Key 8 - Strength

The secret behind spiritual strength.

And that deals, as you see, with Tarot Key number eight, strength.

The Hebrew letter is called Teith, and it's also a sign to the zodiacal sign of Leo.

Now, with this Tarot Key, number eight, we usually start what might be called the beginning of a new cycle, even though number eight might not sound like it would be the beginning of a new cycle. But those of you who've gotten that far in your lessons, that's, I think, the eighth lesson that you receive in your membership will have received the tarot tableau by then and in that tarot tableau you see the way the tarot key zero the fool sits up at the top all by itself because that is the beginning list endless super conscious power shown in ways that subconsciousness would would understand. But then the very first line of tarot keys is shown by the number 1, the magician. And so tarot keys 1 to 7 are laid out in numerical sequence on the first line. And if you will recall in that tarot tableau, the second line begins with tarot key number 8, which is placed immediately under tarot key number 1, immediately under under it, which shows an interconnection between the two keys.

And if you will look at Tarot Key Number One, the Magician, you'll see that figure eight over his head, and that's the same figure eight. The Tarot Key One, the Magician is right in front of you, there above. And you see here in Tarot Key Number Eight, Strength, that same figure eight. That these are the only two tarot keys that have the figure eight shown in this way immediately above the head and of course amongst its many meanings the figure eight has to do with the meanings of eternity it has to do with the basic concept of the continuation of cycles of the The interaction between the pairs of opposites being balanced. If you put your pencil on a paper, you can make the figure eight continuously without lifting your pencil, as has been pointed out by Dr. Case. And the only other letter of which this is true is Tarot Keen zero. Zero. Well, eight could be called two zeros, or perhaps should we say the zero reflecting itself to itself, like looking in the mirror. But we still have the principle of superconsciousness being expressed via self-consciousness. When we see the figure eight, therefore, we are, and especially seeing it over the magician.

We are seeing one of the many symbolic messages being given to your inner consciousness, that self-consciousness is the reflection of super-consciousness, or shall we say super-consciousness reflecting itself to itself in a specialized manner, manner, so that we could therefore say in essence that all consciousness could be called this and it is true, except that consciousness expresses itself in varying ways, in different manners, so that when we can understand the different ways consciousness expresses, we We also can come to see how we gain control of the various areas in which we are meant to gain control. Now Tarot Key Number Eight is said to be the motion or the means by which the magician, Tarot Key Number One, gains control or gains dominion over the workings of subconsciousness. Consciousness in a way you might say tarot key number one shows the entire principle because the field of action of the magician on the table really here with tarot key number eight is shown as a field that has no specific area and of course we know the magician's self-consciousness always condenses down or gives specialized areas what then is meant by seeing this wider area here each symbol remember is understood by your subconsciousness whether you consciously know it yet or not though to consciously know it is to add power to its influence and that's one of the reasons the several reasons that this particular tarot key with its hebrew letter is also assigned to a very special kind of awareness by the qabalists called the intelligence of the secret behind all spiritual activities now that's quite a mouthful isn't it that's one of the many reasons the qabalists wise beyond time call this key strength because what is strength it takes great strength to train oneself to become aware of what suggestions we're permitting ourselves to receive from ourselves as well as from our near and dear ones as well as from society at large as well as from the very entertainment we choose every anything and everything suggestion is a law that is operating all the time so true strength actually has to do with the ability to direct this principle of suggestion in ways that are intelligent that are organized organized in ways that are effective and in ways that are in harmony with the cosmic laws.

Now what does all this mean? It means very much more than one thing. Remember, this Hebrew letter has as the object symbol for its meaning the serpent, snake or serpent. Now this is, as was read in the book of tokens this is the same serpent that pointed out to humanity or to adam and eve that the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil makes you pretty smart gives you wisdom gives you knowledge and we've often spoken about that aspect of it This is the serpent of temptation, which if you will recall in the book of Tokens, it is also pointed out that it is this very same serpent of temptation, which is the Redeemer.

