https://blog.goo.ne.jp/quonan2?fm=rss quonan2 2025-05-13T06:53:22+09:00 ja ⒸNTT DOCOMO, INC. All Rights Reserved. https://blogimg.goo.ne.jp/user_photo/e1/118425a7d529251f0077cbb2509e758b.jpg?1740828008 https://blog.goo.ne.jp/quonan2?fm=rss 精神世界の研究試論です。テーマは、瞑想、冥想、人間の進化、七つの身体。このブログは、いかなる団体とも関係ありません。 精神世界の研究試論です。テーマは、瞑想、冥想、人間の進化、七つの身体。このブログは、いかなる団体とも関係ありません。 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss https://blog.goo.ne.jp/quonan2/e/3d3cca12b563c49c84798134957b33f6?fm=rss The Jewish Sephirot (Tree of Life) consists of 10 spheres, and the 22 lines connecting them are called paths. However, from one sphere, 8 paths might branch out, or 4 paths, which does not explain the path to enlightenment as a single road in the 22 figures.Perhaps the person who first created the Major Arcana of the Tarot was unaware of the 22 paths of the Sephirot and arranged them with a linear image as a model for the path a person takes to enlightenment.The first half, from 1 The Magician to 10 Wheel of Fortune, is not simply the world of delusion but represents the exoteric path of seeking the Way, that is, the image of mastering the Way from the world of the living. 9 The Hermit is an exception, being esoteric, but such individuals do exist on the fringes even in modern society.Mastering the side of life also leads to mastering the side of death, which in a narrow sense is the ultimate of contemplation-centered seeking of the Way in Christianity and the ultimate of Shikantaza (just sitting) meditation.The Yuan Dao Xun (Original Way Instructions) of the Huainanzi states, "To go out of life and enter death is to go from non-being to being, from being to non-being, and then to decline and become base. Therefore, purity and stillness are the utmost of virtue, and gentleness and weakness are the essentials of the Way."In this passage, the distinction between life and death is not the issue; rather, the underlying oneness flowing through both the world of the living and the world of the dead is purity and stillness, and its nature, if expressed, is gentleness and weakness. This is the image of mastering the side of death from the side of life.On the other hand, from 11 Strength to 0 The Fool, the Kundalini Yoga type, that is, the Jewish, Christian esoteric, and Western alchemical path of seeking the Way, is shown.In 11 Strength, there is the power of the sacred sound Om as the overall flow, and in 12 The Hanged Man, the experience of one's own death (13 Death) and seeing gods and Buddhas occurs.The period for establishing and stabilizing this experience is 14 Temperance, but when one's openness becomes fully open, 15 The Devil appears. Clearing that leads to the step of divine-human union in 16 The Tower.The following is the level of irreversible commitment to the divine, with 17 The Star gazing at the star. In 18 The Moon and 19 The Sun, the ultimate androgyny is achieved. In 20 Judgment, one begins to climb the ladder, the final straight path to God, and achieves divine-human union in 21 The World.However, it does not end there, and 0 The Fool places the Lord, God, Nirvana, which cannot be expressed in words.Tarot cards now have considerably free designs, but in these 500 years of being in an intermediate state, having half-forgotten God, I believe they were created with the expectation that those with discerning eyes would see the 22 Major Arcana as a single path to God.
]]> Jade Tablet Apocrypha 2025-05-13T06:51:21+09:00 https://blog.goo.ne.jp/quonan2/e/3d3cca12b563c49c84798134957b33f6 https://blog.goo.ne.jp/quonan2/e/7e4cae471ced0a51eea7d421b861b4ac?fm=rss The 21st World is the sixth body, not the seventh body Nirvana, which is the final destination. Therefore, 0 The Fool becomes Nirvana.From the human perspective, both the 21st World and 0 The Fool are no different from gods and Buddhas.The so-called God, Buddha, and Tao have two faces: the side of being (有 - yū) and the side of non-being (無 - mu). The deeper side is the side of non-being. While the side of being is Atman, the side of non-being is Nirvana. In ancient India, it would be Atman and Nirvana, but in ancient Shinto, the side of being refers to Amaterasu Omikami and Susanoo no Mikoto, and the side of non-being is Amenominakanushi no Kami. Onisaburo Deguchi describes Amenominakanushi no Kami, who is Nirvana, as the formless, voiceless, infinitely absolute, without beginning or end, great original spirit of the universe. The so-called Great God is the side of non-being.In the Old Testament of Christianity, God before creating heaven and earth is the side of non-being, and the first heaven and earth are the side of being. In the Ten Bulls of Zen, the side of being is the self and the ox, and the side of non-being is the Enso (circle). Thus, in most traditional world religions, there are names for God on the side of being and names on the side of non-being.Nirvana is the seventh body in the theory of the seven bodies, but like Atman, it has no individuality and is not something on the human side.Above all, it cannot be expressed in words, so it can only be indicated by metaphorical symbols. This is the Enso of the eighth picture in the Ten Bulls of Zen, or Dainichi Nyorai. Also, if we were to tentatively name it, the names differ: in Buddhism it is Nirvana, in Zen it is Mu (emptiness), in Lao Tzu it is Tao, in ancient Shinto it is Amenominakanushi no Kami, in Christianity it is God, and in India it is Nirvana.The Fool is a trickster, or an old infant. In the illustration, the perineum is stimulated by a dog, making one aware of the Kundalini rising from the Muladhara chakra at the perineum.The characteristics of a trickster include playing pranks that have serious consequences for humans and telling harmless lies that put the entire world in a predicament.Those called tricksters include Hermes in Greek mythology, Loki in Norse mythology, Susanoo no Mikoto in Japanese mythology, and Judas, who betrayed Jesus.At first glance, their actions appear to be evil deeds stemming from shallow wisdom, but their results fundamentally destroy the evils and customs of the entire world, ultimately bringing about a completely new order.If we were to look back in order at the process by which this hellish world is transformed into the thousand-year bliss, we would be able to detect the actions of several great, harmless tricksters.Onisaburo Deguchi, who advocated the world of absolute peace, Miroku's world, organized the Showa Shinseikai, rode a white horse, and engaged in military-like training and archery. Hermes is a pilot (guide) to humanity's future and a trickster who plays pranks that determine humanity's fate. He appears as Krishna, as Dantes Daiji, and like the great Indian saint Babaji, he appears in advance when humanity is approaching a dangerous period.Susanoo no Mikoto uses a crude method of getting the eight-headed serpent drunk on sake and then slaying it.Judas betraying Jesus for thirty pieces of silver was no joke, but without it, the two thousand years of glory of Christianity would not have existed. And if Loki in Norse mythology had not had the blind Höðr kill the supremely handsome Baldr with a mistletoe arrow, Ragnarök, the end of the world, would not have begun.We will probably only know after the fact that that small move was a great move for humanity. The poison may seem small, but the healing is great.And why the Fool? If we view the worldview of the following poem by Onisaburo Deguchi as sanity, then the legal regulations, merits, and demerits that are considered common sense in this modern society are not just unconventional but are like madness and delusion. The worldviews of Kundalini Yoga-based Western alchemy, Esotericism, Taoism, and ancient Shinto become non-public or like highly difficult coded documents once a certain depth is reached.You won't understand God if you look with your ears, listen with your eyes, eat with your nose, and smell with your mouth.Ears hear, eyes see, mouth and nose eat, hands and feet work, head and belly also work, eight ears. (Onisaburo Deguchi)The Fool corresponds to the seventh body, Nirvana. That is why it is unnumbered.Regarding the "nothingness" aspect of Nirvana, here I will cite the Bible, Shakyamuni, and Ikkyu."Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on." (Revelation 14:13) If you die in the Lord, there is nothing."I came from the Father and entered the world, and now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father." (John 16:28) Before birth and after death, there is nothing.Shakyamuni elaborates on nothingness in Chapter 26, "Peace (Nirvana)," of the Udana-varga (Inspired Utterances):Its going forth, the quiet state where thought has no range, is the cessation of the things of sorrow, the ease of the quieted working.That state where what has come to be exists not, neither void nor what is not void, nor both, nor neither; that state I know well.There is no coming to be, no going forth, no standing still, no falling away. No abiding, no depending. — That is the end of sorrow, it is said.Where water, earth, fire, wind find no footing, there no white light shines, no darkness is found.There the moon shines not, nor the sun. The sage knows for himself his own silence concerning that state, and is freed from form and formless, from all sorrow.He who has reached the ultimate of wisdom, fearless, without doubt, without the trouble of regret, has cut off the arrow of existence. This is his last body.This is the highest ultimate, the state of unsurpassed quiet. It is the liberation where all figures are extinguished and cease to be. (Quoted from The Words of Truth of the Buddha and the Words of Inspiration / Iwanami Bunko, pp. 243-244)

]]> Jade Tablet Apocrypha 2025-05-13T06:48:08+09:00 https://blog.goo.ne.jp/quonan2/e/7e4cae471ced0a51eea7d421b861b4ac https://blog.goo.ne.jp/quonan2/e/4e3f6445b178fcfeba48795d8bb576ff?fm=rss Having already seen God and Buddha in 12 The Hanged Man, resisted the temptation of 15 The Devil, and become irreversibly on the side of good from 16 The Tower, one's very way of life has become one of only doing good and not doing evil (諸悪莫作衆善奉行 - shōaku makusa shūzen bugyō).In 17 The Star, one obtains a star as an experience confirming enlightenment, and in 18 The Moon and 19 The Sun, one achieves perfect androgyny through the union of the sun and moon. In 20 Judgment, the individual self takes the final step towards the entire world, the entire universe, that is, towards God, but does not yet reach it.One reaches it in 21 The World, which in the theory of the seven bodies is the sixth body, Atman.God has a side of being (有 - yū) and a side of non-being (無 - mu), and the side of being is Atman. Atman is no longer something on the human side. It is the all-encompassing one, where all phenomena are connected as one.Atman is one's original self, one's true self, the principal image of worship, the Holy Grail, the moon, the lunar halo, and the mirror. And it is immortal, eternal, incorruptible, indestructible, and beyond conceptualization.Atman is the collective term for the entirety of the phenomenal side, including matter and spirit, time and space, and its symbols include the feminine, the Great Mother, the earth, the cow, and the boar.The illustration of the Camoin Tarot is a cosmic egg like passing through a chinowa (茅の輪 - a ring made of cogon grass for purification). Her loincloth of "天上天下唯我独尊" (tenjō tenge yuiga dokuson - only I am the honored one throughout heaven and earth) hides her androgyny. Because it is the side of being, high-ranking guardian spirits of the four directions are visible.Humans struggle in pursuit of enlightenment, but without God, the human drama does not occur. By God alone, the human drama does not begin.The 21st World is living with the realization that oneself is an individual and at the same time all people, all things, living and non-living, in the universe of the past, present, and future.There are poems by Dantes Daiji that concisely convey that feeling in modern language. Two poems:【How Human】The uninterpretable, eternal passion that tries to transcend humanity No one knows when that passion, even possessing the limits of humanity, broke through and made the mystery of timelessness realThe passion that transcended death from the beginning burns as a flame that has forgotten everything Clinging to even a single raindrop and wailing and again immersing itself completely in the swamp No longer needing time, phenomena, or even mystery Life complete within life, forgetting even that completion How human How human (Quoted from The Play of Absolute Nothingness / Dantes Daiji, p. 13)Furthermore:【I am God】I am God All humans never forget even for a moment They continue to seek me and live The ashtray in front of my eyes I with trillions of times more soul than all politics, culture, and thought brought forth Each movement of my fingers crushes and then kneads together again the Milky Way galaxy and all other universes But more than that I love the suicide of that elementary school girl much, much moreThe young man who longed for the generous life of a farmer exhausted after many years of cultivating crops in the midst of losing hope and vitality I exist as limitless hope and vitalityBecause I am God I don't rely on anything, stubbornly pretending While changing jobs from a bakery to a nude studio I ruined the wife who continued to love me and made her commit suicide And because I am God I realized how much of a God my wife was after she died, and all I can do is weep A large hole has opened in my chest and from that hole I can always gaze at the infinite universe But I, the God, hate God and try to fill the hole in my chest with alcohol and drugsI am God Never once have I looked squarely at a human face have I heard the chirping of a sparrow have I seen the sun, moon, or stars have I truly eaten ice creamBecause I am God I discuss things with everyone while sweating coldly Because I am God I envelop everyone with endless love Because I am GodA drunk shouts loudly Because I am God Sometimes laughing loudly, sometimes breaking down in tears Spilling vomit and excrement in the middle of the road I am God One who desires all of woman out of lust One who seeks and seeks God endlessly The caves of the Himalayas are not worth even one mahjong parlor Yet one continues to enjoy all the ends of Zazen meditation in the caves I am GodWhen the divine nurse brought the fetus my wife aborted in a bottle preserved in alcohol I could only stare with a foolish look One who seeks the warmth of a stove in the cold snowy mountains One who even drinks his own urine in the middle of the desert Because I am GodOne who ridicules and mocks the life of seeking the Way Because I am God Like the moon's reflection in the lake I strive in the life of seeking the Way more than anything The layman called a saint merely separated delusion and enlightenment So the seeker who loves enlightenment crazily continues to follow the various paths to enlightenment And in the end, because I am God I open the delusion called enlightenment and rejoiceI am God, a prostitute Like that seventeen-year-old girl I can't go a day without a man The fondness for the happiness of all things is also troublesome This and that are all my