July 9-11, 2014: Three of Disks

Al-Shariyf

WORK
Three of Disks

Meditation Pattern: Place Atu XVI, The Tower, and Atu XV, The Devil, side-by-side, with the 3 of Disks above them.

Traditional Description: The Disks are arranged in an equilateral triangle, apex upward.There is a branch of a rose tree, of which two white rosebuds touch and surmount the topmost Disk. Above and below are the symbols of Mars and Capricorn.

Binah of Earth: Material establishment; the crystallization of idea or force into form, through work. Business, paid employment, commercial transaction, financial gain.

Mars/Capricorn: Working, constructive force, building up, creation, erection; endurance, perseverance, obstinacy, sober practicality; realization and increase of material things; gain in commercial transactions, rank; ambitious, independent; increase of substance, influence, resourcefulness in business; selfishness. Commencement of matters to be established later. Narrow, prejudiced, opportunistic.

Saturn + Mars: Labor; tireless endurance; disciplined energy; will converted by effort into results.

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Danica

Although the initial change of principle (2 Discs) is easy-and-fast, the particular change of a physical structure demands time and continual cultivated investment of energy (3 Discs).
Self-discipline. Foundations of the Pyramid are built upon the harmonious working of the three alchemical principles.
Karma yoga; here the inherent inter-causality of all motion/action is not only understood in principle, and acted-in-accordance-with in particular cases, but it’s understood in such a way that one acknowledges own partaking and responsibility for ALL that happens in the Universe.
Peh+Ain: intoxication by the ecstasy of acting in matter…Work (and all the works as parts and aspects of it) is a song-hymn of the dedicated one.
Construction; devoted service through taking care of the flow of energy on material plane – making adequate channels for it, but not intruding on it’s natural process; MT’s work of “gardening” (it implies cleansing of the weed as well as nurturing the healthy seed); the World is reconstructed through this kind of activity.

Construction and re-construction not only on material plane, but of every structure as such; wise approach is to consciously use the inertia, instead of letting it impede.
Every work, every action, is to an extend a “closed circle” (futile, because there is no end to it, no goal to be reached); but there is ecstasy, as inner Secret of this, “Work, & be our bed in working!”; whatever it is one is doing (working, making, acting in general), it is not for the transient self, it’s for humanity.
Organized appliance of energy in order for the Change to take Form.
Use of violent and instinctive forces/powers (Peh) in accordance with and guided by inner Vision (Ain), in order to evolve (personally and collectively).
No mercy for weaknesses, own of those of others; self-control, persistence, focus of vital energy to one particular project/goal, sticking to the priorities (mundanely – for a given period of time; spiritually – to the Great Work).

Sequence from 2-Discs to 3-Discs: one “pattern” in the dynamics became in-formed.
-Matrix of the dynamics of element Earth: how everything earthy and on Earth becomes born; the Grand Mother; Hexagram 2 of I Ching; She protects the embryo until its own authentic patterns of “behavior” stabilize/habituate.
This Work is actually not hard – it is spontaneous and so easy that there is nothing easier on Earth! Because it goes by itself, all forces assist it, all forces are indeed its “tools”.
NB: see etymology for Work in various language groups.