| CHAPTER XVIII THE KABBALISTIC TAROT DEDUCTIONS BY ETTEILA UPON THE BOOK OF THOTH |
WE will now recapitulate some of the conclusions which Etteila attained in the course of his work upon the Book of
Thoth (the Tarot).
The Book of Thoth Hermes indicates by its name alone that our author had discovered its Egyptian origin. It is
composed of 78 leaflets, forming 4 volumes.
Thoth (the Tarot).
The Book of Thoth Hermes indicates by its name alone that our author had discovered its Egyptian origin. It is
composed of 78 leaflets, forming 4 volumes.
Thus the 22 major arcana form 3 volumes, and the 56 minor arcana form the last.
The 56 leaves of the last volume divide in the following way, according to the operation indicated in the first reading of
the cards-
26 + 17 + 11 + 2 = 56.
The 4 divisions of the 56 leaflets (the 4 colours) respectively represent-
The 56 leaves of the last volume divide in the following way, according to the operation indicated in the first reading of
the cards-
26 + 17 + 11 + 2 = 56.
The 4 divisions of the 56 leaflets (the 4 colours) respectively represent-
The Book of Thoth contains three parts, viz.:
22 Major Atouts.
16 Minor Atouts (the figures).
40 Small cards.
It is formed like a living being, for-
78 is its body;
3 its spirit or mediator
1 its soul.
If we add the 12 first leaflets of the book together, we shall discover the number of its total-
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 11 + 12 =78.
If we now look back at the first operation in reading the cards according to our author, new deductions will arise.
Number 78 will be found to represent Salt, or the incorruptible Spirit.
The number 1 (a book) represents the Unity, the Divinity; lastly, the number 26, which divides the Tarot into three parts,
is exactly that of Jehovah (יהוה).
22 Major Atouts.
16 Minor Atouts (the figures).
40 Small cards.
It is formed like a living being, for-
78 is its body;
3 its spirit or mediator
1 its soul.
If we add the 12 first leaflets of the book together, we shall discover the number of its total-
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 11 + 12 =78.
If we now look back at the first operation in reading the cards according to our author, new deductions will arise.
Number 78 will be found to represent Salt, or the incorruptible Spirit.
The number 1 (a book) represents the Unity, the Divinity; lastly, the number 26, which divides the Tarot into three parts,
is exactly that of Jehovah (יהוה).
In the first operation one upon the packets of 26 cards nothing remains,-0.
In the second operation upon the packets of 17 cards 1 remains, which represents the point in the centre of the circle
zero.
Lastly, in the third operation upon the packets of 11 cards 2 remain, which represent Man.
To sum up-
0-The Circumference of the Universe.
1-The point of the Centre-God.
2-The Male and the Female. Man.
God, Man, and the Universe, obtained by the mystic system of Etteila!
We shall never end if we try to follow our author in all the deductions he makes from the above; let us content ourselves,
in closing, with demonstrating the meaning which he gives to the numbers of the packets which have been successively
placed on one side.
26-The Soul.
17-The Spirit.
11-The Body.
Finally, the remainder of the cards 11 + 11 + 2 = 24 is Life.
These few pages will suffice to give the student a glimpse of Etteila's method of proceeding. We have rendered his
deductions as clearly, and presented them as methodically, as possible. The curious had better consult his work on the
subject-
COLLECTION SUR LES HAUTES SCIENCES, or a theoretical and practical treatise upon the wisdom magic of the
ancients, absolutely complete in twelve books, which contain all that Etteila has written upon the Hermetic philosophy,
the art of fortune-telling by cards . . . and particularly the sublime Book of Thoth. 2 vols. 8vo., bound, 1780.
In the second operation upon the packets of 17 cards 1 remains, which represents the point in the centre of the circle
zero.
Lastly, in the third operation upon the packets of 11 cards 2 remain, which represent Man.
To sum up-
0-The Circumference of the Universe.
1-The point of the Centre-God.
2-The Male and the Female. Man.
God, Man, and the Universe, obtained by the mystic system of Etteila!
We shall never end if we try to follow our author in all the deductions he makes from the above; let us content ourselves,
in closing, with demonstrating the meaning which he gives to the numbers of the packets which have been successively
placed on one side.
26-The Soul.
17-The Spirit.
11-The Body.
Finally, the remainder of the cards 11 + 11 + 2 = 24 is Life.
These few pages will suffice to give the student a glimpse of Etteila's method of proceeding. We have rendered his
deductions as clearly, and presented them as methodically, as possible. The curious had better consult his work on the
subject-
COLLECTION SUR LES HAUTES SCIENCES, or a theoretical and practical treatise upon the wisdom magic of the
ancients, absolutely complete in twelve books, which contain all that Etteila has written upon the Hermetic philosophy,
the art of fortune-telling by cards . . . and particularly the sublime Book of Thoth. 2 vols. 8vo., bound, 1780.
| THE HIEROGRAM OF ADAM, BY STANISLAS DE GUAITA |
In asserting that the hierogram of Adam conceals the most profound arcana of the living Universe, we shall not astonish
those who have made a serious study of the Sepher Bereschit. By comparing the admirable translation of Fabre d'Olivet
with the pentacular revelations of the Book of Thoth, it is not impossible to strike out the supreme light of truth. Here are
a few data which will aid us to reach it.
Adam אדמ is written in Hebrew, Aleph, Daleth, Mem.
1א (st key of the Tarot: The Juggler). God and man; the Principle and the end; the Equilibrant Unity.
4ד (th key of the Tarot: The Emperor). The Power and the Kingdom; the verbal Quaternary; the Multiplication of the
cube.
