| CARD XVII The Star |
A strange emotion seized me. A fiery trembling ran in waves through all my body. My heart quickened its beating,
tumult agitated my mind.
I felt that I was surrounded by portentous mysteries. And presently shafts of Light penetrated my being and illuminated
many things before in darkness, whose existence even I had never suspected. Veils vanished of which I had been
before unaware. Voices spoke to me. And suddenly all my former knowledge took a new and different meaning.
I discovered unexpected correlations in things which hitherto I had thought foreign to each other. Objects distant and
different from one another appeared near and similar. The facts of the world arranged themselves before my eyes
according to a new pattern.
In the sky there appeared an enormous star surrounded by seven smaller stars. Their rays intermingled, filling space
with immeasurable radiance and splendour. Then I knew I saw that Heaven of which Plotinus speaks:
"Where . . . all things are diaphanous; and nothing is dark and resisting, but everything is apparent to every one
internally and throughout. For light everywhere meets with light, since everything contains all things in itself, and again
sees all things in another. So that all things are everywhere, and all is all. Each thing likewise is everything. And the
splendour there is infinite. For everything there is great, since even that which is small is great.
"The sun too, which is there, is all the stars; and again each star is the sun and all the stars. In each however, a
different property predominates, but at the same time all things are visible in each. Motion likewise there is pure; for
motion is not confounded by a mover different from it. Permanency also suffers no change of its nature, because it is
not mingled with the unstable. And the beautiful there is beautiful, because it does not subsist in beauty. Each thing,
too, is there established, not as in a foreign land, but the seat of each thing is that which each thing is. . . Nor is the
thing itself different from the place in which it subsists. For the subject of it is intellect, and it is itself intellect. . . . In this
sensible region, therefore, one part is not produced by another, but each part is alone a part. But there each part
always proceeds from the whole, and is at the same each time part and the whole. For it appears indeed as a part; but
by him whose sight is acute, it will be seen as a whole.
"Where . . . is likewise no weariness of the vision which Is there, not any plenitude of perception which can bring
intuition to an end.
"For neither was there any vacuity which when filled might cause the visible energy to cease; nor is this one thing, but
that another, so as to occasion a part of one thing not to be amicable with that of another.
"Where . . . the life is wisdom; a wisdom not obtained by a reasoning process, because the whole of it always was, and
is not in any respect deficient, so as to be in want of investigation. But it is the first wisdom, and is not derived from
another".
I understood that all the radiance here is thought; and the changing colours are emotions. And each ray, if we look into
it, turns into images, symbols, voices and moods. And I saw that there is nothing inanimate, but all is soul, all is life, all
is emotion and imagination.
And beneath the radiant stars beside the blue river I saw a naked maiden, young and beautiful. She stooped on one
knee and poured water from two vessels, one of gold and one of silver. A little bird in a near by bush lifted its wings
and was poised ready to fly away.
For a moment I understood that I beheld the Soul of Nature.
"This is Nature's Imagination," said the voice gently. "Nature dreams, improvises, creates worlds. Learn to unite your
imagination with Her Imagination and nothing will ever be impossible for you. Lose the external world and seek it in
yourself. Then you will find Light. "But remember, unless you have lost the Earth, you will not find Heaven. It is
impossible to see both wrongly and rightly at the same time."
tumult agitated my mind.
I felt that I was surrounded by portentous mysteries. And presently shafts of Light penetrated my being and illuminated
many things before in darkness, whose existence even I had never suspected. Veils vanished of which I had been
before unaware. Voices spoke to me. And suddenly all my former knowledge took a new and different meaning.
I discovered unexpected correlations in things which hitherto I had thought foreign to each other. Objects distant and
different from one another appeared near and similar. The facts of the world arranged themselves before my eyes
according to a new pattern.
In the sky there appeared an enormous star surrounded by seven smaller stars. Their rays intermingled, filling space
with immeasurable radiance and splendour. Then I knew I saw that Heaven of which Plotinus speaks:
"Where . . . all things are diaphanous; and nothing is dark and resisting, but everything is apparent to every one
internally and throughout. For light everywhere meets with light, since everything contains all things in itself, and again
sees all things in another. So that all things are everywhere, and all is all. Each thing likewise is everything. And the
splendour there is infinite. For everything there is great, since even that which is small is great.
