Power. Dominion. Delegation.
The Emperor is an Architecture of mind and of power.
From the ancient world we learn of the Demiurge - a creator god who emerged from a plenum of uncreated wisdom known as the Sophia.
There are conflicting accounts of what this means. Some worship the demiurge, others oppose it intensely.
Both these approaches reify the demiurge as a personified entity.
BUT- the treatment of a threshold as a personality alienates us from the fact that this potency is in truth, a valuable capacity of ourselves. We can cross back over.
When we forget that the limitless plenum is the primordial reality of all-saturating awareness, we can become hypnotized by the way the demiurgic threshold creates an inside and an outside. The threshold opacifies and we find ourselves perceiving within a closed system.
Some would shatter this system, others elevate it to the status of God.
Consider, though - the Emperor represents the point where 'law' first crystalizes as a concept - recall the Tetractys of the Decad:
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An abstract observation that 1+2+3+4=10, suggests that fourfoldness is the bridge between Divinity and Materiality.
The dispute over 'God' comes largely from the misidentification of it as a male person. Divinity in its fullness may better be felt as an all-penetrating field - the Sophia. The demiurge, the Emperor, law - these indicate the nascent development of limitations or parameters: order-preserving functions that our consensus-reality requires.
The reification of these in worship (or anti-worship), deprives them of the true flexibility that they require in order to evolve.
Consider the Emperor as a recipe, rather than a person. It shows us how to make a conceivable world. If we allow the Emperor threshold to become transparent again, we can recall the Sophia, and avoid the twin pitfalls of theism and antitheism.
Pass beyond into gnosis.
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