SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION

Or
From The Fool to The Hermit Part One
I asked Suzzan if I might introduce this thesis because of its crucial nature in
understanding Spiritual Evolution and because as the layman of the two of us, I might
use that perspective which she has far surpassed to share some helpful hints about the
format that might seem peculiar to the reader at first. The information that follows is
learning spanning 13 years of study condensed into the following exposé, which is fast
moving and packed with possibly unfamiliar correlations. Diagrams have been
included (I suggest you refer to them often) and some unconventional use of
(parentheses) denoting associations between aspects and objects so that information
flow may be less encumbered. This is not light reading and is best digested slowly in
study; with that said however, we feel just one read will leave you with possible new
insights.

Over the years I have often wondered about the terms of Spirit, Soul and Higher
Self. The definitions of the first two had been answered when I understood that the
Spirit is from God and the Soul is from the Astrological powers, but what of the Higher
Self? My first question was is the Higher Self the Soul or the Spirit? I learned that the
answer to that is neither. My second question was, does all life on Earth contain a
Higher Self? I learned that this answer was a little more complicated, as it all depends
on consciousness. All life on Earth does contain a Higher Self, but in lower
consciousnesses it is still developing. For instance, although the Animal Kingdom is
the first time the Higher Self becomes active, because animals are the first level of
individual consciousness they can only react to stimuli and display emotion.
Consequently, as they are not self aware, the animal Higher Self in most cases remains
dormant. It doesn’t become fully activated until it reaches the human stage. First
though, I needed to determine what the Higher Self is and more especially what is its
function. From the very beginning I had been confused over the expressions Higher
Self, Spirit, Life Principle and Spark of God. At first I had tried to understand the
Higher Self from the Hindu esoteric concept of the seven principles or the seven main
chakras, but this system assigns the highest to the crown or top of the head and I’d been
clearly shown that now the heart is the highest level. The most amazing thing I
discovered was that there are three levels to the Higher Self.
Foremost, it was necessary for me to realize that Spiritual Evolution, like
physical evolution is dynamic and although it can remain in what appears as a static
state for eons, it is also capable of making huge leaps or advances in a relatively short
period of time. This is such a time.
(Note: I should state that the information I’m discussing here was reserved for
the initiates of secret mystery schools. Now, as most of the Human Race is capable of
grasping deeper concepts, it is time to openly reveal it to all. True a familiarity with the
22 Major Arcana cards of the Tarot and the Kabbalistic Tree of Life is beneficial, but it
is not obligatory. The only necessary requirement is an open mind to the possibility of
the Tarot being so much more than a tool for defining your fortune. I endeavor to

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explain each term in detail; so don’t be overwhelmed if the terms I use are unfamiliar to
you at first. If you bear with me, it will become clear.)
God told me that Spiritual Revelation is like a rose bud. At first we only sense
the beauty inside, but gradually as the Sun’s rays warm the petals it slowly opens each
precious petal, revealing the glory and wonder of the flower. It is then that the rose
attracts the butterfly or bee to pollinate it and transform the rose into a new rose-bush.
This is exemplified in the development of Islamic Sufism. Nonetheless, every religion
has gone through this process. Christianity, through Mysticism; Greek Philosophy and
Gnosticism through the Egyptian and Eleusian mysteries; Judaism, through Kabbalism,
Greek Mystery schools and Chaldean Zoroastrianism; Buddhism through incorporating
Taoism and Confucianism and last but by no means least Hinduism, through Eastern
Mysticism and Esotericism. I came to understand that to learn what the Higher Self is
and spiritually evolve we need to unite them All. This is exemplified through the
ancient Wisdom Religion, which is the secret teaching behind all religions and
philosophies.
To fully grasp this, I needed to return to the beginning of my journey. Outside
Jerusalem April 4th 1994 I heard, “Today is the unification of All Religions.” Like so
many times, I didn’t understand how this would happen until much later. In fact it
wasn’t until I read Reza Aslan’s No god but God and really saw the contribution the
Islamic Sufis made to spiritual Truth that the clouds, (metaphorically speaking) began
to disperse. Still, I wasn’t going to truly understand until the morning of New Years
Day 2007. Then God showed me what I needed to incorporate in this appendix. In
addition I learned that the key to understanding the Higher Self is through mysticism,
which is hidden in the mystical side of several major religions and the philosophers and
alchemist’s teaching on the Philosophers’ Stone. The mystical side of Judaism is the
Kabbalistic Tree of Life or Sephirot. For the Christian religion it is the Gnostic
Valentinian teachings on Sophia. The Taoist teaching on the elements and the Buddhist
concept of detachment from suffering are essential; as are the Islamic Sufi teachings on
self-annihilation and union with the Divine.
I must reiterate that all the World’s religions are involved; especially those
designated as Pagan. This is because the “pagans” understood the natural forces,
particularly as they react with astrology and the seasons. Still, as many of the above are
either offshoots or successors of their “pagan ancestors,” I ask your forgiveness if I
don’t mention every spiritual or religious sect in unlocking the main teaching.
What absolutely amazed me was that the Kabbalistic Tarot holds nearly all the
information we need to understand the definition and purpose of the Higher Self in our
Spiritual Evolution. Considering the Church’s condemnation of the Tarot, with one of
the many designations being “the Devil’s tool,” at first I found this astounding. In fact I
can remember thinking when I first read The Rabbi’s Tarot by Daphna Moore that
assigning notes and colors to the cards seemed pointless. That was before I received the
Hidden Codes of Life, which are the means to unlock everyone’s spiritual potential. Let
me explain. I was shown that by using seven disciplines of Astrology, Numerology,
Tarot, Color, Stones, Symbols and Notes, in respect to a person’s birth date and present
name, reveals the Hidden Codes of his or her life, which helps to unmask his or her
spiritual purpose on Earth. It is through the twenty-two Major Arcana cards that the
Codes are deciphered.

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 Several writers have tried to tackle the Tarot from a spiritual perspective, but
the one God led me to and the one I found most helpful was Daphna Moore. I have
quoted from her The Rabbi’s Tarot extensively throughout both this book and The True
Philosophers’ Stone, and again here I am going to use her descriptions for the Major
Arcana to determine what the Higher Self is. She equates the Higher Self with the
Hierophant, but that is the 6th card in the Major Arcana, (although it is numbered 5 in
the Tarot); five cards have gone before; what are they? We start with card 0, The Fool.

The Fool according to Daphna Moore represents the Hebrew

letter Aleph, meaning ox, the element Air, bright pale yellow and the
planet Uranus. Most people, including Daphna Moore believe that The
Fool represents on the human level, the pre-incarnate spirit. I’d also
discovered in my studies that Paracelsus, the famous alchemist believed
that the body came from the earth: the soul from the stars and the spirit
from God. If Paracelsus were taken literally then he would appear to be
saying that the Spirit and Soul are from different places.

However, I’d been shown how both Paracelsus and Daphna Moore could be
correct. It involves understanding that the Spirit is within the Soul. The Spirit or Spark
of God is immersed in the Life Principle of the Earth, which includes all life, but the
Spirit only becomes available through the Spiritual Soul. The Fool gazing up at a White
Sun in the card is carrying this information. According to Ms. Moore apart from the
Spiritual Plane, this can also represent the Abstract or Archetypal Plane. Consequently
I see The Fool representing on the human level, the Spiritual Soul, which equates to the
6th principle/chakra or buddhi in Hindu/Buddhist teachings.
Traditionally there are four planes on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life incorporating
the ten Sephirot. With respect to creation, God showed me that Kether or Crown
denotes the Union of the Christ and Sophia before the creation of the universe. So I
take it to mean that the Spiritual Soul (The Fool) is the potential Super-Consciousness
or Christ-Consciousness, hidden within a human being. If you think of the Archetypal
plane as representing the spark of an idea; the Creative as bringing that idea into
consciousness; the Formative as bringing forth the image and finally, the Active as
bringing that idea to fruition. See Diagram 1 below:

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Diagram I The traditional Tree of Life

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 The Magician according to Daphna Moore represents the
Hebrew letter Beth, meaning house, air, Yellow and the planet Mercury.
The Magician isn’t as easy to categorize as The Fool. Ms. Moore
describes it as representing the Will, the Self-Conscious and Intellect. In
thinking about this, I was reminded that the ego is connected to the self,
so The Magician is also the source of the lower ego or counterfeit spirit.

