#271 - Death

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The card that needs no introduction

Death is a knight on a white horse. It may be pure coincidence, but the last avatar of Vishnu was supposed to be a man on a white horse. He would come to end Kali Yurga, the age of suffering we live in. How did we end up in the state we are in? Where the littlest suffer, as they do in this card. It is almost as if this card foretold the horrors we see now with the Church with that Pope begging for mercy (which he won't get) and the king being trampled beneath the horse's hooves. The child is about to be trampled, while the mother looks away. She cannot bear seeing this. Behind the sun is about to rise - or perhaps it is setting - it seems like nothing can possibly be worse - but it will be worse.

Having submitted, Death is now inevitable. 

It is also well known that the card does not literally mean Death. It means Change. Change comes to us all and during change something dies. Something must give way.

The black flag with the white rose is the reverse rose of the Rosicrucian. 

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The Lemurian Chronicles aren't really Chronicles are all. They are speculations of the time before human beings came to be physically formed. Although, it could be said that all of creation had paved the way for where we are now. I was thinking about Paradise. Was there a time BEFORE humans. It is weird in a way that ALL creation mythology does not have humans first. Humans are the last of all. Before humans the cosmos was made and then the Earth was made and then we came along... we had no hand in making the Earth. Or maybe we did. We were there, at the very beginning. Not in this physical form, but here, everything has led us to this moment to be here.

Who is to say we weren't there? Can all of this possibly be a fluke? Can it? 

Imponderables. I know.

Still I cannot ignore the call of Lemuria. What did Paradise look like? Was there such a thing? I see... those move depictions of a Land Before Time. Those places which Europeans imagined since they could imagine - Paradise without people, just nature. Then being unpleasantly astonished to find they weren't the first people to land on this 'pristine wilderness'. 

After the Elementals made terrafirma and there was this physical paradise - what was next? Were there animals made alongside it? 

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