13מ (th key of the Tarot: Death). Destruction and Restoration; Night and Day, moral and physical; Eternity and the
Ephemeral; feminine Passivity; at once the gulf of the Past, the matrix of the Future.
The ternary analysis of the fathomless principle that Yod manifests in its inaccessible and synthetic unity, Adam is, in
fact, very analogous to the hierogram Aum, which is so famous in the sanctuaries of India.
In אדמ, Aleph corresponds to the Father, the source of the Trinity; Daleth to the Son (whom the Kabbalah also names
the King); and Mem to the Holy Spirit, whose ethereal body, devouring yet fertilizing transitory forms, causes life
(inexhaustible and unalterable in its essence) to blossom upon the changing hot-bed of Growth.
I have said that אדמ is the cyclic analysis of the principle, of which י (Yod) is the inaccessible synthesis.
A simple calculation of the numerical Kabbalah confirms my assertion. Let us translate the letters into numbers (Tarotic
method).
13 א1 ד 4מ .
1 + 4 + 13 = 18. In 18, 1 +8= 9.
In Kabbalistic absolute numericals the analytical number of Adam is then 9. Now we obtain 10 by adding, to 9 the
specific unity which leads the cycle back to its starting-point, and closes analysis in synthesis, and 10 is the number
which corresponds to the letter Yod: this we were anxious to prove.
The hierogrammatic vocable אדמ (Adam) then represents the ninth evolution of the cycle, which emanated from י (Yod),
and which closes in 10 by returning to its starting-point. Principle and end of all, the eternal Yod, revealed in its
expanded form tertriune.
Let us go further still.
We have then the right (noting, however, that Adam differs from Yod, or from Wodh, as the totality of the sub-multiples
differ from the Unity),-we have the right to say, pursuing our analogies,
If Adam be equal to 1,
Adam-ah = I-ah; and Adam Eve = I-eve. He (ה) represents Universal Life, natura naturans; יה then represents Yod united
to Life, and אדמה (Adamah), Adam united to Life. This is the union of the Spirit and of the Universal Soul at two different
degrees (always remembering the distinction noticed above).
Lastly, in יהוה (IEVE), as in אדמ-הוה (Adam-Eve), Vau (ו) represents the fecundity of this union, and the last He (ה)
symbolizes natura naturata (issued from natura naturans, increased by the mixed principle).
These four letters, יהוה (IEVE), symbolize the quaternary of Mercavah, the six letters of Adam-Eve, אדמ-הוה, the senary of
Bereschith.
(Fragment of the Serpent of Genesis published in the Lotus of March 1888, p. 327, and 328 note.)
those who have made a serious study of the Sepher Bereschit. By comparing the admirable translation of Fabre d'Olivet
with the pentacular revelations of the Book of Thoth, it is not impossible to strike out the supreme light of truth. Here are
a few data which will aid us to reach it.
Adam אדמ is written in Hebrew, Aleph, Daleth, Mem.
1א (st key of the Tarot: The Juggler). God and man; the Principle and the end; the Equilibrant Unity.
4ד (th key of the Tarot: The Emperor). The Power and the Kingdom; the verbal Quaternary; the Multiplication of the
cube.
13מ (th key of the Tarot: Death). Destruction and Restoration; Night and Day, moral and physical; Eternity and the
Ephemeral; feminine Passivity; at once the gulf of the Past, the matrix of the Future.
The ternary analysis of the fathomless principle that Yod manifests in its inaccessible and synthetic unity, Adam is, in
fact, very analogous to the hierogram Aum, which is so famous in the sanctuaries of India.
In אדמ, Aleph corresponds to the Father, the source of the Trinity; Daleth to the Son (whom the Kabbalah also names
the King); and Mem to the Holy Spirit, whose ethereal body, devouring yet fertilizing transitory forms, causes life
(inexhaustible and unalterable in its essence) to blossom upon the changing hot-bed of Growth.
I have said that אדמ is the cyclic analysis of the principle, of which י (Yod) is the inaccessible synthesis.
A simple calculation of the numerical Kabbalah confirms my assertion. Let us translate the letters into numbers (Tarotic
method).
13 א1 ד 4מ .
1 + 4 + 13 = 18. In 18, 1 +8= 9.
In Kabbalistic absolute numericals the analytical number of Adam is then 9. Now we obtain 10 by adding, to 9 the
specific unity which leads the cycle back to its starting-point, and closes analysis in synthesis, and 10 is the number
which corresponds to the letter Yod: this we were anxious to prove.
The hierogrammatic vocable אדמ (Adam) then represents the ninth evolution of the cycle, which emanated from י (Yod),
and which closes in 10 by returning to its starting-point. Principle and end of all, the eternal Yod, revealed in its
expanded form tertriune.
Let us go further still.
We have then the right (noting, however, that Adam differs from Yod, or from Wodh, as the totality of the sub-multiples
differ from the Unity),-we have the right to say, pursuing our analogies,
If Adam be equal to 1,
Adam-ah = I-ah; and Adam Eve = I-eve. He (ה) represents Universal Life, natura naturans; יה then represents Yod united
to Life, and אדמה (Adamah), Adam united to Life. This is the union of the Spirit and of the Universal Soul at two different
degrees (always remembering the distinction noticed above).
Lastly, in יהוה (IEVE), as in אדמ-הוה (Adam-Eve), Vau (ו) represents the fecundity of this union, and the last He (ה)
symbolizes natura naturata (issued from natura naturans, increased by the mixed principle).
These four letters, יהוה (IEVE), symbolize the quaternary of Mercavah, the six letters of Adam-Eve, אדמ-הוה, the senary of
Bereschith.
(Fragment of the Serpent of Genesis published in the Lotus of March 1888, p. 327, and 328 note.)
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Tarot Of The Bohemians: Chapter 18