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Erm... Not quite following you here? My comment was just noticing the divine madness context of the devil card against the perhaps less wild idea of fulfillment.
Somehow, I can't quite see the forms of "madness" that Crowley proposes as being in any way perverse.
Pareidolia?
This card's placement of the Tree of Life indicates the process whereby Being is clothed in the forms of the intellect.
Ayin - the Eye. Perception! Things may not be what they appear to be.
Erm... Not quite following you here? My comment was just noticing the divine madness context of the devil card against the perhaps less wild idea of fulfillment.
I hadn't thought about those things being perverse, thanks for bringing that up, I'll think on it After all doesn't Pan represent 'the All'
That's precisely my first impression of the Devil when I see it in a reading: "something may not be what it appears to be."
Yet at the same time it is a creative act. There may nothing in the "complex, and fantastic forms of madness" that make up the background to the card. But I'm sure anyone who looks hard enough will end up seeing something that's not really there. (Pareidolia)
One of the main features of the card looks like a cock & balls. Or is that just what we make it represent when we look at it?