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Page 1 of 31944 · PDF PAGE 101
…our Lady of the Stars. For the full meaning of this sentence it is necessary to understand the first chapter of the Book of the Law. The figure of the goddess is shown in manifestation, that is, not as the surrounding space of heaven, shown in Atu XX, where she is the pure philosophical idea continuous and omniform. In this card she is definitely personified as a human‐seeming figure; she is repre‐ sented as bearing two cups, one golden, held high above her head, from which she pours wa‐ ter upon it. (These cups resemble breasts, as it is writt…
1944 · PDF PAGE 67
… Age, and is found to‐day in words like Cæsar, Tsar, Sirdar, Senate, Senior, Signor, Señor, Seigneur. The card represents a crowned male figure, with imperial vestments and regalia. He is seated upon the throne whose capitals are the heads of the Himalayan wild ram, since Aries means a Ram. At his feet, couchant, is the Lamb and Flag, to confirm this attribution on the lower plane; for the ram, by nature, is a wild and courageous animal, lonely in lonely places, whereas when tamed and made to lie down in green pastures, nothing is left but the …
1944 · PDF PAGE 88
…a‐ tion; it is a baptism which is also a death. In the Aeon of Osiris, this card represented the su‐ preme formula of adeptship; for the figure of the drowned or hanged man has its own special meaning. The legs are crossed so that the right leg forms a right angle with the left leg, and the arms are stretched out at an angle of 60° so as to form an equilateral triangle; this gives the symbol of the Triangle surmounted by the Cross, which represents the descent of the light into the darkness in order to re deem it. For this reason there are gree…
1944 · PDF PAGE 239
Among the Geomantic figures, Mercury in Virgo is Conjunctio [?GEOMANTIC PIC HERE]. The meaning, conjunction, is shown plainly by the attraction of the descending (fe‐ male) Triangle, the cipher of the Yoni, to the ascending (male) Triangle, that of the Lingam. This union completed, they appear interlaced, forming [?] the figure of Capricornus, the Sign in which the Sun finds his rebirth. It is the holy Hexagram, the symbol of the uniting of the Macrocosm and the Microcosm, the accomplishment of the Great Work, the Summum Bonum, True Wisdom and …
1944 · PDF PAGE 234
…y enfeebling effect, and this is made worse by the influence of Saturn in Taurus. The disks are arranged in the shape of the geo‐ mantic figure Rubeus, the most ugly and menacing of the Sixteen. (See Five of Cups.) The at‐ mosphere of the card is that of Blight. On the background, which represents vegetation and cultivation, everything is spoiled. The four colours of Netzach appear, but they are blotched with angry indigo and reddish orange. The disks themselves are the leaden disks of Saturn. They suggest bad money.
1944 · PDF PAGE 58
… 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 microcosm is the radiant sun. The whole picture is a glyph of the creative light.
1944 · PDF PAGE 167
…û (see under Prince of Cups); it is a “big Khan”, the trigram of Luna with each line doubled. But it is also suggestive of the Geomantic figure Conjunctio, Mercury in Virgo, corresponding very closely indeed with the Fire of Earth attri‐ bution in the Qabalistic system. To the Chinese sages, moreover, the shape of the figure gave the idea of a bird. The meaning is, accordingly, modified by human influence of the more frivolous and irresponsible kind, Shakespeare’s “little wanton harlotry”, the French cynic’s “Souvent femme vane”, and the fickle…
1944 · PDF PAGE 262
DIAGRAM 2. GENERAL ATTRIBUTION OF THE TAROT Provided that Diagram 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, ap…
1944 · PDF PAGE 183
… 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 94
…le to explain these terms to any but advanced students of alchemy.) The equilibrium and counter‐change are carried out completely in the figure itself; the white woman has now a black bead; the black king, a white one. She wears the golden crown with a silver band, he, the silver crown with a golden fillet; but the white head on the right is extended in action by a white arm on the left which holds the cup of the white gluten, while the black head on the left has the black arm on the right, holding the lance which has become a torch and pours f…
1944 · PDF PAGE 95
In this card, therefore, is foreshadowed the final stage of the Great Work. Behind the figure, its edges tinged with the rainbow, which has now arisen from the twin rainbows form‐ ing the cape of the figure, is a glory bearing an inscription VISITA INTERIORA TERRAE REC‐ TIFICANDO INVENIES OCCULTUM LAPIDEM. “Visit the interior parts of the earth: by rectification thou shalt find the hidden stone.” Its initials make the word V.I.T.R.I.O.L., the Universal Solvent, to be discussed later. (Its value is 726=6 x 112=33 x 22.) This “hidden stone” is al…
1944 · PDF PAGE 228
…f its dynamics. About them is entwined a green Serpent (see Liber 65, chapter iii, verses 17‐20). His tail is in his mouth. He forms the figure Eight, the symbol of the Infinite, the equation 0=2.
