The World (XXI)
The Heavens as the central motif, with the Angel and the Wing and the Lion in a secondary part. From The 1909 tarot.
What is happening
Waite, 1911 “She is in the act of dancing, and has a wand in either hand.”
Waite, 1911 “It is further the state of the soul in the consciousness of Divine Vision, reflected from the self-knowing spirit.”
Waite, 1911 “But it is perhaps more especially a story of the past, referring to that day when all was declared to be good, when the morning stars sang together and all the Sons of God shouted for joy.”
Key · 3 motifs
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- Primary motif
- Secondary motifs · 2
The picture
A dancing figure wrapped in a purple sash, a wand in each hand, inside a green wreath bound with red ribbons; the four living creatures, a man, an eagle, a lion and a bull, in the corners; the Heavens as the central motif, the Angel and the Lion by eye. By eye
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By eye The central motif, the wreath around the dancer.
Waite, 1911 “It represents also the perfection and end of the Cosmos, the secret which is within it, the rapture of the universe when it understands itself in God.”
Waite, 1911 “Eliphas Lévi calls the garland a crown, and reports that the figure represents Truth.”
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By eye A secondary motif, the man and the eagle in the upper corners.
Waite, 1911 “It is eloquent as an image of the swirl of the sensitive life, of joy attained in the body, of the soul's intoxication in the earthly paradise, but still guarded by the Divine Watchers, as if by the powers and the graces of the Holy Name, Tetragammaton, JVHV--those four ineffable letters which are sometimes attributed to the mystical beasts.”
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By eye A secondary motif, the lion, lower right.
Waite, 1911 “The four living creatures of the Apocalypse and Ezekiel's vision, attributed to the evangelists in Christian symbolism, are grouped about an elliptic garland, as if it were a chain of flowers intended to symbolize all sensible things; within this garland there is the figure of a woman, whom the wind has girt about the loins with a light scarf, and this is all her vesture.”
Also carrying the Heavens
15 works, 8 with it as the central motif. The symbol.
Also carrying the Angel and the Wing
16 works. The symbol.
Also carrying the Lion
6 works. The symbol.
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