Intro to Tarot 1

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II\TRODUCTION

TO

TAROT

Lesson

One

This

course

acquailts

you

with

Tarot

. . . one

of

the

most

effective

aids

o spiritual

progress

ever

bequeathed

o man.

All

human

progress,

o

matter

n what

field

of being

or

activify

it

may

be

manifested,

epends

n

spiritual

progress.

Man

does

not

live by

bread

alone

Even

as

we

rnight

ntroduce

you

to

a wise

and

helpful

counselor',

o

hese

Tarot

lessons

will

give

you the same

uplifting

benefits

which

we,

and

countless

othels

through

the

ages,

have

derived

iom

this

source

of wisdom

an'd

nspiration'

It

is not

our

purpose

o

give

you a mass

of

more

or

less

occult

knowledge

about

Tarot'

Mere

u'assimilatedknowledgenot put to practicaluse s no better hanundigestedood which,

no

matter

how

it rnay

please he

palate,

passes

hrough

the

system

without

nourishing.

So

in

this

coul.se

ou will

be

given instruction

in

the

practical

and

daily

use

of

Tarot,

for

only

through

such

usage

and

appiication

can

ts marvelous

and

ruly

magical

benefits

be obtained.

you

may

have

a long

history

of

academic

ducation,

r

you

may

not

have

inished

high

school.

You

may

have

a

r"ui

irrt"r"rt

in symbols,

01'you

may

think

symbols

are

of no

col1cern

to

you a1d

your

affairs.

You

may

have

a

good nemory,

or

a bad

o1e'

(If

it

is

a bad

one'

it will

soon

mprove,

plovided

you

use

Tarot

as

we

shall

explain

t')

You

may

be

a marvel

at

concentration,

or

,.rppor

yourself

to

be

the

world's

undefeated

mind-wandering

champion'

Begi'

to

use

Tarot

ust

where

you are

and

you will

effect

decided,

even

staftling,

changes

or

the

bettet'.

Accompanying

his

lesson

ou willfi1d

a

copy

of

HIGHLIGHTS

OF'TAROT,

and he

Tarot

Tableau.

When

you

cut

the

tableau

apart,as

yoll will

latel

on,

be

sure

o

preselve

the

parts

CNtitICd

HE

PATTERN

ON

THE

TRESTLEBOARD

ANd

THE

EMERALD

TABLET.

iN

HIGHLIGHTS

there

are

also

directions

or coloring

he

Keys;

but

we

recomlnend

hat

you

do

not

follow

these

at

plesent

as

his

will

come

atel

in Tarot

Fundamentals,

he course

which

follows

this one

und

givescomplete

nstructions

or

coloring

youl'Tarot

Keys'

We

have

included

he coloring

nstructions

n

the

HIGHLIGHTS

OF

TAROT

booldet

mainly

because

we

have

found

that

Jo

n'rany

of

our

members

wish

to

color

more

than

one

set

as

hey

advance

through he differentportionsof the Qabalistic eaching.Thereforehavingcoloring

instructions

ondensed

nto

one

area

s an

added

convenience

or

such

purposes'

If

anything

you r.ead

n HiGHLIGHTS

gives

you

the notior-r

hat

Tarot

is so

abstruse

and

occult

that

t

is

way

over

your head,

dismiss

hat

notion.

So

fal

fi'om

being

over

your head,

Tarot,

right

now,

is

in

youl

head

and

n

your heart-in

all

your mental

and

physical

make-up'

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I N T R O D U C T I O N

T O

T A R O T

If

you never

earn

a Heblew

letter. r

an astrological

i,,rnbol,

l

arrything

lse

n

the

lists of

attributions

given

n HIGHLIGHTS,

you

can

still

use

Talot successfully.

t

is not

at all

necessary

o learn

how

Tarot

s

put together'.

Somepeople,of course,wish to know asmuch aboutTarot aspossible, e., its history and

technical

construction.

ndeed

his is necessary

or

gainingcertainkinds

of more

advanced

esoteric

nowledge.Later

his

will

be

made

available

or

those

who

qualiff. Now,

however,

we shall

not

burden

your

rnemory

with a single fact

wliich

you

cannot

put

to

irnrnediate

and

practical

se.

