Key 3 The Empress

3/26/2010

The Empress

Key 3 is the first manifestation. The manifestation of form from thought. This thought comes from Key 2 the High Priestess which as we said before the subconscious mind which has been impregnated with self conscious mind by suggestion. Three is adding on to bringing more multiplication and abundance, increase, productivity, growth and understanding which with the higher mind understanding is the mind stuff of the High Priestess robe that is seen as a rives and a stream that is nurturing.

The Empress is the High Priestess in an active state of mind, she produces fecundity desire she is Mother Nature.

Path of Wisdom 14, this is the path through Chokman and Binah, on the Tree of Life. It is called Luminous Intelligence and the foundation of holiness. She is the order of thing that has been set by the subconscious mind. She sets apart all of our inductive reasoning separating the wheat from the chaff both the thoughts that generate beauty and greater harmony and also the thoughts that produce weeds that would strangle the environment but allow us to see the seeds that we have created for ourselves that is now multiplying in our world of the senses, the sense world of your experience. She is Illuminating and so she brings to light all that we have seeded by manifesting its results and consequences that we have chosen through time and space.

Letter D, is the Hebrew letter for Daleth and in Greek Delta which means “Door.” This symbol represents a passage a way of entrance and exit, in or out. The value of Daleth is the number 4 and is the fourth letter of the alphabet. The Door is that opening or the Womb of Life. “I stand at the Door and Knock and he who receives me, I shall enter therein.”

The door represents protection, conservation, preservation and safe-keeping. This mode is the idea of self preservation. She has the High Priestess is what gives up self-preservation. Because she is the Womb she is the storehouse of everything. She is the idea of form that all mind stuff takes shape. This store house of ideas that takes all form wards off all diseases and scarcities, all troubles. Here is where we start with self-development body and mind connection.

Life is a flow of what is Divine which is always seeking to find a way of expression or increasing the divine order or multiplication of its kind. It is the energy of spirit manifesting its idea into a form that is recognizable to Self and then when the form has served its purpose it returns again to its Source which is through the Door of Everything. 

Life in its Essence is formless that is why it created to take a form where it can see itself in the mirror. We are the mirror of creation.

Identity: The Empress is Mother of Ideas; she is the Generatrix the generator of all creative Idea. We are all an idea in the mind of our Creator Source. This idea is eternal and ever unfolding into infinity its infinite potential to be all things.

Direction: East- the point of sunrise, the dawn of higher consciousness. Remember this Door of the High Priestess does not stand alone for nothing stands alone all is one in everything and this everything that is nothing at the same time is the Kingdom. It is the Fathers House and in my Father’s house has many mansions.  The Door gives entrance to this House of Everything within and without.

Yellow background: Again this implies thought everything comes from a thought. All is mental, all is mind and what makes up all thought is Spirit and this Spirit or No-thing is absolute Limitless Light.

Astrologically: Venus is the planet assigned to this key, which is beauty, harmony the natural order of everything. It is fruitfulness and growth. Venus is always pregnant as is shown in other keys her pregnancy. She presides over child-birth and is a young mother-goddess and patroness of love, beauty and art.  As Venus she rules the sense of touch, and has much influence on desire-nature. She is the color green and the musical note F-sharp or G-flat.

Wisdom and Folly: is assigned to Daleth. Subconsciousness is a mode a subconscious response to the self-conscious interpretation and suggestion which determines if our ideas that we want to promote in our world of experience is Wisdom or Folly. This mode is not inductive but only deductive and cannot reason but only to do and bring form to whatever ideas enters its door.

The trees in the picture are cypress, evergreen myrtle leaves that form the wreath on her head and are sacred to Venus and are tokens of her immortality.

Yellow Hair:  This is represents her radiant or illuminating energy that is bound by the green leaves which is cosmic energy working at a subconscious energy level.

Crown of Stars: Each of the stars is six-pointed and shows her powers of the Macrocosmic world which are the laws of creation and the laws of heaven or divine order. Twelve of these stars signify the Zodiac which is archetypical ideas or patterns of Intelligence that are laws of fixed points of energy or consciousness within the Cosmos. These twelve Zodiacal sign are twelve modes of energy.

Scepter: This is the globe of our world or dominion over the physical plane shown by her scepter surmounted by a cross. The Venus symbol is up-side down again meaning dominion over the earth.

Pearls: Venus and the Moon are symbolized by pearls, seven of them are the original planets, strung in order at the door of her throat which represents creative power and again is ruled by Venus.

Shield: The shield is copper the metal of Venus which denotes the planet of love as her defense. Her defense is not resistance or inertia, but non-resistance, flowing energy that bend with the wind. Her desire nature is submission and the negative trend is reason for the fall. She was tempted by suggestion and submitted to desire falling into the dream consciousness and consequently identification with the material plane. Positively used this force can again be resurrected for good. This is the regeneration of the Holy Spirit. This is the sign of redemption. The shield has seven sides to show the number of Venus. The white eagle is the sign of regeneration.

Gown: Green is the color of her gown which is blue and yellow, active Intelligence and Love and Wisdom.

Triangle: The red triangle at her bodice is the letter Delta in the Greek and Daleth in the Hebrew showing the universal energy operating through the three modes of Consciousness, self consciousness, subconsciousness and Superconsciousness and is at the heart center or the center of everything.

Wheat: shown here is the symbol for multiplication or the original seed thought or idea which is growth.

Stone bench is an artifact of nature.

Biblical statement: “And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. “ She is the High Priestess in action and the consort of the Emperor which is the next key to be visited.