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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 211
THE ROOT OF THE POWERS OF AIR ACE OF SWORDS The Ace of Swords is the primordial 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…
1944 · PDF PAGE 27
…ments. 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 55
…equence, too many leg‐ ends gathered around him; but the important fact for this present purpose is that Zeus was peculiarly the Lord of Air.2 Men who sought the origin of Nature in the earliest days tried to find this origin in one of the Elements. (The history of philosophy describes the controversy between Anaximander and Zenocrates; later, Empedocles.) It may be that the original authors of the Tarot were trying to promulgate 1It was a tribal necessity of the savage wanderers to have an uncivilized and simple Demiurge for god; the complexit…
1944 · PDF PAGE 164
PRINCESS OF SWORDS The Princess of Swords represents the earthy part of Air, the fixation of the volatile. She brings about the materialization of Idea. She represents the influence of Heaven upon Earth. She partakes of the characteristics of Minerva and Artemis, and there is some sugges‐ tion of the Valkyrie. She represents to some extent the anger of the Gods, and she appears helmed, with serpent‐haired Medusa for her crest. She stands in front of a barren altar as if to avenge its profanation, and she stabs downward with her sword. The heave…
1944 · PDF PAGE 212
But, it will instantly be asked, what of the status of this Element in the light of other attributions? In the Yetziratic World, is not Air the first element to follow Spirit? Is not Vayu the first emergence of the phenomenal from the arcane obscurity of Akasha? How may one reconcile the doctrine of Mind with the fact that Ruh, or Ruach, actually means Spirit itself? “Achath Ruach Elohim Chum” (777) means “One is the Spirit (not Air) of the Gods of the Liv‐ ing”? And is not Air, the element attributed to Mercury, also most properly the Breath o…
1944 · PDF PAGE 47
…leph, Mem, and Shin, which correspond in various interwoven fashions with all the triads that occur in these cards, notably Fire, Water, Air; Fa‐ ther, Mother, Son; Sulphur, Salt, Mercury; Rajas, Sattvas and Tamas. The really important feature of this card is that its number should be 0. It represents therefore the Negative above the Tree of Life, the source of all things. It is the Qabalistic Zero. It is the equation of the Universe, the initial and final balance of the opposites; Air, in this card, therefore quintessentially means a vacuum. I…
1944 · PDF PAGE 162
PRINCE OF SWORDS This card represents the airy part of Air. With its particular interpretation, it is intellec‐ tual, it is a picture of the Mind as such. He rules from the 21st degree of Capricornus to the 20th degree of Aquarius. The figure of this Prince is clothed with closely woven armour adorned with definite device, and the chariot which bears him suggests (even more closely) geometrical ideas. This chariot is drawn by winged children, looking and leaping irresponsibly in any direction that takes their fancy; they are not reined, but per…
1944 · PDF PAGE 160
QUEEN OF SWORDS The Queen of Swords represents the watery part of Air, the elasticity of that element, and its power of transmission. She rules from the 21St degree of Virgo to the 20th degree of Libra. She is enthroned upon the clouds. The upper part of her body is naked, but she wears a gleaming belt and a sarong. Her helmet is crested by the head of a child, and from it stream sharp rays of light, illuminating her empire of celestial dew. In her right hand, she bears a sword; in her left hand, the newly severed head of a bearded man. She is …
1944 · PDF PAGE 158
KNIGHT OF SWORDS The Knight of Swords represents the fiery part of Air; he is the wind, the storm. He represents the violent power of motion applied to an apparently manageable element. He rules from the 21st degree of Taurus to the 20th degree of Gemini. He is a warrior helmed, and for his crest he bears a revolving wing. Mounted upon a maddened steed, he drives down the Heavens, the Spirit of the Tempest. In one hand is a sword, in the other a poniard. He represents the idea of attack. The moral qualities of a person thus indicated are activi…
1944 · PDF PAGE 241
…re 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 Spirit‐Being.
