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Part 1: Introduction
and Qabalah
 What makes the Thoth deck different?

Universal Scale: In many cases, the symbols replace human ideas with cosmic
ideas. The deck is more interested in connecting us to the macrocosm.
Sex: It's sexy. It's also all about sex, duality, and creation on all levels of reality.
Explicit Use of Esoteric Systems: Crowley pissed off more than one secret
society in publishing occult secrets.
Perspectives from "Above the Abyss": Crowley writes from a very profound
spiritual place at times, which is paradoxical. This confusing but profound
perspective is illustrated in . . .
Lady Frieda Harris's Projective Synthetic Geometry: What a trip!
Abstraction and Subtly: The deck is more interested in subtle energies and how
they make reality than material results.
New Aeon Approved: The deck is influence by Crowley's own revelations with
his Book of the Law, which makes things pretty spicy.
 Before we start analyzing consciousness,
remember these mystical mic-drops . . .

Ayam atma brahma (The Self is Brahman)

Tatvamasi (Thou Art That)
--Mandukya Upanishad 1.2
-Chandogya Upanishad

"It is"
Aham brahmasmi (I am Brahman)
--Parmenides
--Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
It's all happening
right here "I, oh Arguna! am that which is and that which is not"
Tathata (thatness/suchness)
--Bhagavad Gita
right now!
Ehieh Asher Ehieh (I am that I am)
Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal
--Exodus
exists. Herein lies the peace of God.
-A Course in Miracles
Ana al-Haqq (I am the Truth)
-Mansur al-Hallaj
"Be present"
-every damn self-help book ever written . . .
How does something
come out of nothing?
 . . . COME OUT OF NOTHING?
USE OF TAROT TANTRA NOTES AND TAITIRYA MANDUKYA TAROT + QABALISTIC
PLOTINUS
MANTRAS UPANISHAD UPANISHAD TREE OF LIFE
MYSTICAL Cit: "Consciousness" (as above)
The Absolute BRAHMAN
Anandamaya
Existence, Consciousness, Bliss
Negative theology lives here.
AIN SOPH the infinite
No Thing Atman: Self THE ONE

Atziluth Transcendence
Kosha To Hen
"I=am" TURIYA

Emanation
(Negative Theology)
Shunya: "Void" 0
MAYA w
Cro n
Seeds of Duality: CAUSAL 1
Birth of Creation and
Vijñanamaya BODY
Causation THE INTELLECT erstan isdom

BEING
W
Kosha

din
Und
God the Creator PRAJNA + IŚVARA Nous 3 2

g
BRIAH
The Possibility of Things DEEP SLEEP
Prana: "Life Force" "I am"

SUBTLE/CAUSAL SUBTLE

Emanation through
contemplation of The One
everit Mercy
BODY

y
S
5 4
au
Be ty

YETZIRAH
Duality of the Inner 6
Manomaya TAIJASA + THE SOUL
World
Citta: "Mind" Kosha HIRANYAGARBAH Psyché ctor
Glory Vi y
8 7
Jnana Shakti: Know Cria Shakti: Act
Inner World Icha Shakti: Will
da
un ti
9

on
Fo
"I am not the mind" DREAMING

MECHANICAL Deha: "Body"

Pranamaya GROSS

ASSIYAH
Kosha BODY ingdo

m
K
NATURE 10
Duality of the External World VIŚVA + VIRAT
All of the physical universe, perceived
Outer World by Arjuna in Gita

Anamaya WAKING the finite

Vastu: "Stuff" "I am not the body" Kosha
(so below)

HOW DOES SOMETHING . . .

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 PILLAR OF
NEUTRALITY

PILLAR OF PILLAR OF
SEVERITY MERCY

w
Cro n
1
erstan isdom
W
3
2 2

ding
Und
Q nig ht
ueen

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K
s
Let's Review the Tree everit
5
Mercy
4
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S
au
Be ty
Pr
6
ince

s
Glory tor
Vic y
8 7
da
un ti
9
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 THE NAPLES ARRANGEMENT
THE POINT

