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Arrows of Light:
The Magus
Kabballistically expresses INTELLIGENCE
Astrologically expresses THOUGHT
The Royal Road:
ARCANUM 1
The Prodigal
ARCANUM 1 pictures a man dressed in a white robe. A golden
band encircles his head. In his right hand he holds a golden wand, directed
toward a four-pointed star. From the star stream three rays toward heaven.
With his left hand the man points toward earth. From the leathern girdle
around his waist hangs a triangular apron with six folds tapering downward.
A quadrangle weights it down. Before him lies a cube, upon which are a
cup, a gold coin and a sword. An Ibis amidst rays of light, plus a border
of black and white squares, adorns the front side of the cube.
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Arrows of Light:
The Veiled Isis
Kabballistically expresses SCIENCE
Astrologically expresses ANALYSIS
The Royal Road:
ARCANUM 2
The Virgin
ARCANUM 2 pictures a woman seated on a cube between two
pillars. She wears a triple crown, surmounted by a receptive moon, over
which shine seven stars. She also wears a veil suspended from her crown.
The glyph of the planet Mercury adorns her solar plexus. On her lap she
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Arrows of Light:
Isis Unveiled
Kabballistically expresses ACTION
Astrologically expresses UNION
The Royal Road:
ARCANUM 3 The Queen
ARCANUM 3 pictures a pregnant woman seated on a cube,
the one visible side of which is ornamented with five eyes and a serpent
across the bottom. In her right hand she holds a golden wand, and in her
left a hawk, or eagle. The solar disk silhouettes her body as she rests
her feet upon a recumbent moon. From the disk radiate thirty shafts, each
shaft ending in a silver marriage bell. Immediately above her head, within
the solar disk, shine twelve stars; at the top of the card blaze three
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Arrows of Light:
The Sovereign
Kabballistically expresses REALIZATION
Astrologically expresses PHYSICAL DESIRE
The Royal Road:
ARCANUM 4
The Prince
ARCANUM 4 pictures a man sitting cross-legged on a cube,
with a cat crouching on the front side. He wears an iron casque on his
head, above which shine fourteen stars. In his right hand he holds a wand,
pointing it toward heaven; with his left hand he points toward earth. A
hawk, or eagle, covers his solar plexus. From the leathern girdle around
his waist hangs a triangular apron, with two ruffles on each side. A
rectangle inscribed with the word MU weights down this apron.
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Arrows of Light:
The Hierophant
Kabballistically expresses RELIGION and LAW
Astrologically expresses EXPANSION, BENEVOLENCE, JOVIALITY
The Royal Road:
ARCANUM 5
The High Priest
ARCANUM 5 pictures a man seated on a cube between two
pillars. On his head he wears a miter, with the emblem of the Pentagram
on its front. Above the miter rises a winged globe. With his right hand
on a level with his chest he makes the sign of the Pentagram. With his
left hand he holds a triple tau rod. A triangular apron, weighted down
with a rectangle, hangs from a leathern girdle around his waist. Two human
figures kneel at his feet, with outstretched arms. |
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Arrows of Light:
The Two Paths
Kabballistically expresses TEMPTATION
Astrologically expresses LOVE and AFFECTION
The Royal Road:
ARCANUM 6
The Two Paths
ARCANUM 4 pictures a man standing at the crossroads,
with arms folded across his chest. He wears a triangular apron, with one
raffle on each side, weighted down with a rectangle. A completely dressed
woman with one hand on his right shoulder, points down the right-hand path.
She wears a circlet of gold on her head. A scantily clad woman, with one
hand on his left shoulder, points down the left-hand path. She has on her
head a wreath made of vines. In an aureole of light above the man appears
a genie with a cat's face, crowned with a flame. In the midst of twelve
flame-crowned rays (only six of which show in our card) the genie aims
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Arrows of Light:
The Conqueror
Kabballistically expresses VICTORY
Astrologically expresses COMPREHENSION
The Royal Road:
ARCANUM 7
The Conqueror
ARCANUM 7 pictures a man standing in a cube-shaped chariot,
drawn by two sphinxes, one black and one white. A winged globe adorns the
front of the car. Four columns support a canopy, which is decorated with
fourteen stars. In his right hand the man holds a sword, and in his left
a scepter, surmounted by a square, a circle and a triangle. He wears a
cuirass, on the front of which the letter T arises to meet the obstacles
of two trying-squares. On bis head is a coronet, surmounted by three golden
pentagrams.