responsibility as God I am GodGently offering a cup of tea to a friend Because fakes called Shakyamuni, Christ, Krishna, Lao Tzu, etc. have appeared The world is ending You are God, so live yourself I am God, so I live myself I, who have too much free time insist on the decline of civilization and religion and philosophy I, who have too much free time insist on being God, God I, who have too much free time love the peaceful rural scenery and the shining sunlight and the silver seaEven though I shouldn't, at that cabaret over there I start hitting on a girl And I, the God, because I have too much free time even though I shouldn't, continue to be God itselfYou have what you are in love with and I have what I am in love with I, as a human being, desperately hold the hand of a cancer patient now dying A master of worldly wisdom is nothing but a distant delusion Have you ever been truly serious even for a moment? Probably not After all, you are God I am always, always truly serious Because I am GodI lie all the time, all day long Because I am God You are truthful all the time, all day long Because you are God I am God One who keeps shouting to somehow help my loneliness I am GodLoneliness is like a wind blowing somewhere else Don't get caught up in absolute happiness Because we are God Let's play with this absolute happiness Because we are God I am God One who indulges in a sweetness sweeter than honey I am God One who has not a bit of indulgence or weakness I am God A weak, soft, effeminate creature (Quoted from The Play of Absolute Nothingness / Dantes Daiji, pp. 25-33)When a person lives as God, others and you are also God. When he lives as a human, he knows the miserable and pathetic weaknesses of humans, has not a bit of indulgence or weakness, but at the same time has a love that forgives everything. Furthermore, he controls the movement of stars and planets and manipulating the weather is easy for him. He also knows about people who do bad things out of boredom and knows about Job, who lived earnestly while being afflicted by all kinds of misfortune.I think living on the side of being is something like that.

]]> Jade Tablet Apocrypha 2025-05-13T06:41:38+09:00 https://blog.goo.ne.jp/quonan2/e/4e3f6445b178fcfeba48795d8bb576ff https://blog.goo.ne.jp/quonan2/e/47e41f78c1bef099ee4df46c1479a40a?fm=rss 20 Judgment is the status immediately before unification with God, which is the 21st World. The 21st World, in terms of the seven bodies, is the sixth body, Atman.The Last Judgment does not occur in the manifested world but in the spirit world. Everything in the world first originates in the spirit world and then occurs in the manifested world. ※There is a view that the outline of the end of the world occurred in the spirit world many decades ago, and only some details remain undecided.Now, if we imagine the individual self and the entire world becoming one, the world's side includes all other people, both living and dead. Therefore, the story goes that in the Last Judgment, all the dead will also be resurrected and given a chance.The cross-shaped flag in the 20 Judgment card of the Camoin Tarot represents the entire world, including the past, future, present, this world, and the spirit world. Dantes Daiji also uses a cross in his Meditation Cross Map, and Onisaburo Deguchi uses a cross called the Ten Luminaries Mon (十曜の神紋 - Jūyō no Shinmon).The actual atmosphere of the Last Judgment is not like a trial in the spirit world court with King Enma as the judge and the accused as the defendant. Rather, Onisaburo Deguchi explains it as each person willingly judging whether they go to heaven or hell:"Christ said that he would return to perform the Last Judgment, but his Last Judgment means the performance of the baptism of fire. He attempted to perform the baptism of fire, but his great work was thwarted midway, so he wanted to come again and complete the baptism of fire.The baptism of fire, as my disciples already know well, is the spiritual salvation of humankind. Many people seem to think that the Last Judgment will be carried out in a format similar to King Enma judging sinners in the spirit world court, but that is wrong. It is the presentation of the standards for those who can enter heaven and those who will fall into hell. After these standards are presented, each person, by their own free will, chooses to enter heaven or willingly falls into hell; it depends on the will and thoughts of each individual." (Quoted from Onisaburo Deguchi's Essays "Suikyō" [The Reikai Monogatari is the Book of the Last Judgment])Onisaburo Deguchi states that these standards are the Reikai Monogatari (Spiritual World Stories), which was published in the Taisho era, so the Last Judgment has already started long ago. Similarly, he points out the passage in the Bible, "And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come," arguing that since the standards have already been shown to the world, the Bible also states that the Last Judgment will come.In Nostradamus's letter to King Henry II, it says, "Just before the age of great calamity, many unfamiliar birds will sing in the air, crying 'Now, now,' and disappear after a while."Now, for Christians, a clear image of the Last Judgment would be the image of a ladder leading to heaven.Perpetua, a 22-year-old female martyr in the Roman era, was killed by a sword after being gored by a bull in the arena. Her first vision was of a narrow bronze ladder, only wide enough for one person to pass, reaching up to heaven, with a huge dragon at the bottom of the ladder.Also, according to the illustrations in "Aion / C.G. Jung / Jinbun Shoin," the wall paintings in the Calbina cemetery in the Roman catacombs depict a person (monk?) climbing a ladder, with a snake at the bottom of the ladder.Looking at these two examples, it is easy to see that the dragon or snake is Kundalini, residing in the Muladhara chakra, and the ladder is the energy cord, its ascending route.In Genesis 28:12, Jacob saw a ladder to heaven: "And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!" The fact that the ladder extends from God's side towards the earth, rather than extending from the earth upwards, suggests the characteristics of ancient esoteric spirituality in an era when the ego was undeveloped. Jacob is looking from above.Edward Maitland's vision of God: "I felt myself at first as if ascending a long ladder from the circumference towards a central point of a system which was my own, that of the solar system, and at the same time that of the universe. These three systems were distinct and yet one... At length I made a final effort... I was able to focus the rays of light which radiated from my consciousness to the point I desired. At that instant, as if all the light had fused into one by a sudden ignition, a marvelous, indescribable white light of surpassing brilliance stood before me." (Quoted from The Secret of the Golden Flower / Jung and Wilhelm / Jinbun Shoin) Maitland then tried to see the identity of this white light.Describing the entire world as heaven or the heavens is something that could happen to fit a doctrinal system. Also, in China, there are Jianmu and Fusang as pillars reaching to heaven.This 20 Judgment has not yet reached the 21st World.Here, while one's own death is loudly proclaimed, one must not forget that the universe and world one inhabited also die simultaneously. On the other hand, uniting with the world means experiencing the reality of all living people and the reality of all people who have died so far, which is why it is said that the lid of hell's cauldron opens and they too have a last chance.
