The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of DivinationDe Laurence, L. W. (Lauron William)
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The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
De Laurence, L. W. (Lauron William)
Fortune-telling by cards; Tarot
The naked child mounted on a white horse and displaying a red
standard has been mentioned already as the better symbolism
connected with this card. It is the destiny of the Supernatural
East and the great and holy light which goes before the endless
procession of humanity, coming out from the walled garden of the
sensitive life and passing on the journey home. The card signifies,
therefore, the transit from the manifest light of this world,
represented by the glorious sun of earth, to the light of the world
to come, which goes before aspiration and is typified by the heart
of a child.
But the last allusion is again the key to a different form or aspect
of the symbolism. The sun is that of consciousness in the spirit—the
direct as the antithesis of the reflected light. The characteristic
type of humanity has become a little child therein—a child in the
sense of simplicity and innocence in the sense of wisdom. In
that simplicity, he bears the seal of Nature and of Art; in that
innocence, he signifies the restored world. When the self-knowing
spirit has dawned in the consciousness above the natural
mind, that mind in its renewal leads forth the animal nature in
a state of perfect conformity.
TWENTY. THE LAST JUDGEMENT
I have said that this symbol is essentially invariable in all Tarot
sets, or at least the variations do not alter its character. The
great angel is here encompassed by clouds, but he blows his bannered
trumpet, and the cross as usual is displayed on the banner.
The dead are rising from their tombs—a woman on the right, a
man on the left hand, and between them their child, whose back
is turned. But in this card there are more than three who are
restored, and it has been thought worth while to make this variation
as illustrating the insufficiency of current explanations. It
should be noted that all the figures are as one in the wonder,
adoration and ecstasy expressed by their attitudes. It is the card
which registers the accomplishment of the great work of transformation
in answer to the summons of the Supernal—which
summons is heard and answered from within.
Herein is the intimation of a significance which cannot well be
carried further in the present place. What is that within us
which does sound a trumpet and all that is lower in our nature
rises in response—almost in a moment, almost in the twinkling of
an eye? Let the card continue to depict, for those who can see
no further, the Last Judgment and the resurrection in the natural
body; but let those who have inward eyes look and discover
therewith. They will understand that it has been called truly in
the past a card of eternal life, and for this reason it may be
compared with that which passes under the name of Temperance.
ZERO. THE FOOL
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