1. http://learntarot.com/cards.htm
2. http://www.ata-tarot.com/resource/cards/
For research purposes I continually refer to Michael Tsarion: http://taroscopes.com
Back to the purpose of this post-- I took notes from the Law of One website and compiled what I learned into a format that I can easily refer to (you can also see another site with pictures by going to http://www.floating-world.org/Tarot.htm). Please look at the Law of One site and make your own conclusions! I am including my notes in full as follows---- **note, cards refer to The Major Arcana of the Sacred Egyptian Tarot (Tarot Cards)
FROM RA in The Law of One-
Mind- cards 1 through 7
Body/Physical- cards 8 through 14
Spirit- cards 15 through 21
Mind/Body/Spirit complexes:
1-8-15
2-9-16
3-10-17
4-11-18
5-12-19
6-13-20
7-14-21
* Note - To be complex is to consist of more than one characteristic element or concept.
1. Matrix of the Mind
2. Potentiator of the Mind
3. Catalyst of the Mind
4. Experience of the Mind
5. Significator of the Mind
6. Transformation of the Mind
7. Great Way of the Mind
8. Matrix of the Body
9. Potentiator of the Body
10. Catalyst of the Body
11. Experience of the Body
12. Significator of the Body
13. Transformation of the Body
14. Great Way of the Body
15. Matrix of the Spirit
16. Potentiator of the Spirit
17. Catalyst of the Spirit
18. Experience of the Spirit
19. Significator of the Spirit
20. Transformation of the Spirit
21. Great Way of the Spirit
22. The Choice
Vocab –
The Significator of each mind, body, and spirit may be seen as a simple and unified concept.
1. MIND-
The Matrix of Mind is that from which all comes. It is unmoving yet is the activator in potentiation of all mind activity.
The Potentiator of the Mind is that great resource which may be seen as the sea into which the consciousness dips ever deeper and more thoroughly in order to create, ideate, and become more self-conscious.
2. BODY-
The Matrix of the Body may be seen to be a reflection in opposites of the mind; that is, unrestricted motion.
The Potentiator of the Body then is that which, being informed, regulates activity.
3. SPIRIT-
The Matrix of the Spirit is difficult to characterize since the nature of spirit is less motile. The energies and movements of the spirit are, by far, the most profound yet, having more close association with time/space, do not have the characteristics of dynamic motion. Thusly one may see the Matrix as the deepest darkness and . . .
The Potentiator of Spirit as the most sudden awakening, illuminating, and generative influence.
The Crux Ansata is the sign of life as the spirit enlivening matter illuminating a concept which is a portion of the archetype which has to do with the continuation of the consciousness which is being potentiated, in incarnation, beyond incarnation.
Archetypes (We, as we have said, did not offer these images with boundaries but only as guidelines intending to aid the adept and to establish the architecture of the deep, or archetypical, portion of the deep, mind.)
Mind
1. Card One. The Magician. (The Matrix).
• The wand as the will is an astrological derivative of the out-reaching hand forming the magical gesture.
• The sphere which indicates the spiritual nature of the object of the will of one wishing to do magical acts within the manifestation of your density.
• The square, wherever seen, is the symbol of the third-density illusion and may be seen either as unmagical or, in the proper configuration, as having been manifested within; that is, the material world given life.
• Bird = The Magician cannot act without reaching its winged spirit, so neither can the spirit fly lest it be released into conscious manifestation and fructified thereby.
• Checkering = The suggestion of polarity.
• Sword = Struggle that can be released as the caged bird struggles to fly.
• Coin = Work accomplished, but release the coin from its stricture.
• We ask the student to consider the concept of the unfed conscious mind, the mind without any resource but consciousness.
2. Card Two. High Priestess. (The Potentiator of the Mind).
• Intuition.
• Veil = Veil between the conscious and subconscious.
• Different colored columns = An integral and necessary polarity to be accepted.
• Darker column = Events and the experiences may be identical in the incarnation but may be approached, viewed, and utilized with either polarity.
• The One Infinite Creator is no respecter of polarity but offers Itself in full to all.
• Book = Knowledge is available if the veil is lifted but is not only hidden by the veil but is hidden partially by her very garment which she must somehow remove to become aware of the knowledge which she has available.