61=0. (The gematria value of Ain in Hebrew is 61, Ain is also the letter THE SURFACE THE LINE
IDEAL
of the Devil card. 6 and 1 mark the path of the High Priestess)
THE ABYSS
61 +146=0 as Undefined (Space). (The gematria value of Ain +
Soph, "without limit") ACTUAL
MOTION THE SOLID
61 +146+207=0 as basis of Possible Vibration. (The gematria value
SELF-
of Ain Soph Aur, "light without limit") CONSCIOUSNESS
I. The Point: Positive yet indefinable, Pure
CHIT ANANDA
observation/consciousness
2. ,, ,, Distinguishable from I other. The observer SAT
3. ,, ,, Defined by relation to 2 others. The Abyss-between Ideal
and Actual. The observed
4. The Point: Defined by 3 co-ordinates: Matter. ITS COMPLIMENT
IN MANIFESTATION
5. Motion (time)---He', the Womb; for only through Motion and in
Time can events occur. (The gematria value of He is 5) ALEISTER CROWLEY'S TREE OF LIFE
6. The Point: now self-conscious, because able to define itself in (thelemapedia.org)
terms of above. Consciousness identifies as an individual "self" by
having a past and future. This is the illusion of a separate "thing" This is the pouring into existence of everything,
maintained through time. every thought, every action. Even tarot readings run
through this, as you get information from "nothing".
7. The Point's Idea of Bliss (Ananda).
This is what makes tarot a magical act. One might
8. ,, ,, ,, ,,Thought (Chit). say this is what makes everything a magical act.
9. ,, ,, ,, ,, Being (Sat). There is a tree of life in every unit of reality, in ever
10. ,, ,, ,, ,, Itself fulfilled in its complement, as determined by 7, 8 direction you face. It's all creation.
and 9.
 THE POINT

THE SURFACE THE LINE

IDEAL

THE ABYSS

ACTUAL
MOTION THE SOLID

SELF-
CONSCIOUSNESS

CHIT ANANDA

SAT

ITS COMPLIMENT
IN MANIFESTATION

THE NAPLES
ALEISTER CROWLEY'S TREE OF LIFE TAROT
ARRANGEMENT
ATTRIBUTIONS
(thelemapedia.org)
 0=2 (0=+1 - 1)

[The Fool] is therefore both the father and the mother, in the most
abstract form of these ideas. This is not a confusion, but a deliberate 0
identification of the male and the female, which is justified by biology. Ain Soph (Kabbalah)
The fertilized ovum is sexually neutral. It is only some unknown No "thing"
determinant in the course of development which decides the issue. Sunyata (Zen)

It is necessary to acclimatize oneself to this at first sight strange, idea. -1 +1

As soon as one has made up one's mind to consider the feminine aspect
of things, the masculine element should immediately appear in the Manifestating
same flash of thought to counterbalance it. This identification is 10,000 things
complete in itself philosophically speaking; it is only later that one must
(Tao Te Ching)
consider the question of the result of formulating Zero as "plus I plus
minus I". The result of so doing is to formulate the idea of
Tetragrammaton.

--Aleister Crowley

Any idea can only exist because of what it's not. Up exists
because of down, hot because of cold, etc. Every "thing" can be
resolved by its opposite. The universe is a dance of opposites. If
everything in the universe was resolved by its opposite, there
would be no "thing", which is ultimate divinity, according to the
Thoth deck.

NOW RUB YOUR HANDS TOGETHER!

THE MOVING FOLD IN THE PLANE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
 THE TETRAGRAMMATON
0

-1 +1 Observer and Observed

-1 +1 The play of both to create identity

Identity realized in matter

0 but . . . not? PART OF COURT 0

SEPHIROTH: WORLD:
THE SOUL: CARDS:

0D 1 Atziluth Chiah Knights

-1 +1
Keter/Chockmah

1D 3 Binah Briah Neschamah Queens

Tiferet
-1 +1
2D 6
(and Hexad)
Yetzirah Ruach Princes

3D 10 Malchuth Assiah Nephesh Princesses

0 but . . . not?
Tectactrys of Pythagoras
 3 in 1 Pattern

3 Veils of
Nothing

0
(3)
IN
1 1 SEPHIROTH: WORLD:
PART OF COURT

3
THE SOUL: CARDS:
3 2 IN Knights

3
1 Chockmah Atziluth Chiah
3
2 1 3 Binah Briah Neschamah Queens

IN
3
IN
6 Tiferet Yetzirah Ruach Princes
2 1 (and Hexad)

