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Page 1 of 31944 · PDF PAGE 275
‘The Court Cards of the Tarot with the Spheres of their Celestial Dominion = WANDS ‘The Knight of Wands, Rules 20° Mh to 20° t—including part of Hercules. ‘The Queen of Wands, 20° ¢ to 020° 7 ‘The Prince of Wands, 20° ax to 20° ‘The Princess of Wands. Rules one Quadrant of Heavens around North Pole. (See p. 177.) The Court Cards of the Tarot with the Spheres of their Celestial Dominion m= Swords. The Knight of Swords. Rules 20° ¥ to 20° IT ‘The Queen of Swards, 20° my to zo The Prince of Swords. 20° 5 to ‘The Princess of Swords. Rules a third Q…
1944 · PDF PAGE 139
PART THREE THE COURT CARDS General Remarks; General Characteristics of the Four Dignitaries; Summarized description of the Sixteen Court Cards; Knight of Wands; Queen of Wands; Prince of Wands; Princess of Wands; Knight of Cups; Queen of Cups; Prince of Cups; Princess of Cups; Knight of Swords; Queen of Swords; Prince of Swords; Princess of Swords; Knight of Disks; Queen of Disks; Prince of Disks; Princess of Disks.
1944 · PDF PAGE 246
THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE TAROT It being now established, at the conclusion of the Essay, that the cards of the Tarot are living individuals, it is proper to consider the relations which obtain between them and the student. Consider the analogy of a debutante at her coming‐out ball. She is introduced to sev‐ enty‐eight grown people. Assuming her to be a particularly intelligent girl, with a very high social education, she may know all about the position and general characteristics of these people. This, however, will not imply real knowledge of any …
1944 · PDF PAGE 247
…he has come for: if wrong, abandon the divinati6n. 6. If right, spread out the pack containing the Significator, face upwards. Count the cards from him, in the direction in which he faces. The counting should include the card from which you count. For Knights, Queens and Princes, count 4. For Princesses, count 7. For Aces, count 11. For small cards, count according to the number. For trumps, count 3 for the elemental trumps; 9 for the planetary trumps; 12 for the Zodiacal trumps. Make a “story” of these cards. This story is that of the beginnin…
1944 · PDF PAGE 14
I THE CONTENTS OF THE TAROT THE TAROT is a pack of seventy‐eight cards. There are four suits, as in modern playing cards, which are derived from it. But the Court cards number four instead of three. In addi‐ tion, there are twenty‐two cards called “Trumps”, each of which is a symbolic picture with a title itself. At first sight one would suppose this arrangement to be arbitrary, but it is not. It is necessitated, as will appear later, by the structure of the universe, and in particular of the So‐ lar System, as symbolized by the Holy Qabalah. T…
1944 · PDF PAGE 8
…he Planets; The Elements and their Symbols; The Sphinx; Ta‐ bles of Correspondence; The Four Scales of Colour; Attributions of the Court Cards; Attribu‐ tions of the Small Cards; The Essential Dignities of the Planets; The Triple Trinity of the Plan‐ ets; The Triplicities of the Zodiac; The Vital Triads.
1944 · PDF PAGE 27
…eir titles seems to show no longer the strictly philosophical and scientific spirit of austere classification that is found in the other cards. There leaps at us the language of the Artist. These names are, the Fool, the Juggler, the High Priestess, the Empress, the Emperor, the Hierophant, the Lovers, the Chariot, Lust, the Wheel of Fortune, Adjustment, the Hanged Man, Death, Art, the Devil, the House of God, the Star, the Moon, the Sun, the Aeon, the Universe. Obviously these are not plain, straightforward symbolic representations of the sign…
1944 · PDF PAGE 262
…agram 1 has been mastered as it should have been, this figure will pre‐ sent no difficulty. The ten numbers evidently refer to the small cards of the pack, the Aces to the number I, the Deuces to the number 2 and so on. The Court cards are referred to the num‐ bers 2, 3, 6 and 10 in their capacity as representative of the idea of Father, Mother, Son, Daughter. The twenty‐ two Trumps refer to the twenty‐two Paths. The same general remarks made in the description of the first Diagram, apply here also; but this Diagram must itself be studied separ…
1944 · PDF PAGE 7
CONTENTS—Continued PART THREE: THE COURT CARDS General Remarks; General Characteristics of the Four Dignitaries; Summarized description of the Sixteen Court Cards; Knight 0f Wands; Queen of Wands; Prince of Wands; Princess of Wands; Knight of Cups; Queen of Cups; Prince of Cups; Princess of Cups; Knight of Swords; Queen of Swords; Prince of Swords; Princess of Swords; Knight of Disks; Queen of Disks; Prince of Disks; Princess of Disks. PART IV. THE SMALL CARDS The Four Aces; The Four Twos; The Four Threes; The Four Fours; The Four Fives; The Fo…
1944 · PDF PAGE 183
… doctrine lies behind the card; it is the inner meaning of the card. There is another view to consider, that this is the last of all the cards, and therefore represents the sum total of all the work that has been done from the beginning. Therefore, in it is drawn the very figure of the Tree of Life itself. This card, to the other thirty‐five small cards, is what the twenty‐first Trump, The Universe, is to the rest of the Trumps.
