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XIII. DEATH This card is attributed to the letter Nun, which means a fish; the symbol of life beneath the waters; life travelling through the waters. It refers to the Zodiacal sign of Scorpio, which is ruled by Mars, the planet of fiery energy in its lowest form, which is therefore necessary to provide the impulse. In alchemy, this card explains the idea of putrefaction, the technical name given by its adepts to the series of chemical changes which develops the final form of life from the original latent seed in the Orphic egg. This sign is one…
1944 · PDF PAGE 278
…ed to reflect Ruach (mind). { Earth Fire of Earth Mountains—violent pressure (due to gravitation). Air of Earth Plains—steady bearing of life. Water of Earth Fields—quiet, spiritualized to bear vegetable and animal life. In each case the Cardinal sign represents the Birth of the Element, the Kerubic sign its Life, and the Mutable sign its Passing Over towards the ideal form proper to it; i.e. to Spirit. So also the Princesses in the Tarot are the Thrones of Spirit.
1944 · PDF PAGE 33
… been here examined. 6. The ancient scheme of the Elements, Planets and Zodiacal Signs, was summarised by the Qabalists in their Tree of Life. This identity between the two systems was masked, until quite recently1, by the fact that the Chinese continued with their doubling‐up system, and so turned their eight trigrams into sixty‐four hexagrams, while the scholars of Western Asia joined together their ten num‐ bers on the Tree of Life by twenty‐two Paths. The Chinese have thus sixty‐four principal symbols as against the thirty‐two of the Tree; …
1944 · PDF PAGE 195
…and material standpoint. This card is also governed by the Moon in Sagittarius; so here is a double influence of the Moon on the Tree of Life. Hence the aphorism “Change is Stability”. The Wands have now become arrows. There are eight of them in the background, and in front of them one master arrow. This has the Moon for its point, and the Sun for the driving Force above it; for the path of Sagittarius on the Tree of Life joins the Sun and Moon. The flames in the card are tenfold, implying that the Energy is directed downwards.
1944 · PDF PAGE 13
…d the Elements; The Twentytwo Keys, Atu, or Trumps of the Tarot. III. The Tarot and the Universe; Theories of the Ancients; The Tree of Life; The Naples Arrangement; The Tarot and the Tree of Life; The Atu of Tahuti; The Roman Numbers 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.
1944 · PDF PAGE 266
DIAGRAM 5. THE NUMBERS OF THE PLANETS This diagram illustrates the Solar system on the Tree of Life. Saturn is in the position of the non‐existent Sephira, Daäth, but it resumes the characteristics of the three Sephiroth
1944 · PDF PAGE 242
…erstanding sooth discovers Wordless: your mode, immortal Twins and Lovers! h Behold, the Chariot! Through the water floods The Sangraal, life and rapture, Wine’s and Blood’s! e The Lion‐Serpent begets Gods! Thy throne The rampant Beast, our Lady Babalon! i Most secret seed of all Life’s serpent plan, Virgin, the Hermit goes, dumb Guardian. k Sped by its energies triune, the Wheel Of Fortune spins: its Axle’s immobile.
1944 · PDF PAGE 243
…ct. m In Mother‐Deeps of Ocean the GodMan Hangs, Lamp of the Abyss Aeonian. n Eagle, and Snake, and Scorpion! The Dance Of Death whirls Life from Trance to Trance to Trance. s Solve, coagula! By V.I.T.R.I.O.L. shewn, The Tincture, the Elixir, and the Stone. y Ιο παν! upon the summits the God‐goat Leaps in wild lust of ecstasy afloat. p Bellona, scream! Unhood the Hawks! The roar Of Universes crashing into War! h Nuit, our Lady of the Stars! Event Is all Thy play, sublime Experiment! q Witchmoon, upon thy beck of blood afloat The Midnight Beet…
1944 · PDF PAGE 73
… one hand and oxygen on the other. In this aspect, the hooded figure represents the Protean element of car‐ bon, the seed of all organic life. The symbolism of male and female is carried on still further by the weapons of the King and Queen; he bears the Sacred Lance, and she the Holy Grail; their other hands are joined, as consenting to the Marriage. Their weapons are supported by twin children, whose positions are counterchanged; for the white child not only holds the Cup, but carries roses, while the black child, holding his father’s Lance, …
1944 · PDF PAGE 122
…e sun, as if the Mother and the Son were mediators between us and the Father.) 1From The Paris Working. 2The path of Beth on the Tree of Life shows him descending from Kether, the Crown, upon Binah, the Great Sea. (See diagram). Note Christ as the Healer, and also his own expression: “The Son of Man cometh as a thief in the night.” Also this scripture (Matthew xxiv, 24‐7): “For as the lightning cometh out of the East and shineth even unto the West, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.” Note also Christ’s relations with the money‐chang…
1944 · PDF PAGE 80
… who is Wisdom; he is the highest form of Mercury, and the Logos, the Creator of all worlds. Accordingly, his representative in physical life is the spermatozoon; this is why the card is called The Hermit. The figure of the Hermit himself recalls the shape of the letter Yod, and the colour of his cloak is the colour of Binah, 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, ado…