]]> Jade Tablet Apocrypha 2025-05-13T06:37:21+09:00 https://blog.goo.ne.jp/quonan2/e/47e41f78c1bef099ee4df46c1479a40a https://blog.goo.ne.jp/quonan2/e/74a8ad12e68d1ed8a9f578916f732277?fm=rss After the Moon comes the Sun. This Sun is not the Central Sun, but the sun that functions as a pair with the Moon. This is because in the Camoin Tarot illustration, a man and a woman are united in a bond.In the Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters), the Moon is the Auspicious Spirit (瑞霊 - Zuirei) of Susanoo no Mikoto (Impetuous Male Deity), and the Sun is the August Spirit (厳霊 - Gonrei) of Amaterasu Omikami (Great Heavenly Shining Deity). The modern Western civilization that dominates this world is an Apollonian civilization, where darkness is bad and everything is about light, a civilization that overemphasizes the sun. Its backbone is Christianity, which reveres the (motherless) father God as primary, and this also overemphasizes the sun, treating the motherly moon as inferior. Black Madonna statues, for example, are treated like stepchildren.In contrast, ancient Shinto, in the Kojiki, describes how Amaterasu Omikami, the sun, and Susanoo no Mikoto, the moon, made a pledge to each other at the Heavenly Riverbank of Tranquility (天の安の河原 - Ama-no-Yasu-no-Kawara), and from the union of this sun and moon, Izunome no Kami (威徳物部神), a perfectly complete and androgynous deity, was born. In this respect, ancient Shinto shows a good balance.Next is the story of seeing the midnight sun.Lucius, who had been turned into a donkey, was able to return to human form by seeing the midnight sun (The Golden Ass / Apuleius). Besides this anecdote, there is also a scene in the Chinese Taoist text The Secret of the Golden Flower."'At the third watch (midnight), the sun wheel emits a dazzling light' is the second step for the practitioner." Osho Bhagwan explains that if one concentrates on being in the middle way in the first step, one becomes able to see the physical body and the mind simultaneously, and becomes aware of oneself watching them. The watching self is the soul. If one dedicates oneself to watching with the watching self, suddenly, as if the sun rises and shines at midnight, both inside and outside are filled with light, and the whole existence burns.Recently, many people who practice Hatha Yoga do sun salutations, but it might be one-sided if they don't also do moon salutations.In China, there is also a World Tree, a Tree of Life, a Tree of Philosophy: the Jianmu (建木). The sun also appears in this. In the section on Mount Kunlun in the Huainanzi (Terrain Training), it says, "The Jianmu is in Duguang, the place where the many emperors ascend and descend. At midday, there is no shadow, and even if one shouts, there is no echo. It is indeed the center of heaven and earth." (The World Tree is in the center of the earth, and the gods ascend and descend here. Like the time when the sun culminates, it casts no shadow and makes no sound. This is the center of heaven and earth.)This is the image of Jacob's Ladder seen in Christianity and Reikai Monogatari (Spiritual World Stories). It is the place one passes through in ascension. However, what is even more significant is that at midday there is no shadow, and even if one shouts, there is no echo. A world where the visible scenery does not move and there is no sound.This is a world where time has stopped. Stopping time is an expression often used by Don Juan Matus of the Yaqui Indians. Stopping time means the cessation of thought. Only then does one become the center of the world. The currently popular "here and now" seems to originally refer to this level.The World Tree is divided into roots and branches. If applied to humans, the roots are the head and the branches become the feet, an inversion of the standing posture of everyday consciousness. This is also the style of the Hanged Man in the Tarot. Also, this image of plunging one's head into the world of death also represents that the world of death is wider than the world of the living.Furthermore, the Classic of Mountains and Seas (Overseas Eastern Classic) also has a description of Fusang (扶桑), another name for Jianmu. It says that Fusang is where ten suns bathe; nine suns are on the lower branches, and one sun is on the upper branch. The ten suns are the ten chakras. The sun on the upper branch corresponds to the Sahasrara chakra, indicating that it is special.Patanjali's Yoga Sutra 3.32: "By performing Samyama on the light under the crown of the head, one gains contact with all perfect realities." 3.33: "Or, through illumination (Pratibha), everything can be known.""All perfect realities" refers to the sixth body, Atman. "Samyama at Sahasrara = Atman" is like a coded expression.Here too, Osho Bhagwan points out the connection between the sun and the moon. Regarding Pratibha, he first says,"The sun is intellect, the moon is intuition. When you transcend both, pratibha comes." and"Pratibha means when energy transcends the duality of intellect and intuition; it goes beyond both. Intuition is beyond intellect, but pratibha is beyond both. Now there is no logical connection; everything becomes eternally clear, one becomes omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent. All past, present, and future become simultaneously clear." (Source: "Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 8")We often see parallel symbols of the sun and moon or conjoining figures of the sun man and moon woman in Western alchemy and Tibetan Tantra, but this is essentially Pratibha.The Mandala, with both realms together, is Pratibha (Onisaburo Deguchi sees the Diamond Realm as male and the Womb Realm as female).Regarding sun symbols other than duality, there are also the following, somewhat spiritualistic stories. These are unrelated to the Tarot, however...Old Chinese Taoism often used the time of the sun's culmination. This time is called "Nichū" (日中 - midday).People would take medicine (herbs) at solar noon, receive scriptures from divine spirits at this time, high-ranking spirits would descend, and the collection of medicinal substances, the creation of talismans and tools... For the selection of auspicious days, days of the horse (丙午, 庚午, etc.) were chosen, and for the time, just before or at solar noon was selected.At this time, things on earth are most lively and actively moving, and energy overflows. Especially, the Prana in the atmosphere is probably most active during this time...Furthermore, Zhao Weibao, a high-ranking spirit, appeared to Zhou Ziliang, a disciple of Tao Hongjing, on the summer solstice of 515 AD, at the hour just before solar noon. After this event, it is said that Zhou Ziliang secluded himself in his room and ate only one sho (about 1.8 liters) of honey rice every "Nichū" (noon).Also, at noon on the first day of the first month of 239 AD, Ge Xuan was given the Qianzhen Kejie (Precepts for a Thousand Immortals) by Taishang Laojun (Lao Tzu), and at noon on August 15th of 244 AD, celestial music played, and as many immortals descended to the altar to greet him, he was summoned to the celestial realm as the Left Official Immortal of the Supreme Jade Capital Taiji.At noon on the seventh day of the first month of 143 AD, Zhang Daoling, the founder of the Way of the Five Pecks of Rice, was given the Twenty-Four Dioceses (the organization of the Way of the Five Pecks of Rice) by Taishang Laojun (Lao Tzu).(Reference: Studies in the History of Ancient Chinese Taoism / Research Institute for Humanistic Studies, Kyoto University / Edited by Tadao Yoshikawa)