What is really interesting is that both The Fool and The Magician represent the
element air and the color yellow. Plus the planet Mercury is associated with both cards,
because The Magician represents the planet Mercury, whereas The Fool’s planet is
Uranus, which is the higher octave of Mercury. The color yellow, the planet Mercury
and the element air in esoteric teaching denote anything of the mind or mental plane.
This means the ego/counterfeit spirit resides in the mind. This is because; the Will (The
Magician) is dual, with one side being of the Divine and the other of the ego/counterfeit
spirit. Which side rules you is determined by the Intellect, which sits between the two
and is the interface with the personality/body through the brain. Traditionally, on the
Kabbalistic Tree of Life, Mercury is assigned to Hod or Splendor, the eighth Sephirot,
but on a higher level, The Magician as Divine Will is best represented by the second
Sephirot Chokmah or Wisdom. Chokmah denotes the planetoid Chiron and the Christ
separated from Sophia, but this is still before the creation of the universe. The Magician
is only Hod at its lower level or the human Will, unpurified. (I will return to this later.)
All of the great teachers have taught that in order to change the world we first
have to change ourselves. To give us a visual aid, the ancient teachers divided the
twenty-two Major Arcana of the Tarot into what is referred to as a Tarot Tableau
consisting of three rows of seven cards, with The Fool presiding over the tableau.
Daphna Moore says that the first row, consisting of The Magician, The High Priestess,
The Empress, The Emperor, The Hierophant, The Lovers and The Chariot represents
THE CHIEF PRINCIPLES OF CONSCIOUSNESS. The second row, consisting of
Strength, The Hermit, The Wheel of Fortune, Justice, The Hanged Man, Death and
Temperance represent THE CHIEF LAWS OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND OF THE
UNIVERSE. The third row, consisting of, The Devil, The Tower, The Star, The Moon,
The Sun, Judgment and The World represent THE CONSEQUENCE OF YOUR
USING THOSE LAWS, AND WHAT YOU HAVE ACCOMPLISHED.1 Another
significant point is the division of the twenty-two cards into Mother, Double and
Simple Hebrew letters. There are three Mother letters, which represent the elements of
Air, Water and Fire. Seven cards are assigned to Double letters, which represent the
Seven Sacred Planets of Mercury, The Moon, Venus, Jupiter, Mars, The Sun and
Saturn. The remaining twelve cards are allocated to twelve simple letters, which
represent the twelve sun-signs of the Zodiac. The relevance of the different Hebrew
letters will become apparent as we proceed, but for now it will help to familiarize
yourself with the Tarot Tableau, which is produced below.

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 Through the first seven cards we are shown the conscious evolution of the
human race. Still, if we look at The Magician and Strength card we can observe the
symbol for infinity over both of the figures heads. This symbol is also associated with
the axiom AS ABOVE SO BELOW, AS BELOW SO ABOVE.
Ancient wisdom taught the cards/trumps 0,1,2 and 3 related to the macrocosm
as well as the microcosm. The Will represented by The Magician, applies to the
Creator’s Will as well as the personal Will. Others have said that The Magician also
symbolizes the Logos or Word. This could be seen as when an individual brings his or
her personal Will into alignment with the Creator’s Will, he or she participates as a true
co-creator, with the result of bringing to reality the paradise the world is capable of
being. Unfortunately because a large number of individuals are using their personal
wills for the lower self or ego, the result is chaos.

Card number two, The High Priestess according to Daphna

Moore represents the Hebrew letter Gimel, meaning camel, water, light
blue and the Moon. From the macrocosmic perspective, The High
Priestess introduces the Universal Subconscious. Ms. Moore equates
The High Priestess with Cosmic memory. In esoteric terms the color
blue, water and the Moon denote emotion.

Remembering that Sophia’s emotions of fear, grief, ignorance and confusion

became our four elements shows how The High Priestess can represent Sophia. Also
God had shown me that although the Moon is assigned to Yesod - Foundation, which is
the ninth Sephirot, as the representation of Sophia, she is also associated with Daath.
However, as this incorporates both the macrocosm and the microcosm, I will return to
The High Priestess (Universal Subconscious) or Sophia as Daath later.
Traditionally, The High Priestess has been thought to represent the third
Sephirot Binah, this Sephirot is neither masculine nor feminine, he/she is androgynous,
incorporating both active and passive elements into his/her makeup. I didn’t understand
this aspect of The High Priestess (Universal Subconscious) until God showed me the
role of Christ and Sophia. In the chapter Whence the Origin of Evil in LOVE THE
COMMON DENOMINATOR: My Journey to the Truth (LCD) I related that before
Sophia could return to the Pleroma, the emotions she experienced during her separation
from her partner, (What has been Willed) were expelled from Sophia’s being. This is
where things became tricky. Due to the elements being outside the Pleroma and
containing Sophia’s essence, they were of a dual nature, spiritual and material. They
also contained elements from the Ogdoad, intelligence from Nous or Mind and the Life
Principle from Life. And so to redeem her residue, after The Christ joined her, they
brought forth the Demiurge. The Gnostics called the Demiurge Ialdaboath, who was the
Creator and God of the Old Testament and worshiped throughout the world under
various names.
Many Kabbalists associate the Demiurge with the planet Saturn, which they
assign to the third Sephirot, Binah. This is interesting because the Jewish Sabbath is
held on Saturn’s Day or Saturday. Binah is also associated with the Egyptian goddess

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Isis as this Sephirot is also known as the Great Mother. Furthermore, Binah is also
believed by many Kabbalists to be the Creator of the universe. I can almost see the
male Jewish High Priests pulling their hair out. Still the problem arises when we think
of the creative forces in terms of gender as in gods and goddesses. If instead we adopt
the Valentinian’s teaching of the active/masculine and passive/feminine for the creative
forces we don’t run into so much trouble.
After the creation of the universe, The High Priestess (Universal Subconscious)
from the microcosmic perspective represents your subconscious memory helplessly
recording every hope and desire. She cannot influence you to change, but if you give
her consistent images she can assist you to fulfill your goals. At the macrocosmic level
The High Priestess represents Divine Wisdom, or Sophia before her fall and
redemption. She holds the potential that becomes realized in union with The Magician
(Self Conscious/Will) becoming blended into The Empress.
Bringing in the Valentinians and Gnosticism we can apply it to gain further
understanding about the reunion of The Magician (Logos/Christ) and The High
Priestess (Sophia) after creation. The Good News: An Alternate Theory reported that
the Gnostic Pleroma was waiting for the human race to develop intellect in order to
rescue Sophia’s emotions. To recap: Sophia united with the Christ transforming her
fear into water, her grief into air, her confusion into earth and her ignorance into fire.
These four elements were then used to create everything in the universe. With the
employment of the energies from card 3 - The Empress, (Individual Subconscious)
which occurs through the union of cards 1 – The Magician and 2 – The High Priestess,
the images of The Magician can be manifested on the physical or material plane.
To return to The High Priestess as Daath; many depictions of the Tree of Life
include Daath, meaning knowledge as a vaguely defined broken-lined-circle, which is
not included as a Sephirot. Normally this is placed in the center directly beneath Kether
or Crown. However, God showed me that an aspect of Daath/Knowledge also
represents Sophia before the creation of the universe. Consequently, she could also be
placed in the highest Sephirot on the left-hand pillar of severity in the place of Binah or
Understanding.
Whether or not The High Priestess (Universal Subconscious) is Daath depends
on whether we were talking about before creation or after. This was a little confusing
for me; so let me tell you how I sorted it out. After Sophia left the Pleroma she joined
with the Christ to turn her emotions into the elements. Then she separated from him to
become an aspect of Daath. Then Christ as Chokmah and Sophia as Daath brought
forth the Demiurge or Creator. After the Big Bang Sophia became united with the
Christ again, guiding the Creator and creation. At this time Sophia is The High
Priestess in the form of Binah. Daath remains within Binah in a dormant state.

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 Daphna Moore also equates The High Priestess with the Holy
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Ghost. I will deal with this later, but for now let us move on. After
The High Priestess, (Universal Subconscious), which incidentally is
the only time she appears by herself, we come to the next card, card 3 -
The Empress representing according to Ms. Moore the Hebrew letter
Daleth, meaning door, earth, Venus, the Creative Imagination and the
Individual Subconscious. The number and color of this card is the
means to understanding its importance.

First the number three is the combination of the three previous cards; 0+1+2=3,
which incorporates the entire macrocosm and second the color green is the combination
of yellow, The Fool (Spiritual Soul) and The Magician (Self-conscious) and blue The
High Priestess (Universal Subconscious). Ms. Moore relates that the female figure, in
card number 3 appears throughout the Major Arcana Tableau. She appears with The
High Priestess in The Hierophant; The Magician in The Lovers; with a lion in Strength,
combined with The High Priestess in Justice and again combined with The High
Priestess in The Star. Ms. Moore goes on to explain that “The root of the self-conscious
mind is THE MAGICIAN; the root of the subconscious mind is THE EMPRESS. THE
MAGICIAN perfected, united with the Higher Self, and THE EMPRESS perfected,
united with THE HIGH PRIESTESS, are the two aspects of the super-conscious in
us.”3
Without going into this too deeply, as I will try to explain the different levels
later, The Empress (Creative Imagination) on a macrocosmic level represents Nature or
all material creation. Remembering the four Kabbalistic planes, this would be in the
Assiah or Active plane. At one level higher, or in the Yesod or Formative Plane, The
Empress represents Sophia operating in the Soul Plane. From the microcosmic or
human consciousness level, Daphna’s statement about the union of The High Priestess
and The Empress in The Star, could be interpreted as saying when you unite your High
Priestess (Universal Subconscious) with your Empress (Individual Subconscious) she,
The Empress can materialize your Magician’s (Intellect/Will) images. To put into an
even more basic way, if you unite both aspects of the subconscious, your Creative
Imagination will materialize your Self-conscious’ dreams or visions. This is where
Daath comes in again.
Dion Fortune the author of The Mystical Qabalah4 was born during the Age of
enlightenment and like H.P. Blavatsky saw that Christianity needed to be reunited with
its mystical roots in the Qabalah.
(Note: Something needs to be said about Dion Fortune’s book, before I
continue. It is important to keep in mind that she wrote her book between WWI and
WWII and it is predominantly a manual on using the Sephirotic Tree of Life for magic.
This is crucial because this was before the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in
1945. In her book Ms Fortune advocates invoking outside powers to assist you. When
she wrote the book there were safeguards in place to protect the unaware of being
influenced or worse possessed by anything, unless deliberately sought. In the chapter
Origin of Evil in LCD, I related that with the dropping of the atom bombs, we reversed
creation. Now those safeguards are gone and the uninitiated can cause real harm to both
themselves and others. Having said that, Ms Fortune’s book can be invaluable to those

