The Tarot of Eli-2-, LLC: The Rider-Wait-Smith Tarot-0- The Fool & The Manara Erotic Tarot -0-The Fool.

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Spirit is whole only when it is Eros-love of flesh-Philo-Love of Family/Brotherly love, and Agapé-Love of Spirit. Hence, we are created by the Trinity of Love. I AM Love, includes the wonderful spiritual masterpiece that is the human body. This may shock you.... but Spirit is perpetrator of Eros!

The Manara Tarot or Tarot Erotique, is one particularly effective way to claim the body as the Image of the Divine Creatrix, whether it is male or Female. In Qabalah, all Form belongs to the Creatrix, including the Male, for he is "another way to be female". The Great Mother Binah, the Third Sephiroth of the Tree of Life is called Understanding and "Will to Form". Simply stated when knowledge is Understood, it becomes form; Hence, in-form-action. Because of Religious indoctrination and dogma, everyone is told the Body, and its sensuality are "Satanic" and/or made by Nature who is ruled by Satan. Flesh is a spiritual downer, and a form of a curse that spirit must escape. Yet it is also said that ..."We are made in the image of God". Yet the image maker is the mother, not the father. Even the Greeks knew that when they stated that Hera, the Great Mother, created herself out of herself and that there was no father until she "named him Father".

To make a long lie, short, everything is of Mother, for every living thing comes from Mother's blood, which is especially noticeable in the mammalian live birth. The infant is made of mother's blood, lives in an amniotic fluid spa in the womb, which is mostly blood and seawater and is born bathed in mother's blood. Dad just ejaculated a catalytic fecundation fluid called "semen" which carries some chromosomes, to marry and thereby, unlock the egg...supplied by the female. Hence, the misogynistic world of the Patriarch and/or Military Industrial Complex, is a total "veil or caul over the eyes of understanding". Even in the womb, all fetuses are female for the first 8 weeks of development, as discovered by medical doctors. Hence, the Hu Man body is a Sacred Cup of Spiritual Life. I'll go as far as to say, the Human Female is the "Holy Gail", that Ruling Religious clergy wished destroyed, while sending men on a futile chase to find a clay cup used by the Christ at the last supper. Keep the dog chasing his own tail, keeps him preoccupied with futile actions.

Rulers are those who control definition. So, who controls you? Some fool who blames woman, our own loving mothers, for the "fall of man", as some sinful woman who dared to take a bite out the apple of "Knowledge" in the Garden of Paradise? What Creator of the wonderful human mind would deny it knowledge? Only a lying tyrannical idiot would do such a thing! Knowledge understood becomes form in this universe. Because you are Understood by the Creatrix Herself, you are made manifest! Therefore, I postulate that the homo sapiens sapiens form is Sacred to Spirit and is the Honeymoon Suite of the Anima-Spirit and Animus-Soul! All for the purpose of greater, more concentrated, and therefore, more coagulated light to form sensual Self-Awareness.

The Divine Creative would be insane to create what it doesn't want/understand. Hence, Chokmah the first male known as "Will to Force" and Wisdom, wouldn't have impregnated Binah, with that Knowledge of I Am, where the original "I", the All-Seer, created Am, by speculation upon "what am I", and thereby understood the difference between I and the Other-Am. I Am, is the Divine Creative. The same "I AM" command you used to create your own "self -image" of identity assumption called a "Me". This also states that after I AM, all is assumption. Hence, you are indeed made in the image of the Divine Creative.; And the Divine doesn't create what it doesn't want!

I Am Spirit, Mind and Body, just as you are. Spirit controls my definition, while the "World of the Military Industrial complex" controls most indoctrinated "others". I dare to say, "Dare to shake off the blinders of the one who holds control over your identity" and begin by claiming your inheritance from Divinity; the freedom to Control your own Identity! Manara's Tarot deck really aids in that! So, let's dare to begin breaking our mental shackles to see the Real Self and thereby, fulfill the Hermetic Qabalah's axiom of "Above all things, know thyself", because Self is above all things and the Divine Dwells in the Honeymoon suite that is the human body!