You

have

hopes

and ears,

ongings

and rustrations.

You

have

problems

you'd

ike to solve.

You

may

be seeking

a better

ob.

Ol

it may be

that

your physicaiorganismseems

o be

in need

of

some

adjustment.

Whatever

may be

the

parlicularsituation

n

which

you

find

yourself,

whether

t be

good

or

bad,

you

wouldn't

be human

f

you

hadn't,

down in

your

heafi of

hearts,

a desire

or

a

greater

neasure f

fieedorn

han

you

now

enjoy.

Plecisely

hat

greater

reedom

s what

you

will

experience

f

you

gain

skill

in using

Tarot. To

do

so t

is necessary

o

practice,

and

he eariy stages

will requiresome

effort

and a

great

deal

of

persistence.

ll,

excepting hose

pathologicallysubnormal,

an eam

to use Tarot,

for it

is

based

on

a

principle

of

mental activity

colrrnon

to all.

It is a

principle

we have

all been

using

since

early

childhood.Thele

is nothing

new about

t

and nothing

unfamiliar.

The only

novelty

is

in

the

application.

The

principle

s this: all oul basic

hinking

s done

n

pictures.

We

see

befole

we say.Pictules

form

in

oul

minds before

we

label

hern

with wolds.

Sometimes

ur

picturesare

not as clear

as hey

might

be.

Usually

this

is

because

most

of our

schooling

puts

too much

faith

in the

sr-rpposed

irtue

of

mere

words. We spend

so much

time

reading

and

alking,

and so much of our

education

s no more

han earning

words

and

fonlulas

by rote,

hat we have

et

our

power

of

vision

fall

mole or less

nto disuse-to

our

great

disadvantage.

Whatever

nitial difficulty

you

may have

n learning

to use Tarot

rnay be

traced o the

bad

habit

of

thinking

in words

without being sure

hese

mental abels

are

attached o

any real

pictures.At this

point,

we saynothing

of the disastels

which

result

i'om

getting

wholly

mistaken

abels

on our mental

pictures.

Nor

shall

we discuss

as

yet

the

dangers

we invite

when

we

contentourselves

with hasty

mentalsnapshots

ften aken

with our

mental

cameras

out of

foctts.

Our

first steps

will be

very simple.

Begin by

using

he actual

Tarot

pictures.

Sit

in

a

comfortable

chair

and

give

five

minutes

everyday

o looking

attentively

at

one

of

the

twenty-

two

Tarot

Keys.

Do

this

preferably

n

the morning

as soon

as

you

have inished

dressing,

and

before

eating

breakfast. f

this is impracticable,

ny other

irne of day may be

selected,

o ong

as

t is approximately

he

satne

hour

everyday.

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T O

T A R O T :

Spend

ust

three

dayson

eachof

the Tarot

Keys.

Thus he

total time

givetl

to

Tarot

practice

dur.ing

his entire

course

will be

ust

fifteen

minutes

per

Key,

a total

of five

houls

and

thirty

minutes

over

a

period

of

eleven

weeks.Hence

nobody

can offer

the excuse

hat

he hasn't

ime

for this study.

Nobody

who reads

his lesson

an say

he hasn't

ive minutes

a day

o use

as

he

likes.

And

precisely hat,

and no lnore,

s all the

irne

you have

o

set

aside or

the actual

practice

of

looking

at the Keys.

It

is

important,

n fact,

not to spend

more

than five minutes

at

this.

That

anytliing

so apparently

easy

should

ploduce remarkable

esults may

seem

hatd to believe.

But

the wise men who

inventedTarot

hit

upon

a

simple way

to

overcome

a difhculty

which

besets

vely

person

who tries

o control his mind.

For

thousandsof

years

t

has been

known that

extraordinary

powers are atent

in every human

beingand hat thesepowersmay be directedby anybodywho cankeephis mind frorn

wandering.

Thus we

have whole

libraries

of books

about concentration,

and the more

we read

the

more

does t seem

hat concentration

must be

a

very difficult

matter.