- Neither the feminine nor the male principle may use the book until the male principle has reached and penetrated, in a symbolically sexual fashion, the inner secrets of this feminine principle.
• Robes = The outer garments of custom which shield these principles (of the book).
• This figure is immanent, near at hand, shall we say, within all manifestation. The opportunities for the reaching to the Potentiator are numerous. However, of itself the Potentiator does not enter manifestation.
• Crux Ansata = The sign of life as the spirit enlivening matter illuminating a concept which is a portion of the archetype which has to do with the continuation of the consciousness which is being potentiated, in incarnation, beyond incarnation.
• Grape-covered mantle = The protected activity of fertility of the subconscious mind.
- The protection on the right-hand side indicates protection (an inborn bias offering to the seeing eye and listing ear information) concerning the more efficient polarity (positive).
3. Card Three. Empress. (Catalyst of the Mind).
• 3 = The unconscious or female portion of the mind complex being first used or ennobled by the male or conscious portion of the mind.
• Chair = Part white part black represents polarity.
• Opportunities indicate the service-to-self path.
• Unstable platform feet rests on = The entity standing on this could sway in either direction, in either path.
• Bird position = Realization that the mind/body/spirit complex is, having made contact with its potentiated self, now beginning its flight towards that great Logos which is that which is sought by the adept.
- The nature of the winged creature is echoed both by the female holding it and the symbol of the female upon which the figure’s feet rest; that is, the nature of catalyst is overwhelmingly of an unconsciousness, coming from that which is not of the mind and which has no connection with the intellect, as you call it, which precedes or is concomitant with catalytic action. All uses of catalyst by the mind are those consciously applied to catalyst. Without conscious intent the use of catalyst is never processed through mediation, ideation, and imagination.
• This is the most efficient plan for the activity or use of the catalyst of the mind
• Wand = The sphere of spiritual power is an indication indeed that each opportunity is pregnant with the most extravagant magical possibilities for the far-seeing adept.
4. Card Four. Emperor. (Experience of the Mind).
• Nobility.
• As the entity increases in experience it shall, more and more, choose positive interpretations of catalyst if it is upon the service-to-others path (right-hand path) and negative interpretations of catalyst if its experience has been of the service-to-self path (left-hand path).
• Cat = Guardian.
• Feet = One foot is pointed so that if the male entity stands on the toe it would be carefully balanced. The other foot is pointed to the left. If the entity stands on this foot it will be very, very carefully balanced. You may see the T-square which, at times riven as is one foot from secure fundament by the nature of experience yet still by this same nature of experience, is carefully, precisely, and architecturally placed in the foundation of this concept complex and, indeed, in the archetypical mind complex.
• The figure is expressing the nature of experience by having its attention caught by what may be termed the left-hand catalyst. Meanwhile, the power, the magic, is available upon the right-hand path.
- The nature of experience is such that the attention shall be constantly given varieties of experience. Those that are presumed to be negative, or interpreted as negative, may seem in abundance. It is a great challenge to take catalyst and devise the magical, positive experience. That which is magical in the negative experience is much longer coming, shall we say, in the third density.
• In Card Number Four, one sees the result of catalytic action and, therefore, a greater definition between the dark and the light areas. In just glancing at this card we notice that it is more definitely darkly colored in some areas and more white in others in a general sense than in Card Number Three, indicating that the separation along the two biases has occurred and should occur in order to follow the blueprint for experience.
• Crux Ansata = The cross formed by the living limbs of the image signifies that which is the nature of mind/body/spirit complexes in manifestation within your illusion. There is no experience which is not purchased by effort of some kind, no act of service-to-self or others which does not bear a price, to the entity manifesting, commensurate with its purity. All things in manifestation may be seen in one way or another to be offering themselves in order that transformations may take place upon the level appropriate to the action.
• For the condition of meeting after the veiling process, either entity will choose, as a function of its previous biases or Card Four, the experience and the way in which it will handle the situation with respect to polarity, therefore probably producing more catalyst for itself along the chosen path of polarization
• Skirt = The skirt of the entity representing the archetype of the Experience of the Mind is extended to the left to indicate that other-selves would not be able to get close to this entity if it had chosen the left-hand path. There would be a greater separation between it and other-selves, whereas if it had chosen the right-hand path there would be much less of a separation.