Now, what is this serpent of temptation? What is the energy of this same serpent of temptation, which is also called that which finally is the Redeemer? Well, if I just said out and out it is the reproductive energy, what would you think? You remember how Adam and Eve suddenly they saw their naked and were ashamed now this reproductive energy is pure spirit people who get this uptight or indignant when they hear that the reproductive energy reproductive energy I'm not beating around any bush the energy that makes babies the energy that lays eggs the energy that blooms a flower that's the reproductive energy the energy that drives the bee to the pollen reproductive energy now this energy pure spirit well that which is creative could it be other than pure spirit but we have something far more involved here because you see even our eastern brethren make it very clear that the kundalini energy that's another term for the serpent energy energy it undulates that the Kundalini energy in the human organism is condensed or at what they call the base of the spine in our work we call it at the Saturn Center now this Kundalini energy basically is the self same energy which is called the Mars energy and the Mars energy we know as being the very the energy that drives all living creatures into the interactions that that bring about the creation of offspring.

Here we see subconsciousness as a humanized figure in full control of the animal nature or in full control of those forces that are below the human self-conscious level. Or you might say in full control of that part of the being which on the qabalistic tree of life is shown by foundation and foundation amongst other things is called the sex organs of the grand man we have here the humanized aspect of subconsciousness in full control of that part of our being which is the vital animal reproductive energy which we share with all other living creatures now we're being shown that the training of our being that those forces and again I repeat the reproductive forces which are are the powerhouse this is pure spirit and this has to be controlled via the method shown here in fact the truth of the matter is there is no other way we try all other ways and after they finally fail we discover the way to do these things strength is not having great big thick thick muscles from picking heavy loads up and down and then parading up and down with the heavy muscles.

It's the spiritual muscles we're talking about. Real strength is strength of character, basically. We think of character as being something where we're able to frown properly, grit our teeth, tremble with the power thereof and if this is the way we think of it this is the image we give ourselves and all life will present us every opportunity to frown and grit our teeth and tremble in fact because we're manufacturing it so I hope if this is your concept you're going to change your imagery as rapidly as you can because it is what we present to ourselves that has that that gives us the ability to utilize the various principles now that I've got to point up another important aspect of what this is saying to you in its pictorial imagery you see what she wears is on her head, she is wearing a crown. But this is a crown made of flowers, the organic kingdom. And I want to remind you that flowers are the sex organs of plant life. And when When we pick flowers or when we see flowers, we respond with beauty and delight.

We say, how exquisite. And we inhale the fragrance and we're full of joy and inspiration.

And we do not think it is ugly or dirty. The mass mind even you know in its cultural aspect starts training even our little pure of heart children how to think of portions of the body which incidentally the Lord God hath made who else who do you think made your body yeah I know you say well my mother and father oh and how many children have been filled with horror what my mother and father are too pure you mean that way you know in the first whisperings that have been given it is really tragic it is truly tragic to think that the mystery and the miracle that the lord has brought and that the Lord of the universe doth express every second of every day at all times through all living beings, it is truly tragic that man has degraded this glorious expression of the divine spirit to see it in ways other than it is seen by those who are pure pure in heart blessed are the pure in heart say the Beatitudes said rabbi Jesus of Nazareth that one of that greatest Qabalist of them all trained in the Western mysteries and what is meant by the pure in heart here this tarot key is showing us how to attain this purity of heart incidentally although it needs much else but you see attaining the purity of heart does not mean going backward or regressing to the animal kingdom this is the point there's only only within the human kingdom do we have a true capacity to control direct and redirect this extraordinary energy this creative energy this reproductive power because animals are still in that level of their evolution where the life power brings them to their interaction with each other at very specific chosen cycles for the purpose of fifth house activities that is fertility not sterility the fertility aspect of it but only in man and the higher anthropoid apes do we have a capacity for using imagery to sim stimulate the interaction or the utilization of this reproductive energy at any time in other words man is not limited to the cycles of nature man can respond at any time of the month or year at any time just by using the power of imagination that is the image making power image making power and there the use goes now what man has done unfortunately too much of the time is deliberately used this image making power to stimulate physical plane eroticism so that almost automatically the physical plane eroticism keeps wasting the very energy that the Lord of the universe has given to humanity to attain the higher levels of knowing to attain to the true knowledge of the secret behind all spiritual activities what we want is to utilize that energy and notice it isn't being killed you see our Eastern Brethren make the mistake of trying to kill it out they even go so far as to say kill out desire you don't want to kill out the very power that's going to give you the crown the unity with god which is the crown on that tree of life no what we want to do is to keep it very much alive as is being done here but controlled and what is controlling it here obviously human consciousness is controlling it but human consciousness in a control is controlling it in a very special way the white robe gives us a part part of the secret because here you are being told that purification of the entire subconscious attitude towards this energy is an essential and it doesn't come by itself no great vast spiritual teacher no great vast miracle is going to bring you the sudden ability to work and do and have what this key shows nor will you attain without the use of these forces as shown in this way you have to do the work yourself in In other words, you have to utilize your continuous awareness of the figure eight over the magician to bring about a purification of your thinking and feeling about reproduction as a principle and your portion of it very specially.

