The Pictoral Key to the Tarot Type: Educational PAGE: 14 SELECT PAGE TO VIEW Contents Preface PART I - § 1.--Introductory and General PART I -§ 2.--Class I. The Trumps Major, otherwise Greater Arcana. PART I -§ 3.--Class II. The Four Suits, otherwise Lesser Arcana. PART I -§ 4.--The Tarot in History. PART II -§ 1.--The Tarot and Secret Tradition. PART II -§ 2 --The Magician PART II -§ 2 --The High Priestess PART II -§ 2 -- The Empress PART II -§ 2 -- The Emperor PART II -§ 2 -- The Hierophant PART II -§ 2 -- The Lovers PART II -§ 2 -- The Chariot PART II -§ 2 -- Strength, or Fortitude PART II -§ 2 -- The Hermit PART II -§ 2 -- Wheel of Fortune PART II -§ 2 -- Justice PART II -§ 2 -- The Hanged Man PART II -§ 2 -- Death PART II -§ 2 -- Temperance PART II -§ 2 -- The Devil PART II -§ 2 -- The Tower PART II -§ 2 -- The Star PART II -§ 2 -- The Moon PART II -§ 2 -- The Sun PART II -§ 2 -- The Last Judgment PART II -§ 2 -- The Fool PART II -§ 2 -- The World PART II -§ 3. Conclusion as to the Greater Keys. PART III -§ 1.--Distinction between the Greater and Lesser Arcana. PART III -§ 2.--Wands - King PART III -§ 2.--Wands - Queen PART III -§ 2.--Wands - Knight PART III -§ 2.--Wands - Ten PART III -§ 2.--Wands - Nine PART III -§ 2.--Wands - Eight PART III -§ 2.--Wands - Seven PART III -§ 2.--Wands - Six PART III -§ 2.--Wands - Five PART III -§ 2.--Wands - Four PART III -§ 2.--Wands - Three PART III -§ 2.--Wands - Two PART III -§ 2.--Wands - Ace PART III -§ 2.--Cups - King PART III -§ 2.--Cups - Queen PART III -§ 2.--Cups - Knight PART III -§ 2.--Cups - Page PART III -§ 2.--Cups - Ten PART III -§ 2.--Cups - Nine PART III -§ 2.--Cups - Eight PART III -§ 2.--Cups - Seven PART III -§ 2.--Cups - Six PART III -§ 2.--Cups - Five PART III -§ 2.--Cups - Four PART III -§ 2.--Cups - Three PART III -§ 2.--Cups - Two PART III -§ 2.--Cups - Ace PART III -§ 2.--Swords - King PART III -§ 2.--Swords - Queen PART III -§ 2.--Swords - Knight PART III -§ 2.--Swords - Page PART III -§ 2.--Swords - Ten PART III -§ 2.--Swords - Nine PART III -§ 2.--Swords - Eight PART III -§ 2.--Swords - Seven PART III -§ 2.--Swords - Six PART III -§ 2.--Swords – Five PART III -§ 2.--Swords – Four PART III -§ 2.--Swords – Three PART III -§ 2.--Swords – Two PART III -§ 2.--Swords – Ace PART III -§ 2.--Pentacles – King PART III -§ 2.--Pentacles – Queen PART III -§ 2.--Pentacles – Knight PART III -§ 2.--Pentacles – Page PART III -§ 2.--Pentacles – Ten PART III -§ 2.--Pentacles – Nine PART III -§ 2.--Pentacles – Eight PART III -§ 2.--Pentacles – Seven PART III -§ 2.--Pentacles – Six PART III -§ 2.--Pentacles – Five PART III -§ 2.--Pentacles – Four PART III -§ 2.--Pentacles – Three PART III -§ 2.--Pentacles – Two PART III -§ 2.--Pentacles – Ace PART III -§ 3.--The Greater Arcana and their Divinatory Meanings PART III -§ 4.--Some Additional Meanings of the Lesser Arcana PART III -§ 5.--The Reoccurance of Cards in Dealing PART III -§ 6.--The Art of Card Divination PART III -§ 7.—An Ancient Celtic Method of Divination PART III -§ 7.—An Alternative Method of Reading the Tarot Cards PART III -§ 7.—The Method of Reading by Thirty Five Cards Bibliography

VII

The Chariot

An erect and princely figure carrying a drawn sword and corresponding, broadly speaking, to the traditional description which I have given in the first part. On the shoulders of the victorious hero are supposed to be the Urim and Thummim. He has led captivity captive; he is conquest on all planes--in the mind, in science, in progress, in certain trials of initiation. He has thus replied to the sphinx, and it is on this account that I have accepted the variation of Ιliphas Lιvi; two sphinxes thus draw his chariot. He is above all things triumph in the mind.

It is to be understood for this reason (a) that the question of the sphinx is concerned with a Mystery of Nature and not of the world of Grace, to which the charioteer could offer no answer; (b) that the planes of his conquest are manifest or external and not within himself; (c) that the liberation which he effects may leave himself in the bondage of the logical understanding; (d) that the tests of initiation through which he has passed in triumph are to be understood physically or rationally; and (e) that if he came to the pillars of that Temple between which the High Priestess is seated, he could not open the scroll called Tora, nor if she questioned him could he answer. He is not hereditary royalty and he is not priesthood.

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