An

old

Oliental

writer says

we are close

o adeptship

when

we cankeep

a

single

mage

before

the mind's

eye or

just

a few

minutes.To

accomplish

his without extemal

aids s

very

difficult.

Thus

Tibetansand

Hindus have

picfures

called

mandalas which

are

used

as aids

o

concentration.

magesof

the

gods

serve

a similar

puipose.

Tarot

s

a device

which consists f

picturesdesigned

n a.ccordance

ith the

actualopelation

of rnan's nental activities. Look at a Talot Key attentively for five minutes. During this time

yow

state

of

consciousness

ill be similal

in fonn

and content

o that of a

gleat

Adept as

he

contemplates

some aspect

of his own

mental

activity. Furthermore,

hrough the

agencyof

this

I(ey

and rnage

and

your

contemplation

f it,

youl

consciousness

ill automatically

begin

to

tune n

to the consciousnessf

thoseof high

spilitual

estate

. . evetl o

the Adepts of

the

Inner

School.

You

may not become

awareof

this

immediately, hough some

do. However,

patienceand

perseverance

ill

inevitablybring

theil reward

and

probably

sooner

han

you

expect.

We

caution

you

not to devote

more han

ive minutes

at

a

time

to the

practiceof

looking

at

any one

Tarot

Key. You

are not

yet

an adept.Thus

your

brain s

not at

present

adjusted

o

canying the full load of an adept'sconsciousness bout anything whatever.

Holding

one of

theseTalot Keys

n

youl

mental

ield

for five minuteshas

a definite

and

beneficent

hysical

esult. Do not

try to increase

he benefit

by longer sessions

with the Key.

We

have

given

a reason

n the

preceding aragraph, nd

his is

only

one of several.

Among

others

s what

science

alls lie law of

diminished

eturns.Some

coal will feed a srnall

ire.

More

will

increase

he heat.Too

much will smother

t.

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I N 7 ' R O

D U C T I

O N

T O

T A

R O T '

Read

his

week's

esson

at least

wice

duling

the

coming

week,

and as often

as

you

Inay

find

it

necessaly

o make

sure

hat

you

undelstand

t thoroughly.

Read

t

whenever

ou

find

a

good

opportulity.

Don't

make

harcl

work of

it, or of

any'thing

lse

counected

with

your

Talot

study'

Above

all

don't

ty

to cotumit

anything

o

memory.

When

you receive his

lesson,

ook

at

Key

0 duling

the

five

minutes

so as

o

get

a

genelal

impr.ession

f

the

design.

Next

day

give

a little

more

attention

o

the details.

The

third

day

see

if

you can

ind

anything

not

mentioned

n

the blief

paragraphs

f

description

n

HIGHLIGHTS

and n

this

lesson.

f

you

do

see

anything

hat seems

o

be important,

or

that

rouses

out'

cur.iosity,

make

a

note of

it

and

ask

yourself, What

does

his

mean?"

Sooner

or

later

you will

get he

right

answer

and

t

will

cotne

rom

within-

Dur-i1g

he

first

weeks

he results

may

not

be

particularly

mpressive.

Sometimes

t occurs

hat

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I N T R O D T J C T I O N

T O

T A R O T

you

are really

what is

called

an

"advanced

soul",

there

s nothing

else

hat

interests

you.

All

wisdorn

s

the

matured

experience

f

those

who

obey

he

njunction,

"Know

Thyself."

All

ethics ests

on

the

same

oundation,

ol

uobody

who

is wanting

n self*nowledge

can

practice he GoldenRule.All science, o matter n

what field,

has

he same

basis

and

he

iame

objectives.

Fol

whatevel

science

he

human

ace

possessess

th.e ollective

esult of

the

research

and

invention

of

human

selves,

and

every

force

lffiown

to

physicists

and

chemists

s a

folce

at

work

inside man

as well as outside

hirr.

The

Wheel of

Tarot

is really

the

wheel of

irumal

nature.

By keeping

his always

n mind

you will avoid

making

Tarot

a

mere

set of

pictorial syrnbols.

