Thứ Sáu, 4 tháng 1, 2013

Law and Money - and the Occult Laws about both


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Law and Money - and the Occult Laws about both


by Madeline Montalban

 In a Tarot spread both the Seven of Rods and the Seven of Swords can be considered omens of success, the former when upright, the latter when reversed. When using the Tarot for divination, the Seven of Rods forecasts legacies, business gains and assured success in any money matter inquired about. When reversed, the card warns against precarious business affairs that may result in loss unless speedy precautions are taken. (You can also apply this as a warning about losing your job if you are employed, rather than in business on your own.) The Seven of Swords reversed is also an assurance of business success and brighter prospects. But when the right way up, it means that your business rivals (or personal enemies) might triumph over you. Should this card appear upright near to that of the Querent in a spread when that Querent is contemplating taking legal action, it would be better to settle the dispute out of Court and cut one’s losses rather than “go to law”, for the outcome would not be satisfactory.

I have often been asked to forecast the outcome of a lawsuit, but I never do so, for a very good reason. The outcome of a lawsuit is decided the very moment you take the first steps in going to law; in fact, in that split second you decide to do it! Therefore, if you feel you need occult guidance, it’s not a bit of use asking for it after you have started your action. Far better for you to seek such advice before you embark upon it, for any seer can only tell you its inevitable end.

In the great majority of cases, the litigant is either unsuccessful, or put to such trouble and expense that the whole thing wasn’t worth it. This is for a reason that is entirely occult. The law of man, which the courts operate, comes to its judgement entirely upon your actions and not your motives. Thus you may be morally in the right in your case, but legally in the wrong! I will give a small example. One of my students bought a house from a man and paid him in full. Later, she found that the house she had bought was mortgaged to a building society, and the seller had not revealed this. Although she had paid her money to the vendor the house, in law, still belonged to the building society. Either she had to pay off the mortgage, or lose the house. She was already going to law about it when she asked for my advice. Now, so far as the Tarot was concerned, it was no use my laying the cards out for her at all. The matter was already decided, and she was bound to lose her case for this reason.

The law of man says that “ignorance of the law is no excuse”, whether it be a civil or criminal matter. Once you are over twenty-one, you are assumed to be a responsible person, and to arm yourself with the knowledge of the law. Naturally, this cannot always be done. That is why solicitors exist. You should consult a solicitor before you spend money on a deal, to be on the safe side. The law holds you to be responsible for your actions. Therefore by not assuring herself that the house she bought really belonged to the seller, with no strings attached (such as a mortgage), my student put herself into the position of buying something from somebody who had no right to sell it. The only redress she had in law was to sue the man who sold her the house (for he had sold it on false pretences), and to recover her purchase money from him. If he had disappeared, or spent the money, the loss would have been irrecoverable. But the fact that she had paid in good faith (she was morally in the right) makes no difference to the law of man, which says she must be legally in the right also!

Any good Tarot reader, consulted before the deal, should have been able to divine deceit from the spread of the cards. But even then, the Tarot only warns you of what may happen if you don’t take precautions. After the Tarot should come a consultation with a solicitor before any money changes hands.

That is where the law of man differs from occult law. Occult laws judge you upon your motives rather than on your actions. If your motives are good, even if you do the wrong thing, you have no karma to pay. If you do the right thing morally, but the wrong thing legally, then the ultimate outcome will be good. But it is not the same with the law of man. You must keep the law as it is written, and not as you feel it should be. So remember, if you want occult guidance in any matter having a legal aspect, take it before you go to law, and then check it up with a solicitor, who will appraise you of your chances in the matter.

And don’t think you will be able to explain to the court, and the world in general, your personal opinions and ins-and-outs of the matter. You won’t. Long-winded statements are cut short, for the judge is there to administer the letter of the law. He may extend you his sympathy, be sorry for you in your predicament, but he must administer the law as it stands, and cannot vary it because you acted in all good faith! It has often been said that the law is an ass. In many cases it is not the law that is asinine, but the litigants! The ancient symbol of the God Bacchus mounted upon a drunken ass admirably illustrates the point. The law staggers about, but keeps on its course. The ass gets there in the end, carrying the drunken Bacchus (and one can be drunk with self-esteem and self-righteousness), but at the journey’s end the ass kicks up his heels and deposits his rider in the dust. So, if you are drunk with false ideas, injured pride, or indignation, don’t try to ride the ass of the law unless you are prepared to be unseated at the end.

So much for the Seven of Swords, and now back to the Seven of Rods to look at its inner symbolism. As I have said, the Seven of Rods, right way up, forecasts business gains or legacies, but in the matter of legacies, a dead person’s shoes may not be comfortable for you to wear. So many people hope to be left money or property in a will. So few look at it from the right point of view, which is this. Money or property you inherit may not have been truly earned by you. What we have not earned, in one way or another, seldom benefits us in the long run, for we have made no effort to obtain it.

The things in life which come to us without personal effort can often be troubles in disguise. That is why, after an inheritance, many people find themselves in a sea of troubles, either those caused by the inheritance itself, or arising from having the balance of the effort-reward law upset. Again, the ass that staggers.

I once laid out the Tarot for myself, and there was the card that forecast a legacy for me. I hadn’t the remotest idea where it could come from, but the Tarot said I would have it. I was inexperienced at the time, or I would not have built my hopes on it. When I had a lawyer’s letter some weeks later, telling me I was a beneficiary under the will of an old gentleman I used to play chess with once a month, I was both touched and surprised. I knew he was a wealthy man, but couldn’t see why he had remembered me in his will. I attended the reading of the testament, and found that he had, very generously, left me his own set of Chinese ivory chessmen, and board, as a memento of the many hours we had played together. I was delighted, and proud that he had thought me worthy of this remembrance. The chessmen were “a legacy”, for a legacy does not necessarily mean money or valuable property. Remember that when this card comes up in your spread.

Touched, and proud of my chessmen, I took them round to show a friend that same night. In my absence (it was in wartime), my home was bombed and reduced to rubble. I was left with what I stood up in and the chessmen. Had I been there when the sirens sounded I might have grabbed a few things I personally valued. Just a slight instance of the trouble that can follow getting something you have not earned!

Later I discovered that the chessmen, as such, were quite valuable. Needing money desperately, I had to sell them back to the old gentleman’s family, to buy the necessities of life at the outrageous wartime prices. By occult law it was reasonable, for I had not earned the chessmen. I had enjoyed playing with the old gentleman. It was a pleasure, not a task. I had, therefore, no moral right to a legacy, but a legal right: since he left them to me. I had them, but had to part with them. Being an occultist, the law that says “nothing for nothing” came into swift operation in my case.

Do not build your hopes high on having money or property left to you unless you feel you have earned your inheritance. For what we get for nothing can turn out most expensive in the long run, either in the way of bitter experience or actual material loss. Much the same thing applies to winning a football pool or sweepstake (often shown by the Seven of Rods, this standing as another interpretation of the word “legacy”.) The occult laws work strangely but surely. You are here to earn what you gain, in one way or another, and if you gain it before you have earned it, be sure you will pay for it later!

The brighter side to the picture is, of course, that those of us who believe nothing remarkably good can happen to us are wrong too. All the good turns we do in our lives are “banked in the astral bank”. That is why, when we desperately need help, that help comes, often from a totally unexpected source.

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