THE TOWER

Symbol-Tower is destroyed by lightning and is falling into the ocean.

There is serious conflict in male/female relationships

Meaning-Open conflict and explosive differences of opinion as each finds out that the other is not what was expected or understood. There is a destruction of the myths of what is male and what is female. This is first hand reality of the differences between the two physical partners.

THE TOWER is related to many other cards in the Tarot. It is related to the King of Swords, Queen of Swords, Prince of Swords, Princess of Swords, King of Cups, Queen of Cups, Prince of Cups, Princess of Cups, Five of Keys, Five of Swords, Five of Cups, Five of Locks, Six of Keys, Six of Swords, Six of Cups and Six of Locks.

It’s Elements are Air and Water. It’s powers are Fire of Air, Air of Air, Water of Air, Earth of Air, Fire of Water, Air of Water, Water of Water and Earth of Water.

In the Tarot Trumps THE TOWER leads from HOD to NETZACH.

I continue working with various astral energies that I can now sense quite strongly. I am trying to master them and do things with them. Astral projection becomes a good way of gathering information that I never knew before. I am still at this point unaware of the physical existence of my new soulmate and don’t know who she is.

She is experiencing serious difficulties in her relationship with her collective soulmate. They are both learning what the other is really like and it is disturbing to both of them.

THE STAR

Symbol-Male finds beautiful jeweled necklace

Female is transformed into a tree.

Meaning-This is the card of hope. The spiritual waters of Binah are poured out over the juncture of land and water. Binah is of the true soulmate beginning to take an active part in the affairs the physical couple. Through the soulmates unseen influence in dreams there is an apparent mending and reconciliation of physical opposites. The physical couple begin to understand each other better than before from a purely idealistic and spiritual perspective lacking completely in physical wisdom.

THE STAR is related to other cards in the Tarot. It is related to the King of Cups, Queen of Cups, Prince of Cups, Princess of Cups, Seven of Keys, Seven of Swords, Seven of Cups, Seven of Locks, Eight of Keys, Eight of Swords, Eight of Cups and the Eight of Locks.

It’s Element is Water. It’s powers are Fire of Water, Air of Water, Water of Water and Earth of Water.

In the Tarot Trumps THE STAR leads from YESOD to NETZACH.

This is the card of hope. The spiritual waters of Binah are poured out over the juncture of earth and water. This means that my astral contact with her on a high spiritual level through my dreams is having a mending effect on her physical relationship with her collective soulmate. Through this influence they begin to understand each other better than before by the formation of a purely idealistic and spiritual perspective lacking completely in physical wisdom. This intellectual and abstract perspective is the result of my energy combining with hers and she applies it to her physical relationship.

There is also a definite closure in my physical and dream life concerning my previous source of female energy. This contact is severed by a dream in which my new soulmate contact is seen to take the place of my old one. The collective energy is beginning the process of being phased out of my psychic system in favor of a more pure single soulmate energy.

THE UNIVERSE

Symbol-Man with torch in cave discovers skeletons of a woman and child.

Meaning-This is the daughter of the King and the Virgin of Eternity. This is the Deva of the Earth element and it is a woman. It is she that the Holy One hath rested from the Giant Time, and the prize of them that have overcome space.

Her body contains the pattern that gives life and balance to all things. It used to be the Kabalistic pattern alone but now it contains the OAK pattern as well.

THE UNIVERSE is related to other Tarot cards. It is related to the Princess of Locks and the Ten of Locks.

It is of the element Earth. It’s power is Earth of Earth and it controls the Sepiroth MALKUTH.

In the Tarot the Trump THE UNIVERSE leads from MALKUTH to YESOD.

My female soulmate is to me the “Universe” during the cycle and her astral substance is extended into every living thing. Through my contact with her I can contact the entire universe, she is the COSMIC. I contact her by going within myself to that part of me that is HUMANITY and drawing female energy from it.

In attaining to the grade of Magister Templi I created my own personal paradigm or understanding of reality through flashes of insight and illuminations. This is a new egregore and it does not match with the current Kabalistic egregore. As a result I am in astral conflict with the Kabalistic egregore and must harmonize my beliefs with this egregore that represents the collective will of humanity.

As a probationer I approached several magical organizations in an attempt to gain physical initiation into a Kabalistic system. For one year every one of my efforts was thwarted by physical circumstances beyond my control. Six months passed and I was in contact with people willing to grant me initiation but distance was a problem. For six months I practiced daily the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram four times a day. Then came the day of my physical initiation into the lowest level of the Kabalistic egregore.

