The Origin of the Tarot

Session 76

The Origin of the Tarot

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Don Elkins
Will our continued communication with Ra be deleterious to the physical energies of Carla?
Don Elkins
Ra
Ra

We answer in two modes.

  1. if Carla were thusly dedicated to this use with no transfer of energy of physical complex nature it would begin to call upon the vital energy itself and this, done in any substantive measure, is actively deleterious to a mind/body/spirit complex if that complex wishes further experience in the illusion which it now distorts. Secondly, if care is taken, firstly, to monitor the outer parameters of Carla, then to transfer physical energy by sexual transfer, by magical protection, and, lastly, by the energetic displacements of thought-forms energizing Carla during contact there is no difficulty in that there is no worsening of Carla’s mind/body/spirit complex distortions of strength/weakness. It is to be noted that Carla, by dedicating itself to this service, attracts greetings of which you are aware. These are inconvenient but, with care taken, need not be lastingly deleterious either to Carla or the contact.
Don Elkins
Of the three things you mentioned that we could do for Carla’s benefit, would you clarify the last one?
Don Elkins
Ra
Ra
As the entity which you are allows its being to empathize with another being, so then it may choose to share with the other-self those energies which may be salubrious to the other-self. The mechanism of these energy transfers is the thought or, more precisely, the thought-form for any thought is a form or symbol or thing that is an object seen in time/space reference.
Don Elkins
Has our use of the Banishing Ritual of the Lesser Pentagram been of any value and what is its effect?
Don Elkins
Ra
Ra
This group’s use of the Banishing Ritual of the Lesser Pentagram has been increasingly efficacious. Its effect is purification, cleansing, and protection of the place of working. The efficacy of this ritual is only beginning to be, shall we say, at the lower limits of the truly magical. In doing the working those aspiring to adepthood have done the equivalent of beginning the schoolwork, many grades ahead. For the intelligent student this is not to be discouraged; rather to be encouraged is the homework, the reading, the writing, the arithmetic, as you might metaphorically call the elementary steps towards the study of being. It is the being that informs the working, not the working that informs the being. Therefore, we may leave you to the work you have begun.

Don Elkins
Would it be beneficial for us to perform [the] banishing ritual more in this room?
Don Elkins
Ra
Ra
It is beneficial to regularly work in this place.

Don Elkins
What is the origin of the tarot?
Don Elkins
Ra
Ra

Its origin as a system of study and divination is twofold:

  1. There is that influence which, coming in a distorted fashion from those who were priests attempting to teach the Law of One in Egypt, gave form to the understanding, if you will pardon the misnomer, which they had received.

These forms were then made a regular portion of the learn/teachings of an initiate.

  1. The people from Ur, Chaldea, and Mesopotamia who, from ancient times, had received the data for which they called the heavens.

So there were 2 methods of divination being melded into one with uneven results: astrology and the form being combined to suggest what you might call the correspondences which are typical of the distortions you may see as attempts to view archetypes.

Don Elkins
So the priests in Egypt, in attempting to convert knowledge that they had received initially from Ra into understandable symbology, constructed and initiated the concept of the tarot?
Don Elkins
Ra
Ra
This is correct with the addition of the Sumerian influence.
Don Elkins
Were Ra’s teachings focusing on the archetypes for this Logos and the methods of achieving a very close approach to the archetypical configuration? Is this correct?
Don Elkins
Ra
Ra

This is correct without being true.

We of Ra are humble messengers of the Law of One.

We seek to teach/learn this single law. During the space/time of the Egyptian teach/learning we worked to bring the mind complex, the body complex, and the spirit complex into an initiated state in which the entity could contact intelligent energy and so become teach/learner itself that healing and the fruits of study could be offered to all.

The study of the roots of mind is a portion of the vivification of the mind complex and, as we have noted, the thorough study of the portion of the roots of mind called archetypical is an interesting and necessary portion of the process as a whole.

Don Elkins
Is there, in Ra’s opinion, any present-day value for the reuse of the tarot as an aid in the evolutionary process?
Don Elkins
Ra
Ra

It is appropriate to study one form of constructed and organized distortion of the archetypical mind in depth in order to arrive at the position of being able to become and to experience archetypes at will.

You have 3 basic choices.

  1. astrology with the twelve signs, as you call these portions of your planet’s energy web, and what has been called the ten planets.

  2. the tarot with its twenty-two so-called Major Arcana.

  3. the Tree of Life with its ten Sephiroth and the twenty-two relationships between the stations.

It is well to investigate each discipline, not as a dilettante, but as one who seeks the touchstone, one who wishes to feel the pull of the magnet. One of these studies will be more attractive to the seeker.

Let the seeker then investigate the archetypical mind using, basically, one of these three disciplines. After a period of study, the discipline mastered sufficiently, the seeker may then complete the more important step: that is, the moving beyond the written in order to express in an unique fashion its understanding, if you may again pardon the noun, of the archetypical mind.