1
1 1 10 Malchuth Assiah Nephesh Princesses
 The Infinite One Creative Act

TAITIRYA MANDUKYA TAROT + QABALISTIC

PLOTINUS
UPANISHAD UPANISHAD TREE OF LIFE

(as above)
0
Invoke me under my stars! Love is the law, love
under will. Nor let the fools mistake love; for there

The Absolute BRAHMAN are love and love. There is the dove, and there is

the infinite
Negative theology lives here. the serpent. Choose ye well!
Existence, Consciousness, Bliss --Liber AL I:57
Anandamaya AIN SOPH
No Thing Atman: Self THE ONE
"I=am"
Kosha
TURIYA To Hen Atziluth Transcendence
Emanation

(Negative Theology)
0
MAYA w
Cro n
Seeds of Duality: CAUSAL 1
Birth of Creation and
Vijñanamaya BODY

-1 +1
Causation THE INTELLECT erstan isdom
BEING

W
Kosha
din
Und

God the Creator PRAJNA + IŚVARA Nous 3 2

g
BRIAH

The Possibility of Things DEEP SLEEP

"I am"

SUBTLE
Emanation through
contemplation of The One

everit Mercy
BODY
y
S

5 4

-1 +1
au
Be ty
YETZIRAH

Duality of the Inner 6

Manomaya TAIJASA + THE SOUL
World
Kosha HIRANYAGARBAH Psyché
Glory ctor
Vi y
8 7
Jnana Shakti: Know Cria Shakti: Act
Inner World Icha Shakti: Will
da
un ti
9
on
Fo

"I am not the mind" DREAMING

Pranamaya GROSS
ASSIYAH

Kosha BODY ingdo

m
K

NATURE 10

0 but . . . not?
VIŚVA + VIRAT
Duality of the External World All of the physical universe, perceived
Outer World by Arjuna in Gita

Anamaya WAKING the finite

"I am not the body" Kosha
(so below)
 Formula of Tetragrammaton
with Thelemic Imagery

0
NUIT

Babalon: all HADITSexual

Chaos/the beast

-1 +1
possible form Union
=0
The Observerd The Observer
Awakens the all-
The Queen father with cup The Knight

Crossing the Abyss

The Holy Grail/Cup of
Blood Sacrifice to
Babalon: all life Babalon

Ra Hoor Khuit
-1 +1
The play of observer and
observed. Consciousness
The Prince rubbing against itself.
Redintegration

"Keter realized in Malkuth

through another way . . . "
Identity realized in matter
The Princess Climax of manifestation
Part 2: Astrology
Part 3: The Majors
0 0
NUIT

Babalon: all HADITSexual

Chaos/the beast

-1 +1
possible form Union
=0
The Observerd The Observer
Awakens the all-
The Queen father with cup The Knight

Crossing the Abyss

The Holy Grail/Cup of
Blood Sacrifice to
Babalon: all life Babalon

Ra Hoor Khuit
-1 +1
The play of observer and
observed. Consciousness
The Prince rubbing against itself.
Redintegration

"Keter realized in Malkuth

through another way . . . "
Identity realized in matter
The Princess Climax of manifestation
 The Fool Is "no thing", and the infinite potential of all
0 THE FOOL
A glyph of the creative light "The Spirit of Ether"
Cup: the womb, Binah, receives energy "The Foolish Man"
from pinecone, also revers to cup and Aleph=Ox
lance in gnostic mass
Path 11 Keter-Chockma
Or a wand with a pyramid at the end
Dove: descent of spirit into matter, the Uranus or Air Elemental (as vacuum)
representing the "all-father" and sperm. Horns: creative force, relates to "Ox", and
Christian "Holy Spirit" impregnating Mary, Fiery or Scintillating Intelligence
The contradiction of symbols is Dionysus
and Crowley's "sublimated phallus"
intentional to drive home the fool as Diamond of Keter Pale Yellow
Dove is also a bird of venus, hinting at the Flaming Pinecone: The Yod, Chockmah, raw active
androgyne
fool's androgyny creative force
20 Rays: 20=Yod spelled out in full The lidless eye, "the all" Also represents vegetable growth (this idea is also
Also the Taoist "Shen"=consciousness represented in RWS) which could allude to the
feminine forming capacity
VULTURE: of Ma-at, Egyptian Mother Goddess
Vulture was believed to be parthenogenic, coming
into birth without parents, like the fool! Grapes: coming out of the heart symbolize The stem comes from
and thus the creator of all things Bacchus/Dionysus, wine, and the the heart, which comes
Also, vultures have a SPIRAL NECK drunkenness of love from the threefold veil of
(Zoroastrianism: "the universe is spiral") Also, fertility, sweetness, and ecstasy the negative
Le MAT=Ma-at Butterfly: symbol of Air, the soul
Bag of tokens: the macrocosm, 7 planets
Caduceus Wand: foreshadows the surrounded by 12 signs, same as the
following Atu I, the magus petals arranged in rosy cross
Also represents DNA
Yellow: represents air
White Diamonds: kether Sun at root chakra: human consciousness
at its basic level, also tiferet and the
"For below the abyss, contradiction is
creative potential in genitals
division; but above the abyss,
Refers also to the life giving son, spring,
Green: fertility and Dionysis contradiction is unity."
Dionysus, and the Aeon of Horus using
solar power'd energy.
The Fool is androgynous

