"My yoke is easy, my burden is light:" (Mt 11:30)
The Magician
Active Relaxation • Concentration without Effort
"My yoke is easy, my burden is light:" (Mt 11:30)
"The principle underlying all the other twenty-one Major Arcana of the Tarot—is that of the rapport of personal effort and of spiritual reality. It occupies the first place in the series because if one does not know what to do with all the other Arcana. For it is the magician who is called to reveal the practical method relating to all the Arcana. He is the "Arcanum of the Arcana", in the sense that he reveals that which is necessary to know and to will in order to enter the school of spiritual exercises whose totality comprises the game of tarot, in order to be able to derive some benefit therefrom. In fact, the first and fundamental principle of esotericism (i.e. of the way of experience of the reality of the spirit) can be rendered by the formula: Learn at first concentration without effort; transform work into play; make every yoke that you have accepted easy and every burden that you carry light! MOTT I:07:d EE
Practical teaching
Concentration
without effort
Respiration and circulation
Transform
work into play
Make
every yoke that you have accepted easy and every burden that you carry
light.
Silence and the influx of forces
Theoretical teaching
12a Theoretical teaching of the Magician corresponds to practical teaching. The basic unity of the natural, human
and divine world enables
knowledge, just as the practice of concentration
enables achievement.
12b The tenet of the unity of all existence(1) precedes and is presupposed by every act of
knowledge, all searching for TRUTH. The world is declared to be an organism
whose parts are governed by the same principle.
http://www.newadvent.org/summa/104703.htm
12c The tenet of the unity of world
engenders a method of knowledge, its first conclusion – THE METHOD OF ANALOGY
(2) and it facilitates
the advance of knowledge. Being neither identical (one) nor heterogeneous
(different), but analagous, the diversity of phenomena find their unity
and root in so far as they manifest their essential kinship.
http://www.seop.leeds.ac.uk/entries/analogy-medieval/
http://www.vermontel.com/~vtsophia/SEV1.htm
12d
Traditional formula for the method of analogy as applied to all that exists in
space[A//S]: That which is above is like to that which is below and that which
is below is like to that which is above, to accomplish the miracles of (the) one
thing. Formula for the method of analogy for all that exists in time[A//T] That
which was is as that which will be, and that which will be is as that which was,
to accomplish the miracles of eternity.13a
A//S, the basis of typological (4) symbolism, symbols expressing correspondences
between prototypes above and their manifestations below.
A//T the basis of
mythological symbolism – archetypes in the past and their manifestation in the
present. Examples.
Typology (or typological symbolism) is a Christian form of biblical interpretation that proceeds on the assumption that God placed anticipations of Christ in the laws, events, and people of the Old Testament. Typology, which had enormous influence on medieval Europe, seventeenth century England, and Victorian Britain, not only provided literature and art with powerfully imaginative images but also influenced attitudes towards reality and time as well.
http://65.107.211.206/type/typo11.html
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/en/keynes.htm
13b
Quotation from Hans Leisegang on the symbolism of time – mythological symbolism
confirms definition given above. Quotation from Marc Haven on typological
symbolism confirms definition given above.
13c
13d
14a
Many errors of interpretation arise when typological and mythological symbolism
are confused. Examples from the Bible.
14b
14c The Method of
Analogy is universally useful and serves the procedure of classification,
hypotheses and scientific method.
14d15a Mythological symbolism distinguished
further
15bThe vision of Ezekiel
distinguished as a typological symbol. Quotation from the Zohar. Indian version
of Hermetic maxim.
15c The vision of
Ezekiel distinguished as a typological symbol. Quotation from the Zohar. Indian
version of Hermetic maxim.
15d16a The Method of Analogy distinguished
from pure induction . Pure induction relies on the quantity of facts known.
Analogy adds the qualitative element to the argument. Example of an argument by
analogy for immortality.
16b The ideal of
science, according to Keynes, is to transform its method into pure
analogy.
16c16d17a The role of analogy within
speculative philosophy or metaphysics. (5) Aquinas’ doctrine of analogia entis,
Bonaventura’s doctrine of signatura rerum (the signature of things
http://icu.catholicity.com/c01911.htm
17b These saints
proclaimed by Sixtus V and Leo XIII (6) as "two olive trees . . ." We can declare our
faith therefore in analogy as philosophers, scientists and
Catholics.
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/leo_xiii/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_04081879_aeterni-patris_en.html
17c The Master has
endorsed the method of analogy. The sense and purpose of His parables appeal to
the sense of analogy; the strength of His a fortiori arguments lies in the same
sense. Example (Matthew vii 9-11)
17d18a Is there an argument against the method of analogy, regarding its
weaknesses and dangers?
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26c
26d
The Emerald Tablet
Links
http://www.seop.leeds.ac.uk/entries/analogy-medieval/