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Major Arcana
The Lovers

VI - The LoversCard Description(s):

This symbol has undergone many variations, as might be expected from its subject.
  • In the eighteenth century form, by which it first became known to the world of archæological research, it is really a card of married life, showing father and mother, with their child placed between them; and the pagan Cupid above, in the act of flying his shaft, is, of course, a misapplied emblem.
  • The Cupid is of love beginning rather than of love in its fullness, guarding the fruit thereof.
  • The card is said to have been entitled Simulacyum Fidei, (the symbol of conjugal faith).
  • The figures are also held to have signified Truth, Honour and Love.

Inner Symbolism(s):

  • The sun shines in the zenith, and beneath is a great winged figure with arms extended, pouring down influences.
  • In the foreground are two human figures, male and female, unveiled before each other, as if Adam and Eve when they first occupied the paradise of the earthly body.
  • Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
  • The figures suggest youth, virginity, innocence and love before it is contaminated by gross material desire.
  • This is in all simplicity the card of human love, here exhibited as part of the way, the truth and the life.

  • It replaces, by recourse to first principles, the old card of marriage and the later follies which depicted man between vice and virtue.
  • In a very high sense, the card is a mystery of the Covenant and Sabbath.
  • The suggestion in respect of the woman is that she signifies that attraction towards the sensitive life which carries within it the idea of the Fall of Man, but she is rather the working of a Secret Law of Providence than a willing and conscious temptress. It is through her imputed lapse that man shall arise ultimately, and only by her can he complete himself.
  • The card is therefore, in its way, another intimation concerning the great mystery of womanhood.

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