1944 · PDF PAGE 65
…et Venus. This card is. on the face of it, the complement of The Emperor; but her attribu‐ tions are much more universal. On the Tree of Life, Daleth is the path leading from Chokmah to Binah, uniting the Fa‐ ther with the Mother. Daleth is one of the three paths which are altogether above the Abyss. There is further more the alchemical symbol of Venus, the only one of the planetary symbols which comprises all the Sephiroth of the Tree of Life. The doctrine implied is that the funda‐ mental formula of the Universe is Love. [The circle touches t…
1944 · PDF PAGE 96
…t fully understood. (See Atu 0, above.) At least he succeeded in identi‐ fying the goat portrayed upon the card with Pan. On the Tree of Life, Atu XIII and XV are symmetrically placed; they lead from Tiphareth, the human consciousness, to the spheres in which Thought (on the one hand) and Bliss (on the other) are developed. Between them, Atu XIV leads similarly to the sphere which formu‐ lates Existence. (See note on Atu X and arrangement.) These three cards may therefore be summed up as a hieroglyph of the processes by which idea manifests as …
1944 · PDF PAGE 258
…the Holy Qabalah. A SHORT EXPLANATION OF THE ATTRIBUTIONS HERE SET FORTH WITH NINE ILLUSTRATIVE DIAGRAMS LIST OF DIAGRAMS 1. The Tree of Life, with the attribution 5. The Numbers of the Planets. of the Sephiroth and paths. 6. The Elements and their symbols. 2. The Tarot on the Tree of Life. 7. The Elemental Weapons. 3. The Yî King on the Tree of Life. 8. The Sphinx. 4. The Caduceus of Hermes. 9. The Essential Dignities of the Planets.
1944 · PDF PAGE 210
…ng element. On the one hand, it receives the influence of the Ten, Malkah the Virgin. The arrangement of the cups is that of the Tree of Life. But, on the other hand, they are themselves unstable. They are tilted; they spill the water from the great Lotus which overhangs the whole system from one into the other. The work proper to water is complete: and disturbance is due. This comes from the influence of Mars in Pisces. Mars is the gross, violent and disrup‐ tive force which inevitably attacks every supposed perfection. His energy displays the…
1944 · PDF PAGE 6
…d the Elements; The Twenty‐two Keys, Atu, or Trumps of the Tarot. III. The Tarot and the Universe; Theories of the Ancients; The Tree of Life; The Naples Ar‐ rangement; The Tarot and the Tree of Life; The Atu of Tahuti; The Roman Numbers of the Trumps; The Tarot and Magick; The Shemhamphorasch and the Tarot; The Tarot and Ceremo‐ nial Magick; The Tarot and Animism; The Cards of the Tarot as Living Beings. PART TWO: THE ATU (KEYS OR TRUMPS) 0. The Fool. The Formula of Tetragrammaton; The “Green Man” of the Spring Festival. “April Fool”; The Holy…
1944 · PDF PAGE 36
THE TAROT AND THE TREE OF LIFE The Tarot, while based on these theoretical attributions, was designed as a practical instrument for Qabalistic calculations and for divination. In it is little place for abstract ideas. The subject of the book—the Tarot is called The Book of Thoth or Tahuti—is the influence of the Ten Numbers and the Twenty‐two Letters on man, and his best methods of manipulating their forces. There is therefore no mention of the Three Veils of the Negative, which was dis‐ cussed in the description of the Tree of Life. The descri…
1944 · PDF PAGE 90
…ence is passed in the Amniotic Fluid. The legend of Noah, the Ark and the Flood, is no more than a hieratic presentation of the facts of life. It is then to Water that the Adepts have always looked for the continuation (in some sense or other) and to the prolongation and perhaps renovation of life. The legend of the Gospels, dealing with the Greater Mysteries of the Lance and the Cup (those of the god Iacchus Iao) as superior to the Lesser Mysteries (those of the God Ion=Noah, and the N‐gods in general) in which the Sword slays the god that his…
1944 · PDF PAGE 5
…HEEL AND—WHOA! The Great Wheel of Samsara. The Wheel of the Law. (Dhamma.) The Wheel of the Taro. The Wheel of the Heavens. The Wheel of Life. All these Wheels be one; yet of all these the Wheel of the TARO alone avails thee consciously. Meditate long and broad and deep, O man, upon this Wheel, revolving it in thy mind! Be this thy task, to see how each card springs necessarily from each other card, even in due order from The Fool unto The Ten of Coins. Then, when thou know’st the Wheel of Destiny complete, may’st thou perceive THAT Will which …
1944 · PDF PAGE 265
DIAGRAM 4. THE CADUCEUS This diagram illustrates the Tree of Life, the Cosmos as the Wand or creative force of Mercury, that is of the balanced energy which has created the illusion of existence. It will be noted that the shape of the symbol shows the three Mother letters of the Hebrew alphabet, Shin, Aleph and Mem, in its three sections. The importance of this symbol is mainly that the Tarot is primarily the Book of Thoth or Tahuti, the Egyptian Mercury. For the understanding of this book it is necessary to learn how to transmute instinctively…