Great Architect of the Universe and its Living Emanation.RhetoricThug wrote:This is the 'leaked' cover of the new year edition of The Economist
Esoteric Tarot cards, Lesser Magick, Kaballah in secret Kabbalah offers a complex symbolic explanation for the origin of the cosmos, and the relationship between God, humankind and the rest of the created material world. According to Kabbalah, all phenomena have their origin in the Ain Sof Aur, or 'Limitless Light,' a mystical term for God as the First Cause or fount of all, neither matter nor spirit but the source of both (the wave & particle). The manifested universe proceeds from the Ain Sof Aur in a series of ten emanations or sefirot (countings), beginning with Kether (the Crown) and ending in Malkuth (the Kingdom), the world of manifest phenomena. Each sefirah represents a different aspect of God, who made the universe in his image. Spiritual enlightenment can be gained by studying the esoteric symbolism of the sefirot and the highly complex relationships and pathways that connect them. These are represented in symbolic form by the kabbalistic "Tree of Life."
The sefirot have been compared to the system of chakras, which like the sefirot are represented visually as spheres that map the ascent of spirit. Both systems offer not only a symbolic explanation of the connection between spirit and matter but also a path to human transformation. The sefirot have also also been related to mythic archetypes and to the cards of the Major Arcana in Tarot.
Fontana, David. "Symbols in Context: Kaballah." The New Secret Language of Symbols: An Illustrated Key to Unlocking Their Deep and Hidden Meanings. London: Duncan Baird, 2010. 38-39. Print. 
Please note, I did not calculate the hypothesis that the 22 major trumps represent the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. If trump sequences represent Hebrew letters, we may be able to formulate a better understanding of its 'code' through Pythagorean numerology. Also, I did not assign each planet or element to the Qabbalistic transcendental magic.The Tarot is undoubtedly a vital element in Rosicrucian symbolism, possibly the very book of universal knowledge which the members of the order claimed to possess. The Rota Mundi is a term frequently occurring in the early manifestoes of the Fraternity of the Rose Cross. The word Rota by a rearrangement of its letters becomes Taro, the ancient name of these mysterious cards. W. F. C. Wigston has discovered evidence that Sir Francis Bacon employed the Tarot symbolism in his ciphers. The numbers 21, 56, and 78, which are all directly related to the divisions of the Tarot deck, are frequently involved in Bacon's cryptograms. In the great Shakespearian Folio of 1623 the Christian name of Lord Bacon appears 21 times on page 56 of the Histories. (See The Columbus of Literature.)
Many symbols appearing upon the Tarot cards have definite Masonic interest. The Pythagorean numerologist will also find an important relationship to exist between the numbers on the cards and the designs accompanying the numbers. The Qabbalist will be immediately impressed by the significant sequence of the cards, and the alchemist will discover certain emblems meaningless save to one versed in the divine chemistry of transmutation and regeneration.' As the Greeks placed the letters of their alphabet--with their corresponding numbers--upon the various parts of the body of their humanly represented Logos, so the Tarot cards have an analogy not only in the parts and members of the universe but also in the divisions of the human body.. They are in fact the key to the magical constitution of man.-Manly P Hall
http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/sta/sta31.htmThe Lightening Struck Tower: Traditionally, The Tower (House of God), the final destruction of obstacles to SELF-realization. The Tower is a pathway or bridge between NETSAH (Victory or Endurance) threshold of becoming (infinite now) and HOD (Splendor or Majesty) the glory of creation that nears fruition with the divine gift of form.
