The Quest after the Truth of Existence
The Seeker, who is characterized by inexperience, represents superconsciousness—the cosmic Life-Breath on the verge of descending into manifestation, transcending thought, emotion, and reason.
The Power of Intention
The Manifestor, who is awareness of the indwelling presence of the superconscious Self, represents self-consciousness, observing and directing aspect of universal Conscious Energy.
The Unveiling of Inner Truths
The Intuitive represents subconsciousness—a receptive and subordinate aspect of the mind, always responsive to suggestion and guided by self-conscious mental activity.
The Blossoming of Creativity
The Nurturer, which symbolizes subconsciousness as the generative womb of mental imagery, operates by means of deductive reasoning, subdividing the seed-ideas received from self-consciousness to produce diverse and manifold expressions.
The Dominion over the Physical World
The Leader represents self-consciousness directing and ruling mental activity, using inductive reasoning to define, structure, and regulate of one's personal reality.
The Development of Spiritual Practice
The Preacher is in tune with the laws of association at work below the conscious level, accessing and understanding thought-relations that surpass what is understood by reason alone.
The Duality of the Divine
The Lovers, united in their alchemical union, symbolize the ability to distinguish between truth and illusion, discernment is essential for cultivating a harmonious interaction between subconsciousness and self-consciousness.
The Vehicle for Spirit’s Intention
The Channeler serves as the conduit through which the cosmic forces underlying all manifestation express itself; this vessel is a conduit for carrying the alchemically unified soul to the Higher Self.
The Fortitude to Withstand Adversity
The Inspirer is able to effectively apply creative imagination by means of controlling and directing the self-sustaining force of universal conscious energy, reject desires that conflict with one’s core purpose while coordinating those that support it.
The Search for Higher Knowledge
The Sage is aware that all volition is universal and has direct knowledge of the true Self's eternal freedom, understanding that the idea of a personal will originating in the human personality is an illusion.
The Willingness to Embrace Nature’s Cycles
The Optimist reflects continual progress and improvement, allowing those with insight to interpret the present through the past and anticipate future outcomes by analyzing current events.
The Intent to Make Impartial Judgements
The Reconciler embodies the active execution of law and justice—measuring, regulating, and adjusting in accordance with the principles of balance, fairness, accuracy, and impartial reasoning.
The Releasing of the Known
The Mystic represents the willingness to completely surrender one’s personal life to Life Itself; the human personality depends entirely on the All, and recognizing this leads to a complete surrendering personal consciousness to will of the Universal Mind.
The Commencement of New Life
The Regenerator represents new life, more specifically the continual process of death and transformation that enables creation and renewal; all transformation begins with a change in mental imagery, in changing one’s ideas and mental patterns, one’s old conception of self dissolves and a new one emerges in its place.
The Great Work of Self-Mastery
The Archemist evaluates ideas through direct experience, testing theories by practical application and verifying hypotheses through experimentation, all of which involve examining and adjusting vibratory patterns.
The Structures of Time and Form
The Materialist represents the initial phase of spiritual awakening—an awareness of bondage to material conditions. This archetype personifies the false notion that man is a slave to necessity, a narrow outlook that distorts the nature of reality, yet ultimately prompts, the realization of inner freedom; there is no real effort to be free until one knows which vices to relinquish.
The Dismantling of Obsolete Structures of Tradition
The Awakener signifies a series of sudden insights that dismantle knowledge built on the illusion of separateness, bringing about the collapse of outdated philosophies founded on logical fallacies and flawed observations, so that more refined and perfected paradigms can emerge.
The Pursuit of Progressive Ideals
The Humanitarian represents inquiry, investigation, and exploration into the unknown in an attempt to discover knowledge from the unseen, embodying the patience to seek Truth in order to envision a future shaped by higher ideals.
The Reflection of Consciousness
The Dreamer archetype reflects the light of awareness, facilitating the integration of contemplative insights into somatic experience and enabling the reorganization of physiological processes in alignment with subconscious cognitive patterns to actualize inherent human potential.
The Source of Luminosity
The Illuminator represents the conscious identification with the One Life, in which the adept—having become childlike and an unobstructed vehicle for the universal will—exerts dominion over physical forces while still experiencing a sense of distinct individuality
The Call to a Higher Purpose
The Redeemer represents the final state of personal consciousness, achieved when purifying fire consumes the physical body to reveal pure spirit—a transformative power that destroys the false personality and the limitations of form.
The Complete Integration of One's Eternal Self
The Universe signifies Cosmic Consciousness—a direct realization of perfect union with the Source of all being.