The Secret Language of the Soul

   
     

      Much speculation has been made over the nature of the complex of the Body-Spirit-Soul of Man over the course of the development of the sciences and general consensus of all the worlds major religio-spiritual systems hold that this Trinity is essentially universal despite its many guises and forms. It is commonly understood that the Body is the manifestation or manifest counterpart of the unmanifest Soul through the various emanations and condensations of Spirit, Spirit being the energy which acts as the empowering medium which the Body receives its substance and vitality according to its Inner Soul-(Solar)-Nature. 
This concept is perfectly summed up in the SOLAR symbol of  ☉, which conceals the value of its own nature (The Circle of  360° + The Point = 361). This is the CONCEALED WISDOM of the HADIT + NUIT MANIFESTATION as explained in a multitude of ways thus far. The Point can be conceived of as the 'Soul', the unmanifest 'Higher', or Hidden Self, while the Circle would be the Body and the Spirit is generated in the Ever-Coming union of the two in the Ever-Coming One, Ra-Hoor-Khuit (with his inner/silent/passive counterpart, Hoor-par-Kraat).

   Plato himself also expounded a similar doctrine of the soul which is quoted from Bernard Hollander's In Search of the Soul by Alice Bailey in The Soul and its Mechanism:

   "He believed the soul to have three parts. One, an immortal or rational part, coming from God; another a mortal, animal or sensitive part, the seat of appetite and sensation, belonging to the body; and a third, lying between these and making their interaction possible - Will or Spirit - by means of which reason conquered desire. Plants have the lowest pat; animals the two lower; but the rational part is exclusively human. This rational soul he regarded as immaterial and metaphysical in nature, incapable of being perceived b the senses, and only to be grasped by the intellect. The union with the mortal, material and physical body was only a minor incident of its long career. . . Plato thus drew a fundamental distinction between soul and body."
      Also, "Aristotle regarded the soul as the sum of the vial principles and as being to the body what vision is to the eye. The soul was to him the true Being in the body, and with him Plotinus was in agreement. He regarded the soul as the living sentiency of the body, belonging to a higher degree of being than matter. Tertullian divided the soul into two parts, a vial and a rational principle, as did St. Gregory. Most of the Oriental schools regard the soul as the self [Atma], the individual, and Christian mysticism is concerned with the elaboration of the teaching of St. Paul, that there dwells in each human being a potentiality which is called by him "Christ in you," and which, through its presence, enables every man eventually to attain the status of the Christ. A close comparison of the Christian and Oriental teachings leads to the conclusion that the terms: Self, Soul, Christ, connote the same state of being or consciousness, and indicate the subjective reality in every man."

    She goes on to describe the various views of the Soul and its relation to the Human personality and physical body. Some people, however, have posited that the Spirit is the trans-personal aspect while Soul is relegated to the level of Psyche and there is much confusion and contention here but it is really up to you which you take as being the Atma or Cosmic Self Unity and which would be the more personal and unique qualities which are contained and expressed through the Body (i.e. personality, mentality, etc.). This could be understood on the Tree of Life with the Supernal Triad being the 'Soul' (or Quintessence), the Ruach would be the Spirit (meaning literally 'Breath' or 'Spirit') and Malkuth would be the Physical Body and shown here to the right under the same expression.

    Drawing from my actual Magickal Record, of which this blog is merely a more creative extension, I would like to bring together some various findings I have made regarding the Three-fold Flame and certain key formulas connected to it in an attempt to be able to find further connections and practical observations as well as make the main body of this knowledge more available to others who may be interested. Back on May 21st I picked up Alice Bailey's first book again, Initiation Human and Solar, and began to take notes as I read, particularly regarding the Diagram and Section regarding The Constitution of Man and its similarity to the Three Triads of the Tree of Life (with their condensation into Malkuth). Much of the structure is the same, and it took a while to see that the Seven Rays which both Bailey and Blavatsky mention are essentially the same as the 7 lower Sephiroth below the Abyss emanating as the Ruach, 'Breath'/'Spirit', from the 3 Sephiroth of the Supernal Triad. These Seven Rays form the Antahkarana 'Rainbow Bridge' between the Physical or Material world (Malkuth) and the Spiritual plane(s) of the Supernal Triad, and in Bailey's diagram this would equate with the 'Solar Logos', ☉. These graduate on down into various sub-planes all the way down to the dense physical, hence being the 'occult', 'esoteric', or 'mystical' hierarchy of manifestation.
   
   Since I only have 12 of the 24 books Alice Bailey wrote, I moved on to A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, as it was the next on the list which I add (I prefer physical copies to pdf if possible) and it introduced me to a much deeper explication of the nature of the life and power of the various levels of personal and cosmic mind (manas) and consciousness (Chit, Buddhi, Vijnana, etc.) in their many forms. I actually performed a 3 hour meditation on Fire (Sanskrit: Agni) and attempted to channel and communicate with the Spirit of Fire with much success particularly in my queries regarding certain formulae appertaining to the value of the number 666 which is itself not only the Spirit of the Sun (SVRTh, Sorath) but also  the SPIRIT OF FIRE, as well as many other things. As Alice Bailey says fire and its movement is integral if not central to the process of THE EVOLUTION on all levels. 666 is given special relevance in Revelation as the number of the Beast and Man (i.e. the evolution from beast to man) and therefore it conveys the 'Secret Wisdom' (of and between 'The Self'/'I' and 'God'/'All') which is unveiled over time and through The Great Work. Hence, 666 is also THE KEY TO THE GREAT WORK.

    666 is obviously the Triple-Flame itself, as the number 6 most closely resembles the flame of fire more than all the other numbers, and 6 is itself the Beauty of the Sixth Sephiroth Tiphareth. A PHYSICAL FIRE is obviously merely THE CHEMICAL LIGHT PROCESS in natural action of combustion, but again Alice Bailey also mentions Electricity to be a form of Fire. On page 38 of A Treatise on Cosmic Fire she divides Macrocosmic Fire into 3 divisions;

   Fire by Friction, Solar Fire, and Electric Fire

   Fire by Friction, or internal vitalising fire. These fires animated and vitalise the objective solar system. They are the sum total of logoic kundalini, when in full systemic activity.
   Solar Fire, or cosmic mental fire. this is that protion of the cosmic mental plane which goes to the animation of the mental body of the Logos. This fire may be regarded as the sum total of the sparks of mind, the fires of the mental bodies and the animating principle of the evolving units of the human race in the three worlds.
   Electric Fire, or the logoic Flame Divine. This flame is the distinguishing mark of our Logos, and it is that which differentiates Him from all other Logoi; it is His dominant characteristic, and the sign of His place in cosmic evolution.

