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This
is
most
accurately
pictured
in the Tarot Trump
called " The
Angel," which
corresponds
to the letter Shin,
the letter of Spirit and of
Breath.
The whole mind of man is rent by the
advent
of Adonai, and
is
at
once caught up into union
with Him.
" In the air,"
the Ruach.
Note that
etymologically
the word
crvy, "together with,"
is the San-
skrit Sam; and the Hebrew ADNI is the Sanskrit ADHI.
The phrase "together with
the Lord," is
then
literally
identical
with
the word
Samadhi,
which
is the Sanskrit
name of the phenomenon
de-
scribed
by Saint
Paul,
this
union
of the
ego and
the non-ego,
subject
and object,
this chymical
marriage,
and thus identical
with
the symbol-
ism of the Rosy Cross,
under
a slightly
different
aspect.
And since marriage
can
only take
place
between
one
and one, it is
evident
that no idea can thus be united,
unless it is simple.
Hence every idea must be analysed by the Sword.
Hence,
too, there must only be a single thought in the mind of the
person meditating.
One
may now go on to
consider
the
use of the Sword
in
purifying
emotions
into perceptions.
It was the function of the Cup
to interpret
the
perceptions
by the
tendencies;
the Sword frees the perceptions from the Web of
emotion.