gypsyflower
I have had this card represent the end of an accumulation of the past six months and corresponding to the lunar eclipse.
But do we ever leave Malkuth on the return journey?A ten represents Malkuth; coming down the Tree of Life, Malkuth can be seen as 'rounding buoy' before we go back up. The analogy applies as well on an Hermetic model where the Sphere of Earth is central and 'rising back' through the Spheres is the journey towards perfection.
Aleister Crowley said:Redemption is a bad word; it implies a debt. For every star possesses boundless wealth
But do we ever leave Malkuth on the return journey?
The attribution of Mercury in Virgo to the 10 of Disks possibly points to the resucue of Persephone (Virgo) by Hermes (Mercury). But because she ate the pommegranate seeds Persephone was tied to the underworld and could never fully leave it.
This may indicate that the so-called Path of Return is paradoxically rooted in Malkuth and must ultimately find expression there. As long as we are incarnated in a body of flesh it doesn't matter how high we fly, we always have one foot firmly planted on the earth.
Another paradox....
The 10 of Disks is the only card in the suit that shows the Disks as actual coins - Money. Could this be a link to the Christian doctrine of Redemption? The fallen element - earth - must be redeemed or 'bought back'.
But Crowley turns this on it's head in the Hanged Man section of The Book of Thoth.
Neither do I. I was merely trying to point to a link between that doctrine and the 10 of Disks. Many New Aeon doctrines require seeing the 'new in the old' and the 'old in the new'. Crowley's comment about every star possessing boundless wealth didn't just fall out of the sky. It's based on an inversion of the Christian doctrine of Redemption, which means 'to buy back'.No, I dont think it represents the Christian doctrine of Redemption
Liber LXV said:II:28. Nor shall it be spoken in the markets that I am come who should come; but Thy coming shall be the one word.