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seeking answers to spiritual questions and as long as you don’t engage in any magic or
ceremony you are perfectly safe.)
In reading her masterpiece, The Mystical Qabalah, both Craig and I were
surprised that we didn’t read anything written by her until the beginning of 2007. Still,
neither Craig nor I determined what books we read, let alone the order they were read
in. However, after reading Ms, Fortune’s book I understood why we hadn’t read it until
after I’d written the outline for this thesis. More importantly we read the new edition,
which wasn’t published until 2000.
The most startling thing I gleaned from Ms. Fortune’s book was that each
Sephirot conceals a miniaturized Tree of Life within it, which includes a Daath. She
related “So by virtue of the great Wisdom and Realization that it holds, Daath embraces
the Sphere of Justice: Justice at the supreme level, the absolute balancing point of the
smallest atom in relationship with furthest and largest sun…”5

At first in reading this, I wasn’t sure whether The High Priestess

(Universal Subconscious) or The Empress (Individual Subconscious)
represented Daath. That is because, although card 11 - Justice is the
union of card 2 - The High Priestess and card 3 - The Empress, both the
color and its corresponding planet, Venus indicates the predominance of
card 3 - The Empress. Yet the number 11, which is the number of Justice
reduces to 2 and therefore associates it with The High Priestess. I
learned that the answer is concealed in the Hebrew letters of the name
Daath with respect to the Tarot.

Daath is the combination of the Hebrew letters Daleth, Ayin and Tau. In the
Tarot, card 3 - The Empress is assigned to Daleth, card 15 - The Devil is assigned to
Ayin and card 21 - The World is assigned to Tau. Both The Devil and The World
contain the energy of Saturn and Saturn was thought to represent Binah, which is also
associated with the goddess Isis. Nonetheless, the planet most associated with Isis is
Venus. So the strongest planetary vibration for Daath is Venus. This is because The
Empress has Daleth meaning door as its Hebrew letter, and The Empress at the highest
level represents The Holy Spirit.
The planet Venus rules two sun-signs, Taurus and Libra. Card 11 - Justice is
assigned to Libra, which is the quintessential symbol for justice. However, it is The
Empress (Individual Subconscious or Creative Imagination) as Venus united with The
High Priestess (Universal Subconscious or Memory) that constitutes Justice.
Remembering that Daath is “Justice at the supreme level” does this mean card 11 –
Justice represents Daath? The logical conclusion would be yes, but this is where the
different Hebrew letters come in. Card 11 – Justice is only assigned the simple letter
Lamed, whereas The Empress is assigned to the double letter Daleth. Consequently,
because The Empress represents the planet Venus and not just a sun-sign the planet
rules, “she” is the strongest influence for the planet, rather than Justice. Still, The High
Priestess is also assigned to a double letter, the Hebrew double letter Gimel, but instead
of the planet Venus, the planet The High Priestess represents is The Moon. As a result,
it is The Empress that represents Daath.

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 Irrespective of the above information, for now I am describing Spiritual
Evolution at the microcosmic level and at that level, the above information shows
clearly that the two aspects of the subconscious become united. It is from this point on
that The High Priestess isn’t mentioned alone again. Having said that; we spiritually
evolve by uniting not only the two forms of the sub-conscious, but also uniting the
Universal Sub-conscious (Memory) with the Self-conscious, which leads to the
development of Creative Imagination. The uniting of the three consciousnesses results
in the development of both inductive and deductive reasoning, which leads me to the
next card.
In the Tarot the male counterpart to The Empress (Individual Subconscious or
Creative Imagination) is her consort, The Emperor. Ms. Moore has this card
representing the Hebrew letter Heh, meaning window, sight, fire, the color red and the
sun sign Aries, which is ruled by the planet Mars. This is the first time the color red and
the element fire is introduced in the Tarot. Red epitomizes action and passion and is a
valuable key to unlocking Spiritual Evolution.
Moreover, in the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, Mars represents the fifth Sephirot,
Geburah meaning Severity or Strength. Interestingly, Geburah isn’t the head of the
pillar of Severity, Binah is.

The picture of The Emperor conjures up images of a creative

God like Zeus. But Zeus wasn’t Mars; he was Jupiter. It is in the element
the two planets represent that this dilemma is solved. Both Jupiter and
Mars are of the Fire element, but whereas Mars is on the Pillar of
Severity, Jupiter is on the Pillar of Mercy. In this way, the Kabbalists
were saying that the Creator incorporated both judgment and mercy.

As both of these Sephirot fall in the Creative Plane of the Tree of Life, at the
macrocosmic level The Emperor represents two Sephirot, Geburah and Chesed or
Severity and Mercy. Also, because they both represent the element fire and as the
scientific consensus is that creation began in fire, it seems appropriate to assign the
active side of the Creator of the universe to The Emperor and both Jupiter and Mars.
Yod Heh Vav Heh, the Hebrew spelling of the Creator has two Heh’s. Ms.
Moore says that one Heh represents inductive reasoning, whilst the other Heh
represents deductive reasoning. I wasn’t sure what the difference was so I looked up
the two meanings in Webster’s. In a nutshell, inductive reasoning is taking in from
observation of the exterior, whereas, deductive is dissecting that information from
within to ascertain a conclusion. In other words from an evolutionary perspective, the
two aspects of Reason or The Emperor united is of both the self-conscious and
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 And so we come to the card number five, The Hierophant, which
represents the Higher Self, intuition, Venus, the Hebrew letter Vav,
meaning nail and the color Red-Orange. Daphna Moore says The
Hierophant shows how your two aspects of the subconscious The High
Priestess and The Empress learn to listen to the Higher Self, 6 but I said
there were three aspects to the Higher Self, which one is The
Hierophant?

It is the color, sun-sign and symbol assigned to The Hierophant that identifies it
as an aspect of the Higher Self. First the sun-sign assigned is Taurus, whose symbol is
the bull. Remember the meaning of the Hebrew letter Aleph assigned to The Fool
(Spiritual Soul) is the ox. The ox is the domesticated bull that cooperates with
humanity, whereas the bull epitomizes self-will or stubbornness. The message here is
that it is humanity’s purpose to tame the will. How is that done? Here the color
assigned to the card gives the answer. Red-Orange is produced by two parts red/fire
and one part yellow/air. Ms. Moore uses the symbol for Vav, nail and the
Tetragrammaton (Yod Heh Vav Heh) to show the purpose of The Hierophant. She
writes, “In the word Yod Heh Vav Heh you see at once that the Vav connects the two
Heh’s…”7 Vav or The Hierophant represents the Will or The Magician on a higher
level connecting both inductive and deductive reasoning, the two Heh’s.
As I’ve already said, Heh is assigned to The Emperor (Reason) but it is the
addition of the color yellow and the symbol of the ox that shows who The Hierophant
is; it is the higher aspect of The Magician (Self-conscious).
The Hierophant or (Higher Self) is depicted as a masculine figure in the card.
This is surprising because there is an overwhelming feminine or passive aspect to The
Hierophant. First, the sun-sign assigned to card 5 – The Hierophant is Taurus, which is
ruled by Venus; second the card represents intuition, which is normally associated with
the feminine. Lastly as I said, Daphna Moore says The Hierophant shows how your two
aspects of the subconscious The High Priestess (Universal Subconscious) and The
Empress (Individual Subconscious), both feminine, learn to listen to the Higher Self
(The Hierophant). Ultimately, The Hierophant’s message is saying that it is by uniting
your Magician (Self-conscious), with both The High Priestess (Universal
Subconscious) and The Empress (Individual Subconscious) and The Emperor (Reason),
The Magician or Will becomes the first level of the Higher Self, The Hierophant.
It is through the use of the two aspects (inductive and deductive) of your reason,
(The Emperor), that you reach your Intuition, (The Hierophant). By turning your
personal Will (The Magician) into the Divine Will, The Magician (Will) becomes The
Hierophant (Higher Self) teaching both aspects of the subconscious (The High Priestess
and The Empress) to listen to the angel depicted in the next card, The Lovers. This is
when the second level of the Higher Self begins to emerge. Depending on how well
you listen to your internal angel or conscience, determines whether you progress or fall.
In card 6 - The Lovers, the Individual Subconscious, (The Empress) is the one
who is listening to the angel, while the self-conscious, (The Magician) seems distracted
by her. How can that be? Didn’t The Magician become The Hierophant teaching the