     This is significant since 666 is also the ELECTRIC formula as well, the actual power of the physical manifestation of the logos in the psyche of man and the Universe itself. 666 veils the 3 phases of Fire, the 3 Fires being the Past, Present and Future, Jagrat-Svapna-Susupti, or Length-Width-Height of the Ruach-Antahkarana Cube Matrix, and technically 666 shows the 3 coils of the Kundalini writhing in the 4th state of Pure Being, Turiya, beyond the 'Mauve Zone' or Twilight between states/'dimensions'. It is called the Mauve Zone because Mauve is the pinkish-purple hue reminiscent of the 'Purple beyond Purple' (AL.II.51.), that magickal or astral rather 'light higher than eyesight' which stretches beyond the infrared and ultraviolent ends of the visible spectrum, the same color glimpsed in the Lightning-fast flash during thunderstorms as well as that murky lucid state between waking and dreaming during which a vast many of magickal transformations may occur. This is the SHAKTI LIGHTNING, the THE KUNDALINI SHAKTI POWER which can be generated, condensed and transmuted for empowerment and wisdom within the Temple of the Body itself, the Altar of the Most High. (LIVE ALTAR OF THE MOST HIGH GOD = 666).

    Mind or Manas itself is one of the inner fires, and Alice Bailey says on page 310 that "Manas is electricity", and also on page 337-339 that:
Manas is the intelligent Will or Purpose of an Existence

Manas might finally be defined as the intelligent will and ordered purpose of every self-conscious entity. I would urge the student to bear in mind certain basic facts which will serve to keep his mind clear, and which will enable him to comprehend something of the place which this fire of mind holds in the cosmos and the solar system, and (needless to say), in his life also, - the reflection of the other two.

He should ever remember that manas is a principle of the Logos, and necessarily therefore is felt in all those evolutions which are a part of His nature but is allied especially to the throat and head centers; it is the active intelligent factor which enables a solar Logos, a planetary Logos or Heavenly Man, and a human being to:

1. Use intelligently a form or vehicle.
2. Build faculty into the causal body.
3. Reap the benefit of experience.
4. Expand the consciousness.
5. Make progress towards a specified goal.
6. Discriminate between the two poles.
7. Choose the direction in which his activity shall trend.
8. Perfect the form as well as use it.
9. Obtain control of active substance, and turn its forces into desired channels.
10. Coordinate the different grades of matter, and synthesize the utilized forms till each and all show a unanimous line of action and express simultaneously the will of the Indweller.

All these ends are the result of the manasic development and perhaps the student might apprehend the underlying idea more clearly if it is realized that:

1. The Spirit employs manas [Mind] in all that concerns matter, the electrical substance, or the active akasha.
2. The Spirit employs buddhi [Undersanding/Knowing] in all that relates to the psyche, that relates to the soul of the world, to the soul of an individual, or to the soul of every form.
3. The Spirit employs will or atma [Soul/Essence/Breath] in all that relates to the essence of all, to itself, considering the essence and the Self as pure Spirit as distinguished from spirit-matter.

In the first ease, the distinctive quality of manas is discrimination which enables the Spirit to differentiate between:

1. The Self and the Not-Self.
2. Spirit and Matter.
3. The planes and the subplanes.
4. The different grades of atomic matter in the system.
5. Vibrations, engendered by will, working through love-wisdom, and energizing substance.
6. All that concerns forms of every kind and in every type of essential existence.

In the second case, the buddhic principle has for its distinctive quality love, and demonstrates as wisdom working through love and producing:

1. Unity between all Selves.
2. Group coherence.
3. Qualities that are distinctively along the line of what we call love.
4. Effective work in connection with evolution, or the fundamentals of hierarchical work.

In the third case the Spirit employs the will aspect or atma (in man), which has, for its distinctive feature, that coherent force which keeps the purpose of the entity ever in view, working it out through love in substantial form.

      It has been said that "Unless there is a shift from manas (mind) to citta (psyche) it is not possible to do dhāraṇā (concentration)." (Yoga Sūtra C3 v1) – TKV Desikachar January 2nd 1998

Citta is one of the three overlapping terms used in the Nikayas (Pali texts) which refers to the mind, the others being manas, of course, then vinnana/vijnana. The three are sometimes used in sequence to refer to one's mental processes as a whole, but they are distinct. Citta is the heart aspect of mind, or the emotive side of the mind which being attributed to Psyche and also refers to one's mindset or state of mind. Attaining purified citta corresponds to attaining 'liberating insight', known as Vipassana, 'insight into the true nature of reality'. This is effected through mindfulness of breathing (Anapanasati), as well as all thoughts, feelings and actions (Satipatthana) in order to gain insight to the Three marks of existence: Impermanence (Anicca), Dissatisfaction/Suffering (Dukkha) and Non-Self (Anatta). These three 'marks' are the three root SORROWS of the Illusion of Formation, but it is to be ever remembered that there is the shadows that pass and are dead but there is That which remains - that being the immortal soul which directs and receives the Gnosis from its coming to Know itself through Going on the path of Manifestation. 

The 'Spirit' or Ruach of the Tree of Life which corresponds to the Intellect and Yetzirah (the Formative World) also corresponds with the Psyche. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition of 'Psyche' is:

1. A Princess loved by Cupid [i.e. Eros]

2. A: Soul, Personality

B. Mind

with the Medical Definition of Psyche as:

"The specialized cognitive, conative, and affective aspects of a psychosomatic unity :  mind; specifically :  the totality of the id, ego, and superego including both conscious and unconscious components"

     Therefore, the Ruach/Breath and the Psyche are essentially one and the same. In psychology, the psyche is the totality of the mind (conscious and unconscious). Citta corresponds more to Psyche (Emotion) while Manas is the general thinking faculty (Intellect) while Vijnana is the life force of the Consciousness (Cognizance) which is said to be categorized into 89 different states stemming from the six types of senses, vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch and mind.

