tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83306657228683516952024-03-13T13:15:45.626-03:00Mysteries of the propheciesIn this Blog you will find interesting articles about different myths and legends and divinatory arts.Delphihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01341319933217503842noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330665722868351695.post-25003494322939808112016-11-17T12:45:00.001-03:002016-11-17T12:45:59.415-03:00The Myths - ¿Pure Fantasy?<div class="separator" style="clear: left; float: left; text-align: left;">
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<span lang="EN-US">The use of
the expression "myth" as a lie or invention is widespread among us;
without forgetting this use, we intend to open other dimensions of the myth
that they are completely excluded in that characterization.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To do this,
we clarify that the myths are stories whose main purpose is not to entertain
but to convey a particular spiritual instruction. It can be summarized in two
thematic areas: on the one hand, information that a human group considered
valuable to the survival. On the other hand, everything that allow emerge and
strengthen the identity of the community and its members. The spiritual
instruction will be then, for a person or a community, a valuable support for
addressing the challenges of its evolution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In this sense
we are wary of the proposals of personal evolution to be carried out by an
individual atomized and exiled from their roots. Therefore, the spiritual
instruction of the myth can be understood as a "building from the
inside"; our individuality is re-mean in the community to which we belong.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It is no
surprise then that the myth condenses - through their gods, heroes and
monstrous beings, their tests and fighting, its objects loaded with high
symbolic value- the possible paths, warnings and obstacles lurking, in the task
of the personal and collective evolution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">If we ask
for a moment: why we continue captivating - even transferred to cinema,
sometimes with its limitations and other, with his greatness- Achilles,
Ulysses, Hercules, Medea, Helen of Troy and the loves of Aphrodite and Ares?
Why we are baffled by the Titans, the Giants and the battles of Zeus? Why
arouses our admiration the trinity of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva and the history
of Romulus and Remus in the origins of Rome? Why fall many of our prejudices?
What do they tell us the men of maize from the Popol Vuh; Elal, the hero of the
Tehuelche mythology? To mention only a few.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The answer
is that if the myth were just fantasy and invention, a mere adornment literary,
probably these figures do not would echo in us. Echo because what they do and
starring, is not something that happened in the past but something that happens
continuously in each one of our lives and in the lives of the communities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Although we
are lost the origin of the myth, its messages are as current today as they were
at the time when he began to be reported. Because they originate in archetypes
that each culture transformed to your style. That is why there are many myths -
and even more, different versions of the same myth - and all are
"true". The myths are, as the wise men say "what it is worth to
be told".<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Rev</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">They arrived to the
psychologist visit. At the first moment they showed cold, allowing me to see
the distance that separated them. When they started to talk I could appreciate
the resentment and bitterness which underlined their words, were the criticism
and the reproaches which opened a crater between them. They did not hear, they
interrupted each other with accusations.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"This is the last
bullet", they manifested at the end. However, their gaze was more focused
on the separation that in the meeting. To hear them I found how hard was to
believe that they loved each other in the past. Each one appeared in front of
the other blurred, stripped of the qualities that a day were recognized and
valued.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"From the beginning we
had a lot of physical attraction between us, it was like a magnet that
attracted us forever. Each time that we meet, we were felt joy to see us again,
until one day we let ourselves be carried away by the passion and we started
our love story. I liked all of it," she said with glowing eyes.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"I saw her as the
woman more special than I had never known", he added without just looking
at it, as if wanting to enjoy those feelings of long ago.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This story is repeated in
the talks between friends, in their visits of the psychologists. Love can turn
to hate when you are not careful. In scientific studies, among then the
investigations of Sterberg, it was noted that the hatred could not be
understood without the love already that both are closely related due to the
similarity of their components.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The triangular theory of
love argues that in love underlies three components: intimacy, the passion and
the decision and commitment. These components are not static, are in constant
interaction among them which give as a result the seven types of love: love,
infatuation, empty love, romantic, sociable, fool and consummated.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">On the other hand, the
triangular theory of hatred is just the opposite of the same components. Denial
of intimacy, which seeks the untying emotional and is powered by the rejection;
passion in the hatred in the form of fury and commitment in the hatred which
devalues the person to justify the abandonment.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Also the neurosciences have
obtained results which help to better understand why it is so easy to move from
love to hate. From a biological point of view, hatred enables many brain areas
and many regions that are activated when you hate are the same as when you are
in love.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The hatred is brewing in
the small things that we not resolve properly, as occurs in the case of our
partner, and this creates circles of fire in which many times just burn us. We
began to throw gas on the fire when the other does not meet our expectations
with regard to what we expect of the people loved and we began to accumulate
complaints.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The heartache arrives with
the negation of everything we thought and imagined about the other person, we
do not value and appreciate its qualities anymore and we blur internally the
image of that person unique and different who we fell in love with.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In this process there are
usually at the beginning many attempts to cover up or justify the pain that
produces the disappointment. However, progresses the experience of
disagreement, converts the relationship in a big black dot, from which we only
see the negative. At this point, it is already installed the hate in our hearts
and established the mechanism of projection, we blame the other of our
suffering and you hate because it leaves naked our weaknesses, our dependence
and our insecurity.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The people most vulnerable
to accommodate feelings of hate are those which have low self-esteem, because they
feel attacked more easily than people sure of themselves. The insecurity that
prevails in the people with a self-esteem devalued, coupled with comparisons,
the feelings of inferiority, the low tolerance to the frustration, fear, the
complex and intolerance, avoid to manage appropriately their emotions so they
are sources of hatred in their personal and social relations.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The hatred corrodes who
feel it; generates bad mood and may even lead to health problems such as
insomnia, stress, anxiety or depression and considerably weakens the immune
system.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The hatred equal to the
love implies a "Installation". When we cease to be installed in the
hatred, we recovered our ability to see the other in all its dimensions, and we
can look from the loving feeling that favors the encounter.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Love is a feeling that not
knows limits; even people with more coldness of heart have experienced this
feeling. Many people feel it and have been disappointed him. The Tarot of Love
has an answer to all the questions that take place in their life. We talk a
little bit about some Tarot cards that are in direct relation with love:</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">• Card of Lovers; is a card
that says a lot by itself. Despite that its interpretation is related to the
context of the situation, on a general level expresses and alludes to the
feeling and connection that exists between two people.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">• Two of Cups; it is
very related to the monogamous relationships and also alludes to the
symbolism of link and connection between two human beings. When
interpreting it should be kept very into account aspects such as conditions of
happiness of couple.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">• Ten of Cups - is the
representation of a type of brotherly love, as it is generated within the
family core of human beings. The emergence of this card in the reading of the
Tarot of Love of a person, indicates something positive with regard to the
affective ties of his life.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">• Four of Wands: is a card
that alludes to the love from a security point of view and the good atmosphere
that arises in each household. This card also represents the step of a
relationship of single courtship, to something more serious as a compromise.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">• Ten of Coins: in terms of
love, this card reflects mainly the very well established relations in the long
term.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">• Ace of Cups: heralds the
arrival of a new relationship that will enrich the life of the person and it is
a beautiful card; resembles the feelings that emerge in adolescence.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">• The Empress; is beautiful,
beautiful and eloquent and this card represents the love in various aspects of
being; is interpreted many times with maternal dyes and another not. It also
represents sensuality and that makes it even more be interpreted as a symbol of
union between people.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">• The Emperor: from the
point of view of the Tarot of Love, is seen as a symbol of loyalty and very
long-term agreements; can also be misinterpreted if we do not analyze the
specific situation of each person who is reading the Tarot.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The reading of the Tarot of
Love is a very serious procedure and has to be taken into account by all
readers of tarot at the global level; each context of reading is different and
specific knowledge of each fortune teller, it is the key to the user of the service,
will feel entirely comfortable with what was said.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The classical physics of
the great Isaac Newton is based on observations related to everyday objects,
since the fall of an apple to planets in orbit. Its laws were tested
extensively since its discovery in the XVII century. But, when physicists began
to create tools to investigate the tiny particles of atoms, discovered something
that left them astonished: the physics of Newton was not working in the
sub-atomic world. Throughout the twentieth century was creating a completely
new scientific description to explain the world of the tiny. This new
knowledge, known as quantum mechanics or quantum physics, does not come to
replace the physics of Newton, who works and very well to explain the large
objects, macroscopic. The new physics, in contrast, is discovered for reaching
the subatomic world.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The universe is a miracle,
as I would say the philosopher and mathematician Russian P. Ouspensky. There would
appear two groups of laws that govern the universe. At the level of the daily
lives of all of us, things are explained according to the laws of the dynamics
and movement that discovered Newton (the laws explain the bodies in movement, they
allow and calculate trajectories), as well as the law of gravity, etc. However,
when we arrived to a smaller scale, at the level of the atoms, displays a
different set of laws. Are the quantum laws.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In 1900, the German physicist
Max Planck first used the term quantum applied to science. It comes from a
Latin word that means simply sum or quantity, but is used to designate the
smallest unit of energy or the matter.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">What quantum theory has
revealed leave us as stunned since it sounds like science fiction: the
particles can be in two or more places at once. (See the movie "And thou
what do you know?" for more information). Einstein said that nothing can
travel faster than the speed of light, but quantum physics have demonstrated
that the subatomic particles are communicated to appear instantly, regardless
of the extension of the space. Although the instantaneous speed has been
demonstrated by the quantum physics, who also referred to this in his teachings
was Gurdjieff.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The classical physics was
reductionist. It was based on the premise that only if you know the different
parts, you can finally understand everything. The new physics is more organic
and holistic; paints a picture of the universe as a unified whole, whose
parties are interconnected and influence over each other.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Perhaps the most important
thing is that quantum physics has cleared the sharp division between subject
and object, between observer and observed, that has dominated the western
science.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In quantum physics, the observer
influences the observed object. There are no observers isolated from the
mechanical universe, but that all participates in the universe.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The psychological and
philosophical implications of these findings are extraordinary. Because if the
observer is not impartial, therefore the interest settles in study to which
notes, i.e. the attention of the study is directed toward the same mind of man.
Therefore depth psychology and quantum mechanics are closely related.
W.Heisenberg (Nobel Prize for Physics) argued that the mind was a factor
inherent to the problem. Referred to the act of the measurement as to the
"act of registering the result in the mind of the observer".</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">According to David Bohm,
physical and at the same time disciple of Krishnamurti, quantum mechanics
reveals that the reality is a unified whole in which everything is connected at
a profound level that goes beyond the limits of ordinary space and time. Bohm
launched the idea that there is a "implied order" from which emanates
everything known to man. This same reflection to which arrives David Bohm since
its field, physics, is that up Jung from the field of the science of the mind
or Psychology when he referred to the archetypes (model paramount) as factors
computers of human life. And his conception of the collective unconscious,
which is one for the whole of humanity. That is to say, there are 7 billion
inhabitants according to UN, 7 billion egos and a single collective unconscious
for the entire humanity. Jung, personally, helped the development of Quantum
Physics, teaching, guiding and directing in his ideas to the Nobel Prize of
Physics Wolfgang Pauli. That is why the Professor Leon Azoulay incorporated
into the program of training of Evolutionary Psychology an item about the
Quantum Physics and its relationship with our psyche.</span><br />
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<h4>
<b>Who are Venus and Pluto? </b> </h4>
In Greek Mythology Aphrodite - whose Roman name is Venus - is the
goddess who symbolizes the openness and responsiveness. Open ourselves to
others, to receive them and to accept them, that is what we usually call love.
Venus in our natal chart is the energy that speaks to us about how we
complement with others and how we are open to ourselves.
Pluto was the name that was given to Hades, the god of the underworld.
Brother of Zeus and Poseidon, in the partition of the universe Pluto received
the invisible world, the world of the occult and also the kingdom of the dead.
In the astrological symbolism Pluto is the strongest energy of the system, the
energy that carries out the processes of deepest transformation, which carries
us beyond our own limits. It also identifies with the "Death", as a
generator of those changes, generally not chosen, we die to what we were to be
reborn as different beings.
When the planet of love and receptivity (Venus) is in contact with the
god of the underworld (Pluto) in a natal chart means, in the first place, that
none of the two planets is "free", that these energies are together
in the life of these people, and in any situation in which is involved one of
them the other will be involved too. As Pluto is one of the trans-personality
planets - that is that goes beyond the personality - we will have to wait for
the transformation that appears in our life from the outside, through love and
intimate relationships. When the person connects with the energy of love, Pluto
emerges from the depths of his psyche to connect mercilessly with the
transform. Why mercilessly? Because we usually want that nothing changes
and we don't want to transform ourselves.
The myth tells us that when Hades fell in love with the maiden Kore
(Persephone), Demeter's daughter, did not hesitate to come out from the depths
of the earth and kidnapped her, carrying her to his kingdom to make her his
wife. This act had been implicitly authorized by Zeus (Jupiter), symbol of the
evolutionary force, i.e. that this fall to the underground world brings us an
evolutionary learning. In addition to that, Pluto means "rich",
another track important to think that there is something very valuable in the
experience that comes from the hand of Pluto.
As Hades is the ruler of a world where the sunlight doesn't reach - that
we associate with the consciousness - this is an energy that operates from the
unconscious. However, it takes contact with it will allow us to bring light to
some of these hidden content and to expand our consciousness. After fall to the
underground world we know more about ourselves.
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<h4>
<b>A basic
script: Beauty and the Beast</b>
</h4>
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In the
life of a person with this aspect in his natal chart, the depth, the emotional
extremism and the sexual intensity of his relationships ensures a compulsive
fall to the dark world. This can be said as: high doses of jealousy, - which,
in other words, means possessiveness and desires of control of the other-,
subjugation and loss of your own will. Your favorite slogan could be:
"until death do us part". And in some extreme cases, this can become
literal.
There may also be antecedent of this game of poles in the family
history: a powerful father, a mother who was subjugated, or some other variant
that makes this indent as already known. Therefore, for these people are not
very easy to think in free and detached relations, in principle because of
someone with the polarity Venus/Pluto, this kind of relationships are not
attractive. The desire is to devour the other taking the risk of being
devoured.
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<h4>
<b>The
attraction of the opposite poles</b>
</h4>
<br />
At the
base of the hermetic philosophy we find the law of polarity: everything is
double, everything has two poles. The polarity is played on this aspect can be
summarized as follows: Power - submission, however, both poles belong to the
same person, since he/she has Venus in contact with Pluto in his natal chart.
If you identify with one of these poles and plans to the other, which shows you
the outside is not more than a mirror of your own energy.<br />
The key point is no
doubt comes to understand this and the first step would be to ask: why is this
happening to me?<br />
As is the case with every pair of opposites the person elected,
according the general balance of energies in his letter, placed in one of these
poles and you screened the other pole to the companion of turn.<br />
However,
although it appears to be obvious, but it is not easy to be discovered and
generally the person feels irresistibly drawn toward one of the poles, thinking
that has nothing to do with the other.<br />
This is the beginning of a journey of
transformation whose ultimate goal is to integrate to the fullest extent
possible this pair of opposites and thus achieve an expansion of consciousness
from go disarming those projections.<br />
This expansion will be the obvious result
to recover for itself something that had projected in the outside.
Carl Jung said that the civilized man dragging behind the tail of a
saurio.<br />
This "saurio queue" is the most archaic part of our psyche,
our most primitive; there are crouching all the emotions that we have
suppressed during our first years of life, with relation to others or to
ourselves and that, is being considered unacceptable by our environment, hid in
the farthest place possible of our consciousness.<br />
We are talking about the
anger, envy, jealousy, greed, lust, all emotions that culture labeled "the
ugly, dirty and bad", but they are very far from being the only reason. As
we already said there is something valuable in this experience only to discover
it can be difficult and often painful.
