ShadowWolf - The Chariot
The Chariot
"An erect and princely figure carrying a drawn sword and corresponding,
braodly speaking, to the traditional description which I have given in the
first part. On the shoulders of the victorious hero are supposed to be the Uri
m and Thummim. he has led captive; he is conquest on all planes--in the
mind, in science, in progress, in certain trials of initation. he has thus
replied to the sphinx, and it is on this account that I have accepted the
variation of Eliphas Levi; two sphinxes thus draw his chariot. He is above
all things triumph in the mind.
It is to be understood for this reason (a) that the question of the sphinx is
concerned with a Mystery of nature and not of the world of Grace, to which
the charioteer could offer no answer; (b) that the planes of his conquest are
manifest or external and not within himself; (c) that the liberation which he
effects may leave himself in the bondage of the logical understanding; (d)
that the tests of initiation through which he has passed in triumph are to be
understood physically or rationally; and (e) that if he came to the pillars
of that Temple between which the High Priestess is seated, he could not open
the scroll called Tora, nor if she questioned him could he answer. He is not
hereditary royalty and he is not priesthood."
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