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two aspects of the subconscious? The key here is in understanding that The Magician
represents the Will, Intellect and Self-Conscious. So far I had deduced that the
emergence of the Higher Self (The Hierophant) is when a person unites both aspects of
the subconscious (The High Priestess and The Empress) and reason (The Emperor)
with the self-conscious (The Magician). But even though the Higher Self has begun to
emerge, the ego or counterfeit spirit is still present at this time. This is where the
teachings on the Sacred marriage or Union come in. It will take the union of the self-
conscious, (The Magician) and the individual subconscious (The Empress) to deal with
the ego/counterfeit spirit. However, The Magician, like the Higher Self has three
aspects, or levels; Divine Will, lower will or ego/counterfeit spirit and Intellect. The
aspect of The Magician that joins with the universal subconscious (The High Priestess)
is the Intellect, which results in the development of Creative Imagination (The
Empress). So as I said, Sophia has now become Venus immersed in the Soul Plane in
order to transmute the elements/emotions. Nonetheless, the key to the importance of
The Empress is in that she represents Creative Imagination. This is because the
development of Creative Imagination is when the consciousness as the human being
first becomes a co-creator.
At the emergence of the first level of the Higher Self (The Hierophant); comes
the first opportunity to begin the transmutation of Sophia’s emotions. This is because
the Higher Self is the source of all emotion. I know that sounds like a contradiction, but
let me share with you how it was explained to me in a vision. The vision was in the
form of an analogy. First I saw the Higher Self as the tiny spring at the head of a river.
Then as the clear stream flowed down it divided into two streams, becoming a fork in
the river. One stream remained clear flowing quickly. The other stream became
polluted and cloudy and slowed down. I understand this, as the original spring is the
Higher Self, which originates within the Spirit, which knows only Love, Joy and
Compassion. As the stream (emotions) flows (grows) it becomes divided, dependant on
what part or aspect of the consciousness is directing the emotions. The stream that
becomes polluted and cloudy is depicting the emotions governed by the counterfeit
spirit or lower ego, whereas the stream that remains clear is demonstrating the emotions
that are controlled by the Spiritual Soul.
After that digression, let’s get back to the Major Arcana. The Kabbalists only
consider three elements, air, fire and water. Earth is considered a compound of all three
elements. Taurus, the sun-sign that represents The Hierophant, which is ruled by
Venus, is an earth sign. Remember the element of earth was made from Sophia’s
confusion. However, it isn’t The Hierophant that begins the transmutation of the
elements, but the next card, The Lovers.

The Lovers demonstrate how Sophia as Venus or The Empress,

your Creative Imagination starts the process of transmuting the
emotions/elements. Daphna Moore says The Lovers represent the
Hebrew letter Zain, meaning sword, air, the color orange and the
planet Mercury through the sun-sign Gemini. As stated, one of the
figures, the man in the card is the Self-Conscious or The Magician and
the other figure; the woman is the Individual Subconscious or The
Empress.

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 They are standing in front of an Angel, and the woman is staring intently at the
Angel, whereas, the man is staring at the woman. Ms. Moore explains, “It is the
subconscious which hears the voice of the Angel and it is the subconscious which raises
us up to the superhuman level; but it cannot do it unless the self-conscious initiates the
process and keeps it going. The subconscious is then enabled to raise us to the Angel.”8
I was shown through the Hidden Codes of Life how the Hebrew letter Zain, the
symbol of the sword, the sun-sign Gemini and the color orange held a deeper message
of The Lovers. Zain is a combination of a Yod, which is the 10th Hebrew letter assigned
to The Hermit, and Vav, which is the 6th Hebrew letter assigned to The Hierophant. It is
the Hebrew letter Zain, which connects The Lovers both to The Hermit and The
Hierophant. The message of The Lovers card is that spiritual progress is achieved by
consistently using your discernment to choose the high road or narrow path. It is then
The Hierophant becomes a more spiritual aspect, or second level of the Higher Self,
portrayed by the Angel in the card/trump, The Lovers. The Angel/Hierophant now also
represents a higher level of the Spiritual Soul, represented by The Fool. Moreover it is
through the Angel/Hierophant who is teaching the Individual Subconscious, (The
Empress) that you can become aware of the Spiritual Soul/Angel in you and choose to
control your personal appetites, instincts and emotions and give reign to the highest
aspect, or third level of the Higher Self represented by the Charioteer in card 7 - The
Chariot.

What happens if the ego succeeds in diverting our attention to focusing on the
physical? In examining the Tarot Tableau, I was struck by the similarity between card 6
- The Lovers and card 15 - The Devil. As Daphna Moore said, it is through The Lovers
that we learn to listen to the Angel, but if we don’t hear the Angel then we are in
danger of hearing the Devil instead.

God showed me this process by reminding me of the board game, Snakes &
Ladders that I played as a little girl. I understand that there is a similar game in
America called Chutes & Ladders.
If like Craig you are unfamiliar with either game, and as I am in America let me
give you a brief description of Chutes & Ladders.
Players take turns in throwing dice, then starting at the bottom far left, which is
the position of card 15 - The Devil in the Tarot Tableau, they move their counter/piece
along a path to the finish, which is the top far left, or the position of card 1 - The
Magician in the Tableau. Along the way the players encounter chutes and ladders. If a
player lands on a square where the top of a chute is, they have to slide their counter

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down the chute back down the path. On the other hand if a player lands on a square
with the bottom of a ladder then they climb it to the top, advancing along the path.
God showed me a vision to apply this to the Tarot Tableau and Spiritual
Evolution. Showing me the tableau, I saw my version of the game of Snakes and
Ladders being superimposed onto it throughout, only my “board” didn’t fit with my
concept of the board game, there were several anomalies; such as ladders defying
gravity by going downwards between cards 6 - The Lovers and 19 - The Sun and 14 -
Temperance and 21 - The World. More especially horizontal ladders running between
cards 7 - The Chariot and 1 - The Magician and between cards 15 - The Devil and 21 -
The World. (If you are wondering how I knew which direction the ladder went, each
ladder was wider at the bottom.) The apparent reversal of the ladders really baffled me,
until God told me I was having a problem because I was looking at the Tarot Tableau
from only two planes, vertical and horizontal and evolution is always multi-planed. In
other words what appears up and down in a two-dimensional world can appear to be
from down to up, side to side or out to in from another perspective.
To assist me in thinking in a multidimensional way, God told me that the
overall message of the Tarot Tableau is that once the emotions are released we need to
be balanced, which is epitomized by the center square, 11 - Justice. In the multi-
dimensional Tableau board game of Snakes & Ladders, the finish is at the center square
card 11 - Justice. It helped me to imagine the center square rising upwards or rather
inwards as the end point of a multidimensional spiral.
So if we don’t listen to the Angel, then as I said we are in danger of hearing
from the devil, which is depicted by sliding down the snake/chute from square 6 - The
Lovers to square 15 - The Devil. But before I discuss The Devil, I need to address the
purpose of the colors in the Tarot. First the cards consist of white and black and the
three primary colors yellow, blue and red. I can remember being surprised that The
High Priestess is assigned both the color light blue and the Moon. This is because
traditionally light blue represents the 5th chakra of communication and the Moon
represented the 6th chakra or Third eye chakra, which is indigo.
Traditionally, the planet Saturn, the ruler of card 15 - The Devil represents the
base chakra not the Third eye chakra. Understanding came for me when I learned that
Ayin, the Hebrew letter assigned to The Devil translates as “eye.” What is more, the
color of The Devil is Indigo, which is the accepted color for the 6th or Third eye chakra.
Still, because The Devil represents the sun-sign Capricorn, the planet that rules it is
Saturn not the Moon. Remembering that the Tarot Tableau consists of the three primary
colors plus white and black can explain this quandary. First as I said The High Priestess
(Universal Subconscious or Cosmic Memory) is light blue, meaning that blue is
combined with white. Remember that the color white for this purpose represents the
Archetypal Plane. Furthermore, as I said, The High Priestess represents Sophia before
the creation of the universe. Archetypally it could also be seen to represent the dark
side of the Moon. Archetypally, The High Priestess could be seen to represent the
bright side of The Moon.

