TRUMP 19 - THE SUN
Welcome home traveler! We started our journey ages ago with card zero, the Fool. As the Fool was dancing on the highest mountain, we say, just above his head, the radiant Sun. We have seen that light increase. We saw it being guarded by the Angel of Life in card #6, the Lovers. We have seen stars and illuminations. We have seen the Hanged Man's head begin to glow with the light of the divine. We have seen the Sun rising above the mountains of Temperance. We have traveled the path, through the dark night of the Devil in the Tower. The morning star is born inside of us, and we have finally overcome all human limitations of biology, time, space and incarnation. We are coming home.
The eternal limitless spark of God has clothed itself with will, with mind, with desire and the body. The body has become purified and overcome. The waters of emotion have become alive. The mind has been cleansed of all ignorance and fetters. The divine will has been harnessed, and completely controls all the lower vehicles. The Sun has risen to high day. The Sun has risen to a glorious ecstasy. The divine dance is now able to go forward in immense celebration.
All of this is intimated and symbolized in this card. We have the glorious, radiant Sun with an expression of transcendent peace. There is no anger; there is no sorrow. But neither is there any giddy, childish happiness or “tom foolery.” There is mature awareness of all the glory and a bubbling out of a joy which is oh so different from happiness. Happiness, being space/time bound, is subject to change. Joy is the ecstasy of spirit, which results when we recognize the divine truth which is forever around us.
The Sun is resplendent in his/her glory. The Sun is life. The Sun is the highest physical symbol of God. The Sun is the light from which all other lights are derived. The Sun is the life from which all other lives are derived. It is the source of illumination, the source of warmth, the source of existence itself.
In the beginning is the light. In the end is the light. We move from light unto light. Only in-between, due to moments of temporary ignorance and darkness, is there night. The Sun is forever. The Sun always shines. The light of God is always there. Even during the night, the only reason we do not see the Sun is because the earth blocks its pathway. When the earth becomes purified and cleansed, as it does through the pathway of the Moon, then it is no longer a blockage of the Sun, and there is no night.
This is the great and glorious symbolism in the book of Revelation, where the Sun does not set, where the light is forever. The light has nothing left to block it. When there are clouds and when there is rain, the Sun still shines. All we must do is go high enough into the air, rise above the overcast, and delight in our return.
This is the fruition of the soul. Workings of man set to ply out historical life, re-regaining the flower of the fruit of his tree. All awakening, all restoring you. Workings of man driven far from the path re-release inhibitions so that all is left for you.
Master of images, songs cast a light on you. Pondering our dark existence, we reawaken, as the dawn of time dances in our soul. This is the Sun. We move from light unto light.
But, there is more here in the card. We see a naked child sitting upon a horse. Again, we see nakedness. There is no shame, we are far beyond the trappings of human embarrassment and vanity. The child represents the true essence of God within us, which is forever young. Though the body may grow old and change and tire, the soul is forever eternal, therefore, forever young--forever being born, forever being renewed, the same yesterday, today and forever, untouched by the bonds of mortality.
The child wears a garland of flowers upon his or her head. The child is intentionally drawn so that we can neither tell if it is “he” or “she.” This symbolizes all people. The flowers are all sunflowers. The secret of the seed is in the fragrance of the flower. As the petals open up and bow their heads toward the Power in the sky, we are passing by a million miles every hour on the universal clock. Its basic rhythm is forever. Life dances and rejoices with the knowledge of its freedom, and the promise of a new found destiny.
These flowers have their roots in the soil. They are fed and watered by the nutrients of the earth and the waters of emotion. The plants rise into the air, called by the light of God to reach out toward the Sun in an ecstatic dance of limitless divine bliss.
The horse symbolizes the higher natures, the higher animal faculties. Things such as imagination, creativity, reason.
We notice also the wall behind the Sun child. What is the purpose of this wall? This is to indicate that there is no barrier between God and man. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with the creations of the human race, for we are reminded in this card that we are co-creators with God. His creative abilities pulse in our veins. And as such, it is not wrong, it is not a problem, it is not a sin for us to manifest those energies. Likewise, our creations are not evil. They are a glorious unfolding of the song of God. So we build our industry, and upon these, the flowers do grow.
