{"collection":"Tarot","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/tarot/tob/tob17.htm","path":"tarot/tob/tob17.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/tarot/tob/tob17.htm","text":"THE EMPEROR.\n4. \u05d3\n4th Hebrew letter (Daleth).\nORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE FOURTH CARD OF THE TAROT.\nThe hieroglyphic meaning of Daleth is the womb. It suggests the idea of an object giving plentiful nourishment, the source of future growth. The child is the living\nlink, which in its neutrality reunites the opposition of the sexes; the Daleth therefore denotes abundance springing from division.\nLike the 1, it is a sign of active creation; but this creation is the result of previous actions easily determinable, whilst the origin of the Unity is inaccessible to human conceptions. The Daleth expresses a creation made by a created being. according to divine laws. 1\nThe Daleth should be the image of the active vivifying principle of the Universe, Jupiter, the reflex of the Primal cause.\nTHE FOURTH CARD OF THE TAROT.\nThe Emperor.\nThis symbol should express in the active form all that the preceding card expressed in the passive.\nA man seated in profile.\nThe man indicates the active; his position, however, shows that this activity is engendered by a superior term. The 1st arcanum, the Juggler, the active absolute, was represented standing, looking to the front; the 4th arcanum, active relative, is seated in profile.\nThis man holds in his right hand the sceptre, the symbol of generation or of Venus \u2640.\nThe sceptre is held in the right hand, to indicate the active influence, which the vivifying principle exercises in nature, by opposition to the formative principle (arc. 3).\nThe man is bearded and wears a helmet with twelve points (six on each side). He is seated upon a cubic stone, which bears the figure of an eagle.\nThe helmet indicates the rule of the Divine Will in the Universe, and its universal action in the creation of Life (eagle).\nThe position upon the cubic stone indicates realization in all the worlds.\n(1st) Realization of the Divine Word by the creation.\n(2nd) Realization of the ideas of the Being shared by the quadruple work of the spirit--\nAffirmation,--Negation,\n Discussion,\n Solution.\n(3rd) Realization of the actions conceived by the Will.\nThe man's legs are crossed, his body forms a triangle .\nDomination of the Spirit over Matter.\nConsidered more attentively, the figure reproduces the symbol of Jupiter 2 +, represented by the fourth card of the Tarot.\nThe fourth card of the Tarot corresponds to the second He, and therefore bears two, very distinct aspects.\nIt first expresses a term of transition uniting the first series (active and passive forces, the link between the two forces) to the following series; the passage from one world to the other.\nBut it also represents this term of transition, itself becoming the first term in the following series. As the following series taken as a whole is negative relatively to the first, the fourth symbol represents the active influence of the first series 1, 2, 3, in the second series 4, 5, 6.\nThe 4 therefore expresses the reflections of the first card in all its details. It acts towards the first series exactly as the second card acted towards the first.\nThis interprets its meaning--\nIn the Divine. Reflex of God the Father--\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0THE WILL\nIn the Human. Reflex of Adam--\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0THE POWER.\nIn the Natural. Reflex of Natura naturans--\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0THE UNIVERSAL CREATIVE FLUID.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The soul of the Universe.\n| AFFINITIES | SIGNIFICATIONS | \n| Primitive Hieroglyphic: The Womb Kabbalah: CHESED Astronomy: Jupiter Day: Thursday Hebrew letter: Daleth (double) | Reflex of God the Father THE WILL __________ Reflex of Adam THE POWER | \n| OBSERVATIONS | Reflex of Natura naturans The universal creative fluid THE SOUL OF THE UNIVERSE | \n120:1 See the second He, and the study upon the number 4.","title":"Tarot of the Bohemians: Chapter X. The Symbolical Tarot: 4. The Emperor","type":"page"}