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 Baphomet

Now, looking at The Devil card I am struck by the similarity between the figure
in card 15 – The Devil and the mysterious figure that Eliphas Levi drew of Baphomet,
who was worshiped by the Knights Templars. I discussed in The True Philosophers’
Stone the theory that Baphomet was code for Sophia. Mixing blue with black creates
the color indigo. So it seems the cards, through color are telling us that the
Devil/Baphomet is another aspect of Sophia or the Universal Subconscious in us.
Remember the Universal Subconscious helps us to get what we want, whether it
aids us spiritually or not. I discovered that both card 15 – The Devil and Eliphas Levi’s
figure of Baphomet are concealing a valuable secret. It concerns the color black.
Despite card 15 – The Devil being assigned to the color indigo, the predominant color
of the card, like the image of Baphomet is black.
Daphna Moore’s The Rabbi’s Tarot uncovers a deeper meaning for the use of
the color black. She relates that the color black in the Tarot has two distinct meanings,
one lower and one higher. She says, “The lower is IGNORANCE and the higher is
MYSTICAL KNOWLEDGE.” 9 I was reminded that Daath on the Tree of Life, which
is one of the Sephirot assigned to Sophia, represents knowledge. The information
seemed to be saying that the Knights Templar worshiped Divine Wisdom or Sophia as
Baphomet. Again, Archetypally from the above The Devil could bee seen as
representing the dark-side of The Moon.
The Devil evokes strong feelings, usually negative; nonetheless, from an occult
perspective The Devil has a valuable lesson to teach. Firstly I should state that in card
15 - The Devil represents what St. Paul called the natural body. The tails on the figures
of the man and woman, signifying their animal natures, demonstrates this. The occult
The Devil evokes strong feelings, usually negative; nonetheless, from an occult
perspective The Devil has a valuable lesson to teach. Firstly I should state that in card
15 - The Devil represents what St. Paul called the natural body. The tails on the figures
of the man and woman, signifying their animal natures, demonstrates this.
The occult message of card 15 - The Devil is, according to Daphna Moore that
it is through the use of the body for physical sensation that an individual learns
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 Ms. Moore writes, “The number of THE
DEVIL card is 15, which indicates THE
HIEROPHANT or 5, working through THE
MAGICIAN, or 1… THE HIEROPHANT teaches man
through the urges of the body for sensation until man
has learned, by subduing his instincts, to listen to THE
HIEROPHANT on a higher level than mere sensation.
That higher level, at its perfection, is shown in card 6,
THE LOVERS, and 1 plus 5=6.” 10

This is where the Tarot Tableau/board game comes in again. The ladder from
15 to 21 is a short cut for those who are ready to unite all opposites and transmute the
emotions. Card 21 - The World is also assigned the color indigo, but it represents the
planet Saturn on a higher level. Some Hebrew mystics have the planet Saturn appearing
twice in the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, representing both the 3rd Sephirot - Binah and the
10th Sephirot - Malkuth. It is important to remember that Malkuth translates Kingdom,
and is seen as symbolizing the Earth. Earlier I said the goddess Isis was connected to
Binah, but Isis is also connected to Malkuth. This is seen through one of the titles for
Isis being Earth Mother.
To be honest, this was a little hard to understand until I was reminded that
according to Pistis Sophia, Sophia had to repent thirteen times before she was restored
to the Pleroma. In fact whether Daphna Moore knows it or not she is relating this in
respect to The High Priestess when she relates the difference between The High
Priestess and The Empress. She relates that it is The Empress (Individual
Subconscious) who is subservient to The Magician (Will). The High Priestess
(Universal Subconscious) is only “…subservient to the Laws of Nature…” Moreover,
The Empress can “…either lift you up or drag you down.”11 Of course, this is
determined by the kind of images you send your Empress (Individual Subconscious).
From a macrocosmic level, both The High Priestess and The Empress represent Sophia
before her redemption. However, The High Priestess is the higher level of Sophia. As a
result, from this perspective, The High Priestess has a greater affiliation with Binah
than The Empress.
Looking at the board game/Tarot Tableau, I was struck by the apparent multiple
paths available. God told me that Spiritual Evolution is like my converted “board
game,” with multiple doors and trap doors. Reminding me that Jesus said that the path
to the kingdom of God is very narrow, I saw a labyrinth begin to appear over the
tableau, with a very narrow path meandering backwards and forwards and up and
down, twisting and turning with multiple dead ends. I was given to understand through
many incarnations we learn to navigate the narrow path around the pitfalls
(snakes/chutes) and taking advantages of the leg ups (ladders). In this way the
individual is asked to choose between the path of the ego/counterfeit spirit and the path
of guidance by the Higher Self.

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 Examples of Labyrinths

What if we don’t learn enough to take the short cut from card 15
- The Devil to card 21 - The World? When a person has had enough of
self-gratification, then he or she can move onto the next square 16 - The
Tower. This is where he or she has the opportunity to begin to annihilate
the ego by destroying the tower of false pride. As I said the Islamic Sufis
teaching of self-annihilation is the best way to understand this.

Concerning the Tower, when you see yourself as acting alone and not needing
Divine help you will experience a jolt to help you remember why you are here. The
lightning bolt striking the tower and dislodging the occupants, The Magician (Self-
conscious) and The Empress (Individual Subconscious), symbolizes this. In essence the
message of the card is that whenever self-pride or egotism tries to set itself up as lord
and master of its castle, the castle of false pride will be destroyed with the light of truth.
According to William F Mann in his book The Labyrinth Of The Grail, 12 the Tower is
a representation of the overwhelming illumination of “truth.” According to Mr. Mann,
the Buddhist’s taught that the lightning flash is “a symbol of the overpowering light of
truth in which all falsehood and ultimately all duality is destroyed.” He also related,
“According to occult lore, it is the flash of inner illumination that brings the freedom of
enlightenment.” 13
Another way we transmute the elements or emotions of Sophia is by uniting all
opposites and we do this by transforming the heart, which is accomplished through the
Sacred Marriage or Union. No other card in the Major Arcana symbolizes this as much
as card 6 - The Lovers. The ancient Kabbalists hid secret information, by assigning a
secret value to certain cards. Card 6 - The Lovers has a secret number of sixteen.
Because this card represents the choice between the physical and the spiritual, Daphna
Moore says that if we listen to the Higher Self, symbolized by the woman listening to
the Angel in the card, we will walk the spiritual path. Also both the planets Mercury
(Magician) and Venus (Empress) represent this card; this is because the zodiacal sign
assigned to it is Gemini - the twins.

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 I didn’t realize the importance of this until Craig was reading
from a book that mentioned the connection between Aphrodite (Venus)
and Hermes (Mercury). It was then that the word “hermaphrodite,”
meaning both male and female, popped into my head. To spiritually
evolve and bring forth the Angel we need to reunite The Lovers. The
origin of evil is in separation, as in the advent of duality. Consequently,
the real fall of humanity was when the masculine or active principle was
separated from the feminine or passive principle. This is signified
allegorically in Genesis with “Eve” being taken from “Adam.”

To return to the secret number for The Lovers Hebrew letter, Zain. Ancient
Wisdom often concealed a deeper message by assigning secret values to certain
Hebrew letters. Case in point, the secret value of 16 for the letter Zain. Assigning the
number to a combination of two Hebrew letters hid the key to the message. In the case
of Zain’s secret number of 16, it was a combination of Yod (10) and Vav (6).
Consequently by the ancients assigning the Hebrew letter Zain the secret value of
sixteen, they secretly linked card 9 – The Hermit’s Hebrew letter Yod (10) to card 5 –
The Hierophant’s letter Vav (6). With this connection, the Kabbalists were saying The
Higher Self was connected to The Spirit. Still, it is through card 19 - the Sun, both the
namesake of the solar body and the representation of the Sun-Christ that we discover
why this is so important.

In the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, the Sun represents the 6th

Sephirot, Tiphareth meaning Beauty. Is it a coincidence that the Greek
sun god, Apollo, was known for his beauty? I was shown that this
Sephirot represents The Sun-Christ, which is the perfect symbol of the
Higher Self. As the ruler of the Soul Plane, it made sense to place the
Christ in the center of the Tree of Life. However, in card 19 - The Sun,
the Christ is depicted as a child not a man. Remembering that card 6 -
The Lovers is connected to card 19 - The Sun can help unravel the
mystery.

I discussed earlier the importance of the letters and that color holds vital
information in the Tarot. However, Astrology also conceals great secrets. Using the
color first we learn that both The Lovers and The Sun are assigned the color orange. As
for astrology, The Lovers represent the sun sign Gemini and the planet Mercury or
(The Magician). At first I failed to see the connection that is until God reminded me of
the picture of card 19 - The Sun in the book Tarot Awareness: Exploring the Spiritual
Path 15by Stephen Walter Sterling. This was key to my understanding.
In Sterling’s book, The Sun card has two children standing before the Sun. 16 I
do not think there could be a more fitting image for Gemini’s twins. Also, as stated the
planet Uranus (The Fool) was associated with the Christ and Uranus is a higher octave
of Mercury (The Magician). What this showed me is that the Angel in the Lovers
represents the pre-incarnate Christ consciousness and the child in card 19 - The Sun
represents the infant Christ consciousness in us. In addition, through the color orange
we can learn how the Christ consciousness grows and matures. The next card, card 7 -

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the Chariot is orange-yellow. After the Angel awakens as the Christ consciousness or
the inner child in us, through Spiritual Evolution it grows into the Charioteer of card 7 -
The Chariot.

The Chariot is the last card of the first row of the Tarot Tableau.
It represents the sun sign Cancer, which is ruled by the Moon. The
Hebrew letter assigned to The Chariot is Cheth and the Kabbalists also
assigned a secret number to this letter. Cheth, the letter assigned to The
Chariot is a combination of Daleth, which is assigned to card 3 - The
Empress and Vav, which is assigned to card 5 - The Hierophant.

The value of Daleth is 4 and remembering the value of Vav is 6 we learn that
The Chariot’s secret value is 10 and the tenth Hebrew letter is Yod. Daphna Moore
says, “Yod is the nucleus of the sacred Flame alphabet, the letter which stands for the
Spirit.”
From the secret number 16, we know that The Lovers is linked to both the 1st
level of The Higher Self and The Spirit, meaning that The Higher Self is the key to The
Spirit. Through the secret numbers, the Kabbalists were saying that all three levels of
the Higher Self were connected to the nucleus of the Sacred Flame Alphabet, which is
Spirit, or Yod.
To sum up, if the second level of the Higher Self is represented by the Angel in
The Lovers, the connection to card 19 – The Sun is relating the child on the white horse
is a slightly higher aspect of the disincarnate Angel in The Lovers. This is because the
Spiritual Soul (The Fool) begins its incarnation, or begins its journey through life first
as a child, which of course is depicted by the child riding the white horse in the card.

