Mæthed // Satiety – 10 Bægre

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Her har vi været før: Fiskenes endelige udkogning og fordampning i forårets ild. Kortet navn er Satiety / Mæthed. Dets formel lyder: Vand + Mars i Fiskene + 10. sfære.

O, thou that drawest toward the End of The Path, effort is no more. Faster and faster dost thou fall; thy weariness is changed into Ineffable Rest . . .

Det hele er, rent faktisk, ganske godt:

Riget i bunden, et vældig vigtigt sted at holde viljesikkert og fornuftigt fast, når bunden vendes nedad; husk blot, hvad vi har hørt om Undergang, Velstand og Undertrykkelse:

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!

Det koster, hvad du har

Om de 1o Bægre læser vi disse indledende ord:

The Ten of Cups is called Satiety. Its attribution is Mars in Pisces. The watery sign has sunk into a stagnant dream, but in it broods and breeds the violent quality of Mars, to putrefy it. As it is written: “Until a dart strike through his liver.” The pursuit of pleasure has been crowned with perfect success; and constantly it is discovered that, having got everything that one wanted, one did not want it after all; now one must pay.

Skriftstedet stammer fra Ordsprogenes Bog, hvori vi læser disse advarende ord om den slags uforstandige mand, som løber lystent efter et andet kvindevæsen end visdommen selv:

Uden tøven gik han med hende som en okse til slagtning, som en hjort fanges i snaren, indtil pilen gennemborer dens lever, som en fugl flyver i fælden uden at vide, at det gælder dens liv. Men hør nu på mig, sønner, og lyt til mine ord! Lad ikke dit hjerte slå ind på hendes veje, forvild dig ikke ind på hendes stier; for hun er årsag til manges død, talrige har hun slået ihjel. Hendes hus er veje til dødsriget, de fører ned til dødens kamre (7,22-27) .

Dette er Fiskenes nødvendighed: At fæstne blikket på den rette hjælp i nøden – og uforfærdet følge hende gennem natten hjemad: Sig til visdommen: ‘Du er min søster’.

At komme dertil indebærer altid at betale nøjagtigt, hvad oplysning koster. Det koster, hvad du har – og kræver alt, hvad du er:

One is reminded of the mental echo of subconscious realization, of that supreme iniquity which mystics have constantly celebrated in their accounts of the Dark Night of the Soul. But the best men, the true men, do not consider the matter in such terms at all. Whatever horrors may afflict the soul, whatever abominations may excite the loathing of the heart, whatever terrors may assail the mind, the answer is the same at every stage: “How splendid is the Adventure!”

Mars i Fiskene

Og videre:

This card represents a conflicting element. On the one hand, it receives the influence of the Ten, Malkah the Virgin. The arrangement of the cups is that of the Tree of Life. But, on the other hand, they are themselves unstable. They are tilted; they spill the water from the great Lotus which overhangs the whole system from one into the other.

The work proper to water is complete: and disturbance is due.

This comes from the influence of Mars in Pisces. Mars is the gross, violent and disruptive force which inevitably attacks every supposed perfection. His energy displays the greatest possible contrast with that of Pisces, which is both peaceful and spiritualized.

Fuldkommenhed er ingen mulighed. Mars bryder altid alting om. I Indien kalder de ham Shiva. Hans mund er fuld af ild. Umættelig som intet andet. Hans øje sønderbryder universer. Skønnere bliver det ikke. Alt, hvad vi har og er, skal ødelægges.

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I afslutningen af kapitlet om Bægrene i Book IV finder vi disse fine ord:

Each of our ideas must be made to give up the Self to the Beloved, so that we may eventually give up the Self to the Beloved in our turn.

It will be remembered in the History Lection how the Adepts who had with smiling faces abandoned their homes and their possessions – could with steady calm and firm correctness abandon the Great Work itself; for this is the last and greatest projection of the Alchemist.

The Master of the Temple has crossed the Abyss, has entered the Palace of the King’s Daughter; he has only to utter one word, and all is dissolved. But instead of that, he is found hidden in the earth, tending a garden.

This mystery is all too complex to be elucidated in these fragments of impure thought; it is a suitable subject for meditation.

Kærlighed er Loven, kærlighed under vilje