Cards

Some of the cards in the set feature the sacred logo-image associated with Avatar Adi Da’s principal Text The Dawn Horse Testament. The creation of this sacred Winged Horse image was guided by Avatar Adi Da Himself and chosen by Him to accompany His Text of detailed Instruction on the process of Divine Realization (or Divine Enlightenment). The ecstatic attitude of the Horse—with his head arched in Bliss, his wings outstretched (as a sign of Perfect Freedom), and his front hooves gesturing to the structural “shape” of the Divine Reality as it manifests in association with the human form—is a visual symbol of Most Perfect Divine Enlightenment.

Avatar Adi Da’s Name “Da” is the primal sound-form of the Divine Reality breaking through into the world of apparently unenlightened beings. The mandala images on these cards offer both the English and Sanskrit visual forms of the Name “Da”. Judith Parkinson, who designed the cards, relates: “I was reading The Dawn Horse Testament when I had the vision of what Avatar Adi Da describes as ‘Da-Thunder’—His Name issuing from a central sphere of radiant light. I drew images according to the vision, and when I presented an entire series of them to Avatar Adi Da for the first time, He simply said, ‘Yes, of course—the Da Mandala.’”