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WHEEL AND—WHOA! The Great Wheel of Samsara. The Wheel of the Law. (Dhamma.) The Wheel of the Taro. The Wheel of the Heavens. The Wheel of 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…
1944 · PDF PAGE 127
“It seems that this wheel is being spun by a hand. Though the wheel fills the whole Aire, yet the hand is much bigger than the wheel. And though this vision is so great and splen‐ did, yet there is no seriousness with it, or solemnity. It seems that the hand is spinning the wheel merely for pleasure‐it would be better to say amusement. “A voice comes: For he is a jocund and ruddy god, and his laughter is the vibration of all that exists, and the earthquakes of the soul. “One is conscious of the whirring of the wheel thrilling one, like an elect…
1944 · PDF PAGE 126
FORTUNE R.O.T.A.—THE WHEEL2 “There cometh a peacock into the stone, filling the whole Aire. It is like the vision called the Universal Peacock, or, rather, like a representation of that vision. And now there are count‐ less clouds of white angels filling the Aire as the peacock dissolves. “Now behind the angels are archangels with trumpets. These cause all things to appear at once, so that there is a tremendous con‐ fusion of images. And now I perceive that all these things are but veils of the wheel, for they all gather themselves into a wheel…
1944 · PDF PAGE 30
…anets, including the Moon, a satellite of the Earth. These bodies revolve in one direction only. The Solar system is not a sphere, but a wheel. The planets do not remain in exact alignment but swing to a certain (comparatively small) extent from one side of the true plane to the other. Their orbits are elliptical. The Ancients imagined this wheel very much more clearly than modern minds are wont to do. They paid particular attention to the imaginary rim. Within the limits of this rim, they conceived that the Fixed Stars beyond were in a special…
1944 · PDF PAGE 82
…m, through the firmament, issue lightnings; they churn it into a mass of blue and violet plumes. In the midst of all this is suspended a wheel of ten spokes, according to the number of the Sephiroth, and of the sphere of Malkuth, indicating governance of physical affairs. On this wheel are three figures, the Sworded Sphinx, Hermanubis, and Typhon; they symbolize the three forms of energy which govern the movement of phenomena.
1944 · PDF PAGE 228
… practical matters the good fortune of Jupiter is very limited. Their influence on the card is not great. Yet, Jupiter being himself the Wheel (Atu X), he emphasizes that idea. The card represents two Pantacles, one above the other; they are the Chinese symbols of the Yang and Yin duplicated as in the Hsiang. One wheel is dextro‐ and the other laevo‐ rotatory. They thus represent the harmonious interplay of the Four Elements in constant movement. One may in fact consider the card as the picture of the complete manifested Uni‐ verse, in respect …
1944 · PDF PAGE 83
… Will, to Dare, and to Keep Silence.1 This Sphinx represents the element of sulphur, and is exalted, temporarily, upon the summit of the wheel. She is armed with a sword of the short Roman pattern, held upright between the paws of the lion. Climbing up the left‐hand side of the wheel is Hermanubis, who represents the al‐ chemical Mercury. He is a composite god; but in him the simian element predominates. On the right hand side, precipitating himself downward, is Typhon, who represents the element of salt. Yet in these figures there is also a ce…
1944 · PDF PAGE 114
…Hac Re; Conclusio De Hoc Modo Sanctitatis; De Via Sola Solis. The Ma gusi. De Mercuno; ii. The Lord of Illusion; Fortune, R.O.T.A. The Wheel; Lust, Babalon; Art, The Arrow; The Universe. The Virgin Universe.
1944 · PDF PAGE 231
…this class of words is the guttural. Observe the Hebrew attri‐ butions: Gimel, the moon; Cheth, Cancer, the house of the moon; Kaph, the Wheel; Qoph, the Moon, XVIII, Guttur, the throat. Sounds so made suggest the other throat; one is the channel of respiration and nutrition, the other of reproduction and elimination.
1944 · PDF PAGE 242
… Lady Babalon! i Most secret seed of all Life’s serpent plan, Virgin, the Hermit goes, dumb Guardian. k Sped by its energies triune, the Wheel Of Fortune spins: its Axle’s immobile.
