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Seer S3T12L4
The 22nd Path
The Path between Geburah and Tiphareth (5 to 6)
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Holographic Principles
Heavens of Assiah: Libra (Air)
Tarot Attribution: Adjustment - VIII
Numerology of Corresponding Letters: 30
English: L
Hebrew Letter: Lamed
English of Hebrew Name: Ox-goad
Egyptian Heiroglyph: Feather
Egyptian God: Maat
Other Egyptian Gods: Ma
Greek Gods: Themis, Minos, Aeacus, and Rhadamanthus
Hindu Deities: Yama
Orders of Qliphoth: A'abirion - Clayey
Elements: Saturn, Air, Mercury
The Perfected Man: None listed
The Human Body: Liver
Precious Stones: Emerald
Plants: ALoe
Animals: Elephant
Legendary Orders of Being: Fairies, Harpies
Vegetable Drugs: Tobacco
Perfumes: Galbanum
Title: Faithful I
Magickal Powers: Works of Justice and Equilibrium
Magickal Weapons: The Cross of Equilibrium
Lineal/Geomantic Figures: Puella
King Scale Color: Emerald Green
Empress Scale Color: Pale Green
Emperor Scale Color: Deep Blue-green
Queen Scale Color: Blue
Teiwaz
A balance holds opposing forces, bound
But separate. Herein Harmony is found,
The child of Strife and Love. The keen-edged blade
Divides acutely, truth with wisdom weighed.
By balanced deeds the cosmic mind is crowned.
The Thirteenth Degree of Awakening
by Jad Alexander Copyright 2002 All Rights Reserved
Lambda Lamed
The thirteenth degree of implicate mind represents a major accomplishment in the growth and training of an awakened soul. In short, Lambda is achieving a form of spiritual balance that only occurs once a being becomes fully self-aware. Self awareness is a challenging concept to grasp because it requires insight. Without insight, the subject of self awareness becomes another delusional weapon in the arsenal of the ego. Anyone can claim to be self aware but only their actions tell the true story. As we run back and forth between Kaph and Lamed, between receiving and giving, we exhaust the ego in our search for a center, a middle pillar, a balance. Fortunately, on the Tree of Life, an elemental exists which works directly to assist us in achieving balance.
By the time that you have activated the thirteenth transformation you are well on your way to awakening to implicate mind, but you are still heavily weighed down by ego (the temporal sense of self). In order to get this far you must have a well developed mind (ruach) and a "sense" of a spiritual self. Yet this mental concept of a spiritual self is purely intellectual at this stage. Implicate mind is a direct open channel between consciousness and the source of existence, implicate order. The "non-implicate mind" or EXPLICATE mind requires BELIEFS in order to reach this stage. Believing is the act of formatting information to fit into one's intellect for the purpose of achieving egoic balance. Think very long and hard about what you are reading here. People pick and choose their beliefs like they pick and choose their vegetables at a grocery store. Only those beliefs compatible with their formatting will they consider. In other words we pick our beliefs in such a way to keep us the way we are. If we are seeking change then we must find another source of balance.
Lambda Lamed is the elemental which forms within the Psyche as the result of excesses of any type. Lamed is the universal principle of balance incorporated into oneself through learning.
Lambda Lamed has for its symbols that of the scales of justice and the whip of the taskmaster. Lamed can be either one, as needed. The Tarot card for Lambda Lamed is the Justice or Adjustment card and its astrological channel is the sign of Libra. The power value rests between that of Kaph and that of Mem.
Lamed is the elemental which resonates with the equilibrium point within the STRUCTURES of existence. All structures of all types. Every structure of every type has a perfect point of balance or center upon which all of it's parts depend. Without that point of balance or centering structures collapse, implode, or erode. On the Tree of Life, the sphere of Tiphareth is that point of balance. Lamed is the AWARENESS of that balance incorporated into oneself.
Lambda Lamed forms an elemental state of consciousness which can best be described as a type of "truth sense." Truth is relative to Lamed. The only objective definition of truth is the "necessary relation between any two things." When the transformation of Lamed is activated, the elemental acts as a type of awareness which measures whether an energy or event is "with truth" or not. Truth here is not based upon the subjective needs of the ego, rather it is based purely on accurate energy relationships. The ability to utilize Lamed does not come about without discipline and training. Lamed is the charge to take up "training" or a structured form of directed experience.