Contemplating the three levels of the Higher Self,

I was reminded of the ladder running between The
Chariot and The Magician in my Snakes & Ladders/Tarot
Tableau board game. This is also reflected in the color
orange-yellow of card 7 – The Chariot. The Chariot on a
conscious level represents self-control and as it is the
third level of the Higher Self leads to the higher level of
the Self-conscious – card 1 – The Magician.

After the integration of all three levels of the Higher Self, the next step in
Spiritual Evolution is the transformation of the mind. The result is the individual
changing the way he or she thinks.
The Sun also conjures up images of a creative God like Zeus. It is in card 19 -
The Sun that the first stirring of the Spark of God is felt in the heart. Orange is as I said
created by the combination of red and yellow. Recalling that I said that passion is a
valuable key to unlocking Spiritual Evolution; could the color orange be showing us
the way?

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 Also, the color of card 19 - The Sun is orange, the same color assigned to The
Lovers and half of the color of The Hierophant and The Chariot. This again strengthens
the connection of the four cards to Spirit.
Daphna Moore emphasizes this further when she relates that the color orange
represents the Super-Consciousness. 14 An alternative term for Super-Consciousness is
Christ Consciousness.
One of the most important pieces of information for deciphering a person’s
codes was the ratio of color in the codes. A way to consider the relevance of color is to
look at it in everyday life.
First scientists equate the signals they receive from space at the red end of the
spectrum as evidence of the universe expanding, whereas the blue end would indicate
that the universe was contracting. It is curious that the political parties have chosen to
be represented by either end of the color spectrum. Using the Major Arcana, we could
learn that the extreme of the red spectrum could indicate fanaticism and selfishness.
Conversely, the extreme blue end could denote sentimentality, which could lead to the
disempowerment of individuals.
By blending both the red and blue we achieve violet, which is the color
assigned to The Wheel of Fortune. At the macrocosmic level, this card represents
cycles of evolution, but on the microcosmic level indicates the cycle of the political
arena, through Republican/Conservative (red) to Democratic/Liberal (blue). However,
this can evolve into a sort of vicious circle, where there is continual change, but no
progress; this isn’t the goal of Spiritual Evolution.
The way to achieve spiritual growth can be found by using the colors of the
Major Arcana. However, it isn’t through the color violet that we grow. If we remember
that Justice or balance is at the center of the Tarot Tableau, which is green, we can see
the deeper message of color. Spiritual progress is about uniting the emotions (blue)
with the mind (yellow), which bring forth your Creative Imagination (green). You do
this by using both aspects of your reason (red), which transforms into the Super or
Christ consciousness (orange).

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 Chart 2. Table of correspondences between colors and notes of the musical scale
and the Major Arcana

How does a person put the above into practical living? That is where the
teachings of Gautama Buddha help. To repeat what we wrote in The Good News:

Gautama Buddha taught that suffering releases the soul from samsara, or the
cycle of rebirth/reincarnation. This statement has generally been thought to mean that
life on Earth was meant to be painful. It was only when a soul had learned all the
lessons and become disincarnate that the individual could cease experiencing physical
life…
As the majority of people’s lives were a constant struggle, this gave them hope
that their suffering would eventually end. Even so, when we remember that the universe
consists of Sophia’s emotions a deeper meaning of Gautama’s teachings is revealed.
The Life Principle of the Solar system was chosen as the way to redeem the lost essence
or Divine sparks. Redemption is achieved through the Life Principle in the form of
humanity transmuting their emotions, it isn’t the suffering that releases the Spirit or
Divine sparks, but the emotions the suffering generates. Whenever a person transmutes

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their emotions, they help change the world and bring paradise or Nirvana, Heaven, or
Devachan to Earth.17

Tarot Spread showing the Tarot cards/trumps, according to the musical scale

Another one of the ways the secret truth of Spiritual Evolution was handed
down was subliminally through language. Case in point, children are taught to
memorize the musical scale by a simple phrase. The crotchets (lines) and quavers
(spaces) in a musical scale could be remembered by memorizing the first letter of the
phrase Every Good Boy Does Fine for crotchets and the letters in the word F A C E for
quavers. Of course the quavers were to be placed between the lines, making the scale, E
F G A B C D E F. It is through the Tarot trumps that we discover our personal notes.
Daphna Moore relates the Kabbalists assigned a specific note to each major
arcana card; however, several cards are assigned the same note. Placing the Tarot
trumps in order according to musical notes reveals a surprising symmetry in the color

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scale. At first, I only involved the first seven notes, E, F, G, A, B, C, D, leaving out the
high E and F. However, when I checked the colors designated for the cards Strength
and the Hermit, what was shown indicated all nine notes should be included.

Both Strength and The Hermit are a combination

of yellow and green and are connected to cards 0 – The
Fool, 1 – The Magician and 3 – The Empress. However,
The Fool and The Magician are designated only the color
yellow and The Empress is only designated the color
green.

Moving Strength to high E and The Hermit to high F makes the last card The
Hermit, which is represented by the Hebrew letter Yod, which means Spirit.
Using the Kabbalistic formula related by Daphna Moore, the notes, chakras,
colors and planets don’t fit either the traditional or updated charts exactly. It was then
that God showed me how to arrange them incorporating note, chakra, color and planet.
The new chart arrayed thus: C-Base-red & Mars; D-Sacral-orange & the Sun; E-Solar
Plexus-yellow & Mercury; F-Heart-green & Venus; G-Throat-blue & the Moon; A-3rd
Eye-indigo & Saturn and A#-Crown - violet & Jupiter.

Chart 3 showing new arrangement in respect to Spiritual Evolution

I learned that the notes signify color; i.e., E=Yellow; F=Green; G=Blue; C=Red
and D=Orange. You may have observed that I did not include the colors Violet and
Indigo and the note A. This is because; both Violet and Indigo are represented by the
note (A), A-Sharp for Violet and A-Natural for Indigo. When a note is sharp it signifies
the feminine or passive and when it is natural it represents the active or masculine. In
addition, I left out the note (B), which only appears once in the Tarot Tableau. The
color assigned to it is crimson or Violet-Red.

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 Diagram 2 showing traditional and updated chakra assignments
From The Relevance of the Doctrine of Rounds and Root-Races Today

Looking at the new chart, I observed several anomalies. For example, the note
(A) appeared twice, once natural and once sharp. Moreover, Saturn, the Sun, Mercury
and the Moon were not placed in either the traditional or updated versions of the chakra
system God explained that because this is the Fullness of Time and we have spiritually
evolved, we are now ready to discover the secret of the Philosophers’ Stone. I will
return to this shortly.
What also fascinated me was the correlation between the colors, planets, notes
and elements. As I said, the Kabbalistic Tarot only considered three elements, Air,
Water and Fire, which they assigned to three Hebrew Mother Letters and Cards; Air -
Aleph - The Fool; Water - Mem - The Hanged Man and finally Fire – Shin - Judgment.
Interestingly Taoism divides the traditional four elements into five, Wood; Fire;
Earth; Metal and Water. Again interestingly, Taoists do not include the element Air and
add the elements Wood and Metal, one natural, the other man made.
According to Gail Reichstein, the author of Wood becomes Water: Chinese
Medicine in Everyday Life, 18 “…the cycle of the Five Elements integrates human
activity with the natural rhythms of the universe. The cycle has been used to map time
like a calendar, space like a compass, the movements of the heavens…”19 She also
says, “From its beginnings, the Five Element cycle connected various aspects of
experience to its individual elements, Seasons, body organ, emotions, sounds, colors,
directions…”20
Throughout my study, I came to understand that I needed to see the elements as
other than the physical elements. The Kabbalistic Tree of Life helped immensely in this
process. I think it may help if I briefly repeat the nuts and bolts of the Tree of Life.

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 As I said the Tree of Life is divided
into four planes. The first level is called
Atziluth, which represents the (Archetypal
world). The Kabbalists assigned three Sephirot
to this level Kether-Crown, Chokmah-Wisdom
and Binah-Understanding. The next level they
designated as Briah, which represented the
(Creative world). Again three Sephirot were
assigned to this level, Chesed-Mercy,
Geburah-Severity or Strength and Tiphareth-
Beauty. Level three they designated Yetzirah,
which they thought represented the (Formative
world). The three Sephirot assigned to this
level were Netzach-Victory, Hod-Splendor
and Yesod-Foundation. Only one Sephirot is
assigned to the last level, which the Kabbalists
call Assiah, meaning (Active world). This
Sephirot is Malkuth-Kingdom.

Although this is the traditional teaching, God told me that I needed to update it.
With this I was shown it is best if you think of the four levels in terms of the four
elements and the designation for the four suits of the Tarot in the Minor Arcana,
wands=fire; swords=air; cups=water and pentacles=earth.

