{"collection":"Tarot","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/tarot/tob/tob32.htm","path":"tarot/tob/tob32.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/tarot/tob/tob32.htm","text":"THE FIRE OF HEAVEN (lightning).\n \nTHE LIGHTNING-STRUCK TOWER.\n16. \u05e2\n16th Hebrew letter (Ayin).\nORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE SIXTEENTH CARD OF THE TAROT.\nThe Ayin expresses the same hieroglyphic as the Vau (6), but materialized. It is the sign of Material sense. Again degenerated, it expresses all that is crooked, false, perverse, and bad.\nAstronomically this letter corresponds with the zodiacal sign of Capricornus.\nSIXTEENTH CARD OF THE TAROT.\nThe Lightning-struck Tower.\nThis card bears the picture of a tower, with its battlements\nstruck by lightning; two men, one crowned, the other uncrowned, are falling with the fragments of broken masonry; the attitude of the former recalls the shape of the letter Ayin.\nThis card contains the first allusion to a material building in our pack, but we shall find the same symbol reproduced in the 18th and 19th arcana.\nHere it signifies the invisible or spiritual world, incarnated in the visible and material world.\nThe 16th card represents the material fall of Adam. He will gradually become more materialized until the 18th arcanum, in which he attains the maximum of his materialization.\nThe significations of this figure are all derived from this idea of fall, of the materialization of the spiritual letter (Vau).\n1. Materialization of God the Holy Spirit. (See 3rd arcanum.)\nEntrance of the Holy Spirit into the visible World. The Holy Spirit acting like the God of matter.\nDIVINE DESTRUCTION.\n2. The materialization of the Adam-Eve, who have been spiritualized until now.\nEntrance of the Adam-Eve into the visible World--\nTHE FALL.\n3. Materialization of the Universe-principle--\nTHE VISIBLE WORLD.\n| AFFINITIES | SIGNIFICATIONS | \n| Primitive Hieroglyphic: Link (Vau) materialized Astronomy: Capricornus Month: December Hebrew letter: Ayin (simple) | DIVINE DESTRUCTION __________ THE FALL | \n| OBSERVATIONS | THE VISIBLE WORLD |","title":"Tarot of the Bohemians: Chapter XII. Third Septenary: 16....","type":"page"}