Lamed functions in the direction of evolution when the Self of the individual (the Yod) is in harmony with the nature of universal flow and balance. The ego (the temporal sense of self) cannot make this determination but takes charge of this process very early in life. When the ego seizes Lamed functions, preventing the formation of true Lambda Lamed, then distortion of the truth in every form runs rampant in the consciousness of the individual. Inverted Lamed creates illusion and delusion for every occasion, preventing any real growth or change within the psyche (as the ego seeks to be preserved.).
A developing Lamed activates other elementals to bring about necessary energies to compensate when there is an imbalance of any sort. ( sounding a little like Mem?) Look closely at the Tree of Life and see that both Mem and Lamed connect in Geburah. We have a modern day example of Lamed in the person of Judge Judy Sheinlin on television. She acts as an agent of Lamed (discerning truth) and alternates between Geburah (severity) and Chesed (mercy). She is a judge in the true karmic sense of the word.
When Lamed activates energy to compensate and correct for balance we refer to this action as KARMA. Lambda Lamed is also referred to as the "Lord of Karma." The balancing of karma comes about when consciousness pulls the past, present, and future into one perspective, SEEING from a point of view that might be called wisdom. This involves having knowledge of the past (history) and combining it with an understanding of what the future may bring to focus in the present with clarity and readiness. Eternity is happening right now. There is no waiting involved. The thirteenth degree of awakening involves learning to act upon the awareness of the NOW responsibly and with joy. Responsibility is functioning in accordance to your own personal level of awareness; being true to yourself, doing the best that YOU can. Personal excellence is being true to your True Self.
In other words, you are only expected to do as well as you are capable of doing, no more, no less. Lamed is highly positive when you are living in balance with your current understanding of life. Knowledge IS power but knowledge is also responsibility. Each part of yourself that you ignore or deny is that much of your being that you are leaving to the mercy (or severity) of Chance.
There are many realities we call harsh. Yet all realities fit into the scheme of the wHOLe reality, the bigger picture. Whenever we deny, repress, or ignore an event (or energy) we leave the responsibility of that energy/event up to someone or something else, to Lamed the Whip of the Taskmaster (Lord of Karma). This subject can be related to the Buddhist meditations on the ten impurities. Meditating on the impurities helps consciousness confront some of the "unpleasant" realities (unpleasant to the ego, anyway.) This form of meditation aids in preventing the individual from being overwhelmed when confronted by such changes in their reality. To pretend that something isn't true or not a part of life just because you are unable to process it or cope with it, is to deny your evolutionary responsibility (implicate nature). Such denial separates you from "actuality" and prevents you from fully forming Lambda Lamed. In such a state, we try to "hide from the universe," but, um, it can't be done. This type of activity initiates energy trends we like to call "bad karma."
The soul which is karmically burdened is one that is denying its responsibility for itself.
Lambda Lamed is experienced subjectively as the abilities and modes of thought centered around decision making, discernment, and perceptions of responsibility. It is crucially linked with practices of integrity and honesty; not merely moral concepts but energy patterns and laws.
The truth sense of Lamed comes from the awareness of the equilibrium WITHIN the Self as well as WITHOUT. Such awareness is the result of the attunement to the livingness embodied in the sphere of becoming on the Tree of Life, known as Daath. Daath is the living experience that exists apart from our perception and encoding of experience; that is why Daath is never fully drawn into the Tree of Life diagram. The Tree illustrates all knowledge we have encoded through the mind, it is the map of the territory but not the territory itself. Daath is the direct experience without the barrier of an image or idea. Daath exists in the shadows, like the stars, and cannot be "seen" by the mind. Ancient tradition and modern lifeless traditions hold that Daath is forbidden, dangerous, and off limits to humans. It is dangerous only to the ego, the temporal sense of self. Know this: you are almost midway into the study of Daath Qabalah, which is the beginnings of the Daath Nesethrah.
From the Book of Thoth
VIII. ADJUSTMENT
This card in the old pack was called Justice. This word has none but a purely human and therefore relative sense; so it is not to be considered as one of the facts of Nature. Nature is not just, according to any theological or ethical idea; but Nature is exact.
This card represents the sign of Libra, ruled by Venus; in it Saturn is exalted. The equilibrium of all things is hereby symbolized. It is the final adjustment in the formula of Tetragrammaton, when the daughter, redeemed by her marriage with the Son, is thereby set up on the throne of the mother; thus, finally, she "awakens the Eld of the All-Father."
