Devil

72. Lord of the Gates of Matter, Child of the Forces of Time. / ע / Capricorn（“Book T”）

“Tabulated Rules”

Materiality, Material Force. Material temptation; sometimes obsession, especially if associated with the Lovers.

《PKT》

Ravage, violence, vehemence, extraordinary efforts, force, fatality; that which is predestined but is not for this reason evil.

(Reverse) Evil fatality, weakness, pettiness, blindness.

“A Manual of Cartomancy”

I. World of Human Prudence

Fatality, evil, the false spirit ; can indicate also the good working through evil.

II. World of Conformity

Rebellion ; the spirit which denies; especially, false doctrine, which is the worship of Satan.

III. World of Attainment

The last enemy ; the demon of spiritual pride ; the abyss opening ; the spirit of Antichrist.

“The Quest of the Golden Stairs”

The Queen of Spells (Beryl)—deception, passion, wildness, strangeness, evil: “All things are wrong between us” (Quest, 50).

“Steps to the Crown”

Vice is its own victim, which it immolates continually, until the term of is expiation is attained.

《絵的な鍵》

【悪魔】 【山羊座】 【翼】 【髭】 【角】 【真正面】 【黒色】 【鎖】 【五芒星】 【隣に人がいる】 【二人】 【赤毛】 【アダムとエバ】 【裸】 【乳房】 【尻尾】

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“The Tarot Trumps”

This card should be studied in conjunction with No. 13. They are the two great controlling forces of the Universe, the centrifugal and the centripetal, destructive and reproductive, dynamic and static. The lower nature of man fears and hates the transmuting process; hence the chains binding the lesser figures and the bestial forms of their lower limbs. Yet this very fear of change and disintegration is necessary to stabilise the life-force and preserve continuity. The colours are indigo, livid brown, golden brown and grey.

《PKT》

The design is an accommodation, mean or harmony, between several motives mentioned in the first part (of “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”). The Horned Goat of Mendes (= Baphometic figure), with wings like those of a bat, is standing on an altar. At the pit of the stomach there is the sign of Mercury (☤; there is inconsistency between A. E. Waite's design and P. C. Smith's work). The right hand is upraised and extended, being the reverse of that benediction which is given by the Hierophant in the fifth card. In the left hand there is a great flaming torch, inverted towards the earth. A reversed pentagram is on the forehead. There is a ring in front of the altar, from which two chains are carried to the necks of two figures, male and female. These are analogous with those of the sixth card (of the Lovers), as if Adam and Eve after the Fall. Hereof is the chain and fatality of the material life.

The figures are tailed, to signify the animal nature, but there is human intelligence in the faces, and he who is exalted above them is not to be their master for ever. Even now, he is also a bondsman, sustained by the evil that is in him and blind to the liberty of service. With more than his usual derision for the arts (= occult science and magic) which he pretended to respect and interpret as a master therein, Éliphas Lévi affirms that the Baphometic figure is occult science and magic. Another commentator says that in the Divine world it signifies predestination, but there is no correspondence in that world with the things which below are of the brute. What it does signify is the Dweller on the Threshold without the Mystical Garden (of Eden) when those are driven forth therefrom who have eaten the forbidden fruit (of the Garden of Eden).