<br />
<br />
<h4>
<b>To Be
Venus</b>
</h4>
<br />
Here, the
energy of Venus is not satisfied opening to another, nor did he reach with
please - obviously because neither reaches who plays the role of Pluto - but
that is submitted to the power of the other.
Imagine a hyphen basis. In a belief the person Venus/Pluto will feel
fascinated by someone, which are then you will discover as a "freak",
and it will be very difficult to realize that this has to do with it. Venus is
also related with the ability to accept and here it is necessary to accept the
dark side of another, and of course also the own, and love him in spite of
everything.<br />
Other people can leave a little side the dark aspects of their
partners, but which has a contact Venus/Pluto, precisely will be attracted by
these dark aspects. If the other is presented as someone who could get to
engulf him what makes that it is in this link? What is it that makes it
attractive? Precisely that darkness that does no more than to reveal its own
dark interior side.<br />
It is important here to clarify that for a projection to
take hold, the other pole will be projected on someone who actually has to do
with that energy and that will also be ready to do its part in the
choreography.<br />
But this is a problem of another, with which the person
Venus/Pluto should not be confused: we cannot change to another, we only have
to worry about to realize the part that corresponds to us. This does not mean
that the other is not what it is.<br />
For a projection work we need to hang in the
hanger adequate.
What it teaches us this aspect is that the only force able to defeat
Pluto is Venus, but of course, not by force, not struggling with it but
accepting and loving him, but without losing sight, without undergoing.<br />
If I
accept the other as he/she is, just the power struggles. Pluto puts Venus in
the urgent situation of being truly receptive, to love seriously. Pluto is a
developer of Venus.<br />
You can also accept that the link is not for her, and
releasing, let it go. "As it is inside, it is out", another basic
principle, means that the other makes us of mirror, which is there to show us
something that actually belongs to us.<br />
But let us look at some of the features of this script base. There will
be, typically, a permanent feeling of dissatisfaction in the affective links,
nothing is adequate, nothing hits you. Venus/Pluto has a thirst for the
absolute projected in the couple, which - there should be no illusions -- it is
impossible to achieve.<br />
That is why the person feels that love, that happiness
is not for her/him, that each time you love conflicts begin, the struggles and
sorrow appears. If this aspect is not working, in the long run some people can
lead to the solitude.
If it is identified with the pole of Venus will be submitted to another,
that the monitor and exercise a power with a tendency to be absolute.<br />
Of course
that this is not the only face of Pluto or much less, but whether it was
planned to an energy that is own, it appears in its forms poorer, therefore,
while the person does not understand that this is his own energy, he will come from
"outside", embody in your partner, showing its worst aspects.<br />
If the person with Venus/Pluto sees itself supplemented by something
that owns it and not left at liberty, this can generate extreme sensations:
"I am united to something that rejection; but that I cannot leave".
So it is understandable that the person is frightened to love: each time that
falls in love, Pluto slips into his life, and the more you feel the person
identified with the bright and friendly pole of Venus, dark will appear more
powerful.<br />
The first step to overcome this aspect is to begin to recognize your own
energy of power in the reflection of the power of the other. To the extent that
the person begins to realize that something of this quality belongs to you, to
the extent that begins to take charge of its part in this script, the onslaught
of outside will lose strength. If I can bring to light my darker side it might
appear in my context, in my world, a loving energy capable of understanding,
and there I will be starting to reverse the polarity.<br />
<br />
<h4>
<b>To Be
Pluto</b>
</h4>
<br />
The other
option involves that the person is identified with Pluto. In such a case, there
will be no one that satisfies emotionally.<br />
Will be entrenched in a position
ultra-defensive. I have met people who were in this position and that they
confessed that never, ever had fallen in love. That did not understand what I
wanted to say that. That is to say, never to be identified with their own
vulnerability, with their own responsiveness, with their own capacity for
delivery.<br />
When a person with this aspect is in that situation is closed to itself
and toughened and being defensive. They have always had the power in their
links. The fragility of another, its weakness, its delivery, attracts you,
because she feels that being what it is not that the complete but, as there is
no challenge, ends causing irritation and boredom. However, she is not prepared
to let him go, because it is precisely in those situations where you can play
their role.<br />
The result, as in the previous case, it is a link to be highly
unsatisfactory for both parties. These are the mixtures.
These people have to do the work of connecting with what they without
doubt would call "weakness"; they have to fall in love and surrender.
Once they have done so they no longer feel attracted by what they do not
believe that they have and the experience of love can take another course.
<br />
<br />
<h4>
<b>The alchemy</b>
</h4>
<br />
The task of the person Venus/Pluto is to discover the attractiveness of
the links of parity in where the power to circulate from one to another, i.e.
in which power is shared, but it will be a long road and it will not be
possible without having gone through the two poles.<br />
The polarization involves identified blindly with the pole of the
impotence or with the pole of the omnipotence. The experience of moving from
one pole to the other allows you to connect with the power, an intermediate
point in which each one has power but not all power.<br />
Pound the zodiacal sign associated to love and marriage, whose Regent is
precisely Venus, has as a symbol a balance with its two dishes in balance and
in each one of those dishes is each one of the members of the couple.<br />
An
asymmetric link is not a true "marriage", at least that is what the
astrological symbolism teaches us and that is the learning that proposes this
aspect in the natal chart of a person.
In any link there will always be something of projection, but if there
is no discomfort, might not have so much need to work on that.<br />
However, if
there is conflict, discomfort, if the other plays a role that makes you feel
bad, there is something to correct and, with all safety, something of ourselves
to look.<br />
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REP-REV
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The mythological hero is a symbol that brings together multiple meanings, from which you can give an account of the human complexity. We need to differentiate the mythological hero from the "super-hero", better known through the cinema, animations and the comics. The actions of the super-hero respond to the exclusionary polarity of the good and the evil, the light and the dark, black and white. But thinking in human life, this polarity is revealed false and with a tendency to shadow everything.<br />
A first feature of the mythological hero is that it makes reference to a somebody who evolves rather than to be in a unique position and determined for ever. The hero is more a journey, a path, a way and a process than a substance.<br />
A second feature of the hero is that, in his process <i>to be an hero</i> recognizes and accepts its own conditionals. Progressively, the hero leaves the conditioned, structured and secure and dares to what is new and original in a rectification movement of their actions.<br />
We are realizing that the hero is not only a young man and almighty The hero is who assume the challenges that come from their own answers and authenticity. The mythology calls these challenges the "tests" in the way of the hero.<br />
Numerous mythological episodes show us these tests: an example is the clash of the hero with monstrous and powerful beings that can destroy him, as Perseus facing Medusa; the heroes of the Popol Vuh resolving the tests imposed to them by the gods of the underworld; Psyche, carrying out the work asked by Venus; Elal, passing the exam of the Moon, to married with the Daughter of the Sun; Jason, daring to the trials submitted to him by the King Aeetes, possessor of the Golden Fleece.<br />
Facing these tests and especially with the resolution of overcome them assumed by the hero, usually appears any figure that serves as an ad hoc ally: a god, a goddess, another individual, a set of individuals, a bird, a being from the vegetable world, a stone with certain properties. The ally, will bring him some help: will give him an object tool and an accurate indication that helps him avoid unnecessary rodeos or it is what will help him to know a substance that become him invulnerable to the hazards; in order, it is what assisted with valuable information and appropriate objects to pass through the tests.<br />
After these tests, sometimes the hero emerges strengthened, accessing to a hidden treasure, finding the true love, rescuing a prisoner or releasing to the oppression entire communities. Other times, even not reaching what was proposed, however, in the movement of try he has learned many things, he is no longer the same as when he started. Something fundamental about what he has learned is to accept himself entirely, with his limitations and possibilities; he has dared to face their fears, self-deceptions and auto prosecutions which paralyzed him, and in the process, it has been gaining the most authentic and own of itself; now he feels and acts in the world as a being with more integrity and more opened to social and community life.<br />
These lines are an invitation to us to return to look to the hero who brings us from the mythology, we have to stop projecting him in something from the outside, from strange cultures to our roots, from the tv shows, as the human models proposed to us by the large media corporations: the hero and the heroin are we ourselves when we act from the creative own - and not from the repetitive and imitator-, and with the enthusiasm we engender in the collective to which we belong.Delphihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01341319933217503842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330665722868351695.post-10811561240762121852016-07-25T18:36:00.002-03:002016-11-28T22:25:27.573-03:00The farmer prophet<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oqz46n4vv5E/V5-cKxs6KUI/AAAAAAAAAow/XmhvpXbKqxEy-gjBhjXePzleM6nLZir8wCPcB/s1600/skeleton.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" class="img-item" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oqz46n4vv5E/V5-cKxs6KUI/AAAAAAAAAow/XmhvpXbKqxEy-gjBhjXePzleM6nLZir8wCPcB/s200/skeleton.gif" /></a>
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Robert Nixon, a rural
visionary with a reputation of mentally retarded, was born toward 1467 in a
farm of the English county of Cheshire. He started to work as a waiter of
tillage because he was too dumb to do anything else. He barely spoke, although
sometimes he talked incomprehensible things. <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "inherit" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">However, one day,
while he was working, he made a pause, He looked surprised and exclaimed:
"Now, Dick! We are going, Harry! Very bad!!, Dick! Well done! Harry! Harry
has triumphed!" Such exclamations, more coherent than they used to be,
although also incomprehensible, filled of confusion to his colleagues, but the
following day everything was clarified: At the same moment of the strange
attack of Robert, the King Richard III died in Bosworth Field, and the winner
of this decisive battle, Henry Tudor, became Henry VII of England.</span><br />
<br />
The
news of the bucolic fortuneteller did not take long to reach the new
king, who was very intrigued, and who wanted to see him, Nixon
was accompanied to the palace. He had not yet left the court, when full of
anguish, he began to wander around the village shouting that Enrique had called
him and that he was going to die of starvation.<br />
<br />
Meanwhile,
Enrique had planned a method to test the young prophet, and when Nixon was led
into his presence he seemed to be embarrassed. He explained to him that he had
lost a valuable diamond. Could you please help me to find it? Nixon then
replied calmly, "Who can hide can find". Naturally, Enrique had
hidden the diamond, and caused him such an impression the response that ordered
to record whatever the boy said. What did he say? Duly interpreted, he
predicted the civil war in England, death and abdication of their kings and the
war with France. Also he predicted that the place of Nantiwich, in Cheshire,
would be ravaged by a flood, which had not yet happened.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
But
the prophecy of most fear for Nixon was the most unbelievable of all: that he
would die of hunger in the royal palace. To calm these worries, Enrique ordered
that he would be given as much food as he wished and whenever he wished it,
this order did not precisely contribute to make friends to the strange young in
the real kitchen, whose staff, anyway resented his privileges.<br />
<br />
However,
a day Enrique left London, one of his officials was taking care of Nixon, to
protect him from the bad intentions of the palace´s servitude, he enclosed
Nixon in one of the King´s chambers. Urgent matters led him outside of London
and he forgot to leave the key or instructions to take care of Robert. When he
returned, the poor peasant had died of hunger.<br />
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REV.Delphihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01341319933217503842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330665722868351695.post-61032209775294991992016-07-25T17:51:00.000-03:002016-09-03T19:01:54.478-03:00Legend of the Rectory of Borley<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jwa3quVtZU4/V5-mWwNXeoI/AAAAAAAAAo8/vvXfHJkpM5oPzPYjxRVOdiaAhUDgO_90ACK4B/s1600/flame.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" class="img-item" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jwa3quVtZU4/V5-mWwNXeoI/AAAAAAAAAo8/vvXfHJkpM5oPzPYjxRVOdiaAhUDgO_90ACK4B/s400/flame.gif" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">It is said
that in Borley, England, existed in the Benedictine monastery of the 13th
century, a couple of religious. They escaped to live a love story. But they
were captured, the monk was hanged, the nun was confined alive inside one wall of the monastery
and the driver of the hearse beheaded.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">On the
ruins of the building, where the Rectory of Borley was built in 1863, lived
Henry Bull and his family, in a Victorian mansion residence. Those who lived
there 65 years (1863-1927), saw multiple paranormal events.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">After the
death of the rector Bull, the priest Smith was installed in the mansion and in
1929 told to the journalists from the Daily Mirror details about everything that
was happening inside the mansion. Published on: doorbells and rings that
sounded alone, a luminous figure dressed as a nun wandering through the garden,
a carriage with horses guided by a coachman beheaded…etc.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">They
requested the assistance of the researcher Harry Price, who organized a meeting
of spiritualism and a week after the parish priest and his wife left the house
due to the violence of the phenomena.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Then the
rectory passed to the hands of the reverend Foyter and similar phenomena
happened. The ghosts were present, the bells rang, pounded strings,
materialized and flying objects, even were heard screams heartbreaking. Mr
Foyster, was launched from his bed, slapped and almost smothered by a mattress.
After that, appeared written messages on the walls, Price discovered one of
prophetic character that said: "This house will be burned to the
ground". In 1935, Mr. Foyster left the house.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">During the
year 1938 was a time of abandonment, and the Price used it to gather a group of
48 volunteers for the study of the paranormal phenomena of the building.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">And in February
1939, Captain William Greg, made reality the prophecy when an oil lamp fell to
the ground in a violent manner and the building was burned; uncovering the
remains of the confined nun to whom Price gave Christian burial, closing the
case, and collecting their conclusions on two thick books.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1974, a
group of Research of Enfield, headed by Ronal R. Russel, confirmed the
existence of a paranormal phenomenology on Borley.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Each 28th
of July, the nun appears and always performs the same route, known as the nun's
Walk, an event that attracts thousands of spectators to "the most haunted
house in England". In spite of the fact that the building was burned in
1939, there have been calculated more than two thousands of different
supernatural cases.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A powerful
emperor of China, wise and gentle, was very happy in his palace: his people were
blessed under his government and his home, a paradise of love and peace. But
there was something that he was concerned at the highest level. His only
daughter, so beautiful, as smart, she was unmarried and did not show great
interest in marriage.</span>
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The emperor
wanted to find a worthy candidate for her, for which he proclaimed his desire
to marry the princess. The aspirants to the hand of the young princess were
many; at least one hundred and fifty. But the intelligent girl, found a way to avoid
the provision that had taken his father. She said that she was willing to get married
to obey the emperor, but very subtly, she requested a single condition for
accepting her husband: who had to marry her, should bring her a Blue Rose.</span>
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The
pretenders were discouraged by that request. No one had ever seen a blue rose.
What garden of the world flourish that wonderful? And with the security that
finding the Blue Rose was an impossible company, the majority of them resigned
to marry the beautiful princess. Only three persisted: a rich Merchant, a
Warrior and a High Chief of Justice. The Merchant was not a dreamer, but a very
sensible man. So, very wisely, he went to the best flower shop in the city,
where, with all security, he should find what he was looking for. He was wrong.