Don Elkins
Would I be correct in saying that our local Logos, in acting as co-Creator, distorted to some extent, for the purposes of experience, that which we experience here? And that the archetypes of this particular Logos are somewhat unique with respect to the rest of the creation, but are of course related to the all in that they are part of it, but are, I can only say, a unique part, and that the systems of study that we have just talked about would not translate quickly or easily in other parts of the creation.
Don Elkins
Ra
Ra
We may draw from the welter of statement which you offer the question we believe you ask. Please re-question if we have mistaken your query. The archetypical mind is that mind which is peculiar to the Logos under which influence you are at this space/time distorting your experiences. There is no other Logos the archetypical mind of which would be the same any more than the stars would appear the same from another planet in another galaxy. You may correctly infer that the closer Logoi are indeed closer in archetypes.
Don Elkins
Then, since Ra evolved initially on Venus, Ra is of the same archetypical origin as that which we experience here. But I am assuming that the concepts of the tarot and the magical concepts Tree of Life, etc., were not in use by Ra. I suspect, possibly, some form of astrology was a previous Ra concept.
Don Elkins
Ra
Ra
To express Ra’s methods of study of the archetypical mind under the system of distortions which we enjoyed would be to skew your own judgment of that which is appropriate for the system of distortions forming the conditions in which you learn/teach. Therefore, we must invoke the Law of Confusion.
Don Elkins
Could you give me an idea of the length of the first and 2nd density for Earth?
Don Elkins
Ra
Ra

There is no method of estimation of the time/space before timelessness gave way, in your first density, to the beginnings of your time.

The measurement would be vast, and yet this vastness is meaningless.

Upon the entry into the constructed space/time, your first density spanned a bridge of space/time and time/space of perhaps two billion of your years.

2nd density is more easily estimated and represents your longest density in terms of the span of space/time.

We may estimate that time as approximately 4.6 billion years.

These approximations are exceedingly rough due to the somewhat uneven development which is characteristic of creations which are built upon the foundation stone of free will.

Don Elkins

Then we have a 3rd density that is the twinkling of an eye, the snap of a finger in time compared to the others.

Why does the third density cycle so extremely rapidly compared to first and second?

Don Elkins
Ra
Ra
The third density is a choice.
Don Elkins
Third density, then, it appears, is, compared to the rest of the densities, all of them, nothing but a uniquely short period of what we consider to be time and is then for the purpose of this choice.
Don Elkins
Ra
Ra

Yes.

The prelude to choice must encompass:

  • the laying of the foundation
  • the establishment of the illusion
  • the viability of that which can be made spiritually viable

The remainder of the densities is continuous refining of the choice.

This also is greatly lengthened.

The choice is the work of a moment.

But it is the axis on which the creation turns.

Don Elkins
Is this 3rd density choice the same throughout all of the creation of which you are aware?
Don Elkins
Ra
Ra

We are aware of creations in which 3rd density is longer and more space/time is given to the choosing.

However, the proportions remain the same, the dimensions all being somewhat etiolated and weakened by the Logos to have a variant experience of the Creator.

This creation is seen by us to be quite vivid.

This creation is somewhat more condensed by its Logos than some other Logoi have chosen. Thus each experience of the Creator by the Creator in this system of distortions is brighter or more vivid.

Don Elkins
I am assuming that on entering into third density, for this planet, disease did not exist in any form.
Don Elkins
Ra
Ra
Wrong.
Don Elkins
What was the form of disease, and why did this exist at beginning third density?
Don Elkins
Ra
Ra

Disease is a functional portion of the body which offers the body the opportunity to die.

This is a desirable body complex function.

The form is a 2nd density microscopic other-self. It is of a size which have in some forms long existed and perform their service by aiding the physical body to die at the appropriate space/time.

Don Elkins
What is the difference between the plan of the Logos for these 2nd density entities and the generation of runaway array of feedback to create various physical problems that act as catalyst in our present 3rd density condition.
Don Elkins
Ra
Ra

Carla’s physical body is becoming more distorted towards pain.

Your query has some internal confusion.

The Logos planned for entities of mind/body/spirit complex to gain experience until the amount of experience was sufficient for an incarnation.

This varied only slightly from 2nd density entities whose mind/body complexes existed for the purpose of experiencing growth and seeking consciousness.

As the 3rd density upon your planet proceeded, the need for the physical body complex to cease became more rapidly approached due to intensified and more rapidly gained catalyst.

This catalyst was not being properly assimilated.

Therefore, the lifetimes needed to be shorter that learning might continue to occur with the proper rhythm and increment.

Thus more and more opportunities have been offered, as your density has progressed, for disease.

Don Elkins
there is a crystal skull in the possession of a woman near Toronto that may be of some value in investigating these communications with Ra since I think possibly this had some origin from Ra.
Don Elkins
Ra
Ra
We can not answer due to the potential an answer may have for affecting your actions.

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