What then do we have in this card? We have the totality of all known realms of existence. We have inanimate matter inside of the stones. We have physical human bodies. We have desire, emotion, mind. We have divine will and the spark of God itself. We have the higher faculties of human consciousness and the results of that human consciousness, as we mold and shape the world with our creativity. It is all one great and glorious union between the Creator and the creation.
It is intimate. It is almost sexual in nature, the deep and ecstatic ecstasies, for you see physical orgasm is also a sign. All of the heavens declare God's glory and show His handiwork, and sexual orgasm is the most intense feeling a human being is capable of. This is an overwhelming sign of what true divine union is like. It is an ecstasy which dances beyond the farthest fringes of our imagination, and is only very dimly hinted at through the ecstasy of sexual union. There is no shame here. There is no darkness. There is no licentiousness.
We are of the Sun. Nous Sommes Du Solei. All life and all energy dance and rejoice in this resplendence.
This too is the other Son. Because at this stage, the morning star has been born in us, and we have grown up to know the height and the depth of God. We have the mind of Christ working inside of us. We have God's divine will flowing through us, and we have come to know the height and depth of all consciousness.
Paul says in Effusions chapter 3, that he prays that God would grant us, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power through the spirit in our inner man, so that Christ may dwell in our hearts through faith, and that we, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and the length and the height and the depth, and to know the love of Christ, which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.
We are born not of the water, not of the flesh, but we are born of God. God is becoming reincarnated in us again in body form. Yes, Jesus was the Son of God, and the Sun is a powerful symbol for the Son. The two of them work together.
As the morning star is born in us, that star finally gets closer and closer and closer until it fills our totality, at which point, we recognize that the morning star is not just a star, but is the Sun. We are not just disgusting piles of filth. No, we are, in fact, Adam and Eve. We are, in fact, children of God. We are sons and daughters of God. This could not possibly be clearer than it is in the Bible.
Jesus’ final words to his disciples: "I go to my Father and your Father. I go to my God and your God." It says clearly in Luke 6, that no one is above his teacher, no one is below his teacher. But rather everyone, after they have been fully instructed, is as their teacher. This is our destiny.
As we have seen so many times, the Biblical message, the message of the Torah, the message of the Tarot, and the message of the Rota, is that it is not sufficient to simply adore and worship Jesus. Adoring and worshipping Jesus is incredibly valuable and wonderful and essential for the soul, but its purpose is not to forever keep Jesus upon a pedestal while you feeling worthless and filthy. Its purpose is that you, through your worship and adoration, might become one with the Son--that your heart and mind and will so vibrate and become attuned to his presence, that your sin disappears. Your ego disappears. Your consciousness becomes saved from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and you return to the beatific vision of the oneness of life, where all is one, all is God.
This is not pantheism. Technically, the word is “Panentheism.” That means “all is in God.” The glorious proclamation of the Bible is that everything is inside of God, and everything, as such, is a part of God. The book of Acts tells us that in God, we live and we move and we exist inside of Him, much like a cell inside of your body. Where can it go? If it goes up to your head or down to your toes, you are still there.
So what the Bible is telling us, is that God is not you. And, you are God. You are all parts of the body of Christ, like fingers on a hand. I am not my finger. You could cut my finger off, and I would still exist. But, my finger is nothing more than me. My finger is a part of me, but it's not a part of you or Frank or Wilma or anyone else. The finger is entirely, totally and completely me.
But, I am much more than my finger. You are one of God's fingers. God is not you. You could be erased from the universe, and God would still be God. He would miss you, exactly as I would miss my finger, only much more so.
So while it is true that God is not you, it is also true that at this stage of the Sun, you recognize that you are God. This is a very difficult and dangerous teaching, because as we saw in the Moon, the tendency is so easy to slip and fall from these lofty heights, for a person to say I am God is one of two things. It is either the single most ego centered statement a person can make, meaning that I am God, and you are not, and you should worship me, which is the most odious, disgusting, sinful, evil blasphemy. It is the greatest darkness of all. That is what we have seen through the cards through this spiritual journey. This is known as the left hand pathway, wherein a person says I am God, meaning that I, therefore, should be worshipped.
