Emperor

61. Son of the Morning, Chief among the Mighty. / ה / Aries（“Book T”）

“Tabulated Rules”

War, conquest, victory, strife, ambition.

《PKT》

Stability, power, protection, realization; a great person; aid, reason, conviction; also authority and will.

(Reverse) Benevolence, compassion, credit; also confusion to enemies, obstruction, immaturity.

“A Manual of Cartomancy”

I. World of Human Prudence

Logical understanding, experience, human wisdom ; material power on the male side, and all involved thereby.

II. World of Conformity

Executive power of religion ; its work in realization upon man ; active mind of the Church ; the Church as a power in the world and in the life of the individual.

III. World of Attainment

Lord on the higher planes ; the fulfilment of the Great Work of spiritual adeptship ; the victory over all things.

“The Quest of the Golden Stairs”

Knight of the Swan—May Day; crown, king, throne, and insignia; hilltop, witness: “Come quickly, therefore, ye who are called in the heart: one shall be chosen perchance” (Quest, 2).

“Steps to the Crown”

The idea of kinghood goes up into the height of creation, and thus the saint and the mystic are always constitutionalists. The pity of it is that earthly kings are not invariably on the side of the angels.

《絵的な鍵》

【髭】 【軍人】 【十字架】 【球体】 【レガリア】 【羊】 【角】 【赤色】 【オレンジ色】 【岩場】 【真正面】 【冠】 【四角】 【武装】 【イス】 【砂地】 【川】

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👉 ラベル：皇帝

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“The Tarot Trumps”

Here we have the great energising forces as indicated by the varying shades of red. It may be noted here that the red paths remain red in all planes, varying only in shade. Thus Aries, the Emperor, the Pioneer, the General, is blood and deep crimson, red, pure vermillion or glowing fiery red. He is Ho Nike, the Conqueror, hot, passionate, impetuous, the apotheosis of Mars, whether in love or in war. He is the positive masculine as the Empress is the positive feminine.

《PKT》

He has a form of the Crux ansata (☥: ankh) for his sceptre and a globe in his left hand. He is a crowned monarch—commanding, stately, seated on a throne, the arms of which are fronted by rams' heads. He is executive and realization, the power of this world, here clothed with the highest of its natural attributes. He is occasionally represented as seated on a cubic stone, which, however, confuses some of the issues. He is the virile power, to which the Empress responds, and in this sense is he who seeks to remove the Veil of Isis; yet she remains virgo intacta.

It should be understood that this card and that of the Empress do not precisely represent the condition of married life, though this state is implied. On the surface, as I have indicated, they stand for mundane royalty, uplifted on the seats of the mighty; but above this there is the suggestion of another presence. They signify also—and the male figure especially—the higher kingship, occupying the intellectual throne. Hereof is the lordship of thought rather than of the animal world. Both personalities, after their own manner, are “full of strange experience,” but theirs is not consciously the wisdom which draws from a higher world. The Emperor has been described as (a) will in its embodied form, but this is only one of its applications, and (b) as an expression of virtualities contained in the Absolute Being—but this is fantasy.