TAARP - The Corridors of Time -
5.3 Meditation
As indicated in Section 4.3, my capability to meditate is not as well developed as it should be in order to effectively utilize it as a tool for Occult investigations. Consequently, it will be necessary for me to exert a dedicated effort during the initial stages of the research program for improvement of my meditative skills. I feel that three, one-half hour sessions daily for six months will bring me up to an acceptable level of performance. Monu Sadhu's works entitled "Concentration" and "Meditation" along with Crowley's writings on yoga and meditation will be used as guidelines for my training exercises.
One of the first applications to which I will apply the meditative function is to explore some of the Qabalistic correspondences in Crowley's "777". For example, to continue with the example of the archetype of the Mother Goddess, consider the following correspondences of the second Tarot Trump entitled the High Priestess:
Within this set of symbols the one symbol that I have difficulty appreciating fully is the camel. Characteristics of great expanse, calm and slow undulations, exceptional endurance, and deep seated reliability are easy to perceive as being common to the camel and that aspect of the Mother Goddess represented by the High Priestess. In order to insure that there is not more to the camel/High Priestess correspondence than is here indicated, meditative exercise on each of these symbols would be performed and subsequently analyzed. It may be turn out, for example, that the mean and nasty aspects of the camel's personality are related to an inherent toughness in the High Priestess which was required for her survival (or more properly stated, for the survival of her adherents) in the exceptionally turbulent environment of the Eastern Mediterranean during the rise of the early civilizations.
