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The Wizard Of OZ

The Wizard – p2

Surrounded by artifices and special effects, the Wizard comes across as cruel, rude and unwise. The Wizard is in fact a stand-in for the personal God of the Christians, Muslims and the Jews, the oppressive figure used by the 3 conventional religions to keep the masses in spiritual darkness. It is later discovered that the Wizard is a humbug, a charlatan, who scares people into worshipping his archetype 🧙‍♂️

Throughout the story Dorothy’s dog Toto represents her “inner voice”; her intuition.
Throughout the movie, Dorothy has conversations with Toto, or her inner intuitive self 👁

Toto was right to force Dorothy out of the balloon, otherwise she might never have found her magic Ⓜ️
The fake Wizard invites Dorothy into his balloon to go back to Kansas, her final destination. She however follows Toto (her intuition) and gets out of the balloon, which represents the empty promises of organized religions. This with the help of the Good Witch of the North (her divine guide), she finally understands: everything she ever wanted could be found “in her own backyard”.

In order to obtain illumination Dorothy had to vanquish the wicked witches of the East and the West – the journey of the Sun(son) – the West is viewed as a place of Darkness and evil as the Sun sets in the West and brings darkness into the world. The West is also seen as the direction of darkness and ignorance who were forming an evil horizontal axis: the material world ↔️
East v West — Left v Right 🟥🟦

She was wise in listening to the advice of the good witches of the North and South – the vertical axis: the spiritual dimension 🔺🔻

At the end of the story, Dorothy WAKES UP in Kansas: she has successfully combined her physical and spiritual life. She is now home, despite her family not really believing her (the ignorant, profane), she can finally say “There is no place like home” ♦️

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