THE UNIVERSE CARD represents the trials of the probationer as they seek initiation into the egregore of any order. In the O. A. K. system they represent the time it takes to attain mastery of the techniques given in chapter five leading to the grade of Magister Templi. It is a period of trial and struggle where everything seems to go against you. Perseverance will bring results. It involves intense physical activity in conjunction with studies because there is an etheric barrier that can only be pierced through hard physical effort. It is this piercing of the veil that allows further advancement.

THE TAROT TRUMPS

The Tarot Trumps symbolize the inner journey that one must take to go back to the “Source”. In this case it represents the symbolic inner journey as we discover the male and female within our own inner natures and develop our spiritual or astral bodies. Each card represents a definite stage of progress on this return journey. They must all be taken in the correct sequence. Each card is therefore an initiation of sorts.

The Trump cards are superior to the Suit cards and represent more universal experiences that will occur in each of the suits. This means that each Trump is true for every type of energy, abstract/spiritual, mental, emotional, and sexual/physical. There are indeed four separate cycles that involve these individual energies as we gradually grow in our spiritual evolution.

For me this return process is really the joining together of true soulmates in a physical relationship. This at least is the ultimate goal. I choose to interpret the Trumps as the various stages in this process which I call the “Soulmate Cycle”.

The concept of soulmates is a difficult one. By it I mean someone whose foundation energy frequency is the same as your own. As people are always growing these foundation frequencies may slowly change. In fact, I believe that every new Eon requires that new “soulmate” pairs be created and the old ones be relinquished. Each person is responsible for their own entry into the New Eon and it will always follow the pattern symbolized by the Tarot Trumps. Thus at any given time different people are traveling the same path independently of each other. Also each of us must experience a physical marriage or sexual relationship to a “collective” soulmate before we can meet our individual soulmate. This collective soulmate represents the interests of humanity and we must through this person fulfill our obligations to humanity before we can achieve to more personal goals.

I have personally traveled through this “Soulmate” cycle three times now and am currently halfway through the fourth cycle so I feel that I understand it to a degree. I have gone through a cycle for the element FIRE and the suit of KEYS, the element WATER and the suit of CUPS, the element AIR and the suit of SWORDS, and now lastly the element EARTH and the suit of LOCKS.

Each new cycle was a replica of the one before it but on a lower and more restrictive level.

The first cycle involved the completion of my personal paradigm or view of reality. It was very abstract and involved visions of the far future and the far past. It also involved humanity’s future interaction with other life forms such as UFO’s. I was given to understand that humanity will not mix with these other life forms in this new Eon, but in the next Eon. In that Eon humanity will eventually merge with those races to become more than human.

The second cycle expressed these same things in less abstract form as a mental simplification of the basic concepts. This cycle also involved global events and political turmoil. It saw the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Gulf War, and major earthquakes around the world.

The third cycle dealt with personal and private issues such as employment and sexual responsibility. It also dealt with very savage astral conflicts as my intentions conflicted with others on the astral planes and two years of struggles ensued. I learned the need to defend myself astrally and also learned how to fight for what I believe in. This was difficult because I was by nature a very passive person that would rather give in to others than create problems. It was during this cycle that I finally decided to try to achieve the future that I felt was waiting for me in the astral. I left my job and security to pursue that dream and landed in a big pile of trouble.

The fourth cycle began when I was struggling to achieve my personal dream physically against tremendous opposition. This opposition was an important part of the entire process. It seems that to physically achieve your spiritual goals, you must give society a means to crucify you. You must incur the wrath of the collective before you can break out of your current life conditions. After fighting the collective to a standstill, you then attempt to smooth things over but on a higher level with you in a more advantageous position. You must fill your obligations to society that were created in your marriage or sexual relationship with your collective soulmate. This happened in the cycle described by the suit cards. At least this happened for the male. The female soulmate for this cycle must still experience this marriage to the collective.

The end of each cycle did not bring me a physical relationship with my “soulmate” but instead brought a new cycle. I hope that there are only four cycles! Each cycle brought me a different “soulmate” to work with. I have had only a Platonic relationship with the women involved. The activity has been mainly astral activity and where possible verified as happening to the other person as well.