KEY

O.THE

FOOL

In your HIGHLIGHTS OF TAROT you have reada brief

explalation

of

this

Key,

and in

the

Table of

Attribltions

of

the

sarneboolclet

you

u,ill find

that

the

Fool is

the Tarot

picture

of

superconsciousness

nd of

cultuml

power'

If

any of

the other

details

mentioned

n the

booldet

happen

o

stick

in

your

memoty,

well and

good;

but

make

no

endeavor

o

cornmit

o rnemory

any of

the

matelial

n HIGHLIGFITS.

You

may see

he reason

or some

of

the attributions.

Others

may

seem

al-fetched.

You

will,

howeveL,

ind

in

the foilowing

paragraphs

ll

you

need

o lanow

n order

to lay

a foundation

for

thoroughunderstanding f KeY0'

All

the

Tarot

I(eys

irave

wo

distinct

levels

of

interpretation.

There

s the outer-,

uperficial

significance

which

may

be

seen

at

a

glance.

Then

there

s the

deepet,

nnet

meaning

which

may

be

brouglrt

o the surface

of consciousness

ithout

efforl

or stlain

by

the simple

act

of

loolcing

attentively

at

the

Key'

Super-ficially,

he

Fool

is a

picture

of

a heedless,

ky-gazing

man,

ust

about

o fall

from a

gr.eat

eight

nto

a

deep

abyss.

t corlesponds

xactly

o

all

proverbial

wisdom

conceming

he

folly of havingone'shead n the clouds.

Even

if

yog

get

no

furlhel

than tiris

with

Key

0,

it has

a valuable

lesson.

One

does

run the

risk

of

grave dangers

when he

is

so

engrossed

with

actual

or

rnetaphorical

sky-gazing

hat

he

pays

no

attention

o his

present

ituation.

Tirus

he

first

lesson

of

Tarot

s

this:

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T O

T A R O T :

1

Don't

project

yourself

so

far

into

the future

hat

you lose sight

of

where

you

are'

Dreams

and

visions

and

cleals

ave

heir.proper

lace;

but

he

who

loses

hirnself

n

the

contemplation

of

airy

nothings

unfits

himself

for

dealing

with

the

plactical

affairs

of

life.

At the deepel evel of interpretation,he Fool is a picture of what we mustuse n all our

endeavors

o

attain

a

gleater

measure

f fieedom.

Valious

names

have been

given

to

this

power.

You may

call it any

of those

isted

n

HIGHLIGHTS.

You

may

term it

God.

You

may

call it

yonr

real

Self.

Names

are only

labels,sonte

better,

some

worse,

han

others.

Keep

on

gsing

he

one

you

are

accustomed

o

unless

some

of

those

given

n our

booklet

seem

o come

nearer

o beir-rg

dequate.

The

more

mpoftant

hing

to have n mind

as

you

look

at Key 0

is that

it is

leally

the most

perfectand

most

complete

aspectof

yourself.

t

is

the

part

of

you

which

is above

and

beyond

your

external

personality.Above

and

beyond

your

thinking,

conscious

mind.

Part of

your

vely

Self,

rernelrber-or

even

more truly,

the Whole of

you,

of

which mind,

body,

and

all else

entering

nto

your

seemingly

separate

elsonality

arebut

parts.

This

is a

picture

of

the absolutely

iee and

petfect

Being

which

is

the anirnating

principle

and

core

of

your

outel

personality. t bears

he

number

Zercbecause

is

by

no

ilIeans

a symbol

of

mere

nothingness.

In

occult

adthmetic,

0 stands

ol absolute

Unity,

for that

One

Reality

which

is before

all

beginnings.

This

is nothing

we know

directly.

We cannot

sense

t,

We caruiot

define

t. We

ca1lot

prove

that it

really

exists

because

t

is beyond

all

our

logic

and our

reasoning

ust

as t

is beyond

every other

conceivable

imitation.

Yet

the unauimous

epolt

of

the wise

is tliat

this

One Life-power is a realpresencewhich pervadeshe universe,andThoseWho Know bear

witness

hat,

beyond

knowledge

of the

ordinary

sort,

and beyond

he

imits and

definitions

of

logic,

there

s

possiblean

experience

f

this Eternal

Youth

whose

ife runs

hrough

creation

and

s the

fount of

vitaiity for

all lesser

ives.

