Major Arcana Trump Art
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Can this card be said to represent the inherent principle of conventional art? I don't remember where I read it now so I'm not sure I'm correct about this, but isn't the meaning of 0=2 (not the grade, but an operation) that things extinguish each other as in that everything is contaminated by what it's not and thusly nothing exists in itself? If I'm totally wrong this whole post falls with it.
Where I'm getting at as to how this relates to what I mean when I think of art is that art is 'the definition of the inexpressible' and is therefore the same thing as the idea of a process heading in direction x but through its process ending up constructing y and having done that becomes the idea of y and vanishes. I know this probably seems like inconsequential rants, but I'm trying my best, so please bear with me.
Here's a practical example of what I'm talking about:
What I've mostly done when I draw pictures is to shape something from a completely abstract core (a cloud formation, an irregular line, etc.) until it becomes, only within the confines of a linear harmony - which is my symbolic equivalent of logical stringency - instead a completely rational object (like a face, a bird, etc.) so that the rational object doesn't consist of the parts of a bird at all and thusly the intent of the picture is to show that everything derives from chaos and the material world we perceive is simply one of infinite possibilities of abstraction levels.
Now, this idea seems to me to point to the same principle as the fulfillment Crowley talks about concerning Atu XIV of the hidden stone that has the same core but divides into aspects of differing natures. So does this connection make sense?
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.