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63. Children of the Voice Divine, The Oracles of the Mighty Gods. / ז / Gemini（“Book T”）

“Tabulated Rules”

Inspiration (passive and in some cases mediumistic, thus differing from that of the Hierophant and Magician and Prophet.) Motive, power, and action, arising from Inspiration and Impulse.

《PKT》

Attraction, love, beauty, trials overcome.

(Reverse) Failure, foolish designs. Another account speaks of marriage frustrated and contrarieties of all kinds.

“A Manual of Cartomancy”

I. World of Human Prudence

Material union, affection, desire, natural love, passion, harmony of things ; contains also the notions of modus vivendi, concord and so forth ; equilibrium.

II. World of Conformity

Love of religion, union therewith, but on the external side ; marriage of the Church and the natural heart ; the power which draws from natural things ; also grace which makes for conversion, but is not conversion itself.

III. World of Attainment

Spiritual marriage ; the union of man with his soul ; the state of conversion.

“The Quest of the Golden Stairs”

The Nuptials of Faerie—union, marriage, health, perfect counterpart: “Moreover, he assured him of the speedy fulfilment of all his wishes” (Quest, 75).

“Steps to the Crown”

Love has brought us into life, and it is love also that withdraws us into the wider lives which are beyond it.

《絵的な鍵》

【エデンの園】 【アダムとエバ】 【生命の木】 【太陽】 【山】 【裸】 【乳房】 【隣に人がいる】 【二人】 【樹木】 【翼】 【青空】 【赤色】 【蛇】

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“The Tarot Trumps”

The impact of inspiration on intuition, resulting in illumination and liberation — the sword striking off the fetters of habit and materialism, Perseus rescuing Andromeda from the Dragon of fear and the waters of Stagnation. (Note: Incidentally note that this is the design of the Order card. Andromeda is shown manacled to a rock, the dragon rising from the waters at her feet. Perseus is depicted flying through the air to her assistance, with unsheathed sword. The design is wholly different from that of the Waite pack. — I.R.)
The colours are orange, violet, purplish grey and pearl grey. The flashing colour of orange gives deep vivid blue while the flashing colour for violet is golden yellow. The flashing colours may always be introduced if they bring out the essential colour meaning more clearly. In practise this card usually signifies sympathetic understanding.

《PKT》

The sun shines in the zenith, and beneath is a great winged figure with arms extended, pouring down influences. In the foreground are two human figures, male and female, unveiled before each other, as if Adam and Eve when they first occupied the paradise of the earthly body. Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it. The figures suggest youth, virginity, innocence and love before it is contaminated by gross material desire. This is in all simplicity the card of human love, here exhibited as part of the way, the truth and the life. It replaces, by recourse to first principles, the old card of marriage, which I have described previously, and the later follies which depicted man between vice and virtue. In a very high sense, the card is a mystery of the Covenant and Sabbath.

The suggestion in respect of the woman is that she signifies that attraction towards the sensitive life which carries within it the idea of the Fall of Man, but she is rather the working of a Secret Law of Providence than a willing and conscious temptress. It is through her imputed lapse that man shall arise ultimately, and only by her can he complete himself. The card is therefore in its way another intimation concerning the great mystery of womanhood. The old meanings fall to pieces of necessity with the old pictures, but even as interpretations of the latter, some of them were of the order of commonplace and others were false in symbolism.