Umbilical cord: loops 3 times

Flowers: The benediction of 3 in 1 (see
representing the 3 veils of nothingness,
class 1), the Final Heh containing the first
also Nuit, which gestates Harpocrates
4 letters of Tetragrammaton
(Babe in the Egg of Blue)
Also, the 3 supernals
Solar twins of Horus: will grow up to be
Ra-Hoor-Khuit and Harpocrates (also Crocodile: malkuth, and saturn the
seen in Atu V and XX) devourer (Saturn ate his children)
Also, the second two letters of Sebek=destruction god of Egypt who
tetragrammaton, the son and daughter of waits on nile to devour baby Harpocrates
the supernal father and mother
 I THE MAGUS
The Magus is the will, the logos, embodied “Emcee”
The Magus of Power
through the archetypal magician
The Juggler
Beth=House, household, “In”
Double Letter=Life and Death
Path 12 Keter-Binah
Wand of Double Power: symbol of Horus, lord of Mercury
the new aeon. Caduceus: Traditional wand of
Transparent Intelligence Mercury, symbol of creative force and energy
Connected with sun and tiferet
unites opposites under one directed will Function: Attention Creates a vertical lemniscate,
Dove: The holy spirit and
Yellow infinity symbol, signifies omnipresence
Crowley's "sublimated phallus"
headdress represents Binah
8 tools: used to accomplish his will
the disk, the censer, the Wand of double power, Stylus and Scroll: implements of Thoth, god of
the stylus, the scroll, the winged egg, the cup, and writing, wisdom, and magick who created
the dagger hieroglyphs
8=number of mercury
Disk, wand, dagger, and cup=four elements follding of reality: the prismatic dual quality of binah
To focus on one thing is to disregard another

Winged Egg: the orphic egg in a previous form

before development, ready to be worked on
a reference to the fool
a symbol of the 5th element (Akasha)

Yellow and Grey=mercury's color

Thoth-Hermes in atziluth and yetzira Ape of Thoth: the cynocephalus
Winged Sandals of Hermes: the god of mercury, Crowley describes him as antagonistic
the messenger of the Greek gods His role is to distort the word of thoth (Book of
Strap is a serpent, suggesting ankh of the The simulation of the matrix which is in a Thoth)
Egyptians (a symbol of eternal life, describes a simulation itself. This is what eastern In Egyptian Book of the Dead, he is depicted as
meditation as well, and is seen again in Atu 12) mystics mean by saying "it's turtles all the an intelligent companion of thoth who assists in
way down", infinite regress (matrices weighing the heart . He raises his FIST in anger
The serpent describes the will of the universe, life, within matrices). If there is a subject and alluding to KAPH and the FORTUNE CARD (Atu 10
and the goal of overcoming life (see Atu 22 where and an object, you are not at the highest which reduces to 1) where he is depicted as
there serpent is under the foot) truth. The subject-object relationship mercury.
always points to a dream of some sort. He is thus the curse of language (see also Atu 16
This is maya, relativity and the +1 -1 of And the chase of samsara in Atu X
Crowley's equation. This is the "life and He "stimulates and deceives",
death" attribution of Bet, and also the Ain
Soph.
 II THE PRIESTESS
She is the highest initiation, a link to the greatest mysteries “Seeing=borrowed light”
esotericism, purity, and aspiration Priestess of the Silver Star
She is light, the mystery behind it, and what appears before it La Papesse, Popess, Pope Joan
Gimel=”Camel, Prize/Reward, Lift Up”
Double Letter=Peace and War/Strife Lunar Disk: of Isis, waxing and waning
Cup Shape: suggests the sacred Path 13 Keter-Tiferet moon, cycles, change and flow
feminine, water, and binah. juxtaposing the stable throne suggests
Moon
"change=stability".
Uniting Intelligence
The matrix: began in the magus and is
elucidated in the Priestess Function: Memory
Lemniscate: omnipresence, refers to The
She is the Ain Soph Aur, the fabric of
Magus
reality which is light and prakriti which
reveals/renders all that is below.
The veil (the matrix) is traditionally behind 7 Crescents: refers to venus and The
the high priestess. In Thoth, the veil is Empress, which crosses the path of The
suspended before her, suggesting what Priestess.
must be penetrated beyond the actual
world into the ideal world (the abyss). Green: Venus

