Hurtighed // Swiftness – 8 Stave

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23. november – 2. december

Dette er det bevægelige ildtegns flakkende fremstød; gnistrende lys i fugtigt mørke – Skyttens elektriske anslag. Kortets navn er Swiftness // Hurtighed. Dets formel lyder: Ild + Merkur i Skytten + 8. sfære.

Hastigt nærmer vi os selve nedkomsten:

Hod, hjemstedet for Merkur – Magternes lynsnare budbringer; den uhåndgribeligt uundværlige faktor, som bringer væsker & viljer i bevægelse. Om 8-ernes fællespræg læser vi:

The four Eights are attributed to Hod. Being in the same plane as the Sevens on the Tree of Life, but on the other side, the same inherent defects as are found in the Sevens will apply.

Yet one may perhaps urge this alleviation, that the Eights come as (in a sense) a remedy for the error of the Sevens. The mischief has been done; and there is now a reaction against it. One may, therefore, expect to find that, while there is no possibility of perfection in the cards of this number, they are free from such essential and original errors as in the Lower case.

Hvor vi tidligere har forholdt os til Merkurs væsen, som det anes og erfares i Sværdenes Indblanding og Skivernes Omtanke drejer det sig nu om Stavenes Hurtighed – altså om forvandlingskunstneren i hans ildrigt skabende aspekt:

The Eight of Wands is called Swiftness, as one might expect from its attribution to Mercury and Sagittarius. This is an etherealization of the idea of fire; all gross elements have disappeared.

(Let there be a short digression with regard to the signs of the Zodiac. In the case of each element, the Cardinal sign represents the swift, impulsive onrush of the idea. In the Kerubic sign, the element has come to its full balance of power; and in the other signs the force is fading away. Thus, Aries represents the rush of fire, Lightning; Leo, its power, the Sun; and Sagittarius, the rainbow, its sublimation. Similar considerations apply to the other elements. See the Attributions section: The Triplicities of the Zodiac.)

In the Eight of Wands, fire is no longer conjoined with the ideas of combustion and destruction. It represents energy in its most exalted and tenuous sense; this suggests such forms thereof as the electric current; one might almost say pure light in the material sense of that word.

Sublimeringen af ild – regnbuens fænomen som Himlenes egen fremvisning af harmonien imellem modsætninger. Dér løses ilden fra sit ødelæggende præg – og viser sig som selve kraften til at frembringe forandring.

. . . energy in its most exalted and tenuous form . . .

Budskabet fra den oprindelige Vilje

Længere inde i The Book of Thoth læser vi disse ord om indledningen af Stavenes sidste tredjedel i den merkuriale hurtighed:

The remaining three cards of the suit belong to Sagittarius, which represents the subtilising of the Fiery energy; and Mercury rules the card, thus bringing down from Chokmah the message of the original Will.

The card also refers to Hod, splendour, in the suit of Fire, whence it refers to the phenomena of speech, light, electricity.

The pictorial representation of the card shows the Light-wands turned into electrical rays, sustaining or even constituting Matter by their vibrating energy. Above this restored universe shines the rainbow; the division of pure light, which deals with maxima, into the seven colours of the spectrum, which exhibit interplay and correlation.

This card, therefore, represents energy of high velocity, such as furnishes the master-key to modern mathematical physics.

It will be noted that there are no flames; they have all been taken up into the wands to turn them into rays. On the other hand, the electric energy has created intelligible geometrical form.

Merkur i egen sfære og dermed i sin reneste fremtrædelsesform; her har vi ham som den, han (givetvis) faktisk er: Faderens sande søn, budskabet fra den oprindelige vilje, Ordet fra oven, forvandlingskraften selv.

På billedet ses Stavene forvandlede til stråler af elektrisk energi – fremvisninger af den slags vibrationer, som findes under og i tingenes øjensynlige fasthed. Altså: et billede af Verden, som den er – idet den opstår netop nu.

Above this restored universe shines the rainbow; the division of pure light

. . . energy of high velocity . . .

Sandelig, sandelig ser & siger vi: Flammerne er forsvundne; lykkeligt hjemførte til ildens ophav, forvandlede i Himlens kolbe. Kun sådan kan strålerne fremtræde i deres renhed, udspaltede i altings sære, skønne, selvhvilende, virksomme sammenhæng. Lyset, kraften og glæden, ukrænkeligt ubegribelige – vidunderlige at erfare. Dette er alkymiens kunst; sjælen som både sommerfugl og geometrisk fænomen, lysende midt i mørket.

Og så forøvrigt ikke mere – her.

Kærlighed er Loven, kærlighed under vilje

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