The so-called Magus. But there is the Juggler Metaphor.
If I remember Crowely correctly, he descibed The Great Magus as giving a ‘death hug’ to The Princess, tearing her body into ribbons and shreds, by his Razor-like fingers.
To terribly discover that you terribly bias your perception of ‘reality’ ?
“How did I ‘create’ This ?”
Oh now, this terrible admission to Self.
‘The Magus’, occurring at the Beginning of the Tarot Sequence, ‘is’ ‘The Great Deceiver’.
This is how we tell ourselves that We Are Correct. Who are ‘We’? Well, that is necessary to Construct ‘Righteousness’. There must be ‘A We’ to justify this Constructed Righteous Behavior; because this cannot occur in a vacuum!
The ‘Great Deceiver’ is ‘How We Construct Our “Reality”‘.
“Are ‘We’ Correct ?” “Do ‘We’ have a Consensus ?”
Am I constructing my ‘reality’ in consensus with your ‘reality’? Or, more important ! Are you constructing your ‘reality’ in consensus with My ‘Reality’ ?
The Magus (in this ‘downward’ delineation) is the ‘terrible’ revelation of how You Construct Your Own Reality. You ‘create’ the ‘parameters’ of What Is Possible. You ‘create’ the ‘perimeters’ of What Is Allowable. The beginner is ‘forgiven’ of such violations, but the ‘mature’ have no such legitimate excuse.
O-A-Hum
OPD
originally published Dec. 14, 2009
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