1944 · PDF PAGE 58
… the vulture of Maut, the dove of Venus (Isis or Mary), and the ivy sacred to his devotees. There is also the butterfly of many‐coloured air and the winged globe with its twin serpents, a symbol which is echoed and fortified by the twin infants em‐ bracing on the middle spiral. Above them hangs the benediction of three flowers in one. Fawn‐ ing upon him is the tiger; and beneath his feet in the Nile with its lotus stems crouches the crocodile. Resuming all his many forms and many‐coloured images in the centre of the figure, the focus of the mic…
1944 · PDF PAGE 215
SORROW THREE OF SWORDS Binah, the Great Mother, here rules the realm of Air. This fact involves an extremely dif‐ ficult doctrine which must be studied at length in The Vision and the Voice: Aethyr 14. Binah is here not the beneficent Mother completing the Trinity with Kether and Chok‐ mah. She represents the darkness of the Great Sea. This is accentuated by the Celestial Lordship of Saturn in Libra. This card is dark and heavy; it is, so to speak, the womb of Chaos. There is an intense lurking passion to create, but its children are monsters. …
1944 · PDF PAGE 229
…apex. The base is formed by three wheels‐Mercury, Sulphur, and Salt; Sattvas, Rajas, and Tamas in the Hindu system; Aleph, Shin, and Mem‐Air, Fire, and Water‐the three Mother letters of the Hebrew al‐ phabet. This pyramid is situated in the great Sea of Binah in the Night of Time, but the sea is solidified; hence the colours of the back‐ ground are mottled, a cold thin dark grey with a pat‐ tern of indigo and green. The sides of the pyramid have a strong reddish tint, showing the in‐ fluence of Mars.
1944 · PDF PAGE 159
balistic idea of violent energy applied to the least stable of the elements. But the trigram of Air also indicates wood; and the hexagram may have Suggested the irresistible flow of the sap, and its effect in strengthening the tree. This conjecture is supported by the warning in line 6: “The topmost line, divided, shows its subject exciting himself to long continuance. There will be evil.” Allowing this, the image of “the extended flame of mind”, as Zoroaster calls it, may well be subjoined to the former description. It is the True Will explodi…
1944 · PDF PAGE 276
… Titles and Attribution of the Titles and Attribution of the Swrord Suit (Spades) Coin, Disk, of Pantacte Swit The Root of the Powers of Air. . The Root of the Powersof Earth w in & Peace in v5 Change 2 hh in + Sorrow Sin w Work 3 A in = Truce © in ¥ Power 4 @ in 2a Defeat ¥in ¥ Worry 8 ¥ in => Science we in 8 Success 6 we in x2 Futility h in Failure 7 2 in it Interference © in Ww Prudence 8 in 1 Cruelty 2 in ty Gain 9 Oim o Run Bin we Wealth 10
1944 · PDF PAGE 213
PEACE TWO OF SWORDS This card is ruled by Chokmah in the Element of Air. This suit, governing all intellectual manifestations, is always complicated 1How strikingly this fact confirms the counterchange of IV and XVII, above fully expounded: as a link between Chokmah and Tiphareth, the Emperor would have no great significance, and this exquisite doctrine of the Three Mothers would be lost. and disordered. It is subject to change as is no other suit. It represents a general shak‐ ing‐up, resulting from the conflict of Fire and Water in their marr…
1944 · PDF PAGE 264
… Mother. In the macrocosm they correspond to the Sun and Moon; and, by further descent into matter, are, on the masculine side, Fire and Air; on the feminine side, Water and Earth. The original concept of the Tao as developed by the Teh, is resumed in the name Thâi Kî. The Yang and the Yin are called the I or Yao. When these are combined two at a time, we obtain four figures, called the Hsiang, which may be compared to Tetragrammaton, and this stage of development is so secret in the Chinese idea that practically nothing is said about these for…
1944 · PDF PAGE 235
…or fruits of a great tree, its solid roots in fertile land. In the Yî King, Sol in Virgo is represented by the 33rd Hexagram, Thun, “Big Air”. It means “retiring”; and the commentary indicates how best to make use of that manoeuvre. This is congruous enough with the essence of Virgo, the secret withdrawing of Energy into the
1944 · PDF PAGE 57
…wisdom of the Initiate. * * * The design of the present card resumes the principal ideas of the above essays. The Fool is of the gold of air. He has the horns of Dionysus Zagreus, and between them is the phal‐ lic cone of white light representing the influence from the Crown1 upon him. He is shown against the background of air, dawning from space; and his attitude is that of one bursting un‐ expectedly upon the world. He is clad in green, according to the tradition of Spring; but his shoes are of the phallic gold of the sun. In his right hand h…