• Cat = The entity is guarded along the right-hand path, once it has chosen this path, from effects of the material illusion that are of the negative polarity.
- The square upon which the entity sits, which is almost totally black, is a representation of the material illusion and the white cat is guarding the entity along the right-hand path which is now separated in experience from the left.
- The great cat guards in direct proportion to the purity of the manifestations of intention and the purity of inner work done along this path.
- The seeker which has purely chosen the service-to-others path shall certainly not have a variant apparent incarnational experience. There is no outward shelter in your illusion from the gusts, flurries, and blizzards of quick and cruel catalyst.
- However, to the pure, all that is encountered speaks of the love and the light of the One Infinite Creator. The cruelest blow is seen with an ambiance of challenges offered and opportunities to come. Thusly, the great pitch of light is held high above such an one so that all interpretation may be seen to be protected by light.
- There is no protection at all if the Experience of the Mind has chosen the left-hand path and that path is traveled. All random catalyst may affect the negatively polarized individual as a function of the statistical nature of the random catalyst.
* Note - Each of the images leading to the Transformations of Mind, Body, and Spirit and ultimately to the great transformative Choice has the increasing intensity of increasing articulation of concept; that is to say, each image in which you find this angle (Crux Ansata) may increasingly be seen to be a more and more stridently calling voice of opportunity to use each resource, be it experience as you now observe or further images, for the grand work of the adept which builds towards transformation using the spirit’s bountiful shuttle to intelligent infinity.
5. Card Five. Hierophant. (Significator of the Mind).
• The heart of the mind complex is that dynamic entity which absorbs, seeks, and attempts to learn.
• The Hierophant is the original archetype of mind which has been made complex through the subtile movements of the conscious and unconscious. The complexities of mind were evolved rather than the simple melding of experience from Potentiator to Matrix.
• The mind itself became an actor possessed of free will and, more especially, will. As the Significator of the mind, the Hierophant has the will to know, but what shall it do with its knowledge, and for what reasons does it seek? The potentials of a complex significator are manifold.
• The abilities of the most finely honed mentality shall not be known without the use of the physical vehicle which you call the body. Through the mouth the mind may speak. Through the limbs the mind may affect action.
• The entity looks to the left, indicating that the mind has the tendency to notice more easily catalyst of a negative essence.
• Cartouches = Says to be understood to be such as the phrase, “And you shall be born again to eternal life”.
• Wings = The Significator owns a covenant with the spirit which it shall in some cases manifest through the thought and action of the adept. The outstretched wings of spirit, high above manifestation, yet draw the caged mind onward.
6. Card Six. Lovers (Transformation of the Mind).
• The crossed arms of the male who is to be transformed = The concept of the pull towards mental polarity may well be examined in the light concerning the nature of the conscious, exemplified by the male, and the unconscious, exemplified by the female. Indeed, both the prostituted and the virginal deep mind invite and await the reaching.
- In this image of Transformation of Mind, then, each of the females points the way it would go, but is not able to move, nor are the two female entities striving to do so. They are at rest. The conscious entity holds both and will turn itself one way or the other or, potentially, backwards and forwards, rocking first one way then the other and not achieving the transformation. In order for the Transformation of Mind to occur, one principle governing the use of the deep mind must be abandoned.
- It is to be noted that the triangular shape formed by the shoulders and crossed elbows of consciousness is a shape to be associated with transformation. Indeed, you may see this shape echoed twice more in the image, each echo having its own riches to add to the impact of this complex of concepts.
• Two females = The observation that to the left-hand path moves the roughly physical and to the right-hand path the mental has a shallow correctness. There are deeper observations to be made concerning the relationship of the great sea of the unconscious mind to the conscious mind which may fruitfully be pursued. Remember, that these images are not literal. They haunt rather than explicate.
• Many use the trunk and roots of mind as if that portion of mind were a badly used, prostituted entity. Then this entity gains from this great storehouse that which is rough, prostituted, and without great virtue. Those who turn to the deep mind, seeing it in the guise of the maiden, go forth to court it. The courtship has nothing of plunder in its semblance and may be protracted, yet the treasure gained by such careful courtship is great. The right-hand and left-hand transformations of the mind may be seen to differ by the attitude of the conscious mind towards its own resources as well as the resources of other-selves.