The Manara Fool Card depicts a Creatrix and her "Puppet", the "Other" (most beloved). Light is the first "other" as it has exploded out of Darkness. We now call this "Darkness" the Abyss or Dark Energy (the Dark Fire of Spirit), who by self-declaration became Dark Matter or Dark Mater and/or Dark Mother. Hence, from the Abyssal womb came light-Forms, made of electromagnetic energy. Most of light is invisible as are its forms; about 99% of it we see only the "1%" world of visible light. Hence, Qabalah calls the visible world the "1%" world. We are the Image of Spirit and mostly made of "Dark Fire" that astrophysicists call "Dark Energy", So the visible part of myself, is only "1%" of What I AM as I Am is mostly Energetic Space!

Once again, Quantum physics has proven that we are physically mostly composed of Space, as only about .4% of an atom is material and we are composed of Atoms that form Molecules that are composed of amino acids etc. Therefore, our bodies are supposed to be the puppets of a Master Craftsman, our Souls, rather than a "ruler's fool". I AM Spirit, Mind and Body. Therefore, I Am both master craftsman of material Self but also the Masterpiece operator. Manara shows this very well. As She, who is the creatrix of material has created her most beloved-a masculine form and the masculine form is returning that adoration. There is no "She" without "He" and there is no "He" without "She", as they are simultaneous creations of the I AM as so easily seen in the Top Triangle of the Qabalistic Tree of Life. I therefore postulate that Each of us "The Real" who has separated itself from "reality" by allowing those "outside" of you, dictate what is Identity. Your Identity is Universal...it is I AM ME! The very trinity of Self-Awareness and an experiment in Self-Identity. No one states who you are, only you can assume that you are anything at all!

The Fool is the universal key that is associated with the state of conscious energy that is us before and after death. In other words, the conscious state that is (W)Holy Spirit. Many of us think that we “have a spirit" but few of us know that we are Spirit and seek not spirituality but rather are Spirituality; a Spiral Vital- Fecund-Force of Will that Started with the Kether. The God name of Kether is Eheieh in Hebrew and means, "I Will Be". Therefore, as a being of I Am, The You that is Spirit-Mind-Body is the fulfillment of that Original Will! You are "I AM Being"! In Hermetic Qabalah, the Whole You is called Adam Khadmon, the Supreme Being.

Rather than just being assumed as being mystical, trans-personal, transcendent, and ecstatic in its nature, the Fool represents the power of wonder and ecstasy that is so apparent in the incredibly young (and the “enlightened”) before they succumb to indoctrination and form a "cultural identity". The cultural identity is not real, so Qabalists call it "reality" which we all know as relative and subjected to the “I” of the beholder. The Real is the infinite part of ourselves that commands material into form as I AM.

Dr. Arthur Edward Waite (1857-1942), the initiator of the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot, was not only a genuine scholar of Western Hermetic Occultism, he also was a world renown publisher. His published works included, The Holy Kabbalah and The Key to the Tarot, both first issued in England. Waite stated in The Key to The Tarot that; " The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs."

Although the precise origin of Tarot cards in antiquity remains obscure. Court de Gébelin writing in Le Monde Primitif in 1781 advances the theory that Tarot cards are derived from an ancient Egyptian book, The Book of Thoth. Thoth was the Egyptian Mercury/Hermes, said to be one of the early Pharaohs and inventor of the hieroglyphic system. Gébelin asserts that it is from the Egyptians and Gypsies that Tarot Cards were dispersed throughout Europe. All of this is easily researched by the seeker.

The past 2 centuries are ripe with important works on the different aspects of Tarot cards; Gébelin (1781), Etteilla (1783), Levi (1854), Vaillant (1857), Mathers (1888), Papus (1889), Falconnier (1896), Wirth, Waite (1910) Thierens, Case, Crowley (1944), Gray (1960), Knight (1965), Moakley (1966), Doane (1967), and Kaplan (1970), just to name a "few".

Although initiated and supervised by Waite, the unique Tarot Deck known as the "Rider Deck" was hand crafted by Miss Pamela Colman Smith, an artist and fellow member of The Order of the Golden Dawn. Although born in Jamaica, by age 21 Miss Smith was established in England as a theatrical designer and illustrator. She collaborated with William Butler Yeats on stage designs and worked with William's brother, Jack Yeats on the illustration and publication of a magazine entitled The Broad Sheet before publishing her own magazine, The Green Sheaf which was filled with ballads, pictures, folk tales, and verses.

