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==Depiction== | ==Depiction== | ||
In the eighteenth century this card seems to have been a symbol of animal impudicity, and not directly implying the deity [[Satan]]. Except for a fantastic headdress, the devil is entirely naked; it has bat-like wings, and the hands and feet are represented by the claws of a bird. In the right hand there is a scepter terminating in a sign which has been thought to represent fire. | In the eighteenth century this card seems to have been a symbol of animal impudicity, and not directly implying the deity [[Satan]] or [[the Devil]]. Except for a fantastic headdress, the devil is entirely naked; it has bat-like wings, and the hands and feet are represented by the claws of a bird. In the right hand there is a scepter terminating in a sign which has been thought to represent fire. | ||
Since 1856 the influence of [[Éliphas Lévi]] and his doctrine of occultism has changed the face of this card, and it now appears as a [[Baphomet]]ic figure with the head of a goat and a great torch between the horns; it is seated instead of erect, and in place of the generative organs there is the Hermetic caduceus. | Since 1856 the influence of [[Éliphas Lévi]] and his doctrine of occultism has changed the face of this card, and it now appears as a [[Baphomet]]ic figure with the head of a goat and a great torch between the horns; it is seated instead of erect, and in place of the generative organs there is the Hermetic caduceus. | ||