In the greatest symbolism of all, however, the symbolism beyond all planetary and Zodiacal considerations, this card is the feminine complement of the Fool, for the letters Aleph Lamed constitute the secret key of the Book of the Law, and this is the basis of a complete qabalistic system of greater depth and sublimity than any other. The details of this system have not yet been revealed. It has been thought right, nevertheless, to hint at its existence by equating the designs of these two cards. Not only therefore, because Libra is a sign of Venus, but because she is the partner of the Fool, is the Goddess represented as dancing, with the suggestion of Harlequin.
The figure is that of a young and slender woman poised exactly upon toetip. She is crowned with the ostrich plumes of Maat, the Egyptian goddess of Justice, and on her forehead is the Uraeus serpent, Lord of Life and Death. She is masked, and her expression shows her secret intimate satisfaction in her domination of every element of dis-equilibrium in the Universe. This condition is symbolized by the Magic Sword which she holds in both hands, and the balances or spheres in which she weighs the Universe, Alpha the First balanced exactly against Omega the Last. These are the Judex and Testes of Final Judgment; the Testes, in particular, are symbolic of the secret course of judgment whereby all current experience is absorbed, transmuted, and ultimately passed on, by virtue of the operation of the Sword, to further manifestation. This all takes place within the diamond formed by the figure which is the concealed Vesica Piscis through which this sublimated and adjusted experience passes to its next manifestation.
She poises herself before a throne composed of spheres and pyramids (four in number, signifying Law and Limitation) which themselves maintain the same equity that she herself manifests, though on a completely impersonal plane, in the framework within which all operations take place. Outside this again, at the corner of the card, are indicated balanced spheres of light and darkness, and constantly equilibrated rays from these spheres form a curtain, the interplay of all those forces which she sums up and adjudicates.
One must go more deeply into philosophy; the Trump represents The Woman Satisfied. Equilibrium stands apart from any individual prejudices; therefore the title, in France, should rather be Justesse. In this sense, Nature is scrupulously just. It is impossible to drop a pin without exciting a corresponding reaction in every Star. The action has disturbed the balance of the Universe.
This woman-goddess is Harlequin; she is the partner and fulfilment of The Fool. She is the ultimate illusion which is manifestation; she is the dance, many-coloured, many-wiled, of Life itself. Constantly whirling, all possibilities are enjoyed, under the phantom show of Space and Time: all things are real, the soul is the surface, precisely because they are instantly compensated by this Adjustment. All things are harmony and beauty; all things are Truth: because they cancel out.
She is the goddess Maat; she bears upon her nemyss the ostrich feathers of the Twofold Truth.
From this Crown, so delicate that the most faintest breath of thought must stir it, depend, by chains of Cause, the Scales wherein Alpha, the first, is poised in perfect equilibrium with Omega, the last. The scales of the balance are the Two Witnesses in whom shall every word be established. She is therefore to be understood as assessing the virtue of every act and demanding exact and precise satisfaction.
More than this, she is the complete formula of the Dyad; the word AL is the title of the Book of the Law, whose number is 31, the most secret of the numerical keys of that Book. She represents Manifestation, which may always be cancelled out by equilibration of opposites.
She is wrapped in a cloak of mystery, the more mysterious because diaphanous; she is the sphinx without a secret, because she is purely a matter of calculation. In Eastern philosophy she is Karma.
Her attributions develop this thesis. Venus rules the sign of the Balance; and that is to show the formula: "Love is the law, love under will". But Saturn represents above all the element of Time, without which adjustment cannot take place, for all action and re action take place in time, and therefore, time being itself merely a condition of phenomena, all phenomena are invalid because uncompensated.
The Woman Satisfied. From the cloak of the vivid wantonness of her dancing wings issue her hands; they hold the hilt of the Phallic sword of the magician. She holds the blade between her thighs.
This is again a hieroglyph of "Love is the law, love under will". Every form of energy must be directed, must be applied with integrity, to the full satisfaction of its destiny.
Meaning:
Balance against each thought its exact opposite.
For the Marriage of these is the Annihilation of Illusion.
Justice, or rather justesse, the act of adjustment, suspension of all action pending decision; in material matters, may refer to law suits or prosecutions. Socially, marriage or marriage agreements; politically, treaties.
Balancing the wrongs of the past and setting them correct. Just as in the laws of karma there is a cause and effect to each and every action that we do. The sword is held high in the right hand to symbolize the action of correcting wrongs and holding the balance of justice, also symbolizes the cutting out of negative thoughts.
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