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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. | ||
In the [[Rider-Waite Tarot]] deck, artist [[Pamela Colman Smith]] depicted The Devil card as the Horned Goat of Mendes, with wings like those of a bat, is standing on an altar. At the pit of the stomach is the sign of [[Mercury]]. His right hand is upraised and extended, being the reverse of that benediction which is given by [[The Hierophant]] in the fifth card. In the left hand there is a great flaming torch, inverted towards the earth. A reversed pentagram is on the forehead. There is a ring in front of the altar, from which two chains are carried to the necks of two figures, male and female. These are analogous with those of [[The Lovers]], as if Adam and Eve after the Fall. Here, the chain is of fatality and of the material life. The figures are tailed, to signify the animal nature, but there is human intelligence in the faces, and he who is exalted above them is not to be their master for ever. Even now, he is also a bondsman, sustained by the evil that is in him and blind to the liberty of service. | In the [[Rider-Waite Tarot]] deck, artist [[Pamela Colman Smith]] depicted The Devil card as the Horned Goat of Mendes, with wings like those of a bat, is standing on an altar. At the pit of the stomach is the sign of [[Mercury]]. His right hand is upraised and extended, being the reverse of that benediction which is given by [[The Hierophant]] in the fifth card. In the left hand there is a great flaming torch, inverted towards the earth. A reversed [[pentagram]] is on the forehead. There is a ring in front of the altar, from which two chains are carried to the necks of two figures, male and female. These are analogous with those of [[The Lovers]], as if Adam and Eve after the Fall. Here, the chain is of fatality and of the material life. The figures are tailed, to signify the animal nature, but there is human intelligence in the faces, and he who is exalted above them is not to be their master for ever. Even now, he is also a bondsman, sustained by the evil that is in him and blind to the liberty of service. | ||
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