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SLEEP WHEN YOU’RE DEAD

The Major Arcana as a visual description of the journey of initiation.

Since this describes a process that occurs on many different levels at once, you can see that some cards or stages reference each other e.g.

The Magician, the Empress and the Devil all giving the gesture of “As Above, So Below”.

The letters TORA (TARO) on the scroll of the High Priestess and on the Wheel of Fortune (c.f. the “Sator Square”).

The arrangement of the figures in “The Lovers” (in the Garden of Eden) and those in “The Devil”.

The “Four Living Creatures” or Tetramorph at the corners of the “Wheel of Fortune” and “The World”.

The twin towers in the background of the “Death” card and those on the Moon card.

The Angel in the “Lovers” card and the Archangel Gabriel on Judgment Day, raising people up out of linear time into Eternity, outside the circles of time.

The cards shown are from the “Waite-Colman Smith” deck (1910), with each image encoding symbolism and teachings from the “Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn”.