"The sun too, which is there, is all the stars; and again each star is the sun and all the stars. In each however, a
different property predominates, but at the same time all things are visible in each. Motion likewise there is pure; for
motion is not confounded by a mover different from it. Permanency also suffers no change of its nature, because it is
not mingled with the unstable. And the beautiful there is beautiful, because it does not subsist in beauty. Each thing,
too, is there established, not as in a foreign land, but the seat of each thing is that which each thing is. . . Nor is the
thing itself different from the place in which it subsists. For the subject of it is intellect, and it is itself intellect. . . . In this
sensible region, therefore, one part is not produced by another, but each part is alone a part. But there each part
always proceeds from the whole, and is at the same each time part and the whole. For it appears indeed as a part; but
by him whose sight is acute, it will be seen as a whole.
"Where . . . is likewise no weariness of the vision which Is there, not any plenitude of perception which can bring
intuition to an end.
"For neither was there any vacuity which when filled might cause the visible energy to cease; nor is this one thing, but
that another, so as to occasion a part of one thing not to be amicable with that of another.
"Where . . . the life is wisdom; a wisdom not obtained by a reasoning process, because the whole of it always was, and
is not in any respect deficient, so as to be in want of investigation. But it is the first wisdom, and is not derived from
another".
I understood that all the radiance here is thought; and the changing colours are emotions. And each ray, if we look into
it, turns into images, symbols, voices and moods. And I saw that there is nothing inanimate, but all is soul, all is life, all
is emotion and imagination.
And beneath the radiant stars beside the blue river I saw a naked maiden, young and beautiful. She stooped on one
knee and poured water from two vessels, one of gold and one of silver. A little bird in a near by bush lifted its wings
and was poised ready to fly away.
For a moment I understood that I beheld the Soul of Nature.
"This is Nature's Imagination," said the voice gently. "Nature dreams, improvises, creates worlds. Learn to unite your
imagination with Her Imagination and nothing will ever be impossible for you. Lose the external world and seek it in
yourself. Then you will find Light. "But remember, unless you have lost the Earth, you will not find Heaven. It is
impossible to see both wrongly and rightly at the same time."
| CARD VII The Hierophant |
I saw the great Master in the Temple. He was siting on a golden throne set upon a purple platform, and he wore the
robe of a high priest with a golden tiara. He held a golden eight-pointed cross, and lying at his feet were two crossed
keys. Two initiates bowed before him and to them he spoke:-
"Seek the Path, do not seek attainment, Seek for the Path within yourself.
"Do not expect to hear the truth from others, nor to see it, or read it in books. Look for the truth in yourself, not without
yourself.
"Aspire only after the impossible and inaccessible. Expect only that which shall not be.
"Do not hope for Me,-do not look for Me,-do not believe-that I am outside yourself.
"Within your soul build a lefty tower by which you may ascend to Heaven. Do not believe in external miracles, expect
miracles only within you. Beware of believing in a mystery of the earth, in a mystery guarded by men; for treasuries
which must be guarded are empty. Do not search for a mystery that can be hidden by men. Seek the Mystery within
yourself.
"Above all, avoid those towers built in order to preserve the mysteries and to make an ascent to Heaven by stone
stairways. And remember that as soon as men build such a tower they begin to dispute about the summit.
"The Path is in yourself, and Truth is in yourself and Mystery is in yourself."
robe of a high priest with a golden tiara. He held a golden eight-pointed cross, and lying at his feet were two crossed
keys. Two initiates bowed before him and to them he spoke:-
"Seek the Path, do not seek attainment, Seek for the Path within yourself.
"Do not expect to hear the truth from others, nor to see it, or read it in books. Look for the truth in yourself, not without
yourself.
"Aspire only after the impossible and inaccessible. Expect only that which shall not be.
"Do not hope for Me,-do not look for Me,-do not believe-that I am outside yourself.
"Within your soul build a lefty tower by which you may ascend to Heaven. Do not believe in external miracles, expect
miracles only within you. Beware of believing in a mystery of the earth, in a mystery guarded by men; for treasuries
which must be guarded are empty. Do not search for a mystery that can be hidden by men. Seek the Mystery within
yourself.
"Above all, avoid those towers built in order to preserve the mysteries and to make an ascent to Heaven by stone
stairways. And remember that as soon as men build such a tower they begin to dispute about the summit.
"The Path is in yourself, and Truth is in yourself and Mystery is in yourself."
| CARD XVI The Tower |
I saw a lofty tower extending from earth to heaven; its golden crowned summit reached beyond the clouds. All round it
black night reigned and thunder rumbled.
