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Thanks you 2 for clearing that up for me, wow, boy I was wrong, oops, I guess this is what happens when you don't go to bible school lol
Learned something new today
Learned something new today
The concepts are found in some form in most spiritual and even philosophical perspectives (not necessarily religious), including Shamanism.I guess this is what happens when you don't go to bible school lol
Agreed. So would you say Spirit-Above and Soul-Below?Mary, your definition as the female face of the divine is spot on, imo.
Waite divides the Shekinah into two very broad categories, Sekinah above and Shekinah below, or Shekinah in manifestation. In Waite's Fellowship of the Rosy Cross, it's Shekinah in manifestation who helps, or leads, the initiate through the first four grades, at which point her guidance is no longer necessary. The Shekinah is one of Waite's more complicated doctrines imo; I still don't have it all sorted out.
In my best estimation, the High Priestess is Sekinah above (in transcendence) and the Empress is Shekinah in manifestation.
It's definitely there in his poetry.Waite doesn't always show his tender side but when he writes stuff like this you know he had to have one.
"The Tarot and Secret Tradition" continued
11. "The spiritual side of Alchemy is set forth in the much stranger emblems of the Book of Lambspring, and of this I have already given a preliminary interpretation, to which the reader may be referred. [Occult Review, vol 8, 1908.]
12. "The tract contains the mystery of what is called the mystical or arch-natural elixir, being the marriage of the soul and the spirit in the body of the adept philospher and the transmutation of the body as the physical result of this marriage.
13. "I have never met with more curious intimations than in this one little work.
14. "It may be mentioned as a point of fact that both tracts are very much later in time than the latest date that could be assigned to the general distribution of Tarot cards in Europe by the most drastic form of criticism.
15. "They belong respectively to the end of the seventeenth and sixteenth centuries."
11. The spiritual side of Alchemy is set forth in the much stranger emblems of the Book Of Lambspring, and of this I have already given a preliminary interpretation, to which the reader may be referred. (Footnote #2 See the Occult Review, vol. viii, 1908.)
**Mary has given a link to the OR article in her post #37 above.**
12. The tract contains the mystery of what is called the mystical or arch-natural elixir, being the marriage of the soul and the spirit in the body of the adept philosopher and the transmutation of the body as the physical result of this marriage.
13. I have never met with more curious intimations than in this one little work.
14. It may be mentioned as a point of fact that both tracts are very much later in time than the latest date that could be assigned to the general distribution of Tarot cards in Europe by the most drastic form of criticism.
15. They belong respectively to the end of the seventeenth and sixteenth centuries.
16. As I am not drawing here on the font of imagination to refresh that of fact and experience, I do not suggest that the Tarot set the example of expressing Secret Doctrine in pictures and that it was followed by Hermetic writers; but it is noticeable that it is perhaps the earliest example of this art.
17. It is also the most catholic, because it is not, by attribution or otherwise, a derivative of any one school or literature of occultism; it is not of Alchemy or Kabalism or Astrology or Ceremonial Magic; but, as I have said, it is the presentation of universal ideas by means of universal types, and it is in the combination of these types —if anywhere—that it presents Secret Doctrine.
the Shekinah is, for Waite, the feminine face of the Divine, whom the Hierophant/Priest marries in the Inner Temple in the heart - but this is the male perspective.
What do you feel was Waite's understanding of the Shekinah?
Mary, your definition as the female face of the divine is spot on, imo.
Waite divides the Shekinah into two very broad categories, Sekinah above and Shekinah below, or Shekinah in manifestation. In Waite's Fellowship of the Rosy Cross, it's Shekinah in manifestation who helps, or leads, the initiate through the first four grades, at which point her guidance is no longer necessary. The Shekinah is one of Waite's more complicated doctrines imo; I still don't have it all sorted out.
In my best estimation, the High Priestess is Sekinah above (in transcendence) and the Empress is Shekinah in manifestation.