]]> Jade Tablet Apocrypha 2025-05-13T06:36:14+09:00 https://blog.goo.ne.jp/quonan2/e/74a8ad12e68d1ed8a9f578916f732277 https://blog.goo.ne.jp/quonan2/e/8bc02214b21c11beeb6902ab42d27888?fm=rss In the Camoin Tarot's 18 The Moon card, heavenly dew is falling, indicating one is already on the irreversible side of good, a great auspicious sign.Speaking of the moon, Onisaburo Deguchi, who called his own pseudonym "Zuigetsu" (Auspicious Moon), explained it in detail. Onisaburo Deguchi had a "Moon Palace" built of stone within the headquarters of his religious organization so that it would not be destroyed, but it was thoroughly destroyed twice by the authorities. The Moon Palace is a shrine enshrining Miroku (Maitreya), but unless the world becomes the Age of Miroku (earthly paradise), the Moon Palace will only decline. Now it is so desolate that raccoon dogs and weasels make their homes there."Human destiny also has its ups and downs. The tide also has its ebb and flow. This shrine is now at low tide. That is why it looks so shabby and dilapidated. Even so, when the world becomes the Age of Five Six Seven, this shrine will shine with golden light, illuminating the darkness, becoming like the Moon Palace in the spiritual realm of Takamagahara (High Plain of Heaven). But no matter how magnificent the shrine of Miroku is, it will become like this if it does not have its time. The state of a world where the virtue of true faith has disappeared is fully reflected in this shrine. Alas, what shall we do?" (Quoted from Reikai Monogatari, Vol. 21, Chapter 3, Moon Resting Palace)And Onisaburo Deguchi's positioning of the sun and moon is as follows:The August Spirit (厳霊 - Gonrei) is the most august, most noble, and most revered God who consistently exists in the past, present, and future, and sits in infinite absoluteness without beginning or end. In the spiritual realm, it is the "Sun."The Auspicious Spirit (瑞霊 - Zuirei) appears in the three aspects of the manifested world, the spirit world, and the divine world, bestowing eternal life and joy upon all existence. In the spiritual realm, it is the "Moon.""The supreme ruling deity of Takamagahara, that is, the great presiding deity, is Ōkuninushi no Mikoto (Great Land Master). Another name is Amenominakanushi no Ōkami (Heavenly Ancestral Lord of the Center of Heaven), and the state in which his spiritual virtue is fully manifested is called Amaterasu Ōmikami (Great Heavenly Shining Deity). And this great deity is called the August Spirit. The meaning of 'August' is the significance of the God who is most august, most noble, and most revered, consistently existing in the past, present, and future, and sitting in infinite absoluteness without beginning or end. And it appears as the source of love and faith, the most sacred and supreme divine personality. And at times, it appears as the Auspicious Spirit, appearing in the three aspects of the manifested world, the spirit world, and the divine world, bestowing eternal life and joy upon all existence. The meaning of 'Auspicious' is freshness, and it means sitting in the most virtuous, most beautiful, most loving, and most true state, and being the great radiant light of perfect completeness.Also, because it protects in relation to the three great origins of the spiritual power body, it is called the Three Spirits (三の御魂 - Mi no Mitama). Or, because it protects the three realms of the manifested world, the spirit world (hell realm), and the divine world, it is also called the Three Spirits. In short, there is only one pillar of God in the universe, but it manifests as myriad gods according to the emotions of its divine personality. And the August Spirit is called the spirit of the warp, becoming the essence of the divine personality, while the Auspicious Spirit exists in practical activity and has appeared to fulfill the purpose of the divine personality, that is, its function. Therefore, in the science of Kotodama (the spiritual power of language), it is called Toyokuninushi no Mikoto (Rich Country Master) and also Susanoo no Mikoto (Impetuous Male Deity). And the August Spirit appears as the sun of Takamagahara, and the Auspicious Spirit appears as the moon of Takamagahara. Therefore, the Great God Miroku is called the Great God of the Moon. The meaning of Miroku is supreme benevolence and love." (Quoted from Reikai Monogatari, Vol. 48, Chapter 12, Queen Mother of the West) ※Takamagahara is a part of the spiritual realm below heaven.In the Western alchemical text Atalanta Fugiens, the relationship between the sun and the moon is stated in Emblem XXX as, "The Sun needs the Moon, as the Cock needs the Hen," and the following epigram says, "O Sun, without my help thou canst do nothing, / As the Cock without the Hen is of no use. / I, the Moon, also beg thy help, / As the Hen calls the Cock with a loud cry. / How could one think of separating / What natural instinct strives to join together?" (Quoted from Atalanta Fugiens / Michael Maier / Yasaka Shobo, p. 271). This is too vague.The Taoist Lu Dongbin describes the moment when breathing finally stops and the heartbeat ceases as true union, and depicts it as "the moon attracting countless water surfaces" (月満水を涵すなり - Getsu mansui o hitasu nari). This is also the great mystery of the moon on the water surface.In the Camoin Tarot's 18 The Moon card, two towers stand, and it is assumed that there is a further sanctuary in the background. In Reikai Monogatari as well, there is a sanctuary separate from Mount Gesshō, where the Moon Palace is located.Also, two dogs are barking at the moon. Onisaburo Deguchi states the following regarding the moon = Miroku, and it seems he is saying that no matter how much dogs (like people) bark at the moon, they will not understand Miroku:"The meaning of Miroku is supreme benevolence and love. And seeing that it is written in the kanji for Miroku (弥勒) that it has the power to make things increasingly new (弥々革むる力 - iyaiya aratamuru chikara) through its benevolence and true faith, one can understand the nature of this God's divine work, as it directly engages in the reconstruction of the universe. Concepts such as the non-duality of good and evil, and the oneness of right and wrong, cannot be truly understood at all based on the laws of the natural world. Those in the natural world are not qualified to speak of the non-duality of good and evil, or the oneness of right and wrong. These are words spoken from the eyes of God's great compassion, and God says 'non-duality of good and evil, oneness of right and wrong' to mean that there is no distinction of thick or thin in His great love based on the distinction between good and evil, right and wrong." (Quoted from Reikai Monogatari, Vol. 48, Chapter 12, Queen Mother of the West)The final mystery of the illustration is the crustaceans in the water. I think this is for the same reason that Onisaburo Deguchi repeatedly mentioned the Dragon Palace. That is, the dragon gods who live in the Dragon Palace are animals, originally lower than humans, but as time progresses, humans continue to fall, and some humans have appeared who are lower than the dragon gods. Salvation by moonlight occurs even in the world beneath the water.
