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The picture on the card speaks for itself, but still there is more in it than we might suppose at first sight. Beyond all doubt it is a sort of allegorical representation of Father Chronos, who, while creating, consumes his own children, and was very often pictured as a warning of death or a remembrance of mortality. But on the other hand Time marks the beginning, and birth is not less under his government than death. The earlier editions of this card show the figure harvesting heads and limbs of human bodies upon a field. This may be an expression of an old superstition, which said that those limbs with which man sinned would grow out of his grave. | The picture on the card speaks for itself, but still there is more in it than we might suppose at first sight. Beyond all doubt it is a sort of allegorical representation of Father Chronos, who, while creating, consumes his own children, and was very often pictured as a warning of death or a remembrance of mortality. But on the other hand Time marks the beginning, and birth is not less under his government than death. The earlier editions of this card show the figure harvesting heads and limbs of human bodies upon a field. This may be an expression of an old superstition, which said that those limbs with which man sinned would grow out of his grave. | ||
Creation necessitates equal destruction in a contrary sense, and therefore all the regenerations that have sprung from previous destruction, all transformations, and consequently death, are regarded as the passage from one world to the other. The ideas expressed by this arcanum are those of destruction preceding or following regeneration. The thirteenth card of the [[Tarot]] is placed between the invisible and the visible worlds. It is the universal link in nature, the means by which all the influences react from one world to the other. | Creation necessitates equal destruction in a contrary sense, and therefore all the regenerations that have sprung from previous destruction, all transformations, and consequently death, are regarded as the passage from one world to the other. The ideas expressed by this arcanum are those of destruction preceding or following regeneration. The [[13 (number)|thirteenth]] card of the [[Tarot]] is placed between the invisible and the visible worlds. It is the universal link in nature, the means by which all the influences react from one world to the other. | ||
The natural transit of man to the next stage of his being either is or may be one form of his progress, but the exotic and almost unknown entrance, while still in this life, into the state of mystical death is a change in the form of consciousness and the passage into a state to which ordinary death is neither the path nor gate. | The natural transit of man to the next stage of his being either is or may be one form of his progress, but the exotic and almost unknown entrance, while still in this life, into the state of mystical death is a change in the form of consciousness and the passage into a state to which ordinary death is neither the path nor gate. | ||