DESCRIPTION OF THE CARDS OF THE TAROT
The Descriptions of the Seventy-eight Symbols
of this Book
; together with
their meanings
OF THE ACES
FIRST in order and importance are the Four Aces, repre-
senting the
Force of the Spirit,
acting
in, and binding
together, the Four Scales of each Element: and answering
to the Dominion of the Letters of the Name in the Kether of
each.
They represent the Radical Forces.
The Four Aces are said to be placed on the North Pole of
the Universe wherein they revolve, governing its revolution;
and ruling as the connecting link between Yetzirah and the
Material Plane or Universe.
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THE
ROOT OF THE POWERS OF FIRE
Are of Wands
A WHITE Radiating Angelic Hand, issuing from clouds,
and grasping a heavy club, which has three branches in the
colours, and with the sigils, of the scales.
The Right— and
Left—hand branches end respectively in three Flames, and the
Centre one in {our Flames: thus yielding Ten
: the Number
of the Sephiroth,
Two-and-twenty leaping Flames, or Yodh,
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