Meditations on the Tarot by Anonymous

Author:Anonymous [Anonymous]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781101657850
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2005-08-24T16:00:00+00:00

Here is the force of recall in its most complete, most strong and most elevated manifestation. It is love, for “Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus”.

The operation of recall to life—or resurrection—comprises three stages: that of coming, that of taking away the stone and that of recall, i.e. “crying with a loud voice”.

Firstly, coming: “To come and to arrive” is the activity which seeks and finds the last door which separates the recaller from the recalled. The “about two miles” between Bethany and Jerusalem that the Master went in order to arrive at the tomb of Lazarus represent the first effort in the whole operation of recall: that which aims at arriving at the point of maximum approach to the subject of recall.

Then, the taking away of the stone: this is the effort which vanquishes doubt, depression, fatigue and, lastly, despair, which bar the way to the recalled, like the stone placed before the tomb. By analogy, one is powerless to recall in the domain of vertical memory and moral memory things that one believes are lost for ever, or regarding which one believes that it is impossible to call them to the light of consciousness. This doubt and lack of faith paralyses the effort to recall and is like the stone placed before the tomb. This stone is often—if not always—the cause for many people of the absence of all living feeling and conviction, without speaking of precise and concrete remembrances, of former lives, i.e. of reincarnation. The remembrances have knocked at the door in vain, the stone placed before it not allowing them to come out from their depths and enter into the light of consciousness.

Lastly, recall: “To cry with a loud voice” is the culminating—and the supreme—effort of the operation of recall through the force of love, whether to life, as was the case with Lazarus, or whether to memory, as is the case of recall with vertical and moral memory.

A voice is louder, i.e. more audible, in the physical world, the more intense the vibrations are that it produces in the air. It is otherwise in the spiritual world. There a voice is more audible, i.e. “louder”, the more it expresses underlying effort and suffering. Work and suffering are the things which render our voices audible to the spiritual world and in the spiritual world. These are the factors which create “vibrations” sufficiently “loud” in the spiritual world in order to render our voices audible. This is why the rosary-prayer repeats the Ave Maria one hundred and fifty times and the Pater Noster fifteen times. For if it is suffering which renders audible the ejaculative prayer of a single word—“Jesus!”, for example—it is effort which renders the rosary-prayer audible. I would lack respect for the truth if I did not say that the effort of the rosary-prayer founded on suffering makes it a powerful means—sometimes almost all-powerful—in sacred magic.

Now, the “cry with a loud voice”, which is the decisive act in the whole operation

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