The sixteenth numbered major trump is called Le Feu du Ciel, the Fire of Heaven, and portrays a tower the battlements of which, in the form of a crown, are being destroyed by a bolt of lightning issuing from the sun. The crown, being considerably smaller than the tower which it surmounts, possibly indicates that its destruction resulted from its insufficiency. The lighting bolt sometimes takes the form of the zodiacal sign of Scorpio, and the tower may be considered a phallic emblem. Two figures are failing from the tower, one in front and the other behind. This Tarot card is popularly associated with the traditional fall of man. The divine nature of humanity is depicted as a tower. When his crown is destroyed, man falls into the lower world and takes upon himself the illusion of materiality. Here also is a key to the mystery of sex. The tower is supposedly filled with gold coins which, showering out in great numbers from the rent made by the lightning bolt, suggesting potential powers. In the pseudo-Egyptian Tarot the tower is a pyramid, its apex shattered by a lightning bolt. Here is a reference to the missing capstone of the Universal House. In support of Levi's contention that this card is connected with the Hebrew letter Ayin, the failing figure in the foreground is similar in general appearance to the sixteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.-Manly P Hall
Personal Observation: The Economist's Tower may represent Albert Pike's pathway between the Masonic pillars of Severity(Boaz) and Mercy (Jachin), The two columns of Solomon's temple (Male and Female principles). Albert Pike allegedly wrote:
'During the Second World War, international communism must become strong enough in order to balance Christendom, which would be then restrained and held in check until the time when we would need it for the final social cataclysm.'Judgement: Traditionally, Judgment may represent some kind of successful transformation. Judgment is a pathway or bridge between MALKUTH (The Kingdom or material plane) and HOD.
The twentieth numbered major trump is called Le Jugement, the judgment, and portrays three figures rising apparently from their tombs, though but one coffin is visible. Above them in a blaze of glory is a winged figure (presumably the Angel Gabriel) blowing a trumpet. This Tarot represents the liberation of man's threefold spiritual nature from the sepulcher of his material constitution. Since but one-third of the spirit actually enters the physical body, the other two-thirds constituting the Hermetic anthropos or overman, only one of the three figures is actually rising from the tomb. Court de Gébelin believes that the coffin may have been an afterthought of the card makers and that the scene actually represents creation rather than resurrection, In philosophy these two words are practically synonymous. The blast of the trumpet represents the Creative Word, by the intoning of which man is liberated from his terrestrial limitations. In the pseudo-Egyptian Tarot it is evident that the three figures signify the parts of a single being, for three mummies are shown emerging from one mummy case.-Manly P Hall
Personal Observation: Here we see Trump, sitting on earth as an archetypal form of judgement. Noting a return to HOD, the majestic principle of Patriarchal rule.
The World: Traditionally, The World may represent completion, wholeness, liberation, freedom, or the transformed sun (XXI, number 21, or 2+1=3, the triangle = strongest form). The World (or Universe) is a pathway or bridge (up the pillar of Balance) between MALKUTH and YESOD (The Foundation, where spirit is transformed into material reality).
The twenty-first numbered major trump is called Le Monde, the World, and portrays a female figure draped with a scarf which the wind blows into the form of the Hebrew letter Kaph. Her extended hands--each of which holds a wand--and her left leg, which crosses behind the right, cause the figure to assume the form of the alchemical symbol of sulphur. The central figure is surrounded by a wreath in the form of a vesica piscis which Levi likens to the Qabbalistic crown Kether. The Cherubim of Ezekiel's vision occupy the corners of the card. This Tarot is called the Microcosm and the Macrocosm because in it are summed up every agency contributing to the structure of creation. The figure in the form Of the emblem of sulphur represents the divine fire and the heart of the Great Mystery. The wreath is Nature, which surrounds the fiery center. The Cherubim represent the elements, worlds, forces, and planes issuing out of the divine fiery center of life. The wreath signifies the crown of the initiate which is given to those who master the four guardians and enter into the presence of unveiled Truth. In the pseudo-Egyptian Tarot the Cherubim surround a wreath composed of twelve trifoliate flowers--the decanates of the zodiac. A human figure kneels below this wreath, playing upon a harp of three strings, for the spirit must create harmony in the triple constitution of its inferior nature before it can gain for itself the solar crown of immortality.-Manly P Hall
Personal Observation: The Masonic sun radiates through the foundation of the world, following a cycle of cosmic duality, a playground for man's imagination, where all thoughts take FORM.
The Hermit: Traditionally, The Hermit may represent contemplation of truth, self-sufficiency, moral living, and independence. The Hermit is a pathway or bridge between TIFERET (Beauty or Harmony, with which all things are endowed) and HESED (Grace or Mercy, divine universal and unconditional loving kindness).