]]> Jade Tablet Apocrypha 2025-05-13T06:29:55+09:00 https://blog.goo.ne.jp/quonan2/e/8bc02214b21c11beeb6902ab42d27888 https://blog.goo.ne.jp/quonan2/e/04be60a24a9a860782e5c5c5e7af0165?fm=rss Stars often appear in the enlightenment scenes of famous enlightened individuals.Shakyamuni abandoned his six years of ascetic practice, regained his strength by eating yogurt (milk porridge), and entered meditation under the Bodhi tree. Then, "[When] the morning star appeared, Shakyamuni suddenly became greatly enlightened and attained the unsurpassed, true path" (from the Xiuxing Benqi Jing, considered the oldest biography of Buddha transmitted to China).Kukai practiced the Akashagarbha mantra recitation method (求聞持法 - gumonji-hō) at Cape Muroto in Kochi Prefecture to gain the power to memorize the meaning of all sutras. Then, without sparing the echoes of the valley, the morning star came into view. Amidst the resounding Aum (Om) of the valley echoes, the morning star appeared.Nichiren entered the Tendai sect's Seichō-ji Temple near Kominato in Awa Province at the age of twelve, and from that year, he prayed to the Akashagarbha Bodhisattva of this temple, asking, "Please make me the wisest person in Japan." He became a monk at sixteen. The principal image of Seichō-ji is Akashagarbha Bodhisattva. The Akashagarbha mantra recitation method is the continuous chanting of the Akashagarbha mantra. There is a hut below a steep cliff on the way from Seichō-ji to Mount Asahi, and it is said that this is the place where the Great Teacher Jikaku Ennin practiced the mantra recitation method, and a sacred site for Nichiren's Lotus Sutra practice.In a letter "To the Assembly of Seichō-ji Temple" written by Nichiren at the age of fifty-five from Mount Minobu to the assembly of Seichō-ji, there are these words: "I once received great wisdom from the living Akashagarbha Bodhisattva. Perhaps he took pity on my request to 'Please make me the wisest person in Japan.' He gave me a great precious jewel like the morning star, which I received in my right sleeve. Therefore, when I looked at the entire Buddhist canon, I roughly understood the superiority and inferiority of the eight sects and the entire canon." (Quoted from Shōwa Teihon Nichiren Shōnin Ibun, H. 1133) Nichiren was able to understand the superiority and inferiority of all scriptures by obtaining a great precious jewel like the morning star.Finally, the 20th-century sage Jiddu Krishnamurti:"As I was being helped to sit under a tree, I felt myself going out of my body. I saw myself sitting down with the delicate leaves over me. I was facing the east. In front of me was my body, and over my head I saw the glorious, shining 'star'." (Quoted from The World of Krishnamurti / Junichi Ohno, p. 73)The star as confirmation of awakening. And even for Shakyamuni, it was not the sun or the full moon, but for some reason, a star. This is the large star in the Tarot image.Also, around the large star, seven small stars are arranged. These are the seven chakras, the seven bodies.Christianity, being an orthodox religion for the masses, also has references to chakras. The following is Yukteswar's pointing out:"'Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands' (Revelation 1:12). 'and 1  in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around his chest' (ibid. 1:13). 'In his right hand he held seven stars...' (ibid. 1:16). 'As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches' (ibid. 1:20). 'To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: 'The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands' (ibid. 2:1)." (Quoted from The Holy Science / Swami Sri Yukteswar / Morikita Publishing, p. 84)   1. churchdevelopment.network churchdevelopment.network


The Taoist scripture The Secret of the Golden Flower naturally also contains references to chakras. It appears as part of the explanation of the confirmation experience of enlightenment."The first stage of the confirmation experience would be the experience described in the meditation method of the Amitabha Sutra as 'The sun sinks into the great water and takes form as the phenomenon of standing trees.' 'The sun sinks' means that the foundation is laid in chaos (the world before phenomena appear, that is, the realm of wisdom). This is the Wu Chi (the state beyond opposing poles).The state of supreme good is as pure and undefiled as water. This is the ruler of the 'Tai Chi' (the great ultimate).It is the appearance of the Emperor (God) from 'Chen' (the East). The symbol of 'Chen' is wood. Hence the image of 'standing trees' arises. The seven rows of trees signify the shining of the seven apertures (or the seven apertures of the heart) of the body." (Quoted from The Secret of the Golden Flower / C.G. Jung / R. Wilhelm / Jinbun Shoin, p. 203)Now, the basic explanation of the seven bodies is as follows: ① First Body Physical body. Matter. ② Second Body Etheric body. Corresponds to meridians. Said to be close to the skeleton of the energy code (like the shape of an umbrella frame). Fundamental source of Ki, willpower, courage, physical strength, etc. Semi-material. ③ Third Body Astral body. Called the subtle body. Shape similar to the physical body. Beyond this is not the material dimension. ④ Fourth Body Mental body. Governs higher emotions and mental activity. Said to be transparent and radiant. ⑤ Fifth Body Causal body. The last individuality that shapes the physical body and the world. Said to appear as a spherical light. ⑥ Sixth Body Atman. Individuality, i.e., the self, is gone, but "being" = existence remains. ⑦ Seventh Body Nirvana. Nirvana. Nameless, indescribable in words.The seven chakras exist only up to the mental body, so the seven chakras cannot be a symbol indicating the entire world. To indicate the entire world, the theory of the seven bodies is necessary and sufficient. And it is important that only those who have reached the seventh body, Nirvana, can have an overview of the existence of the seven bodies.Elements not explained in the 17 The Star card of the Camoin Tarot are bathing. The river of Om flows through dimensions, and there is the naked Great Mother bathing in it. Bathing is a technical term that often appears in Western alchemical texts and Chinese Neidan texts.Yukteswar explains that bathing is bathing in the flow of the sacred sound Om, a stepping stone on the way to ultimately returning to God, but its meaning is profound. Yukteswar's explanation is as shown in "11 Strength."
