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Arcanum 20 Resurrection
Description of the Plate
In the waters of life is a column which is a symbol of edification. The foundation of the column is the Cubic Stone. From the two columns, the white and the black, only the white, which is the symbol of purification, has remained.
In the middle of the plate is a mummy. From it escapes a sparrow hawk with a human head which flies toward the world of the Spirit. It represents the soul. It is indubitable that upon awakening the consciousness we transform ourselves into sparrow hawks with human heads, being able to fly freely throughout the starry space. On top of the heads of the sparrow hawk and the mummy is a symbol which represents the pineal gland, a sign of illumination.
Arcanum 21 Transmutation
Description of the Plate
In the superior part we find the black moon and the white moon, the antitheses.
In the middle of the plate is a magician with the staff of the patriarchs in one hand and the Ankh cross, or Tao cross, in the other hand. He is standing on a crocodile that is waiting to devour him with its open jaws. The crocodile is Seth, Satan, the psychological “I,” the “myself,” who is always waiting for those who let themselves fall in order to devour them. The magician courageously holds the Tao cross (the Arcanum A.Z.F.) to defend himself.
Arcanum 22 The Return
Description of the Plate
In the waters of life is the swastika cross symbolizing the Muladhara chakra of four petals.
A woman, who represents the truth, plays a harp, plucking the sexual lyre of nine chords until she finds the key note.
Arcanum 1
The First Arcanum is The Magician of the Kabbalah. It is obvious that this arcanum represents that which begins. In practical life, anything that begins is the First Arcanum. It is the unity.
It is easy to comprehend that there is difficulty in everything that begins, which is why it is necessary to work very hard in the beginning. In order to harvest, we need to plant. This is why in the First Arcanum we find the unity of the original principle. The origin of every unity comes from the First Arcanum because it is clear that everything begins with the number one.
Arcanum 2
The number two is negative. In ancient times there were always both a priest and priestess within the temples. There were both a male and female master in primordial Masonry. The Count Cagliostro intended to establish Egyptian Masonry in England, but he had many enemies and in the end he established two thrones. Giovanni Papini met Count Cagliostro on a ship. They became friends, and the Count told him who he was. Cagliostro tried to stop the Second World War and because no one paid attention to him, he went again to Tibet saying that he was going to return sixty years later.
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