Suddenly the heavens opened, a thunder-clap shook the whole earth, and lightning struck the summit of the tower and
felled the golden crown. A tongue of fire shot from heaven and the whole tower became filled with fire and smoke.
Then I beheld the builders of the tower fall headlong to the ground.
And the voice said:-
"The building of the tower was begun by the disciples of the great Master in order to have a constant reminder of the
Master's teaching that the true tower must be built in one's own soul, that in the tower built by hands there can be no
mysteries, that no one can ascend to Heaven by treading stone steps.
"The tower should warn the people not to believe in it. It should serve as a reminder of the inner Temple and as a
protection against the outer; it should be as a lighthouse, in a dangerous place where men have often been wrecked
and where ships should not go.
"But by and by the disciples forgot the true covenant of the Master and what the tower symbolized, and began to
believe in the tower of stone, they had built, and to teach others to so believe. They began to say that in this tower
there is power, mystery and the spirit of the Master, that the tower itself is holy and that it is built for the coming Master
according to His covenant and His will. And so they waited in the tower for the Master. Others did not believe this, or
interpreted it differently. Then began disputes about the rights of the summit. Quarrels started, 'Our Master, your
Master,' was said; 'our tower, your tower.' And the disciples ceased to understand each other. Their tongues had
become confused.
"You understand the meaning here? They had begun to think that this is the tower of the Master, that He builds it
through them, and that it must and, indeed, can be built right up to Heaven.
"And you see how Heaven responded?"
black night reigned and thunder rumbled.
Suddenly the heavens opened, a thunder-clap shook the whole earth, and lightning struck the summit of the tower and
felled the golden crown. A tongue of fire shot from heaven and the whole tower became filled with fire and smoke.
Then I beheld the builders of the tower fall headlong to the ground.
And the voice said:-
"The building of the tower was begun by the disciples of the great Master in order to have a constant reminder of the
Master's teaching that the true tower must be built in one's own soul, that in the tower built by hands there can be no
mysteries, that no one can ascend to Heaven by treading stone steps.
"The tower should warn the people not to believe in it. It should serve as a reminder of the inner Temple and as a
protection against the outer; it should be as a lighthouse, in a dangerous place where men have often been wrecked
and where ships should not go.
"But by and by the disciples forgot the true covenant of the Master and what the tower symbolized, and began to
believe in the tower of stone, they had built, and to teach others to so believe. They began to say that in this tower
there is power, mystery and the spirit of the Master, that the tower itself is holy and that it is built for the coming Master
according to His covenant and His will. And so they waited in the tower for the Master. Others did not believe this, or
interpreted it differently. Then began disputes about the rights of the summit. Quarrels started, 'Our Master, your
Master,' was said; 'our tower, your tower.' And the disciples ceased to understand each other. Their tongues had
become confused.
"You understand the meaning here? They had begun to think that this is the tower of the Master, that He builds it
through them, and that it must and, indeed, can be built right up to Heaven.
"And you see how Heaven responded?"
| CARD VIII The Power |
In the midst of a green plain, surrounded by blue hills, I saw a woman with a lion. Girdled with wreaths of roses, a
symbol of infinity over her head, the woman calmly and confidently covered the lion's mouth and the lion obediently
licked her hand.
"This is a picture of power", said the voice. "It has different meanings. First it shows the power of love. Love alone can
conquer wrath. Hatred feeds hatred. Remember what Zarathustra said: "Let man be freed from vengeance; this is a
bridge for me which leads to higher hope and a rainbow in heaven after long storms".
"Then it shows power of unity. These wreaths of roses suggest a magic chain. Unity of desires, unity of aspirations
creates such power that every wild, uncontrolled, unconscious force is subdued. Even two desires, if united, are able
to conquer almost the whole world.
"The picture also shows the power of infinity, that sphere of mysteries. For a consciousness that perceives the symbol
of infinity above it, knows no obstacles and cannot be withstood".
symbol of infinity over her head, the woman calmly and confidently covered the lion's mouth and the lion obediently
licked her hand.
"This is a picture of power", said the voice. "It has different meanings. First it shows the power of love. Love alone can
conquer wrath. Hatred feeds hatred. Remember what Zarathustra said: "Let man be freed from vengeance; this is a
bridge for me which leads to higher hope and a rainbow in heaven after long storms".
"Then it shows power of unity. These wreaths of roses suggest a magic chain. Unity of desires, unity of aspirations
creates such power that every wild, uncontrolled, unconscious force is subdued. Even two desires, if united, are able
to conquer almost the whole world.
