Netivah Study Guide - Magdalene Circle

Judgment – Key 20 – Shin -- ש -- Gematria = 300Shin means tooth, probably a serpent‟s fang. It suggests sharpness, acidity, andactive manifestation. The gematria of 300 is the same as Ruach Elohim, whichmeans the holy life breath or Holy Spirit.This letter is a symbol of the power which tears down the limitations of form asteeth break up food. It represents the power that “kills” the false personality andits sense of separateness.Fire is the element attributed to Shin. It is the particular quality of the solar forceand of the Mars vibration. It is also the quality of the zodiac signs represented inTarot by the Emperor, Strength, and Temperance. Its color is scarlet.Perpetual Intelligence is the mode of consciousness. Its name is derived from aHebrew root meaning “to stretch”. This implies that the perpetual intelligence isan extension beyond the limits of the modes of consciousness common to mosthuman beings. This implies conscious immortality.The number 20 reduces to 2 and we understand that the consciousness here represented is the culmination ofmental activities originating in the cosmic memory.This key implies completion, decision, termination. It is the final state of personal consciousness.The figures in the picture are a man, a woman, and a child. Their bodies are tinted gray, rather than fleshcolor,to intimate that in this phase of personal consciousness the “pairs of opposites” have been neutralized,as complementary colors are neutralized in gray and that the scene depicted is not located in the physicalplane.The man is self-consciousness, the woman is sub-consciousness, and the child is regenerated personality.The position of their arms represents LVX which means light.The angel is the Divine Breath or cosmic fire and he is the angel Gabriel (because he carries a trumpet andbecause Gabriel is the angel of water which is indicated by his blue robe).The action of heat upon water creates air, the substance of breath. Seven basic tones are indicated by 7 linesradiating from the bell of the trumpet. These seven tones are those which affect the seven interior stars bysympathetic vibration. The arms of the cross will include 9 out of the 25 square units on the face of the banner.9 is the number of completion and 5 is the number of adaption.The coffins float upon a sea which is the final reservoir of those waters which begin in the robe of the HighPriestess. The coffins are rectangular, to represent the three dimensions of the physical plane. The 3 humanfigures are at right angles to the coffins to represent the fourth dimension.Snowy mountains in the background represent the heights of abstract thought. This takes purely mathematicalform. Thus the symbolism suggests what is shown on the card, is derived from mathematical considerations.The child‟s back is toward us, because he represents return to the Source of all. This card shows the sixthstage of spiritual unfoldment in which personal consciousness is on the verge of blending with the universal.At this stage, the adept realizes that his personal existence is nothing but the manifestation of the relationshipbetween self-consciousness and sub-consciousness. These are merely modes of universal consciousness.Thus he knows that his personality has no separate existence. At this stage his intellectual conviction isconfirmed by 4 th dimensional experiences which blot out the delusion of separateness forever.