1944 · PDF PAGE 227
…s enclosed in a Heptagram, as manifestly needful; and this fig‐ ure again in interlaced Pentagons whose sides are extended, so forming a Wheel of 10 spokes whose boundary is a Decagon; and this again within a circular band, upon which is inscribed in full the name ΤΟ ΜΕΓΑ ΘΗΡΙΟΝ, of 12 (6 x 2) letters. About this whirling Disk are its six Wings; the entire symbol is not only a glyph of Earth as understood in this New Aeon of Horus, but of the number 6, the number of the Sun. This card is thus an affirmation of the identity of Sol and Terra‐and …
1944 · PDF PAGE 173
bewildering inconsistency. It is rather like a lottery wheel from which the extraction of any number does not predict or influence the result of any subsequent operation. The fruit of the Philosophy of Thelema is enjoyed, rare, ripe, nourishing and vitalizing at its highest and full‐ est in this meditation; for to the adept every turn of the wheel is equally probable, and equally a prize; for every Event is “a play of Nuit”. In the Yî King the earthy part of Earth is represented by the 52nd hexagram, Kan. The meaning is “a mountain”; of how sub…
1944 · PDF PAGE 128
…is of a youth dancing and making music. But you must understand that he is not doing that, for he is still. Even the hand that turns the wheel is not his hand, but only a hand energized by him. “And now it is the dance of Shiva. I lie beneath his feet, his saint, his victim. My form is the form of the god Phtah, in my essence, but the form of the god Seb is my form. And this is the reason of existence, that in this dance which is delight, there must be both the god and the adept. Also the earth herself is a saint; and the sun and the moon dance…
1944 · PDF PAGE 112
…k in the hierarchy. (The design is due to the genius of the late J. W. N. Sulli‐ van: see The Bases of Modern Science.) In the centre, a wheel of Light initiates the form of the Tree of Life, shewing the ten principal bodies of the solar system. But this Tree is not visible except to those of wholly pure heart. 1. The primum mobile, represented by Pluto. (Compare the doctrine of the alpha particles of radium.) 2. The sphere of the Zodiac or fixed stars, represented by Neptune. 3. Saturn. The Abyss. This is represented by Herschel, the planet of…
1944 · PDF PAGE 146
…), the wand of Power and Energy, while with his other arm he reins the lion which draws his chariot, the chariot which is fortified by a wheel radiating flame. He rides upon a sea of flames, both waved and salient. The moral qualities appropriate to this figure are swiftness and strength. But he is sometimes inclined to act on impulse; sometimes easily led by external influences; some‐ times, especially in trifles, a prey to indecision. He is often violent, especially in the expression of an opinion, but he does not necessarily hold the opinion…
1944 · PDF PAGE 6
…Hac Re; Conclusio De Hoc Modo Sanctitatis; De Via Sola Solis. The Magus— i. De Mercuno; ii. The Lord of Illusion; Fortune, R.O.T.A. —The Wheel; Lust, Babalon; Art, The Ar‐ row; The Universe. The Virgin Universe.
1944 · PDF PAGE 27
…These names are, the Fool, the Juggler, the High Priestess, the Empress, the Emperor, the Hierophant, the Lovers, the Chariot, Lust, the Wheel of Fortune, Adjustment, the Hanged Man, Death, Art, the Devil, the House of God, the Star, the Moon, the Sun, the Aeon, the Universe. Obviously these are not plain, straightforward symbolic representations of the signs, elements and planets concerned. They are rather hieroglyphs of peculiar mysteries connected with each. One may begin to suspect that the Tarot is not a mere straightforward representation…
1944 · PDF PAGE 90
…a bowl.] This Sacrament is exalted in the Zenith in Cancer; see Atu VII. It is most necessary for the Student to go round and round this Wheel of symbolism until the figures melt imperceptibly the one into the other in an intoxicating dance of ecstasy; not until he has attained that is he able to partake of the Sacrament, and accomplish for him‐ self‐and for all men!‐the Great Work. But let him also remember the practical secret cloistered in all these wind‐swept cor‐ ridors of music, the actual preparation of the Stone of the Wise, the Medicin…
1944 · PDF PAGE 14
…hority. Einstein’s Theory of Relativity does not rest on the fact that, when 1It is supposed by some scholars that the R.O.T.A. (Rota, a wheel) consulted in the Collegium ad Spiritum Sanctum—see the Manifesto “Fama Fraternitatis” of the Brothers of the Rosy Cross—was the Tarot. his theory was put to the test, it was confirmed. The only theory of ultimate interest about the Tarot is that it is an admirable symbolic picture of the Universe, based on the data of the Holy Qabalah. It will be proper, later in this essay, to describe the Holy Qabalah…
1944 · PDF PAGE 53
…dile, the symbol of two exactly opposite things.) There is here an analogy. One is reminded of Hercules‐the infant Hercules‐who spun the wheel in the House of Women; of Hercules, who was a strong man, who was innocent, who was ultimately a madman, who destroyed his wife and children. It is a cognate symbol. Harpocrates is (in one sense) the symbol of the Dawn on the Nile, and of the physio‐ logical phenomenon which accompanies the act of waking. One sees, at the other end of the octave of thought, the connection of this symbol with the successi…