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demagogue on 30/5/2014 at 02:52
I like the symbology of tarot. It gets criticized for speaking to universal things everyone relates to, but IMO that's its power too. It doesn't have to be a bad thing.
When people see that person in the cards that will either save or condemn them, they know from their own experience exactly who it is, and the cards drag the hidden world of your subconscious greatest hopes and worst fears out through the symbols. Maybe all mythology, mysticism, and religions do. My favorite parts of religions are the mystic variations, Kabbalah, Sufism and Christian mysticism.
But it only works if you play along with the symbols and be willing to to go where they're trying to take you. Symbols are vehicles to take your consciousness to a place everyday life can't take you.
Azaran on 30/5/2014 at 03:57
Pythagoreanism is a good source of numerical symbolism. Iamblichus' "Theology of Arithmetic" discusses the numbers 1 to 10 from a mystical perspective. Whether you agree with it or not, it looks like a neat way of looking at numbers that goes beyond their ordinary meanings. Some extracts from his commentary on the number 7:
Seven is not born of any mother and is a virgin. The sequence from the monad to it added together totals 28; the 28 days of the moon are fulfilled hebdomad by hebdomad. Starting with the monad and making a sequence by doubling, seven numbers yield 64, the first square which is also a cube: 1,2, 4, 8, 16,32, 64. Doing the same, but trebling, seven numbers yield 729, [55] the second square-and-cube: 1,3,9,27,81,243, 729. Moreover, the hebdomad consisting of the three dimensions (length, breadth and depth) and the four limits (point, line, surface and solid) reveals corporeality. Seven is said to be the number of the primary concord, the fourth (4:3), and of geometric proportion (I, 2, 4). It is also called 'that which brings completion;' for seven-month children are viable. The hebdomad is critical in illnesses. Seven encompasses the sides around the right angle of the archetypal right-angled triangle: the length of one is 4, of the other 3. There are seven planets. We see seven things-body, distance, shape, size, color, movement and rest. There are seven movements-up, down, forward, backward, right, left and circular. Plato composed the soul out of seven numbers. Everything is fond of sevens. (....)
The reason for the seventh number being an object of reverence is as follows: the providence of the Creator God wrought all things by basing on the first-born One the source and root of the creation of the universe, which comes to be an impression and representation of the highest good, and he located the perfection and fulfillment of completion in the decad itself, and the Creator God necessarily considered that the hebdomad was an instrument and his most authoritative limb and has gained the power of creativity. For by nature, and not by our own devices, the hebdomad is a mean between the monad and the decad,ls and the means between extremes are in a sense more authoritative than the extremes themselves, because the terms on either side incline towards the means. Not only do 4 and 7 mediate between the monad and the decad by an arithmetically equal relationship, and when added together their sum is equal to the sum of the extremes, and 4 exceeds one by the same amount that 7 is less than ten, and conversely 4 is less than 10 by the same amount that 7 exceeds 1- not only this, but also the numbers from the monad to the tetrad are potentially ten, while the decad is this very thing in actuality, and 7 is the arithmetic mean between the tetrad and the decad Ii.e. in a sense between two decads, one potential, the other actual), since it is half of the sum of both. Moreover, the hebdomad seems to be an acropolis, as it were, and a 'strong fortification' within the decad, just like an indivisible monad. For it alone admits no breadth, since it is a rectilinear number and admits only a fractional part with the same denominator as itself; and, by mingling with any of the numbers within the decad, it does not produce any of the numbers within the decad, nor is it produced by the intercourse of any of the numbers within the decad, but, with a principle which is all its own and [591 is not shared, it has been assigned the most critical place.Quote Posted by demagogue
Symbols are vehicles to take your consciousness to a place everyday life can't take you.
This
jbairdjr on 31/5/2014 at 03:24
You guys have been watching WAY too much History Channel material! :cheeky:
