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Karmic Tarot
and whose archetypal analyst is Patanjali. (6) The subtle level of God-Light whose
sphere is subtle Heaven (Brahma-Loka); and whose archetypal analyst is Kirpal Singh
(7) The causal level of ultimate exchange, whose paradigm is radical absorption in and
as the Uncreate (samadhi); whose sphere is the Void-Godhead; and whose archetypal
analyst is Buddha/Krishna/Christ. 15
Taking the above analysis from Wilber with the exchange of levels 4 and 5 (the mind
acted upon by the spirit becomes the enlightened higher mind), we can apply the best
thinking in history to our seven Stages. You are encouraged to extrapolate on this brief
outline:
Stage One: Marx
Stage Two: Freud
Stage Three: Socrates/Darwin
Stage Four: Patanjali/Ram Dass/Wilber
Stage Five: Einstein/Bohm
Stage Six: Moses/St. Paul/Kirpal Singh
Stage Seven: Krishna/Buddha/Christ/Muhammad
Correlation of the Seven Stages with the Chakras
Stage One: Root/Anal = Self-Preservation (Fear and Paranoia)
Stage Two: Genital = Sensuality and Sexuality
Stage Three: Solar Plexus = Domination and Submission
Stage Four: Heart = Empathy
Stage Five: Throat = Nurturance and Expression
Stage Six: Third Eye = Seat of Intuitive Knowledge
Stage Seven: Crown = Highest State of Consciousness
These attributes for the seven chakras are taken from Yoga and Psychotherapy by Swami
Rama. 16 There are many subtle variations to the significance of the chakras and the development
of the kundulini, and all of them can provide insight into the definition of the
seven Stages in the Karmic Tarot Spread.
Correlation of the Seven Stages and the Major Arcana with a Sufi Story
There are numerous examples from the classical literature of many countries that refer
to man’s development through “seven stages.” A beautiful and amazing correlation is
found in a Sufi story written in 1899 under the title, “The Mystic Rose from the Garden of
the King: A Fragment of the Vision of Sheikh Haji Ibrahim of Kerbela.” The author was
Sir Fairfax L. Cartwright, who later became British Ambassador to Vienna:
In my wanderings in the Strange Land, this did I see: A Temple built like a Tower
rising to a great height, surrounded at its base by a circular colonnade. Impelled by a
desire to learn, I knocked at the Gate of the Temple and prayed for admittance. A
venerable old man—the Sage of that Temple—opened the Gate and said to me, “What
seekest thou?” I replied, “Knowledge.” He said, “Hast thou the strength and determination
to climb to the topmost chamber of the Tower?” I said, “The desire have I if thou
wilt be my guide to show me the way.” Then he stretched out his hand and raised me up,
saying: “If thy heart is stout, cross the threshold of the Temple of Human Knowledge.”