The Empress
DESCRIPTION OF THE CARD
In the centre there is a woman crowned with twelve stars (1 + 2 = 3), which represents the 12 zodiacal signs, the 12 doors of the Holy City the 12 keys of Basil Valentine, the 12 worlds of the Solar System of Ors. Upon her head there is a vessel, and arising from it a Serpent, symbol of Mastery indicating that she is arisen. In her right hand is the Staff of Power, and with her left she reaches out to the dove which represents the Holy Spirit. Her apparel is Solar, all indicating that she is the Christified Soul, product of the arcana numbers 1 and 2. She is seated upon the now perfectly worked Cubical Stone.
In the waters of life the Moon is beneath her feet, indicating that one must trample upon it in order to convert it into Sun.
ESOTERIC MEANING OF THE ARCANUM
The number 3 is the Empress, the Divine Light, the light itself; it is the Divine Mother. It relates to that part of Genesis which says: "And God said: Let there be light: and there was light." (Genesis 1.3) from the first day of creation.
It is also the number of the Third Logos which dominates every form of creation; it is the rhythm of the Creator.
The Celestial Mother in the material sphere signifies material output, and in the spiritual sphere means spiritual output.
If one makes a more profound analysis, one discovers a most interesting aspect; the number 1 is the Father who is in Secret, the Monad, and it is from here that the Divine
Mother Kundalini, the Dyad is born. She in turn unfolds into the number 3 which is Father, Mother and Son which is the Divine and Immortal Spirit in each living thing. The three, Osiris the Father, Isis the Mother and Horus the Son form that which the Sacred Book of the Maya, the Popul Vuh, calls the "Heart of Heaven". The Son in turn unfolds into the Animic Soul which each one carries within.
The Zohar, the oldest Hebrew book and basis of the Kabalah and the Old Testament, insists upon three initial elements which comprise the world. These elements are:
Shin — which means Fire in the Kabalah. Mem — which means Water. Aleph — which means Air.
These 3 primary elements are the perfect synthesis of all that is, of the 4 manifested elements.
The Serpent or Saviour Logos, inspires man in order that he may recognise his identity with the Logos and thus return to his own Essence which is that Logos.
The magical power of the triangle of the Initial Elements is summarised in the powerful mantram: I.A.O.
I Ignis Fire A Aqua Water O Origo Beginning, Spirit, Air.
This mantram should always be part of the Mystery Schools.
What we are seeing here is the esotericism of the Holy 3. The I.A.O. is the fundamental mantram of the Maithuna; it is within the Ninth Sphere that it must resound. He who wants to raise the soul of the world along the spinal colunm must work with Sulphur (fire), with Mercury (water), and with Salt (philosophical earth).
These are the 3 elements, the 3 principles for working in the Fiery Forge of Vulcan.
In Basil Valentine's manuscript Azoth, the secret of the Great Work is found. The 12 secret keys are the sexual energy of the Logos when the Rose of the Spirit flowers upon the cross of our body.
The 3 principal elements are the 3 Hebrew letters which correspond to the 3 principal elements within the Great Work of nature. In this way we produce living gold. He who does not make Spiritual Gold is not an esotericist. One descends to the Ninth Sphere and fabricates it in the Fiery Forge of Vulcan.
The Kabalist-Alchemist must learn to use Sulphur, Mercury and Salt.
By using Sulphur in the shoes the larvae of the Astral Body and the Incubii and Succubii which are formed through the erotic imagination are de stroyed. They are transparent like the air and absorb the vitality of the Being. In the cinemas, iniquitous dens of Black Magic, which screen morbid films, they act here to one, and one has to use sulphur in one's shoes, and with this the larvae are destroyed. By burning sulphur on pieces of carbon, harmful thought forms and the larvae within a room are destroyed. Mercury serves to prepare "Lustral Water" in the bottom of a copper receptacle filled with water (this should not be a pan or dish) place mercury and a mirror. This is used to awaken clairvoyance. Nostradamus' divinations were made with copper and mercury.
Salt has its virtues; one can light a fire in a receptacle containing a mixture of salt and alcohol to invoke the Masters of Medicine, Adonai, Hippocrates, Galen, and Paracelsus, when someone who is ill needs to be cured.
The ternary, the number 3 is very important. It is the Word, Plenitude, Fecundity Nature, the Generation of the Three Worlds.
The Arcanum number 3 of the Kabalah is the woman robed with the Sun with the Moon at her feet, and crowned with 12 stars. The symbol of the Queen of Heaven is the Empress of the Tarot, a mysterious crowned woman, seated, and with the Sceptre of Rule which has upon its extremity, the globe of the World. This is Urania-Venus of the Greeks, the Christified Soul, the Celestial Mother.
The Divine Mother, Arcanum number 3, is the Particular Mother of each one of us, is the Mother of our Being who must trample the Moon, the lunar ego in order for the 12 Stars, the 12 Faculties, to shine resplendently upon her brow.
The 3 Primary forces which come from above, from the Father and which exist in all creation are necessary in order to create:
Positive Force. Negative Force. Neutral Force.
Man is Arcanum number 1 of the Tarot, the Positive Force. Woman is Arcanum number 2, the Negative Force, and the Christified Soul is the result of the sexual union of the two. The secret is the Arcanum A.Z.F. which transforms the Moon into Sun and represents 3 aspects: Positive, Negative, Neutral.
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