"The picture also shows the power of infinity, that sphere of mysteries. For a consciousness that perceives the symbol
of infinity above it, knows no obstacles and cannot be withstood".
| CARD XV The Devil |
Black, awful night enveloped the earth. An ominous, red flame burned in the distance. I was approaching a fantastic
figure which outlined itself before me as I came nearer to it. High above the earth appeared the repulsive red face of
the Devil, with large, hairy ears, pointed beard and curved goats' horns. A pentagram, pointing downwards, shone in
phosphoric light between the horns on his forehead. Two large, grey, bat-like wings were spread behind him. He held
up one arm, spreading out his bare, fat hand. In the palm I saw the sign of black magic. A burning torch held
down-end in his other hand emitted black, stifling smoke. He sat on a large, black cube, gripping it with the claws of
his beast-like, shaggy legs.
A man and woman were chained to the cube-the same Man and Woman I saw in the garden, but now they had horns
and tails tipped with flame. And they were evidently dissatisfied in spirit, and were filled with protest and repulsion.
"This is a picture of weakness", said the voice, "a picture of falsehood and evil. They are the same man and woman
you saw in the garden, but their love ceasing to be a sacrifice, became an illusion. This man and woman forgot that
their love is a link in the chain that unites them with eternity, that their love is a symbol of equilibrium and a road to
Infinity.
"They forgot that It is a key to the gate of the magic world, the torch which lights the higher Path. They forgot that
Love is real and immortal and they subjugated it to the unreal and temporary. And they each made love a tool for
submitting the other to himself.
"Then love became dissension and fettered them with iron chains to the black cube of matter, on which sits deceit".
And I heard the voice of the Devil: "I am Evil", he said, "at least so far as Evil can exist in this best of worlds. In order
to see me, one must be able to see unfairly, incorrectly and narrowly. I close the triangle, the other two sides of which
are Death and Time. In order to quit this triangle it is necessary to see that it does not exist.
"But how to do this is not for me to tell. For I am the Evil which men say is the cause of all evil and which they invented
as an excuse for all the evil that they do.
"They call me the Prince of Falsehood, and truly I am the prince of lies, because I am the most monstrous production
of human lies".
figure which outlined itself before me as I came nearer to it. High above the earth appeared the repulsive red face of
the Devil, with large, hairy ears, pointed beard and curved goats' horns. A pentagram, pointing downwards, shone in
phosphoric light between the horns on his forehead. Two large, grey, bat-like wings were spread behind him. He held
up one arm, spreading out his bare, fat hand. In the palm I saw the sign of black magic. A burning torch held
down-end in his other hand emitted black, stifling smoke. He sat on a large, black cube, gripping it with the claws of
his beast-like, shaggy legs.
A man and woman were chained to the cube-the same Man and Woman I saw in the garden, but now they had horns
and tails tipped with flame. And they were evidently dissatisfied in spirit, and were filled with protest and repulsion.
"This is a picture of weakness", said the voice, "a picture of falsehood and evil. They are the same man and woman
you saw in the garden, but their love ceasing to be a sacrifice, became an illusion. This man and woman forgot that
their love is a link in the chain that unites them with eternity, that their love is a symbol of equilibrium and a road to
Infinity.
"They forgot that It is a key to the gate of the magic world, the torch which lights the higher Path. They forgot that
Love is real and immortal and they subjugated it to the unreal and temporary. And they each made love a tool for
submitting the other to himself.
"Then love became dissension and fettered them with iron chains to the black cube of matter, on which sits deceit".
And I heard the voice of the Devil: "I am Evil", he said, "at least so far as Evil can exist in this best of worlds. In order
to see me, one must be able to see unfairly, incorrectly and narrowly. I close the triangle, the other two sides of which
are Death and Time. In order to quit this triangle it is necessary to see that it does not exist.
"But how to do this is not for me to tell. For I am the Evil which men say is the cause of all evil and which they invented
as an excuse for all the evil that they do.
"They call me the Prince of Falsehood, and truly I am the prince of lies, because I am the most monstrous production
of human lies".
| CARD IX The Hermit |
After long wanderings over a sandy, waterless desert where only serpents lived, I met the Hermit.
He was wrapped in a long cloak, a hood thrown over his head. He held a long staff in one hand and in the other a
lighted lantern, though it was broad daylight and the sun was shining.