Closer

examination

of the

pictue

will

show

you that

though

he Fool stands

lose

o the

edge

of

a

pr.ecipice,

here

s room

for

him

to talce

another

step

otward.

The esotelic

radition

vhich

has

come

down

to us frorn

the

original

nventors

of Tarot

says

his

detail of

the symbolisrn

signifies

an

eternal

ruth.

No

matter how

far

the

Life-power

may

advance,

t can always

take

another

step.

On

the

personal

evel

of interpretation,

s t applies

o

you,

this means

hat

you

never come

o

the very

limit

of

your possibilities.

Sometimes

ou

may

wander

nto

a blind

alley,

but

even

then

you

can always

etrace

oul

steps

a

little

and come

o a

place

whele

further

progress

s

possible.

The1e

are

profound

metaphysical

nd

philosophical easons

or

the seiection

of

the

title

of Key

0.

We

need

not entel

nto

them

here.

Yet

one

reason

s obvious.

Men of

sr.rper-ior

ision

are

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T O

T t t R O T :

usually

ooked

upon

by their

contemporaries

s being

rather oolish,

Every

greatprophet,

every

great

nventor',

very

great

discoverel

has

been

eered

at.

Here

t rnight be

well to

add

hat t does

not

follow

that

every

omfool

is really

a rnan superior

to

his fellows.

We

must not

fall into the

en'or

of tl,ose

plirnitive

tribes

who regard

madmen

as

being

divinely inspired.

A

good

nany

supposedly

ivilized

persons

eem

o

embrace

his

error,

even

oday.Consider

he hypnotic

effect

of a Hitler

or a Mussolini

upon

their

deluded

followers.

Glance

at

the advefiisements

n

the religious

page

of

any

metropolitan

newspaper

and

you

can see

ol

yourself

hat

psychosis

s often

rnistaken

or

prophecy.

During

the three

days

you

look

at the

picture

of

the Fool,

makeno

conscious

effort to

interplet

the symbols.

f

an dea

comes o

you,

make

a note of

it.

Provide

yourself with a loose-leaf

otebook.

Don't

make

any special

endeavor

o fill

it. An

idearnay

come o

you

any

ime

and

you

can

ot

it down on

a

piece

of

paper

or

the

back

of an

envelope.As you plogresswith this wolk you'll find youlself taking a little tirne, one or two

evenings

a week,

o look

over

your

notes

and add

o them.

nterest

grows

with attention

and

the

longer

you

work

with the Tarot Keys

he rnole

will they intrigue

you.

The rnain

practical

use of

I(ey

0

is

to

put

you

in touch with

your

irurer

sources f

power.

After

you

have

ooked

at the actual

picture

ol

tluee

consecutive

ays,

you

will find

that

you

can

slrmrloll

it before

youl

mind'seye

easily.

Just

hink about

t and

you

will

see

t.

Thr-rs

ou

can hoid

youl

mind

to this

parlicular

olm

whenever

ou

desire.

And

you

will find

tirat even

a momentary

glimpse

of this

gay

raveler

hrough

he higher

spaces

will

give you

a

1ift.

Try

it

whenevel

you

are beset

by a mood

of depression.

on't

try to suppress

he

mood. Just

look

at the

Fool. Look

at the actual

picture and

keep

t

handy.

Glance

at

it mentally

f

you

are

away

iom

home.

Soon

actualexperience

will convince

you

that somehow

here

s always

a

positive reaction.

We

might

take

pages

o

explain

he

psychological

easons or

this, and f

you

are one

of those

who

want to know

why Tarot

works

its wonders,

ou

will have

plenty

of

opporlunity

o

learn

as

you progress

n

the B.O.T.A.

curriculum.

Just

now,

it

is

more

mportant

o

icnow hat

it

does

work

and his sirnple

and easy

practicewiil soon

convince

you

that hele

is an almost

magicalpotency n this picture. t is a sureantidote or depression.


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T O T A R O T :

l

KEY 1. THE

MAGICIAN

With tliis Key, the principle of contrastwhich runs tlx'oughout

the Tarot

series onles

nto operation.