The ninth numbered major trump is called L'Hermite, the Hermit, and portrays an aged man, robed in a monkish habit and cowl, leaning on a staff. This card was popularly supposed to represent Diogenes in his quest for an honest man. In his right hand the recluse carries a lamp which he partly conceals within the folds of his cape. The hermit thereby personifies the secret organizations which for uncounted centuries have carefully concealed the light of the Ancient Wisdom from the profane. The staff of the hermit is knowledge, which is man's main and only enduring support. Sometimes the mystic rod is divided by knobs into seven sections, a subtle reference to the mystery of the seven sacred centers along the human spine. In the pseudo-Egyptian Tarot the hermit shields the lamp behind a rectangular cape to emphasize the philosophic truth that wisdom, if exposed to the fury of ignorance, would be destroyed like the tiny flame of a lamp unprotected from the storm. Man's bodies form a cloak through which his divine nature is faintly visible like the flame of the partly covered lantern. Through renunciation--the Hermetic life--man attains depth of character and tranquility of spirit.-Manly P Hall
Personal Observation: The Profane consciously and unconsciously wish to stop globalization, in the name of Mercy, autonomy, and self-sufficiency.
Death: Traditionally, Death (XIII or the number 13) may represent misfortune, change, or severing ties with the old SELF. Death is a pathway or bridge between NETSAH and TIFERET.
The thirteenth numbered major trump is called La Mort, Death, and portrays a reaping skeleton with a great scythe cutting off the heads, hands, and feet rising out of the earth about it. In the course of its labors the skeleton has apparently cut off one of its own feet. Not all Tarot decks show this peculiarity, but this point well emphasizes the philosophic truth that unbalance and destructiveness are synonymous. The skeleton is the proper emblem of the first and supreme Deity because it is the foundation of the body, as the Absolute is the foundation of creation. The reaping skeleton physically signifies death but philosophically that irresistible impulse in Nature which causes every being to be ultimately absorbed into the divine condition in which it existed before the illusionary universe had been manifested. The blade of the scythe is the moon with its crystallizing power. The field in which death reaps is the universe, and the card discloses that all things growing out of the earth shall be cut down and return to earth again.
Kings, Queens, courtesans, and knaves are alike to death, the master of the visible and a parent parts of all creatures. In some Tarot decks death is symbolized as a figure in armor mounted on a white horse which tramples under foot old and young alike. In the pseudo-Egyptian Tarot a rainbow is seen behind the figure of death, thus signifying that the mortality of the body of itself achieves the immortality of the spirit. Death, though it destroys form, can never destroy life, which continually renews itself. This card is the symbol of the constant renovation of the universe--disintegration that reintegration may follow upon a higher level of expression.-Manly P Hall
Personal Observation: The planetary elite will not be afraid of change, and may use material force to control the outcome of Death. The solar radiation spreads across Death.
The Magician: Traditionally, The Magician may represent creativity and powers of alchemical SELF-transformation. The Magician is a pathway or bridge between BINAH (Understanding, the womb of becoming or the mystical mother of creation) and KETHER (The Crown or first emanation, the potential of all existence, radiant with
Ain Sof Aur).
The first numbered major trump is called Le Bateleur, the juggler, and according to Court de Gébelin, indicates the entire fabric of creation to be but a dream, existence a juggling of divine elements, and life a perpetual game of hazard. The seeming miracles of Nature are but feats of cosmic legerdemain. Man is like the little ball in the hands of the juggler, who waves his wand and, presto! the ball vanishes. The world looking on does not realize that the vanished article is still cleverly concealed by the juggler in the hollow of his hand. This is also the Adept whom Omar Khayyám calls "the master of the show." His message is that the wise direct the phenomena of Nature and are never deceived thereby.