Which means that we have to learn how to watch our drives and our thinking and our feeling we have to learn to see that every one and everything that comes into expression has come into expression expression via the divine. We have to see it in such a way that we become incapable of using vulgar expressions regarding a member of the opposite sex or regarding the function, which is is a function of the unity of spirit with spirit if it is being utilized properly.

And I hope you are all listening. I hope your ears are open to hear what I have said, because as long as we permit ourselves this snickering, we are saying to subconsciousness, that is a dirty thing. We are indeed being sacrilegious to the spirit of god as we start developing more and more and we have to do it to ourselves reverence towards this mystery and this miracle that god hath wrought we will become more and more incapable of misusing it entering into union is the right thing only when our heart remember Leo ruled by the Sun is assigned to the heart when our heart is a part part of this entire process. True love. And true love takes on the responsibility of its interactions. True love takes on the responsibility of its interactions, I repeat. And anything that potent, the spirit that is condensed to express all that is, has to be seen as as being so wholly impure that we wouldn't dream of attempting to express it without undertaking the expression with the fullness of love and the responsibility for it, which means far more than too many people in our modern-day world will acknowledge right now.

And it saddens me somewhat but on the other hand I guess it's a phase necessary for the realization that some of these youngsters are certainly going to have I have the fullest confidence in them now then this white robe expressing this purity remember you and I are responsible for purifying and keeping being purified our entire concept of all that is it means we have to start looking upon ourselves and every human being as having been born of the divine yod-hay-vah-hay Elohim cosmic father cosmic mother and we have to start seeing that every person has been an agent for that divine we must not permit ourselves vulgarity and we must not permit incidentally other people to be vulgar in our presence because when we are quiet when someone else is being sacrilegious about the divine creative energies we are in essence agreeing with them you know one of the occult maxims and this is a very true one indeed uh points out that when we do not take action in certain areas of life where evil is being perpetrated we are making ourselves a partner to the evil and we are aiding and abetting it so that when we permit sacrilege in our presence I don't mean when I say we should step in and stop that we should do this in in in an unbeautiful way there are ways and ways and ways and ways and ways but certainly we should have enough strength this is strength we should have enough strength so that that instantly we bring the opposite suggestion to bear upon ourselves and everyone there.

And strength of capacity to bring about transmutation has to do with a basic inner strength of integrity in how we are going to train ourselves to think and feel about this energy. Then, working with the tarot it it is this energy when we stop letting it be degraded by ourselves to ourselves as well as in our presence it this is the same energy then that starts to bring the charging of livingness to the higher centers until finally through the pineal center we experience the full full knowledge of the rapture in union with God. Now, does this mean that human beings have to eliminate union with each other on the outer material plane? No, it does not mean that at all. It does mean that when they do enter into union, they had better enter into union with the attitude of this is the divine representation of the forever pure and undefiled the divine cosmic masculine the divine cosmic feminine and I will express it with my beloved in the fullness of beauty of devotion responsibility and I will dedicate it to the very highest I will not let it go exploding in every direction this is fine for the lower kingdoms but man has the extra energy given him this reproductive energy to be creative in ways beyond description and to bring total and I mean total liberation from enslavement to pain agony ugliness failure and the host of other sins we can and my darlings you are destined to become consciously the forever pure and undefiled and to express yourself with that fantastically higher most profound level of beauty you are destined to do this and that's why you are being told importance and even shown the beginnings of how to go about it work with this aspect of this key my loves and heaven on earth is just the least of what you'll have it will be heaven on earth and in every way shape and form that you can remotely imagine my love in heaven I give you I share with you and the entire inner plane of angels and archangels are aiding you to have that beauty