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Arcanum number 1 is the Magician of the Kabalah; is obviously the beginning. Anything which is initiated in practical life is Arcanum number 1. It is Unity.

It is not difficult to appreciate tha t every beginning is difficult; one has to work hard, one must sow in order to be able to reap. For this reason in Arcanum number 1 is the Unity of the original Beginning; Origin, it is clear, of all Unity, because everything begins with the number 1.

Unity becomes the origin of Duality, or the Binary: 1 + 1 =2; and finally, in that Unity is the fulfilling synthesis of the Ternary. The Unity, the 1, is the Divine Monad, the First Logos, the Father who is in secret. Each one of us has his own individual Monad.

Madame Blavatsky used to say that there are as many Fathers in heaven as there are men on Earth. The Father, in turn, or of himself unfolds into the Divine Mother. So it is that He and She are Brahma because She becomes the feminine aspect of Him. We see then how Unity is the root of the Binary, given that the latter could not exist without the Unity.

If the Monad had not existed the Divine Mother would not have existed. The Monad is the root of Duality. There are as many Mothers in heaven as there are men upon the Earth. Each one of us has his internal God, or his own particular celestial Father and Mother. In explaining this, it is better understood why Unity is the fulfilling synthesis of the Ternary and how and why it is produced. When Jesus prayed, he prayed to the Father who is in secret, and he left us a prayer which is the “Our Father”. This prayer is completely magical. It takes a couple of hours to pray the “Our Father” well, because each petition which is made to the Father is totally magical. The mistake that people make is to pray it in a mechanical manner, and this has no effect. The prayer must be broken down, analysed; and in order to do this one must relax the body so that not a muscle is tense, and then to concentrate, combining prayer with meditation.

People think that Our Father who is in Heaven is a gentleman who is sitting up there. If we reflect profoundly, the Monad, the Unity, the origin of all other unities or Monads will be discovered. It is clear that the Monad has need of something in life in order to Self-Realise. What is it that the Monad needs? In the light of the Sanskrit we can ascertain that He needs “Vatrasattwa”, the meaning of which is “Diamond Soul”. This is a Soul which has no “I”; which has eliminated all the subjective ele ments of the perceptions. These elements are the “I’s” and the three traitors of Hiram Abiff, or, that which is the same;

Judas the demon of Desire, mistakenly called the Astral body; Pilate the demon of the Mind, which is confused with the Mental body, and Caiaphas, the demon of Ill- will. Why should it be that all this is unknown to the pseudo-esoteric schools?

The subjective elements of perceptions are the aggregates, the different composites of the human being, the different red demons which make up the “I’s”.

The subjective elements of perceptions are defined in psychology as all the psychological processes of the human entity. They are defined as subjective processes of the unconscious, subconscious, preconscious, infraconscious; and all which is metaphysical in nature.

What do modern psychologists understand by “objective”? The physical, the tangible, the material.

Clearly, they are totally mistaken, which is demonstrated in analysing the term

“subjective” which means sub-below, that which is below the limits of our perceptions.

And what is it which is below? Is it not the Worlds of the Infernos? Is that which is in the physical, and beneath the physical not subjective? “This is the truly subjective, that which is be neath the limits of our perceptions.”

Psychologists do not know how to use that term correctly.

Objective: is the Light, the resplendent, is something which has truth, clarity, lucidity.

Subjective: is the darkness, the tenebrous. The subjective elements of the perceptions come from: “sight”, “hearing”, “touch”, “smell”, “taste”. They are all perceptions of what we find in the third dimension. For example, we see in a cube only length, width and height, and we do not see the fourth dimension because we are constrained by the ego.

The subjective elements of perceptions are made up of the ego with all its “I’s”

The Unity, the Father divides Himself into the Mother. In her turn, the Mother divides, giving origin to the Son which she carries in her en trails.

Osiris - the Father.

Isis - the Mother.

Horus - the Divine Spirit, the Intimus of every being. The Unity is the realising synthesis of the Ternary.

In the Egyptian Book of the Dead it says that Ra gave to Horns, (the child which the Divine Mother carries in her arms) the regio n of “Buto”. This region is of pure spirit; of Atman-Buddhi-Manas.

Set transformed himself into a wild black boar and struck the “Eye of Horus” and the latter complained to Ra. “I will cure you” Ra said to him, and to console him, he gave him the region of Buto. This is clarified by the following: “The wild black boar must be killed, thus the Eye of Horus is restored; that is to say, the clairvoyance is restored”.

Horus can put an end to the wild black boar, but not alone; rather he must beg the help of the Divine Mother. In eliminating the wild black boar Horns triumphs, and the Essence which was trapped is freed, fus ing with Horns, with the Diamond Soul. It unites with its Father and Mother: they are three flames which come to form one single, realised flame.

The Essence is a division of Horus, we must beg Horus to strengthen our three brains. As

the ego dies Horns is strengthened; and due to this, one must beg that he strengthen those three brains.

When Horus has swallowed the Essence he needs the Solar Bodies; and a germinal atom of each one of these bodies remains.

Solar Physical Body.

Solar Astral Body - complete consciousness.

Solar Mental Body - complete knowledge.

Body of Conscious Will.

Man is man, and the smaller and more microscopic one feels, the better. We, mankind, must feel that we are ants. God is God because the Divin ity is that which has power. We are nothing, we are poor devils; and even the man who is a complete Man is an ant compared with God. A Master said to me: “V. M. Samael Aun Weor, true happiness is having God within. Although one may be in the Absolute or in Nirvana, if one does not have God within one will not be happy; even though they who dwell there have God incarnated”.

Those words had a tremendous impact upon me and I sought the coun sel of the great sage Saturn. I gave various esoteric greetings and he responded to them all, but he said to me: “There is no greater greeting than that of the seal of the heart”.

There was no need to speak, in silence he answered all, saying that if one does not have God within, not even in the Absolute is one happy. With this answer I was satisfied.

These consultations cost, and I paid with the capital of good acts, which is the currency of Dharma.

SYNTHESIS

This Arcanum, the Magician, represents man. It is the masculine principle. The number 1 means that which initiates, that which begins. All of the work is contained within the Tarot. All psychic processes develop there.

The Unity is the realising synthesis of the Ternary.

Whilst we do not know ourselves, we can know nothing of the soul and spirit.

The four conditions which are necessary in order to be a Magician are the following:

To know how to suffer.

To know how to be silent.

To know how to abstain.

To know how to die.

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