“The 54th gate has a mixed allegiance. On one side it says the only thing that makes being in form worthwhile is collecting material. Let's get rich. It's better to be rich. This is one philosophy. The other side of it is heaven, of all things, heaven. The 54 says, no matter how bad it is here, when it's over I'm going to be rewarded in heaven; funny thing.
What‘s interesting about Penetration is that these people have a very deep impact on the personalities that they meet. And you're dealing with a very powerful configuration. Penetration is all these 50s—51, 57, 53, 54—you‘re dealing with this ability to shock, the intuitive capacity to penetrate. After all the 57 is the capacity of intuition to go through anything. So these are beings that have a feel for breaking through to your personality, which doesn't necessarily mean that they go any further. They don't.
It's like talking about being a seeker. Being a seeker never means being a finder. It just means being a seeker. And being a penetrator doesn't mean that once you've penetrated you have something to do. As a matter of fact, the thing about penetrators is that the moment they penetrate they‘re lost. ―What am I doing here?‖ After all, these are helpless beings like everyone else. And in ignorance they do not know or recognize their very gift. So, they penetrate the surface, which is what they're good at, and then they don't want to do. So they back away.
The Marrying Maiden is deeply, deeply, deeply tribal. It's about as tribal is you get because it's in the belly of instinct and smell. It is really tribal. And everything about the 54th gate is that this is the font of what the tribe needs. Look needs. Look at its mirror. The mirror is the 19th gate in the 19th gate is all about need. But it's personal need, the need for resources that you can get through the support from the other. But the 54 is something else. The tribe needs the 54s, the tribe needs those that are going to be ambitious, that are going to be driven, and that are going to move the material wheel.”
~Ra Uru Hu