Undertrykkelse // Oppression – 10 Stave

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13. december – 21. december

Dette er Skyttens endepunkt – det bevægelige ildtegns stagnation og opbrænding. Kortets navn er Oppression // Undertrykkelse. Dets formel lyder: Ild + Saturn i Skytten + 10. sfære.

Her rammer vi bunden:

I The Book of Thoth læser vi disse almene ord om 10-erne – som vi tidligere har findelt og fordøjet i skildringerne af henholdsvis Sværdenes Undergang og Skivernes Velstand:

These cards are attributed to Malkuth. Here is the end of all energy; it is away from the “formative world” altogether, where things are elastic. There is now no planetary attribution to consider. So far as the Sephira is concerned, it is right down in the world of Assiah. By the mere fact of having devised four elements, the current has derogated from the original perfection. The Tens are a warning; see whither it leads-to take the first wrong step!

Altså: Energiens endelige selvudtømning i den skabte Verden – med alt hvad dette indebærer.

Det værste i Skytten

I umiddelbar forlængelse af de almene ord læser vi denne beskrivelse af de 10 Staves grundpræg:

The Ten of Wands is called Oppression. This is what happens when one uses force, force, and nothing else but force all the time. Here looms the dull and heavy planet Saturn weighing down the fiery, ethereal side of Sagittarius; it brings out all the worst in Sagittarius. See the Archer, not shooting forth benign rays, but dealing the sharp rain of death! The Wand has conquered; it has done its work; it has done its work too well; it did not know when to stop; Government has become Tyranny. One thinks of the Hydra when one reflects that King Charles was beheaded in White hall!

Undertrykkelse – en uomgængelig følgevirkning af kraftens blinde anvendelse; umættelighedens sjælløse endemål. Saturnisk tyngde i bevægelig ild. Det værste i Skytten. Ødelæggelsens pile. Staven har sejret. Arbejdet er gjort – men overgjort. Mere forlangte mere. Man glemte alting om at standse. Vold avler vold.

Ildens værk i Verden

Og videre:

The number Ten refers to Malkuth, which depends from the other nine Sephiroth, but is not directly in communication with them. It shows the Force detached from its spiritual sources. It is become a blind Force; so, the most violent form of that particular energy, without any modifying influences. The flames in the background of the card have run wild. It is Fire in its most destructive aspect.

The card also refers to the influence of Saturn in Sagittarius. Here is the greatest antipathy. Sagittarius is spiritual, swift, light, elusive, and luminous; Saturn is material, slow, heavy, obstinate, and obscure.

The eight Wands are still crossed, showing the enormous power of the completed energies of Fire; but they have lost their patents of nobility. Their ends seem more like claws; they lack the authority and intelligence shown in the earlier cards; and in front are the two formidable Dorjes of the Two of Wands, but lengthened to bars.

The whole picture suggests Oppression and repression. It is a stupid and obstinate cruelty from which there is no escape. It is a Will which has not understood anything beyond its dull purpose, its “lust of result”, and will devour itself in the conflagrations it has evoked.

Vi afstår fra unødvendig udpensling og minder blot om den centrale doktrin:

Thou hast no right but to do thy will. Do that and no other shall say nay. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

Dette er kernen: Den sande vilje grubler ikke over formål og begærer ikke følgevirkninger. Udfoldelsen er alting. Pulsslaget søger intet andet end sig selv.

I undertrykkelsens billede erfarer vi nøjagtigt det modsatte af denne hemmelighedstilstand: En vilje, der i sin søde længsel efter det ene og det andet har nedkaldt afbrændingen over sig. Derved afsluttes ildens værk i Verden – og noget nyt kan ske.

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Til allersidst i kapitlet om Stavens væsenspræg i skildringen af de magiske grundredskaber i hovedværket Book IV læser vi disse gådeklare ord om viljens endelige opfyldelse – hvortil der intet er at tilføje:

It is astonishing that this typical cry – “I am I” – is the cry of that which above all is not I.

It was that Master whose Will was so powerful that at its lightest expression the deaf heard, and the dumb spake, lepers were cleansed and the dead arose to life, that Master and no other who at the supreme moment of his agony could cry, “Not my Will, but Thine, be done.”

Kærlighed er Loven, kærlighed under vilje

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