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Arthur Edward Waite

The Pictorial Key To The Tarot

  • katiadolzhenkohas quoted5 years ago
    Dogme el Rituel de la Haute Magie. Par Eliphas Levi, 2 vols., demy 8vo, Paris, 1854.
    This is the first publication of Alphonse Louis Constant on occult philosophy, and it is also his magnum opus.
  • katiadolzhenkohas quoted5 years ago
    The Significator.
    1. That covers him
    2. What crosses him.
    3. What crowns him.
    4. What is beneath him.
    5. What is behind him.
    6. What is before him.
    7. Himself.
    8. His house.
    9. His hopes or fears.
    10. What will come.
  • katiadolzhenkohas quoted5 years ago
    The conventional explanations say that the Fool signifies the flesh, the sensitive life, and by a peculiar satire its subsidiary name was at one time the alchemist, as depicting folly at the most insensate stage.
  • katiadolzhenkohas quoted5 years ago
    Peace, be still; and it may be that there shall come a calm upon the animal nature, while the abyss beneath shall cease from giving up a form.
  • katiadolzhenkohas quoted5 years ago
    The dog and wolf are the fears of the natural mind in the presence of that place of exit, when there is only reflected light to guide it.
  • katiadolzhenkohas quoted5 years ago
    The path between the towers is the issue into the unknown.
  • katiadolzhenkohas quoted5 years ago
    The distinction between this card and some of the conventional types is that the moon is increasing on what is called the side of mercy, to the right of the observer. It has sixteen chief and sixteen secondary rays.
  • katiadolzhenkohas quoted5 years ago
    For the majority of prepared minds, the figure will appear as the type of Truth unveiled, glorious in undying beauty, pouring on the waters of the soul some part and measure of her priceless possession. But she is in reality the Great Mother in the Kabalistic Sephira Binah, which is supernal Understanding, who communicates to the Sephiroth that are below in the measure that they can receive her influx.
  • katiadolzhenkohas quoted5 years ago
    I agree rather with Grand Orient that it is the ruin of the House of We, when evil has prevailed therein, and above all that it is the rending of a House of Doctrine.
  • katiadolzhenkohas quoted5 years ago
    It is called Temperance fantastically, because, when the rule of it obtains in our consciousness, it tempers, combines and harmonises the psychic and material natures. Under that rule we know in our rational part something of whence we came and whither we are going.
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