Audio W-T Tarot Week Three (please download file rather than try to listen to it as streaming)
Opening quote for this class Plotinus' On Intellectual Beauty, Ennead 5.8.5-6 [pdf pp. 8-10]
Also suggested but not required the excerpt from
From Word to Silence II: The way of negation, Christian and
Greek by Raul ortley pp. 242-252, also skim as interest holds.
is summary, concluding portion of how the via negativa developed in
pagan and Christian thought. Both volumes have pdf eds. for your own
perusal: From
Word to Silence 1
From Word to
Silence 2
Suggested but not required: "Sympathy or the Devil" by Wouter J. Hanegraaff [is a founder and president of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, ESSWE] offers an account of the hermetic influences on Renaissance magic and the vivacation [pdf p. 10] of images, skim as interest holds. pdf. pp 11-14 reference Plotinus above.
XX: HERMIT
XXI: DEATH
XXII: HIEROPHANT
XXIII: HANGED MAN (THE CROWNED MASTER)
XXIV: SUN (CHRIST)
Any volunteers?
XX The Hermit (Virgo): Yellow-green; F-natural; Chesed-Tiphareth;
Yod; Keeper of the Secret Tradition
9 Virgo—Hermit: Truth, The Helper, The Sage, The Ancient One,
Prudence, Occult Light, The Path to Initiation, Adonis, Attis, The
Secret Seed, The Pet, The Spermatozoon, The Prophet of the Eternal,
The Pilgrim Soul, The Perfectionist, The Veiled Lamp, The Critic,
Magus of the Voice of Power, Perfected Love, The Virgin, Inner
Knowledge, Light and Force, The Servant, The Analyst, Hygeia,
Intelligence of Will, Capuchin, Diogenes, The Perfected Tool, The
Harpy, Response, Coition, The Old Man, The Hunchback, The Supreme
Will, The Mercy of Beauty, The Magnificence of Sovereignty.
XXI Death (Scorpio): Blue-green; G-natural; Geburah-Tiphareth;
Kaph; Mystical Death
13 Scorpio—Death: The Grim Reaper, The Circle Completed, The Scythe,
The Angel of Death, The Skeleton, The Angel Azrail, Transformation,
Reincarnation, Change, Sunrise, Sex, The Tax Man, Liberation,
Reproduction, The Dark Angel of the Doors, The Tunnel, The Eagle,
The Child of the Great Transformation, Thanatos, Charon, Birth, The
Detective, The Great Snake, Kundalini, Metamorphosis, The Scorpion,
Motion, Imaginative Intelligence, The Three Manifestations of
Matter, The American Indian, The Red Man, The Sovereignty and Result
of Victory.
XXII The High Priest or Hierophant (Taurus): Red-orange; C-sharp,
D-flat; Chesed-Netzach; Lamed; The Church
5 Taurus—High Priest: The Hierophant, Pope, Grand Master, Master of
the Secrets, The Builder, The Gypsy Prince, Hierarch, Archpriest,
Magus of the Eternal, The Prince, The Silent One, He Who Hears and
Teaches to Hear, Revealer of the Holy, Universal Law, Master, Voice
of the True Self, The Listening of the Silence, The Physical Voice
of Triumph and Eternal Intelligence, Divine Presence as Voice, The
Pontifex or Bridge-Maker, Triumphant and Eternal Intelligence,
Intuition, Hearing, The Earth Spirit, The Wisdom and Fountain of
Mercy, The Bull.
XXIII The Hanged Man (Neptune): Pale blue; G-sharp, A-flat;
Geburah-Hod; Mem; Crowned Master
12 Neptune—Hanged Man: The Sacrifice, Spirit of the Mighty Waters,
The Thief, Judas, The Victim, Samadhi, The Acrobat, Crucifixion,
Mental Purity, The Law of Reversal, Baptism, The Drowned Man, The
Musician, Balder, The Divine Giving-Forth, Stable Intelligence, The
Redeemer in the Waters, The Old Man of the Sea, The Example, The
Sacrificed God, Dissolution, Poseidon, The Dancer, The Invisible
One, The Severity of Splendor, The Masochist.
