A post submitted by CGI member, Morgan.

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http://www.visibleorigami.com/2021/09/hope-springs-eternal-they-say-evil-is.html

I've been thinking about what people believe and how they came to believe it. Take a look at the various mindsets that proliferate in a country at different periods. Common, shared beliefs come into play and become a Life Commercial that screens in your head. It's like a commercial jingle that you can't stop hearing. It is likely, not true, but it is catchy. This results in imprinting on the consciousness. Mantras are intentional efforts to do just that. The Major Arcana of the Tarot are considered to be pictogram archetypes, but that's not the whole story.

There is an arrangement called the Tarot Tableau. Excepting The Fool, which is apart from this arrangement (but not really) you have 21 cards. The first seven can be considered to be Forces. Arranged just beneath these are the mediums, or you might say Channels that the Forces act through or process. The last seven are conditions to be rectified or created and maintained. By example, The Magician, which is the first trump, operates through the Strength card process, and that sets right the absurdity pictured by The Devil card.