The florist had not ever seen a blue rose in all his years of Merchant. But the
rich Merchant offered a fortune in exchange for this strange flower and the
florist promised to take care to search for it. The suitor Warrior, who had
known wonderful lands in his campaigns, chose to head toward the country of the
King of the Five Rivers. I knew it was a sovereign rich, in whose kingdom
overflowing the treasures.</span>
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Warrior
departed accompanied by a hundred soldiers, and that armed retinue and dazzling,
made a deep impression on the King of the Five Rivers, fearing an attack,
ordered his servers to run to bring the blue rose to offer it to the gentleman
who had made the request. A servant returned bringing in his hands a beautiful
box. When he opened it, the Warrior was dazzled. Inside the box there was a
beautiful sapphire carved with the form of a rose.</span>
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It was
definitely a real present and the Warrior, sure of his triumph, returned with
the jewel to his country. But the princess moved the head to contemplate the
jewel. The present of the Warrior was not more than that, a precious stone, not
a true flower. That gift did not correspond to the condition required. Little
took the Merchant to know that his rival had failed and returned to urge his
florist to get the blue rose. The Merchant was desperate without any result,
until one day, the florist wife, full of cunning, believed to find the
solution. Nothing easier than painting blue a white rose, and with it, the
Merchant would win the hand of the Princess and them a large fortune.
Impossible to describe the joy of the rich Merchant when the Merchant of
flowers made him know that he had already found what he needed. Ran to the
florist, took the petal blue flower and do not delayed a second to reach the
palace. And when everyone believed that the Merchant had reached their prize,
the intelligent Princess moved its beautiful head and said: "That is not
what I want". This Rose has been tinted with a poisonous liquid that would
cause the death of the first butterfly that pose on her. She did not accept
neither the jewel of the Warrior nor the false pink flower of the Merchant.</span>
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I want a
blue rose. In his turn, the High Chief of Justice, who had been seen the
failure of his two rivals, saw that the field was free to him. Thought a lot of
time in the way of finding the Blue Rose that the Princess wanted, and finally,
an appropriate idea emerged in his mind. He visited in his workshop an
exquisite artist, and requested him to make a fine glass, where he asked the
artist to paint a blue rose. The artist took great care in his work, and when he
presented to the High Chief of Justice, he did not hesitate a moment that the
triumph was already his. With this security he presented to the Princess. The
young woman was really admired with that work. No one had ever seen a glass of
porcelain so beautiful and transparent, and the Blue Rose in it painted, it was
a true work of art. But although she admitted the gift and thanked him with
gracious gesture, she had to confess that it was not a rose painted what she
wanted. Much regretted, but neither the High Chief of Justice had found what
she wanted to grant his hand. And since then nobody returned to talk about the
marriage of the Princess, nor was another aspirant to get her hand, much to the
delight of the young.</span>
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">But shortly
after, something happened that should make her regret her ingenious trick. The
people began to talk in the palace about a young troubadour that travel the
country singing sweet songs. And one night the beautiful Princess walked with
one of the maidens in the palace garden and came to her ears a sweet melody.
The troubadour jumped the wall, and that evening he sang for her his most
beautiful songs. The Princess and the troubadour fell in love, and the young
man returned other nights to sing under her windows. More time greater was
their love, and the troubadour wanted to present himself to the Sovereign to
ask for the hand of the Princess. It was then when the beautiful young warned
that the cunning that she had used to zoom out to her suitors would prevent also
that she could marry with the troubadour, if he could bring the Blue Rose. Her
father would also require him to bring the Blue Rose. And she knew that this
was impossible. But her lover reassured her "his love could
everything".</span>
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A great
commotion occurred in the court when it became known that a new suitor was
subjected to the test to find the Blue Rose and would be submitted with it. The
troubadour went through between the row of courtiers and ladies, and came to
the Princess. Tended the hand, and offered her a beautiful white rose moments
before he had taken it of the palace garden. The princess smiled happy, and
with the consequent astonishment of all, stated that this was exactly the blue
rose she wanted. A murmur of surprise and indignation ran by the lounge, and
the emperor also looked at her daughter, as if he believed that she had gone
mad. But the saying was so blessed, which included all, cut immediately the
talks saying that the princess was the one who had demanded that condition, and
that if she, as smart as all the wise men of the court, admitted that the rose
submitted to her was blue, nobody could doubt about it. Therefore, triumphed
the love of the Chinese Princess.</span>
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The demons and vampires are not only recurrent visitors of cemeteries, but they also lived
in most of the medieval cuts, in each convent and library. In fact, even the
Vatican wasn´t safe from them.
Meridiana
was a famous succubus, i.e. a female spirit prone to debauchery lover, very
feared by monks, bishops, cardinals, and even by the pontiff.<br />
The history
of Meridiana was noted by Walter Map in his work of 1185 De Nugis Curialum,
which means something like: The trifles of courtier.
Walter Map
maintains the hypothesis that Meridiana was the lover - and friend and
counselor, and confidant- the mathematician and scholar Gerbert of Aurillac,
who would become Pope Sylvester II, more known as the Pope of the Millennium,
and whose pontificate, brief and agitated by continuing conflict, spread
between 999 and 1003.<br />
During its
four years of Pope Sylvester II fought hard and with little success, against
simony and the heresy that threatened to Rome. Its greatest ally in this
crusade against the blasphemy crime was, strangely, one sent from the hell:
Meridiana.<br />
Go back in
time to know the origin of this mythological story of love.
As a young
priest Gerbert of Aurillac fell madly in love with the daughter of the Provost
of Rheims; case doubly unfortunate if we take into account their vows of
chastity in addition to its ugliness. She unequivocally rejected, and perhaps
with cruelty. Gerbert, desperate, fell into a deep melancholy.<br />
In this awful
state met Meridiana, who offered him money, wisdom, and above all his own body,
delicate and perfect, under the condition that he be unconditionally faithful.
Gerbert of
Aurillac agreed and his career amounted very faster. It soon became Archbishop
of Rheims, in Cardinal, Archbishop of Ravenna, and finally Pope.<br />
Throughout
his life he kept his relationship with Meridiana in a prudent secret. Walter
Map noted with any logic that the powers of hell did not always work for their
own benefit, and which often acted as true love toward the mortals.
Meridiana
fell in love sincerely of good Gerbert of Aurillac, even she was indulgent with
some infidelities, as that remained with the daughter of the Provost of Rheims,
who found him suddenly attractive once he was ordered Pope.<br />
The
relationship of Meridiana with the Pope Sylvester was, as they say, ideal.
Intellectually stimulating during the day and epidermal during the evenings.
For greater benefits, the supernatural presence of a diabolical agent -
argue the demonologists- redoubles the force of the men of faith.
Someday,
before traveling to the East,<br />
Meridiana was snatched by a breathtaking vision,
which prophesied the end of his mistress: he will die saying mass in Jerusalem.
Aware that
his end was approaching, the Pope Sylvester made a public confession, regretted
of his sins and departed quickly toward Jerusalem, where he died just at the
end of the mass.<br />
His body was moved to Rome in the middle of large laments and
funeral processions. Even the fiercest papal lackeys managed to persuade
Meridiana to abandon the procession.
She soon
accompanied him in death. During a council secret, a group of flexible
ideology priests decided that this love, although unnatural and
unjustifiable theologically, was pure in essence, and the body of Meridiana was
deposited in the sarcophagus of the own Sylvester II in the Basilica of St John
Lateran.<br />
Those who
have accessed to the crypt ensure that the common gravestone flows a thick
steam and dark that announces the death of the Pope. Walter Map, less pious,
ensured that in the evenings you can hear strange moans and jolts from the
sarcophagus, accompanied by a kind of fog or sweat that condenses on the marble
sacred, although reserves any type of interpretation on this mystery.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Middle
Ages is a period of the history that has always been so mutilated. In the
schools we learned that it was a stage of chaos and constant wars and conflicts
created by uncultured and stubborn feudal lords. Some circumstances are
certain, of the Middle Ages are studied the wars, successions, the feudal lords
and some other important kings, leaving completely aside to those men
who had the responsibility of civilization and the welfare of people.</span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">What really
matters and defines a civilization is their culture, their social organization
and the way of life of people in the city or in the country, and not that chaos
that existed in the early centuries of the Middle Ages and so highlighted by
the history books.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In the
Middle Ages arose the Benedictines order which, in a society lacking of principles,
they were worried about the wisdom of the people, they recovered old documents
of the cultures of all the existing civilizations, thereby creating the cult
aristocracy ready to govern worthily. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Even the Benedictines were interested in
the Arab culture, which was the owner of the science and the knowledge of the
East, that was longed for the members of the Order of Saint Benedict. To this
end they decided to expand them from France to Spain, encouraging the
reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula that was in the hands of the Muslims. But,
while harangue to wield the sword against the Muslims, the Benedictines
maintained contact already in Spain with the Arab culture as scientific and
they knew that they would make progress.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Spain was a
key point for the Benedictines, order which, in the midst of that profound
moral and intellectual crisis, "fought" for having the know,
attaining great influence at this time (this pioneering spirit would lead to
the creation of the Order of Cluny) and giving great characters who, being
completely unknown and forgotten today, shocked the entire medieval
civilization. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">One of these characters was Gerbert d' Aurillac, also known as
the Pope Sylvester II or the Pope Magician.</span>
<br />
<br />
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Gerbert,
a young man with an intelligence nothing normal in his time.</span></b><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">On Gerbert
and his entire life, even discounting what is legend, exceeds the imagination.
Picturesque character and uploaded color, Gerbert is one of the most
extraordinary geniuses that mankind has produced.</span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It is
unclear in what year Gerbert was born, although it is accepted it was between
the years 945 and 950 in the Occitan region of the Auvergne, in France. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Nor do
we know very well if he was a descendant of a family dedicated to grazing in
the rural area of Auvergne or, as it is suggested by some investigators,
belonged to the family of the dukes of Aquitaine, seeing clearly that they are
two very different theories, but is predominantly the first one.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Whatever
was his offspring, Gerbert was admitted by the Benedictine monks of the abbey
of Saint-Géraud d' Aurillac at the age of twelve years, where he studied the
"trivium" and the "quadrivium" with the master Raymond
Lavaur.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The
Benedictines were fascinated by the intelligence that young Gerbert showed,
fitting perfectly with the model of person that this order was looking for.</span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In the year
963 arrived to venerate the relics of Saint Geraldo of Aurillac, that were
preserved in the Abbey, the Conde Borrell II of Barcelona, a city which at that
time was closed to the Hispanic Mark created by Charlemagne to stop the advance
of the Saracens. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Speaking with the Abbot, the count of Barcelona was surprised
by the vast knowledge of the young Gerbert, to whom he offered to continue his
education in his county, what Gerbert accessed.</span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Already in
the county of Barcelona, he continued his education in monasteries such as Vic
or Ripoll where he matured his knowledge about science and where he entered in
contact with Greek culture and with the arithmetic.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> This would be a passage of
time to be mentioned in Gerbert education.</span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">He also stayed
in Toledo and Cordoba, where he transformed himself into a wise person, since
his intellectual training.</span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As we have
said before, the Benedictines wanted to own that knowledge that kept the Arab
sealed after having been learned by other civilizations. The Arabs were well-informed
of the sciences, being much wiser than the Christians, in addition to having
studied things as the heretical gnosis, the Kabbalah and the Egyptian culture.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The
Benedictines did not send Gerbert to these cities randomly, he was sent so as to
enter in that Spain esoteric that concentrated all the knowledge of the moment
in the hands of the Muslims. While Christians required any explanation of God,
the Muslim scholars were experiencing and looking at the stars.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">According
to the English Chronicler, William of Malmersbury said that Gerbert had gone to
Muslim cities like Toledo and Cordoba in search of knowledge of astrology and
other sciences airtight, acquiring knowledge that would be disqualified. He
also said that he learned magic formulas and discovering new inventions
nonexistent in Christian Europe.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It is in
these cities where they knew the number zero, which later would be introduced
in Christianity when he became to be Pope, as well as replaced the roman
numerals for the ones used by the Arabs.</span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Gerbert exceeded
all their teachers in knowledge less one, from who he wanted by all means to
know his secrets; even he came to seduce his daughter. Gerbert left Spain and
moved to Reims, where he amazed everyone by his high knowledge and raised the
suspicion of others.</span>
<br />
<br />
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Gerbert
appointed Pope: Sylvester II.</span></b><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Thanks to
the Benedictines, he was appointed Bishop of the city of Reims where he began
to distribute at its headquarters the arithmetic, astronomy, the geometry and
the music. This would be the time when the first graph, the globe, an astrolabe
of great precision and a pendulum clock were built, until that moment unknown
in Europe.</span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">To
accomplish such inventions, quickly it began to circulate the rumor that
Gerbert was a necromancer who had made a pact with the devil, because such
inventions could only be made by the Malign.</span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">After
several intrigues in Reims and after the death of the Pope, the Benedictines
demonstrated their power in the Church and put Gerbert as Pope in the year 999.
