yvette_the_pig
Hi everyone
I've been thinking about the Hanged Man a lot lately. I'm just starting to try to get a hold of what all the cards mean, and nearly everywhere I look I see people talk about the Hanged Man in terms of sacrifice, but in the Book of Thoth, Crowley says:
So I'm wondering how to incorporate that with the idea of sacrifice. I've been finding some of the sections in the Book of Thoth really resonate, but I can't get a handle on the Hanged Man as represented in BoT at all.
What does everybody think?
I've been thinking about the Hanged Man a lot lately. I'm just starting to try to get a hold of what all the cards mean, and nearly everywhere I look I see people talk about the Hanged Man in terms of sacrifice, but in the Book of Thoth, Crowley says:
In the former Aeon, that of Osiris, the element of Air, which is the nature of that Aeon, is not unsympathetic either to Water or to Fire; compromise was a mark of that period. But now, under a Fiery lord of the Aeon, the watery element, so far as water is below the Abyss, is definitely hostile, unless the opposition is the right opposition implied in marriage. But in this card the only question is of the "redemption" of the submerged element, and therefore everything is reversed. This idea of sacrifice is, in the final analysis, a wrong idea.
"I give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice."
"Every man and every woman is a star."
The whole idea of sacrifice is a misconception of nature, and these texts of the Book of the Law are the answer to it.
So I'm wondering how to incorporate that with the idea of sacrifice. I've been finding some of the sections in the Book of Thoth really resonate, but I can't get a handle on the Hanged Man as represented in BoT at all.
What does everybody think?