jmd
I have attached a copy from the Dodal rendition.
In a reading, it may be that the tethering against the pedestal becomes of central significance - implying also that one is caught against one's will to the binding of another.
It may also indicate that either of two extremes is preventing the pure Light of the spiritual from being perceived: here one is attached to the footstal of the Devil, to the physical realm - and yet not one to be despised.
The two extremes are at times described as the Luciferic and the Arhimanic - whilst the one wants for a warm immersion (often as though sexual) or abandonment to be called for, the other instead wants to retreat in the coldness of analysis and distance from the situation.
Whereas the former views those who do not participate in the same manner as cold and distant, the latter views the former as unreasonable and deluded.
The Devil may here thereby also show that what is being presented is either of those qualities, or perhaps that too much of those extremes is already indicated. Neither the complete assimilation through dissolution, nor the fear of the different and its ostracised segregated fixity are useful at this stage.
The mediating and transcending factor above each of these is Love and acceptance of the situation at hand, discerned in order for the bindings to be removed as tethering.
In a reading, it may be that the tethering against the pedestal becomes of central significance - implying also that one is caught against one's will to the binding of another.
It may also indicate that either of two extremes is preventing the pure Light of the spiritual from being perceived: here one is attached to the footstal of the Devil, to the physical realm - and yet not one to be despised.
The two extremes are at times described as the Luciferic and the Arhimanic - whilst the one wants for a warm immersion (often as though sexual) or abandonment to be called for, the other instead wants to retreat in the coldness of analysis and distance from the situation.
Whereas the former views those who do not participate in the same manner as cold and distant, the latter views the former as unreasonable and deluded.
The Devil may here thereby also show that what is being presented is either of those qualities, or perhaps that too much of those extremes is already indicated. Neither the complete assimilation through dissolution, nor the fear of the different and its ostracised segregated fixity are useful at this stage.
The mediating and transcending factor above each of these is Love and acceptance of the situation at hand, discerned in order for the bindings to be removed as tethering.