Ace-Wands/Fire -- Ace-Swords/Air -- Ace-Cups/Water --Ace-Pentacles/Earth

In this way The Archetypal Plane or Atziluth represents fire or the unmanifested
dynamic active principle of the soul. The Creative Plane or Briah represents air, which
is manifested through the mind. The Formative Plane or Yetzirah represents the water
element, which manifests itself through the emotions. Finally, the Active Plane or
Assiah represents the physical material, operating on the objective plane. Also the
Seven Sacred Planets can be utilized here. The Kabbalists thought of Binah associated
to Saturn; Chesed to Jupiter, Geburah to Mars, Tiphareth to the Sun, Netzach to Venus,
Hod to Mercury and Yesod to the Moon. You may have noticed that three of the ten

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Sephirot are not included, however, I was shown that Chokmah should represent
Chiron. This leaves the first, Kether and last Malkuth representing the Alpha and
Omega of evolution. However, with Daath being connected to both Saturn and Sophia
before creation and after, both Binah and Malkuth represent Saturn. What this all
reveals is that the twenty-two Tarot cards are showing first the separation of the
universal elements and then through the Sacred Marriage or Union, their reunification.
This is most clearly depicted in the colors of the elements, red for fire, yellow for air,
blue for water and green for earth.
Nevertheless, as stated, the Taoist has Five Elements. The colors of these
elements are green, red, yellow/brown, white and black/blue. How did I unite these
with either the traditional four elements or the Kabbalistic three elements? First I
needed to remove the colors not representing the Tarot cards - brown, white and black.
This left me with green, red, yellow and blue, which coincided with the traditional four
elements. In removing white, I had removed the element of metal. Taking the three
Kabbalistic colors and elements left me with the three primary colors yellow, red and
blue. These three colors equate to earth, fire and water. My board game of Snakes &
Ladders and the Tarot Tableau made the goal of evolution as Justice, which is green. In
the Taoist Five Elements, green represents the element wood, which is also the
beginning of the cycle. So was I to deduce from this that we were to go back to the
beginning? No, progress has always been about building on previous knowledge and
experience. Consequently the goal of Spiritual Evolution is to unite the mind and
emotions to transmute and grow into a new being, which in turn transforms reality.
The Major Arcana translates as the Greater Mystery, because the 22 trumps
carry the secret to Spiritual Evolution. We have looked at the most obvious and
touched on the deeper meaning through color. However, remember how I said that we
must combine ALL the spiritual teachings to discover the means to spiritually evolve.
Combining color, sound and the elements reveals the deepest mysteries. To do this we
need to return to the Major Arcana.

We left off at card 6 - The Lovers, which is the 2nd level of the
Higher Self, but this card is tied to the two cards on either side of it, card
5 - The Hierophant and 1st level of the Higher Self and card 7 - The
Chariot and 3rd level of the Higher Self. We know this because of the
color assigned to the cards; red-orange = The Hierophant; orange = The
Lovers and orange-yellow = The Chariot.

Daphna Moore gives us a deeper message by connecting The Lovers with The
High Priestess (Universal Subconscious or Cosmic memory). She does this by relating
that The Lovers’ secret number 16 for the letter Zain is also the secret number the
Hebrew letter Gimel, which is assigned to The High Priestess. In other words although
the figures in The Lovers are The Magician (Self-conscious) and The Empress
(Individual Subconscious or Creative Imagination), because of the secret value of Zain,
The High Priestess is also represented. What does this mean?
On the microcosmic level this card literally holds the secret of the beginning of
Spiritual Evolution. However, on the macrocosmic level connecting The High Priestess

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and The Lovers is alluding to the angel in The Lovers as representing The Holy Ghost.
To return to the microcosmic message of The Lovers, the message began in the
previous card, The Hierophant, (Level one of the Higher Self) which as I said Ms.
Moore equates to the Higher Self and intuition. Furthermore she tells us The Lovers
represent Disposing Intelligence. Some of the synonyms for dispose are arrange, order,
assemble etc. Alternatively, she says The Devil represents Renewing Intelligence. She
explains this as a form of temptation, “that which tempts you to use your body wrongly
opens the door, when you use it rightly to True Wisdom.” 21
I understand it as, with the emergence of the first level of the Higher Self, we
have access to all the emotions and must choose to listen to the Angel or the devil. If
we avoid pain and choose pleasure then we fall under the control of what Saint Paul
refers to as the “natural man.” On the other hand if we face our demons, so to speak
then we spiritually evolve. It is then that the Angel joins its twin the infant Christ
consciousness to awaken the Spark of God. This is one of the secrets of The Lovers.
As informative as The Lovers (2nd level of the Higher Self) have been, the card
has an even deeper mystery yet to be revealed. It is concealed in the Hebrew letter Zain
and the sun-sign assigned to the card. Zain means sword and the sun-sign Gemini is
ruled by Mercury (Magician). Both represent the mental plane. Interestingly, as I said,
in the Minor Arcana of the Tarot, the suit of swords stands for the element air. This is
the key to the start of Spiritual Evolution and the most valuable secret of The Lovers.
Looking at the suit of swords, I was struck by the imagery of the cards. Most of
the suit depicts mental anguish and emotional pain and this is vital information. It is
through the color of the cards that we can understand the importance. In general the suit
consists of yellow and blue, which means that the cards predominantly represent both
emotions and the mind. One of the most important things I learned was that the key to
the Mysteries is hidden in the English language. It is interesting that we associate the
intellect to sharpness and describe a critical person as sharp-tongued. We even say that
we have been “cut to the quick.” when we are emotionally wounded.

Chart 4, showing the three stages of the division of the elements -

From the three Kabbalistic, through the traditional four to the Taoist five

Remembering that the five elements of Taoism exclude the element air reveals
even more. (See chart 5) In the Taoist elements, the element of Air is replaced with
Wood and Metal, in effect dividing the element of Air in two, why? Could the message
be that the mind or mental plane has become divided? Wood is natural, whereas Metal
is extracted or created. Applying the Kabbalistic Tarot to this enigma, we can learn a
great secret. In fact, from the colors of the elements on either side of Wood and Metal,
we can learn how to use the Philosophers’ Stone. First, the colors on either side of
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Wood are black/blue/ (indigo) and red. I’ve already shown the connection between
indigo and The High Priestess/Sophia, having dropped the color black again we will
just use the primary color of blue. Removing black we are left with blue and red, which
at the macrocosmic level equates to The High Priestess (Universal Subconscious or
Cosmic Memory) and The Emperor (Reason). In the Tarot, as stated, at the
macrocosmic level, The Empress (Creative Imagination or Individual Subconscious)
represents Nature, which is epitomized by the color green. The Taoist element of Wood
as shown above is green. From this I would deduce that card 3 - The Empress or Nature
represents the element Wood.
As for Metal, the colors on either side of it are again black/blue and
yellow/brown. If we drop the non-primary colors of black and brown, we are left with
blue and yellow, which equates to The High Priestess and The Magician (Self-
conscious). We have already seen that The High Priestess and the Magician united
become The Empress (Individual Subconscious or Creative Imagination) and The
Emperor (Reason) is the Empress’ consort. It seems that like the Tarot, the Taoist Five
Elements are also pointing to The Empress or Nature as a focal point. In other words
the color green or Wood is the key element.

God told me the Philosophers’ Stone could be incorporated

into this. When I asked how? He reminded me that Strength, which
symbolizes The Empress transformed, represents the sun sign Leo,
which is ruled by the Sun. The color of Strength is greenish-yellow.

Traditionally, it was thought the Alchemists’ purpose for the Philosophers’

Stone was to turn lead into gold, but they had a much deeper meaningful purpose for it;
namely the spiritualization of matter. To unlock the secret we need to incorporate
Astrology, the Major Arcana in the Tarot and the traditional chakra system. In the
traditional chakra system, Lead equates to Saturn and the base chakra; whereas Gold
equates to the Sun and the heart chakra. The Saturn card is 21 - The World and the Sun
is assigned to card 19 - The Sun. But card 19 is orange, which correlates to the second
chakra. However, yellow, the color of gold represents the third chakra or solar plexus.
How do we resolve this? The answer is in the note assigned to The Magician. As I said
E-natural represents three cards, The Fool, (Spiritual Soul) The Magician (Will) and
Strength (Transformed Heart). The key to revealing the Philosophers’ Stone is in the
Sacred Marriage or Union.
The open or exoteric meaning of the Sacred Marriage is the sex union between
a man and woman, but there is a far more spiritual meaning. The deeper meaning is in
transforming the heart through raising the sex force to the head.
According to Daphna Moore, the Kabbalists believed that to progress spiritually
a person needed to change the use of the sex force from the physical into the mental.
This was achieved through celibacy, fasting and meditation. However, very few ever
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 I can remember having problems when Craig and I read about raising the sex-
force in The Rabbi’s Tarot. The reason was it was equated with the planet Mars.
Considering that Mars represents the passions on one level this had made sense to us.
Nonetheless, everything we’d read about spiritual transformation, referred to raising the
Kundalini energy. Despite Ms. Moore relating that the Mars energy is in all three lower
chakras, to us the Kundalini was always shown as a coiled serpent in the base chakra.
As depicted above, Mars represented the Sacral chakra in the traditional and the Solar
Plexus in the updated, hence my confusion.
God reminded me of the final spiral diagram reproduced in The Relevance of
the Doctrine of Rounds and Root-Races Today in (LCD). In the book Wheels of Life A
User’s Guide To The Chakra System by Anodea Judith, from which the spiral diagram
is inspired, she superimposes the spiral over a human being. The fact that the note B-
Natural, which is assigned to card 18 – The Moon is associated with the color Violet-
Red is the key. I had learned that a critical mass of humanity is at this level and
whether they realize it or not are ready to take the next step in their Spiritual Evolution.
Now we can incorporate the colors, planets, notes and chakras. This is achieved by
dividing the color Violet-Red into two, making the Violet above the head and the Red
in the base chakra position. We first have to understand that the violet above the head is
ultra-violet because enough human beings have spiritually evolved to raise the
Kundalini or sex-force to transform the mind. When this happens, the Kundalini rises
past the traditional violet crown chakra to the mysterious eighth chakra above the head.
However, the goal of Spiritual Evolution isn’t to leave the body through the crown
chakra, but to go within to the heart and merge with the true ruler of the body, the
Spirit. The diagram below depicts the process now taking place. However, it needs to
be viewed as spiraling inwards. In this way, the ultra-violet level is the highest level a
human being can reach before he or she is ready to evolve into the superhuman. From
the eighth chakra, the Life Principle reenters this plane in an anticlockwise direction to
the base chakra, which as I said has transmuted into a bright blood red. From the base-
red we circle anticlockwise to the violet- crown chakra; then to the sacral-orange. From
the sacral chakra, we spiral inwards to the indigo-3rd eye then in to the yellow-solar
plexus. Finally, we spiral to the blue-throat chakra, before spiraling into the green
heart, the location of the Spirit.

