The Tarot

Course XLIII - Teaching 1: The Tarot Source

The twenty-two Tarot figures and their cosmogonic, anthropogenetic and theologic symbols are originally Atlantean. All Aryan peoples have reproduced these 22 figures on their diverse temples, and gradually modified them.

Course XLIII - Teaching 2: Egyptian Tarot Figures

The twenty-two Egyptian Tarot Figures are as follows: 1 ALEPH “OSIRIS” (The Navigator). 3.In the center of the figure there is a young man, with long, curly hair, standing on the waters of the sea; he is in white, his head covered by a big hat, and a luminous aura around; his right arm extended downward; his left arm raised and holding a little wand.

Course XLIII - Teaching 3: Both French and Italian Tarot Figures

Next a description of both French and Italian Tarot figures; in the event names are different, first the French name appears. 1 A THE BOATMAN – THE SHOEMAKER. In the French figure you see the boatman in his barge; one hand touches the edge, and the other raises the oar.

Course XLIII - Teaching 4: First to Fifth Tarot Figures: Their Interpretation

Figure 1 The man in white is the triumphant man, the man God; it is he who came to control the Great Element. This is why he is over the waters.

Course XLIII - Teaching 5: Sixth to Tenth Tarot Figures: Their Interpretation

Figure 6 The Man between Vice and Virtue represents the two great laws, that of Consecutive Predestination and the Free-will Law of Possibilities, since man ever fights between fatalism and his individual personality.

Course XLIII - Teaching 6: Eleventh to Sixteenth Tarot Figures: Their Interpretation

Figure 11 This figure in red represents the power that gives and takes, vivifies and kills. Her eyes look at the infinity because truly a powerful and strong person makes all fearlessly, with only one reference point, the dream or ideal kept in mind.

Course XLIII - Teaching 7: Seventeenth to Twentieth-second Tarot Figures: Their Interpretation

Figure 17 The nude woman symbolizes life in its state of preservation. The two amphorae, in her hands, symbolize creation and destruction. To preserve endlessly one’s life, we have to control quite well the two amphorae of the beginning and end with perfect transmutation, and to transform matter into mind, and mind into matter.

Course XLIII - Teaching 8: Suits

The 22 Tarot Figures symbolize, as you see, both cosmogonic and human powers under diverse forms and aspects. At the same time, they are an enumeration of 22 liberation keys or paths.

Course XLIII - Teaching 9: Heart-Card Suit Meaning

Here is the meaning of upright heart-card suit: ACE means: matrix, domestic things; intimate troubles and family events unknown to strangers; a new idea takes form and grows in the mind.

Course XLIII - Teaching 10: Club-Card Suit Meaning

Here is the meaning of upright Club-card suit: ACE: phallus; power creative of life; expansion from inside outward; willpower; revival; inception of an enterprise; hard situation taken through violence; to gain access to an impervious place.