeding ground unconscious completely broken, and communication with the unconscious breeding ground lost. Ego-consciousness is in a state in the apt expression of Alan Watts' Zakapsulirovanym into the skin. "

As a rule of dualism is regarded as something extremely harmful, since the law new aeon involves a passionate union of opposites. In the sixth lecture we talked about the principle vsesvyaznosti opened by the ancient and completely validated by modern science - quantum physics and depth psychology. The difference represents the principle of maya, illusion, and so far as possible should be overcome. However, if we determine it is vital that represents the archetype of love, and all 17 matches as a way of evil and harm, then we will enter into conflict with their same conclusions, because if we believe in the principle of non-duality, then in nature simply does not exist anything excluded from vsesvyaznosti, including what represents the archetype of dualism. As we already know, evil as a thing in itself, does not exist, but a surplus of almost any of the benefit of which represents the archetype inevitably leads to the formation Klipot, shadows, husk. What does the archetype of duality, is good in moderation, without a conscience would simply not capable zaschischatsya from hostile influences of the world and would identify with each pulse of chaotic subconscious. There is no doubt that the new eon, the value of the duality will be significantly lower than in the past eon, but it does not mean that this principle should be destroyed at its root. Awareness and experience of unity - a higher level of consciousness, but before it is made in full consciousness must go through the realization of duality. Other mountain mystique (with one so I had to face in person), the idea of non-dualism to justify their own laziness, weakness, and infantilism.