V-2nd - Chapter 8 - Section IV - Stencil's soliloquy

[Robin Landseadel]

Other than you sending the post in plaintext?

I've been planning on making this painting of the card for years, only  
just got around to it.

On Oct 12, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Joe Allonby wrote:

> ROBIN? ARE YOU MAD AT US?
>
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net 
> > wrote:
> > I believe the Angel is supposed to represent the Archangel  
> Michael, least
> > that's what I've read and others told me. Michael's supposed to be:
> > . . .an archangel in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic tradition. He  
> is viewed
> > as the field commander of the Army of God. He is mentioned by name
> > in the Book of Daniel, the Book of Jude, and the Book of
> > Revelation, in which he leads God's armies against Satan's forces
> > during his uprising. In the book of Daniel, Michael appears as  
> "one of
> > the chief princes" who in Daniel's vision comes to Gabriel's aid  
> in his
> > contest with the angel of Persia (Dobiel). Michael is also described
> > there as the advocate of the Children of Israel and as a "great  
> prince
> > who stands up for the children of your [Daniel's] people".
> > In Hebrew, the name Michael means "who is like God"(mi-who, ke-as or
> > like, El-deity), which in Talmudic tradition is interpreted as a  
> rhetorical
> > question: "Who is like God?" (which expects an answer in the  
> negative)
> > to imply that no one is like God. In this way, Michael is seen as a
> > symbol of humility before God.
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_(archangel)
> > Make of that what you will, I don't know much about Michael, know  
> plenty
> > about Robin. But the Angel ain't in charge of these forces that  
> surround.
> > This fluidly gendered upwardly mirrored expression of the higher  
> self is
> > more like a conduit or passageway for those forces, an entity with  
> the Art
> > to fuse seemingly opposed forces. It's your better Angel. It's the
> > Temperance of tempering steel with fire and water, it is the place  
> where
> > opposites have to meet anyway, might as well make the most of it.  
> Temperance
> > hangs out around the center of the Tree of Life . . .
> > http://www.songspell.net/tarot.html
> > . . . and is the best single observation post in the deck, the  
> P.O.V. of the
> > Artist's eye, which is one of many good reasons Aleister Crowley  
> -- Mr.
> > T.W.I.T. hisself—renames the card "Art" in his Thoth Tarot.
> >
> > On Oct 11, 2010, at 7:15 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:
> >
> > like you said, another week or even a couple of weeks on just the
> >
> > implications of that question might allow proper consideration.
> >
> > I suppose one of the things that always turned me off about "V."  
> were these
> > negative images of the strange female, a negative cast to witchy- 
> ness that
> > later gets blown away by Geli Tripping and pretty much stays away  
> for good
> > after that.
> >
> > fortunately, Robin's nature spiritualism and his bringing up the
> > Temperance card at this juncture indicate that he is more than aware
> > of the issue.
> >
> > http://sourceryforge.org/index.php/Paul_Case
> > very brief article; apparently Mr Case, before founding Builders of
> > the Adytum, was a member of the New York chapter of the Golden Dawn;
> > of the existence of which chapter aware this for the first time has
> > made me...
> >
> > the Twits spreading their wings in NYC...building apartment  
> buildings
> > with girders having solid cores of selenium...
> > "They just don't build them like they used to..."
> > "You never studied, Peter!  They never made buildings like this!"
> >
> > is V. the Gatekeeper?  is Stencil the Keymaster?
> >
> > but, the Temperance card: http://tinyurl.com/27ufe9s
> >
> > is that right?  This would represent a woman with control over  
> some of
> > the most important primal forces of Nature...
> >
> >
> > --
> > - But you can wade in the water
> > and never get wet
> > if you keep on doin' that rag (Grateful Dead, "Doin' That Rag")
> >
> >
>