What does the Tarot Universe

According to the Book of Thoth, this card is what represents the archetype of completion, a magical addition to "fool" - if "Fool" is the beginning of everything, "Universe" is the end. In this sense, the idea of the twenty-first Arkan's closer to what represents the archetype of death, rather than 13 Arkan, who is known as "death." But the "universe" - not just death, followed by a new cycle, this final great work - its main goal, just as cadmium passing round the hero, turns into a snake, and thus paradoxically finds both immortality and oblivion. Since Saturn, patronizing this Arkan y, is the heaviest of the planets and elements, Crowley correlates it is not even just to lead, but the most serious radioactive, substances, which because of its limit of gravity is no longer able to maintain the tension of the internal structure. Here we have a very complicated symbolism that I did not really understand.

Another important correlation of Crowley, is a comparison of Saturn and Earth. Crowley contrasts exceptionally gloomy vision "of the earth's gravity" inherent past Aeon: "The Earth is no longer black, not mixed colors, but bright green, indigo as Saturn is from the midnight blue velvet sky, and the dancing maiden is the outcome of it, but through it in eternity. " (Aleister Crowley's "Book of Thoth")

This complexity arises when we begin to compare the ideas expressed in The Book of Thoth "and the thought expressed by Crowley in the notes to Liber 777:" The way (COF, the moon, we have already discussed) takes an adept in the direction of the central column, to anarchy, unbalanced astral desert. Here are the mistakes, he should follow the path of Taw, passing through the balanced elements of the astral plane, despite the gloom and horror "(Aleister Crowley Liber 777"). There is actually a way of tau, which corresponds to the "universe" is not end and beginning of the path of the adept, who is just beginning its ascent from Malkuth.

It would be logical to assume that one of the conclusions of error occurs. But let us remember that each archetype stands for what in nature is paradoxical, and contains in itself the opposite aspects of nature. Thus, the twenty-first Arkan, we are simultaneously related, and the final path when the weight of his spirit, like the consciousness of the radioactive element disintegrates into its component parts, and at the same time, the beginning of the path, when consciousness first encounters with the severity of the inertia of matter, flesh, and all forces tends to release.

"Balanced path elements tau", which refers to Crowley, this is nothing like the unconscious, which at the outer illusion of randomness is actually very structured and is a natural compensation for the position of consciousness, we talked about, even in a lecture devoted to the shadows.

So the twenty-first Arkan, paradoxically, appears twice. At the beginning of a great work when individuality through the pain is just beginning to destroy the identification with the person, and gradually learns to overcome the leaden weight of its own inertia. At this stage, Saturn, here is black and the color of darkness, misery, and enslavement of the spirit made flesh. This is the beginning of the alchemical opus, when an alchemist just starting the first manipulation of the primary matter of Saturn. The second time, this represents the archetype of what appears in consciousness which reached full conversion, as the Green Door to infinity. Color - as if on purpose, emerald green, called the master, passing through the last door to eternity.