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A '''[[Black Mass]]''' is a ceremony typically celebrated by various [[Satan|Satanic]] groups. It has allegedly existed for centuries in different forms and is directly based on, and is intentionally a sacrilegious and blasphemous mockery of, a Catholic Mass. In the 19th century the Black Mass became popularized in French literature. Modern revivals began with H. T. F. Rhodes' book ''The Satanic Mass'' published in London in 1954, and there is now a range of modern versions of the Black Mass performed by various religious groups.
'''[[The High Priestess]]''' is the second card in the [[Major Arcana]] in most traditional [[Tarot]] decks. It is associated with the [[sefirot|sefira]] of [[Chokmah]] ("Wisdom") on the [[Kabbalah|Kabbalistic]] [[Tree of Life]].


The Catholic Church regards the Mass as its most important ritual, going back to apostolic times. However, as early [[Christianity]] became more established and its influence began to spread, the early Church Fathers encountered [[heresy|heretical]] sects practicing their own versions of the Mass. Some of these rituals were of a [[sex magic|sexual nature]].
This Tarot card was originally called ''La Papesse'', or "The Popess". Some of the cards directly linked the woman on the cards to the papacy by showing the woman wearing a triregnum or Papal Tiara. There are also some modern versions of the [[Tarot of Marseilles]] which include the keys to the kingdom that are a traditional symbol of the papacy. In Protestant post-reformation countries, Tarot cards in particular used images of the legendary Pope Joan, linking in to the mythology of how Joan, disguised as a man, was elected to the papacy and was only supposedly discovered to be a woman when she gave birth. However, Italian Catholics appear to only have seen the ''La Papesse'' as representing the Holy Mother Church in an allegorical form, with the Pope taking office becoming married to the Body of [[Jesus Christ|Christ]], which Catholics refer to in the feminine gender.


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