High Priestess

59. The Priestess of the Silver Star. / ג / Moon（“Book T”）

“Tabulated Rules”

Change, alteration, Increase and Decrease. Fluctuation (whether for good or evil is again shown by cards connected with it.) Compare with Death and Moon.

《PKT》

Secrets, mystery, the future as yet unrevealed; the woman who interests the Querent, if male; the Querent herself, if female; silence, tenacity; mystery, wisdom, science.

(Reverse) Passion, moral or physical ardour, conceit, surface knowledge.

“A Manual of Cartomancy”

I. World of Human Prudence

Mature generally and particularly also as regards her operations, including therefore the material side of generation and reproduction ; fertility ; change.

II. World of Conformity

The Church as an organism ; the growth of the man therein ; Church doctrine.

III. World of Attainment

Divine intuition ; the holy soul, having the book of the Mysteries opened, and reading therein ; the first form of personal illumination.

“The Quest of the Golden Stairs”

Princess Cynthia, High Lady of Life (in the House of Dreams)—revealing, grace, silence, awakening, the end of seeking: “Thou art the end of my dreaming, and the path that leads me home” (Quest, 103).

“Steps to the Crown”

The true word of any mystery is never conveyed or communicated, but is left secret and implied, to be realised and known in the heart.

《絵的な鍵》

【イデア】 【ペルセポネー】 【アンドロギュノス】 【夜】 【月】 【海】 【冠】 【球体】 【十字架】 【ソロモン神殿】 【ヤキンとボアズの柱】 【柱】 【青色】 【高僧】 【黒色】 【ザクロ】 【ヴェール】 【生命の木】 【トーラー】 【本】 【真正面】 【イス】

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👉 ラベル：女司祭長

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“The Tarot Trumps”

The High Priestess rules the long path uniting Kether to Tiohareth, crossing the reciprocal Paths of Venus and Leo. She is the great feminine force controlling the very source of life, gathering into herself all the energising forces and holding them in solution until the time of release. Her colours, pale blue, deepening into skv blue, silvery white, and silver, relieved by touches of orange and flame, carry out these ideas.

《PKT》

She has the lunar crescent at her feet, a horned diadem on her head, with a globe in the middle place, and a large solar cross (⊕; there is inconsistency between A. E. Waite's design and P. C. Smith's work) on her breast. The scroll in her hands is inscribed with the word Tora, signifying the Greater Law, the Secret Law and the second sense of the Word (written Torah, spoken Torah and the Pentateuch—five books). It is partly covered by her mantle, to shew that some things are implied and some spoken. She is seated between the white and black pillars—J. and B.—of the mystic Temple, and the veil of the Temple is behind her: it is embroidered with palms and pomegranates. The vestments are flowing and gauzy, and the mantle suggests light—a shimmering radiance. She has been called occult Science on the threshold of the Sanctuary of Isis, but she is really the Secret Church, the House which is of God and man. She represents also the Second Marriage of the Prince who is no longer of this world; she is the spiritual Bride and Mother, the daughter of the stars and the Higher Garden of Eden. She is, in fine, the Queen of the borrowed light, but this is the light of all. She is the Moon nourished by the milk of the Supernal Mother.

In a manner, she is also the Supernal Mother herself—that is to say, she is the bright reflection. It is in this sense of reflection that her truest and highest name in (Kabbalistic) holism is Shekinah—the cohabiting glory. According to Kabalism, there is a Shekinah both above and below. In the superior world it is called Binah, the Supernal Understanding which reflects to the emanations that are beneath. In the lower world it is Malkuth—that world being, for this purpose, understood as a blessed Kingdom that with which it is made blessed being the Indwelling Glory. Mystically speaking, the Shekinah is the Spiritual Bride of the just man, and when he reads the Law she gives the Divine meaning. There are some respects in which this card is the highest and holiest of the Greater Arcana.