The recent Popes had belonged to the Benedictine order and to continue the
tradition and also to be able to continue accumulating knowledge, they decided
to place Gerbert, that was a sage who surprised the whole world that dealt with
him. At this time Gerbert was transformed into Sylvester II, the Pope of the
year 1000, while during his four years as Pontiff until his death in 1003 the
people considered him as a warlock who had made a pact with the devil.</span>
<b>
<br /><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The
Discoveries of Sylvester II. Did he discover the computer in the Middle Ages?</span></b><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">From his
return in the Muslim world, Sylvester II deployed a revolutionary scientific
activity without neither rate nor measure.</span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">He has
bequeathed to us, and his books can be consulted in libraries, twenty-four
mathematical works full of important discoveries, a treaty of geometry, a
treaty of weights and measures, and even a treaty of the game of chess, which
is not fortuitous if we remember that this game has a
prominent esoteric significance.</span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Sylvester
II or Gerbert likely was also an alchemist, probably the first Christian
alchemist. Tells an old legend in Aurillac that, still young, he had collected
gold in the Jordan River by placing in the water a fleece of sheep to which
joined a few pips. We do not know if at that time there were seekers of gold
nuggets, but the procedure is similar to the practice of alchemy, he also was
very advanced in the Ars Magna, since the precious metal was not within the
reach of many.</span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">He taught
at Reims, as well as astronomy and astrology which had been incorporated into
their knowledge in Muslim Spain. In addition, he produced the first great
accuracy astrolabe, as well as the first watch, free weights and pendulum.</span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">He also
built a curious hydraulic component in which the differences of steam pressure
produced a whole range of musical sounds, machine that probably would be of the
interest of our modern music researchers’ cybernetics and electronics.</span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Sylvester
II was who introduced in Western Europe, bringing them from Arab centers,
algebra and the use of the figures known as Arabic, which replaced the system
of Roman figures, which had as its main consequence, in addition to greater
ease of calculation, the possibility of using the zero, with all the
revolutionary applications mathematics that meant this number.</span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Finally, in
full X century, produced a machine that raises the question of whether it was
already an ancestor of the computer. In fact, as noted by Gérard de Sède, which
is interested in Sylvester II in his book on Templars "Les Templiers sont
parmi nous" ("The Templars were among us"), speaks about a
device ignored that replied with a yes or a no to the questions that it faced,
was even able to predict the future. Silvestre II never wanted to reveal the
secret of their employment, but always responded to the question of its
operation as something very simple, based on the calculation of two figures,
i.e. a binary code, like our computers contemporaries. This description
corresponds entirely to a computer.</span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">At his
death, Sylvester II, because of his investigations and especially because of those
machines considered by most of the population as a " witchery ", was
cursed for centuries, being sometimes deleted from the list of popes.</span>
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Gerbert
will be remembered as a French Benedictine alchemist that, already in the X
century, had learned all the knowledge and secrets of our civilization and the
Eastern Sciences, and that he was misunderstood in his time, being a
true Magician Pope.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">At the beginning of the
Middle Ages the astrological fatalism collided with the religious dogmas: with
the doctrine of the free will of the Christians and with the Muslim law,
because according to the Koran only God knows the future. To try to explain the
deep-rooted belief in the astrology without betraying those dogmas, it was used
all kinds of arguments. It was recognized that the stars "leaning"
but did not oblige; rejected the fatalism but not the astral influences,
recognizing that, prevented by the Planets, the man could avoid the dangers
that were predicted; this was recognized as a natural astrology and admitted
the astral influence on plants and animal life, but were rejected the
horoscopes by be presumed as superstition.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Despite all this, astrology
enjoyed many adepts; including kings and caliphs, popes and emperors, which had
"mathematics" to whose they consulted about personal or official
matters. The Arabic influence, which began to manifest itself in the Western
Christian world from the eleventh century, contributed largely to this boom,
since by natural disposition or in virtue of the Greek culture that had
assimilated, cultivated the astrology for religious purposes or to make
horoscopes.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Arab conception of
astrology as "decrees of heaven", was born the name of "Judicial
Astrology" applied to make horoscopes. The influence of the
"Tetrabiblos" can be measured through their translations. This book
is one of the first Greek works translated into Arabic (in the second half of
the VIII century), and the first work translated from Arabic into Latin, in the
first half of the twelfth century. It was translated in many modern languages
and until the middle of the twentieth century was the only work of Ptolemy
translated into English.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">During the Middle Ages the
astrology continued his triumphant march: even the Jews cultivated it, although
Maimonides the explicitly condemned. In the Byzantine world astrology does not
enjoyed greater acceptance, perhaps by the memory of the classical Greek
knowledge. On the other hand, was easily introduced in the slave people.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In the Christian world
astrology was part of mundane knowledge, with plenty of activity of astrologers
and production of astrological works. Began then the linkages between stars and
planets and different elements. Dante combined the seven planets with the seven
liberal arts and correlated the grammar with the moon, the dialectic with
mercury, rhetoric with Venus, arithmetic with the sun, music with Mars, the
geometry with Jupiter and the astronomy with Saturn.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">He also established the
link between astrology and alchemy, and each metal was assigned to a planet, to
each operation of the alchemists, a sign: gold to the Sun; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>silver to the Moon; iron to Mars; mercury to
Mercury; copper to Venus; tin to Jupiter; lead to Saturn; calcination to Aries;
freezing to Taurus; mounting to Gemini; dissolution to Cancer; digestion to
Leo; distillation to Virgo; sublimation to Libra; separation to Scorpion; creation
to Sagittarius; fermentation to Capricorn; multiplication to Aquarium and projection
to Pisces. Also appeared the widespread "astral man", materialization
of the doctrine of the macrocosm and microcosm, in which every sign of the
zodiac is a member or organ of the human body.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">According to one of the
established correspondences, current, we have that Aries rules the head and
brain; Taurus, the neck and throat; Gemini, shoulders, arms and the lungs;
Cancer, the chest; Leo, the upper part of the back, the heart and the spine;
Virgo, abdomen and intestines; Libra, the lower back and the kidneys; Scorpio,
the pelvis and the lower ducts; Sagittarius, the thighs and the flesh;
Capricorn, knees and the skin; Aquarius, legs, ankles and the skin; Pisces,
feet, the liver and the lymphatic system.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Thus was born the
astrological medicine, which remained in full swing until well into the
seventeenth century, when famous doctors recommended astrological uroscopy:
without seeing the patient, with only to examine the urine and compiling the
horoscope of the moment of urination diagnose the disease. Also appeared an
astrological pharmacology, according to which the medicinal plants governed by
the sun should be collected on a Sunday or the ruled by the moon on Monday, and
so on.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The renaissance period
printed the seal of ambivalent time to astrological legacy from the medieval
era. Coexist the brilliant renaissance of the sciences and the arts with an
infinity of civil and religious wars, with rebellions and with the "Night
of San Bartolomé" with pests and famine, calamities which recognize the
signs of the wrath of God or of evil spirits. Consequently, escalates the
belief in hidden powers, enchantments and Bruges.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The discovery of the
nature, characteristic of the Renaissance, raised another ambivalence. The man
is faced with two masters: God and Nature. Transcendent one, immanent the
other, accordingly the astrology, that vague between heaven and earth, offers
the possibility to explain that coexistence. For the first time, astrology was
also responsible for the religion: manufactures the horoscope of Christ; the
conjunctions indicate the birth, and sometimes death, of the great religions.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The characteristic
ambivalence of the period was also noted in many thinkers and scientists
compared to astrology. The mathematician Cardano, Paracelsus, medical and
chemical, the astronomer Kepler, reconcile the cultivation of science with
the belief and practice of astrology. In any case, this contradiction yields
a crisis: Kepler exclaimed that its laws were not generated through the
influence of Mars and Mercury but inspired by the teachings of Copernicus and
Tycho Brahe. But in the final analysis, the Renaissance, in whose womb was
brewing the scientific revolution of the XVII century, was also the golden era
of astrology. It would be more accurate to say, astrologically speaking, that
was its culmination, precisely because in the XVII century begins the decline
of astrology.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The IV Century B.C. was a
particularly fertile ground for the proliferation of astrology. Plato and
Aristotle had a common point of view of the universe, and they spoke about
connections between the celestial bodies and the world under the Moon (Earth).
Astrology had influenced the study of medicine as evidenced in the work of
Hippocrates (460-377 a.C.) that lived on the island of Cos. Hippocrates defined
the four humors, which he said are found in the blood (hot and humid), in the
yellow bile (hot and dry), in the black bile (cold and dry), and in the phlegm
(cold and wet) and established the correspondences of these humors with
planets.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In the year 140 B.C.
Hiparco of Bitnia cataloged 1,081 stars, and a few decades after the Syrian
Posidonio of Apamea extended their knowledge of magic and Astrology to the
school he founded in Rhodes, where he studied both the Romans and the Greeks.
Probably Manilus frameworks was influenced by Posidonus of Apamea when he wrote
his verses titled "Astronomic".</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Romans, who had a
primitive form of divination traditionally practiced by the augurs, received
the astrology in the II Century B.C. of the Greeks who lived in the colonies in
the south of Italy. The Romans took the Greek system of the Zodiac, appointing
the planets with the names of the Roman deities and Latins (names that are
still in use) and naming the seven days of the week with the corresponding Gods
and planets. This tradition also influenced the Anglo-Saxon names of the days
of the week that still reflect an old connection. Around the year 270 BC they mentioned
the judicial and medical astrology in the poem Diosemeia of Greek Aratus of
Soli which was translated into Latin and influenced the Romans.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In ancient Rome the
Judicial Astrology survived the years of the Republic despite the efforts anti
astrological of famous intellectuals of the moment such as Cato (the Censor)
and Cicero. In the year 139 B.C. after of the concern of the slaves and the low
class in Rome, astrologers were expelled from the roman borders of Italy. In
spite of this opposition, astrology gradually came to be accepted among the
intellectuals toward the end of the I century B.C. mainly as a result of the
spread of Stoicism (that had taken to astrology as part of your system). At the
same time that the empire is christianized, the Christian Church began to
oppose officially to certain types of astrology in the IV century A.D. (for
example in the writings of the Council of Laodicea).</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">During the Hellenistic Age
astrology began to flourish in Egypt through the school of Alexandria, in which
the astrological knowledge of Babylonians and Egyptians were melted in Greek
philosophy. The earliest Greek Hermetic literature in the II Century A.C.
focused in astrology. Fragments of these texts, among which are the
Salmeschiniaka and the book of Nechepso and Petosiris, have survived in the
Catalogus codicum astrologorum Grecorum, as well as appointments in Arab jobs
in the IX century and books written by Latins later.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A poem of astrology,
Astronomica, of which there are still five books, was composed at the beginning
of the century I A.D. by Marcos Manilius. Manilius collected contemporary
knowledge of this science, often in contradictory terms and under the influence
of the cosmic vision of the Stoics and their correlation between the macrocosm
and microcosm. In the II century A.D. Vetius Valens, an intellectual of Antioch
who was in Alexandria, Egypt, compiled the anthology, a job of astrology that
displays the new concept of this field as a secret art learned through the
initiation.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Ptolemy, one of the most
influential intellectuals in the history of astrology, also lived in Alexandria
in the century II. Its main tasks were the Almagest by (Greek of the largest)
and the Tetrabiblos Quadripartitum (in Latin). The Almagest was a work of
astronomy that taught as predict celestial phenomena through the use of
mathematics. The Tetrabiblos became the main text for astrologers and
occultists of the Western world by several centuries.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Ptolemy met the knowledge of
Chaldean and Egyptian astrology and re-interpreted it at the light of Greek
philosophy, in particular from the perspective of the Stoics. The idea is that
the whole matter is linked in a continuous cosmic and it became a rational
explanation for the relation between the changes in the universe (macrocosm)
and in the man (microcosm). The magic and traditions such as the symbolism,
palmistry, geomancy were annexed to the divination astrology, although these
have not changed the basic principles of astrology.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The work of Ptolemy was an
authority for centuries, particularly in Constantinople (Byzantium), the
capital of the eastern part of the empire where the Greeks remained as the
language speaker. In the year 500 A.C., Retorius introduced, among other
elements, the division of the Zodiac signs in triads, corresponding to the
four classic elements.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Although some theological
schools in Byzantium accepted Astrology, several Christian emperors like
Constantine, Teodocio, and Valerian, began to ban and threatened to astrologers
with exile. In the first years of the century V, in Plato's Academy of Athens,
the last bastion of the pre-Christian culture, Proclo (410-485) commented
the Tetrabiblos with respect to the stars as a "secondary cause of
terrestrial events". But in the year 529, the emperor Justinian (527-565)
closed the Academy, saying that it was a center of pagan thought and much of
the scholars of Athens fled to Persia and Syria.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The conversion of
Constantine the Great to Christianity put end to the importance of this
science, which for more than 500 years had governed the public life of Rome. In
the year 321, Constantine issued an edict threatening to kill all the
Chaldeans, magicians, and their followers. With this astrology disappeared
during centuries of the Christian areas of western Europe. Only Arab schools in
teaching, especially from Spain after the Moors conquered the Iberian
Peninsula, accepted the wisdom of classic era. Schools for Arabs and Jews children
were the representatives of astrology in the Middle Ages, while the church and
some governments of Christians countries rejected and persecuted.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Caliph Al-Mansur,
Baghdad's builder was as his son, the famous Harun al-Rashid, a promoter of
education. It was the first Caliph who called Jewish students to develop in his
empire the study of mathematics, especially astronomy. In the year 777 the
learned Jew Jacob ben Tarik founded in Baghdad a school for the study of
astronomy and astrology that soon had a great reputation; between those who
studied here was Alquindi (Alkendi), a notorious astronomer.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It was one of the inmates
of Alquindi, Abumassar (Abu Mashar), Bath in Chorassan, born around the year
805, who was the largest Arab astrologer of the Middle Ages. Among Jew
astrologers more reputed can be mention Sahl ben Bishr al-Israel (near the
820); Rabban al-Taban, the well-known kabbalist and talmudic school; Shabbethai
Donalo (913-970), who wrote a commentary of the Sepher Yezirah astrology which
was then a standard work in Western Europe; and finally, the lyric poet and
mathematician Jew Abraham ibn Ezra.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The recreation of the
astrology was driven by Jew school children who lived in Christian lands, since
the considered as a necessary part of the Kabbalistic studies and talmudic.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The didactic poem
"Imago Mundi", written by Gauthier of Metz in 1245, has an entire
chapter about astrology. Pierre d'Ailly, the notorious French theologian and
astronomer, wrote a number of treaties about the subject. The public importance
of Astrology grew together with the internal disorder of the Church, to grew
and declined with the papal and imperial power. Toward the end of the Middle
Ages almost all the princes, as well as each regent of importance, had his
astrologer in their courts, people like Angelo Catto, the astrologer of Louis
XI of France. The renaissance of classical education brought a second period of
prosperity for the astrology.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Toward the end of the
twelfth century the Florentines used to Guido Bonatti as its official
astrologer. Emperors and Popes became devotees of astrology, the emperors
Charles IV and V, and the popes Sixtus IV, July II, Leo X, and Paul III. Amid
the jealous patterns of science were the Medici. Catalina de Medici made
astrology popular in France. It was erected an Astrological Observatory for her
close to Paris, and his astrologer of the court was the famous Doctor Michel de
Notre Dame (Nostradamus) that published in 1555 his main work on astrology.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Another well-known man was
Luke Gauricus, the astrologer of the court of the Popes Leo X and Clement VII,
which published a large number of astrological treaties. Some of the past
romans astrologers among whom was probably Firmicus Maternus, thought reform
astrology idealizing and raising its moral tone. The same purpose
encouraged Paolo Toscanelli, called Maistro Pagollo, a doctor widely respected
by the piety of his life, that belonged to the scholarly and artistic circle
that met the brother Ambrosius Camaldulensis in the monastery of Los Angeles.
They were special teachers of astrology in the universities of Pavia, Bologna
and even in La Sapienza during the pontificate of Leo X.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The three intellectual
centers of astrology in the most magnificent period of the Renaissance were
Bologna, Milan and Mantua. The work of J.A. Campanus, published in Rome in
1495, and often commented, "Oratio initio studii Perugiae dwells"
showed a clear light on the lack of understanding shown by the Fathers of the
Church in its attitude toward the pagan fatalism.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Even the victorious
progress of the Copernican system could not destroy the confidence in
astrology. The greatest astronomers were still obliged to assign their time to
make astrological predictions in the slices per well to the gain; Tycho Brahe
made calculations for the Emperor Rudolf II, and the same Kepler, the most
distinguished astronomer of the time, was astrologer of the imperial court. In
the same period were written astrological treaties by the most famous of the English
astrologer, William Lilly of Diseworth, Leicestershire, who received a pension
of 100 pounds of the State Council of Cromwell. Among his work was one
frequently published, "Christian Astrology".</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The last astrologer of
importance on the European continent was Jean-Baptiste Morin, that made the
"Galica Astrology" in 1661.</span><br />
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<h4>
Bharat (India)
</h4>
In Bharat exists today records that clearly point to a highly developed
knowledge of astrology of almost 6,500 years old B.C. and manuscripts show
documents that were written near the 3,700 B.C. Some of the originals have been
destroyed or are lost but copies of these were made by astrologers and can be
found in the libraries of the Maharajas and in some states in Bharat.<br />
One of the most ancient authors of Vedic Astrology, copies of whose
works have not been found is Pita Maha who wrote a treaty called Pita Maha
Siddhanta.<br />
He lived and wrote this book about 3000 BC 500 years after another
writer called Vashishttha wrote several books in astrology, astronomy and
philosophy.
In the book called "You and Your Hand" by Count Louis Hamon,
better known as Cheiro, found this statement: "people in ignorance of
which disdains the wisdom of ancient races forget that the great past of India
contains secrets of life and philosophy that the following civilizations could
not contravene, but were forced to accept it.<br />
For example, it has been
demonstrated that the ancient Hindu understood the precession of the equinox
and calculated that this (a complete cycle) is carried out every 25,870 years.<br />
The observation and mathematical accuracy needed to establish this theory has
been the wonder and admiration of modern astronomers.<br />
They, with their modern
knowledge and current instruments continue to argue among themselves if the
precession - the most important feature in the astronomy is done every 25,870
years or every 24,500 years.<br />
The majority believed that the Hindus are not
mistaken, but as they reached this calculation is a great mystery as the same
origin".