1944 · PDF PAGE 203
… of an inverted pentagram, symbolizing the triumph of matter over spirit. Mars in Scorpio, moreover, is the attribution of the Geomantic figure Rubeus |. This is of such evil omen that certain schools of Geomancy destroy the Map, and postpone the question for two hours or more, when Rubeus appears in the Ascendant. Its meaning is to be studied in the “Handbook of Geomancy” (Equinox Vol. I, No.2).
1944 · PDF PAGE 186
…icates the influence of the Sun, who is exalted in Ar‐ ies. This is the creative Will. Mars in Aries is the attribution of the Geomantic Figure Puer. p
1944 · PDF PAGE 71
… Solve et coagula. This card is consequently one of the most fundamental cards in the Tarot. It is the first card in which more than one figure appears. [The Ape of Thoth in Atu I is only a shadow.] In its original form, it was the story of Creation. Here is appended, for its historical interest, the description of this card in its primitive form from Liber 418.
1944 · PDF PAGE 156
…ower of Water to give substance to idea, to support life, and to form the basis of chemical combination. She is represented as a dancing figure, robed in a flowing garment on whose edges crystals are seen to form. For her crest she wears a swan with open wings. The symbolism of this swan reminds one of the swan in oriental philosophy which is the word AUM or AUMGN, which is the symbol of the entire process of creation.1 She bears a covered cup from which issues a tortoise. This is again the tortoise which in Hindu philosophy supports the elepha…
1944 · PDF PAGE 142
… 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 in unpredictable actions. If wrongly energized, he is evil‐minded, cruel, bigoted and brutal. He is in either case ill‐fitted to carry on his action; he has no means of modifying it according to circumstances. If he fails in his first effort, he has no resource. In the Yî King, the fiery part of Fire is represented by t…
1944 · PDF PAGE 162
…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 perfectly Capricious. The chariot consequently is easy enough to move, but quite unable to progress in…
1944 · PDF PAGE 170
… indicating the florescence and fructification of that element. He rules from the 21st degree of Aries to the 20th degree of Taurus. The figure of this Prince is meditative. He is the element of Earth become intelligible. Clothed in light armour, his helmet is crowned with the head of a bull; and his chariot is drawn by an ox, this animal being peculiarly sacred to the Element of Earth. In his left hand he holds his disk, which is an orb resembling a globe, marked with mathematical symbols as if to imply the planning involved in agriculture. In…
1944 · PDF PAGE 208
…e; all are filled and overflow‐ ing with Water. It is the most complete and most beneficient aspect of the force of Water. The Geomantic Figure Laetitia y is ruled by Jupiter in Pisces. For its meaning con‐ sult the “Handbook of Geomancy” (Equinox Vol I, No.2). Laetitia, Joy, gladness, is one of the best and most powerful of the sixteen figures; for the Solar, Lunar, and Mercurial symbols are, at the best, ambiguous and treacherously ambivalent; those of Venus portend rather relief than positive beneficence; Saturn and Mars are seen at their wo…