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Page 1 of 41944 · PDF PAGE 278
THE TRIPLICITIES OF THE ZODIAC { Fire Fire of Fire Lightning—swift violence of onset. Air of Fire Sun—steady force of energy. Water of Fire Rainbow—fading spiritualized reflection of the Image. { Water Fire of Water Rain, Springs, etc.—swift passionate attack. Air of Water Sea—steady force of putrefaction. Water of Water Pool—stagnant spiritualized reflection of Images. { Air Fire of Air Wind—swift onset (note idea of balance as in trade winds.) Air of Air Clouds—steady conveyors of water. Water of Air Vibrations—bulk unmoved, spiritualized to …
1944 · PDF PAGE 36
…red 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. This card is attributed to the first Decan of the fiery sign Aries, which is ruled by Mars; this, then, gives the idea of a violent and aggressive fo…
1944 · PDF PAGE 27
… elements themselves, each element divided into four sub‐elements. For convenience, here follows a list of these cards: Knight of Wands, Fire of Fire Queen of Wands, Water of Fire Prince of Wands, Air of Fire Princess of Wands, Earth of Fire Knight of Cups, Fire of Water Queen of Cups, Water of Water Prince of Cups, Air of Water Princess of Cups, Earth of Water Knight of Swords, Fire of Air Queen of Swords, Water of Air Prince of Swords, Air of Air Princess of Swords, Earth of Air Knight of Disks, Fire of Earth
1944 · PDF PAGE 190
STRIFE FIVE OF WANDS This card is referred to Geburah of the suit of Fire. Geburah itself being fiery, it is a purely ac‐ tive ,force. It is ruled also by Saturn and Leo. Leo shows the element of Fire at its strongest and most balanced. Saturn tends to weigh it down and to embitter it. There is no limit to the scope of this volcanic energy. The symbol represents the wand of the Chief Adept, showing that the authority is de‐ rived from the superiors; were it not so, this card would be thoroughly disastrous. Moreover, there are also two wands of …
1944 · PDF PAGE 211
…mordial Energy of Air, the Essence of the Vau of Tetra‐ grammaton, the integration of the Ruach. Air is the result of the conjunction of Fire and Water; thus it lacks the purity of its superiors in the male hierarchy, Fire, Sol and the Phallus. But for this same reason it is the first card directly to be apprehended by the normal consciousness of Mankind. The errors of such cards as the 7 and 10 of Cups are yet of an Order altogether higher than the apparently much milder 4 of Swords. The study of the subtle and gradual deg‐ radation of the pla…
1944 · PDF PAGE 148
PRINCESS OF WANDS The Princess of Wands represents the earthy part of Fire; one might say, she is the fuel of Fire. This expression implies the irresistible chemical attraction of the combustible sub‐ stance. She rules the Heavens for one quadrant of the portion around the North Pole. The Princess is therefore shewn with the plumes of justice streaming like flames from her brow; and she is unclothed, shewing that chemical action can only take place when the element is perfectly free to combine with its partner. She bears a wand crowned with the…
1944 · PDF PAGE 151
…wei Mei. The commentary is singularly obscure, and somewhat sinister. It deals with the difficulties of rightly mating such opposites as fire and water (compare the Queen of Wands; but in that case Water is the calming and modulating influence, while here it is Fire which creates trouble.) Swiftness and violence ill suit a character naturally placid; it is rare indeed to meet with a per‐ son who has succeeded in harmonizing these conflicting elements. He tends to mismanage all his affairs; and unless sheer good fortune attend him, his whole car…
1944 · PDF PAGE 108
…them. The central one had his hands raised with right angles at the elbows and shoulders, so as to form the letter Shin, which refers to Fire. The card therefore represented the destruction of the world by Fire. This was accomplished in the year of the vulgar era 1904, when the fiery god Horus took the place of the airy god Osiris in the East as Hierophant (see Atu V). At the begin‐ ning, then, of this new Aeon, it is fit to exhibit the message of that angel who brought the news of the new Aeon to earth. The new card is thus of necessity an ada…
1944 · PDF PAGE 193
VALOUR SEVEN OF WANDS This card derives from Netzach (Victory) in the suit of Fire. But the Seven is a weak, earthy, feminine number as regards the Tree of Life, and represents a departure from the bal‐ ance so low down on the Tree that this implies a loss of confidence. Fortunately, the card is also attributed to Mars in Leo. Leo is still the Sun in his full strength, but the marks of decadence are already to be seen. It is as if the wavering fire sum‐ moned the brutal energy of Mars to its support. But this is not enough to counter‐ act fully…
1944 · PDF PAGE 196
…violent form of that particular energy, without any modifying influences. The flames in the back ground of the card have run wild. It is Fire in its most destructive aspect. The card also refers to the influence of Saturn in Sagittarius. Here is the greatest an‐ tipathy. Sagittarius is spiritual, swift, light, elusive, and luminous; Saturn is material, slow, heavy, obstinate, and obscure. The eight Wands are still crossed, showing the enormous power of the completed en‐ ergies of Fire; but they have lost their patents of nobility. Their ends se…
1944 · PDF PAGE 142
SUMMARIZED DESCRIPTION OF THE SIXTEEN COURT CARDS KNIGHT OF WANDS The Knight of Wands represents the fiery part of Fire; he rules from the 21St degree of Scorpio to the 20th degree of Sagittarius. He is a warrior in complete armour. On his helmet for a crest he wears a black horse. In his hand he bears a flaming torch; a flame also in his mantle; and upon the flames does he ride. His steed is a black horse leaping. The moral qualities appropriate to this figure are activity, generosity, fierceness, im‐ petuosity, pride, impulsiveness, swiftness…
1944 · PDF PAGE 80
…h, in whom he gestates. In his hand he holds a Lamp whose centre is the Sun, portrayed in the likeness of the Sigil of the great King of Fire (Yod is the secret Fire). It seems that he is contemplating—in a certain sense, adoring—the Orphic egg (greenish in colour) because it is conterminous with the Universe, while the snake which surrounds it is many‐coloured to signify the iridescence of Mercury. For he is not only creative, but is the fluidic essence of Light, which is the life of the Universe.
