Orat, Taro, Tora, Rota...
Is there an evolution and a cycle within the letterscrambles "Orat, Taro, Tora, Rota"?
I asked myself this question and surmised, (for now) after further contemplation, that the oldest element might be the Oracle. The Oracle being the messages that come without books and recorded history. Even before words, there was an understanding that led human life forward, a comprehension that had no description. Some call it instinct, but was it more then an animalistic trait? Was there an attribute with human kind before we stumbled into babble. Can we return to this place through a rotation that brings us to the end at the beginning, and hear, once again, the messages that came from the Celestial, the Natural and the Inner Voice, even if they all are parts of the whole of consciousness?
I placed Tarot second because it is symbolic. Torah is said to relate to a law that assists human beings into correction. This seems to be a correction of interpretation of symbols. Man came upon a time of deciphering what things meant. He thought he figured the code hidden in the symbols. Could it be that we are in need of erasing what we thought? I have a science buff friend who is fond of using the comment, "The Universe won't allow it." There are certain boundaries that exist in Universal Law. Is the cycle one where we stretch to outer boundaries and then return?
I could be wrong that the Law would come first. But, humanity is usually focused on self and has to learn to be communal, which is why the Law was given. But, did the individual have an idea of his mind's inner workings? We could say he did when we look at the scarab beetle of Egypt, supposedly representing the mind's make-up. Then there is mystic code in letters, and mystic code in pictures? Again hieroglyphics wins. If I follow history, then I have to see Tarot first and Torah next.
One may then ask how a Wheel of Life or a Tarot Wheel of Fortune could possible be last in the cycle as a concept of the letter combination, Rota/Rotation. It is actually first in my schematic. The end is always found at a new beginning. I placed the ROTA last because at the end of a cycle there can be a rotation to a new beginning. If evolution works with a spiral, then within the continuations there are repetitions: Hearing the Oracles, Symbolic Interpretation, Legalism of the Persona, and then the realization of cycles. These can all be constant tools in the continuing evolution of human psyche. Listening to an inner voice; deciphering the meaning of symbols in relation to above and below and inner and outer reflections; the PaRDeS of Torah study; to the rotational aspects of the Wheel of Fortune/Life. The rise, the reign and the fall teach us humility, make one wise, and reveal what the rise is really about.
And then there is this mention: “The psychological and spiritual development of mankind is dependent on the evolution of femininity.”


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