"The lantern of Hermes Trismegistus", said the voice, "this is higher knowledge, that inner knowledge which
illuminates in a new way even what appears to be already clearly known. This lantern lights up the past, the present
and the future for the Hermit, and opens the souls of people and the most intimate recesses. of their hearts."
"The cloak of Apollonius is the faculty of the wise man by which he isolates himself, even amidst a noisy crowd; it is
his skill in hiding his mysteries, even while expressing them, his capacity for silence and his power to act in stillness.
"The staff of the patriarchs is his inner authority, his power, his self-confidence."
The lantern, the cloak and the staff are the three symbols of initiation. They are needed to guide souls past the
temptation of illusory fires by the roadside, so that they may go straight to the higher goal. He who receives these
three symbols or aspires to obtain them, "strives to enrich himself with all he can acquire, not for himself, but, like
God, to delight in the joy of giving".
"The giving virtue is the basis of an initiate's life.
"His soul is transformed into 'a spoiler of all treasures' so said Zarathustra.
"Initiation unites the human mind with the higher mind by a chain of analogies. This chain is the ladder leading to
heaven, dreamed of by the patriarch".
He was wrapped in a long cloak, a hood thrown over his head. He held a long staff in one hand and in the other a
lighted lantern, though it was broad daylight and the sun was shining.
"The lantern of Hermes Trismegistus", said the voice, "this is higher knowledge, that inner knowledge which
illuminates in a new way even what appears to be already clearly known. This lantern lights up the past, the present
and the future for the Hermit, and opens the souls of people and the most intimate recesses. of their hearts."
"The cloak of Apollonius is the faculty of the wise man by which he isolates himself, even amidst a noisy crowd; it is
his skill in hiding his mysteries, even while expressing them, his capacity for silence and his power to act in stillness.
"The staff of the patriarchs is his inner authority, his power, his self-confidence."
The lantern, the cloak and the staff are the three symbols of initiation. They are needed to guide souls past the
temptation of illusory fires by the roadside, so that they may go straight to the higher goal. He who receives these
three symbols or aspires to obtain them, "strives to enrich himself with all he can acquire, not for himself, but, like
God, to delight in the joy of giving".
"The giving virtue is the basis of an initiate's life.
"His soul is transformed into 'a spoiler of all treasures' so said Zarathustra.
"Initiation unites the human mind with the higher mind by a chain of analogies. This chain is the ladder leading to
heaven, dreamed of by the patriarch".
| CARD XIV Time (Temperance) |
An angel in a white robe, touching earth and heaven, appeared. His wings were flame and a radiance of gold was
about his head. On his breast he wore the sacred sign of the book of the Tarot-a triangle within a square, a point
within the triangle; on his forehead the symbol of life and eternity, the circle.
In one hand was a cup of silver, in the other a cup of gold and there flowed between these cups a constant,
glistening stream of every colour of the rainbow. But I could not tell from which cup nor into which cup the stream
flowed.
In great awe I understood that I was near the ultimate mysteries from which there is no return. I looked upon the
angel, upon his symbols, his cups, the rainbow stream between the cups,-and my human heart trembled with fear
and my human mind shrank with anguish and lack of understanding.
"Yes", said the voice, "this is a mystery that is revealed at Initiation. 'Initiation' is simply the revealing of this mystery
in the soul. The Hermit receives the lantern, the cloak and the staff so that he can bear the light of this mystery.
"But you probably came here unprepared. Look then and listen and try to understand, for now understanding is your
only salvation. He who approaches the mystery without complete comprehension will be lost.
"The name of the angel is Time. The circle on his forehead is the symbol of eternity and life. Each life is a circle
which returns to the same point where it began. Death is the return to birth. And from one point to another on the
circumference of a circle the distance is always the same, and the further it is from one point, the nearer it will be to
the other.
"Eternity is a serpent, pursuing its tail, never catching it.
"One of the cups the angel holds is the past, the other is the future. The rainbow stream between the cups is the
present. You see that it flows both ways.
"This is Time in its most incomprehensible aspect.
"Men think that all flows constantly in one direction. They do not see that everything perpetually meets and that Time
is a multitude of turning circles. Understand this mystery and learn to discern the contrary currents in the rainbow
stream of the present.
"The symbol of the sacred book of the Tarot on the angel's breast is the symbol of the correlation of God, Man and
the Universe.
"The triangle is God, the world of spirit, the world of ideas. The point within the triangle is the soul of man. The
square is the visible world.
"The consciousness of man is the spark of divinity, a point within the triangle of spirit. Therefore the whole square of
the visible universe is equal to the point within the triangle.