Pillars of Mercy and Severity/Jachin and

Boaz of Solomon's Temple, found in
Bow of Artemis: virgin Greek goddess of
initiatory temples of freemasonry and
the moon and the hunt attributed to path
Golden Dawn, a threshold the candidate
13. She "hunts by enchantment".
must pass .
Lady Frieda Harris identified it as a
"sistrum", the musical instrument and
Throne of Isis: stable, in contrast to
symbol of Hathor (later Isis) . Sea of Binah: Also, the collective fluctuations of the moon above. This
Apollo, the brother of Artemis, and sun unsconsious refers to Crowley's doctrine that
god (tiferet) used a Lyre. Atu II connects
"change=stability".
the sun to the crown.
Silver=moon in atziluth

Manifestations below the abyss

10 Petals=Malkuth
Spiral petals can also reference
10 Petals=Malkuth
chockmah
Can also represent binah

Platonic Solids: 3D geometric figures with

Green pinecone of Bacchus references the fool
specific rules that supposedly build up
and can foreshadow Atu III The Empress.
Camel: the path of Gimel, which crosses the the universe.
desert (the abyss). These begin below the abyss.
Part 4: The Court Cards
 Note: The tip of the yod is said to be in
keter, though attributed to chokmah,
marking the path of the fool.

POWER OF
0 THE FOOL ELEMENT LETTER SYMBOL ALCHEMY ASTROLOGY
THE SPHINX
Chiah
20° Fixed -
+1 KNIGHTS TO WILL
20° Mutable Spirit
"The most sublime, original, active part of the energy of the element . . . On horseback, they are wift and violent, but transient" Will

-1 QUEENS TO DARE 20° Mutable -

20° Cardinal
Neschamah
Intuition
"They receive, ferment, and transmit the original energy of the knights, they endure. Their thrones emphasize definitive functions."

Ruach
20° Cardinal -
+1-1 PRINCES TO KNOW 20° Cardinal Intellect
"The son, an intellectual image and published record of the secret union of the above two, and the dying god". Ego

Quadrants of the Nephesch

PRINCESSES TO KEEP SILENT heavens
surrounding Animal Soul
north pole
"Elemental people with lack of responsibility.". Body

"No sooner has the Princess made her appearance than the Prince wins her in marriage, and she is set upon the throne of her Mother.
She thus awakens the Eld of the original old King; who thereupon becomes a young Knight, and so renews the cycle."

Above quotes paraphrased from The Book of Thoth by Aleister Crowley.

 COME OUT OF NOTHING?

0
TAITIRYA MANDUKYA TAROT + QABALISTIC Court
CROWLEY Tetragrammaton
PLOTINUS Cards
UPANISHAD UPANISHAD TREE OF LIFE

(as above) Invoke me under my stars! Love

is the law, love under will. Nor
The Absolute BRAHMAN let the fools mistake love; for

Anandamaya
Existence, Consciousness, Bliss
Negative theology lives here.
AIN SOPH the infinite there are love and love. There
No Thing Atman: Self THE ONE
is the dove, and there is the
+1

Atziluth Transcendence
Kosha To Hen serpent. Choose ye well!
"I=am" TURIYA

Emanation
--Liber AL I:57
(Negative Theology)
0
MAYA w
Cro n
Seeds of Duality: CAUSAL 1

-1
Birth of Creation and
Vijñanamaya BODY
Causation THE INTELLECT erstan isdom
BEING

W
Kosha

din
Und
God the Creator PRAJNA + IŚVARA Nous 3 2

g
BRIAH
The Possibility of Things DEEP SLEEP
"I am"