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 Diagram 3 showing spiral through the chakras into the heart

To reiterate, this can only occur when Humanity reaches the point of
transmuting the sex-force from physical gratification into a mental vibration, which
transforms the heart. Card 8 - Strength according to Daphna Moore represents the
transformed heart and as I said its color is greenish Yellow. So the Philosophers’ Stone
is the transformed heart and we attain it through the Sacred Marriage or Union.

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 Returning to my metaphorical board game, it showed me there are several paths
through Spiritual Evolution. One path is through the union of the first row in the Tarot
Tableau. These seven cards represent Will, Universal Subconscious/Memory, Creative
Imagination, Reason, Discernment and Restraint or Self-Control. In uniting them we
can then transform the heart, symbolized by card 8 - Strength, which depicts The
Empress (Individual Subconscious or Creative Imagination) calming the lion
(passions).

After we have transformed our heart then we can access the true
ruler, the Spirit or Divine spark, denoted by card 9 - The Hermit. The
Hermit and its Hebrew letter are paramount to Spiritual Evolution.
Daphna Moore says the Hebrew letter Yod looks like a flame and
therefore is the heart of the Sacred Flame alphabet. Moreover, she tells
us that Yod represents the Spirit. Despite The Hermit being portrayed as
a man, The Hermit is assigned the sun-sign Virgo, whose symbol is the
virgin or maiden. From this symbol we can learn that the deeper
message of the card is that it is through balancing the masculine and
feminine that we access the Spirit.

Maurice Cotterell, the author of JESUS, KING ARTHUR AND THE JOURNEY OF
THE GRAIL said the ancients left messages to teach us to turn 666 into 999. I also
reported that Mr. Cotterell thinks that the number 666 represents the makeup of the
element carbon. However, I was surprised to learn that number 9 on the periodic table
is Fluorine, which is described as a yellow-green gas. Is it a coincidence that card
number 9, the Hermit is yellowish green?
Returning to the Tree of Life, as I said the 6th Sephirot is Tiphareth, which
represents the Sun, whereas the 9th Sephirot is Yesod representing the Moon. It is
important to remember that these two are the quintessential symbols for masculine and
feminine, or active and passive. Daphna Moore says that in order to transform the
heart, we need to “change the heart from an involuntary or feminine organ to a
volitional or masculine.”22
What really interested me was how The Tarot tableau displays how Sophia and
the universe are redeemed. Ultimately card 21 - the World depicts this. The dancing
figure is The Magician, The High Priestess, The Empress and The Emperor united as
one. This union finally brings into balance all opposites, represented by the central card
11 - Justice, or Sophia fully united with “What has been Willed” and restored into the
fullness of the Pleroma.

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 Could this be what changing the 6 into a 9 is saying? Is the
means for transformation as simple as turning the 6 and 9 upside
down, making the feminine masculine and the masculine feminine?
Perhaps that is what is being depicted by the androgynous dancing
figure in card 21 - The World.

As my “board game” depicted, there are two paths to advance from card 15 -
The Devil, one of the paths is to card 21 - The World. I understand this as meaning,
when we understand the higher aspects of card 15 - The Devil we can move to card 21
– The World and unite the opposites. Then we can move diagonally across the board to
the highest aspect of The Magician, or Divine Will which leads to Strength and the
spiritualization of matter or the turning of lead, the body into gold, through the
transformed heart. The other path concerns astrology.

In Astrology, the Devil is assigned to Capricorn. Moreover, the

symbol for the sun sign Capricorn is the goat, which is also a key
symbol for The Devil. Finally, we celebrate the birth of Christ at the
beginning of Capricorn. To understand the deeper meaning of the
connection between Capricorn and card 15 – The Devil, we need to
look at this from another perspective or level. I’d learned that the
pagan festival of the Winter Solstice or birth of the Sun was adapted
into Christmas in order to accommodate the “pagans.”

Another level can be determined through the Tarot Tableau. Diagonally

opposite The Devil is card 7 - the Chariot, which is assigned to the sun sign Cancer.
The Summer Solstice is in Cancer.

As I mentioned, The Fool can be seen as representing the pre-

incarnate Spiritual Soul. But I learned The Fool hides a much more
esoteric or hidden reason, which concerns the element Air. It involves
the incorporation of Gnosticism, to recap: Sophia’s emotions were
turned into the four elements; Ignorance into Fire; Fear into Water;
Confusion into Earth and Grief into Air. Interestingly I learned that the
early Church fathers believed that grief was the source of evil.

How As I mentioned, The Fool can be seen as representing the pre-incarnate

Spiritual Soul. But I learned The Fool hides a much more esoteric or hidden reason,
which concerns the element Air. It involves the incorporation of Gnosticism, to recap:
Sophia’s emotions were turned into the four elements; Ignorance into Fire; Fear into

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Water; Confusion into Earth and Grief into Air. Interestingly I learned that the early
Church fathers believed that grief was the source of evil.
How can that be? The answer is in how we create and how we can transform the
world. As I said, the Tree of Life is divided into four levels; Archetypal, Creative,
Formative and Active. Each level is assigned an element; Fire for Archetypal, Air for
Creative, Water for Formative and Earth for the Active. This means that Air is
associated with Creation. Therefore it is also associated with grief. Remember how I
said that Gautama Buddha said that suffering was how a person was released from the
cycle of necessity, but his teaching on this had a deeper meaning. The Buddha’s deeper
message was that suffering can serve a far greater purpose than just releasing the
individual from samsara. At the macrocosmic level it helps in the overall Spiritual
Evolution of the Life Principle. This is because suffering causes grief, which causes
people to transmute the emotion of grief in order to move on. In other words, when
understood from a universal perspective suffering or rather Grief can literally change
the world.

So have I answered my question on the make up and purpose of the Higher

Self? Let’s recap:

• The Higher Self is in fact three levels, the first level is The Hierophant, the
second is the Angel in The Lovers, which leads to its twin, the Christ
Consciousness in The Sun, which in turn leads to the third level, the Charioteer
in The Chariot.
• The Higher Self incorporates all human emotions and that it is the union of the
Self-Conscious, Universal Subconscious, Creative Imagination or Individual
Subconscious and Reason in us.
• When this union is achieved and the new personality has learned to listen to the
Angel, the Christ Consciousness emerges first as a child, depicted in Card 19 -
The Sun, then as the Charioteer and finally as Divine Will, the highest aspect of
The Magician.
• The final stage is the transformation of the heart, depicted in card 8 - Strength,
which finally accesses the Spirit, or card 9 - The Hermit and transforms both the
world and ourselves.

Apart from assigning the 22 cards and their corresponding Hebrew letters
trumps, colors, planets, elements and notes, Daphna Moore allocates six main
directions to represent the 7 Sacred Planets. The 12 cards that represent the 12 signs of
the Zodiac are directions of East – The Empress, West – The Wheel of Fortune, North
– The Tower, and South –The Sun. Above is The Magician, Below – The High
Priestess and Center – The World. I show these correspondences in Chart 6 on the last
page:

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 East West North South Above Below Center

At first I had wondered what purpose the directions held, but after seeing the
Cube of Space featuring all twenty-two Tarot cards, depicted below, I understood how
the Tarot Tableau was three-dimensional. (See diagram 4 below) Moreover, one of the
titles for Malkuth is a double cube.

Diagram 4 – Cube of Space showing the positions of the 22 Tarot Cards

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 So is this the end of our journey? The answer is that learning the meaning of the
Tarot Tableau is one of the goals, but it is by no means the end to Spiritual Evolution.
The next step depends on if you want to rest or change the world. To appreciate what is
entailed concerns the axiom, “As above so below; As below so above.”
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