ψυχή (Psyche) is also further defined as:

(a) the vital breath, breath of life, (b) the human soul, (c) the soul as the seat of affections and will, (d) the self, (e) a human person, an individual.
Psyxḗ (from psyxō, "to breathe, blow" which is the root of the English words "psyche," "psychology") – soul (psyche); a person's distinct identity (unique personhood), i.e. individual personality.
STRONGS NT 5590: ψυχή
1. breath (Latinanima), i. e.
     a. the breath of life; the vital force which animates the body and shows itself in breathing:
     b. life
     c. that in which there is life; a living being: ψυχή ζῶσα, a living soul
2. the soul (Latinanimus), a. the seat of the feelings, desires, affections, aversions (our soul, heart, etc. (R. V. almost uniformly soul)
     b. "the (human) soul in so far as it is so constituted that by the right use of the aids offered it by God it can attain its highest end and secure eternal blessedness, the soul regarded as a moral being designed for everlasting life
     c. the soul as an essence which differs from the body and is not dissolved by death

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
Soul, Life, Self
     From psucho; breath, i.e. (by implication) spirit, abstractly or concretely (the animal sentient principle only; thus distinguished on the one hand from pneuma, which is the rational and immortal soul; and on the other from zoe, which is mere vitality, even of plants: these terms thus exactly correspond respectively to the Hebrew nephesh, ruwach and chay) -- heart (+ -ily), life, mind, soul, + us, + you.

     (Note: The Thalamus, which is Greek for 'Chamber', "is a midline symmetrical structure of two halves, within the vertebrate brain, situated between the cerebral cortex and the midbrain. Some of its functions are the relaying of sensory and motor signals to the cerebral cortex, and the regulation of consciousness, sleep, and alertness. The thalamus has multiple functions. It may be thought of as a kind of hub of information. It is generally believed to act as a relay between different subcortical areas and the cerebral cortex. In particular, every sensory system (with the exception of the olfactory system) includes a thalamic nucleus that receives sensory signals and sends them to the associated primary cortical area. For the visual system, for example, inputs from the retina are sent to the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus, which in turn projects to the visual cortex in the occipital lobe. The thalamus is believed to both process sensory information as well as relay it—each of the primary sensory relay areas receives strong feedback connections from the cerebral cortex. Similarly the medial geniculate nucleus acts as a key auditory relay between the inferior colliculus of the midbrain and the primary auditory cortex, and the ventral posterior nucleus is a key somatosensory relay, which sends touch and proprioceptive information to the primary somatosensory cortex.

The thalamus also plays an important role in regulating states of sleep and wakefulness. Thalamic nuclei have strong reciprocal connections with the cerebral cortex, forming thalamo-cortico-thalamic circuits that are believed to be involved with consciousness. The thalamus plays a major role in regulating arousal, the level of awareness, and activity." -Wikipedia. 

Thus, the Thalamus is one of the central brain-centers regulating the Mind and its 'Fires' or activities. 
Connecting with its meaning, 'Chamber', it is interesting to note that it has been shown to represent the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid. The Thalamus actually surrounds the Pineal Gland or 'Third Eye', the biological omphalos or 'Holy of Holies' which acts as the physical nexus between the Body and its physical vision and the Spirit and its mystical vision (the Inner and Outer Sights.)

     Thus, THE COSMIC FIRE of 666 creates the individual fire of the personality, but within each is still a seed-form of the Logos from the One Source - THE NUMBER SOURCE itself. 666 is the central fire of THE CIRCLE which forms the Atomic ring-O, The Cellular O, The Egg O, The Eye O, the Magick Circle O, the Seasonal O, the Solar O, the Galactic O. Incidentally, this O or Egg repeatedly appears and once again we find 107 as ALICE BAILEY, the teacher of this Solar Γιογκα, 'Yoga' (Gk.) Indeed it is the same cosmic fire she is talking about that charges and enlivens the Cosmic Egg of HAMSA ('The Swan' of Brahma) itself out of THE AKASHA with ANANDA ('Blissful') ULLAM ('Consciousness'). Reflecting the 3 coils of The Aum, there are three qualities to the subjective experience of Brahma known as Sat-Chit-Ananda, 'Being, Consciousness, and Bliss'. Cycling back to 666 we find that THE AUM + SAT + CHIT + ANANDA equates with the triple flame yet again. It should also be noted that the Triple Flame (666) is also symbolically figured into other symbols such as the Fleur de Lis and the Trident of SHIVA GOD OF DESTRUCTION who presides over the cosmic power of DESTRUCTION (the seeming opposite of The Evolution, but a necessary factor).

     Also, the MIND BORN SONS of Brahma known also as the Kumaras named Sanaka (The Ancient), Sanatana (The Eternal), Sanandana (The Joyful) and Sanat Kumara (The Ever Young) are found to align with their Source - LUX THE ETERNAL FIRE - the divine electric substance filling THE COSMIC BEING. THE FOUR KUMARAS CHITTA = 666 as well showing 666 to be predominant over the Plane of the Fire of Mind, hence it being the Greek Η Φρην , meaning 'The Mind' or 'The Reason', as well as THE LIGHT OF THE MIND.

     The word Psychology is comprised of the words Psyche (The Spirit-Mind complex) and Logos ('Word', Order, Reason), and though Logia also means 'the study of-' something, it also used "in reference to communications of divine origin. In pagan contexts, the principal meaning was oracles, while Jewish and Christian writings used logia in reference especially to the divinely inspired Scriptures." i.e. the Logoic influence to and reception by the Psyche. The Study of and/or the Development through the induction through the Inner Planes and 'Sheaths' of the Body-Mind-Spirit complex is very therapeutic when done under Will, but when conducted against the Will and with negative intentions toward others it becomes dangerous and what is termed variously 'Black Magick' or 'Mind Control/Manipulation', as in the case with much media and political programming and propaganda. 

     Alice Bailey mentions the number 666 a few times in A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, but emphasizes the number 777 being that of the Transmutation or Transformation of the 666 into 888 (and then to 999). The '777 Incarnations' is a symbolic allegory held primarily by the Rosicrucians. "Occult science teaches that there are 777 incarnations, but that does not mean that the Earth undergoes 777 metamorphoses. It means that evolving life makes 7 Revolutions around the 7 Globes of the 7 World Periods."  (See The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception).

