As Above, So Below
April 11, 2008
Lately I have been meditating on a selection of Tarot cards to effect a change in my life. Things have been tough, and they are slowly getting better. I am using these meditations to support and encourage the changes that are taking place in my life.
One of the four cards I am using is The Magician.
Generally when I see this card in a reading, the phrase ‘making things happen’ is what comes to mind. The Magician is using his experience, skill and power to take control of the energies around him to carry out his will. He creates, he causes to become, he manifests his will in the world.
The most commonly recognized version of this card from the RWS deck reflects the principle of ‘as above, so below’.
This message theorizes that man is the counterpart of God on earth; as God is man’s counterpart in heaven. Therefore, it is a statement of an ancient belief that man’s actions on earth parallel the actions of God in heaven. This pivots on the belief that “all things have their birth from this One Thing by adaptation.”
To the magician the magical act, that of causing a transformation in a thing or things without any physical contact, is accomplished by an imaginative act accompanied by the will that the wanted change will occur. The magical act and imaginative act becomes one and the same. The magician knows with certainty that for the change to occur he must will it to happen and firmly believe it will happen. Here it may be noted that magic and religion are akin: both require belief that a miracle will occur. ~ mystical.org
In meditation, The Magician says to me, “Spirit begets the material world, and the material world begets the Spirit.” Have we been created by God in his image, or have we created him in ours? Does it really matter? The lemniscate above The Magicians head represents the eternal loop of infinity.
In meditation, The Magician guides and helps me to ‘make things happen’ in my life. He manifests his will on his world, and may I continue to succeed in doing so as well.
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