The magician stands behind a table on which are spread out a number of objects, prominent among them a cup--the Holy Grail and the cup placed by Joseph in Benjamin's sack; a coin--the tribute money and the wages of a Master Builder, and a sword, that of Goliath and also the mystic blade of the philosopher which divides the false from the true. The magician's hat is in the form of the cosmic lemniscate, signifying the first motion of creation. His right hand points to the earth, his left holds aloft the rod of Jacob and also the staff that budded--the human spine crowned with the globe of creative intelligence. In the pseudo-Egyptian Tarot the magician wears an uræus or golden band around his forehead, the table before him is in the form of a perfect cube, and his girdle is the serpent of eternity devouring its own tail.-Manly P Hall
Personal Observation: Playing off "Lady Justice," The Magician will use technological alchemy to transform the condition of justice for the profane/masses. The
un-begun may be blinded by the justice of virtual reality and material reality will be transformed through a click of a button. The Crown chakra may be controlled scientifically.
The Wheel of Fortune: Traditionally, The Wheel of Fortune may represent dynamic movement, and the acceptance of change for the better or worse (worldly wisdom). The Wheel of Fortune is a pathway or bridge between NETSAH and HESED.
The tenth numbered major trump is called La Roue de Fortune, the Wheel of Fortune, and portrays a mysterious wheel with eight spokes--the familiar Buddhist symbol of the Cycle of Necessity. To its rim cling Anubis and Typhon--the principles of good and evil. Above sits the immobile sphinx, carrying the sword of Justice and signifying the perfect equilibrium of Universal Wisdom. Anubis is shown rising and Typhon descending; but when Typhon reaches the bottom, evil ascends again, and when Anubis reaches the top good wanes once more. The Wheel of Fortune represents the lower universe as a whole with Divine Wisdom (the sphinx) as the eternal arbiter between good and evil. In India, the chakra, or wheel, is associated with the life centers either of a world or of an individual. In the pseudo-Egyptian Tarot the Sphinx is armed with a javelin, and Typhon is being thrown from the wheel. The vertical columns, supporting the wheel and so placed that but one is visible, represent the axis of the world with the inscrutable sphinx upon its northern pole. Sometimes the wheel with its supports is in a boat upon the water. The water is the Ocean of Illusion, which is the sole foundation of the Cycle of Necessity.-Manly P Hall
Personal Observation: The Wheel house of political manipulation, state-craft or stagecraft may maintain victory for the ruling class while delivering mercy through political structure.
The Star(s): Traditionally, The Star may represent the beginnings of spiritual transcendence. The Star is a pathway or bridge between YESOD and NETSAH.
The seventeenth numbered major trump is called Les Etoiles, the Stars, and portrays a young girl kneeling with one foot in water and the other on and, her body somewhat suggesting the swastika. She has two urns, the contents of which she pours upon the land and sea. Above the girl's head are eight stars, one of which is exceptionally large and bright. Count de Gébelin considers the great star to be Sothis or Sirius; the other seven are the sacred planets of the ancients. He believes the female figure to be Isis in the act of causing the inundations of the Nile which accompanied the rising of the Dog Star. The unclothed figure of Isis may well signify that Nature does not receive her garment of verdure until the rising of the Nile waters releases the germinal life of plants and flowers. The bush and bird (or butterfly) signify the growth and resurrection which accompany the rising of the waters. In the pseudo-Egyptian Tarot the great star contains a diamond composed of a black and white triangle, and the flowering bush is a tall plant with a trifoliate head upon which a butterfly alights. Here Isis is in the form of an upright triangle and the vases have become shallow cups. The elements of water and earth under her feet represent the opposites of Nature sharing impartially in the divine abundance.-Manly P Hall
Personal Observation: Note the symbology, stars, the moon and one comet... In many cultures the stars have been held to influence the lives of humans. Individual stars might represent seeds of life or pinpricks of divine light beyond the celestial plane. The moon is one feminine symbol. Comets and meteors are universally seen as omens, heralding momentous events on Earth or in the cosmos. The Star card may represent globalism, and the multi-cultural Millennials reshaping global culture/society.
Personal Conclusion International power struggle, SELF revelation, and global Techno-sorcery. Remember,
As Above so Below, the Micro forms the Macro and the Macro influences the Micro, you are one working part of the whole/Universe.
-The Universe
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In the future (the future is now) artificial intelligence will do the heavy lifting, thus AI will replace the precarious proletariat.
It shall be non-violent, silent, and oh so beautiful. 
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