One thing seems certain about this cycle. It develops all of the astral bodies of both individuals and gives them great power within the astral. I think there is a difference between the experiences described in the suit cards and those of this cycle because the suit cards reflect normal and everyday interactions with the opposite sex and describes collective experiences shared by almost everyone. The experiences described in the Trump cards only begin after the mystic or magician has crossed the Great Abyss in full awareness and has attained the grade of Magister Templi. I believe it is possible to attain this grade through the method described in chapter five. This crossing of the Great Abyss connects one to opposite sex energy that is God/dess energy. I think that the suit cards reflect the stages of personal growth up to the stages of crossing the Great Abyss and the grade of Magister Templi. I believe that the experiences described in the Trump cards reflect the stages of the grades Magister Templi and Magus. I also believe that these events in the “soulmate” cycle are largely beyond personal control and fall under cosmic law instead, especially as it begins with a personal connection to God/dess.

This connection to God/dess energy replaces the opposite sex energy that you are currently using and results in the breakup of that relationship. It also establishes a connection to the lunar and solar cycles that acts to further develop the body of light that has been formed in the crossing of the Great Abyss. The process seems fairly mechanical from that point onward. It establishes a cosmic circuit that goes around the entire universe and encircles it.

Also these soulmate cycles have two parts that basically repeat each other with some minor differences. First the entire cycle is gone through with “spiritual” energy and creates astral bodies and astral futures. At the completion of the spiritual cycle it seems to start all over using etheric energies instead and creates etheric bodies and etheric futures. I am currently in the etheric portion of the EARTH cycle which means that I’ve experienced versions of this cycle some seven times now, four with spiritual energies and three with etheric energies.

In conclusion I wish to say that these cycles are phenomenon that are perfectly natural and mechanical in nature based entirely upon the intensity and the amount of effort an individual puts into his or her life. Very small effort will show very small progress in these cycles. Very large effort will at some point impinge upon the collective future of humanity and encounter resistance. Surplus energies will at that point flow into the collective and be distributed among others. The completion of the cycle being established as a specific moment in time and not one minute sooner.

It seems the cycle involves three people and the collective of humanity as soulmates. In the suit cards we learned to experience any one of the opposite sex as our soulmate. In this cycle we experience very specific individuals that we do not choose. They are chosen for us as contact is made within our dreams long before we meet them. As a mystic of the grade Magister Templi I tap into that part of myself that is both male and female, that part that is HUMANITY. From that part of myself I seek opposite sex energy or female energy. In my dreams contact is made with a real physical female person and I get energy from her. She is for the duration of the cycle my “soulmate” in the truest sense of the term. The third person in the cycle is another male. He also is a soulmate of mine and of the female. But he is the exact opposite of what she is, the two of them combined create a complete unit.

Forming a triad he represents the male force and she the female force while I represent the combination of male/female through the act of going within for my female energy. He is of the old egregore and represents the collective of humanity and I am of a new egregore. This is the time of changing to more appropriate soulmates. He must give up his connection to her so that I may create a new connection to her. The collective is the fourth soulmate in this cycle because at the deepest level we are all a part of everyone else and it only appears that we are separate. As a Magister Templi we have already been married to the collective. The female’s relationship to the third person is her marriage to the collective which is just beginning to happen.

My experiences have always been of the two males and one female variety but it stands to reason that there must be similar cycles involving triads of two females and one male. I share these things because I believe them to be general principles that have always existed in the process of spiritual development. I have followed the mystic path before following the magical path and suspect this may be a factor in the type of experience a person has. The magician turned mystic may have a different type of experience. Because of this it seems that any experience may be either a male or a female experience depending on whether one follows a mystical or magical path. I can only try to share from my personal experiences and let others sort it out as it applies in their own circumstances.

A final clarification must be made about astral energy, its creation and uses as well as the development of astral bodies. As mentioned in previous chapters I believe that all astral energy must be created and generated through the physical body and injected into the astral perhaps as dreams or with practice directly injected.

A male body can only generate male energy and a female body can only generate female energy. Male astral energy is uncontrollable, expansive and destructive in nature. It can destroy astral objects. Female astral energy is restrictive and containing in nature. It can create barriers and encircle harmful things to make them ineffective.

Only a perfect mix of 50% male astral energy and 50% female astral energy is malleable and capable of forming astral bodies or various astral creations. The collective is one form of this type of energy that is very powerful. The most powerful type is that created during the “Soulmate” cycle when the new “soulmate” pair is established and their energy Phase-locks together in an unbreakable unit capable of creating a new life for each of them.

This concludes the introduction to the “Soulmate” cycle symbolized by the Tarot trumps. A cycle that is as old as time itself. The stages are as I have personally experienced them, meaning from the perspective of a two male and one female triad.

Symbol-sexual union with no barriers

Meaning-Realization

This is total understanding put into perfect action. This is a perfect union of both pleasure and pain. This is love without barriers, joy without bounds, and a world without limits.