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<br />
<h4>
Babylonians Beginning</h4>
<br /><br />
To the Babylonians are credited the birth of astrology. Their charts
allowed them to predict the recurrence of the stations and certain celestial
events. Thus, in the beginning and for more than 2,000 years, astrology and
astronomy were the same science.
Astrology was introduced in Babylon by the Greeks in the first part of
the IV Century A.D. and through studies of Plato and Aristotle and others,
astrology was referred to us as a science. It was soon taken by the Romans (we
still use the Romans names for the zodiacal signs) and the Arabs extended over
the entire world.
Astrology as we know it today began in the European world in the
beginning of the Greek civilization (the word astrology comes from the Greek
Astron, star and logos, study). The study of the stars had purposes both
scientific and religious. The step of the stars provided the basis for
calculating the calendars; they also represented a natural clock at a moment
without clocks and gave important points of reference for navigation.
A Chaldean priest of Belus, Berosus, which settled in Cos to teach,
probably at the beginning of the fourth century B.C., was awarded traditionally
to have entered the astrology to Greece. However, the Greeks were already
interested in the study of stars from the antiquity. The philosopher
presocratic such (625-547 B.C.) who founded the ionic school, philosophy that
have any theories the origin of the universe from a simple principle, and
Pythagoras of Samos (580-500 B.C.) founder of Pythagonearism (a philosophical
system that combines the medicine, astronomy, the musical scales and
mathematics to describe the reality in terms of numbers), had already put his
attention to the stars and speculated about the nature and constitution of the
heavenly bodies.
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<br />
<h4>
Other antecedents</h4>
<br /><br />
In the beginning the astrology of Mesopotamia was as other cultures, a
simple observation of the sky to search for influence that could affect the
kingdom. These observations included climatic phenomena, mixed with
astronomical. What made the difference was that the natives of Mesopotamia
began to make systematic observations of the phenomena to find regular patterns
in heaven and correlate them with events.<br />
According to the researchers, the leadings astronomical writings known
of Mesopotamia come from the oldest period Babylonian near the time of
Hammurabi. It is not known if the Sumerians were involved in astronomical
studies but it seems that yes.<br />
There are even some writings that relate to the
period of the Akadios, near the 2300 Before Christ. This is an example of such
written:
"If Venus appears in the east in the month Airu and the Twins,
large and small, are surrounded by the four and she is dark then the king of
Elam falls sick and not be alive."<br />
The natives of Mesopotamia believed that the stars and planets were
associated with or were themselves the gods. Ishtar-Venus was one of the
largest divinities of people.<br />
The Egyptians had the same notion and identified
the constellation Orion with Osiris. But Osiris was a god of the dead that
governed the underworld. Transport to the heavens was very similar to other
transport facts in classical mythology.
<br />
The researchers give three phases in the evolution of astrology.<br />
The
first consists of the mentioned above, which is essentially questions of
astronomical observation. The second phase is very much related to this but has
a Zodiac in the modern sense of the term with twelve signs of 30 degrees each.<br />
There are no personal horoscopes in this middle level but gives much attention
to the transits of Jupiter through the signs to an approximate range of a sign
per year.<br />
Here you see clearly an offspring of the Chinese practice of assigning a
year to each zodiacal sign and probably also the annual progressions of
astrology hourly. Here too there are no houses of any kind. The academics date
this second phase between the years 630 and 450 before the Christian era. The
zodiac at this point is clearly one sidereal.<br />
The third phase is the astrology horoscopes. Several ancient sources
mention the "Chaldeans" who made several natal charts of different
people. It is mentioned that according to Aristotle is made him a prognosis
Chaldean the death of Socrates on the basis of your natal chart. Reference is
made to the Chaldeans and of course that refers to the art in this period was fully
associated with recent Babylonians, i.e. with the Chaldeans.<br />
It has been found many natal charts written with cuneiform characters.
Most data of the Hellenistic age near the 410 b.c. other researchers say that
was in Egypt the astrology home. However, some researchers claim that the most
ancient texts were lost when a catastrophe occurred which changed the geography
of the planet.<br />
And they sustain this with the theory of Russian Emanuel
Velikovski that explains such a catastrophe in his book "Worlds in
Collision".
However, the Book of Enoch, of the apocryphal Jews and Christians say
another thing about who taught astrology and other sciences to the old human
beings, although the doctors of the Church say otherwise (see Summa Theological
of St Thomas Aquinas).<br />
The most ancient astrological document still in existence is the work
called "Namar-Beli" composed by King Sargon I and which is contained
in the cuneiform library of King Assurbanipal (668-626 b.C.). Includes
observations and astronomical calculations of moon and solar eclipses with
astrological predictions.<br />
The oldest mention of the art of astrological prediction in the old
classic literature is in "Prometeus Vinctus" of Aeschylus (line 486
and subsequent). Astrology was probably cultivated by the Pythagorean school
which kept the exclusivity of a caste. The teaching of Pythagoras on the
"harmony of the Spheres" aims to certain astrological hypothesis of
the Egyptian priests.
The astrology, in the era of Posidonius was called apotelesmatika that
indicates the influence of the stars on the final destination of man; i.e. apo,
"from"; telos, "end" and matika, "accurate".
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The term archetype was introduced by Carl Gustav Jung - psychiatrist,
founder of the school of analytical psychology- at the beginning of the last
century. He suggested that after the ego (the human mind) and the personal
unconscious (repository of repressed emotions, feelings and traumatic memories)
in the structure of the human psyche there is a deeper layer - the collective
unconscious. It is the same in all people, being the place of the human
experience, which is transmitted from generation to generation.
<br />
<br />
The contents are the archetypes of the collective unconscious (of the
Greeks. Arxetypos, "prototype"). Jung wrote about them as models and
patterns of instinctive behavior patterns that influence the perception of
reality and the reactions, in some way to the events in our life. This is the
shape of the main concepts of the world, of life and human relations, which are
basic, as the instincts of the animals, and that do not depend on the level of
education.
<br />
<br />
In their studies, very soon, came to the conclusion that the existence
of archetypes, through the exploration of dreams, the images and the
hallucinations of their patients. They found that ancient symbols, mythological
figures and images, there were, even in those who never had seen before, who
were not interested in the history of the ancient civilizations and did not
know mythology. Suddenly seemed to be an absolutely understand.
<br />
<br />
Another test of his theory, Jung believed that the fairy tales, legends
and religious texts of various peoples of the world were built on the same
stories - the history of love, loyalty, betrayal, revenge, the death and the
Resurrection. We see in these archetypes characters similar corresponding to
God, the devil, The Wise Old Man, Mother, Hero, children, etc. All of them
present in the folkloric heritage since remote times and isolated frequently
from one culture to another, that also have a similar content, semantics and
emotions.
<br />
<br />
If something happens in life, which corresponds to an archetype, it
becomes active, and it reaches an irresistible compulsion that, like the
instinctive reaction prevails, despite the reason and free will.
<br />
<br />
There are archetypes, as many as typical situations of life - explains Jung:
<br />
<br />
The archetypes do not elect to influence or influence in us, simply can
be activated when the circumstances of our life will fit in a recognizable
archetypal history. In reality this is the mechanism of action of the
archetype. They are therefore in a situation of struggle, when we have to deal
with something or someone, we can discover the qualities of an enviable
courage, desire or not sacrificed and that appeared in us not as a result of
learning . This is the manifestation of "primitive instincts mental"
- archetypes.
<br />
<br />
In this case, we can talk about the impact of the archetype of the hero.
Touch the process of life with different archetypes and through this opening to
the contents of the unconscious, the man passes through the path of the
individualization - the path of self-knowledge and acceptance of itself in all
its forms, which leads to the discovery of the real "me" and its
potential.
<br />
Jung called this the "opening of himself". The archetype of
the Be - is the archetype of the entirety of the unity of the conscious and
unconscious. It is the achievement of myself, the achievement of the
understanding of what you are in reality, is the main task of the
individuation."… The Consciousness - Jung writes, - will no longer be
vulnerable too selfish all the desires, fears, hopes and ambitions … On the
contrary, assumes the role of contact with the world of objects, which leads a
man to the absolute communion and indissoluble union with the world in general.
<br />
<h4>
<b><br />
Jung and the archetypes in the Tarot </b>
</h4>
<br />
<br />
The Tarot cards have been the subject of various approaches: the most
common considers it as a divinatory mancia; the other approach, and to some people
more disturbing, consider them as a symbolic language the bearer of a
psychological knowledge and philosophical. The first trend has been
unfortunately a popularization and it has spread primarily as a means to read
the future.
<br />
<br />
The second, in our present era, considers the Tarot a map of the
processes and circumstances before whom we encounter the human beings in the extraordinary
journey through life. A language for the expression of psychological ideas.
This current, in our time, was driven mainly by the exceptional
psychologist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961).
<br />
<br />
According to Jung, the model that
discovers the Tarot is not another thing that the deployment of the soul life.
Jung, who had no prejudice to the time to address the knowledge, also
investigated the Alchemy, astrology and the I-Ching. It was he himself who
translated ancient knowledge, rediscovering that in the human psyche there is
an autonomous process, independent of the time or geographical location, which
aspires to a goal which he named process of individualization.
<br />
<br />
Our psyche is
split, split between the conscious and the unconscious, between what we know and
what we ignore. Individuation refers to the process through which
integrates all the polarities, dualities and internal contradictions. We can
access a new balance, through the flavors and troubles of the human experience.
<br />
<br />
These experiences, of which we are learning, Jung discovered that are
archetypical, are repeated in all eras and cultures under different guises.
Then, in the Tarot we are with these key experiences or archetypal experiences
recounted in a visual language, shocking and by some very deep. These
archetypes are among others, the mother, the Father, love, justice, the
Transformation, the crisis, the sacrifice, etc.
<br />
<br />
The philosopher and mathematician Russian Piotr Ouspensky (1878-1947),
co-creator of the Fourth Way, classified the Tarot as a philosophical machine.
Ouspensky referred to the Tarot as an abacus philosophical, said: "it is
an instrument for the exercise of the mind, for getting them used to new
concepts and wider, to think in a world of higher dimensions and to the
understanding of the symbols".
<br />
<br />
And even more so the Tarot is a tool for guidance and self-awareness,
provided to learn the skills to read its symbology. For example, the card that
starts the deck is The Fool. Let us look at some of the characteristics of its
complex symbology. The Fool symbolizes the individual that lacks awareness of
oneself as a person, i.e. that is in a phase of such immaturity and infantilism
that has not yet reached the stage of development of consciousness. It is out
of every order and shape, and any law that is compatible with the others. Can
be neurotic, always moving in a circle around his problem, without going to any
part determined. It is the eternal turn of the individual without objective
defined, without a specific target. Means, movement, displacement, travel,
changes, but in an unexpected way, improvised and unexpectedly.
<br />
<br />
Person who lives
and enjoys the present, that takes all the juice that can to immediate,
unconcerned about the damage that could cause. The Fool represents the spirit
of the game, capricious, wanderer, with unlimited energy, walking without
fatigue by the universe without goal known. Without worrying about what is to
come, even look over your shoulder.
<br />
<br />
The Fool is that deep impulse of the
unconscious that moves us to search. The Fool is lonely; its method, secret is
a nomad energetic, immortal and present in all parties. It is the most powerful
of all the arcane of the Tarot. It has no fixed number, it is free to travel at
whim, disrupting the order in their attacks. In any game (as the jester, or
Joker) bursts unexpectedly creating a stir huge. The Fool has a connection with
the primary energy of fire and its habit of dancing invisible in the middle of
the deck, providing new impetus to each card.
<br />
<br />
The Fool connects two worlds between them, the everyday and the
imagination, he moves freely between them and also get confused from time to
time. The Fool represents the idealistic, naive, played that moves guided by
their instincts, which sometimes can put you in danger. His curiosity impulsive
leads us toward impossible dreams while, at the same time his playful nature
will return us to the world easy of our childhood. Assumed that it is a part of
ourselves separate from our ego aware, can lie mental traps or at least confuse
our language. Sometimes his jokes introduce us in places where our ego would
never have dared to go.
<br />
<br />
The Fool represents a part of us which innocent but knowing what it
does, is engaged in the search of self-knowledge. Through the experiences that
we look know mad, but that then we will recognize as crucial for the
confirmation of our lives.
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Why have a few pieces of paper selected randomly something to
do with the reality of a person?<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span>
<div>
The physics of consciousness:</div>
</h4>
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br />From a materialistic point of view no method of divination should
"work". Dices, currencies, or letters randomly chosen, offer all the
same probability of being "chosen" from among its possible options.
In the dominant vision of science this point of view tends to be considered
unquestionable. However, this view is very partial and fragment the reality in
a no neutral way. One of the largest lagoons of the dominant science and
consequently all the contemporary era is its doctrinal denial to critically
reflect on the great mystery that is the consciousness. This is the matter of
greater uncertainty for science and also for the philosophy. Why are we aware?
What is consciousness? When did it start and when does it end? Where is
located? What is made? Can we measure it? What is its size?<br />And most important… Is the consciousness limited to a complex
interaction of physical and chemical factors? Is it just information that
circulates in the neural networks supported by the biochemistry of the brain
and the body…? Or is it something greater than the sum of its parts? What is an
accident of evolution? This is the most complex and
intelligent achievement of the evolution… the evolution created
something different and superior to his own original ingredients? And to
culminate with these questions… Do you have to see the consciousness as the
reality as it is perceived?<br />When you begin to analyze as extensive as are the answers to these
questions you can realize what limited is the starting point for the scientific
perspective of materialistic nature. The materialistic point of view in the
psychology has its best example in the flow of behaviorism. For this the
consciousness is the black box, something that assumes too complex to address
scientifically, so much so that to make behaviorism refuses the need or
interest to clarify the great question about how important is the issue of consciousness?
