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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 Ghost; The Great Fool of the Celts (Dalua); The Rich Fisherman; Percivale; The Croco dile (Mako, Son of Set, or Sebek); HoorPaKraat; Zeus Arrheno theleus; Dionysus Zagreus; Bacchus Diphues; Baphomet; Sum mary. I. to XXI. The Juggler; The High Priestess; The Empress; The Em peror; The Hierophant; The Lovers (or, The Brothers); The Char iot; Adjustment; The Hermit; Fortune; Lust; The Hanged Man; D…
1944 · PDF PAGE 107
…f‐Arms of the family of the Author of this book. yet they dwell upon the earth. They represent the next stage which is to be attained by man‐ kind, in which complete freedom is alike the cause and the result of the new access of solar energy upon the earth. The restriction of such ideas as sin and death in their old sense has been abolished, At their feet are the most sacred signs of the old Aeon, the combination of the Rose and Cross from which they are arisen, yet which still forms their support. The card itself symbolizes this broadening of …
1944 · PDF PAGE 88
XII. THE HANGED MAN This card, attributed to the letter Mem, represents the element of Water. It would per‐ haps be better to say that it represents the spiritual function of water in the economy of initia‐ 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 for…
1944 · PDF PAGE 124
…th swept thee away. Shriek, therefore, shriek aloud; mingle the roar of the gored lion and the moan of the torn bull, and the cry of the man that is torn by the claws of the Eagle, and the scream of the Eagle that is strangled by the hands of the Man. Mingle all these in the death‐shriek of the Sphinx, for the blind man hath profaned her mystery. Who is this, Oedipus, Tiresias, Erinyes? Who is this, that is blind and a seer, a fool above wisdom? Whom do the hounds of heaven fol‐ low, and the crocodiles of hell await? Aleph, Vau, Yod, Ayin, Resh…
1944 · PDF PAGE 76
…h causes the revolving motion. This chariot is drawn by four sphinxes composed of the four Kerubs, the Bull, the Lion, the Eagle and the Man. In each sphinx these elements are counter‐changed; thus the whole represents the sixteen sub‐elements. The Charioteer is clothed in the amber‐coloured armour appropriate to the sign. He is throned in the chariot rather than con ducting it, because the whole system of progression is perfectly balanced. His only function is to bear the Holy Grail. Upon his armour are ten Stars of Assiah, the inheritance of …
1944 · PDF PAGE 50
This tradition represents the original idea adapted to the under‐ standing of the aver‐ age peasant. The Green Man is a personification of the mysterious influence that produces the phenomena of spring. It is hard to say why it should be so, but it is so: there is a connection with the ideas of irresponsibility, of wantonness, of idealization, of romance, of starry dream‐ ing. The Fool stirs within all of us at the return of Spring, and be cause we are a little bewil‐ dered, a little embarrassed, it has been thought a salutary custom to externa…
1944 · PDF PAGE 6
…pondences of the Tarot; The Evidence for the Initiated Tradition of the Tarot; I. Eliphaz Levi and the Tarot; 2. The Tarot in the Cipher Manuscripts; 3. The Tarot and the “Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn”; 4. The Nature of the Evidence; Summary of the Questions Hitherto Discussed. II. The Tarot and the Holy Qabalah; The Naples Arrangement; The Tarot and the Formula of Tetragrammaton; The Tarot and 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 Na…
1944 · PDF PAGE 5
…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 moved it first. [There is no first or last.] And lo! thou art past through the Abyss. The Book of Lies KEΦ.OH.
1944 · PDF PAGE 86
The seers in the early days of the Aeon of Osiris foresaw the Manifestation of this com‐ ing Aeon in which we now live, and they regarded it with intense horror and fear, not under‐ standing the precession of the Aeons, and regarding every change as catastrophe. This is the real interpretation of, and the reason for, the diatribes against the Beast and the Scarlet Woman in the XIII, XVII and XVIII‐th chapters of the Apocalypse; but on the Tree of Life, the path of Gimel, the Moon, descending from the highest, cuts the path of Teth, Leo, the hou…
1944 · PDF PAGE 98
…if less profound, writings of Einstein1. 1Compare Saturn, at one end of the Seven Sacred Wanderers, with the Moon at the other: the aged man and the young girl—see “The Formula of Tetragrammaton”. They are linked as no other two planets, since 32=9, and each contains in itself the extremes of its own idea. (See also Appendix: Atu xxi.)
