(CHI-RHO)[7th April 1987]

[Redbook3:140-141][19870407:0940f](CHI-RHO)[7th April 1987]

19870407.0940

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A curious possibility: the early Christians (if I remember rightly) used the Chi-Rho sign, [*], said to represent the first two [Greek] letters of ChRist. On my representation of the Circles, the two horizontal cardinal points are not part of the Tarot Pack**, nor do either of them have a single Astrological sign***; even the Grail symbols tend to be near them rather than on them****. The two Archetypes, +M and +K, have been represented fictionally, and fairly consistently, as arranging and organising the circumstances in which the rest of the Circles pattern can operate.#

If we take the lines#* of the first two Tarot Cards, 0 and I, we have: | . The next four#*, II – V, give: X . Finally, the crucial and crisis transformation of the Individual between the Circles and directions or rotation is represented#** [by a backward 'C']: Ͻ . Thus: [the Chi-Rho sign]*.

Whether this is a co-incidence or not, it emphasises an uncertainty in my mind as to where exactly the transfer takes place.#*** I had seen it (until recently) as occurring between Simplification and Love without passing through Attraction-Unity. But the present emphasis on +C which occurs in my writings and experiences around and just after Christmas of this year, suggests that the Transformation from one quality of xS to the other occurs through the qualities of +C. This, of course, fits in with Christian teaching about the need to find (God) [sic] through Christ; and, by co-incidence or otherwise, it fits pretty well the early Christian [Chi-Rho]* symbol.#****

*[The Chi-Rho sign:]

**(but NB the Suits of the Lesser Trumps?)

***[Nor do either of the vertical cardinal points, which are. <20160310>]

****[This is no longer necessarily correct. <20160310>]

#Interestingly, G~ and M~ feature less in the index annotations (e.g. of [Vol] II [of this Journal]) than one would expect, given that they are frequently in my mind, and give guidance. <890930>

#(and therefore of necessity outside the Pack? <870816>

#cf. Booklet numbering system. <930814> [=[S&C]?]

#*[i.e. joining T0-TI, TII-TIV, & TIII-TV, as represented on the Circles. <20160310>]

#**[Depending of course on the orientation of the Circles, which appears to be potentially interchangeable: see later(?). <20160310>]

#***Only resolved c.<890930>.

#****if I recall correctly!

{cf. VI.70.}

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