1944 · PDF PAGE 184
THE ROOT OF THE POWERS OF FIRE ACE OF WANDS This card represents the essence of the element of Fire in its inception. It is a solar‐ phallic outburst of flame from which spring lightnings in every direction. These flames are Yods, arranged in the form of the Tree of Life. (For Yod, see Atu IX su‐ pra.) It is the primordial Energy of 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; n…
1944 · PDF PAGE 176
…avens 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, Earth. Thus, roughly, Aces‐Princesses Wands cover Asia, Cups the Pacific Ocean, Swords the Americas, Disks Europe and Africa. To make this relationship clear, one may go a little into the symbol of the pentagram, or Shield of David. It represents Spirit ruling the four elements, and is thus a symbol of the Triumph of Man. The idea of the element of Spirit is very difficult to grasp. The lette…
1944 · PDF PAGE 55
…, thence to a whole sequence of disasters. 2The earliest accounts relate the distribution of the three active elements as Dis (Pluto) to Fire, Zeus (Jupiter) to Air, and Poseidon (Neptune) to Water, the doctrine that the origin of everything was Air. Yet if this were so, it would upset the whole Tarot as we know it, since the order of origin makes Fire the first father. It is Air as Zero that reconciles the antinomy. Dianus and Diana, it is true, were symbols of the air, and the Sanskrit Vedas say that the storm gods were the original gods. Yet…
1944 · PDF PAGE 166
…atters which concern them most closely. Their success in these is due to instinct, to imitation of Na‐ ture. They lack initiative; their fire is the smouldering fire of the process of growth. If ill‐dignified, these people are hopelessly stupid, slavish, quite incapable of foresight even in their own affairs, or of taking an intelligent interest in anything outside them. They are churlish, surly, and jealous (in a dull sort of way) of what they instinctively realize is the
1944 · PDF PAGE 241
… Oath written during the Dawn‐Meditation) Aiwaz! confirm my troth with Thee! my will inspire With secret sperm of subtle, free, creating Fire! Mould thou my very flesh as Thine, renew my birth In childhood merry as divine, enchanted Earth! Dissolve my rapture in Thine own, a sacred slaughter Whereby to capture and atone the Soul of Water! Fill thou my mind with gleaming Thought intense and rare To One refined, outflung to Naught, the Word of Air! Most, bridal bound, my quintessential Form thus freeing From self, be found one Selfhood blent in S…
1944 · PDF PAGE 94
…black head on the left has the black arm on the right, holding the lance which has become a torch and pours forth its burning blood. The fire burns up the water; the water extinguishes the fire. The robe of the figure is green, which symbolizes vegetable growth: this is an alchemi‐ cal allegory. In the symbolism of the fathers of science, all “actual” objects were regarded as dead; the difficulty of transmuting metals was that the metals, as they occur in nature, were in the nature of excrements, because they did not grow. The first problem of …
1944 · PDF PAGE 188
VIRTUE THREE OF WANDS This card refers to Binah in the suit of Fire, and so represents the establishment of primeval Energy. The Will has been trans mitted to the Mother, who conceives, prepares, and gives birth to, its manifestation. It refers to the Sun in Aries, the Sign in which he is exalted. The meaning is harmonious, for this is the beginning of Spring. For this reason one sees the wand taking the form of the Lotus in blossom. The Sun has enkindled the Great Mother. In the Yî King, Sol in Aries is represented by the 11th hexagram, Thai; …
1944 · PDF PAGE 149
…rver that she is merely in the spasm of mood. She is cruel, un reliable, faithless and domi‐ neering. In the Yî King, the earthy part of Fire is described by the 27th hexagram, î. This shows a person omnivorous in passion of whatever kind, entirely reckless in the means of obtaining gratification, and insatiable. The Yi commentary is packed with alternate warning and en‐ couragement.