• We now speak of that genie, or elemental, or mythic figure, culturally determined, which sends the arrow to the left-hand transformation. This arrow is not the arrow which kills but rather that which, in its own way, protects. Those who choose separation, that being the quality most indicative of the left-hand path, are protected from other-selves by a strength and sharpness equivalent to the degree of transformation which the mind has experienced in the negative sense. Those upon the right-hand path have no such protection against other-selves for upon that path the doughty seeker shall find many mirrors for reflection in each other-self it encounters.
• There are some of your second-density fauna which have instinctually imprinted monogamous mating processes. The third-density physical vehicle which is the basic incarnational tool of manifestation upon your planet arose from entities thusly imprinted, all the aforesaid being designed by the Logos.
• The free will of third-density entities is far stronger than the rather mild carryover from second-density DNA encoding and it is not part of the conscious nature of many of your mind/body/spirit complexes to be monogamous due to the exercise of free will. However, as has been noted there are many signposts in the deep mind indicating to the alert adept the more efficient use of catalyst. As we have said, the Logos of your peoples has a bias towards kindness.
7. Card Seven. Chariot (Great Way of the Mind).
• We may call it the Path, the Way, or the Great Way of the Mind. Its foundation is a reflection and substantial summary of Archetypes One through Six.
• One may also see the Way of the Mind as showing the kingdom or fruits of appropriate travel through the mind in that the mind continues to move as majestically through the material it conceives of as a chariot drawn by royal lions or steeds.
• It must be seen once again that the archetypical mind does not equal the acting incarnational mind/body/spirit complex’s progression or evolution.
- While studying the archetypical mind we may suggest that the student look at the Great Way of the Mind, not as that which is attained after contact with intelligent infinity, but rather as that portion of the archetypical mind which denotes and configures the particular framework within which the Mind, the Body, or the Spirit archetypes move.
• Veil = As one observes the veil of the image of the Great Way of Mind it may be helpful to ideate using the framework of environment. The Great Way of Mind, Body, or Spirit is intended to limn the milieu within which the work of mind, body, or spirit shall be placed.
- Thusly, the veil is shown both somewhat lifted and still present, since the work of mind and its transformation involves progressive lifting of the great veil betwixt the conscious and deep minds. The complete success of this attempt is not properly a portion of third-density work and, more especially, third-density mental processes.
• We ask that the student consider the Great Way not as the culmination of a series of seven activities or functions but as a far more clearly delineated image of the environment within which the mind, body, or spirit shall function. Therefore, the culturally determined creatures called sphinxes do not indicate mastery over catalyst.
• Creatures = Movers of the chariot.
- You may connote the concept of time to the image of the sphinx. The mental and mental/emotional complex ripens and moves and is transformed in time.
• We may note that there is an overriding spiritual environment and protection for the environment of the mind. We may further note that the negatively polarized adept will attempt to fashion that covenant for its own use whereas the positively polarized entity may hold forth that which is exemplified by the astrological sword; that is, light and truth.
• T with two right angles above it on the chest of the entity = The lower T has to do with the possibility of choosing either path in the transformation and the upper two angles represent the great way of the left and the right-hand paths in the mental transformation that makes the change from space/time into time/space, you might say.
• The Great Way of the Mind, the Body, or the Spirit draws the environment which has been the new architecture caused by the veiling process and, thusly, dipped in the great, limitless current of time/space.
• Wheels = The chariot is wheeled, it is not harnessed to that which draws it by a physical or visible harness.
• Feet position = The resting is possible in time, as is the progress. If a mixture is attempted, the upright, moving leg will be greatly hampered by the leg that is bent. The other meaning has to do with the same right angle, with its architectural squareness, as the device upon the breast of the actor. Time/space is close in this concept complex, brought close due to the veiling process and its efficaciousness in producing actors who wish to use the resources of the mind in order to evolve.
Body
8. Card Eight. Justice/Balance/Adjustment (Matrix of the Body)
• Balanced Working/ Even Functioning.
• Note that here the matrix is always active with no means of being inactive.
9. Card Nine. Hermit. (Potentiator of the Body)
• Wisdom! For it is only through judgment that the unceasing activities and proclivities of the body complex may be experienced in useful modes.
