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. At his feet and in front of him, there are spades, hearts and pentacles.
2 BETH “ISIS” (The Woman).
In the center of the figure, a woman sitting on a throne between two columns of the Binary; at her feet, the sea covered by lotus flowers trodden by her; she wears a triple crown on her forehead, with two horns; her face covered by a veil; a purple robe covers her back, a book of wisdom rests on her knees, which is hidden by the robe; she wears the golden Solar Cross on her chest, and the right hand traces the signal of Blessing with three fingers.
3 GHIMEL “BASILISA” (The Queen).
A woman seated on a big easy chair; she wears a crown, like the cap of Pharaohs; she is in blue with mottled stars, and covered by a red robe; she has two wings; her left hand holds a scepter with the symbolic Globe on its end; her right hand holds a shield; an eagle has been painted on it.
4 DALETH “BASILEI” (The King).
A king sitting on Pharaoh’s attributes; his hands hold the scepter with the globe on its end; on his chest, a big triangle; his legs are crossed forming a cross.
5 HE “RA” (The Great Hierophant).
In the center of the figure, the High Priest sitting between pillars of Hermes and Solomon; his right hand traces the three-finger signal, his left hand holds a three-pole cross. She wears a triple crown, and two ministers are kneeling at her feet. This figure has to represent a pentagram as a whole.
6 VAU “SAT-KE-ASAT” (The Man between vice and Virtue).
In the center of the figure, a man in red; on the right, virtue, and of the left, vice; both of them are grasping his hands; they try to attract him; over his head, a big shining sun, and in its center, an Angel of love as if this Angel tried to wound him with an arrow. Beneath this man, there is a wide and fierce sea.
7 ZAIN (APIS-RA) (The Chariot of Hermes).
Hermes, winner and guide, standing on his chariot. This chariot is cubic, with four pillars and blue curtains covered by stars. Hermes wears a golden five-pointed crown; he wears a blue-and-white cloak fastened on two diamonds, Urim and Thumin; his right hand holds the golden scepter with the globe; and his left hand, a square with a triangle in it.
The chariot is hitched up to a double sphinx, being black that f the left and white of the right, which are lying down on their bellies. On the chariot there is the figure of a lingam; the winged wheel of Mercury overlaps this lingam.
8 CHETH “HATHOR” (Justice).
In the center, a woman, standing, in light blue, a golden veil on her head and wearing a red hood; above her hair, a star. Her right hand wields a sword, and her left hand holds a scale; she is barefooted. Her big wings are wide open; she is about to start flying and looks down at the earth. 9 THET “THOT” (The Initiate).
A man, his face covered, entirely wrapped in a large light blue cloak; his right hand holds a lamp; his left hand rests on a seven-knot cane.
10 JOD “AMON” (The Wheel).
In the center of the figure, an eight-spoke wheel; in its center, a thousand-ray rosette. The wheel appears against a white background. Four rays are red, and four, light blue; y and the end of each one is a six-petal flower. The whole wheel has a golden strip around. Behind is the Seer with three crowns: the golden crown on his head, the light blue crown on his right hand, and the red crown on his left hand. On the right of the Seer, the sign of Hermanubis, and on his left, that of Typhon.
11 CAPH “HARMAKHIS” (Strength).
In the center, a being, perhaps a that man or woman, in red suit, with a shield, and wearing a light blue cloak; he is looking at the infinity. At his feet, a lion shutting its jaws without effort. He wears a wide hat, forming the figure “8”.
12. LAMED “HORUS-OSIRIS” (The Sacrificed one).
A man hanging from a foot; the other foot is free and forms a cross with the former; his hands are tied behind, so that his body forms a triangle with its point downwards on the level of the heart, a wound is bleeding; a green cloth covers the private parts.
13 MEM “SERAPIS” (Death).
A meadow with high green grass. In the middle, a skeleton which is looking left and cutting with a scythe.
14 NUN “GABU” (Temperance).
A radiant angel in white and with folded wings; on his chest, the sign of the septenary. His right hand holds an empty cup, and his left, a full cup, pouring the content of the latter into the former. At his feet, a blooming almond tree.
15 SAMECH “HELIOPOLIS” (The Ram of Baphomet).
The head of a ram with big red horns, exposing its deep red tongue; it is seated on a tube of two colors: the red tube on the right, and the blue on the left. On the level of the Solar plexus, a red tuft; it wears blue trousers and its knees are raised. Its beard is red. Red right hand, raised; blue left hand, down.
16 AIN “TYPHON” (The Tower).
Sky filled with thunderbolts and lightening. In the center of the figure, a tower, with three windows, fulminated by a thunderbolt. Nemrod is expelled from the tower along with his fraudulent prophet. Nemrod holds a bow which, in its fall, forms the letter “ain”.
17 PE “NUIT” (The Sky).
In the sky, five stars: one large star with sixteen points and four small stars, with eight points. Nuit, with two amphorae, pours the liquor of eternal youth. Far away, a green palm tree. Amphorae are red.
18 TZADDI “SOKHARIS” (The Moon).
At night, a dog and a wolf howling to the Moon. Between both of them, a crab; on a green field the dew gets reflected by moonlight; a little path, mottled with blood, is lost far away. On the right, a brick castle, with blue cornice, over an abyss. On the left, a red castle, crowned with six spears, over the peak of a mount.
19 COPH “FTAH” (The Sun).
In the center, a radiant sun emitting eight red tongues, eight blue tongues, and a thousand golden rays. Two twin children are nude and shaking hands, riding a white horse.
20 ROSH “ANUBIS” (The Doomsday).
An angel blowing a trumpet and holding it with the right hand; his left hand holds a book of destiny, closed by a cross. The dead are leaving the tomb: on the right, a man; on the left, a woman; in the center, a child.
21 SIN “GHINI” (The Crown).
A laurel crown fills the figure; on the sides, four animals: bull, lion, eagle and angel; in the center of the figure, the Truth, shaped like a naked woman; her head is covered by a subtle veil, with the crescent moon on her hair, and crowned with twelve stars.
22 TAU “HORUS” (The Walker).
A ragged man walks at random, and holds a bag on his shoulders with the left hand; his right hand rests on a cane; he wears a buffoon cap. A tiger is after him and bites his buttocks; you can see the flesh.