Teheuti said:
Kwaw -
For instance, how do you interpret the Tower as Venus?
Mary
Very, very briefly, Venus = insatiable desire of the appetitive soul [the ever consuming, all devouring mouth; Pe means 'mouth'].
Desire is insatiable because at root a manifestation of love the source of which is G-d, and partaking of the infinite thus cannot be sated by the temporal or mundane but for brief moments, desire will rise again; thus as the Buddhists have it, is the root of evil or the cause of all sorrow.
Expulsion follows the fall [XV - the devil] inaugurated by the eating of the forbidden fruit. Symbolic of consummation in all forms; but also in connection with the tree of knowledge we may note
to know in a biblical sense is also figurative of conjugation or consummation, as in Adam
knew Eve. What appears to me to be the expulsion is shown on at least one deck [
the minchiate?].
Also re: mouth, we have to speak in tongues, multiplication of languages, the tower of babble, so in either Eve as Woman fallen or Babylon the Whore we have Venus Natura, in contrast to Mary, New Eve, Venus Urania.
Kwaw