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The Chariot  

VII - The ChariotCard Descriptions(s):

  • This is represented in some extant manuscripts as being drawn by two Sphinxes. The device is in consonance with the symbolism, but it must not be supposed that such was its original form; the variation was invented to support a particular historical hypothesis.
  • In the eighteenth century white horses were yoked to the car. As regards its usual name, the lesser stands for the greater; it is really the King in his triumph, typifying, however, the victory which creates kingship as its natural consequence and not the vested royalty of the fourth card.
  • Court de Gebelin said that it was Osiris Triumphing, the conquering sun in spring-time having vanquished the obstacles of winter. We know now that Osiris rising from the dead is not represented by such obvious symbolism.
  • Animals other than horses have also been used to draw the currus triumphalis, (the two-wheeled carriage which Roman Generals rode in during their triumphal entrance in to a city), for example, a lion and a leopard.

Inner Symbolism(s):

  • An erect and princely figure carrying a drawn sword.
  • On the shoulders of the victorious hero are supposed to be the Urim and Thummim, ("lights and perfections" or "revelation and truth").
  • He has led captivity captive
  • He is conquest on all planes. In the mind, in science, in progress, and certain trials of initiation.
  • He is above all things triumph in the mind.

  • It is to be understood 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.
    • The planes of his conquest are manifest or external and not within himself.
    • The liberation which he effects may leave himself in the bondage of the logical understanding.
    • The tests of initiation through which he has passed in triumph are to be understood physically or rationally.
    • 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 as he is not hereditary royalty and he is not priesthood.

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