But if a person says I am God, they can also say it through the right hand pathway, wherein they are indicating that this is the least ego centered statement they could possibly make--that the “I,” which you have been knowing and which I have been preserving and worshipping, does not exist, has no being, has no reality. The I-hood is simply an illusion. The only reality is the presence of God. That is what Paul said, and that is exactly he meant when he said that, "I no longer live, but it is Christ who lives in me, I am Christ."
This “I” who you talk about is not me. I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live. I am dead. And when you talk to me, you are not talking to me, you are talking to Christ. And when you listen to me, you are not listening to me, you are listening to Christ. This the right hand pathway--the proper pathway, wherein Paul does not seek any praise or worship of himself, but rather he seeks only to praise and worship God.
The same thing is true with the holy Son of God, Jesus the Christ himself. He sought not to be worshipped, but rather only to call each of us to worship God. Then, we are home. The breath of God has been fulfilled.
There is a marvelous passage in the Bible, which very clearly outlines the entire breath of God. It is in Philippians 2:3-11. The essence of it is that Christ dwelt in the form of God. He emptied himself out of that form and became a bond servant. He humbled himself to death, at which point He was resurrected and regained the form of godliness He had before the worlds were made.
God says in the Bible, that before the worlds were formed, I knew you. We were in the mind of God before our physical bodies ever existed. You must adulterate this scripture in order to make it say anything else. Before our soul became encased within matter, we dwelt in the pure pre-manifest, pre-created celestial realm know as the mind of God. We were there in his mind, before he ever placed our souls into these bodies, before he ever made light itself.
Here we begin to come home. Here we are home. “Home” is a wonderful word, and it is linguistically associated with many other words, all of which point to the same thing: home, womb, mom, a-men, omen. The Hindus even have the word "Om". Om, home, mom, omen--these are all reflections of the same spiritual center.
We are the Fool. The soul wanders throughout existence, starting in that celestial paradise, dancing in our pre-manifest forms known by God, dwelling in his mind, within wander, taking upon ourselves shades of divine will and mind, emotions and body until finally we come to the Earth to have our children, and eat our food, and wage our wars, and hate our brothers, and all of the silly stupid things that we spend our time doing.
It doesn't change the fact that the Sun is still there. It does not change the fact that the Sun is the only reality. It does not change the fact that the mind of God still exists, that we are still inside of God's mind, and that God has placed his mind inside of us.
Once again we have the image of union. The groom is in the bride; the bride is in the groom. God becomes a father by begetting children. Until there are children, there is no parent. The subject becomes the object, and without the object, there is no subject. The subject and object are one in their relationship. The Father and the Son are three with the Spirit, and yet those three are forever one. We are in God; God is in us. Everyone is everyone else.
We abide in Jesus; Jesus abides in us. We are in God; God is in us. This is a great mystery and an unnamable ecstasy. "The glory which you have given me, I have given to my disciples that they may be one just as we are one. I in them, you in me, that they may be perfected in unity. That the world did know that you did send me, did love them even as you love me. Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me, be with me where I am. In order that they may behold my glory which you have given me, for you did love me before the foundation of the world. Oh, righteous Father although the world has not known thee, yet I have known thee and these have known that you did send me. And I have made your name known to them. And will make it known that the love with which you love me may be in them and I in them."
At the stage of the Sun, the morning star has risen inside of us and continues to rise until it fills us. At that point, we recognize that we are a part of the Holy trinity, God the Father, God the Son. God the Son is our existence, for we no longer live. It is only Christ who lives through us. Just like that radio we talked about before, the radio no longer brings attention to itself, but it is only the messenger, only the speaker. The one star plus the seven stars are eight stars, which are one star.
Gloria! Hallelujah! Praise to God!
Praise to the Glory!
Welcome home.
