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Page 1 of 31944 · PDF PAGE 188
… card refers to Binah in the suit of Fire, and so represents the establishment of primeval Energy. The Will has been trans mitted to the Mother, who conceives, prepares, and gives birth to, its manifestation. It refers to the Sun in Aries, the Sign in which he is exalted. The meaning is harmonious, for this is the beginning of Spring. For this reason one sees the wand taking the form of the Lotus in blossom. The Sun has enkindled the Great Mother. In the Yî King, Sol in Aries is represented by the 11th hexagram, Thai; its meaning is identical w…
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 47
…the He‐ brew letter (so it is said) represents a plough‐ share; thus the significance is primarily Phallic. It is the first of the three Mother letters, Aleph, 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…
1944 · PDF PAGE 25
…been thought better, for the present pack, to adopt the term “Knight”, “Queen”, “Prince” and “Princess”, to represent the series Father, Mother, Son, Daughter, because the doctrine involved, which is extraordinarily complex and difficult, demands it. The Father is “Knight” because he is represented as riding on a horse. It may make it more clear to describe the two main systems, the Hebrew and the Pagan, as if they were (and had always been) con‐ crete and separate. The Hebrew system is straightforward and irreversible; it postulates Father and…
1944 · PDF PAGE 212
…th, who is the Son, the first‐born of the Father, and the Sun, the first emanation of the creative Phallus. He derives directly from his mother Binah through the Path of Zain, the sublime intuitive sense, so that he partakes ab‐ solutely of the nature of Neschamah. From his father, Chokmah, he is informed though the Path of Hé, the Great Mother, the Star, our Lady Nuit,1 so that the creative impulse is commu‐ nicated to him by all possibilities soever. Finally, from Kether, the supreme, descends directly upon him, though the Path of Gimel, the …
1944 · PDF PAGE 129
LUST BABALON1 In Atu VII, the charioteer bears the Grail, from the Great Mother. Here is the Vision: “The charioteer speaks in a low, solemn voice, awe‐inspiring, like a very large and very distant bell: Let him look upon the cup whose blood is mingled therein, for the wine of the cup is the blood of the saints. Glory unto the Scarlet Woman, Babylon the Mother of Abominations, that rideth upon the Beast, for she hath spilt their blood in every corner of the earth, and lo! she hath mingled it in the cup of her whoredom. “With the breath of her k…
1944 · PDF PAGE 202
… finality, as the Qabalists knew him before the dis‐ covery of the Revolving Formula whereby the Daughter, seated upon the Throne of the Mother, “awakens the Eld of the All‐Father”. For the meanings of Via and Populus, refer to the “Handbook of Geomancy” (Equinox Vol. I, No.2).
1944 · PDF PAGE 90
…t stirring in the Darkness of the Abyss below him. Yet the card in itself is essentially a glyph of Water; Mem is one of the three great Mother Letters, and its value is 40, the might of Tetragrammaton fully developed by Malkuth, the symbol of the Universe under the Demiourgos. Moreover, Water is peculiarly the Mother Letter, for both Shin and Aleph (the other two) represent masculine ideas; and, in Nature, Homo Sapiens is a marine mammal, and our intra‐uterine existence is passed in the Amniotic Fluid. The legend of Noah, the Ark and the Flood…
1944 · PDF PAGE 265
…hat 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 and automatically every simple symbol into every complex symbol and back again; for only so is it possible to realize th…
1944 · PDF PAGE 279
©, ‘The Holy Ghost. I. The Messenger. IX. The Secret Seed. ‘The Three Goddesses IIL, The Wife. ( (1 The Virgin, | xvit. ‘the Mother. ‘The Three Deminrges 1V. The Raler. fX The All Father 3 in x. toy. , VI. The Twins Emerging ‘The Childter. Horus and Hoor-Pa- Krast { XIX. The Sun (Playing) XVI. The Crowned and Conquering Child emerging from Womb a5 inALP ( VIL. The Graal; Chariot of Life, The Yoni geudens (The Woman XIV. The Preguant Womb preserving justified) \ ite. VIIE, The Sexually joined. [XT 256 & 666, The Slain Geds I XIE The Redeemer in …
1944 · PDF PAGE 53
…Eheieh: “I shall Be”. Yet in the end these doctrines are identical. This babe is in an egg of blue, which is evidently the symbol of the Mother. This child has, in a way, not been born; the blue is the blue of space; the egg is sitting upon a lotus, and this lotus grows on the Nile. Now, the lotus is another symbol of the Mother, and the Nile is also a symbol of the Father, fertilizing Egypt, the Yoni. (But also the Nile is the home of Sebek the crocodile, who threatens Harpocrates.) Yet Harpocrates is not always thus represented. He is shown b…
1944 · PDF PAGE 262
…ber 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, apply here also; but this Diagram must itself be studied separately. It should not be used as a table to which to refer when in doubt; it should itself be committed to memory before proceeding to the detailed study of the pack.
1944 · PDF PAGE 130
…ike the giving‐up of the self to the beloved.) 1From The Vision and The Voice. “The voice continues: This is the Mystery of Babylon, the Mother of Abominations, and this is the mystery of her adulteries1, for she hath yielded up herself to everything that liveth, and hath become a partaker in its mystery. And because she hath made herself the servant of each, therefore is she become the mistress of all. Not as yet canst thou comprehend her glory. “Beautiful art thou, O Babylon, and desirable, for thou hast given thyself to everything that livet…
1944 · PDF PAGE 23
…s the union of a Plus Something with an equivalent Minus Something. One may call these two ideas, the Active and Passive, the Father and Mother. But although the Father and Mother can make a perfect union, thereby re‐ turning to Zero, which is a retrogression, they can also go forward into Matter, so that their union produces a Son and a Daughter. The idea works out in practice as a method of describ‐ ing how the union of any two things produces a third thing which is neither of them. The simplest illustration is in Chemistry. If we take hydrog…
1944 · PDF PAGE 24
…d the Daughter is ambiguous. It has been explained above as the spiritual ingredient in the result of the marriage of the Father and the Mother; but this is only one interpretation. THE TAROT AND THE ELEMENTS The Ancients conceived of Fire; Water and Air as pure elements. They were connected with the three qualities of Being, Knowledge and Bliss, previously mentioned. They also cor‐ respond with what the Hindus called the Three Gunas—Sattvas, Rajas and Tamas, which may be translated roughly as “Calm”, “Activity”, and “Slothful Darkness”. The al…
1944 · PDF PAGE 26
…ral triangle, although there are three equilateral triangles with the apex downwards. This is because of the original for‐ mula “Father, Mother, Son”, which is three times repeated in a descending scale of simplicity and spirituality. The number 1is above these triangles, because it is an integration of Zero and depends from the triple veil of the Negative. Now the Sephiroth, which are emanations of the number 1, as already shown, are things‐in‐themselves, in almost the Kantian sense. The lines joining them are Forces of Na‐ ture, of a much les…
1944 · PDF PAGE 229
…ee 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 242
…Holy Fool! Veil rent, Lewd madness is sublime enlightenment. b The Word of 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 mo…
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 197
…Sun. The third in the Hierarchy. This accordingly represents the essential form of the Holy Grail. Upon the dark sea of Binah, the Great Mother, are Lotuses, two in one, which fill the cup with the Life‐fluid, symbolically represented either as Water, as Blood, or as Wine, according to the selected purpose of the symbolism. This being a primor‐ dial card, the liquid is shown as water; it can be transformed into Wine or Blood as may be required. Above the Cup, descending upon it, is the Dove of the Holy Ghost, thus consecrating the element. At t…