1944 · PDF PAGE 26
…ual 0, it is not an equation. And so, when‐ ever any symbol loses importance in one place in the Qabalah, it gains in another. The Court cards and small cards form the skeletal structure of the Tarot in its principal function as a map of the Universe. But, for the special significance of the pack as a Key to magical formula, the twenty‐two trumps acquire a peculiar importance. To what symbols are they attributed? They cannot be related identically with any of the essential ideas, because that place is taken by the cards from 1 to 10. They canno…
1944 · PDF PAGE 184
…the Divine manifesting in Matter, at so early a stage that it is not yet definitely formulated as Will. Important: although these “small cards” are sympathetic with their Sephirotic origin, they are not identical; nor are they Divine Persons. These (and the Court Cards also) are pri‐ marily sub‐Elements, parts of the “Blind Forces” under the Demiourgos, Tetragrammaton. Their rulers are the Intelligences, in the Yetziratic world, who go to form the Schemham‐ phorasch. Nor is even this Name, “Lord of the Universe” though it be, truly Divine, as a…
1944 · PDF PAGE 36
…of the Three Veils of the Negative, which was dis‐ cussed in the description of the Tree of Life. The description begins with the “small cards”, numbered I to 10. These are divided into four suits according to the four elements. Thus the Ace of Wands is called the Root of the Forces of Fire. It pertains to Kether, and purports to represent the first positive manifestation of the idea of Fire. The 2 pertains to Chokmah. But here is already no more the simplicity of the idea of fire. An Idea in action or in manifestation is no more the pure Idea.…
1944 · PDF PAGE 176
IV THE FOUR ACES The Aces represent the roots of the four elements. They are quite above, and distinct from, the other small cards in the same way as Kether is said to be symbolized only by the topmost point of the Yod of Tetragrammaton. In these cards is no real manifestation of the element in its material form. They form a link between the small cards and the Princesses, who rule the Heavens around the North Pole. The Meridian is the Great Pyramid, and the Ele‐ ments rule, going Eastward, in the order of Tetragrammaton, Fire, Water, Air, Eart…
1944 · PDF PAGE 248
…Read the stack, counting and pairing as before. Third Operation FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE QUESTION 1. Shuffle, etc., as before. 2. Deal cards into twelve stacks for the twelve signs of the Zodiac. 3. Divine the proper stacks and proceed as before. Fourth Operation PENULTIMATE ASPECTS OF THE QUESTION 1. Shuffle, etc., as before. 2. Find the Significator: set him upon the table; let the thirty‐ six cards following form a ring round him. 3. Count and pair as before. (Note that the Nature of each Decan is shown by the small card attributed to it, …
1944 · PDF PAGE 177
…mmediately comes out again at the top. Hence, the card manifests the symbolism of the serpent of the endless band. THE FOUR THREES These cards are referred to Binah; in each of them is expressed the symbolism of Un‐ derstanding. The idea has become fertilized; the triangle has been formulated. In each case, the idea is of a certain stability which can never be upset, but from which a child can issue. The Three of Wands is accordingly the Lord of Virtue. The idea of will and dominion has become interpreted in Character. The Three of Cups is call…
1944 · PDF PAGE 140
III GENERAL REMARKS These cards constitute a pictorial analysis of the powers of the four letters of the Name and the four Elements. They are also referred to the Zodiac; but instead of assigning the three decans of each sign to one card, the influence begins with the last decan of one Sign and con‐ tinues to the second decan of the next. There is a further difficulty. It might well be expected that the elemental attribution would harmonize with the Zodiacal attribution; but it is not so. For instance, one might anticipate that the fiery part o…
1944 · PDF PAGE 181
… Good advertized by his watch‐chain and his frock‐coat; on the surface he is very affable, but he is nobody’s fool. THE FOUR NINES These cards are attributed to Yesod. After the double excursion into misfortune, the current returns to the middle pillar. This Sephira is the seat of the great crystallization of En‐ ergy. But it takes place very far down the Tree, at the apex of the third descending triangle, and a flat triangle at that. There is little help from low, unbalanced spheres like Netzach and Hod. What saves Yesod is the direct ray from…
1944 · PDF PAGE 237
…al established Word‐by the mingling of “good luck and good management”. The three central disks are of the magical pattern as in earlier cards; but the others, since the descent into matter implies the gradual exhaustion of the original whirling energy, now take on the form of coins. These may be marked with the magical images of the appropriate planets. As a general remark, one may say that the multiplication of a symbol of Energy always tends to degrade its essential meaning, as well as to complicate it.
1944 · PDF PAGE 13
…bers of the Trumps; The Tarot and Magick; The Shemhamphorasch and the Tarot; The Tarot and Ceremonial Magick; The Tarot and Animism; The Cards of the Tarot as Living Beings.