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Arcanum 8
We find the Eighth Key of Basil Valentine in the Eighth Arcanum. There is no doubt that he was a great Gnostic. The gospel of Valentine is admirable. The processes of life and death in the Philosophical Stone, which is chiselled with the hammer of intelligence and the chisel of willpower, are referred to in the Eighth Key.
The Eighth Key is a perfect and clear alchemical allegory of the processes of death and resurrection that inevitably are occurring in the esoteric preparation of the Philosophical Stone, which is between the two columns of Jachin and Boaz. One has to polish the brute stone in order to make it cubic.
Arcanum 9
The Ninth Arcanum is the arcanum of the Hermit. It is represented by an elder who carries a lamp in his right hand. This lamp must be raised up in order to give light on the path; it must be raised aloft in order to illuminate.
The number nine when multiplied by any number always results in nine. For example:
2 x 9 = 18 then 1 + 8 = 9
4 x 9 = 36 then 3 + 6 = 9
5 x 9 = 45 then 4 + 5 = 9
Arcanum 10
The Tenth Arcanum of the Tarot is the wheel of fortune; it is the same wheel of samsara, the tragic wheel that symbolizes the ancient law of return. We must differentiate between return, reincarnation, and transmigration, which are all completely different.
Return
The worlds, the heavens, the stars, the four seasons return to their original point of life. The ego returns through all of the 108 lives of each human being, in accordance with the 108 beads of the Buddha’s necklace. Disincarnated egos penetrate into the infernal worlds and others return into a new womb when death arrives. The ego is a compound of many entities; some of those entities return into animals or plant-organisms, and some of them return into human wombs. This is how the ego returns into a new organism. The Buddhata (Essence) which is our divine and substantial part, returns bottled up within the ego. Undoubtedly, many parts of ourselves live within animal organisms.
Arcanum 11
The Eleventh Arcanum in Kabbalah is known as the arcanum of Persuasion.
Persuasion in itself is a force of a subtle spiritual order. Occult wisdom states, “Vivify the flame of the Spirit with the force of Love.”
Love in itself is a powerful omnipotent force. The force of love keeps the worlds around their centers of cosmic gravity. Those centers of cosmic gravity are the suns. This is why Hermes Trismegistus stated, “I give thee love, within which the whole Summum of Wisdom is contained.”
Arcanum 12
Arcanum number twelve implies sacrifice. It is the card of the Apostolate, of sufferings. Nevertheless, this number is a very complete number. It is the famous dodecahedron upon which are supported all of the universal creations of the solar system, which have twelve foundations, twelve planets.
Esoteric science teaches that there are seven principle planets:
- Moon
- Mercury
- Venus
- Sun
- Mars
- Jupiter
- Saturn
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