Meditations on the Tarot
Boyd, Theophane
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...For on the one hand it teaches zymes, ferments - the Emperor, the two arcana: "They are a complete, en- the freedom of transcendental con- Pope, the Hanged Man, the Fool, the tire, invaluable school of meditation, sciousness elevated above the things Hermit, the Devil, Death, the Lovers...
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Vol. 113 • May 1986 • No. 10
