The Key of Mysteries

[blacksun?]

Arche

Strong's #746: arche (pronounced ar-khay')

from 756; (properly abstract) a commencement, or (concretely) chief (in various applications of order, time, place, or rank):--beginning, corner, (at the, the) first (estate), magistrate, power, principality, principle, rule.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:


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archē

1) beginning, origin
2) the person or thing that commences, the first person or thing in a series, the leader
3) that by which anything begins to be, the origin, the active cause
4) the extremity of a thing

4a) of the corners of a sail

5) the first place, principality, rule, magistracy

5a) of angels and demons
Part of Speech: noun feminine

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This site mentions it is used 58 times in the Bible.

But I can’t find them. I will check my concordance when I get home.

Are you looking in a Greek Bible?

ἀρχή is the Greek word for beginning which was also used by the philosophers, to denote a primordial principle or substance, as for example, Thales, the first known Greek philosopher, held that water is arche, whereas Anaximenes thought Air is arche. Origin, ground, beginning; though that can also mean genesis, from gignomai, becoming.

 

[david starling]

Klatu Narada Nictu.

Spelled it wrong. For some reason, people in my high school in the '60s started saying it. Maybe a re-release of the 1951 sci-fi movie, "The Day the Earth Stood Still". I heard it as I spelled it, but Google says it's "Klaatu Barada Nikto". The alien robot Gort was about to destroy the Earth, but the very evolved alien humanoid Klaatu was merciful, even though the Earthling military shot him, not realizing he was on a peaceful mission.That phrase caused Gort to resurrect Klaatu and spare the Earth.

 

[Opal]

Blacksun,

Could you tell me of the World card? It is so similar pictorially to the Wheel of Fortune.

What is the difference. I have read, that some say that the woman in the center is a hermaphrodite, symbolizing the perfect masculine and feminine in one being.

The Wheel of Fortune is a Key. The World Card. Would you call it a key?

 

[Opal]

Spelled it wrong. For some reason, people in my high school in the '60s started saying it. Maybe a re-release of the 1951 sci-fi movie, "The Day the Earth Stood Still". I heard it as I spelled it, but Google says it's "Klaatu Barada Nikto".

Yes, I just read that. The phrase that saved the human species. Cool. It was a cult classic. And you guys used it, that is cool.

 

[blacksun?]

That is the good thing about writing. I have never heard of a portal being opened by just reading the words.

Well, not directly, indeed.
The threshold of magic is often the effort of speech, to expend energy and form to shape an experience.

 

[blacksun?]

Blacksun,

Could you tell me of the World card? It is so similar pictorially to the Wheel of Fortune.

What is the difference. I have read, that some say that the woman in the center is a hermaphrodite, symbolizing the perfect masculine and feminine in one being.

The Wheel of Fortune is a Key. The World Card. Would you call it a key?

I would suppose I call it the room you arrive in after turning the key and opening the door -
the door is probably yet another card or set of cards. But the World is simply completion, its meaning is clearly a pure presence, all-out, and all in the right way; everything is fully there. So a hermaphrodite would add to this image of everything out, all aspects of the human are present in this experience.
On the Fortune card, the animals are are looking into books - might mean they are considered to be turned inward, learning and not really exerting their influence, leaving it up to the fates and growing. In the World, they are all very present and forthright. All is manifest, things are known and have been done and are being done - two wands both with staves on each end.

 

[Opal]

Well, not directly, indeed.
The threshold of magic is often the effort of speech, to expend energy and form to shape an experience.

I am quite experienced at putting my foot in my mouth. If you don't know how to close a portal, you really shouldn't open one. It would probably get me in trouble, and I do that well enough on my own.

 

[blacksun?]

In the Tree of Life, the Fortune card is the path between Jupiter and Venus.
I suppose it must be a key. How can the path between the two Benefics not imply some magical power? Much of what is done in the rest of the tree must rely on the contract between Jupiter and Venus - the planets of values. "Non-logical constants"; things on which logic is based, but which are more important than mere logic.

 

[blacksun?]

I am quite experienced at putting my foot in my mouth. If you don't know how to close a portal, you really shouldn't open one. It would probably get me in trouble, and I do that well enough on my own.

Do you have a general way of closing portals?

 

[Opal]

I would suppose I call it the room you arrive in after turning the key and opening the door -
the door is probably yet another card or set of cards. But the World is simply completion, its meaning is clearly a pure presence, all-out, and all in the right way; everything is fully there. So a hermaphrodite would add to this image of everything out, all aspects of the human are present in this experience.
On the Fortune card, the animals are are looking into books - might mean they are considered to be turned inward, learning and not really exerting their influence, leaving it up to the fates and growing. In the World, they are all very present and forthright. All is manifest, things are known and have been done and are being done - two wands both with staves on each end.

 

[Opal]

 

[Opal]

I would suppose I call it the room you arrive in after turning the key and opening the door -
the door is probably yet another card or set of cards. But the World is simply completion, its meaning is clearly a pure presence, all-out, and all in the right way; everything is fully there. So a hermaphrodite would add to this image of everything out, all aspects of the human are present in this experience.
On the Fortune card, the animals are are looking into books - might mean they are considered to be turned inward, learning and not really exerting their influence, leaving it up to the fates and growing. In the World, they are all very present and forthright. All is manifest, things are known and have been done and are being done - two wands both with staves on each end.

What do the wands and the staves represent?

In the wheel, they have wings. In the world, they do, as you point out seem content.

 

[david starling]

Well, not directly, indeed.
The threshold of magic is often the effort of speech, to expend energy and form to shape an experience.

Reminds me of that trick to enter the cavern portal (a large, heavy stone door, on hinges) in the Trilogy. The words "Speak, Friend, and Enter" were carved above it in Elven script. Gandalf kept trying different words and spells, until he realized it was actually just "SAY 'Friend', and Enter", in Elven-tongue.

 

[blacksun?]

"What do the wands and the staves represent?"

- pure activity.

She is using both hands, a stave each and each stave has power on each end.

The "sleeping" like Fortune card is, I must agree with you, quite clearly a key. That needs to be activated.
Good call.

 

[Opal]

Do you have a general way of closing portals?

No, I do not open portals. It would get me in trouble, I just know it. So I need not close them.

At a guess, I would say that it would be the reverse of opening. Do you?

 

[blacksun?]

Reminds me of that trick to enter the cavern portal (a large, heavy stone door, on hinges) in the Trilogy. The words "Speak, Friend, and Enter" were carved above it in Elven script. Gandalf kept trying different words and spells, until he realized it was actually just "SAY 'Friend', and Enter", in Elven-tongue.

Yes that was a very nice piece of writing.
Tolkien had some real insights.

 

[blacksun?]

No, I do not open portals. It would get me in trouble, I just know it. So I need not close them.

At a guess, I would say that it would be the reverse of opening. Do you?

No, and Ive been reckless with it. Ive just had to experiment with banishment and stuff, and just deal with a lot of **** - philosophy has been my way of purifying myself.

 

[Opal]

Tree of Life Card

 

[Opal]

Reminds me of that trick to enter the cavern portal (a large, heavy stone door, on hinges) in the Trilogy. The words "Speak, Friend, and Enter" were carved above it in Elven script. Gandalf kept trying different words and spells, until he realized it was actually just "SAY 'Friend', and Enter", in Elven-tongue.

Yes, in our wisdom, we can overthink, overcomplicate.

 

[david starling]

Uh, I'm no expert on tarot, although I did partake in its magic, but the "World" is the Earth. So, Gaea/Gaia makes sense to me for the female figure in Greco-Roman terms, as the personification of the Earth.