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This simple form holds the memory or blueprint of the divine intent and therefore the understanding behind all the different sys tems or tools used by different spiritual traditions, such as Astrol ogy, Tarot and the Kabala. As the energy of Spirit moves through time and space, the blueprint can transform the divine intent into manifestation, so that matter and form can mirror back to the God we live in, an appreciation of the unfolding of his intent.

So the Spirit comes down, still holding the beautiful and pure ideas of the blueprint and the concept, enabling us as humans to see ourselves in a mirror. At the final state of higher consciousness, the God we live in is seeing itself in his own creation. The mirror cannot happen without the tool of self-consciousness that we take with us on the descent into our subconscious, which is what we call hell. If we are not aware of the subconscious we are just being driven by nature, which has innocent purity but also terrifying behaviour in the cause of survival! This means that we don’t know what we are doing, for we have no self-consciousness. The Soul instigates our descent into hell so that we can retrace all the steps which lead back to the original Trinity (father God/mother Earth – with us as witnesses to the end product) or source of life, this is how we find the mirror that shows us ‘as above, so below.’ The knowledge of intuitive perception accumulated over thousands of years, is called the Ancient Wisdom; this is held in the divine Tetraktys. We don’t need any books because the Tetraktys holds it all; we can ponder on it and let numbers teach the way to enlighten ment, for the idea of the swamp, the descent into hell, the purgatory stage and the redemption through the light of consciousness are all there. Through this knowledge comes the simple understanding that we have to start internalising the ‘How’ of our knowledge of the world to find the ‘Why’ – that’s when the journey really starts.

Figure 1. The Divine Tetraktys.

The Divine Tetraktys contains the whole of the Ancient Wisdom and if we ponder on it, all can be revealed.