     "It has been stated that a mystery lies hid in the 777 incarnations. This figure provides room for much speculation. (S. D., I, 191.) It should be pointed out that it does not hold the number of a stated cycle of incarnations through which a man must pass, but holds the key to the three major cycles previously mentioned. Primarily this number applies to the planetary Logos of our scheme and not so much to other schemes. Each Heavenly Man has His number and the number of our Heavenly Man lies hid in the above three figures, just as 666 and 888 holds the mystery hid of two other Heavenly Men. 

      This number 777 is also the number of transmutation, which is the fundamental work of all the Heavenly Men. The basic work of man is accumulation and acquisition, or the acquiring of that which must later be transmuted. The work of transmutation, or the true cycle of 777 commences on the Probationary Path, and is definitely the activity of a Heavenly Man being realized and responded to by the cells in His Body. Only when His Body has reached a certain vibratory movement can He truly influence the individual cells. This work of transmuting cell activity was begun on this planet during the last root-race, and the divine alchemy proceeds. The progress made is as yet but small, but each transmuted [307] conscious cell increases the speed and the accuracy of the work. Time alone is needed for the completion of the work. In connection with this matter of transmutation comes the legend of the Philosopher's Stone, which is literally the application of the Rod of Initiation in one sense.

     It has already been noted that THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE is 888, created through the Transmutation of 777 where the Light of the Fire AGNI PRAKASh (666) is transformed from the Physical flame to the Spiritual Energy which coalesces into the Life-force of THE AZOTh which forms the completed 999 of 'The Justice/The Truth' of Maat (Balance) represented by THE AEON OF TRUTH AND JUSTICE outside the circles of time (i.e. in the state of Perfection [The Omega Point Singularity], i.e. balanced integration of the Self and Other as One (Communion with and expression of THE HIGHER POWER). 777 is 111 (ALCHEMY) more than 666, therefore being the number of Transmutation it is the Alchemy of the Fire that is the living link between the Spiritual/Supernal Plane and the Physical/Manifest Plane. While 666 is THE EVOLUTION, 777 is THE KEY OF EVOLUTION and this key is THE DICTIONARY of THE TRUE GRIMOIRE of the Logos as unveiled here which can unlock past, present and potential data for extrapolation and application for both mundane and magickal uses (i.e. physical engineering and ritual/ceremonial procedure). As has already been shown through many other posts, the sequence of the Qabalah of Nine Chambers (111-999) is not only accurate in Hebrew gematria but also modern English and many transliterations thereof. 

    777 is not only the number symbolizing the Transmutation process, but it is also the value of THE MAGICK THAUMATURGY, Thaumaturgy being θαῦμα thaûma, meaning "miracle" or "marvel" and ἔργον érgon, meaning "work", 'Miracle Work', most often referring to Magick. This is a more exoteric form of the mystical/esoteric work known as Theurgy which is 'Divine Working' and usually aimed at inner refinement and inner transmutation so that the outer Thaumaturgical works would be of better value and precision. The main goal of Theurgy is to learn to act in better harmony and reach fuller communion with the Divine, while the goal of Thaumaturgy is to ascertain and utilize the functions of the Divine. 666 is the Spirit of Fire, 777 is the Flaming Sword or the Will in REVELATION. 888 is THE COSMIC CHRIST and 999 is THE O OF PERFECTION, i.e The Egg or Ion of Perfection and the host of correspondences dealing with the O/Egg Toroid. 
The Hierarchy of the Nine Chambers is similar to that of the Seven Rays in a lot of ways, and it takes much work with each 'Chamber', 'Sphere' or 'Ray' to truly appreciate what they represent and the nuances they bring at various intervals, but Magick being the art of causing change in accordance with the Will emphasizes on the knowledge and often experimental usage and exploration of the powers and energies of these Zones and their connectory Paths. 

     The bridging of the gulf between the Dayside and Nightside of the Tree of Life and Death or the Conscious and Sub/Unconscious strata of Mind is central to Theurgic and Thaumaturgical Work as it is the allegorical bridging of Worlds and Crossing of the Abyss. Much Psychotherapy today centers upon looking at the underlying and root causes of psychological disorders which to understand and work on require learning a new way of approaching and considering things, often in oblique, obscure, esoteric ways (such as in the interpretation of dream and in navigating neuroses.) 666 contains all the keys (many more than I am able to share even in long discourses such as this) of THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY which is beginning to emerge which incorporates more spiritually aware approaches along with the wider circulation and integration of eastern and western systems and methods of Psycho-Spiritual literature and work. 

     There has been much work in the last 50 years that has been done to further blend the knowledge and practices of the East (primarily Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism) with those of the West (Qabalah, Gnosticism, Abrahamic tradition) but the leading figures of the 70's and 80's who were most prolific have since parted planes and so with the current state of socio-politic and economic affairs coupled with the far-sweeping impact of media and social networking there is little time or attention given (even for those that truly are interested) to these subjects for them to be worked on or considered - and often when subjects like these are brought up it is but brief and passing and extremely biased in some way and without an inkling of useful insight. This is being overcome however, as people are increasingly finding that they are hungry for that manna which cannot be bought or consumed but through and under the Will. There is still much to be learned and work to be done and it is important new fires are kindled regarding these strands of wisdom and there is still quite a bit of fresh 'juice' to be squeezed from these figurative 'fruits'. 

    While I could present this data in a purely informational way such as in a database form which I already have at my own personal disposal, it would not be as meaningful and much would be left out because it does take a personalized way of explaining things in context for their fuller significance to be seen. While a public database is in the works it is necessary to achieve a certain rapport and firm exposition of certain facts and considerations that have already been established along with the necessary background information and personal evidences pointing to the effective application of this wisdom as a valuable theurgic and thaumaturgic tool. THE CIRCLE of 666 veils the central symbol of THE RITUAL which ensorcells the ceremonial magickal zone of operation. After proper banishing and casting is done the circle is empowered with Qi in any number of ways. QI OF THE O equates with 666 showing the Qi of the O to be equated with the Cosmic Fire and another formulation is 'O OF THE MAGUS', i.e. The Circle of the Magus. With that in mind which one is seeking to effect, the procedure initially mapped out during THE RITUAL ENGINEERING beforehand is performed according to the correspondent planetary days and hours, under the proper herbal, sonic, and visual stimuli, and with the necessary intention and will-power while empowered with and in the Qi of the O. The ritual employed is often a reduced or simplified (or in some cases an overly exaggerated) form of that which is being willed into manifestation so as to engrain the subconscous actions and inner drives toward that direction.

