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Tarot and the Elements

For this discourse we shall make use of the commentaries of Emmanuel d'Hooghvorst extracted from his study of the Tarots. According to said author, we find ourselves before a mutus liber, or mute book, which has been transmitted across time beneath the veil of fortune telling. The actual prediction will be the empty crust of the ancient magic or prophecy the function of which, as we shall see, is to announce the Golden Age, or the future world..


 

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Tarot and the Elements

For this discourse we shall make use of the commentaries of Emmanuel d'Hooghvorst extracted from his study of the Tarots. According to said author, we find ourselves before a mutus liber , or mute book, which has been transmitted across time beneath the veil of fortune telling. The actual prediction will be the empty crust of the ancient magic or prophecy the function of which, as we shall see, is to announce the Golden Age, or the future world. Tarot's Four suits are composed of: pentacles or gold coins, cups, swords and canes, in addition to the XXI Major Arcana or engravings that go from Card I, "The Magician", to Card XXI, "The World". "The Fool" is excluded from the order of the sacred numbers, for this reason it represents the profane man. The Tarot cards of The Marseille deck are those that have best conserved the symbolism and the principal colors: blue for the spirit, gold for the body, and red for the sense. The hieroglyphic interpretation of each one of the engravings will depend on the situation of the colors with respect to the drawing. Here all of a language is condensed, a true grammar or "art of combination" which must be learned in order to be able to read the different combinations, such as it's explained in The Message Rediscovered by Louis Cattiaux: "The mixture of elements that forms the multiple combinations of creation, is like the mixture of playing cards that forms the multiple combinations of the game; and the elements return to the mass and are then combined once more, as the playing cards return to the pack and are redistributed without real increase or decrease, for neither profit nor loss exist for the immutable that IS" ( The Message Rediscovered 23, 64).

  • The four suits of the Spanish deck.


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