SUBTLE
Emanation through
contemplation of The One

everit Mercy
BODY

y
S
5 4
au
Be ty

+1-1
YETZIRAH

Duality of the Inner 6

Manomaya TAIJASA + THE SOUL
World
Kosha HIRANYAGARBAH Psyché
Glory ctor
Vi y
8 7
Jnana Shakti: Know Cria Shakti: Act
Inner World Icha Shakti: Will
da
un ti
9
on
Fo

"I am not the mind" DREAMING

Pranamaya GROSS
ASSIYAH

Kosha BODY ingdo

m
K

NATURE 10
VIŚVA + VIRAT
Duality of the External World All of the physical universe, perceived
Outer World by Arjuna in Gita

Anamaya WAKING the finite

"I am not the body" Kosha
(so below)

HOW DOES SOMETHING . . .

Princesses/ Princes/ Queens Knights
Pages Kings Water Fire w
Earth Air Cro n
1
erstan isdom
3
2
W
2 I AM

ding
Und
Q
ueen nig ht Tathātā

s
K
s
(Zen)
everit Mercy
5 4

y
S
au
Be ty Tatvamasi
Pr
6 (Tantra)
ince

s
Glory tor
Vic y
8 7
da
un ti Eheia Asher
9

on
Fo
Eheia
(Kabbalah)
ingdo

THAT
m
10
K

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Pr
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 Atziluth Briah Yetzirah Assiah
Archetypal World Creative World Formative World World of Action

Chiah
Spirit
Will

Neschamah
Intuition

Ruach
Intellect
Ego

Nephesch
Animal Soul
Body
 Knight of Wands

Fire of Fire: Fire’s activity and energy, lightning! Yod of Yod is the
purest expression of the will force.
Shadow decan: shows his
waste of energy, what he
fears and what tempts him Crest: is a winged horse head
Scorpio: his fearless and into action This represents the yod of yod
changing nature
Black horse: represents the phallus and the yod of yod

Flaming torch: comparible to the ace of wands

Mercury ruling Sagittarius

All energy is blowing forward. Like the fool, he initiates his set of cards.
represents logos in flight
This knight goes 100% forward, once, in one direction. He will either make it or
fail. His force is swift and violent, but soon passes away, like the nature of
Sagittarius gives him
chokmah, fire, and the yod.
swiftness and strength.

Dove: the holy spirit, The Word

Lunar rulership shows the
4 swirling flames could represent the four letters of Tetragrammaton
balance and adaptability
contained in the first letter, or the ace of wands.
needed for speed, trust,
and impulse

Div: active, generous, fierce, impetuosity,

impulsiveness, proud,
sudden, assertive, initiating, narrow-minded,
pioneering, leader, doesn’t modify according
to circumstances
Ill: evil-minded, cruel, bigoted, brutal
Part 5: The Small Cards
FIRE
WATER ELEMENTS AND THE TREE OF LIFE
AIR
EARTH

PRIMAL ELEMENTS SPECIFIC ELEMENTS TRANSITIONAL ELEMENTS

w
w w Cro n
Cro n Cro n
1 1 1
erstan isdom
erstan isdom erstan isdom W
3
2 2

ding
Und
W W
3
2 ding
2 3
2 2

ding
Und

Und
Q nig ht
Q Q ueen

s
K
s
ueen nig ht ueen nig ht

s
K

K
s

s
everit Mercy
everit Mercy everit Mercy
5 4

y
S
5 4 5 4
y

y
S

S
au
au au Be ty
Be ty Be ty
6 6 Pr
6
Pr Pr ince

s
Glory tor
ince ince Vic y
s

s
Glory tor Glory tor
Vic y Vic y
8 7 8 7 8 7
da
da da un ti
un ti un ti
9

on
Fo
9 9
on

on
Fo

Fo
ingdo
ingdo ingdo

m
10

K
m

m
10 10
K

es
Pr
in c ss
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es

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Pr

Pr
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The elments are also assigned These are how the elements These are how the elements
This is the 4-tree model of the show up as the sacred name
to 4 of the sephirot show up in their associated
unvierse. Each tree represents one on the bottom triad, the
specifically. These four are paths through the 3 mother
of the 4 qabalisitic worlds and its "astral triad". This also hints
attributed to the sacred letters, aleph (the fool), mem
corresponding element. This is at how the pillars exchange
name, YHVH. These 4 specific (the hanged man), and shin
how the 40 "small" cards are their elements (see next
elements exist in each of the (judgement/the aeon).
organized. page).
4 qabalistic worlds.
 SEPHIROTIC ELEMENTAL ASSOCIATIONS
This shows the elemental qualities of the elements

NEUTRAL
The middle pillar is gernally thought of as neutral.
Keter, tiferet, and yesod are considered "airy"
Tiferet is slightly firey because of the sun, and yesod
is slightly watery because of the moon.