10. Card Ten. Wheel of Fortune. (Catalyst of the Body)
• Each catalyst is dealing with the nature of those experiences entering the energy web and vibratory perceptions of the mind/body/spirit complex. The most carefully noted addition would be that the outside stimulus of the Wheel of Fortune is that which offers both positive and negative experience.
11. Card Eleven. Strength. (Experience of the Body)
• The catalyst which has been processed by the mind/body/spirit complex and is called the Enchantress because it produces further seed for growth.
12. Card Twelve. The Hanged Man. (Significator of the Body).
• A simple and unified concept.
13. Card Thirteen. Death. (Transformation of the Body).
• The Transformation of the Body is called Death, for with death the body is transformed to a higher vibrational body for additional learning.
• Each moment and certainly each diurnal period of the bodily incarnation offers death and rebirth to one which is attempting to use the catalyst which is offered it.
14. Card Fourteen. Temperance/Art. (Great Way of the Body).
• The Great Way of the Body must be seen, as are all the archetypes of the body, to be a mirror image of the thrust of the activity of the mind. The body is the creature of the mind and is the instrument of manifestation for the fruits of mind and spirit.
Spirit
15. Card Fifteen. The Devil. (Matrix of the Spirit).
• The nature of the spirit is so infinitely subtle that the fructifying influence of light upon the great darkness of the spirit is very often not as apparent as the darkness itself. The progress chosen by many adepts becomes a confused path as each adept attempts to use the Catalyst of the Spirit. Few there are which are successful in grasping the light of the sun. By far, the majority of adepts remain groping in the moonlight and, as we have said, this light can deceive as well as uncover hidden mystery. Therefore, the melody, shall we say, of this matrix often seems to be of a negative and evil, as you would call it, nature.
• It is also to be noted that an adept is one which has freed itself more and more from the constraints of the thoughts, opinions, and bonds of other-selves. Whether this is done for service to others or service to self, it is a necessary part of the awakening of the adept. This freedom is seen by those not free as what you would call evil or black. The magic is recognized; the nature is often not.
16. Card Sixteen. Tower. (Potentiator of the Spirit).
• The original potentiator was light in its sudden and fiery form; that is, the lightning itself.
17. Card Seventeen. Star. (Catalyst of Spirit).
• Faith. This archetype is the Catalyst of the Spirit and, because of the illuminations of the Potentiator of the Spirit, will begin to cause these changes in the adept’s viewpoint.
• Catalyst being processed by the spirit is catalyst for the spirit.
18. Card Eighteen. Moon. (Experience of Spirit).
• The Experience of the Spirit, that which you have called the Moon, is then, by far, the more manifest of influences upon the polarity of the adept. Even the most unhappy of experiences, shall we say, which seem to occur in the Catalyst of the adept, seen from the viewpoint of the spirit, may, with the discrimination possible in shadow, be worked with until light equaling the light of brightest noon descends upon the adept and positive or service-to-others illumination has occurred. The service-to-self adept will satisfy itself with the shadows and, grasping the light of day, will toss back the head in grim laughter, preferring the darkness.
19. Card Nineteen. Sun. (Significator of the Spirit).
• The Significator of the Spirit is that living entity which either radiates or absorbs the love and the light of the One Infinite Creator, radiates it to others or absorbs it for the self.
- This process of radiation or absorption would be the measure of the adept.
20. Card Twenty. Judgement. (Transformation of Spirit).
• Sarcophagus in your system may be seen to be the material world, if you will. This material world is transformed by the spirit into that which is infinite and eternal. The infinity of the spirit is an even greater realization than the infinity of consciousness, for consciousness which has been disciplined by will and faith is that consciousness which may contact intelligent infinity directly. There are many things which fall away in the many, many steps of adepthood. We, of Ra, still walk these steps and praise the One Infinite Creator at each transformation.
21. Card Twenty-one. World/Universe. (Great Way of the Spirit).
• Contact with intelligent infinity.
**22. Card Twenty-two. Fool. (The Choice).
• Archetype Twenty-Two is greatly helpful in sharpening the basic view of the Significator of Mind, Body, and Spirit and, further, throws into starker relief the Transformation and Great Way of