Every Key

is in

some

sense

he opposite

and

complementof

the one which

precedes

it. Also,

the twenty-two

Keys fall into

elevencontrasting

airs:

0 and

1,2 and3,4

and

5, andso on.

The

contlastsaLe, s a

rule,

quite

obvious.

Thus

a magician,or

wise

man,

s

clearly

n

contrast o a fool. The Flebrew

etter

,

Beth,

printed

on

Key 1,

suggests

he sphereof

human ife,

and

the family affails

which

go

on

indools,because

t means

"house".But the letter N, Aleph, on Key 0 means Bull" or

"Ox",

and has o do

with what

goes

on in a field

outside

he

s1:ecial

imitations of

human

environment.

Again, the number

1 is

the numbel of Beginling,

but 0

is the

sign

of the absolute

Unity

which is befole all beginnings.

n the

Bible,

the very

first

letter

of

Genesiss

5, and n the Zohar, one

of

the

principal

collectionsof

profound

Qabalistic

nteqpretations

f tl'reScriptures,

much

is

made

of

the distinction betweeir

Aleph

as he ilst

letter of

the alphabet,

nd Bcth, with

whicir,

says

he

Zohar, creationbegan.

Comparison

of the

two

pictures

sirowsmany

other

contlasts.

The Fool stands

on a barren

height;

he Magician

n a

garden.

The Fool

is evidently

preoccupieci ith his

vision of a

distant

height, ar beyond

him,

acloss he

abyss.The

Magician

s concerned

with what

goes

on

in his

immediate

vicinity

and he looks down

towald

what is below

him. The

Fool's

possessions re

not in use

and he

canies

hern

n a

wallet slung over

his shoulder.

Tire four

implernents

of

the Magician

are spread efore

him on

his table

and hus hey

are eady

at hand

to

useas occasion

rises.

Perhaps

he most mportant

detail

of

Key 1 is

the

position

of the Magician's

hands,With

his

right

hand he lifts

a wand

upward towald the

sky. FIis

eft hand makes

he universal

gesture

of

attention,pointing lvith extended orefinger toward the fertile eafih at his feet.

The Magician,

herefoLe,s a syrnbol

of what

psychologycalls

self-conscious

wareness, l'

objective

mind. This

is the ordinary

waking

consciousness

f

humanbeings.

t is the

plamring

mind,

the

mind which

comes

o

grips

with

our daily

ploblents,and ts basic unction

is

attention.


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I N T R O D U C T ] O N

T O

T / R O T :

Alert watchfulness

s the

key

idea

of

this

picture.Hele

is a

replesentation

f

what

wise men

see

with their

rnind's

eye

when hey

consider

he nrental

tinction

of

concentratiou.

o

your

inner

consciousness

his

Key says:

"Be aler1.Remember hat all the

power

you

can

direct

cotnes rom

a higher

level. Malce

t

your first

concern

o relate

yourself

o

that Source

of

power'.Your

place

n

the scheme

of

things

s

to act

as a transformer

of energy.

Force

lows

through

you

to whatever

you

give yout'

full

measule

of

attention,

Nothing

can withstand

the

mental

force of one

who has

mastered

he

aft

of

concentration.

et

concentration

s as easy

as

pointing

your

finger.

t is only

fools

and

charlatans

who

are responsible

or

the effoneous

notion

that thele

is anything

particularly

difficr"ilt

about

concentration.

Just

watch, and

keep

at

it. Then

you will be able

to

see

hu'ough

and

nto

the things

which

constitute

oul

envirorunent,

nstead

of

merely

ooking

at

them'"

As

HIGHLIGHTS

says, he

garden

epresents

he

subconscious

ield whence

colne

he hidden

power.s

man may

direct

n his

quest

ol

increased

i'eedorn.

hese

powersare

symbolizedby

the ilies and roses.The lilies stand or valiousaspects f truth and o this their white color

also

efers.

The

rosesare

symbols

of human

desires.

There

are oul

lilies

because

ll

possiblehurnan

knowledge

alls

into

four main

categories.

o

explain

his

here

would be

to

go

beyond

he range

of this

introductory

course,but

we mention

it

to show

hat every

detail

of

Tarot

symbolism

hasa

definite

meaning.