MASCULINE POSITIVE, THE SUPERNAL FIRE

FEMININE NEGATIVE, THE SUPERNAL
WATER
MASCULINE NEGATIVE: Gevurah receives the FEMININE POSITIVE: Chesed receives the
fiery influence from cokmah coming through the watery influence from binah through the abyss
abyss

FEMININE MASCULINE: Hod receives the watery influence MASCULINE FEMININE: Netzach receives the fiery influence
from chesed coming thorugh the aiiry solar influence of from gevurah coming through airy solar tiferet
tiferet

Malchuth is considered earth

and also the accumulation of the
other three elements.
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This is why aleph, the fool, is

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connected to the element of air, and
why the word "ruach" also means
"spirit".

Crowley says that air “bloweth

wherever it willeth”. The mind will go ingdo

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nature, in all its horror and glory. e
The suit of swords is the descent of
mind into madness.

Notice the pinwheels in the suit, CORRESPONDENCES:

spinning from the wind of Element: Air
consciousness. The winds of World: Yetzirah, the Formative World
consciousness, our thoughts, seem Part of the Soul: Ruach, the intellect
spontaneous, but are actually the Sephira: Tiferet (on the large-scale tree)
Tetragrammaton: Vav
result of a divine duality, fire and
Court Card: The Princes
water. Our minds are the results of Miscellaneous Symbols:
the supernals. Sword of the Magus, the microcosm, The Son

In the Sepher Yetzirah, there is the The Ruach also means "spirit". In this sense, it
"breath", and there is the "breath of is connected to the fool, and in some ways,
keter. Air is attributed to the middle pillar
breath". Breath is source. "Breath of
(minus malkuth).
breath" is that source "fractalized"
into us. Breath of breath is also the
manipulation of air into language.
 SCIENCE/EARNED SUCCESS
Tiferet in Yetzirah
“6, Tiferet, shows the full establishment and balance of the idea of the suit. Angel/Angelic Choir: Michael of the Melekim (Kings)
The hilts of the swords make a hexagram. Shem Angels: Rehael and Yeyezel
This is especially true in the suit of swords which is connected to tiferet as a
whole. "Science", in this case, is the highest practical application of the mind.
The Rosy Cross is considered the central secret of scientific truth
Unlike the other and aim as a symbol of the unification of macro with micro, the
cards of the suit, completion of the great work.
which show the
manifestation of
mind/ego as
societal struggle, Grey: Mercury in yetzirah
this card shows the Yellow: tiferet in briah
Yellow: Mercury in atziluth
exaltation of the
Rose pink (of center rose): tiferet in atziluth
mind. White tinged purple: Aquarius in assiah

This card shows the Circle and square may be a reference to the
Greek idea of "squaring the circle". It has
ruach (intellect) of
also been interpreted as a diagram of
yetzirah, showing
fencing.
its full integration.

Aquarius is the navigator of the waters and the

firmament. Mercury is travel, supporting that navigation.
Mercury is also information while Aquarius is progress.
The general idea here is technology and advancedment.

Divination: intelligence has reached its goal, mental labor or

work, patience, labour, work, journey by water or air, success
This astrological pairing shows after anxiety and trouble, self-esteem, beauty, conceit, modesty,
the intelligence, Mercury, of dominance, labour
Ill: minor discoveries, insight but without application or resources,
humanity, Aquarius.
a solution that doesn't stick, progress that is slow to adapt
Part 6: The Opening
of the Key
THE OPENING OF THE KEY

Can be used to connect with your Holy Guardian Angel

Can be used for mundane matters
Can be used for revelatory information
Is apparently "fail-safe"
Can take . . . a while
Uses all the cards (though not all are read), and creates
complex constellations of relationships between influences
Shows that everything is just an interesting point of view
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