Knowledge and transmission

Spheres that use this interpretation:Social task — purpose and profession

Interpretations are currently available in Russian only — a translation is in progress.

Arcanum

The Magician

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The first task is about knowledge in circulation. Take it in, work it over, add something of your own and pass it on: not to store it, but to let it run through you.

Hence the fields in which it is carried out: everything that involves people and information. Management, trade, advertising, information technology, teaching, media — anywhere the work consists of talking and explaining.

A frequent obstacle is the fear of being in public. Someone with the first task often decides that speaking and appearing before others is not for them, and retreats into quiet work where they feel cramped. This is exactly the case where the direction to take is the one that frightens you.

The task is considered to be carried out when what the person has learnt reaches other people rather than staying with them.

Social task — purpose and profession

Social task = DT + MT + GT

The social task is what, in this system, a person came for. Not a post and not a profession in itself, but the direction in which their effort has meaning.

What matters here is the movement itself. As long as a person is moving towards their task, they are collected and engaged; a halt is felt as the loss of a footing, even when everything looks well from the outside.

The system notes two dead ends. The first — when a person has gone so far from the task that the earlier plan has stopped working and life effectively begins again, often in an entirely different field. The second — when the goal has been reached and the person decides there is nowhere further to go; by this logic what was achieved was a step, not a summit.

DT, MT and GT are steps towards that same task, and there is no need to pass through them in order: one can concentrate on the task directly. The task is most easily carried out through a profession — but it does not reduce to one.

The system connects a person's physical well-being to this as well: it holds that movement towards one's own task sustains a person, while a long departure from it tells on their health over time.

*This is a tenet of the teaching, not a medical claim. The causes of ill health are established by a doctor, and the calculation does not suggest putting off seeing one.*

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