The behaviorism has been always see as the branch more "objective" of
psychology. But this high status is lost absolutely if we see how it evades the
mystery of the consciousness. Such evasion makes its findings and truths be
proportionally reduced: how much more focuses the microscope in one tree, less
see the forest and much less the ecosystem that sustains the tree.<br />These limitations reach proportions even more dramatic when you observe
the common conclusions of fields such as quantum physics and the holographic
principle, the fractal geometry or the morphic resonance. If you do not know
the research on these issues and their analogies with the philosophy of the
consciousness, without doubt awaits you know a different type of science to the
usual. Especially if you take an overview of all of them.<br />The scientific paradigm dominant until now has in the classical physics
(not quantum physics) its model to imitate. It used to be thought that all
"scientific" should always be comparable to the simple constants of
this discipline. The behaviorism has been self-reward to be the most applied to
the study of the psyche. This point of departure is abysmally subjective, this
is allowed to rule out the possibility that the observer has something to do
with what is observed- it can boast of anything less than objectivity. It can
boast of reducing its variables for practical purposes, but not of to be
objective.<br />Although we cannot yet provide scientific evidence on how the Tarot
works, we can be sure that the consciousness, energy and matter are
interconnected phenomena. And the border… must be as rigorous as the laws of
classical physics? The classical physics seem to be in the antipodes of able to
explain the phenomenon of consciousness. Then… does it make sense to reduce the
explanation of the consciousness to their mechanistic laws known up till now?<br />The consciousness has a
mirror reflection<br />We don't know if we are capable of moving objects with the mind. We
don't know where arrives the mysterious connection of matter, energy and
consciousness. But it seems that the Tarot decks, the hexagrams of the I-Ching
and the structures of the other systems of divination are provided to act in a
symbolic correlation with the human psyche, that is to say that, with the Tarot
for example, brought out a card that has a meaning directly related to our mind
state. The mind appears to be above the matter in this level. At the time of
choosing a card from a part of the deck, or that the fall of the coins of a
certain way, seems to operate something different and more sophisticated than
the laws of classical physics.<br />Something will have in these systems of divination that they
"work". Probably, its design will have much to do. For most of the
modern versions of the Oracles which remains unchanged is the design of its
array of reference. The tarot decks are composed - almost always - of 78 cards and
the hexagrams of the I-Ching are always 64. All the cards or hexagrams are
grouped in an internal structure constant throughout the centuries, an internal
structure that could be called matrix of array. Variations only have to do with
the artistic design of parts and with the approach of its meaning.<br />Like the music has its array of harmonious sounds in the scales; same as
the chemistry has its array of elements in the periodic table; like the colors
have its array of combinations of the three primary colors… Well, maybe that
mysterious but very real phenomenon of consciousness will also have its array
of possibilities in the "divinatory systems".<br />To summarize, I will provide an attempt at a definition on what is a
system of divination (Tarot, I-Ching, etc.): a symbolic matrix (or map) that
represents the possibilities of consciousness systematized on the basis of an
internal order with sense.</span></span><br />
<h4>
The authority is always
within…</h4>
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I would help eliminate a prejudice fairly widespread. The dark style
pseudo illuminated and often authoritarian regime that tend to transmit the
television future tellers of Tarot - they know and you do not- feeds the image
that the oracles must be superior sources external with a categorical and
decisive authority. The love for personal freedom is what leads to many/as free
thinkers/as to remove all credibility to the work of these people
(thankfully!).<br />From the point of view of the Consciousness, readings of Oracles do not
represent a divine assessment of an entity or on top of our person, nor our
life, nor much less about what we deserve to live. Are not, in this regard,
messages from a higher source outside the subject. The cards act as mirrors, as
symbols of what we know about our being, an access to a more profound and
complete part of ourselves. When you make a query to an Oracle the contents of
the reading you… listen to you at a deeper level and complete. How paradoxical?<br />If you have a way of personal search (self-knowledge, yoga,
meditation,…) or simply calls you the attention this modern approach of the
divinatory arts, you can start freely your own experimentation: Buy a deck of
Tarot cards or a book of the I-Ching or the Oracle that is closest to your
personal style. You will begin a journey exciting of expansion of consciousness
at many levels.<br />If you ever do a query or experimentation with an Oracle… simply allows
the reading helps you connect with something more sage who is in yourself. The
Oracle is dispensable. Your higher self is not but has in the oracle a great
source of support.<br /><br /><br />
REP- REV</span></span>
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<h4><b>Nostradamus</b></h4>
Doctor and astrological consultant of Jewish origin, was born in France
in the middle of the XVI century and is considered as one of the most famous
authors of prophecies. Although this oracle is more recognized by their
prophecies about the future, it has also been confirmed that Nostradamus used
at some sessions Tarot cards to be able to predict the future. During his youth
Nostradamus began to investigate in the world of the occult and to perform
annual almanacs with predictions that had been able to visualize. When he began
to have a reputation, the aristocrats of the country began to visit him in
search of predictions for its future, which became him still more famous. At
present the prophecies written by Nostradamus are highly controversial as it is
assumed that this could have predicted the attack on the twin towers and other
events that occurred in the future.<br><br>
<h4><b> Lydia Clar </b></h4>
<br>
She is a seer who discovered that it had a special gift for the
clairvoyance since she was a child, this tarotist is one of the few clairvoyants
who believed that all people have the gift of clairvoyance but not all have
been able to develop it. Lydia has written a book about the clairvoyance and she
is known for having carried out a variety of activities of clairvoyance as
numerology and the reading of the Tarot cards.
<br><br>
<h4><b> Jaime Hales </b></h4>
<br>
He is a tarotist, writer and lawyer of Chilean origin, this tarotist
worked in the world of literature and the esotericism. He was secretary of the
Chilean Writers Society, has been a columnist for television, in addition to
founding an academy dedicated to the teaching of philosophy and the esoteric
thought, where he works today as its director and where read the Tarot to those
concerned. This tarotist has travelled to several countries of America where he
has proven his works of poetry and where he has expanded his knowledge about
the esoteric thought.
<br><br>
<h4><b> Micki Dähne </b></h4>
<br>
She is regarded as one of the most famous seers of entertainment, she
has participated in a wide range of television programs in the United States.
She is recognized by having predicted the attack on Perl Harbor and a snow
storm in Miami, this visionary has declared that his mother was also sighted
and therefore in her home is not suppressed her wishes to develop her gift,
which has experimented with a variety of esoteric methods as the Tarot cards to
be able to develop her gift.
<br>
<b> Walter Mercado </b>
<br>
He is known for being one of the most famous tarotists throughout Latin
America and in the United States. From Puerto Rico started to make predictions
in Hispanic television from about 30 years and its popularity grew so that
began to make programs in the United States. This tarotist possesses a wide
variety of surveys in the area of television and its predictions on television
are witnessed by millions of spectators at the international level.
<br><br>
<h4><b> Edward Alexander Crowley </b></h4>
<br>
He was born on October 12th, 1875 in Warwickshire, England and was an
important ceremonial and magician, with a great influence in the field of the
occultism where generated a major controversy.
<br>
He founded the religious philosophy of Thelema. He was also a member of
the organization of the Hermetic Order of esoteric Alba Dorada, in addition to
the co-founder of the Astrum Argentum and, finally, leader of the Ordo Templi
Orientis (O.T.O.).
<br>
Crowley inaugurated a philosophical system called Scientific Illuminism
developed to disseminate lessons that he published, the number of magazines
calls "The equinox". His motto was "the method of Science, the
objective of the Religion".
<br>
Crowley was not only a initiated in esoteric subjects, was also novelist,
poet and essayist, and has more than eighty books written the most of them
concerning the magic, Kabbalah, esotericism, yoga and, in particular, great
part of them on your system MagicK, and the philosophy or "religion"
that he founded (Thelema) thanks to the revelations of the Book of the Law.
<br>
Two of its most renowned works are: MagicK in Theory and Practice and
the Liber vel Legis ('The Book of the Law').
<br>
<br>
<h4><b> Jean-Baptiste
Alliette</b></h4>
<br>
Etteilla, pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Alliette was a french occultist of
the XVIII century and, although the Tarot is known since the 15th century in
Europe, was the first to popularize Etteilla divination by the Tarot for the
public. It is therefore the first professional tarotist known in history and
master of the most famous tarotists of the era.
<br>
Etteilla was born in Paris in 1738. He published his first book with 38
years old in 1770, Etteilla, or the way to have fun yourself with a deck of
cards, a discourse on the use of a common deck of cards. Began to use the name
Etteilla, which is your last name written upside down, and earned his life
working as a counselor, teacher and author.
<br>
In 1785 Etteilla published a second book entitled, how to have fun yourself
with the deck of cards called Tarot. This work is in fact the first book on
Tarot that analyzes and describes the divinatory methods through the Tarot
cards. Shortly after was published the first deck designed for that purpose. A
Tarot itself.
<br>
Five years later, in 1790, saw the light a new book about Tarot,
theoretical and practical course of the Book of Thoth. In addition, Etteilla
founded a Society of Tarot, Society of the interpreters of the Book of Thoth.
He died in 1791, at the age of 53.
<br><br>
<h4><b> Svetlana Alexandrovna
Touchkoff </b></h4>
<br>
She is the author of one of the most singular tarots that exists. The
deck is accompanied by a book which explains step by step the origins of the
deck, how to use it, etc.
<br>
The deck Russian Gypsy comes from the former Federation of the XIX
century and used by the Russians gypsies, who had much fame predicting the
future. The gypsies gathered around the fire each day and used this deck to
predict and help the people of the family to resolve the problems and take the
control of its destiny.
<br>
The Russian Gypsy Tarot of Svetlana Alexandrovna Touchkoff is formed by
25 illustrations that form in a puzzle way 50 figures, with 4 different
meanings each one of them depending on the position they occupy.
<br>
The designs are connected with nature and with the Christianity, related
to the cultural world of the gypsies. The cards are illustrated in full color
with the russian Palekh style.
<br>
The gypsy deck has the mystical power of predicting both facts that are
going to happen and indicate them favorable and unfavorable circumstances. Have
a lot of energy and reveals to us our psychic power and our spiritual
potential.
<br><br>
<h4><b> Pamela Colman Smith </b></h4>
<br>
She was co-author, next to Arthur Edward Waite, of the famous Tarot deck
known as the Tarot of Rider Waite, officially called Rider-Waite-Smith. In
particular, she was the illustrator of the 78 Tarot cards, that has become a
classic and a reference in the world of Tarot, serve as inspiration to hundreds
of designers in the entire world.
<br>
Pamela Colman Smith was born in 1878 and was an illustrator, artist and
writer. Working with the main writers and intellectuals is time. In 1899 began
to design theatrical performances of the hand of personalities such as Bram
Stoker, she traveled with him throughout Europe working in clothing and
arrangements of the scenario.
<br>
She illustrated and wrote several books. One of the most popular books
that illustrated was the last novel by Bram Stoker, the lair of the White Worm
in 1911.
<br>
The merit of the Tarot of Rider-Waite-Smith is that it is one of the few
that have designed the 78 Tarot cards and not only the 22 major Arcana. The
designs of the tarot are the basis of the designs of many of the Tarots today.
<br><br>
<h4><b> Arthur Edward Waite </b></h4>
<br>
He was born in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, in 1857
and has gone down in history as the co-author of the Tarot of Rider Waite. He
was an outstanding intellectual mystic, author of several books on esotericism
and occultism. It was one of the first who undertook a systematic study of
these issues.
<br>
He was born in the United States, but by the death of his father, his
mother returned with their children to England, where he met his family and
Waite was educated in London from his childhood.
<br>
The death of his sister led him to being interested in the esoteric
world and began to visit regularly the bookshop of the British Museum and
studying different branches of esotericism.
<br>
In 1891 joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a fraternity of
magic ceremonial and occultism founded in London. In 1901 was converted to
Freemasonry and entered in the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia in 1902. In 1914
left the order of the Golden Dawn due to disagreements with the management of
Aleister Crowley and began to follow the order of the Rosicrucians.
<br>
The works of Waite had a great reception in academic circles. Wrote on
divination, esotericism, Freemasonry, Kabbalah and ceremonial magic; likewise
translated and recovered important work of mysticism and alchemy.
<br>
However, Waite has passed into history more than by their works, from
the link to the Tarot that he designs with Pamela Colman Smith and the volume
accompanying him "The key of the tarot". The Tarot of
Rider-Waite-Smith was notable for being one of the first wiring Tarot in
illustrating the 78 letters completely and not only the 22 arcane. This tarot
was published in 1909 and remains until our days.
<br>
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Delphihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01341319933217503842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330665722868351695.post-91306653664332813062016-07-21T16:55:00.001-03:002016-09-04T10:01:57.426-03:00A very special calendarMany people have had only
connection with the zodiac through the horoscopes published in newspapers,
magazines, on the radio or TV. Cannot be speechless, then, that the assessment
of astrology is often negative.<br />
That is why we would like
here to focus the attention of the reader not in astrology, nor in the
astrologers, but in this millennial creation where we find in cultures as
different as the Azteca, Hindu, Egyptian and Greek: the zodiac.<br />
An easy explanation tells
us that the zodiac is a calendar, developed to organize agricultural work or religious
holidays.<br />
Without doubt this is true
to some extent; but is it enough? On the contrary, we believe that the
zodiac is much more than a calendar, and I will explain why.<br />
We said that the zodiac is
also a calendar, because it matches with the year: the 12 signs are very
similar to our 12 months, only that counted from the 21<sup>st</sup> march
(spring equinox in the north and one in the fall in the South).<br />
The interesting thing is
that a year, whatever the day that you take such as home, is a cycle. And in
this characteristic is the key to the importance that has the zodiac as an
instrument of understanding of life.<br />
A cycle is a recurrent
temporary process, i.e.: it has a beginning and it has an ending.<br />
A cycle is clearly
differentiated from a linear process homogenous and undefined, that is what we
tend to think currently.<br />
A cycle is the path of a
circle. If we draw a circle - if we live it - the moments of this path are not
homogeneous, it is not the same to begin drawing the circle, to be in half of
it or to be finishing it. The difference between the cycle and the straight homogeneous
line can be felt when it is plotted one and the other. Draw means here: Live,
starring in.<br />
In addition, the end of a
cycle is, it is at the same time, the beginning of the next.<br />
However, if we observe with
patience all around us, we see that there are innumerable cycles. For example:
the process that goes from the seed to the fruit (to return to the seed); the
menstrual cycle in women; the cycle of day and night; economic cycles; the
historic, the cycle of the circulation of the blood, etc. Each thing traces its
cycles.<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In reality, we will soon
realize that the world is a fabric of cycles. There are countless.</span><br />
The utility of the zodiac
is based on this obvious fact: everything that happens in this world can be
seen as a cycle or as part of it.<br />
One of the most interesting
features of the cycles is that we can divide in so many stages or phases as
suit us, (as do the current calendars with the months, weeks or days, for
example). That what we divide into 12 stages is irrelevant; could be 20, 36, 8,
etc. That does not matter and depends on the purposes that we propose.<br />
What matters in
contrast, it is that we can qualify or characterize as rigorously as possible each
of the stages.<br />
This is what differentiates
the zodiac in respect of our current calendars. For the common almanac every
day is equal to another, each month to another, every week to
another one, etc. The current calendar is an instrument essentially
quantitative: serves to know at what time of the year, of the month or of the week we
are; but not to know which is the quality of that time. Today July 20 does not
tell us much about the meaning of quality of day (barely, which can be a hot
day), it only indicates its quantitative significance. In the almanac, we will
not find any answer to the questions about the meaning of our existence.<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In contrast, what makes
the zodiac something much more powerful than a calendar is that each stage
is qualified with accuracy and depth. Once the stages are</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">qualified, we
can use the zodiac as an instrument to understand what happens to us. In
effect, it will serve to find at what stage we are of our cycles, to understand
the meaning of what happens to us.</span><br />
This is one of the tasks
that makes the real astrology.<br />
This vision allows us to
understand that the signs of the zodiac are not only the symbolic names
that are given. Thus, the name
"Aries" (or "The Morueco"), that it is given to the first
"sign", is simply a resource to evoke more easily the qualities or
characteristics that has the first stage of any cycle.<br />
To put it simply: The Moruecos
(male Breeding rams) behave in a way that remind us of what´s going on, when
it is starting a cycle: there is a lot of courage, a strong impetus to launch
into the adventure, a desire to fertilize, etc.<br />
"Taurus" (or
"Bull") on the other hand, makes us remember the second phase of any
cycle: when the initial impetus was found with the tradition of what has
already been achieved on the successful history of life and has to change and
be modified to continue progressing; therefore, prudence takes courage place in decisions, etc. and due to this the bull symbolically
associates ourselves with the second stage.<br />
And so with all the phases
or signs.<br />
This understanding of the
Zodiac finds it, in its rightful place, it is an instrument of knowledge, whose
significance and need begins to get gradually manifest in our days.<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span>
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The origins of the Chinese astrology are very old. Contrary to what can
be imagined in the West, the Chinese Astrology is not limited to match each
year one of the famous 12 animals: Rat, Ox (or Buffalo), Tiger, Rabbit (or Cat),
Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster (or Bird), Dog and Pig. This
correspondence has its origin in the cycle of the planet Jupiter. Although
today the Chinese Astrology is in decline, its history is long and some of the
systems that were developed in the long history of China are very interesting.
