The Sun & Moon & Equilibrium

Last night, the lovely Karagan from BlogTalk Radio’s “WitchTalk” program once again interviewed me. We had endless technical glitches at the start of the show which meant that we had to abort the show and start again, but due to the way things were set up we had to start two and a half hours later, which meant that we only started at 11:30pm UK time! So Karagan got a very tired Sorita this time! Thank you to those of you who stayed logged in through it all and I hope that those of you who subsequently listen to the show, which can be downloaded, or listened to at “Sorita D’Este & The Sun The Moon and Magic of Equilibrium” - will enjoy and find at least some of it of interest.

At the start of the show, I mentioned the Emerald Tablet of Hermes the Thrice-Greatest, and Karagan asked me to read it out, and so I read out the first part of the translation as it appears in “The Alchemy Reader” by Stanton J. Linden.  For those of you who haven’t got a copy of this classic work, you will find many translations of it online at Sacred Texts – See Emerald Tablet Translations for details.  The Emerald Tablet provides us with the axiom “As Above, So Below” which is frequently used in many magical traditions today.  If you have heard that phrase, or even used it – you certainly would want to know the original context of it if you don’t already, so do read through it. 

I also started to speak of the Three Pillars on the Tree of Life, as another example of balance which is in my opinion a very important concept  in magical and spiritual development.  The pillars represent the constant balancing between the two opposing forces being the left pillar of Severity and the right pillar of Mercy, with the central or “middle” pillar being that of Harmony.   The left pillar is black, the right is white, and the central pillar is grey - again emphasising that magic and spirituality, when in harmony with itself is neither “white” or “black” – but rather something inbetween.  The interplay between matter and energy produces spirit when its in harmony, much like the concept of the four elements being brought into balance also producing spirit, the fifth “element” according to some.