1944 · PDF PAGE 89
… idea. “I give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice.” “Every man and every woman is a star.” The whole idea of sacrifice is a misconception of nature, and these texts of the Book of the Law are the answer to it. But water is the element of Illusion; one may regard this symbol n evil legacy from the old Aeon; to use an anatomical analogy, it spiritual vermiform appendix. It was the water, and the Dwellers of the Water that slew Osiris; it…
1944 · PDF PAGE 122
…ng 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‐changers, his frequent parables, and the fact that his first disciple was a publican, i.e., tax‐collector. Note also Mercury as the deliverer of Prometheus. One half…
1944 · PDF PAGE 219
…ntellect itself is also referred to the number Six. Mer‐ cury, in Aquarius, represents the celestial Energy influencing the Kerub of the Man, thus showing intelligence and humanity. But there is much more than this in the symbol. The perfect balance of all mental and moral faculties, hardly won, and almost impossible to hold in an ever‐changing world, de‐ clares the idea of Science in its fullest interpretation. The hilts of the Swords, which are very ornamental, are in the form of the hexagram. Their points touch the outer petals of a red rose…
1944 · PDF PAGE 32
A short digression. One of the most important doctrines of the Ancients was that of the Macrocosm and the Microcosm. Man is himself a little Universe; he is a minute copy of the big Universe. This argument was, of course, worked backwards; so the characteristics above given of the qualities of the Three Decans in the sign were probably due to an analogy with the course of a man’s life. 4. The above remarks constitute a fairly complete idea of the arbitrary, or mostly arbi‐ trary, presentation of the Cosmos by the Ancients. First of all, the div…
1944 · PDF PAGE 242
…Wisdom weaves the web of lies, Weds irreducible Infinities. g Mother, moon‐maiden, playmate, bride of Pan; God’s Angel‐Minister to every man. d Beauty, display thine Empire! Truth above Thought’s reach: the wholeness of the world is Love. x Sire and inceptor, Emperor and King Of all things mortal, hail Him lord of Spring! v Wisdom to each apportioned to his want By modes of Light, shed forth, great Hierophant! z To each his Understanding sooth discovers Wordless: your mode, immortal Twins and Lovers! h Behold, the Chariot! Through the water flo…
1944 · PDF PAGE 243
l Adjustment! Rhythm writhes through every act. Wild is the dance; its balance is exact. 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 pl…
1944 · PDF PAGE 145
…under the guidance, of some creative mind. There is a tendency to be fickle, even disloyal; the ideas which she obeys make no deep or permanent impression. She will “cleave to the little boy and let go the man of age and experience” or the reverse (lines 2 and 3) without realizing what she is doing. There is liability of fits of melancholy, which she seeks to cure by bouts of intoxication, or by panic‐stricken outbursts of ill‐considered fury.
1944 · PDF PAGE 271
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1944 · PDF PAGE 68
… which are shown on this card. With regard to the quality of this power, it must be noted that it represents sud‐ den, violent, but impermanent activity. If it persists too long, it burns and destroys. Distin‐ guish from the Creative Energy of Aleph and Beth: this card is below the Abyss. The Emperor bears a sceptre (surmounted by a ram’s head for the reasons given above) and an orb surmounted by a Maltese cross, which signifies that his energy has reached a successful issue, that his government has been established. There is one further symbol…
1944 · PDF PAGE 75
…i‐ nah to Geburah, and is thus the influence of the Supernals descending through the Veil of Wa‐ ter (which is blood) upon the energy of man, and so inspires it. It corresponds, in this way, to The Hierophant, which, on the other side of the Tree of Life, brings down the fire of Chokmah. (See diagram.) The design of this present card has been much influenced by the Trump portrayed by Eliphaz Levi.