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Dionysus
Crowley's fool is Dionysus - god of primordial revelry. It is of interest that the Fool carries a sack containing all the symbols of the Tarot on coins, all jumbled up. This is due to the fact that the beginner - the child - already has all the wisdom inherently within them - but it cannot be deployed, it has not yet been made available. The Tarot is thus no more than a map of classes and categories operating in a certain organization, which activates those latent potentials

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 91 min read


Intaglio
"Here, then, is a possibility: the “forms,” or general definitions of Plato are not above the world but are spaces, hollows, gaps in immanence’s continuous flesh, caused by a semantic incision. They are borings-through the Ain Soph, and also tunnels for it, because what is caused to happen is that pure difference is differentiated from itself by the application of the tautology as if a spotlight shone upon the stream. Pure difference Tzimtzums from itself, opening up number-a

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 91 min read


Openings
Openness opens its openings like a porous skin to absorb eternity. The opaque shells of name and form fall away into the vast air that is the breath of forever. The Fool's freshness lasts, in each instant, for only as long as awareness remains unsullied at the furthest Horizon of experience. The blessed Fool is innocence The cursed Fool is ignorance. Do not tarry in folly. The way opens, the path is shown. Be aware of the helpers - they may seem as innocuous as the little whi

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 91 min read


The Week of the Fool
On Friday, the time of the Fool arrived. The Fool is the path of openness, of innocence, and of the emptiness of the child. At the same time, its a path of surprise, of potential, and of Grace. There are holy fools and damned fools and the difference appears to be the ability to learn. Those who would use folly as a cover for designs of any kind will be destroyed by it. Folly cannot be contrived - yet it is the natural condition of the human soul. Do not make it the goal - bu

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 91 min read


The Ape of Thoth
The Magus speaks, and it creates worlds. Truth is a black fire hidden within a tongue of rainbows. The ape and the magus are necessary dance partners. Crowley wrote 'the word of wisdom weaves the web of lies - weds irreducible infinities'.

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 21 min read


The Magician and the Judgement
The significance of the magician's pairing with the Judgement lies in the manner in which the former's voice creates worlds through vibration. In effect, the power of the utterance to open up an entire domain of potentiality is a trumpet sounding that awakens the dead from their graves. If the magician represents the House, then the Judgement represents that House's Hearth. It is what gives life, warmth, and fire to it. Find in yourself the voice of fire.

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 21 min read


The Magic Cube
Of all the magically significant cultural objects that are hidden in plain sight, one of the most potent is the ubiquitous magic cube puzzle. Did you know that the 26 facings can be assigned to the alphabet in a magical way? If you want to learn this cool technique, I teach it in my course on Metamagic Scrying with @perseusarcaneacademy Check here: https://courses.perseusarcaneacademy.com/b/metamagick

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 21 min read


I, Inner Mage
The i-mage-iner is master of a type of knowledge which does not submit to facts - but which is not false. Science produces scientific...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 21 min read


The Price of Power
Language is where magick intercepts the open. The price of power is displacement. The price of return is self relinquishment.

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 21 min read


The Magus
Mercurial, adaptable, quicksilver reflexes, and a silver tongue. The world may create words, but the words create worlds. On the table...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 22 min read


Week of the Magician
On Friday, the time of the Magus arrives. The Magician is the path of intelligence, of brilliant strokes of genius - of skill,...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Jan 21 min read


Between Two Lights
From the Tarot of the Holy Light Between two lights is a secret way. The Priestess initiates reflections that open the door to true...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Dec 26, 20241 min read


The Aleph
I leave this for your consideration. To know more, I suggest taking my course - look here: Meta Magick Tarot - Part 1 .

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Dec 26, 20241 min read


The Priestess and the Sun
One of the truly beautiful symmetries of the Qabalistic Tarot is disclosed in the relationship between the Sun, and the High Priestess -...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Dec 26, 20241 min read


An Enochian Tree of Life
The Tree of Life is normally shown to have 10 Sephiroth with 22 interconnecting paths. Interestingly, something I learned from Aryeh...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Dec 26, 20241 min read


...and the Veils
Veils upon veils upon veils - without end... for every layer of reality that is made intelligible, the mystery remains inscrutable and...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Dec 26, 20241 min read


The Veils
She holds the gates to the veils of awareness that shield our contingency from the awesome expanse, allowing its gradual disclosure in...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Dec 26, 20242 min read


The Week of the Priestess
On Friday, the time of the High Priestess arrives. The Priestess is the grandmother - Isis, Hecate, the un-manifest Sophia. She helps us...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Dec 26, 20241 min read


Moving beyond Gender binaries.
The last six cards of our sequence are the Hierophant, the Emperor, the Empress, the High Priestess, the Magician and the Fool. This...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Dec 19, 20242 min read


The Moon and the Empress
The Moon is the Mother of conscious awareness, even as it is a passage through unconsciousness. The reason for this is that behind our...

Peter Duchemin, Phd
Dec 19, 20241 min read






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