]]> Jade Tablet Apocrypha 2025-05-12T06:05:38+09:00 https://blog.goo.ne.jp/quonan2/e/04be60a24a9a860782e5c5c5e7af0165 https://blog.goo.ne.jp/quonan2/e/6d9fa838a9b90d7871b9dc3daa326387?fm=rss This Tower is the Kundalini cylinder and the alchemical furnace. Also, this House of God is the World Tree, and the person who has come to know God in "12 The Hanged Man" here also has their feet up and head down. This is because the World Tree has its roots upwards and its branches and crown downwards. Therefore, from the human perspective, the entire world that is the World Tree exists in reverse. At the same time, the two figures falling from the tower actually indicate ascent from the perspective of an enlightened person.Furthermore, in the imagery from 16 The Tower to 19 The Sun, heavenly dew falls in the air. This indicates a very auspicious sign. Having already completed seeing God, seeing Buddha, and seeing one's true nature in 12 The Hanged Man, and having encountered 15 The Devil and safely passed the trial, one has become irreversibly on the side of good. One's very way of life has become one of only doing good and not doing evil (諸悪莫作衆善奉行 - shōaku makusa shūzen bugyō).People speak of karmic ties within families, but in this state, it means "九族昇天" (kyūzoku shōten - the nine generations of ancestors ascend to heaven), and just by living, the bad karmic ties of the family are steadily resolved. This is what the falling of heavenly dew signifies.The two figures falling (after initially ascending) from the tower, and the lightning striking from heaven, represent 啐啄同機 (sotaku dōki - the moment when the chick pecks from inside the egg and the mother hen pecks from outside, coinciding perfectly). It is the image of heaven moving towards the deepening of awakening, and oneself advancing with it. Osho Bhagwan explains that this happens after the completion of the Fourth Step (逍遥訣 - shōyōketsu).He calls this the Fifth Secret:"And the fifth secret, the secret of secrets, is that things start happening on their own. You don't have to do anything. In fact, if you do something it will be a disturbance. Now everything is moving by its own inner energy. Tao, or God, has taken possession of you. You are possessed! You have completely disappeared, and now only God is within you. God blossoms as a flower, flourishes as a tree; God flowers within you as the golden flower. Now it is God's doing; you are out of the picture. Now it is God's will; your will has finished its work.In the first two stages strong will is needed; in the next two stages a willing surrender is needed. And when all the four states have been attained, will is no longer needed, nor is surrender needed.Remember, surrender is also to drop the will. In the first two states you have to cultivate will; in the next two states you have to drop that will – that is surrender. And when will is dropped through surrender, the ultimate secret of secrets is neither will nor surrender. Again, will is the male, surrender is the female. By going beyond the fourth, you go beyond both male and female. Will disappears, surrender also disappears… you are no longer there; nowhere to be found. There is just nothingness, emptiness, nirvana." (Quoted from The Secret of the Golden Flower / Osho / Merkmal, pp. 444-445)Finally, the final stage of Kundalini ascent is disembodiment. In the Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters), the Kundalini ascends through the three stages of the Sushumna tube – Upper Pillar Man (上筒男 - Uwatsutsunoo), Middle Pillar Man (中筒男 - Nakatsutsunoo), and Lower Pillar Man (底筒男 - Sokotsutsunoo) – and finally disembodies from the crown chakra, Sahasrara. In this way, the subtle body ascends and emanates from the Tower, which is like a furnace.The details of this process are described in Dantes Daiji's Nirvana Process and Techniques and Liu Huayang's Hui Ming Jing (慧命經), but it is somewhat difficult to fit into a single illustration, so it is generally explained over several cards. Also, Patanjali's Yoga Sutras state:"3.43 'The great disembodiment' is a technique that functions outside the gross body and beyond imagination. By accomplishing the great disembodiment, that which covered the light is destroyed." (Quoted from Yoga Sutra for Modern People / Gregor Maehle / Gaia Sha, p. xiv)Regarding this, Osho Bhagwan, in his discourse "The Alpha and the Omega," translates Yoga Sutra 3.43 as:"The power to touch consciousness outside the mental body, something inconceivable – this is called the great disembodiment, MAHAVIDEHA. Through this power the covering of the light is destroyed."Furthermore, he explains:"Mahavideha is one who is beyond the body, who is not confined in the body, not in the gross body or in the subtle body, but one who has known that the body is boundless, infinite. In that knowing, he knows that the mind is the witness. This infinity is what is meant by 'the covering of the light is destroyed.' When the mental body falls in this way, one can realize no-mind, a state of no-thought."What lies beyond the great disembodiment pertains to 17 The Star and onwards.
]]> Jade Tablet Apocrypha 2025-05-12T06:04:32+09:00 https://blog.goo.ne.jp/quonan2/e/6d9fa838a9b90d7871b9dc3daa326387 https://blog.goo.ne.jp/quonan2/e/6f9950f766d60e213105121b4820d9d0?fm=rss Even though it is said that a man must die to be hanged, this death is not a physical death, so it is not suicide. It is the death of the ego, the death of the self, the death of the individual self. It is the "great death" often spoken of in Zen.Conversely, even if the physical body dies, not everyone's ego dies. Only a very small number of people experience the death of the ego at the time of physical death. Although it is often said that there are many cases of "臨終正念" (linjū shōnen - right mindfulness at the moment of death) where the ego dies and enlightenment is attained at the time of physical death, this is likely a minute fraction of the whole.In the illustration, a skeleton with a large scythe is cutting off hands, feet, and head. This precisely signifies eradicating the ego that accompanies the physical body. Physical death instantly reduces all previous money, property, relationships, status, and fame to nothing. In reality, the death of the ego brings a similar sense of reality, and furthermore, it reaps even the world and universe of the ego.The first step in religious and meditative practice since ancient times has been to eliminate preconceived notions. For modern people, this begins with cutting off all mind control coming from mass media, school education, smartphones, etc. Severing these preconceived notions is what is meant by reaping with the great scythe.Even in the Great Purification Ritual (大祓祝詞 - Ōharai no Norito) of ancient Shinto, it speaks of cutting off the chaotic thoughts like tangled hemp (天津菅曾 - Amatsu Sugaso) by saying, "本苅絶末苅切て、八針に取裂きて天津祝詞の太祝詞言を宣れ" (Honkaritachi makaritachi te, yahari ni torisakite amatsu norito no futonoritogoto o nore - Cut off the root and the tip of the heavenly tangled hemp, tear it into eight pieces, and declare the great words of the heavenly prayer).The following is an explanation by Onisaburo Deguchi:"△Amatsu Sugaso: This corresponds to the divining rods of the I Ching, and there are 75 of them. These represent the 75 sounds. Their length is one to one foot two inches. Sugaso is the common name for a shrub called 'Misohagi' (Lythrum anceps), with slender stems reaching three to four feet. The base and tip of this are cut and trimmed for use.△Tearing into Eight Pieces: The method of using Amatsu Sugaso is first to divide the total of 75 into two parts, then take away eight at a time, and arrange the divine counting sticks according to the remaining number.