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Symbol-Death as a beautiful being flying toward the light.

Meaning- He gives her the key

This is the beginning of the enthronement process as they are recognized and honored by others for their attainments. For the first time life is truly smiling on them. Even the hard things propel them onward in the right direction.

All restrictions and injuries have been lifted up into the Christ Light to become Holy. All sins and darkness remain as transfigured blessings and proofs of this true attainment.

Together as a couple they look forward toward a deep and fulfilling life of Mastery. A life that contains all things. A life that explores all that needs to be explored.
This is the first step in their life of service to others. They are truly a family.

This will be a life born of true compromise where nothing is lost or given up. If one of them wishes to experience a certain type of life they both will experience it together. They will overcome all obstacles and differences between them in time.

They have experienced the love that each holds for the other and the love they have for themselves as well. They like who they are as a couple and as individuals.

They know that within each of them lives a dangerous being capable of unimaginable cruelty and violence. They know at times they will hurt each other and hurt others swiftly and without remorse. When this happens they will accept the pain and cruelty as an echo and reflection of what is within themselves and rejoice in the strength and will to survive that flows within both of them and within the entire human race.

They can do this because they know it is also possible to rise above the animal and to be divine. This is what it truly is to be human, to be a divine animal above all other
animals and to have a mate as strong as yourself. They have discovered the power of tough love within themselves and within each other.

Magick,Mystery and Madness is my own personal book of shadows. This includes material too personal or sacred to share with the general public. If you are interested in magick and energy work this is the place! Available to OAK membership only.

OAK Inner Circle is a closed forum for the OAK membership to get together and discuss more personal and private matters. If you are interested getting to know other people or asking me questions this is the place! Available to OAK membership only.

This magazine is available as a quality paperback for $6.94 or an email download for $3.75!

Lakes Area Pagan is a collection of essays, poetry, art and photos from the Brainerd Lakes Area of central Minnesota. It is a showcase of the incredible tallent and vision found there. It is also a way of binding hearts and minds together in a spirit of love and cooperative effort. Proceeds from online sales go back into publishing the magazine.

SYMBOL-They lock together as life and death combined
Meaning- Join Forces

This joining of forces is a difficult thing for her because she is generating low level physical energy that brings all of her past injuries and fears into awareness. Does she want to relive these old experiences with him? Does she have to?

The dark side of her personality has joined with the dark side of his personality. Is this a good thing?

Slowly she realizes that the light side of their personalities have joined together also. The future holds the promise of both good and bad things happening to each of them. This is the awareness of the bittersweet qualities that all true relationships must share.

He has no intention of experiencing the dark side of life with her. It is troublesome that she wants to experience things he would rather forget. This makes her a little less attractive to him and he is finally able to see she is very different from what he thought she was.

In fact, she is almost the opposite of what he had thought she would be like. To him it seems she likes the pain life has to offer and that really scares him. He is not really into pain as much as he is into living in his head. He must learn to appreciate the bitter-sweet in life. He must learn to live in the present moment and not run away from responsibility.

Male experience:

He is disturbed at the intensity with which she lives life. She is not afraid to experience pain or unpleasant events and even seems to get a perverse pleasure from them. This is not at all like the living in his head that he is used too. The prospect of such intense earthy experiences is frightening to him. Staying so long in the present moment is almost more than he can bear. This is an entirely new insight into who she is. He must learn to accept the bitter-sweet in life and accept his responsibilities.

FEMALE EXPERIENCE:

It is difficult for her to imagine a life full to the brim with happiness and joy. Instead, the emptiness and pain within her yearn for expression as well and she is surprised that her emptiness and pain are an important part of who she is. Her children mean everything to her. It is important to be alone at times and important to truly and deeply feel one’s pain and sorrow. It is important to drink deeply from life’s cup. The deepest things in life are bitter-sweet.

She might not have a life of her own but she can live through the life of her children.

Magick,Mystery and Madness is my own personal book of shadows. This includes material too personal or sacred to share with the general public. If you are interested in magick and energy work this is the place! Available to OAK membership only.

OAK Inner Circle is a closed forum for the OAK membership to get together and discuss more personal and private matters. If you are interested getting to know other people or asking me questions this is the place! Available to OAK membership only.

This magazine is available as a quality paperback for $6.94 or an email download for $3.75!

Lakes Area Pagan is a collection of essays, poetry, art and photos from the Brainerd Lakes Area of central Minnesota. It is a showcase of the incredible tallent and vision found there. It is also a way of binding hearts and minds together in a spirit of love and cooperative effort. Proceeds from online sales go back into publishing the magazine.