==================== The Link to Humanity

(There is a tremendous sound of metallic creaking, groaning. the TELEVISIONS show scenes of gears churning, boilers venting steam. Front of THOMAS is a taut rope stretching from ceiling to floor. The rope is frayed and in clear distress.)

THOMAS What is this? What is this place?

WISDOM This is the origin of all suffering and pain.

INTUITION This is your link to the outside world.

HOPE This is your connection to all others, made manifest.

(THOMAS touches the rope.)

THOMAS It's so frayed...

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	| PRIEST wants THOMAS to kill himself.

Death-Impulses | CHILD wants THOMAS to acknowledge his existence. | HANGING MAN wants THOMAS to stay in THE SHELL forever.

	| WISDOM wants THOMAS to examine his memories and understand himself.

God-Impulses | INTUITION wants THOMAS to acknowledge the full extent of his emotions | HOPE wants THOMAS to recover his will to live, and to discover that he wants to live

PRIEST-WISDOM? CHILD-INTUITION? HANGING MAN-HOPE?

Are they merely reflections of one another? Nets of one another at different points in time?

CHILD's TRUE NAME is SADNESS PRIEST's TRUE NAME is ANGER HANGING MAN's TRUE NAME is NUMBNESS

Journey from the imposed masculine to the divine feminine.