△Futo Noritogoto of Amatsu Norito: This is the prayer for purification (御禊祓 - Misogiharai). When formally recited, the Amatsu Norito is recited here. To explain in general terms, that prayer is a significant incantation directed towards the heavenly and earthly deities, commanding a great purification of all things between heaven and earth. 'Futo' is an honorific prefix, repeated to the point of reciting the Amatsu Norito." (Quoted from the appendix to Volume 39 of Reikai Monogatari - Explanation of the Great Purification Ritual) Thus, it is reaped with the great scythe.Also, Ikkyu often used skeletons and skulls as metaphors, but here he says that not only the body dies, but the mind also dies."It is a great mistake for many people to believe with deluded eyes that the body perishes but the soul (mind) is eternal and unchanging. According to the words of an enlightened person, both the body and its root, the mind, die together. Buddha is emptiness itself. All things in heaven, earth, and land should return to the 'original field'." (Quoted from Ikkyu Oshō Zenshū, Vol. 4, Ikkyu Kana Hōgo Shū / Shunju Sha, p. 155) ※Original field: AtmanTherefore, Osho Bhagwan explains the difference between his skeleton and Buddha's skeleton."Buddha's skeleton and your skeleton are basically the same. But you and Buddha are absolutely different. Evolution works horizontally, but methods, techniques, and religions work vertically.The human body has stopped—it has reached a certain point; it is the terminus. Beyond this, there is no more growth. Horizontally, evolution has stopped. And now the vertical evolution begins. Wherever you are right now, you have only to take a vertical leap.That vertical evolution is the evolution of consciousness, not of the body. And the responsibility is yours.You cannot ask nature 'why?' But nature will ask you—'Why are you not yet enlightened?'Because now the situation is all ready, the body has all that is needed. You have the body of a Buddha. All that is needed for a Buddha to happen is already there.You have only to rearrange, resynthesize all the elements that are already there, and Buddha happens to you. So nature may ask you—'Why are you not yet enlightened?' Because nature has given you all." (Quoted from Vigyan Bhairav Tantra Vol. 8: Being and Becoming One / Osho Bhagwan / Shimin Shuppansha, pp. 68-69) The skeleton in the illustration was not that of a dead other, but of oneself.The Death (Nameless) arcana is the 13th.In the Dantes Daiji dialogues, it is said that in Atlantis, there was a central government and supreme temple-like structure called the Palace of God, and its inner sanctuary was Amenti. There, twelve superhumans centered around Thoth embodied organized religion. And another, Dantes Daiji, was the 13th superhuman, a player who amused himself with the universe.At the end of Atlantis, Dantes Daiji left the Palace of God and parted ways with the twelve of the Thoth lineage. The creators of the Tarot likely saw that this 13th Death is necessary in the long liminal period after Atlantis for the mechanism of reaching enlightenment by using this suppression as a spring, but there was no need to give it a name.From Ikkyu's skeleton poem: For a while, while a single breath truly flows, Even a corpse in the field seems distant.Furthermore, from Jichin Oshō: In this fleeting world, again I travel and sleep on grass, In a world of dreams, do I see yet another dream?Drawn together and tied, it's a grass hut, Untied, it's the original field.
]]> Jade Tablet Apocrypha 2025-05-12T06:01:21+09:00 https://blog.goo.ne.jp/quonan2/e/6f9950f766d60e213105121b4820d9d0 https://blog.goo.ne.jp/quonan2/e/7141904c287daca5658d6faef2e9ae32?fm=rss 12 The Hanged Man represents the reversal of the individual and the world, where the world is primary and the individual is secondary. In other words, in terms of the World Tree, the roots are the world, and the branches and leaves are the individual.The world appears reversed when the individual self becomes the entire world, the entire universe. However, the description of being upside down indicates that the perception from when one was not inverted remains, suggesting a point where the shock of a reversed worldview lingers.This reversal of worldview can be temporary or semi-permanent. The semi-permanent state involves the "20 Worlds" and the "0 Fool," so this likely refers to those who have seen God or Buddha. A person who has seen God or Buddha is called a Bodhisattva, and there are 52 ranks for Bodhisattvas. Even Kukai is said to be in the luminous rank, the 10th from the top and the 43rd from the bottom out of these 52 ranks. Even after seeing Buddha and knowing the Buddha, there are still higher levels. Similarly, even if the world appears inverted, there are still goals to strive for ahead.The world is full of hanged men.【Peter】 Peter was one of Jesus' apostles and the first Pope of Rome. When he was crucified, it is said that he was crucified upside down out of reverence for Jesus. However, the apocryphal Acts of Peter describes this posture as "a copy of the first man that was born," and states that the nail driven at the intersection of the vertical and horizontal beams of the cross is conversion and repentance (enlightenment).Upside down on the cross, what is on the right becomes left, what is on the left becomes right, what is above becomes below, and what is below becomes above. This is reminiscent of the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus.The inverted posture of left and right, up and down, signifies regeneration from the death of reversal, where what was considered useful becomes useless, and what was considered useless becomes useful.【The Death of the Hanged Man】 "The man who has been perfectly initiated into the great mysteries possesses the knowledge of all the phases of the work, and knows that there is a penalty of death attached to the indiscretion of revealing them." (Eliphas Levi's words regarding "The Hanged Man," said to symbolize the obligation of silence by tarot authorities) (Quoted from The Complete Book of World Prophecies by Tony Allan, Kodansha, p. 154)According to this passage, the Hanged Man is a man who possesses knowledge of all the stages of Kundalini Yoga, and through death, experiences an inexpressible experience.After that experience, about 90% of people end their lives in death, but rarely, some are resurrected. Among those who are resurrected, some are without words; subtle vibrations are transmitted from them, but there is no verbal transmission. However, among those who are resurrected, some speak greatly with words. One such person is Onisaburo Deguchi.【Odin's Sayings from Norse Mythology】 Saying 138: I know that I hung on a wind-swept tree nine long nights, wounded by a spear, given to Odin, myself to myself, on that tree whose roots no one knows.Nine is the ultimate of numbers, and "nine long nights" signifies an immeasurably long time or a world beyond time. "Wounded by a spear" means being pierced by the energy cord called Kundalini. "Given to Odin, myself to myself" signifies reaching the level of the sixth body, Atman, where there is no self. "That tree whose roots no one knows" refers to the Absolute (God, the Central Sun, Odin) as the root. From the root of the Absolute, the branches and leaves of energy cords, which are all humans, animals, and living things, extend. Conversely, from the human perspective, it appears as if one is ascending towards the root. This saying describes a Kundalini Yoga-type meditation experience where one reaches the Absolute (God, the Central Sun, Odin) and then, from the perspective of the Absolute, sees the figure of a human hanging from the Kundalini energy cord as "a human hanging from the World Tree."Now, 12 The Hanged Man and 13 Death are a pair. For the man to be hanged, the man must die, so these two are paired.
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