{"collection":"Tarot","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/tarot/tob/tob37.htm","path":"tarot/tob/tob37.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/tarot/tob/tob37.htm","text":"THE SUN.\n19. \u05e7\n19th Hebrew letter (Qoph).\nORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE NINETEENTH CARD OF THE TAROT.\nHIEROGLYPHICALLY the Qoph expresses a sharp weapon, everything that is useful to man; defends him; makes an effort for him.\nThe Qoph is therefore a particularly compressive, astringent, and cutting sign; it is the image of agglomerative, restricting form, and this gives rise to the idea of material existence.\nThis letter represents the letter \u05e7 (Kaph, 11) entirely materialized, applying itself to purely physical objects. Here is the progression of the sign--\n\u05d4 (He, 5). Universal life.\n\u05d7 (Cheth, 8). Elementary existence. The effort of nature.\n\u05db (Kaph, 11). Assimilated life, tending to material forms.\n\u05e7 (Qoph, 19). Material existence, becoming the medium of forms.\nThis is a simple letter; it corresponds with the sign of the Gemini.\nNINETEENTH CARD OF THE TAROT.\nThe Sun.\nTwo naked children are shut into a walled enclosure. The sun sends down his rays upon them, and drops of gold escape from him and fall upon the ground.\nThe spirit resumes its ascendancy. It is no longer a reflected light as in the preceding arcanum, which illumines the figure, but the direct creative light of the God of our Universe, which floods it with his rays.\nThe walls indicate that we are still in the visible or material world. The two children symbolize the two creative fluids, positive and negative, of the new creature.\n1. Awakening of the Spirit. Transition from the material world to the divine world. Nature accomplishing the functions of God--\nTHE ELEMENTS.\n2. The body of man is renewed--\nNUTRITION. DIGESTION.\n3. The material world commences its ascension towards God--\nTHE MINERAL KINGDOM.\n| AFFINITIES | SIGNIFICATIONS | \n| Hieroglyphic Primitive: Axe, sharp-edged weapon Astronomy: The Gemini Month: February Hebrew letter: Qoph (simple) | THE ELEMENTS __________ NUTRITION Digestion | \n| OBSERVATIONS | THE MINERAL KINGDOM |","title":"Tarot of the Bohemians: Chapter XIII. General Transition. Arcana 19 to 21: 19. The Sun","type":"page"}