From the card of Eve of THE BOOK OF THE TREE OF HERMES: An Introduction to the NUR Tarot
هي
A meaning to this card is to be found in the dhikr of allāhu abṭan (الله ابطن), ‘God is the Most Interior’ or ‘Most Hidden’, whose numerical value of one-hundred and twenty-eight (128) is equivalent to mawlānā (مولانا), ‘our master’, Ḥusayn (حسين), and the Name of God nāziʾ (نازع), that is, ‘the Remover’ (نازع) which can also mean the ‘disputer’ or ‘arguer’ and similar. Among the 385 Supreme Names, this Name is Name two-hundred and fifty-eight (258) and is associated with the sixth day of the NUR month of Jamāl (beauty).[1]
The Goddess’s brief epiphany or transitory Manifestation to us
In late 2023 a Turkish woman virtually appeared in the life of the present author under an assumed last name. Yet when the numerical values of her first and false last names were calculated in Arabic, it corresponded to the numerical value of “O Manifestation of the Truth” (i.e. 1260).[2] Her 26th birthday was also on the precise day when its artist delivered the finished card to us (1 February 2023),[3] not to mention that she friended us in social media on the exact day when the physical cards and the divination table for the NUR Tarot were first delivered into our hands (26 July 2023). But most striking of all, she bore an uncanny and even an identical resemblance to the woman depicted by its artist in this card of Eve. Many other unbelievable synchronicities also occurred between this Turkish woman and the depicted elements of the card that would take us too far afield to mention one by one. But note that for an entire year leading up to it, the day of the 3rd of Jamāl NUR 18 (30th November 2023) had been constantly prognosticated to us in our numerological divinations. On this exact day, this woman made private contact with us and for precisely the next thirty-eight (38) days to the numerical value of our last name in Arabic we maintained an intimate long-distance relationsip with her, even speaking of marriage, at the end of which the relationship abruptly ended. But it was thirty-six (36) days among these thirty-eight (38) days – to the number of pathways to our Tree of Reality and to the numerical value of إله (ilāha ‘God’ small case) – that we experienced with this woman an unbelievable celestial bliss at a physical and geographic distance, with words of love expressed to us by her that touched us to our inner core unlike anything we had ever experienced before. This was the Great Mother Herself, the Imām-Creatrix as Eve, using this woman as a temporary vehicle to communicate with us in the spatiotemporal world, epiphanizing and Self-Disclosing Herself through this Turkish woman, at the conclusion of the thirty-sixth day departing completely with the next two days constituting the break-up. In other words, inadvertently on her part, but telegraphed to us for some time prior, this Turkish woman became for us the oracle of the Goddess Herself, which we openly expressed to her at the time.
Yet, alas, this human woman and vehicle for the Great Mother was deeply, deeply (even dangerously) flawed and extremely troubled in her own humanity and especially in her femininity, bearing all the classic hallmarks (and in its utter extremity) of what is called the archetype of toxic femininity or the “dark feminine.” Therefore, once the expansive Light departed from her, it literally became impossible to continue the relationship with her any further, the details of which are both too long and too personal to get into here. Yet, to us, as we began pondering over the events afterwards during its course, a paradox emerged wherein the physical and geographical distance of this woman simultaneously expressed to us the Goddess’s transendence (tanzīh) and majesty (jalāl) with the fact that we connected at that intimate a level with her even from a distance being the Manifestation of Her immanence (tashbīh) and beauty (jamāl). In other words, to paraphrase QurꜤān 41:53, this was an incident for us wherein we beheld the signs (āyāt) of the Great Goddess and Supreme Mother, the Imām-Creatrix as Eve, in the horizons (āfāq) and in our soul (nafs) in the Reality of an extremely brief yet intense heart connection with this beautiful Turkish woman who resembled and mirrored the depiction made of the human woman in this card of Eve by its artist - “and the heart has not lied regarding what it has seen” (QurꜤān 53:11).
We cherish the memory of those thirty-six truly magical days in late 2023 and the first seven days of early 2024 because She, albeit very briefly, manifested to us in human form as we had been praying and requesting of Her for quite some time to do for us. Note that in one of several of those self-derived calendars we use concurrently, the period of the 7th of November 2023 to the 6th of November 2024 was precisely the period corresponding to the card of Eve, not to mention i. the 4th Theophanic Sequence of the Ḥadīth Kumayl (i.e. “the ecstatic attraction of the Divine Exclusive Oneness by the attributive apprehension of the Divine Unicity”)[4]; ii. the tahlīl (i.e. “there is no god but God”)[5]; iii. the Realization of the realization[6]; and iv. Spirit (rūḥ) which is associated with the Empyrean world (jabarūt) and the element of Fire.
That said, one extremely positive outcome of this spatiotemporally virtual ‘encounter’ with the Turkish woman, the temporary oracle of the Goddess, was to bring our daughter and I closer together in our relationship after a period of strain while also signaling the conclusion of a particularly difficult period overall that started in 2019 with the tragic death of our wife Roya.
[1] I.e. the 3rd of December.
[2] يا ظهور الحقّ
Minus the alif’ul-waṣl, which doesn’t get calculated in such a construction.
[3] Note that on this very day, after the artist delivered to us the finished card of Eve, in a state of ecstatsy (wajd), we spontaneously uttered the following words of shahāda which in Arabic contains precisely 26 letters:
لا إله إلّا الله حواء مظهر هي الله
There is no god but God! Eve is the locus of the Manifestation of She is God!
[4] جذب الأحدية لصفة التّوحيد
[5] لا إله إلّا الله
[6] إمضاء الإمضاء