"The world of spirit is the triangle of the twenty-one signs of the Tarot. The square represents fire, air, water and
earth, and thus symbolises the world.
"All this, in the form of the four symbols, is in the bag of the Fool, who himself is a point in a triangle. Therefore a
point without dimension contains an infinite square".
about his head. On his breast he wore the sacred sign of the book of the Tarot-a triangle within a square, a point
within the triangle; on his forehead the symbol of life and eternity, the circle.
In one hand was a cup of silver, in the other a cup of gold and there flowed between these cups a constant,
glistening stream of every colour of the rainbow. But I could not tell from which cup nor into which cup the stream
flowed.
In great awe I understood that I was near the ultimate mysteries from which there is no return. I looked upon the
angel, upon his symbols, his cups, the rainbow stream between the cups,-and my human heart trembled with fear
and my human mind shrank with anguish and lack of understanding.
"Yes", said the voice, "this is a mystery that is revealed at Initiation. 'Initiation' is simply the revealing of this mystery
in the soul. The Hermit receives the lantern, the cloak and the staff so that he can bear the light of this mystery.
"But you probably came here unprepared. Look then and listen and try to understand, for now understanding is your
only salvation. He who approaches the mystery without complete comprehension will be lost.
"The name of the angel is Time. The circle on his forehead is the symbol of eternity and life. Each life is a circle
which returns to the same point where it began. Death is the return to birth. And from one point to another on the
circumference of a circle the distance is always the same, and the further it is from one point, the nearer it will be to
the other.
"Eternity is a serpent, pursuing its tail, never catching it.
"One of the cups the angel holds is the past, the other is the future. The rainbow stream between the cups is the
present. You see that it flows both ways.
"This is Time in its most incomprehensible aspect.
"Men think that all flows constantly in one direction. They do not see that everything perpetually meets and that Time
is a multitude of turning circles. Understand this mystery and learn to discern the contrary currents in the rainbow
stream of the present.
"The symbol of the sacred book of the Tarot on the angel's breast is the symbol of the correlation of God, Man and
the Universe.
"The triangle is God, the world of spirit, the world of ideas. The point within the triangle is the soul of man. The
square is the visible world.
"The consciousness of man is the spark of divinity, a point within the triangle of spirit. Therefore the whole square of
the visible universe is equal to the point within the triangle.
"The world of spirit is the triangle of the twenty-one signs of the Tarot. The square represents fire, air, water and
earth, and thus symbolises the world.
"All this, in the form of the four symbols, is in the bag of the Fool, who himself is a point in a triangle. Therefore a
point without dimension contains an infinite square".
| CARD X The Wheel Of Chance |
I walked along, absorbed in deep thought, trying to understand the vision of the Angel. And suddenly, as I lifted my
head, I saw midway in the sky a huge, revolving circle covered with Kabalistic letters and symbols. The circle turned
with terrible velocity, and around it, falling down and flying up, symbolic figures of the serpent and the dog revolved;
above it sat an immovable sphinx.
In clouds, on the four quarters of heaven, I saw the four apocalyptical beings, one with the face of a lion, another
with the face of a bull, the third with a face of an eagle, and the fourth with the face of a bull. And each of them read
an open book.
And I heard the voices of Zarathustra's beasts:-
"All go, all return,"-the wheel of life ever turns. All die, all flourish again,-the year of existence runs eternally.
"All perish, all live again, the same house of existence is ever building. All separate, all meet again, the ring of
existence is ever true to itself.
"Existence begins at every moment. Round each "here" rolls "there". The middle is everywhere. The way of eternity
is a curve".
head, I saw midway in the sky a huge, revolving circle covered with Kabalistic letters and symbols. The circle turned
with terrible velocity, and around it, falling down and flying up, symbolic figures of the serpent and the dog revolved;
above it sat an immovable sphinx.
In clouds, on the four quarters of heaven, I saw the four apocalyptical beings, one with the face of a lion, another
with the face of a bull, the third with a face of an eagle, and the fourth with the face of a bull. And each of them read
an open book.
And I heard the voices of Zarathustra's beasts:-
"All go, all return,"-the wheel of life ever turns. All die, all flourish again,-the year of existence runs eternally.
"All perish, all live again, the same house of existence is ever building. All separate, all meet again, the ring of
existence is ever true to itself.
"Existence begins at every moment. Round each "here" rolls "there". The middle is everywhere. The way of eternity
is a curve".
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