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.
It is the pair of opposites, which emanates from only one essence, and as soon as he is balanced, his expression is of perfect harmony.
Also it is a symbol of movements of both attraction and repulsion of the cosmic substance, and the reciprocal physiological love of beings.

Figure 7

This figure represents the King Initiate at his summit and success. In the Bible, the Psalm 44 describes him.
The golden five-pointed crown represents power over fear, over enemies, over love, over riches and over steel.
All these powers are material, but used to achieve the Divine Power, symbolized by the triangle in a square, which the king wears upon his chest.
The two sphinxes, or horses, are the two currents of Bohas and Jakin, which are indispensable for the power; they are parallels that never meet.
The lingam, along with the holy wheel of Mercury, symbolizes that the power of the King Initiate is essentially masculine and controls the feminine element. Also the Psalm 44 describes it.

Figure 8

It symbolizes curses and blessings, courage and fear, good and evil, Divine Power and human power. This figure is Michael in the Revelation Book, and Saint George, in Christendom.
One of these two powers has to overcome the other: the one that succeeds is angel of light and the defeated one is angel of shadows.

Figure 9

This figure represents the Spiritual Initiate. His head is entirely covered; this means that he sees all, as a clairvoyant.
His cloak is light blue, because he embraced the highest renunciation and achieved serenity and peace. His right hand holds the lamp, representing experiences acquired in past lives; he will use these experiences to guide those who come after him.
He holds a ten-knot cane; these knots represent his control over inner powers; he rests on the cane in order to show that he is not proud of the power and uses it wisely.

Figure 10

It represents the personal God, Supreme Being, Creator, Horushatum.
The three crowns represent power over mind, energy and matter; they represent God as Creator, preserver and destroyer.
The wheel represents the destiny of Humanity, the karmic law of cause and effect, which causes it to revolve since the beginning to the end.
The sign of Hermanubis and that of Typhon denote that in their hands is both the virtuous and wicked man, both the saint and the damned soul.