The wizard’s sphere
Why does the Wizard look at the sphere?
There is a well-known story of a wizard (the archetype of a Wise Old Man), who has the power to look into the sphere from which he reads the future. The sphere is a pictorial representation of Pleroma. The sphere is potency. In order to read the “objective” future from the overall potency, we need a stable reference point of the Present. Based on this point, the historicity (identity) is written, and based on the historicity, the future is anticipated (projected). This reference point is the archetype of the Wise Old Man because it is he who shapes the objective (Logical) direction. The ordinary person, through the sphere, necessarily reads (writes), the wrong (unfinished), image of the future because he experiences the image of the world (reference point) through the subject’s prism of the burdened ego. Ref: Leonardo’s Salvador Mundi (Christ with the Ball) – a moralistic story
Comment: This folklore story has extended over time to witches, sorcerers, or wizards who serve the Shadow. Deviation from the archetype of the Wise Old Man to the archetype of the Clown and the archetype of the Shadow is an insinuation that an excessive focus on the future is not necessarily morally correct, or that it potentially entails trouble. Perhaps it is only the Spirit of the Present Time that seduces into wrong (temporal) definitions.
The advice I give myself
I have noticed that I often give people one piece of advice, and that is to try to read (interpret) their waking state and events in the same symbolic language with which we read dreams. We can also consider all the awake performances that we experience as archetypal. These are minimal and fragmented archetypes, mostly laden with anti-examples, but again, the picture is there. By reading our own historicity, through the logical-visual prisms of archetypal representations, we categorize and gather (synthesize) objective sets (Noah’s task).