Most notable difference features of the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, as compared to earlier tradition decks is that all the cards, including the 40 minor arcana numeral cards (pips), are presented in emblematic designs, which are easily read in divination. This contrasts with the older more ridged forms of swords, batons, cups, and coins that were previously used. Waite also believed that the O-Fool, should not be placed between the keys of 20 and 21, but that its more natural placement was before the Magician in attribution to the first letter of the Hebrew Alphabet-Aleph. He also transposed the numbers of 2 Major Arcana (Trump) cards: Strength (Force, Fortitude), frequently shown in other Tarot decks as Key XI but is shown in the Rider Deck as Key VIII. The Justice card, traditionally shown as Key VIII, is shown in the Rider deck as Key XI.

No matter what Tarot deck one prefers, one of the most fascinating aspects of Tarot Cards is their personal effect upon the person using them. Hindu Mystics have called these effects, as Siddhis- meaning "magic abilities". Hence, Tarot helps create more magic and less tragedy in one's life.

If you are looking for an easy path into spirituality, you won't find it in Tarot. For this is a "path less walked", as spiritual development is not brought on by external things. It is an inner growth towards reclaiming our Divine Inheritance and it is upon this principle that Tarot operates most effectively. Therefore, Tarot is not a toy. Nor a presentation on Hollywood based occultism. Rather, 2 main purposes are served by Tarot:

1. It preserves and transmits an esoteric teaching. 
2. It evokes specific mystical, intellectual, and emotional responses from the Inner Consciousness of the student who has been taught how to look at it.

After all the great works about "Man know thyself". It is no longer a secret that there exists Occult Teachings that reveal the true nature of Homo Sapiens Sapiens, and their link to the Universe and the inheritance of a mutual relationship with the Celestial-Self and The Universal Collective Unconscious.

We know spiral and spirit came from the same Greek root word-spiro, which means "to breathe and/or breath" the "Fool" is Spirit and therefore the fool is the "Breath" - and symbolizes that which contains all the potencies of growth and development that we can see that the 0 which carries this idea further. O is the symbol for egg and again symbolizes Life-Power and even the Orphic Egg which symbolizes the Universal Infinite Life Power.

The Sun refers to the One Force (The One Energy that cannot be created nor destroyed, only transformed, and transmitted) that comes from all the Stars/Suns in the Multiverse.

The mountains pictured on the RWS Fool represent the abstract mathematical conceptions which are behind all knowledge of Nature; hence, cold, and uninteresting to many. Like the melting snow feeds the creeks and rivers below. So will the Ageless Wisdom of the Divine Creative feed your consciousness and make fertile your mental imagery, thereby, transforming your life. I AM, is you True Existence, but what you think you are, is all assumption/imagination.

The Fool represents the eternal youth, which is Spirit/Soul. On Traditional Tarot cards this eternal youth is shown as he stands at the height of his power, and presenting an attitude of confidence, trust, and joyful aspirations. The wreath of Victory around his head also symbolizes the vegetable kingdom. The Wand is the Will of the Divine (I Will BE) and the wallet is Memory. The white rose represents purified desire. On both the Rider-Waite-Smith and B.O.T.A. cards, the unique garments of the Fool consist of a white undergarment and a black outer one which is lined with red. White is purity, truth, wisdom. It is covered in the black of ignorance and delusion which is lined with passion, action, and desire. Not easily seen, is the girdle of 12 ornaments, showing only 7, it represents Time-Space. Astrologers will find the contemplation of this next symbology of great interest. The wheels which ornament the outer garment are 8 spoked and they symbolize the whirling motion by which the One Force manifests itself (Will to Force). The little white dog represents the intellect of the body, the reasoning survival mind of the subconscious. It is a faithful companion but must have a master.

When thrown in a Divination, both The Rider-Waite-Smith and The Manara Erotic Tarot- cards imply:

• Folly.
• Mania.
• Extravagance.
• Intoxication.
• Delirium.
• Frenzy.
• Naiveté.
• Innocence.
• Lunacy.
• (All of which lead to the Mystery of Dionysus. Where extremes of intoxication and ecstasy lead to Higher Mind)

If reversed:

• Negligence.
• Absence.
• Distribution.
• Carelessness.
• Apathy.
• Nullity.
• Vanity.

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