Chicago Gnosis Podcast The Eternal Tarot of Alchemy and Kabbalah 13 Immortality
Humanity fears death, the unknown. Likewise, the number thirteen is considered unlucky, especially within Western culture. Despite the superstitions surrounding this subject, the thirteenth arcanum contains tremendous truths about the spiritual nature of death that are essential to study and experience within oneself.
People fear death and extinction, believing it to be an end to the self. However, all great mystical traditions teach that in order to experience the new, the old must die. Therefore, why fear the inevitable? What if there is a way to prepare for physical death, to learn to live with more consciousness and responsibility, as each great religion teaches in its core?
Learn how to prepare for death here and now through the comprehension and elimination of the animal ego. By undergoing the Buddhist Annihilation, the destruction of one's internal defects, the student liberates consciousness and awakens to the internal worlds, which people visit not only during death, but in the normal hours of sleep. This lecture explains the mysteries of physical and mystical death in accordance with alchemical art, the Fourth Way of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, Kabbalah, the Book of Genesis, the four rivers of Eden, the four ethers of Yesod, the Kabbalistic letter Mem, and the controversial Gospel of Judas.
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