    THE MAGICK RITUAL MOTIONS also equate to 666, the number of the MAGICK FORCES which are the active essences of the natural world sought to be employed and worked with. Considered Macrocosmically, these are the GOD-FORCES of the Egyptian NETERU which are called 'Gods', 'THE STAR GODS', but represent cosmic attributes of the 'Hidden' or 'Unknowable' God (represented by 'nothing', or 0. [ZERO POINT OF THE O]) These are also the 'Angels', or 'Archangels', the Angles or Degrees of the O, 'the Archons' or Rulers of the Spheres. Being also the number of the QLIPHOTHIC FORCES it is the number of the Shadow or 'Black Sun', symbolic of the subconscious and reflexive (and reflective) vacuum cast by the activity of the ego - the 'shells' and subsequent vibrations, effects, impulses and karmas which are created in the wake of our going which end up instantaneously coming to fabricate the chosen pathway before us. The shadow side must be faced and worked with rather than against for there to be proper balance between the physical and astral planes of vision, which is an extension of the imagination as it becomes a means of seeing more than just thoughts but also into the higher planes of being beyond the threshold of the physical (which is actually the least habitable). 

     Since 666 is the formula to UNLOCK PHYSICAL MATTER, it is also the formula which conveys THE ASTRAL-DOUBLE INITIATION to FOCUS INNER VISION which also gives the siddhi to see THE KALAS OF ASTRAL ENTITIES. (Kalas are the 'colors', or spectral light-substancesof emanation which comprise any being. In Sanskrit kala refers to 'time', i.e. the time of being. In Magick, particularly Sex Magick, Kalas are considered essences.) 666 is the number of A VIBRANT PSYCHIC VISION, which can be cultivated through practical yogic and ritual work supplemented with the proper and effective knowledges. Whether involved in group or individual effort THE INITIATE'S PROCESS is endless, without any definite beginning or end (having realized their eternal energetic nature, like Fire, endlessly transmuting like the Phoenix. Those who can see and understand this possess the key of THE ILLUMINATI DOUBLE HEADED PHOENIX.

    666 is the number of the HUMANS PINEAL GLAND which connects with THE REPTILES THIRD EYE or the Parietal Eye, the photo-receptive organ which is 'dormant' or for the most part inactive in man except when stimulated. The THIRD EYE-ASTRAL DOUBLE symbolism is conveyed in the Ophidian/Draconian Mysteries expounded by certain 'Vama-Marg' or Left Hand Path sides of Hindu, Tibetan, and other Mystical and Practical traditions. The 'Dark side', or the Occult/Hidden side is unveiled through Ordeals, and Degrees, which gradually reveal the subtle planes. Ironically, 666 is the number of both THE FREEMASONRY (and FREEMASON INITIATION) and the GIZA PYRAMIDS, one of the central monuments of Masonry, both of which have a central focus on Initiation through dark corridors, labyrinthine ritual and symbolism which unveil the astral and essential nature of things by revealing the inner light to itself. Again, the Body is the Altar of the Temple of 'Holy Spirit', which is within as the Light/Life-breath of the Spirit, the manifestation of the Soul. 

    Once more, 666 aligns the RITUAL TEMPLE ALTAR with the Spiritual Sun energy. The cyclical/spiral/6 nature of the Cosmic Fire is perceived as Time, and significantly the Sanskrit AGNI equates with TIME, and 'Change' in Jewish Gematria, the number of hexagrams in the I Ching, or 'Book of Changes'. Consideration of the Time-cycles and Time-stations are important for sowing and cultivating both physical and psychical seeds and bring about the fruiting of the fullest potential. It has already been noted that THE SEED = 333, the number of Choronzon the GATEKEEPER as well as the HIGGS BOSON and its COLLISION, but 333 also veils the Gnosis of the TIME-STATIONS of TIME GEMATRIA and is said to mean "Transistion, Change, Travel" and "To awake (physically or spiritually)". When unified, 333+333 forms CERN'S PARTICLE, THE GRAND SINGULARITY which connects all in One, the Solar value of 666 which also contains the SIDDHI (333) to SEE BEYOND TIME. 666 is the SAMSARA NUMBER or the number of the Wheel of Time and since 666 is also the number of the Sun par excellence it is therefore a number of the Star (symbolic of the Soul), which connects with the word ASTER ('Star'). Thelema emphasizes that 'Every man and every woman is a Star', that we are to follow our True Will and attain the Knowledge and Conversation with the Holy Guardian Angel (attain to Tiphareth), so it is significant that A STAR'S PATH is also 666, the ASTROLOGY CALCULATION of PLANETARY ALIGNMENT MAGICK which embodies the Mystical and Magickal Stellar Gnosis of the Cosmic Fire. 

"The stars must be aligned in a specific way in order for Set (The Fire Snake) to be properly invoked."— Kenneth Grant

Occult Computer Science

      Something I noticed many years ago, about 2010 when I first got the Thoth Tarot deck, was how at the bottom of The Universe card, which is also on the cover of The Book of Thoth itself, has what appears to be circuits of a computer chip. The Thoth Tarot, however, was created by Lady Frieda Harris at the direction of Crowley over the years of 1938-1944, and the first integrated circuit chip was only created in 1958 by Jack St. Clair Kilby and Robert Noyce of Texas Instruments.

      As the complement to The Fool, the 'first' tarot card numbered 0 which is attributed to 'Air', The Universe  (21) is attributed to the earthy, lower Saturn, the dense alchemical lead of materiality and the physical plane. In its inverted sense, this dense physical becomes very restrictive and as Kenneth Grant says regarding the qliphoth or 'shadow'-side of this Path, "These are typified by the forces of restriction and incarceration symbolised by Saturn." -Nightside of Eden, page 254. And as a friend of mine, Soror 722, once said, the entire 'Agenda 21' is related to the inversion of The Universe card, because instead of freedom and livelihood when upside-down it is akin to the forces of Ahriman. While Ahriman is sometimes considered an 'air' demon, so too Lucifer is the the Prince of the Air and the Earth. This is the Spirit and Matter in simple terms, the ends of the electromagnetic 'lightning flash' that composes the Tree and Manifestation itself. Grant also ends up saying that the disease typical of this kala (or Tunnel) is arteriosclerosis, the hardening of the arteries that is the adjunct of senility and the onset of the final rigor. He also says that "The works of this tunnel include incarceration or 'tying up as a corpse' in the swathings of eternity". Negative stillness or stagnance.

