Death

70. The Child of the great Transformers, Lord of the Gates of Death. / נ / Scorpio（“Book T”）

“Tabulated Rules”

Time. Ages. Transformation. Change involuntary as opposed to The Moon, XIX. Sometimes death and destruction, but rarely the latter, and the former only if it is borne out by the cards with it. Compare also with High Priestess.

《PKT》

End, mortality, destruction, corruption also, for a man, the loss of a benefactor; for a woman, many contrarieties; for a maid, failure of marriage projects.

(Reverse) Inertia, sleep, lethargy, petrifaction, somnambulism; hope destroyed.

“A Manual of Cartomancy”

I. World of Human Prudence

Contains naturally the meaning implied by its name and illustrated by its pictorial symbol, but not only and not at all of necessity ; transforming force, independent of human will ; may signify destruction ; power behind the world which alters the face of the world, but it is this power in one of its respects only.

II. World of Conformity

Mortal sin ; resurrection to the life of Grace, as an antitype — depending on the environment of the card.

III. World of Attainment

Mystical death ; the price of immortality ; that which is entered with the will that there may be life evermore.

“The Quest of the Golden Stairs”

The Passing of the Master—death, ebb and flow, legend, the path of souls, passage, link, inheritance: “Behind the dark and the dole, a treasure of hidden gold” (Quest, 71).

“Steps to the Crown”

REINTEGRATION, and not individuality, is the end of all separate existence.

《絵的な鍵》

【死神】 【蠍座】 【馬】 【曇天】 【川】 【船】 【道】 【塔】 【山】 【太陽】 【死体】 【高僧】 【祈る】 【冠】 【子供】 【花】 【花束】 【白色】 【赤い目】 【しゃれこうべ】 【武装】 【白黒】 【旗】 【ミスティックローズ】 【赤い羽根】

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👉 ラベル：死

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“The Tarot Trumps”

The sign of transmutation and disintegration. The skeleton which alone survives the destructive power of time, may be regarded as the foundation upon which the structure is built, the type which persists through the permutations of Time and Space, adaptable to the requirements of evolution and yet radically unchanged; the transmuting power of Nature working from below upwards, as the Hanged Man is the transmuting power of the spirit working from above downwards. The colours are blue-green, both dark and pale, the two dominant colours of the visible world, and the flashing colours of orange and red-orange.

《PKT》

The veil or mask of life is perpetuated in change, transformation and passage from lower to higher, and this is more fitly represented in the rectified Tarot by one of the apocalyptic visions than by the crude notion of the reaping skeleton. Behind it lies the whole world of ascent in the spirit. The mysterious horseman moves slowly, bearing a black banner emblazoned with the Mystic Rose, which signifies life. Between two pillars on the verge of the horizon there shines the sun of immortality. The horseman carries no visible weapon, but king and child and maiden fall before him, while a prelate with clasped hands awaits his end.

There should be no need to point out that the suggestion of death which I have made in connection with the previous card (The Hanged Man) is, of course, to be understood mystically, but this is not the case in the present instance. The natural transit of man to the next stage of his being (= death) either is or may be one form of his progress, but the exotic and almost unknown entrance, while still in this life, into the state of mystical death is a change in the form of consciousness and the passage into a state to which ordinary death is neither the path nor gate. The existing occult explanations of the 13th card are, on the whole, better than usual, rebirth, creation, destination, renewal, and the rest.