29 June (Water) Liber LXV, 3:42-44
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42. She hath been broken in pieces upon the Wheel; the hands of the hangman have bound her unto it.
43. The fountains of water have been loosed upon her; she hath struggled with exceeding torment.
44. She hath burst in sunder with the weight of the waters; she hath sunk into the awful Sea. -
@Liber LXV said
"**42. She hath been broken in pieces upon the Wheel; the hands of the hangman have bound her unto it.
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The fountains of water have been loosed upon her; she hath struggled with exceeding torment.
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She hath burst in sunder with the weight of the waters; she hath sunk into the awful Sea.**"
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Kaph
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Mem
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Quoph (...?)
this was her fortune (all symbols essentially being those of Jupiter and Water), the essential form of her life...
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"42. She hath been broken in pieces upon the Wheel; the hands of the hangman have bound her unto it."
The wheel brings to mind ATU-10 The wheel of Fortune which is opposite ATU-12 The Hangman on the tree of life. Both paths connect the egoic triad to the lower spheres of one’s personality. Interestingly,.. The Wheel of fortune is on the pillar of force or fire and The Hanged Man is on the pillar of form or water. Possibility, a consecration and a purification of the Nephesh. A cleansing of fire and water. -
42. She hath been broken in pieces upon the Wheel; the hands of the hangman have bound her unto it.
43. The fountains of water have been loosed upon her; she hath struggled with exceeding torment.
44. She hath burst in sunder with the weight of the waters; she hath sunk into the awful Sea.This thing that I am become like... The adventures of She.
This is the nightmare where we lose our dispassionate objectivity and experience all things. We lose our masculinity as well because we no longer identify with the bright flame of Hadit burning in our hearts but instead with the twisting coils of the watery dragon—the complications and intrigues of soul.
She/soul/psyche who descends even to Hell. (Note the nasty habit of the underworld taking people and gods by force and violence.)
The traditional story holds that the long suffering soul, who is blind and subject to death and worse, gains a type of beauty, a depth of soul as a result of these trials that not even the gods can rival. In this respect psyche is potentially more beautiful than Aphrodite, or even Persephone. As such, plagued by human weakness, she finally succumbs to her own foolish impulses, and dies. And it is precisely this last episode that so crystallizes the depth of despair and blindness that marks the character of the soul—the beauty of psyche—that in this last extremity she becomes irresistible, and Eros relents. Rushing to her side he lifts her up, restoring her life, and consummating their union for ever.
The primary quality of water, and soul is depth. Which is to say that she hath sunk into the awful Sea.
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