Temperance

71. Daughter of the Reconcilers, The Bringer Forth of Life. / ס / Sagittarius（“Book T”）

“Tabulated Rules”

Combination of Forces. Realisation. Action (material). Effect either for good or evil.

《PKT》

Economy, moderation, frugality, management, accommodation.

(Reverse) Things connected with churches, religions, sects, the priesthood, sometimes even the priest who will marry the Querent; also disunion, unfortunate combinations, competing interests.

“A Manual of Cartomancy”

I. World of Human Prudence

New blood, combination, admixture, with the object of amelioration ; providence in desirable change.

II. World of Conformity

The principle of sacramental life ; the mixture of things Divine with things human, for the transmutation of the latter; the increase which Grace gives ; in fine, this card is a symbol of the Eucharist, the entrance of the Divine into the nature of man.

III. World of Attainment

Immergence of the consciousness ; realization of the Divine Immanence ; superadded Grace.

“The Quest of the Golden Stairs”

The Phoenix—honouring life, the mission, the quest, history, service: “The way into Faerie is a word of sweetness, clothed in many forms of action” (Quest, 32).

“Steps to the Crown”

Sorrow is the spade which breaks up the hard earth and fits it to receive the seed of life.

《絵的な鍵》

【イーリス】 【ステュクスの水】 【ギリシアの四徳】 【盃】 【テトラグラマトン】 【後光】 【山】 【道】 【白色】 【注ぐ】 【はだし】 【四角】 【三角】 【翼】

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👉 ラベル：中庸

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“The Tarot Trumps”

This is the equilibrium not of the balance of Libra but of the impetus of the Arrow, Sagittarius, which cleaves its way through the air by the force imparted to it by the taut string of the Bow. It requires the counterchanged forces of Fire and Water, Shin and Qoph, held by the restraining power of Saturn, and concentrated by the energies of Mars to initiate this impetus. All these are summed up in the symbolism of the figure standing between Earth and Water, holding the two amphorae with their streams of living water, and with the volcano in the background. The colours are bright-blue, blue-grey, slate-blue, and lilac-grey.

《PKT》

A winged angel, with the sign of the sun upon his forehead and on his breast the square and triangle of the septenary. I speak of him in the masculine sense, but the figure is neither male nor female. It is held to be pouring the essences of life from chalice to chalice. It has one foot upon the earth and one upon waters, thus illustrating the nature of the essences. A direct path goes up to certain heights on the verge of the horizon, and above there is a great light, through which a crown is seen vaguely. Hereof is some part of the Secret of Eternal Life, as it is possible to man in his incarnation. All the conventional emblems are renounced herein.

So also are the conventional meanings, which refer to changes in the seasons, perpetual movement of life and even the combination of ideas. It is, moreover, untrue to say that the figure symbolizes the genius of the sun, though it is the analogy of solar light, realized in the third part of our human triplicity. It is called Temperance fantastically, because, when the rule of it obtains in our consciousness, it tempers, combines and harmonises the psychic and material natures. Under that rule we know in our rational part something of whence we came and whither we are going.