What does the Tarot cards Lust

For a complete understanding of the Arcana, it is necessary to understand its image of old and new version. Old prototype "lust" is called "Power" and portrayed a woman tearing jaws of a lion. This is symbolized, the opposition of instinctual and spiritual components of man, his initial internal schism. It can be done a certain parallel with the sixth Arkan, but in fact the nature of this division is somewhat different, and it was characteristic only of past aeon. I must say, h, not all researchers are equally interpret this card - for example Bantshaf Hayo, called the chapter devoted to this map - a "hybrid", and considered the interaction of women and the lion does not like confrontation, but as a unity. In his opinion, which does not quite match the image, this interaction is not confrontation, but instead love.

The very idea Bantshayafa very wise - but if we apply this interpretation to the map of the old aeon obtained an apparent contradiction, because the confrontation depicted on the map of "force", it is difficult to be attributed to the love and harmony. Here, as nowhere visible weakness and strength of research Ba6tshafa - both Jungian and as an intellectual, he is one of the pioneers of a new aeon, but using a dilapidated deck, he pours new wine into old bottles, which sometimes leads to such contradictions. If he had started his studies at the Crowley deck, his intuitive insights would get solid ground. In the Thoth deck, the sign of the lion, still protects the card, but it depicts is not a lion, the Great Beast of the seven heads, and with it are inextricably merged in the ecstasy of love, our mistress of Babalon. It is necessary to briefly look at two cards - old and new, to understand that the name "hybrid" which uses Bantshaf applies only to the deck Crowley.

Now at the turn of the aeons emerged an urgent need to rethink the images of the Great Beast and the Whore of Babylon of the apocalypse. Not only Crowley, but Jung saw inconsistency dualism of John the Theologian and neurosality dbissotsiirovannoy his position. According to John Crawley at a very low level of initiation, according to Jung - suffered from neurotic dissociation. The most exact phrase Jung is the statement that "the destruction of the final apocalypse of John, the Babylonian harlot, is the destruction of life in general." That is, Jung directly correlates the whore of Babylon with life itself and provider of life, which fully corresponds to the holy law of Thelema, and our symbol of faith.

During this religious problem is the problem of psychological. Now more than ever necessary to change attitudes towards sexuality and instinct at all. A thinking person it is obvious that life-negative attitude of Christianity who see in the flesh and sin, sex crime, and leads not to the "spirituality", but of hypocrisy, sanctimony and neurotic disorders. Aleister Crowley was the first who raised the issue of revaluation of property in this area, and the sanctity of sexuality, he was the only one who is in line with his first spell the name could survive this battle with the system generated by a demon Christ. Suffice it to recall the sad fate of many of his contemporaries Crowley, for example, Wilhelm Reich, to understand how acute was this struggle.

Lust, Caution - this is the sexiest large map Arkan - we see a beautiful naked woman, radiant with sunlight, it is drunk on its own ecstasy, sits upon the beast, the seven heads, holding in his hand a cup, from which all sides scatter solar snakes. It is in this image is the key to solving the false confrontation between spirit and flesh, and meditation on the image of the eleventh Arkan is the best medicine, get rid of any illusions. Not need to be a visionary to realize that the relationship women and the Beast has a sexual nature. Here's what Crowley himself writes in this regard: "In this map there is a divine drunkenness or ecstasy. A woman shows a very drunk and quite mad lion will ignite lust. This means that energy is described by the primitive, creative nature, it is entirely independent of the critics mind. Map shows the will of the Aeon. against the background of bloodless images of saints, whose whole life is assembled in the Holy Grail.