The Descent to Not
The Mysteries
Consider a priest, a scientist, and a spiritual guru. For the average person, any one of these individuals may seem to know more about the origin of life, the origin of the universe, and the destiny of our very souls than we do. But they don’t. In this way, we are all on a level playing field.
This is the true power of The Mysteries. There is a short list of mysteries that have plagued humanity since before we could write, and these mysteries have yet to be solved. As long as these questions remain unanswered the playing field is level when it comes to this assumed absolute knowledge that we automatically and mistakenly grant to other people. When it comes to the core questions that drive the advance of civilization, the priest, scientist and the spiritual guru are no further along than anybody else.
We are all in this thing together and none of us knows what this thing is, where it came from or where it is going. On the one hand that is terrifying, but on the other hand, it is exciting, and truly awesome! What could possibly happen next?! All we can do now is hold on for the ride and watch as life blazes before our eyes!
Descent IX
The Mysteries
We see a person in the foreground pointing to something toward the center of the card. What is it? Is it a tree? Is it a rock formation? Is this here on Earth? Some other planet? Maybe it’s in a dream? In the top-left corner of this card is the AON symbol for The Mysteries indicating that this trump is part of the Self Well.
The Mysteries are a collection of mysteries that have baffled humanity for millennia and continue to remain unsolved. The Mysteries introduce several impactful concepts:
• The Level Playing Field (Nobody Knows)
• The Secret of the Keys
• The Insanity Equation
• The Great Assumption
• Defense Against the "Light Arts"
Arriving here from the Tree, we shed all of our Values and Principles and behold the Mysteries of the Cosmos and consider what incredible knowledge may be occulted. What was occulted? And who occulted it? Who has the Keys to the Universal Knowledge of the Universe? This, of course, is a trick question. The Secret of the Keys is that there are no locked doors.
Guided Meditation
The Mysteries
Mystical Truths
Who knows these things?
Why are we here? What is our purpose? Why do we exist? How did we come to be here? What are we supposed to be doing while we exist for this brief flash in time? Where is this all heading? Is there a great culmination of some kind? Is there some kind of climax? Is this (gestures to everything around us) all there is?
And…
Who cares? How do these longstanding (foreverstanding, perhaps) mysteries affect our daily lives? Some of the mysteries of humanity date back to before humans could even write. For all we know, these mysteries date back to before humans could even communicate with grunts. Ironically, perhaps, the question of when humans began to ponder such mysteries is in itself a mystery which has yet to be solved.
We all come from different backgrounds and have different political, religious, and secular belief systems which we’ve been indoctrinated with or adopted along the way, but there are a couple of things we all must share in common. We all have to work, and we all have to pay the rent (in one way or another).
The Mysteries are pure, lucid reality. The reality that surrounds us is so mind-blowing that when we think it through, we feel we might be approaching the edge of sanity. Who needs mind-altering drugs when reality itself can sweep sanity and reason away with the incomprehensible scale of the infinity of infinities which surround us?
But these Mysteries, like our Principles and the inner reflection of the outer World, are not something we need to worry about as we descend into the depths of the Self. What lies beneath the Mysteries?