Major Arcana
The Magician

The Magician Tarot card has also been referred to as The Magus, and the Juggler. The caster of the dice and mountebank, in the world of vulgar trickery. This is the colportage interpretation, and it has the same correspondence with the real symbolical meaning that the use of the Tarot in fortune-telling has with its mystic construction according to the secret science of symbolism.

Card Description(s):

• Éliphas Lévi says that the Magus signifies that unity which is the mother of numbers.

• Others say that it is the Divine Unity.

• Some consider that, in its general sense, it is the will.

Inner Symbolism(s):

• A youthful figure in the robe of a magician, having the countenance of divine Apollo, with smile of confidence and shining eyes.
• Above the head of the Tarot Magician is the mysterious sign of the Holy Spirit, the sign of life, like an endless cord, forming the figure 8 in a horizontal position also known as "the symbol of infinity."
• About his waist is a serpent-cincture, the serpent appearing to devour its own tail. This is familiar to most as a conventional "symbol of eternity," but here it indicates more especially the eternity of attainment in the spirit.
• In the Magician's right hand is a wand raised towards heaven, while the left hand is pointing to the earth. This dual sign is known in very high grades of the Instituted Mysteries; it shows the descent of grace, virtue and light, drawn from things above and derived to things below. The suggestion throughout is therefore the possession and communication of the Powers and Gifts of the Spirit.

• On the table in front of the Magician are the symbols of the four Tarot suits, signifying the elements of natural life, which lie like counters before the adept, and he adapts them as he wills.
• Beneath are roses and lilies, the flos campi and lilium convallium, changed into garden flowers, to show the culture of aspiration.
• The Tarot card the Magician, signifies the divine motive in man, reflecting God, the will in the liberation of its union with that which is above. It is also the unity of individual being on all planes, and in a very high sense it is thought, in the fixation thereof.
• With further reference to what is called the sign of life and its connection with the number 8, it may be remembered that Christian Gnosticism speaks of rebirth in Christ as a change "unto the Ogdoad." The mystic number is termed Jerusalem above, the Land flowing with Milk and Honey, the Holy Spirit and the Land of the Lord. According to Martinism, 8 is the number of Christ.

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