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Arrows of Light:
Blind Justice
Kabballistically expresses HUMAN JUSTICE, EQUILIBRIUM
Astrologically expresses UTILITY, SELF-INTEREST, and
strangely contradictory as it may seem -- IDEALISM
The Royal Road:
ARCANUM 8
Blind Justice
ARCANUM 8 pictures a woman seated on a throne that rests
on a four-tiered dais. She wears a blindfold and a headdress composed of
four lances. In her left hand she holds a pair of balances and with her
right she brandishes a sword. By her side stand a sphinx, a lion and a
winged genie. Above her head rises a winged turtle and a canopy inscribed
with a cross. Opposite the canopy shine eight stars.
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Arrows of Light:
[No name given in the appropriate
place]
Kabballistically expresses WISDOM and PRUDENCE
Astrologically expresses KNOWLEDGE of HUMAN NATURE
The Royal Road:
ARCANUM 9
The Sage
ARCANUM 9 pictures a man walking uphill. The path is
strewn with golden coins. Cactus grows along either side. The man wears
a helmet on his head, and leans on a staff as he walks. With a blanket
falling from his left shoulder he shields a lighted lamp held in his left
hand. He gazes steadily at the vision of a castle he sees in the sun.
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Arrows of Light:
The Wheel
Kabballistically expresses CHANGE of FORTUNE
Astrologically expresses SUDDENNESS, ECCENTRICITY
The Royal Road:
ARCANUM 10
Wheel of Fate
ARCANUM 10 pictures a wheel with eight snake-infested
spokes, and two genie, called Hermanubis and Typhon. Two columns support
the wheel, only one of which shows. A sphinx balances itself on a circular
platform poised on top. In its right hand it holds an arrow. Two serpents
rear their heads at the base of the two columns. Below the black bar a
winged globe rises in flight.
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Arrows of Light:
The Enchantress
Kabballistically expresses THE PRINCIPLE OF FORCE
Astrologically expresses IDEALISM and VAGUENESS
The Royal Road:
ARCANUM 11
The Enchantress
ARCANUM 11 pictures a chastely dressed young girl. With
little effort she closes the mouth of a raging lion. She wears a crown
surmounted by a vase and an eagle. A line of trees decorates the bottom
of the card below the heavy black line.
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Arrows of Light:
The Martyr
Kabballistically expresses SACRIFICE and EXPIATION
Astrologically expresses BELIEF and SELF-UNDOING
The Royal Road:
ARCANUM 12
The Martyr
ARCANUM 12 pictures a man hung by his left foot from
a cross bar supported by two trees. Each tree shows the stubs of six cut
branches. Above the cross bar shine twelve stars. The man's right leg crosses
his left, depicting the numeral 4. His hands, tied with a leathern thong,
make the shape of a diamond over his head. Golden coins slip from his fingers.
At the bottom of the card two fish swim in the sea. |
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Arrows of Light:
The Reaper
Kabballistically expresses TRANSFORMATION
Astrologically expresses CONSCIOUSNESS
The Royal Road:
ARCANUM 13
The Reaper
ARCANUM 13 pictures a skeleton reaping heads, hands and
feet with a scythe. On the scythe appear the emblems
of a serpent and a scarab. Behind the skeleton's knees shines a rainbow.
Below the black bar rises a mountain range. |
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Arrows of Light:
The Alchemist
Kabballistically expresses TEMPERANCE and REGENERATION
Astrologically expresses POSSESSION and ACCUMULATION
The Royal Road:
ARCANUM 14
The Alchemist
ARCANUM 14 pictures a flame-crowned genie. He wears a
shawl draped over his left shoulder. On his feet is a small pair of wings,
with a larger pair on his shoulders. He pours a fluid from a silver to
a golden urn. Behind his head shines the sun, adorned with ten rays, only
seven of which show. Trees grow beneath the black bar.
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Arrows of Light:
The Black Magician
Kabballistically expresses FATALITY, EVIL, BLACK MAGIC,
ANNIHILATION
Astrologically expresses CRYSTALLIZATION, OSSIFICATION,
OLD AGE, STAGNATION AND DEATH
The Royal Road:
ARCANUM 15
The Devil
ARCANUM 15 pictures a flame-crowned genie, who inhabits
the body of a hog with the wings of a bat, the feet of a goat, a snake
for a navel cord, and a crocodile's head with a horn on the snout. In his
left hand the genie holds a flaming torch; in his right a scepter somewhat
resembling the emblem of the planet Pluto. He towers over the smoking embers
of a ruined temple, before which kneel two goat-headed figures tied together
by their necks with a chain. Below the black bar a strong wind blows across
the land, uprooting all vegetation. |
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Arrows of Light:
The Lightning
Kabballistically expresses ACCIDENT, CATASTROPHE
Astrologically expresses DYNAMIC FORCE
The Royal Road:
ARCANUM 16
The Ruined Tower
ARCANUM 16 pictures a pyramid, with a bolt of lightning
blasting off its capstone. The bolt also topples two figures, one crowned,
the other uncrowned, from a seven-staged platform in front of the pyramid.