      Most important to remember is that "The 32nd Path (the 21st Atu) transmits the astral energies of Yesod to the sphere of Malkuth thereby effecting the final 'earthing' of all the kalas and influences that have streamed through the tunnels from 'Pluto' (Kether) and Earth (Malkuth). but at this utmost and final earthing of the cosmic current a sudden reversal occurs; and this is the formula of Magick itself that the Current having earthed itself in Malkuth now turns back upon itself and streaks up the Tree to dissolve in its source in the transcosmic centers of energy represented by Kether.
Thus 'Malkuth is in Kether and Kether is in Malkuth, though after a different manner'. The Bride is celebrated in the final verse of Liber CCXXXI with the words:
 And in the heart of the Sphinx danced the Lord Adonai, in his garlands of roses and pearls making glad the concourse of things, yea making glad the concourse of things." Note also that while Aleph means 'Ox', referring to the Bull, Tau has a special relation to Taurus, the Bull (and both symbols for Aleph and Tau are related to the Cross, א / ת.)

       'Tau', it should be remembered, is a major symbol in Masonry which is Three-fold and related to the Royal Arch of Enoch. This Tau is also yet again reflected in the Magick Circle of the Magus in Crowley's system according to Book 4. In its downward or inverted form, the 'T' forms the phallic shape of which the Cross in the Rose (Yoni) & Cross (Phallus) symbolism corresponds. On page 241 of his book Freemasonry and the Ancient Gods, Masonic author J.S.M Ward wrote that "The tau cross is also a symbol of the male or creative side of deity, and is really a convent ionised form of the phallus (penis)'

      The Three Directions symbolize not only the 3-Dimensions but also the Three Gunas which are figured on the Wheel of Fortune card; Sattvas, Rajas, and Tamas which correspond also to the Alchemical Sulphur, Mercury and Salt. They are also the 'Three Fates', 'Past-Present-Future', and pretty much any cosmic universal trinity aligns with these Three Supernal nodes - but also last but not least the three states of Waking, Dreaming and Deep-Sleep, the three main coils of the Kundalini with the 'one half' being the 'between'-state of Turiya, or 'Twilight', Pure Consciousness. This is the 'hidden light' which is generated from the triple-power and then precipitated or 'Rayed' and reflected out into different gradations of being into physical growth and, at least ideally, gradually entering into the higher planes through the vehicular Temple of the Three Bodies, the Trikaya of Buddhism.

      Alice Bailey, though demonized by the far-Right Christian sects (who she really wrote her books as manuals of further enlightenment for), actually has a rather simple system regarding the understanding of the 'occult' hierarchy of Man in her first book Initiation; Human and Solar which anyone of any background should make themselves privy to.

"As Above, So Below"; "As Within, So Without"

       The Egyptian Temple of Edfu has been noticed to resemble the general structure of a Central Processing Unit and its parts. The complex at Teotihuacan in central Mexico, the Aztec temple meaning 'birthplace of the Gods', or 'road of the Gods' also somewhat resembles a common chip structure.

      And now, with cities covering much of the land the network mentioned even as far back as Hopi legend are shown to be reflected as a sort of macrocosmic computer-network of which we act like a hive-mind. A natural 'hierarchy' of sorts is inevitable, both socially and individually, as Initiation and all progress itself must take place gradually according to degrees. 

       The general direction is tending toward total automatic control - and soon enough most buildings, electronics and bought objects will be easily connected to a series of networks which can all effectively be tapped by virtually any capable engineer. This also presents the problem of course of quickly loosing 'control' and even understanding in a generation or two and therefore lapses in ability to maintain. The problem is that too much focus and reliance has been placed on the external and manifest order rather than the sub- and unconscious drives which are truly the main influences in the case of psycho-social advancement.

         Using Hebrew-English Gematria (The Hebrew formula applied to the English Alphabet), COMPUTER has a value of 418, a major number in Thelema and Aleister Crowley's magickal system as it has many correspondences relating to the mysteries surrounding Liber AL vel Legis. Incidentally, if you make Computer(s) plural by adding a Shin (S, 300), COMPUTERS = 718 - the number mentioned in Chapter III, verse 19 of that book which refers to it as the Abomination of Desolation. 

"That stélé they shall call the Abomination of Desolation; count well its name, & it shall be to you as 718."

It has been noted by a certain person that the Stele may actually be a reference to what was to become the computer itself, and that the previous verse 10 of that chapter which says:

"Get the stélé of revealing itself; set it in thy secret temple— and that temple is already aright disposed— & it shall be your Kiblah for ever. It shall not fade, but miraculous colour shall come back to it day after day. Close it in locked glass for a proof to the world." (See The War-Engine of Liber AL.)

The NINE CIRCLES have the value of the Solar 666.
9 is the supreme number of the human solar initiation cycle.
See also Dante's Inferno.

       The colour that shall come back day after day, locked in glass, does sound like the computer screen, and after all, 'Computer' does have a value of 666 in English Gematria as well. Being as it does connect just about everything physical to a sort of sub- or meta-physical mainframe, in a sense a Computer is itself an externalization of the Hierarchy, carrying as it does more than mere physical relevance and information. Mystically, however, it should be seen that the Core Mainframe of the Computer has been bound up in the NUMBER CALCULATOR itself, the 9 Key Chambers of the # Grid.

       This number grid I have been meditating upon myself for a while now, but just in a flash yesterday Soror 722 realized that it is 11  unified with the = symbol, i.e. =11, the EGG of the Total Tree (including Daath), the twin pillars with the twin veils of the Abyss and Paroketh which divide the 3 triads which crystallize into Malkuth (10), which also creates a 'shadow' and thus infinite reflective parallels in the Mirror-like Abyss of 11, the 'shells' of parallel perspectives of Anatma, or 'Not Self'. This could be also depicted as 11=O, which when unified forms a widened cross which resembles what could could become an 8-pointed star, but still houses the 9 Number Cells. Also, O is the Egg itself, EGG being 5+3+3, or 11, also Grant mentions how the 11th letter of the alphabet used to actually be O. And, in yet another creative visualization, 11=O could be seen as an electric plug going in a socket, with obvious sexual overtones as well as simply the electrical circuit or archetypal 'matrix'-plug symbolism is obvious also. It is on this dense level that we see the physical literally takes form after the more subtle 'ideas' which almost always can be found to reduce to binary symbols.

