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… mean delay, op‐ position, obstinacy, inertia, patience, perseverance, persistent stubbornness in difficulty. The crystallization of the whole matter involved.
… has for its purpose the complete emanci‐ pation of the human race. The rose represents the flowering of the solar influence. Around the whole picture we see the signs of the Zodiac in their normal position, Aries rising in the East, and so on. Free‐ dom brings sanity. The Zodiac is a kind of childish representation of the body of Nuith, a dif‐ ferentiation and classification, a chosen belt, one girdle of Our Lady of infinite space. Conven‐ ience of description excuses the device. The green mound represents the fertile earth, its shape, so to s…
…nxes 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 celestial dew from his mother. He bears as a crest the Crab appro…
…fe. But, on the other hand, they are themselves unstable. They are tilted; they spill the water from the great Lotus which overhangs the whole system from one into the other. The work proper to water is complete: and disturbance is due. This comes from the influence of Mars in Pisces. Mars is the gross, violent and disrup‐ tive force which inevitably attacks every supposed perfection. His energy displays the greatest possible contrast with that of Pisces, which is both peaceful and spiritualized.
…d in “Magick”, Chapter XVII. The abuse of divination has been responsible, more than any other cause, for the dis‐ credit into which the whole subject of Magick had fallen when the Master Therion undertook the task of its rehabilitation. Those who neglect his warnings, and profane the Sanctuary of Transcendental Art, have no other than themselves to blame for the formidable and irremedi‐ able disasters which infallibly will destroy them. Prospero is Shakespeare’s reply to Dr. Faus‐ tus.
…le. 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.
…ucceeded in harmonizing these conflicting elements. He tends to mismanage all his affairs; and unless sheer good fortune attend him, his whole career will be an unbroken record of failure and disaster. Often his mental “civil war” ends in schizophrenia or melan‐ choly madness. The abuse of stimulants and narcotics may precipitate the catastrophe.
…ng is to formulate the idea of Tetragrammaton. THE FORMULA OF TETRAGRAMMATON It is explained in this essay (see 16, 34, et al.) that the whole of the Tarot is based upon the Tree of Life, and that the Tree of Life is always cognate with Tetragrammaton. One may sum up the whole doctrine very briefly as follows: The Union of the Father and the Mother produces Twins, the son going forward to the daughter, the daughter returning the energy to the father; by this cycle of change the stability and eternity of the Universe are assured. It is necessary…
…III. ‘The Witeb: Yoni,stagnant and (Priest, Priestess, Ceremony) waiting. [scx Ga and Mn as twas tom Nuit and Hadit. The Pantacle of the Whole XXI. ‘The System,
…omplementary, theory. If one assumes that the Tarot is of Egyptian origin, one may suppose that Mat (this card being the key card of the whole pack) really stands for
…and intelligence shown in the earlier cards; and in front are the two formidable Dorjes of the Two of Wands, but lengthened to bars. The whole picture suggests Oppression and repression. It is a stupid and obstinate cruelty from which there is no escape. It is a Will which has not understood anything beyond its dull purpose, its “lust of result”, and will devour itself in the conflagrations it has evoked.
…ery deep eyelids, and long lashes. Her eyes are closed, or nearly closed. It is impossible to say anything about her. Slie is naked; her whole body is covered with fine gold hairs, that are the electric flames which are the spears of mighty and terrible Angels whose breastplates are the scales of her skin. And the hair of her head, that flows down to her feet, is the very light of God himself. Of all the glories beheld by the Seer in the Aethyrs, there is not one which is worthy to be compared with her littlest finger‐nail. For although he may …
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…
…nce of the number Six, Tiphareth, in the suit of Water. This influence is fortified by that of the Sun, who also represents the Six. The whole image is that of the influence of the Sun on Water. His fierce, but balanced power operates that type of putre‐ faction‐he is in the Sign of Scorpio‐which is the basis of all fertility, all life. The lotus stems are grouped in an elaborate dancing movement. From their blossoms water gushes into the Cups, but they are not yet full to overflowing, as they are in the corre‐ sponding card below; the Nine. Pl…
…re Atu XV—the lowest fallen and therefore the highest exalted. These last three cards seem to prepare the explosion which will renew the whole Cycle. Note that Virgo is Yod, the secret seed of Life, and also the Virgin Earth awaiting the Phallic Plough. The interest of this card is the interest of the common people. The rulership of the Sun in Virgo suggests also birth. The disks are arranged in the form of the geomantic figure Popu‐ lus. These disks may be represented as the flowers or fruits of a great tree, its solid roots in fertile land. I…
…published as a result of the catastrophe attending the English branch of the Order in 1899 and 1900, e.v., and the reconstruction of the whole Order in March and April, 1904, e.v. By putting the card marked 0 in its proper place, where any mathematician would have put it, the attributions fall into a natural order which is confirmed by every investigation. There was, however, one kink in the rope. The card called adjustment is marked VIII. The card called Lust is marked XI. to maintain the natural sequence, Lust must be attributed to Libra, and…
…presents is an extremely secret process. Beneath his chariot is the calm and stagnant water of a lake upon which rain falls heavily. The whole symbolism of this card is exceedingly complicated, for Scorpio is the most mysterious of the Signs, and the manifested portion of it symbolized by the eagle is in reality the least important part of his nature. The moral characteristics of the person pictured in this card are subtlety, secret vio‐ lence, and craft. He is intensely secret, an artist in all his ways. On the surface he appears calm
…al, idle and untruthful. Yet with all this he pos‐ sesses an innocence and purity which are the essence of his nature. But he is, on the whole, so superficial that it is hard to reach this depth. “His name is writ in water.”
…bdivided at will. as convenience may require. THE TREE OF LIFE 1. This figure must be studied very carefully, for it is the basis of the whole system on which the Tarot is based. It is quite impossible to give a complete explanation of this figure, because (for one thing) it is quite universal. Therefore it cannot mean the same to any one person as to any other. A’s universe is not B’s universe. If A and B are sitting opposite each other at table, A sees the right side of the lobster, and B the left. If they stand side by side and look at a sta…
…rious that it seems better to attach to this general description certain documents which bear upon dif‐ ferent aspects of this card. The whole will then form an adequate basis for the full interpreta‐ tion of the card through study, meditation, and use. The French title of this card in the medieval pack is “Le Bâteleur”, the Bearer of the Bâton.1 Mercury is pre‐eminently the bearer of the Wand: Energy sent forth. This card there‐ fore represents the Wisdom, the Will, the Word, the Logos by whom the worlds were created. (See the Gospel according…