Beneath the black bar a raging fire burns fiercely.
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Arrows of Light:
The Star
Kabballistically expresses TRUTH, FAITH, HOPE
Astrologically expresses THOUGHT on the EXTERIOR PLANE
The Royal Road:
ARCANUM 17
The Naked Truth
ARCANUM 17 pictures a nude young girl kneeling, her right
foot resting on land, and her right knee and left foot on the sea. From
the silver urn she holds in her left hand, and from the golden urn in her
right, she pours the elixir of life. To her right grows a three-blossomed
plant, with six leaves on the stalk. A butterfly ascends from the topmost
blossom. In the center of an eight-pointed blazing star above the young
girl's head appears a double triangle, the top half white, the bottom black.
Fourteen smaller stars surround the large one. Clouds and tree tops show
beneath the black bar.
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Arrows of Light:
The Moon
Kabballistically expresses SECRET ENEMIES, DECEPTION,
FALSE FRIENDS
Astrologically expresses FEELING and TOUCHINESS
The Royal Road:
ARCANUM 18
Illusion
ARCANUM 18 pictures two pyramids, one white, one black.
An entrance door appears in the white pyramid. Clouds obscure the moon,
and a fog casts a haze over the scene. A white dog howls at the moon, a
black one listens. A scorpion crawls in a circle of light. Below the black
bar a small boat sails on a stormy sea. |
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Arrows of Light:
The Sun
Kabballistically expresses HAPPINESS and JOY, CONJUGALITY
Astrologically expresses WILL TO POWER, PLEASURE, and
CHILDREN
The Royal Road:
ARCANUM 19
The Reunion
ARCANUM 19 pictures a young man and a young woman with
joined hands dancing in a circle of twenty flowers. From her left hand
the woman scatters seed. On her neck she wears an
Ankh, or Egyptian cross. The man grasps a flowering plant with his
right hand. Four leaves appear on the stalk, and four petals blossom at
its top. The man wears the emblem of an eagle
on his breast, and a wreath on his head. In the center of the sun appear
a lingham and yoni. The sun has twenty-one rays. To the right shine six
stars. Below the black bar rises a mountain range.
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Arrows of Light:
The Sarcophagus
Kabballistically expresses RESURRECTION, AWAKENING
Astrologically expresses PERIODICITY, GESTATION
The Royal Road:
ARCANUM 20
The Awakening
ARCANUM 20 pictures a man, a woman and a child, wrapped
in grave clothes, rising from a sarcophagus. Two angels and a scarab decorate
its lower part. Above the three figures stands an angel in the sun, crowned
with a flame, blowing a trumpet. The sun has seven rays, each ray tipped
with a triple crown. Below the black bar small
human-like figures leave the world on an upward path.
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Arrows of Light:
The Adept
Kabballistically expresses SUCCESS and ATTAINMENT
Astrologically expresses POWER, VITALITY, INDIVIDUALITY
The Royal Road:
ARCANUM 21
The Redeemed
ARCANUM 21 pictures a wreath of twelve flowers, each
flower having three petals. In the center of the floral wheel appears a
winged lingham and yoni. Four heads show on the outside of the wreath:
in the upper left that of a man; in the upper right that of another man;
in the lower left that of an eagle with a miter on its head; in the lower
right that of a bull. Underneath this ensemble a kneeling girl plays a
three-stringed harp. The flame-crowned head of a man adorns the harp's
sounding board. Just to the left of the girl's head appears the emblem
of the sun. Below the black bar a row of trees sways gently in the breeze.
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Arrows of Light:
The Fool
Kabballistically expresses FAILURE, FOLLY, MISTAKE
Astrologically has no correspondence
The Royal Road:
THE BLIND FOOL
Arcanum Zero-22 pictures a blindfolded man walking down
the road of life into the open jaws of a crocodile. Over his left shoulder
he carries a heavy bag. With his right hand he leans on a black staff,
entwined with two serpents. Behind him the moon eclipses the sun. A broken
column covered with hieroglyphs lies by his left side. On his chest he
wears the glyph of the planet Pluto. Below his feet are pictured the horns
and head of Taurus, the Bull. |