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…CE 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 perfect…
1944 · PDF PAGE 125
in its Form and in its Structure, as it were an Analysis thereof, doing for Matter what the Bud‐ dha was decreed to do for Mind.”
1944 · PDF PAGE 159
…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 exploding the mind spontaneously. The influence of Taurus makes for steadiness, and that of the first decanate of Gemini for in‐ spiration. So let us picture him, “integer vitæ scelerisque purus”, a light‐shaft of the Ideal ab‐ sorbing the entire life in concentrated aspiration, passing from earthy Taurus to exal…
1944 · PDF PAGE 260
…s fully discussed in the text of the Essay. This diagram should be studied so deeply and so constantly that it becomes automatic for the mind to accept it as the basis of all thinking on the subject of The Tarot, exactly as the letters of the alphabet and their arbitrary order is accepted as the basis of all our thinking in respect of words and their pronunciation. Until this first task has been mastered, the details of the Tarot may prove a source of continual annoyance; every symbol of the book must be so familiar as to have sunk completely i…
1944 · PDF PAGE 119
…s expedient that thou have travelled already in this Path of Antithesis, knowing perfectly the Answer to every Griph or Problem, and thy Mind ready there with. For by the Property of this Grass all passeth with Speed incalculable of Wit, and an Hesitation should confound thee, breaking down thy Ladder, and throwing back thy Mind to receive Im‐ pression from Environment, as at thy first Beginning. Verily, the Nature of this Method is Solu‐ tion, and the Destruction of every Complexity by Explosion of Ecstasy, as every Element thereof is fulfille…
1944 · PDF PAGE 24
…f by constant practice what they mean to him. It does not even follow that he will arrive at the same ideas. This will not mean that one mind is right and the other wrong, because each one of us has his own universe all to himself, and it is not the same as anybody else’s universe. The moon that A. sees is not the moon that B., standing by him, sees. In this case, the difference is so infinitesimal that it does not exist in practice; yet there is a difference. But if A. and B look at a picture in a gallery, it is very much not the same picture …
1944 · PDF PAGE 241
…vine, 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 Spirit‐Being.
1944 · PDF PAGE 5
…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 105
…ot the benign, solar intoxication of Dionysus, but the dreadful mad‐ ness of pernicious drugs; this is a drunkenness of sense, after the mind has been abolished by the venom of this Moon. This is that which is written of Abraham in the Book of the Beginning: “An horror of great darkness came upon him.” One is reminded of the mental echo of subcon‐ scious realization, of that supreme iniquity which mystics have constantly celebrated in their accounts of the Dark Night of the Soul. But the best men, the true men, do not consider the matter in suc…
1944 · PDF PAGE 212
…low 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 of Life, the Word, the Logos itself? The student must be referred to some less raw, cursory, elementary and superficial Treatise than this present bat‐eyed, penguin‐…
1944 · PDF PAGE 278
…e as in trade winds.) Air of Air Clouds—steady conveyors of water. Water of Air Vibrations—bulk unmoved, spiritualized 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 t…
1944 · PDF PAGE 145
…apac‐ ity for lucid conception and steady prosecution of work; but this is only at the bidding, and 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 135
…a little pile of dust! And the images rise up against me and constrain me, so that the Aethyr is shut against me. Only the things of the mind and of the body are open unto me. The shew‐stone is dull, for that which I see therein is but a memory.
1944 · PDF PAGE 35
… from older experience. It would be unwise to discard tradition with complete contempt, because all thinking is bound by the laws of the mind itself, and Mind has been formed rough thousands of years of evolution in each man by the thoughts of his ancestors. The cells of all living brains are just as much the children of the great thinkers of the past as the development of the organs and limbs. There are very few people today who have heard of Plato and Aristotle. Not one in a thousand, perhaps ten thousand, of those have ever read either of th…
1944 · PDF PAGE 160
…a sword; in her left hand, the newly severed head of a bearded man. She is the clear, conscious perception of Idea, the Liberator of the Mind. The person symbolized by this card should be intensely perceptive, a keen observer, a subtle interpreter, an intense individualist, swift and accurate at recording ideas; in action confident, in spirit gracious and just. Her movements will be graceful, and her ability in danc‐ ing and balancing exceptional. If ill‐dignified, these qualities will all be turned to unworthy purposes. She will be cruel, sly,…
1944 · PDF PAGE 54
…soul is swallowed up in God”. (Compare the symbolism of Noah and the Ark, Jonah1 and the Whale, and others.) One must constantly keep in mind the bivalence of every symbol. Insistance upon ei‐ ther one or other of the contradictory attributions inherent in a symbol is simply a mark of spiritual incapacity; and it is constantly happening, because of prejudice. It is the simplest test of initiation that every symbol is understood instinctively to contain this contradictory mean‐ ing in itself. Mark well the passage in The Vision and the Voice, pa…
1944 · PDF PAGE 144
…steries of Bacchus. She is attended by a couchant leopard upon whose head she lays her hand. Her face expresses the ecstasy of one whose mind is well in‐drawn to the mystery borne beneath her bosom. The characteristics of the Queen are adaptability, persistent energy, calm authority which she knows how to use to enhance her attractiveness. She is kindly and generous, but impatient of opposition. She has immense capacity for friendship and for love, but always on her own initiative. There is as much pride in this card as in the Knight, but it la…
1944 · PDF PAGE 248
…9‐151.) Fifth Operation FINAL RESULT 1. Shuffle, ec., as before. 2. Deal into ten packs in the form of the Tree of Life. 3. Make up your mind where the Significator should be, as before; but failure does not here necessarily imply that the divination has gone astray. 4. Count and pair as before. (Note that one cannot tell at what part of the divination the present time occurs. Usu‐ ally Op. I seems to indicate the past history of the question; but not always so. Experience will teach. Sometimes a new current of high help may show the moment of …
1944 · PDF PAGE 124
…of the Rose and the Cross. That was a “half‐formed face” that I said then. All images are useless. Yea, as in a looking‐glass, so in thy mind, that is backed with the false metal of lying, is every symbol read averse. Lo! everything wherein thou hast trusted must confound thee, and that thou didst flee from was thy saviour. So therefore didst thou shriek in the Black Sabbath when thou didst kiss the hairy buttocks of the goat, when the gnarled god tore thee asunder, when the icy cataract of death swept thee away. Shriek, therefore, shriek aloud…
1944 · PDF PAGE 146
…inion about which he is so emphatic. He states a vigorous proposition for the sake of stating it. He is in fact very slow to make up his mind thoroughly on any subject, but always sees both sides of every question. He is essentially just, but always feels that justice is not to be attained in the intellectual world. His character is intensely noble and generous. He may be an extravagant boaster, while slyly laughing both at