There

are

ive roses

because

very

object

of human

desile

has

eiation

o one or

more of

the

five

major

senses.

Modern

psychology

addsother

senses

o the fivefold

classification

which

was

current

when

Tarot

was

invented;

but

for

all

practical

purposes t is accurate

o

say hat

the fulfillment of anyhunr.a:resire ncludes he bringingabout

of

conditions

which may

be

experienced

y

our

senses.

The

Magician

cultivates

hese

lowers.

He

imploves

hem,

and by force

of his

control

of

their'

developmelt

takes

hern far beyond

he

conditions

spontaneously

rovided by

natule-

He

is

a

tlansformer

and

trapsmuter

of expelience.

Taking

things

as

he finds

them,

he

watches

until

he

perceives

he under.lying

rinciple at

work

in

what

he observes.

hen he

applies

hat

principle

in

novel

ways

so

as o

ploduce

a different

situation.

This

is the

whole

method

of

science,

nd

he four

irnplements

n tlie

Magician's

able refel

to

the

means

employed

n meeting

and

dealing

with

the actual

conditions

of

human

environment.

The

first mealls

s

symbolized

by the

wand.

Tiris

is

simply

a

pointer

and s really

an extension

of

the

pointing forefinger.

Tlie

first

lequisite

or

the solution

of

any

problem s to

give

it one's

full

attentiol.

Every

probierncontains

ts own

solution

and

hat solution

s

perceivedby

attentive

observation.

Such

s the beginning

of

all science.

Simple

watching.

USOBO


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T O 7 ' A R O T :

1

The

cup stands

or

the second

mental

ool.

This is

imagination.

Observation

ollects

experience.

nagination

shapes

t as

a cup shapes

what is

poured nto

it. Mrat

we

call

"laws

of

nature"

are simply

man's

collected

experiences

made

nto a

pattern

by

actsof

imagination.

The third means s action, ypified by the sword.We may know a gleatdeal rndwe may have

fine

perceptions

f relationships,

ut

until

we do something,

othing

s changed.Our

action

invariably

ears

down something

n order

o

replace

t with

something

else.No matter

how

constructive

we may be,

his is

tt-ue f all

effective

action'

Persons

who talk

abouthaving

nothingbut

constructive

houghts

aremaking

meaningless

noises.

You

can'tbuild

a houseunless

ou

cut down

trees,

or

quarry

stones,

or

take clay

and

mould

it

into bricks. You

can't

paint

a

picture

unless

ou

take

he color

out cf

the tubes.

The

statne

never appears

until

the sculptor cuts

away

the stonewhich

hides the figure

he

has

imagined.

Controlled

and

wisely dilected

destruction

s the

principal tool of civilization.

Finally,

there s

the finished

product,and

his is

represented

y a coin because

verything

made

by

man's

ngenuity

has

value.Nor should

we petmit oulselves

o indulge

n the silly

scom

for

money which

finds spurious

support

n

a bad

ranslationof

a

passage

n the Neu'

Testament.

Poverly

s no mark

of spirituality.

Moley

is

a wonderful

nvention,

and

when rightly used,

a

blessing.

n spite of

what the

King

James

Version

says,nowhere

does he

Bible condemn

money.

What

it does

condemn

s

lust

for money.

Lust

and ove

are

poles

aparl.

To love

anything

or

anyotle

s to have

respect

or

that

hing

or

person,and ove insures

proper

egard

or

right use.He

who lusts

or things

or

persons s

a stranger

o love,

seeking

only selfish

personal

gratificationand having

no

proper

understanding f the objectof his basedesire.

Thgs

he

coin is

one

of

the most

rnporlantsymbols

n

this

picture.

For no

small

parl

of

the

sorrows

of

our day

may be

traced

o two

great

errors,

ust for

money and

contempt

or

it.

Those

who have

a

proper

espect or

this device

whereby

all values

naybe measured,

s all

values

n

science

are measured

y

means

of rnathematics,

nderstand

hat money

s

one

of the

greatest

uman

devices

or the

plomotion

of

the

genelal

welfare.

The

time

will

come

when

this measure

f

value

will be

used

aright,because

hosewho

love

justice

and

rnanl

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