The Emperor Tarot: Ancient Wisdom

It should be understood that this tarot card and that of the Empress do not precisely represent the condition of married life, though this state is implied. On the surface, as we have indicated, they stand for mundane royalty, uplifted on the seats of the mighty. But above this there is the suggestion of another presence. They signify, also – and the male figure especially – the higher kingship, occupying the intellectual throne.

Hereof is the lordship of thought rather than of the animal world. Both personalities, after their own manner, are “full of strange experience,” but theirs is not consciously the wisdom which draws from a higher world. The Emperor has been described as (1) will in its embodied form, but this is only one of its applications, and (2) as an expression of virtualities contained in the Absolute Being – but this is fantasy.

“The Illustrated Key to the Tarot” written by L. W. de Laurence

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