<br />
At the time of the Shang dynasty (1767 -1047 BC) astrologers used a
cycle hexadecimal compound planetary 10 "Hearth" (tiāngān trunks) and
12 "Celestial" (dizhi branches) based on the lunar astrology and a
division of the zodiacal strip in 28 xius ("lodges"). In the Shi
Ching (the "classic of the poetry"), which is a collection of poems
from the X to V BC. made by K'oung-TSE (Confucius), the astrological references
denote an influence of the Mesopotamian astronomy.
<br />
Between the years 400-360 B.C. the master Shi Shen writes a treaty of
astronomy that allows to identify 121 stars and locate the planet Jupiter in
the 28 xius ("lodges") of the strip of the zodiac. Jupiter iterates
through its orbit around the Sun in 11.86 years, which is the approximate time
that it takes to traverse the zodiac of 28 xius. In the Xing-King, Shi Shen
describes a division of heaven in 4 rooms (xiangs) occupy each 7 xius
("lodges"). Each of these 4 rooms housed 3 animals. The set of these
12 animals was associated with the old system of the 12 dizhi or
"celestial branches". In the interior of the tomb of the marquis Yi
of Zeng, (died in 433 b.C) found the oldest complete list of the 28 xius
("lodges") that serves to locate the movements of the Moon and the
planet Jupiter.
<br />
In the Treaty Wu Xing Zhan (" divination by the 5 planets ")
written in the year 246 b.J.C. Astronomy china is separated from the
Mesopotamian influence, and takes a doctrine of 5 elements (water, wood, fire,
earth, metal) associated with 5 planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter,
Saturn), 5 cardinal points (North, East, South, West, Center) but is still the
system of 28 xius.
<br />
Then were invented several astrological systems. In the I century B.C.
Jing-Fang created a system based on the hexagrams of the I-Ching. The
astronomer and mathematician Zhang-Heng (78-139 A.C) invented a system of 9
constellations. Also appeared other systems that tried to adapt to the ideas
and philosophical trends such as Buddhism or Taoism.
<br />
<br />
<h4>
<b>The twelve animals of the
Chinese Zodiac</b>
</h4>
<br />
<br />
Numerous legends speak of the animals of the Zodiac Chinese. During the
sixth century, astrologers associated the 12 "celestial branches (dizhi)
with the Buddhist cycle of 12 animals of origin Buddhist, with some influence
Mesopotamian received through India or Tibet.
<br />
In summary, we can say that the Chinese astrology began using a sidereal
system based on a real observation of the sky, but subsequently abandoned and
replaced it with numerical calculations completely abstract. Finally, it can be
concluded that the current Chinese Astrology is in decline and does not
correspond to the system that had been developed at the beginning. It is only
the cycle of 28 xius and the 12 signs in a great cycle that repeats approximately
every 95 years of Astronomy west.
<br />
<br />
<br />
<h4>
<b>The Chinese calendar and
the Gregorian calendar</b></h4>
<br />
<br />
<br />
The Julian calendar adopted in Rome the year -46 a.J.C. was a solar
calendar (later as the Gregorian calendar of 1582). In the China used a lunar
calendar, such as the ancient calendar Greek, but regulated on the solar
stations. This means that the Chinese used the movements of the Moon and the
Sun as indicators of annual time. In the V century BC, during the period of the
springs and autumns, was already in place in the calendar Sifen that measures
the year in 365.25 days, as five centuries later would make him the Julian
calendar.
<br />
The Han dynasty was contemporary of the Roman Empire. The Han Emperor
Wudi (156-87 J.C) replaced in -104 to J.C. Sifen calendar by the calendar
Taichu that measures the year at 365,2501624 days and the lunar month in
29,5308641 days. After 2 centuries, when the calendar Taichu was inaccurate and
the Emperor Han Zhangdi (57-88) canceled it to restore the Calendar Sifen. In
1281, after more than 12 centuries, the famous scientist and astronomer Guo
Shoujing (1231-1316) defined the tropical year (time that the Sun used to give
a complete turn of the ecliptic) in 364,2425 days, which is the same value used
by the Gregorian calendar in the year 1582.
<br />
(1) dynasties of ancient China. Of the Shang dynasty (1767 -1047
to.J.C). Western Zhou dynasty (between -1046 and -771 to.J.C.) of the Zhou
Dynasty Oriental (between -771 and -256 to.J.C.) according to the tradition,
the King Wen, ancestor founder of the Zhou dynasty, would have created the 64
hexagrams of the I Ching.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The numbers
are magical. Pythagoras was the Greek mathematician of the VI century before
Christ, who collected and systematized certain teachings that inspired in part
what is currently known as traditional numerology. For Pythagoras, numbers make
up the universe and govern the existence: everything that exists in the world
is governed by a number that describes its nature and constitutes its essence.
The traditional Numerology looks for a numerical sense to everything and tries
to explain this sense with associations that are based on the primitive
Pythagorean explanations. With the passage of time it has been enriched, with
other meanings of diverse origin.</span></span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Cardinal
numbers and ordinals</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">In
linguistics, the natural integers one, two, three, four, five… are called
adjectives cardinal numerals. In mathematics a cardinal number is an extension
of this notion to name certain sets, even the infinite sets.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For
example, 7 days a week, 7 capital sins, the 7 hills of Rome, are three sets
that share an attribute that is not shared with the 5 fingers of the hand, the
5 senses or the 5 geographic continents. You can put in evidence this quality
by matching one by one to the respective elements of these sets. It can be said
that "seven" is the cardinal number that corresponds to the days of
the week, the capital sins and to the hills of Rome. As the cardinal number
"five" is a quality that corresponds to the fingers of the hand to
the senses and the geographic continents. "Seven" and
"Five" are in this case an essential property of these sets.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Each of the
fingers of the hand can be matched with an element of the whole of the
continents: America, Antarctica, Africa, Eurasia, Oceania. There is a certain
one-to-one correspondence between each item in the set of the fingers of the
hand with the set of the continents. To each one of the five fingers of the
hand we can match one of the continents. In this sense one can say that there
is an equivalence relation between them. In mathematics can be said that it
establishes a new relationship between them bijective, or also that these sets
are equipotential.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">In
Mathematics is called ordinal number to a logical object that allows you to set
a certain type of order in a set. As in linguistics the words "first,
second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth…," are called numerals ordinal adjectives
and serve to clarify the range of an item in a collection or the order of an
event in a succession. The finite ordinal numbers can be identified with the
natural integers, who identify themselves with the cardinal numbers finite. But
this identification is not true in the case of infinite sets, since the
cardinal numbers correspond to the ordinal numbers but the reciprocal is false.</span><br />
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<h3>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Numerology and Gematria</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Numerology
Pythagorean and Gematria deal with natural numbers of finite. Analyze the value
numerology of the name and date of birth offers personal valuable information
on the character of the person. The name may reveal three numbers that allow to
understand different facets of the person: the intimate number or the heart,
the number of the personality and the number of expression. You could even
change of name if one is not satisfied with its numerology significance. The
date of birth, which describes an essential element of the person, is not
editable. It is not surprising that the number associated to this date is what
you call the "number of the destination"… in print runs of Tarot,
especially when they are also used the arcana minors, the methods of reduction
and numerical interpretation provided by the Gematria are very significant.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rev.</span></span></div>
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Delphihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01341319933217503842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330665722868351695.post-74061835480106732082016-07-18T17:09:00.003-03:002016-12-06T10:53:28.034-03:00The Orion's Myth<div class="separator" style="clear: left; float: left; text-align: left;">
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<h3>
History of Orion, the Hunter - Greek Mythology</h3>
Orion was the son of Poseidon, god of the Sea, and Gaea (Juno for the Romans), the goddess of the Earth. At birth grew so that went on to become an authentic giant. So enormous was, that could walk by the fund of the deep seas without ever the waters will cover of shoulders to above. Orion is represented by a warrior lifted up his bow and covering of the enemy with a fleece. At his side are his watchdogs: Canis Major and Canis Minor.<br />
Orion the great hunter that it was precisely because of his greatness, would become in superb, carrying the wrath of Gaea.<br />
After many adventures, Orion went to the island of Chios, where the little time fell in love with Mérope, the daughter of king Enopión. Such was his love for her that the requested in marriage. Enopión concurred in this, but previously demanded the giant that demonstrate its value carrying out a difficult mission. Orion would have to exterminate a large number of harmful animals which were causing enormous losses in the harvest of the island. Once there were exterminated all Orion vermin, the king refused to comply with the word given to Orion.<br />
Orion tried to avenge Oenopion, but could not find it because it took refuge in an underground chamber so convoluted, which was virtually inscrutable. Then, Orion rode more on cholera, and enraged, downloaded their anger in all the beasts that are atravezaban on its way without distinction of ferocity or innocence. Such was the massacre that Orion had caused his mother Gea had to intervene by asking you, to cease in its absurd task. Orion, violent and mindless, he ignored the words of his mother and followed in their thirteen, despite repeated warnings of Gaea.<br />
One day, when the superb Orion, was reunited with their friends, disaprearing that neither the most terrible beasts as the tigers, panthers, lions or snakes were able to cause terror any, his mother Gea reached the limit of its patience, which commanded a scorpion very poisonous. Orion, seeing him, could not contain his ironic smile at the ridiculousness of that insignificant adversary sent by Gaea.<br />
Orion is entrusted and the scorpion you punched in a heel with its powerful sting Poisonous and as soon as he did that, Orion smashed with its harness. The terrible ponzoña was extended by all the blood of Orion and it fell to the ground means dying. When he saw that the death was already imminent, asked for help and he implored revenge to the almighty Zeus, since death that He stalked was little glorious for a character of his Spirit. He asked the supreme god which placed in the heavens with its two faithful hunting dogs (Canis Major and Canis Minor) and a hare (Lepus), so that the men, when look upwards in the dark starry nights, remember the adventures of the great hunter Orion. It also requested him to Zeus the domain of storms, storms, the ice and the winds, so as to be able to avenge so your Mother the Earth (Gaea).<br />
Gea, in revenge for the crimes of Orion, sent a scorpion to face with him, injecting venom and perishing in turn.<br />
Zeus was condescending with Orion and met their pleas. The earth trembled, and since then it has been doing until our days every time it has seen appear to Orion on the firmament, since it has always brought with it the wind, the cold, storms, ice, snow and frosts, that are so abundant in winter on the ground, coinciding with the arrival of this constellation.<br />
Zeus was also commissioned to place the scorpion (Scorpius) in the sky, but he was careful to put it as far away as possible from the giant that never again return to confront. Thus, when Orion disappears from the sky dome is when makes its appearance the constellation Scorpio. While Orion appears during the winter, Scorpius makes in the summer, perpetuating their struggle continuously.Delphihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01341319933217503842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330665722868351695.post-4246825467094149072016-07-17T17:59:00.002-03:002016-11-28T22:27:13.599-03:00Nostradamus, the most famous diviner
Nostradamus
was a remarkable and admired man in the France of the XVI century, and also in
the rest of the world. Michel de Nostredame was born at noon on December 14th,
1503 in Saint-Rèmuy-de-Provence.
A child of
parents of Jewish origin, that by the Inquisition took pressures to convert to the
Catholicism, taking that baptism and change of identity to avoid reprisals in
the time of Louis XII, and adopted as so many others the name of some place. In
the case of the relatives of Michel adopted the name of the neighborhood where
they had lived for two generations, the neighborhood of Notre Dame. Thus was
born to the catholic religion Michel de Nostredame.<br />
Received a
complete education in the knowledge of the different herbs and plants, but soon
he showed much interest in the magical arts and secret readings, as well as in
the science of the stars. It was his grandfather who started him in these
studies, becoming doctor, mathematician, astrologer and astronomer and
mastering several languages such as Greek, Latin and Hebrew.<br />
When his
grandfather died, the young Michel was sent to Avignon to finish his studies,
and there they were astonished by all his knowledge of nature and above all,
for his exceptional memory, which allowed him to recite any lesson, after he
had read at once.<br />
He left Avignon
in 1521, to pursue his studies at the Academy of Montpellier. But soon the
plague struck the Languedoc, and Michel left the Academy to take care of himself.
This phase of his career was the most practical one, as he was able to work and
observe elbow to elbow the different physicians who performed the same work.<br />
Finished
the danger of the epidemic, he went back to Montpellier, where he ended up
completing his PhD. He was a student reproached by his teachers, since he came
out of what was strictly correct in those times, but today that knowledge is
fundamental in any health intervention.<br />
Already
doctorate, Michel earned his living as a doctor and selling curative and
cosmetics products made by himself. Then, he went to Agen where he married in
1534. But the plague, snatched not only his wife but also his two children.<br />
Lonely and
mounted on his mule toured France and Italy, where the people were able to
appreciate the gifts of clairvoyance that Michel demonstrated to have.<br />
One day,
while continuing his path, he found a young Franciscan monk, under his mule and
he showed respect kneeling before him. When the Franciscan showed his
amazement, he explained: - there is always to kneel in front of the Pope - in
effect, that young monk was, twenty years later the Pope Sixtus IV.<br />
In 1547 he
remarried and he was installed in salon where he practiced medicine and
implemented the several knowledges he possessed. During this period of
tranquility and stability he took the opportunity to write and publish some
annual almanacs, a book about beauty potions and another book of recipes<br />
In 1555 he
wrote a book titled "The Prophecies" published later as
"Centuries" it is a collection of quatrains (four-line rhyming
verses), grouped into sets of 100, which many of them foretold the future.<br />
Due to their
success in 1557, he had published already seven Centuries.<br />
Soon
obtained great fame as a prophet and Catherine de Médicis, a lover of the
occult sciences, called him to the court. From this moment he offered his
services to the royalty and to the nobility of that time.<br />
But the
premonition that really gave him fame was that in 1554, he wrote and announced
the death of the King Henry II, he said: "The young lion will overcome the
older one, on the field of combat in a single battle; he will pierce his eyes
through a golden cage, two wounds he will have, then he dies with a cruel
death."<br />
In fact, in
1559, the French king organized, with great ornamentation and pomp, a series of
festive activities of the era, such as walking, meals and tournaments to
celebrate the wedding of his sister Margarita with the duke of Savoy. The
expert and warrior king in the last festive event of the day offered break
spears, to enhance the events, the young count of Montgomery, who had heard
wonders in the field of battle.<br />
During the
fight, the spearhead of Montgomery penetrated the visor that took the king with
ornaments of gold, and pierced one eye. Days after the king died in the midst
of atrocious sufferings.<br />
Many had
been the successes of Michel until that moment, but this one gave him great fame
throughout France and Italy. His predictions, writings of a deliberately mode
hermetic, had been amazing by its shocking accuracy. Covered with honors, he died
in 1566.<br />
The 1<sup style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">st</span>
</sup>July 1566 Nostradamus offered his final prediction to his priest. In
response to the farewell of the priest, Nostradamus had replied: "You would
not find me alive in the output of the sun."<br />
Many
authors, during the past four centuries, aware of the importance of the notices
that Nostradamus bequeathed to us, have attempted to provide an interpretation
of more than ten centuries. Only when the events have already happened is when
they find some sense. Recent studies point to the use of mathematics in order
to be able to give a definitive solution to this mystery, since according to
them is the only procedure in which everything that Nostradamus predict has no
place.<br />
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RevDelphihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01341319933217503842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330665722868351695.post-85216018189273574682016-07-17T12:39:00.002-03:002016-09-17T19:17:31.963-03:00The History of the Tarot<h4>
The
Egyptian origin of the Tarot according to Court of Gébelin</h4>
In 1791,
Antoine Court de Gébelin (1719-1784), the Protestant pastor and Freemason,
publishes the VIII volume, entitled "History, the Heraldry, the Coins and
Games", of his monumental work called "The Primitive World".