      11 = 0 or 0 = 11 is then also a modification or rendition of Crowley's magickal formula of 0 = 2, and also Atu 0 The Fool is considered Path 11 on the Tree of Life. 11 is the 'straightened' parallel lines which in the X are crossed over. 11 shows the actual 'abyss' or gap which Grant and Austin Spare both focus on heavily as the 'between-ness' concept, relating to the Mauve Zone ('Turiya') and thus the 'meta'-physical (literally, the Gnosis which is 'between the lines'.) X is an ancient form of the Tau cross and symbolizes the cross of the elemental matter while 11 as Aleph is of course Air, the whirling motion.
The symbol of Malkuth or 'The Mark of the Beast', the heart of the sigil of Nodens which is on the cover of Outer Gateways, also contains the 0=11 formula since it is the X in the O, symbolizing as it does the formative worlds achieving apotheosis in manifestation from the lightning strike flash of creation (Lux) in the dark waters of the Abyss (Nox).

        Once again, as mentioned in the last blog, the 'Hourglass' and Toroid figure comes up, here with the X as a figurative Hourglass itself and O as the Toroidal doughnut which together formulate a schematic for the understanding the mechanics of Space-Time. Incidentally, the Rune symbol most closest to the Hourglass symbol is that of Dagaz, ᛞ which means 'Day' and symbolizes Awakening, awareness, hope-happiness, the ideal, paradigm shift; or lack of vision, sleep, blindness, hopelessness, cataclysmic change." The O and the X, put vertically resemble the iconic Skull and Bones 'Jolly Roger' symbol, usually denoting either pirates, danger, poison or sinister secrecy such as in the 'Skull and Bones' fraternal society with its notable '322', 'THE NUMBER' of 'THE MASON CODE'. The Skull and Bones first and foremost symbolize the Mystery of Golgotha and the Ordeal known to Initiates as the Crossing of the Abyss. 

         The Death card itself is not itself usually indicative of death, but instead great change by which comes a new beginning. Golgotha means 'Place of the Skull' and mystically refers to the place of the Crossing or Nexus between the Inner (subjective) and Outer (objective) world and thus the 'Gate' at the center in which Mind and Manifestation meet. Grant also was one to note that GATE = 409, the number of GVTh, referring to 'God' but also taken as is it could be 'Gut' (the instinctual/intuitional consciousness) or Cut, which can refer to the 'Cleft' of the Vagina which is also symbolized as a 'Gate'. Here it is the Gate of Matter which is symbolized in ⊗. The Christian symbol of Chi Rho is also an analogous 'Gate'/Cross symbolizing the Christos and the Crucifix in particular, and also the Egyptians were depicted with their arms crossed holding the crook and flail symbolizing the ruler who possesses royal power. It is also used in a pose in the Master Mason rites. 

    The Mystical Death and subsequent Rebirth or Awakening is one of the central aims of Initiation - one which naturally comes around in cycles to remind of the fact of immortality - to convey what is ultimately expressed in Chapter II, verse 9 of Liber AL:

"Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains."

       Thelemites know the continual realization of the deep meaning of this in the phrase 'Die daily', as every second of every day that passes is continually dying to give way to a new one. To die as Christ on the Cross of the Elements is to pass the portal of Initiation which awakens the first level of psychic sense simply in the ability to conceive of the unmanifest 'element' of Akasha which is beyond but still also the 'astral fabric' of the 4 denser elements themselves. Just as the 4 elements come together out of the 5th the 5 Senses of Man come out of the 6th which is the Sense of Self Individuation. This quality is known as the 'Sixth Sense', one which has been lost or corrupted out of misuse and misunderstanding, to solution to which is found as Yogins have said for ages in the focused meditation on breathing. The Breath is intimately related to the Akasha, and in Hebrew the Breath is the Ruach which is associated with the Spirit and Life-force. The 'X' of Osiris is crossing between the Higher and Lower worlds, the Spiritual and the Material and the process of Spirit condensing into matter and being dissolved back into the Spirit. 

    

     Important here is the procedure known as 'The Death Posture'. Grant says in Nightside of Eden (pg. 41) that "Austin Osman Spare has shown that the Deaath Posture is the key to the Gate of the Abyss, and his doctrine of the Neither-Neither is intimately interwoven with the ego/anti-ego complex of Daath."

     In Images and Oracles Grant says that "Spare defines the Death Posture as 'a simulation of death by the utter negation of thought, i.e. the prevention of desire from belief and the functioning of all consciousness through the sexuality.'  'By the death posture the body is allowed to manifest spontaneously ... Only he who is unconscious of his actions has courage beyond good and evil: and is pure in this wisdom of sound sleep.' (-The Focus of Life) In order to assume this posture successfully it is necessary to have re-membered the subconscious strata where knowledge ceases and sexuality becomes law. One must, in other words, penetrate to the purely instinctual or automatic levels. (In qabalistic terms this refers to magical working in the Sphere of Yesod, the power-zone of the lunar current.) At such a moment, which is the moment of immanence, of creation, and of the generation of the Great Wish, inspiration flows spontaneously from the source of the Great Id, the primordial woman, the Goddess. 'Inspiration is always at a void moment, and most great discoveries - accidental, usually brought about by exhaustion of the mind,' (-The Book of Pleasure) i.e. when knowledge has been discarded."

"The Sixth Formula of Zos, entitled Metamorphosis by Death Psture supplies practical details: - 

   Powers of visualization, self-discipline, and concentration are qualities necessary. All magical practice to be effective needs great courage.

By this posture, total transposition of consciousness into the sex-center occurs, bringing about pure aesthesis and the creation of a new sexuality by autotelic concept: the subsequent ecstasy is a sublimation.

Because every other sense is brought to nullity by sex intoxication, it is called the death posture. Everything is a priori to the act. The a posteriori illuminations reveal the intersexual correspondence of all things and great emotiveness occurs. 

