![]() ![]() ![]() This is why it is dedicated to the cause of enlightenment (“open your eyes,” for the horizontal) this is why it aspires to absolute power for man (“be like gods”) and this is why, lastly, it is intrinsically amoral or morally neutral (“knowing good and evil”).ĭoes it deceive us? No. ![]() To open your eyes, to be like gods, knowing good and evil – this is the great Arcanum of empirical science. The ultimate aim of the logic of cunning, that of the serpent, is not to become God but to become “ like God.” “To become like” – this is the essence of cunning and is also the meaning of scientific faith, the scientific creed, which is at the same time only a paraphrase and development of the promise of the serpent: “your eyes will be opened, and you will be like gods, knowing good and evil”(Genesis iii, 5). …the serpent of Genesis “who was the most cunning of all living creatures” (Genesis iii, 1),…aspiration is the expansion of consciousness in the horizontal (“the fields”). This is from his meditation on the ninth major Arcanum, “The Hermit:” To do so I will quote at length from Valentin Tomberg’s magnum opus, Meditations on the Tarot. It’s time for us to step aside and take a deeper look at the serpent and it’s role in the human story. ![]()
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