There is a long section devoted to "Divinatory Tarot". According to
this author, the Tarot come from Egypt, and it would be a book attributed to
god Thoth, the Ibis-headed god. In Egypt, Thoth was the patron of astronomers,
accounting, magicians, healers, charming and diviners. Thoth would have taught
the divine magic to some initiates with the purpose of transmitting it to the
Hierophants, to the large priests, to the wise and to "all those who have
eyes to see and ears to hear". The Pyramid, which made with stones symbolize
a perfect shape, also represents for the man the symbolic image of the interior
temple, which is at once an architect and worker. The path of the divine
perfection, which man must strive to follow would be symbolized by the book of
Thoth, the Tarot.<br />
The name of
Tarot, according to Court de Gébelin, derives from two terms Egyptians: tar
(via, road) and Ro (king or real). Then the Tarot would be "track of the
king", which leads to a vulgar man to become king. According to other
views, the word Tarot would be related to the name of the Jewish law, the
Torah. It has also been related with the Latin term "rota" (Wheel)
associating it with the "wheel of the existence".<br />
Anyway,
currently is named Tarot to a game of cards composed of 78 cards, and that
number has remained unchanged since the sixteenth century.<br />
• 56
ordinary cards divided into 4 series (sticks or colors: Swords, Cups, Wands and
Coins) of 14 figures each: 10 figures numerals (1 to 10) and 4 figures (Honors)
that represent the Page, the Knight, the Queen and the King. In the divinatory Tarot
these are the Minor Arcana.<br />
• 22
triumphs composed of 21 figures numbered 1 to 21 and a special trump (“The Fool”).
In the divinatory Tarot, these 22 victories are the Major Arcana.<br />
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<h4>
<br /><br />Others say
that the Tarot comes from the China...</h4>
If the
eternal wisdom of ancient Egypt persists and remains in the symbolism of the
Tarot, other assumptions were added to the mysterious and colorful history of the
Tarot. According to the opinion of other esoteric researchers the Tarot would
have been distributed by the Tatars who, after having invaded China in 1215,
invaded Russia at 1238 and disseminated the cards throughout Europe.<br />
Others are
inclined to think that the great conquerors, those who dared to cross seas and
discover other cultures for Europeans, were those who did know the Tarot in the
north of Italy. Such would be the case of Marco Polo, who spent long years in
the court of Kublai Khan, from where would have been imported to Venice the card
game known by the Chinese. It is known that the games of cards were very much
appreciated in China and that, since the 10th century, the emperor Mu-Tsung, spent
regularly a lot of time playing a card game inspired by the game of domino.<br />
It is
important the role of the Gypsies in the history of the Tarot. The Rroms likely
came from India and its presence is attested in Western Europe from the Middle
Ages. The Rroms or Gypsies would have entered in Europe cards to play and also
to predict destiny. They always have been well-known in the art of fortune
teller. While it cannot be said with certainty that they imported the Tarot, at
least, have an undeniable involvement in the use of the cards as Oracle,
cartomancy. Anyway, what we can say with certainty is that the game of Tarot
cards, as we know it today dates from the Renaissance.
The
chronicle of Giovanni Juzzo of Caveluzo of 1379 preserved in the archives of
Viterbo, mentions a game of cards from the Saracens, called "naibi".
The hypothesis of an oriental origin of the game of cards seems to be confirmed
from a “mamluk” deck preserved in the Topkapi Museum of Istanbul. It is a deck hand-painted,
almost complete, composed of four sets: dírhams, cups, scimitars and mallets,
that could be used as models for the suits of the Spanish Decks (Coins, Cups,
Swords and Clubs) and that were transcribed in the Minor Arcana of the Tarot as
we know it today.<br />
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RevDelphihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01341319933217503842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330665722868351695.post-43217398348729340292016-07-16T13:47:00.001-03:002016-09-17T19:27:44.086-03:00The Tarot and the Paths of the Tree of Life<h4>The Challenge of Living
<br/><br/>
The preliminary stage</h4>
The Tree of
Life and the Tarot are closely related: Tree of Life is the symbolic system which
underpins the Tarot.<br/>
The Paths
of the Tree of Life correspond one-to-one with the images of the cards of the
Tarot and higher with the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In the Deck
of Crowley and Haindl, among others, each one of the letters larger bears the
corresponding letter.<br/>
On the
other hand, while the Paths act as the connection paths, the Sephirot or areas
of the Tree of Life, fulfill the role of stations, points of arrival and
departure. Sefira, in the singular and Sephirot, plural, are the words which
technically are used to refer to each of these areas of the Tree of Life. As
well as said that the Paths are an expression of the Major Arcana Cards and the
letters, in the Sephirot are located the Minor Arcana Cards and the numbers.<br/>
This system
of Paths and Sephirot assumes in its functioning, complementing each other:
each Path can clarify its meaning according to the Sephirot that connects. The
interrelations of Trails and Sephirot, applied to the different situations of
the life of a person, are valuable tools to provide guidance.<br/>
Then I will
explore the theme of personal integrity, as one of the conditions for human
coexistence, from the interpretation of three Paths of the Tree of Life: Placed
between Hod, Yesod, and Netzach and converge in Tiphereth.<br/>
• The Path
twenty-six (26), Hod to Tiphereth, that corresponds to the Tarot, to the Devil.<br/>
• The Path
(25), Yesod to Tiphereth, Temperance.<br/>
• The Path
(24), Netzach to Tiferet, Death.<br/>
Who walk by
these three Paths and travel in direction to Tiferet, is favoring the awakening
of their most authentic possibilities, and the exercise of their freedom.<br/><br/>
<h4>
The starting point</h4>
<br/><br/>
Awaken the
personal integrity is a search that is manifested with more intensity from the
twenty-five years of age and continues throughout life. It is presented in the
form of a balance sheet about what we think and feel about us and on the
reality in which we move. And especially, what were our ways to respond and
act.<br/>
From the
Tree of Life, this question is related to the three Paths mentioned above. According
to this point of view, the ascending route of these three Paths can be the
guide to discover some answers.<br/>
Consider
the triangular support formed by Yesod, Hod, and Netzaj (we of course to
Malkut). On that basis we include everything that makes possible the birth of a
being, its ability to stay alive, reproduce, develop mental and emotional
strategies and connect and exchange experiences with their peers. This
structure is at all levels of life - in different degrees of complexity - and
of course in ourselves.<br/>
We can
distinguish in this triad:<br/>
• a
"pole emotional - corporal", which corresponds to Netzaj<br/>
• a
"pole mental - relational" that is expressed through Hod<br/>
• a
unifying pole, a "proto-conscience", represented by Yesod<br/>
To Netzaj,
correspond to the movements that they operate independently of the will, such
as metabolism, respiration, the movement and the glandular regulations, among
others; the sensitivity and sexuality.<br/>
In Hod,
develops the ability to plan actions with a view to an end, the ability to
develop the language and writing, to communicate and to establish relations of
exchange, to think.<br/>
Yesod
constitutes a first shape of identity, build from the registration of the images
of the external world, of dreams and fantasies and body image.<br/>
The circuit
that connects these three Sephirot, gives rise to the organization own the
plane mammal that form a constituent part of the rights. We call it: organization
alive-astute-ambitious.<br/><br/>
<h4>
Encourage the launch</h4>
<br/><br/>
We could
ask ourselves: what else? Is it not enough to plan mentally, dream - fantasize
and metabolise? Yes, it is enough, at a level of evolution, which is the
structure that we have just called " organization alive-astute-ambitious".
It is unbeatable in regard to survival. But when it is already not only to
survive but with-live, their answers are unsatisfactory.<br/>
To explore
this passage from “survive” to “live together” is essential to pass through all
three Paths of integrity: The Death, The Temperance and The Devil. Only as
individualities undamaged we can survive, i.e., to extend the framework of our
relations, and to incorporate our life interpersonal, community and planetary:
justly, it is a question of working the "together" of the " live
together". In these three Paths are problematized the "human" part
of the human beings.<br/>
The "organization
alive-astute-ambitious" exercises exclusive control of our responses,
forgetting that its value is to be a support structure and not a point of
arrival. In contrast, this point of view is to propose to Yesod, Hod and
Netzaj, as the foundation essential to explore the three paths that facilitate
awakening to Tiferet., as the goal of the tour. The results more paten-tes of
this neglect, are for example, actions whose single mobile is the maximum
economic yield in the shortest possible time, disconnected from the care and
protection of the environment in which it is carried out. Are guided solely by
the logic of exclusion and the maximum "Knowledge is power", but
especially, "power of destruction".<br/><br/>
<h4>
Path 26: the symbols of The
Devil</h4>
<br/><br/>
The word
"Devil", comes from the Greek verb diaballo that means:
"separate, sow discord, slandering". Refers to the division and
confrontation. It also connects with the verb ballo: "shed", the same
that appears in the word "symbol", only that in this last-associated
to the particle "syn"- means "throwing jointly" and in
"dia- ballo" means "shed by splitting or separately".<br/><br/>
<h4>
The Devil</h4>
<br/><br/>
This
etymology is very revealing, because it connects with the two possible directions
in the route of this Path: the that rescues the "dia" of
"dia-ballo" - which in our view corresponds to the descending branch
- and which retrieves the "syn" of "syn-ballo", own of the
upward direction. "top down" and "bottom up" do not
necessarily have the contents of "bad" and "good" or "inferior"
and "superior".<br/>
There are
two options that lead to different results: in the first case, accentuate the
fragmentation of knowledge and in the second, the unification or synthesis.<br/>
In
addition, this Path corresponds to the Hebrew letter Ayin, that means
"eye, source". The eye on this meaning, not refers to our two eyes as
the physical organs of the vision, but to a third eye as a tool of synthesis.
This third eye involves the activity of the other two, but goes a step further
than these, in what it does to find the confluences. What we suggested this
Path is that progressively let abandoning the exclusion, as the only way of
understanding and action to give step to integration.<br/>
The same
layout of this letter repeats this ternary schema: the main character occupies
a third place, at the mid-point of a polarity expressed in figures of the
bottom of the letter.<br/>
The Path
twenty-six, in its ascending journey, proposes to us to learn to synthesize the
opposite in the level of knowledge.<br/>
<br/><h4>
Path 25: The symbols of
The Art or The Temperance</h4><br/><br/>
The word
"temperance" is connected with the latin temperare, which means
"mix or combine properly". How we combine properly what is diverse,
and to what extent we do it, it is a topic of this Path.<br/>
The temple
in the music, for example, makes reference to both the harmonious agreement of
several instruments or voices, as to the excellence of sound that emits a
single one of them.<br/>
However, in
the Trail 25, the instruments of which it is about are ourselves, combining the
harmonies that can better express our own sounds.<br/>
To
emphasize that it is only through the activity of the synthesis we reach Tiferet,
the figure of this Card is in a continuous movement of exchanges and balances,
through the game of opposites. This can be seen in the complexion of two
shades: pale and dark; in a face with feminine and masculine traits; in the
dark hair adorned with the illuminated ring; in the beam of fire and the cup of
water, which holds in his hands the character.<br/>
<br />
And at the
foot of the Card, the golden cauldron, the container in which it is processed
the new alchemical composition.<br/>
This Path
corresponds to the letter Samekh, which means "support". Is the
indication that our sole breadwinner to evolve is to stay open to the
synthesis. We have to distinguish "support" of "security".
We live surrounded by "safe"; however, the more "secured"
externally we find ourselves, less "sustained" internally we are.<br/>
The search
for security ties us what is already known, to the past. The state of security
is static and is anchored in the fear; instead, the support means to be
dynamic, accept the fear and mistrust, but equally act. "Hold", in
the Path twenty-five is to accept the challenges, knowing that our fears are on
the lookout for stop us. The following questions are related to this path:<br/>
"How do
I came in response to this time? what do I want to change?"<br/>
“what is
new?"<br/>
"What
are my safe places?"<br/>
"How
do I find my own direction?"<br/>
"What
is it that makes sense to me?"<br/>
As we wrote
the Path of Art or the Temperance connects Yesod with Tiferet, is the Path that
goes from the Moon - regent of Yesod - to The Sun - the star that corresponds
to Tiferet. Yesod symbolizes the place where we are safe and protected, but
also crystallized and stopped. Yesod, in its most constrained sense, propose to
us a childhood eternal; in contrast, in its wide sense, works as our ally, as
the base from which to launch us to the future.<br/>
The Art or
The Temperance is crossed by the path twenty-seven, the tower; the crossing of
these Cards means that there is only Art or Temperance.<br/>
The Path
twenty-five, propose to us the synthesis at the action level, rectifying our
behavior based on attachments and constraints.<br/>
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<h4>
Path 24: the symbols of
the Card XIII</h4><br/><br/>
As we
already said, each one of the largest in the Major Arcana Cards corresponds to
a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The consonant Nun, which accompanies this
Card, means "fish, seed". The fish refers not only to the remote
origins of life, but also to their fertility. The seed is life in latent form,
promise of a new being.<br/><br/>
<h4>
The death</h4>
<br/><br/>
The Water
of the Charter XIII symbolizes, from a psychological approach, the unconscious,
the level most archaic of psyche.<br/>
<br />
One of the
possible connections between the symbols of the fish, the germ and the water -
can indicate that the acceptance of and contact with the products of the
unconscious is regenerating and renewing. There is a great fertility in that
world, in appearance so dark, as well as there is life even in the dark depths
of the oceans.<br/>
The
immediate effect is purification; it mobilizes the fear, guilt and envy.
Instead of fighting internally to ignore these emotions, we have to accept;
this is self-recognize that somebody is bringing to us a message. In this Path
does not work to be "against"; it is the path of the active
acceptance, which wants to investigate until the bottom, not of the resigned
acceptance. Possibly showing some of our limitations.<br/>
In the
figure of the Card, the skeleton and the scythe, announce new forms of life.
The skeleton in motion, highlights the transformation and change, not the
stagnation. Dancing and to blow of scythe creates new forms and renews what is
spent.<br/>
Transform
is to give rise to a different way to the already known, is to make a movement
of what has already been frequented to the novel.<br/>
The
transformation is in the emotional plane equivalent to the synthesis, on the
mental plane; observe in The Tree of Life the correlation of the two Paths, the
26 and the 24.<br/>
The Path 24
proposes to us the transformation, at the level of the emotion.<br/>
When the
three Paths work commanded by the magnetic power of Yesod, the situation is the
ego rigidly polarized - The Devil- actuating confusingly from fear - Art or Temperance
- connect emotionally from the hatred, resentment, revenge and envy - The Death-.<br/>
<br />
However,
these same trails conducted from Tiferet, activate our mental capacity for
synthesis - The Devil - we boost to accept the challenges that allow us to
evolve - Art or Temperance - and we purify emotionally - The Death-.<br/><br />
<br /><br/>
Rev<br/>
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