Only he who has attained the death posture can apprehend this new sexuality, and its almightly love satisfied. The progenitor of itself and all things, but resembling nothing, this sexuality in its early simplicity, embodies the everlasting. Time has not changed it, hence I call it new."  (-The Book of Pleasure)

The death posture is the reduction of all conception (sin) to the Neither-Neither till the desire is contentment by pleasing yourself. By this and by no other means are the inertia of belief the restoration of the new sexuality and the ever original self-love in freedom attained. The primordial vacuity (or belief) is not by the exercise of focussing the mind on a negation of all conceivable things, the identity of unity and duality, chaos and uniformity, but by doing it now, not eventually. Perceive, and feel without the necessity of an opposite, but by its relative. perceive light without shadow by its own colour as contrast."

     Intuiting this we then see that it is a focused meditation on the supreme unity of all things, including even what we call Death and decay. This is also similar to the 'Danse Macabre', a ritualistic dance which symbolizes how the 'dance' of death unites all, however the notable quality of the Death Posture is its effectual reversion of the senses by way of their being cut off from their natural external flow. This is symbolized in the myth of Cyrus turning back the waters of the Euphrates at Babylon, the returning of the Life-force to the Higher Self effecting its awakening and alignment with that of the Lower persona. 

       There are hierarchical structures from the highest to lowest spectrum of both and they often tend to pattern themselves similarly so the learning on one plane may be adapted or found to help learn others as long as distinction is maintained to counter confusion. I doubt the similarity between the CPU hardware and the temple or the design in The Universe card and circuitry which had yet to be invented were deliberate conscious acts on the part of the designers but instead are archetypal patternings with meaningful architecture. The manifest counterparts are but limited and specialized simulacra of fundamental archetypal components, and so in a same way words themselves are creations built of fundamental building blocks (letters) which themselves are of such limitless permutability in their precision carry an almost fractal quality in themselves in that they are holonic, each part (letter) containing all the rest, and therefore the material is still in a sense full of magickal possibility, albeit more limited. The Speech in the Silence, or the 'Voice of the Silence' is symbolic of the immaterial 'language' of the Higher Self which is not limited to letters and words, but pure being manifested as sexual energy and translatable by all beings. 

      A is 1 (or 0), the First or Primordial Essence, and the Last letter is either Tau (Hebrew) or Omega (Greek), in which case either the Circle in the Cross or the Dot in the Circle are formed, the symbolic determinatives of the Crossing of the Abyss and the Knowledge and Conversation with the Holy Guardian Angel. These are the essential formulas which Christ as the Son-Sun resurrected incarnalized as 'The Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End', THE AZOTh (=888= Ιησους, Jesus) or THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE of MANIFESTATION. 888 resembles the serpent coils of Apophis, and I just found on the calculator by subtracting 'APOPHIS' (306) from 888 and deducing with common knowledge of certain words that APOPHIS SERPENT COILS is in fact 888. The serpents coils are the toroidal networks of time, like the 'dragon lines' or ley lines of the physical kind, writhing time-tunnels of parallel dimensions saturate the qliphothic darkness back of the illusory manifestation of mind and Self and swathe as a mummy the true self-less pure 'emptiness' (Anatma, 'Not Self') which is the true eternal light which pierces all as the Diamond-Thunderbolt.

       The inversion of this idea would be the constrictive coils of the Boa, the chains binding man to the leaden Saturnian material externalization. To be lost and bound up in external circumstance means to be uncentered and entranced by the outer illusion. Thus, Anton LaVey was completely right when he said that the Television set was the Satanic family altar. However, as mentioned above, the Computer is much moreso now the focal point of daily ritual in most of the lives of humanity and a much more powerful tool for transmission of communication and knowledge. In a way, the 'Omega Point' fathomed by Chardin and others could very well be said to be found manifest in this way as virtually any point on the face of the planet can be connected to any other. Much of the literature from the 17th-20th centuries directly perceived and even outlined the plan for these new systems but it seems as though no one could have anticipated the swiftness of the advancements which can clearly be seen to have far outpaced our personal and collective capacities which are in deep need of catching up. The primary limit to such a thing are the same things they have always been: fear, laziness, in-fighting. This is no longer a period where the Group or herd mentality will have much of a progressive effect for the Group, instead individual responsibility and inner duty is of supreme importance to awaken the Inner Light so as to awaken from the low-conscious 'sleep' of materialistic trance.

    As a sort of basic ritual which can be of help to the solitary Initiate is to design your own personal computer area as an Altar. Keep it clean, orderly, and keep only things around it which serve a magickal purpose. Realize you use this tool for receiving much Light, both physical and meta-physical, and so you want to keep it clean and suitable for the work which you are doing. The Altar serves as the physical 'operating table' and should reflect externally what is being attempted to be externalized from within to help guide and empower the Will accordingly. When the Magickal Computer is established as a centerpiece of the Altar (of which you may have many serving different purposes), it should be properly consecrated and cleansed when needed. The uses of the Magickal Computer are virtually endless, but I find it primarily useful for collating and magnifying certain endeavours in my magickal work as well as use it as a sort of divination system in a few different ways. 

      It may be said one of the first prototypes of the magickal computer was the Ouija board, 'Witchboard', or 'Talking Board' most people are familiar with in one way or another (and before that, perhaps the calculator grid itself which serves as a core mainframe of the Logos/Operating System). The 'matrix' of the alphabet and letters form limitless possibilities and through such a vast ocean or 'Abyss' of potential - with the necessary ceremonial alignments and connections made - may come certain specialized data, albeit usually fragmentary or fuzzy and often arising from the subconscious data exuding in or around the astral or etheric aura of the operator or nearby persons. The modern computer with its physical rather than etherically connected planchette (mouse) and actual operating system make it much easier for the Inner and Outer Plane contacts to make their presence and gnosis manifest as the electrical powers coursing through along with the metaphysical wireless currents humanity is being both mentally and etherically prepared in a much deeper way for the 'Externalization of the Hierarchy' which is seen as fully concomitant with the upswing in both technological and spiritual advancements presently occurring. 

      The Living Mirror, or Stele if you prefer, that is the Magickal Computer is, like all tools on the Altar, a microcosmic reflection of that Macrocosmic Computer that is the Universe itself, hence the computer symbolism found in The Universe card. Through this singular tool humanity is participating in a Group Initiation which all that this publication has sought to analyze and better expound in sections and simplifications and covers many of the major points to be focused on and worked through. War, famine, poverty, lack of education are all not only avoidable but also their opposite could easily be effected if but certain basic Truths were acted upon and, once again, it is up to each of us to either use this tool effectively or be used by it. Take a look around, how much is technology (or any external forms) already controlling your life? This is the question of The Universe card and its inversion.