XXIV The Sun (Sun): Orange, gold; D-natural; Tiphareth-Netzach;
Nun; Christ of Glory
19 The Sun—Sun: Eternal Youth, The Center of the Self, Lord of the
Fire of the World, Ra, The Symbol of Tetragrammaton, Apollo, The
Eternal Child, Christ, The Ceaseless Giver, Phaethon, Mithra, The
Spiritual Phallus, The Central Fire, Continuous Energy,
Illumination, Lord of the Aeon, Rajas, Collective Intelligence,
Regeneration, Fertility and Sterility, The Splendor of Fundamental
Strength, The Higher Self.
I've looked up the book and managed to read the 22 numbered
stages on amazon books. I've also done some other research and
found a lecture by Waite on Masonry where he discusses Solomon's
Temple and the creation of a 'new man' occurring through the process
of initiation.
''They constitute together an image of coming out from
some old condition by being unclothed therefrom- partially at least-
and thereafter of entering into a condition that is new and
different, in which another kind of light is communicated, and
another vesture is to be assumed, and, ultimately, another life
entered.'' Waite
Like Tomberg, Waite appears to be exploring the spiritual
significance of The Christ through the tarot - which involves
meditation in order to open the mind to receiving - Love. There is
the notion that man is a vessel that is able to experience the
magnificence of God in and only in, his consciousness. Waite states
in Lamps of Western Mysticism that he who has LOVE does need any
other teacher or intellectual pursuit. He who only intellectualises
the teachings will fail to receive and experience the essence of the
spiritual quest.
There is a difference between using The Tree of Life for the purpose of doing 'man's will' and doing God's will; as there is a difference between intellectualising and experiencing. The cards appear to be illustrating the process of spiritual experience - from the old man (clothed) to the new man (naked) - being born again of the spirit; and the maintenance of this new creation through the regular filling of the spirit (receiving spiritual gifts/elan vital) and protection against sin (which separates the spirit from the divine).
right now it seems the HM/THE DROWNED MASTER may have more in common w/THE WORLD/UNIVERSE then i thought... the draped scarf is red in some Marseilles & Italian Tarots & the waters above & below may be BIRTH/DEATH for the MANDOROLA/VECIS PECIS (SP I KNOW?) CONCIOUSNESS/UNCONCIOUSNESS? I feel like a 'valley girl' w/the high tone at the end of every sentence.
the RAINBOW if 'on it's side' is 1/2 of the 'Corona' around the Shekinah/World/Universe...
the coral/bed for THE DROWNED MASTER reminds me of THE FISHER KING & of course the symbol of FISH itself.
i have a quote re: a philosopher who was drowned in the Pythogorean School for discovery of IRRATIONAL NUMBERS. see the attachments. what is more 'irrational' than Mysticism????!!!!!! perhaps a too too stretch??!!!
also the SWASTIKA has KABBALISTIC meaning & that's a hard one to track down but i'm attaching what i got.
this IS LAZY SCHOLARSHIP i know... but i'm crazed for time & i hope you won't be too mad at me... i've bit off more than i should this week but i couldn't resist...
oh... another 'thought' ( such as i have these days ) is that THE RWS seems to have much more invested w/ASTROLOGY & the WT Tarot w/Kabbalah. an observation in my 'dottage' after reading the GOLDEN DAWN BY WAITE ( KUNTZ'S FOLIO) & THE INNER SANCTUARY from Tali & Marcus.
HOWEVER i'm 'taking the fifth' & reserving the right to change my mind!
cynthia
from the catholic saints/symbols site...
very incomplete but a start... will work on this further for other references....
(please download file rather than try to listen to it as streaming)
See digital images of the Waite-Trinick Tarot from the British Museum Research website where one can download for one's own personal study all 43 images.
For access to study material see annotated study Guide
Handouts:
Golden Dawn Major Arcana as Drawn by Wang under the direction of Regardie